The Awakened

Chapter One

           Staring at the cemetery in darkness while the moon shines upon the graves.  The voices of distance owls looming around the cemetery. Aiden went ahead to search for the grave of Antonia De' Rairo despite the shivers he got while searching for the grave, he told himself that this must be done to ease his curiosity about the Duchess myth. He sometimes hears voices when he is alone in the library. Voices that kept saying: 'Release me.' Then the myth book of the Duchess will flip to the cemetery part. He too doubt that his inner thoughts were taunting him but refrain from telling anyone about his problem.

         Aiden Ward is a Liberian who works at Jody's Books. He's quite a young man, twenty two years of age and single. He has been the bored type, quite muscular though but not like the bad boys type of muscularity. Still single though he had few girlfriends in the past but nothing serious. He is always intrigue with all kinds of myth books especially the Duchess myth. He finds it interesting, something beyond maybe as he thought. He read the story of the beautiful Duchess who captured Lords, Dukes and even poor men heart with her define beauty. Aiden was more intrigued when he found out that the Duchess grave is in cemetery Hinberg. He has tried to ignore his curiosity to find out if the myth was true but his heart disagrees with him.

        Aiden curiosity has lead him to the cemetery where he is about to clarify if what the book's says it true or not. He couldn't find time to go in daytime cause he's always busy at the shop, his only free time is at night and that has lead him here in Hinberg cemetery at night.

Aiden stared at the grave in the middle. He felt the urge to go closer and inspect the name engraved on it. When he drew closer he was shocked to find out that they was nothing there, he swore that he saw a mysterious grave there just now. He sighed, maybe his mind was playing tricks on him since he's so desperate. Suddenly he felt a presence, like someone or something was trying to tell him something. He felt cold, it was freezing in that part of where he stood. Then smoke clouded the place, while the moon glittered to the part where he stood.

         He felt like something or someone was trying to reach out to him. Aiden inspect the place further but found nothing. And his curiosity was biting at him, so in other to ease his curiosity he called out her name.

"Antonia De' Riaro." He sighed when he got no reply. Maybe he has gone crazy and he doesn't know. What was he even doing in a cemetery at night searching for a myth grave. Yap, he's a goner. He laughed nervously before turning around, going back to where he came from. He heard the voice say again.

"Release me." This time it was louder. How can he imagine a voice in his head, that's crazy, he thought. He should probably visit a physiatrist one of this days before his problem get out of hand.

"Release.... me." He heard the voice once again but this time it was faint. Like the words struggled to leave its mouth. He's lost it. He laughed out loud.

Everybody would say the handsome, hot Liberian has lost it within his books. Time to snap out of this bullshit.

"GO!" What?!

"Who's there?" He got no reply. He swore he heard a voice just now but it seems different from the 'Release me' voice as he now calls it. Crazy much, he sighed.

Time to get out of here. He felt a pull towards the imaginary grave but shook the feeling off, it would seem crazy for someone like him to believe that there's something or perhaps someone there.

I guess I should probably leave now before I loose it totally. He left.

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"Ugh, not what I expected but I guess that's just how it is." Putting on the gas, Aiden made a spaghetti source. Aiden never knew that being forced to know how to cook from his mom would one day favor him. Most girls he brought home don't know how to prepare a meal, he sometimes wonder what they know how to do more than having sex, hot sex if he had to say. No wonder he never had a stable girlfriend. Thinking about a girl, he thought of having one so to look responsible at least. Most people didn't think of him as the nerd Liberian as he thought when he choose to work at a library, when he was little he had always loved books. Back then in school he never behaved as a book worm as most people does. He was a hot jock in school as most girls called him back in school. He laughed a little at that, even while in college when he was reading library in school most girls in his class always stared at him weirdly, always having that look that says 'you're too hot to be in this class' and always sweeping girls off their feet with his voice.

"Lisa." He said out loud. An innocent girl he bumped into in class when he was about opening the door. She was just too innocent that he couldn't take her innocence away, rather left her instead. He shook his head at that.

"My sweet innocent girl." He always liked bad girls instead, not wanting to feel guilty of corrupting them with his dirty mind. Back then he was a man-whore still is if he has to admit. He chuckled. Then his mind drifted off to Antonia De' Riaro.

"I will get to the bottom of this, am not a handsome Liberian for nothing." He chuckled before dishing out his food while putting the gas off and ate quietly, while thinking of the Dark duchess.

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