It All Started With a Smile

Behind The Gates

Back to Alex's point of view
I took Eve with me, she came with no resistance, which surprised me alot... Does she love me? I hope she doesn't... Fred doesn't li... AH, THE PAIN, FUCK YOU FRED, FUCKING STOP, "I'll stop when you stop thinking about her" Fred thought, Fine whatever, fucking hell, "are you alright? What happened just now? Something wrong with your back?" Eve grabbed my shirt as she said, "I don't know where you're taking me but... If it'll help stop the pain you're feeling I'll gladly go, just please... Don't leave my side ever again...", Tears started falling down my face... Why... Why is she doing this... All for me... WHY... I DON'T DESERVE THIS... "damn right you don't." Fred thought, "now focus..."
Whatever.
We reached a closed gate, a gate so big that is surrounded by high wall as so you can't see what's inside of it. I looked at Eve who was confused... Kind of... Her looks made her seem as if she's Impressed with the gate... She's not afraid even a single bit? Well I guess now we know why she's the chosen one... Hell even I had a problem crossing this gate
BEGINNING OF ALEX'S FLASHBACK
An unknown girl: enter this gate
Alex: no
END OF ALEX'S FLASHBACK
What a horrible day that was... I turned to Eve and said "I'll open this gate, if you get scared you can grab hold of me." She nodded as a yes. I then turned towards the gate and started chanting "istakimo-" just before I even started, Eve hugged me from the side real tight... Could she have been scared this whole time? I put my hand on her head and played with her hair, she looked up at my face, I told her it's gonna be fine, and nothing will hurt her as long as she's with me, she just giggled and kept resting her head on the right part of my chest, I raised my arms then started chanting again "Istakimos, d renomikon katina ess iver di velorest oktest, bikna d queloravna tiq haqved pamivne tiq jen tou geeven." <Lord of the darkness, I sacrifice for you the souls I have gathered today, in return I ask of you to lend me your strength to open this gate> I was then surrounded by a dark cloud that at the end gathered in both my and Fred's arms to form a ball of darkness, then these balls almost instantly advanced from my arms to the gate and splattered across it, the gate absorbed the dark energy and then it slammed open. I turned towards Eve and told her it's fine now, she said: "oh! Couldn't you have taken any longer? I was enjoying where I was." She then turned towards Fred and started making silly faces, "So you weren't scared?" I asked, "No!" She replied "I just found it as a perfect excuse to hug you." Fred got angry and said "Oh you little... I'll show you..." I couldn't help but laugh as she was running around me in circles and Fred kept floating behind her Trying to catch her. I interrupted their chase saying: "Hey! You two, enough with this, let's enter, the gate won't be open for so long." Eve just stood and shouted: "SIR YES SIR!" While Fred stared at her and said: "Fine!" Eve didn't stare back, instead she smiled at Fred, which made him uncomfortable, then she got close to him and patted him on the head, then said: "you're an adorable gullible creature." Then she ran inside the gate. After I crossed the gate, it slammed shut which kind of surprised Eve, "you'll get used to it." I told her, where as Fred started laughing at her scared face, before started melting, he said in his dying breath: "Oh come on, at least let me finish laughing!" Then I replied: "nope can't do, back to your place" the blood that was forming Fred then gathered in a big bucket, it all went away except two very small what seemed to be veins that connected the eye and the mouth, "Oh you're a funny guy aren't you." The mouth said, "Yes sometimes I do consider myself funny." I replied, Eve was on the ground laughing at Fred like she never laughed before. The vessels, the eye and the mouth then went down my clothes and into my shirt, when they were gone and Eve stopped laughing, we started walking when she asked: "where did that creature go?" I didn't reply, instead I removed my arms from my pockets and showed them to her revealing the eye on the left hand and the mouth on the right one, then the mouth (Fred) said: "FEAR ME YOU IMBECILE", Eve tried to hold her laugh as much as possible but she couldn't, her laughter bursted too hard that it filled the entire palace, I looked at my left hand while the right one was just hanging, as I looked at the eye in my hand I said "well I'm not going to lie, you do look kind of funny", my right arm then swinged and slapped me in the face, it then raised up in the air and the Fred said "HAHA, THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR LAUGHING AT ME", "OH YOU WANT TO DANCE YOU LITTLE SHIT?" I replied, then he answered "OH BRING IT ON YOU MOTHER FUCKER!" Eve's laugh became higher and higher, which filled my heart with ease, then Fred slapped me again, "WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW." I said to my hand, then it replied: "she's here, I can sense her." I started scanning the area looking for her untill I found her next to a tree looking at us and giggling, she's a tall girl, about 6'2''in her mid 20's, with blonde hair, green eyes and she was wearing all white, "Hey Chloe!" I shouted, just then Eve's laughs stopped, I turned to see what happened to her, but she was standing right behind me staring at me, a stare that would even scare a demon, "Who is Chloe!?" She asked with a serious demonic voice, "There's no need to worry," I replied "She's just a friend of mine." Eve then calmed down, smiled and said "oh, if that's the case then fine, I forgive you." Then Fred said "Yes, she's awesome, she was the one who kidnapped us at first." Then Eve kept smiling, turned towards Chloe then rushed towards her, and started shouting "YOU! BECAUSE OF YOU I WAS DEPRIVED FROM MY DEAR ALEX FOR WEEKS, YOU KNOW HOW THAT FELT, IT FELT MISERABLE..." Chloe kept trying to calm her down then stared at Fred, he said: "what? I mean it would be fun seeing you two fight." I sighed at Fred. Then a small girl holding a teddy bear came, "Quiet!" she shouted, everyone was silent, except Eve, she just stared at her then went towards her, took a deep breath, then started screaming "OH MY GOD, AREN'T YOU THE MOST ADORABLE THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE" Eve started pinching her cheeks, then she held her and raised her in the air as she was trying to fight her to let her down, "YOU'RE SO ADORABLE, what's your name." I don't blame Eve for what she's doing, Ruby's the cutest in this palace, she's 5 years old, about 3'3", her cheeks are chubby and she's always holding her teddy bear which makes her ten times as adorable. Eve kept playing with her but then Ruby got uncomfortable so her eyes started tearing up, at that moment everyone rushed towards her and tried to calm he down before she cried, we took her from Eve, put her on the ground, then I looked at her and said: "Hey! Guess what I've got you from outside!?" She stopped tearing up and asked: "DID YOU BUY ME A NEW TOY? OR DID YOU BRING ME CANDY?!" "Do you really want to know?" I answered, "YES YES TELL ME!" She replied, I've then put my hands in my pockets and got out some candy which I gave to her, "And that's not all!" I said "I also got got you a do-" fuck where did I put the doll, "it's probably in the bucket you moron" Fred thought, I turned towards Ruby and said "Wait a moment I'll be back!" I rushed towards the bucket, got out the toy, removed all the dead blood off it, then got back to Ruby and said "well, since you're always holding Mr. Rufus, but never the other toy I brought you that day, I thought I'd bring him a new friend!" Then I showed her the doll I brought, she got really happy so she took the doll and ran inside the palace shouting: "THANK YOU SO MUCH ALEX." I then turned towards Eve that looked confused and said: "sorry we took her from you all of a sudden, but if she happened to cry there would be alot of fixing we'll have to deal with."
- "Yeah." said Chloe "I remember the first time Alex came here and made her cry, we had to fix the entire palace again
- "I still feel tired when I think of how hard I worked that day" I replied feeling down.
Eve was still confused, I told her that I'll explain to her everything later, but for now we must enter the palace. After we entered the palace, I thought to myself, "this is where it all begins... Or will it all end?"