Survive (Discontinued)

Chapter 10: Shadow's P.O.V

When I started convulsing I felt nothing other then pain. The endless torture.

I saw a young boy running around the room and he appeared happy. I watched and that wasn't the painful part. The painful part was the fact that for some reason I knew that the joy and happiness would end. He then started jumping around and screaming. Then, everything went black. I then saw the boy again but this time he was older; around sixteen. He was running and dancing with a girl who was close to the same age.

The girl was beautiful, wait, I mean she is beautiful. Her beauty was beyond words; she had perfect chocolate brown curls, emerald green eyes, and perfect unblemished skin. I then realized that I also have emerald green eyes and I also have brown curls. Maybe I didn't have the same face but I did look slightly similar to the boy and girl; Matsu and my mother who I didn't know the name of.

Then the picture went black and I desperately wanted it back. Another picture appeared although this one was terrifying. The same boy appeared except he was around eighteen and there was a girl but I couldn't make her out. "My love." Came a choking sob from the person who I now know is my father.

I took a few steps closer and stopped dead in my tracks. It was my mother, the girl who had given birth to me and had my father wrapped around her finger; he probably listened to her every command. "Matsu, take care of our baby." The girl moved and pointed to a two year old girl lying on the ground. She had cuts and bruises everywhere but suddenly all the wounds were gone.

"Please, don't leave!" Matsu yelled as she closed her eyes and whispered, I love you.

"No!" Came the pained scream of my father and he buckled under the impact of regret, pain, and a lost love. He became something unholy in that instant. Something changed him.

He turned to look in my direction, hold on, can he see me? I waved my hand and I looked behind me. Three people were standing behind me. One I recognized at my newly named grandmother. The other two were unknown to me. They each held daggers; "Matsu!" My grandmother yelled and then I noticed that she didn't have the scar that stretched a cross her shoulder to her middle finger. Come to think of it, she has never told me how she got that scar. Every other scar that I know of she's told me what she did for it.

"Mother!" He yelled and I turned around to see a savage beast. A tall form with elongated claws stood a few feet away. I turned back around to see my grandmother shutter in fear. She was terrified and I had a nagging feeling that she taught him how to become this.

"Papa," came a small giggle from me when I was little. I was laughing and rolling around in the grass. I noticed the ominous blood red stains in my clothes and I guess my father noticed to. He ran over in the beastly form and sniffed my clothes making sure I had no wounds.

"Child of mine." He said while he shifted back into a man. His clothes were torn and raggedy but it revealed nothing much to my thankfulness.

"Papa," I giggled again and he smiled at me. It made my heart melt to know that my father cared even though I was the one that probably killed his beloved.

Suddenly, a dagger came flashing by and struck my father in the arm causing him to fall and throw me in the air. In that same instant one of the unknown characters came and caught me. They began to walk away but I kicked and screamed for my father. He tried to stand up but my grandmother held a dagger to his throat.

Apparently when I was a baby I had some pretty strange skills. I became a smaller version of the beast but still the beast. I bit down on my captures neck and I heard a popping noise; they fell down and I realized her neck was snapped. I ran out of her grip and towards my grandmother who was no longer holding the dagger to my father because she had slowly pulled it across his arms, cutting his arteries. I ran over to him and snuggled under his arm to find comfort and protection. My grandmother reached down and tried to pick me up but I hadn't shifted back into a human girl. I jumped out from under my father's arm and he couldn't do anything. His tendons had been cut, tendons- glue of the body; ask an adult.

Anyways, I jumped and dug a long claw into her shoulder and given my small yet effective weight I slid down her arm cutting a long narrow line from her shoulder to her arm. After she fell in pain I turned to find the other offender but they were gone. My two year old self was very dangerous and as I turned to find her she was gone. That's when I noticed, my father was on the ground dead. Yes, he wasn't dead!

He stood up on shaky feet and I noticed his blood covered arms and legs. Crawling over his back to his shoulder was my two year old self. She smiled and I noticed her blood stained teeth. I looked around for the source and saw the third person. They were lying on the ground in a painful looking position and they had cuts and tears all over there seeable body. They also had two pinpoint dots on their neck and the color from them had drained.

"Shadow?" My father asked.

"Papa." I said happily.

"Shadow, your mother is dead." My two year old self screamed and fell back but didn't hit the ground because my father had great reflexes. He quickly turned and caught me and then fell down with me wrapped in his arms and safe from the world and in that very instant I knew why I couldn't tell anyone that he was my father. We had done terrible things but he loved me and I loved him.

I saw another twenty or so people show up and restrain my father and me. They picked up my grandmother and ran back to another crowd of people who were waiting to receive her. She was laying there with blood encasing her. Then I woke up as a scream came from my old self.

"Shadow?" My grandfather said as he looked down and I can't believe what I said to him.

"I know everything." I noticed my grandmother look at Mikal who I knew was my father. My grandfather looked confused and Stestial was sleeping but woke up to the sudden commotion. She wasn't kidding when she said she was a light sleeper. My grandfather and I were the only ones who spoke but we were both being quiet.

"Shadow!" Came her voice full of delight.

"Stestial," I said and glared at the rest of them.

"We shall discuss this matter later." I said and everyone but Stestial nodded agreement. Other then her they all knew what I was talking about.