Hell

Silver has no memory

        It's been two years since I awoke. I am now 28 and living in Russia. I have had no contact with anyone who knew me in the past 14 years. Its near midnight and I'm walking home from work. I look across the street and see a man in a black trench coat. I smile and wave to him and he waves back. In the two years I could not remember anything. He supported me and gave me tips, but never his name. "How are you this fine evening?" I ask him. "Quite good. Ashley, you hurry home. The gangs are always looking to kidnap." He says. His voice and brown hair always seemed familiar, but I could never place a finger on it. "How are you holding up tonight?" he asks. " Same as normal with the feeling that something is always different about the nights with a blood moon." I respond. "That's good that nothing unusual for you has happened." He says as we walk. "You never did tell me your name." I say. "I have a feeling you will figure it out eventually." He says and crosses the street to walk next to me. "Did you know me before I woke up in the hospital?" I ask. "I met you twice before." He admits. "Well what can you tell me about how I was like in the past?" I ask eagerly. "Well... hotheaded I suppose." He responds. "I was hotheaded?" I ask. "Yes. You would always argue with the mother of your boyfriend." He says. That is what I would do I suppose... "But why have you not told me this before?" I ask. "You never asked." He responds. "That is no reason not to tell me about my past. In my eyes I lost 14 years of my life and was disowned!" I yell at him. "Calm down you little whore! I would not want to damage the property of our boss." Says a voice from the shadows. The man in the trenchcoat moves in front of me and blocks the guy's path. "Why would I let my friend go with you?" He asks. The gang member pulled a gun out and pointed it on the trenchcoat. "Why would you be here, Kevin?" He asked. "Imbeciles like you don't deserve to walk the streets. That's why." Kevin says. A vision flashed before my eyes when Kevin responded. It was of a place I could not remember with people sitting in the backyard and I saw three guys walk past a gate, one with red and black hair, Kevin, and one with dirty blonde hair. As quick as the vision came, it left. "What?" I mutter as Kevin rushes at the guy and punches his face hard enough to launch him back 40 feet. He runs to picks me up and tosses me over his shoulder and runs down a street which I am not familiar with. "KEVIN! PUT! ME! DOWN!" I yell as he races down streets. "No can do, look behind us." He says. I look to see ten guys with guns chasing us. I look to see Kevin put a phone to his ear and ask, "Where are you?... Meet us at my house as quickly as you can." He says and puts the phone away. "Who was that?" I ask. "Your boyfriend and brother." "Nick?" I ask. "No, Matt." He responds. We run in silence for a few minutes until we arrive at a six story mansion. We run inside the fenced area and he sets me down. Before we reach the door a bullet lands in front of my foot. "Come back here little whore. We have business with you." One of the gang members says. I turn to them and I see two winged figures behind them. One with pitch ember red raven wings and bat wings. The other has red eagle wings. They stabbed four of the guys, broke two of their backs, and cracked the skulls of three of them. When only one remained, the one with ember red wings bit him in the neck. At that moment I had another flashback. Us sitting on a roof and flying. The vision once again disappeared and I stumbled and started to fall. Matt, who now has hot pink hair, caught me and held me up. "Good to see you again sis." He says. I look at the second man who was standing, facing the blood moon. "Good to see again m'lady." He says and turns to me and smiles as lightning flashes behind him. The lightning illuminates his eyes for a moment and I see that they are blood red like his hair. I turn back to Matt and see that his normally brown eyes were yellow. I back away from him and get another vision of him and Kalista sleeping together. I instinctively slap him. "Looks like she remembers you and Kalista mate." Says the red haired man who is supposed to be my boyfriend. "Eh better that then why my hair is pink." Matt replies. "Wonder how she will react to Hanna's development." He says and Matt laughs and stands me up. "Hanna? My friend Hanna?" I ask Matt. "Yes." He responds. "What happened to her? Is she okay? By the way why is your hair pink? I thought you hated that color." I say. "Umm... how much do you remember?" Matt asks. "Enough to slap you again." I say. "Well... she um... graduated." Matt says. "Graduated? Graduated from what?" I asked with a confused and puzzled look. "That is something you will have to remember. We cannot spoil everything." He says. "We are suppose to be dating and yet I don't even remember your name." I say. "Amor autem noces. Neque recordamini qualiter nomen meum?" He says with a smile. Somehow I understood the language I never heard before. He said, "Now you harm me my love. How do you not remember my name?" I am about to ask for his name again when I hear a whisper in the back of my mind. "Eryk..." It says. I mutter it under my breath and he smiles. "Looks like we can let that poor fellow go. He was not lying." Eryk says. "Umm... about that... would you like some wine?" Matt asks. "Fucks sake man I said not to do that!" Eryk says. I continue to stare at their wings. They were not fake, but they seemed to be made of liquid so they could not be real either. "If you think about our wings any harder your head will pop." Matt says. "Shut up Matt." I say. "So you know they are real and one of the graduation gifts." Eryk says and flies up 40 feet in the air where he stays hovering. I got another vision of silver moons."Did I have wings?" I ask. I see Matt smile and walk to the house. His wings wrapping around himself while Eryk glides closer to me. "Did you have wings? A better question would have been if you had a minigun. Yes, you had wings." He says and lands in front of me. "Would you like to go back to where we live now or the old mansion?" "Wait you had a mansion?" I say and I see another flash in front of my eyes of a giant mansion on a hill. "Yes, I had a mansion in Transylvania until it was destroyed by an imbecile." Eryk says and the space around us flashes into pitch blackness and we are in a different place near a decrepit mansion that did look like the one in the vision. I look at the windows and see that one of them has a light on. "Why is the light on?" I ask and he shrugs. "No idea whatsoever... Let's go inside and find out." He says and I notice his wings disappeared. We walk inside the mansion and he leads us to the living room where a fire was lit in the fireplace. "This was lit about ten minutes ago, there's only fresh ash on top of old ash." Eryk says after a moment of digging around the fire with a stick. I hear a snap behind me and see the stick fly by the right side of my head. "It's rude to throw things at your owners, idiots." Says a voice from behind me. I walk over to stand by Eryk who just yawned. "That was the most half assed attempt at a threat I have ever heard." He says. "You think you are strong tough guy? I laugh at your remark! HAHA!" Says the voice. "Mmm... I did not know the truth is a half assed humor attempt, but whatever." Eryk says and begins walking for the door. "Where the hell do you think you are going punk?" Says a voice. "Away from a dumbass who thinks he owns an old mansion that use to belong to the Devil. By the way you have horrible blending in skills I can clearly see you by the window." Eryk says and points towards a pitch black corner. The voice growls and a figure walks out of the shadows. "How the hell could you see me?" He asks. "Well if you had not been stupid enough to react when I threw the stick to the corner that was empty it would've taken me a minute to realize. Unfortunately you were a dumbass." Eryk says and he steps into the shadow by the fire. The guy growled and shined a light into the empty corner where Eryk entered. I looked back to the guy and saw Eryk's red eyes shining from the shadows behind him. He turned when he heard me gasp and was punched or kicked into the lit flame. He runs screaming and on fire out of the room. I run to the window and see him running without any fire on him. "What?" I say and look to the corner with the red eyes. Eryk walks out and says, "Brain fucking is my specialty." As he said that I got a flash of him holding shadows like a revolver and seeing my dad running away with a shadow in the middle of his palm. I smile when the vision ends and we once again teleport to a new place. This time on top of a waterfall in a cave. Another vision flashes of me and a red husky laying on top of the waterfall. "Where are we?" I ask him. He puts an arm on my shoulder and says, "We are at my mansion near Tokyo." When he puts his arm on my shoulder I jump a bit, but it was pleasantly familiar. I got another vision of the two of us sitting on top of this waterfall. "How long has it been since we last sat here?" I ask. "Exactly two years..." Eryk says and seems to drift off into the corners of his own mind. I sit down next to the edge and just enjoy the sound of the rushing water. Suddenly I feel hands embrace me and I see Eryk put his head on my shoulder. He closes his eyes and just sits like that for a few minutes. "For you it felt like you were lost not knowing where you were. For me it was soul crushing guilt that I failed to save you from H... Him." Eryk says as he sits in that position and opens his eyes. "Him?" I ask. "Someone that will not be mentioned from my lips for the rest of time." He says and jumps down the waterfall dragging me along with him. Before we hit the ground another vision flashes and I see the same thing happen. We land without harm just as the vision ends. "ARE YOU CRAZY!" I say out of habit of what he just did. "Hmm... Looks like you did not change much since that day. That was the very same thing you said back then." He says and points to the cave entrance saying, "Continue through the passage and head inside the mansion when you are ready to meet the rest of our family." He disappeared right after he said that. I stand there for a bit and wait near the waterfall. Thirty minutes or so pass before I finally steel my nerves and walk outside the cave. I see a gorgeous 20 story mansion and another cave. Before I go inside the mansion I decide to go into the second cave and see that it is filled with all kinds of motorcycles, cars and... Tanks. I walk past hundreds of cars until I reach a covered car. I pull the cover off and get a flashback of me getting keys. When it ends I see a black chevy. I walk back outside and finally walk into the front yard of the mansion where a beautiful garden was. I saw a line of statues... And that I was in the middle in between Eryk and a man that looked the same as Eryk. I open the door and see a long room with a table where everyone is sitting. I see Matt with Kalista on his lap and Hanna sitting on someone else's lap. Eryk is sitting with the guy that looks like him to his right and a hooded man to his left. Behind him a guy and a girl are sitting with two dogs in between them. All around the table are faces I don't know until I reach the right end of the table where I see the trench coats and Kevin sitting in their middle. At the other end are... Edgar Allen Poe and Nikola Tesla. I look past them and see a blond girl and a redhead chatting to each other. I look back to Eryk and see that there is an open seat next to him. I stand there for a moment and realize that this seams... familiar like I've seen all these faces before. "Well, won't the lady of the mansion sit at the head?" Matt asks sarcastically. I am a bit shocked, but I get another flashback of sitting outside of the old mansion with three quarters of this crowd. I walk towards the seat, but stop near a blue haired man in an armani suit. I hear a whisper in the back of my mind. "Welcome back." I look at him for a moment longer and finally walk to Eryk and sit by him.