It gets better after the first chapter
Ray's family goes missing and before the Duelists can do anything, the cops are called and Ray is assigned to a mysterious legal guardian.
Not long after his new guardian finds his long lost niece.
about 5-6...
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I could hear people talking around me and this incessant beeping. My eyes tried to creep open but the lights were far too bright, my throat let out a groan. Someone leaned over me and blocked out the too bright light, brushing my hair out of my face with delicate fingertips.
"Mom?" I asked drowsily, my eyes opening slowly to see the officer, Emily standing over me and a nurse farther back.
She laughed lightly before cooing "I wish I had a kid as adorable as you, but no, I'm not your mom but while we're looking for her your godfather is going to take care of you, ok?"
I have a godfather? I shook my head, no way I'm staying with someone I don't know.
"My parents never told me I had a godfather Officer, I don't think I ever met him." I whispered, pulling the thin white sheet up high on my shoulder, turns out I'm in a hospital room with a window. The large setting sun resting in front of pink and lavender clouds was the blinding light.
Great, More lost time.
"Really?" Officer Glenwood sounded surprised, "He says him and your father were close work friends. This was arranged before you were even born, so I guess they could have drifted apart." I nodded in response
The absolute last person I wanted to see sauntered in wearing his usual overpriced black suit and long pin-straight blond hair. "May I see my new ward now? The Doctor says he's cleared to leave." August informed the officer.
No, Not in a million years could He be my godfather, I thought as I clung on to poor Emily.
"Or I could go stay with someone else?! Gabe, or Allie, Or if it has to be a relative my great uncle could be here within a day! I'm not going anywhere with him." I half yelled, entirely shocked that he was not only still alive, but now in complete control of my life.
Both The Choten and Officer Emily only stared at me in confusion until my enemy added "I was just going to introduce myself as August since I haven't seen you since you were an infant, but perhaps the doctors should check you over for head trauma. You did just recently have at least one psychotic break today. Rayden, do you remember how you yelled at your, 'karate' teachers earlier before you collapsed?"
No, I don't remember anything like that.
My eyes went wide but I kept my mouth shut as he continued to Emily, "I have degrees in psychology and biochemical engineering. If given the chance I can help him stabilize his mood and prevent more blackouts and attacks, the next one might not stay verbal. (He gestured to me with a wide sweep of his arm) I would hate for this fine young man to be lost to his own mind." he looked as close to genuinely concerned as possible for a homicidal maniac.
Officer Glenwood nodded in naive agreement, knowing nothing of the atrocities and destruction my 'godfather' has been the source of. "You do seem to be the best option to heal the boy, but it might be a good idea, like you said, to get some more tests done." Officer Glenwood agreed.
The same feeling of discoordination overcame me, my body went limp but I heard my own voice "I'm sorry, Godfather, I don't know why I snapped at you like that. I just want to go home, I didn't mean any of it." my disconnected voice cried,
what the hell is wrong with me? I wanted to scream or run, but instead, I sat up, shivering at the breeze that crept into the back of my hospital gown, then spread my arms as if to ask for a hug to which the Choten, almost as if he had rehearsed fulfilled the request.
"You're mine now Ray" he whispered in my ear before letting go and sitting beside me. "Do you have any clothes for him? I would rather have the tests done in my facilities, but of course, the police would receive a copy of the reports for the case file." The Choten said with the same false compassion.
I felt my expression turn to excitement and 'smiled' at Emily as she nodded again. "I'll bring you some clothes, is medium alright?" I nodded and soon she returned with a plain white shirt and blue scrub pants. By the time I had the clothes on August had completed all the paperwork to take me with him.
