Curse of The Death God

Chapter 2 - Buried in the Past

Eddy was in sour mood for the next few days after his ruined birthday party so I invited him to visit me at Music Hall to cheer him up. I waited all day long but he did not show up nor notify me so I decided to sleep early in a very bad mood. In the middle of night, there was a loud knocking sound at my window. I drowsily got up and grabbed a robe then put it on top of my nightgown before opened the window furiously. There was a goofy face of Fire God and a silver half-masked grinning man beside him. I slammed back the window pane on Nate's nose and there was a loud sound of heavy falling right afterwards.

Eddy pushed the window pane opened and jumped into my bedroom, landed gracefully in front of me who was crossing my arms in front of my chest angrily.

"Do you know what time it is?" I raised my voice.

"Shhhh..." Eddy immediately covered my mouth with his big hand. I bit his hand.

"Ouch."

"Just call Serena too, we will have pajama party here." Nate also jumped into my bedroom and closed the window behind him. His nose was bleeding so I felt a little bit guilty towards him and I did call Serena to my room.

"Isn't today full moon?" Serena asked in utter confusion when he saw Eddy.

Eddy took off his mask and winked to Serena, "I took a day off. Michael is replacing me now."

Serena rolled her green eyes while muttered, "How irresponsible."

I closed the door and put it on my hips, "Now, what are you guys going to do in my bedroom?" I looked from Eddy to Nate and back to Eddy.

"Let's play some music." Eddy took out a piece of music sheet from his pocket.

"What?" I asked incredulously but Serena and Nate had already begun looking at the sonata and discussing it. I gulped back my anger and joined their discussion around my coffee table. It was a love song, a story about a person who was yearning for his or her lover and swore that not even death could end this eternal love. Tsk, so cliché.

"Where do you get this?" Serena asked curiously.

"Someone dropped it on the street and I happened to pick it up." Eddy shrugged.

I knew Eddy was lying. After four thousand five hundred and three years being with him, I could differentiate whether he was telling the truth or not. I would ask him personally sometime later. Maybe he intentionally hid something from his brother or Serena.

Eddy summoned a magical zither to the table in front of him and began to play. Nate summoned a flute and complemented Eddy's zither voice. The song was so well composed, it could move a heard and change a soul. The feeling described by the song was so deep, it could shake Heaven and Earth. I knew this beautiful but painstakingly sorrowful song. This song was called "Timeless". At least, that was the word which scribed on the partitur. I used to play this song with Eddy. Apparently, Serena also knew this song since her complexion turned as white as paper.

"This is the Forbidden Love Song..." she whispered almost trembling out of fear.

"What did you say?" Eddy stopped playing.

My bedroom door suddenly slammed opened and Musa was standing in front of it.

"Yes indeed, this song was recomposed personally by the God of Death himself nine thousand years ago for the one he loved." Musa explained expressionlessly.

"I thought God of Death is not allowed to have feelings." Nate furrowed his brow.

"He had coveted his brother's lover, Stella, the previous Goddess of Spring." Musa replied while walking slowly until she stood towering in front of the four of us.