ℕ𝕌𝕄𝔹𝔼ℝ 𝔽𝕀𝕍𝔼 𝕏 𝕄𝔸𝕃𝔼 𝕆ℂ

Chapter Two (Pt. 1)

Run Boy, Run (Part One)

~No POV~

~15 Years Ago~

Grace turned on a record and rang a golden bell, signaling for the kids to come down for dinner. All seven of the children ran downstairs. Once they arrived at the table, they each put their hands on their chairs and waited for their father to arrive. A minute later, Reginald Hargreeves walked into the room.

"Sit."

Everyone sat down in their respective seats and started eating. There was an awkward, yet somehow comfortable, silence hovering over the dysfunctional family. The silence was broken, however, by Five stabbing his knife into the table. Everyone stopped eating and looked at Five like he had grown an extra head.

"Number Five?" Hargreeves questioned.

Five smirked, knowing he's got his father's attention. "I have a question," he said, folding his hands together.

Reginald paid him no attention. "Knowledge is an admirable goal, but you know the rule. No talking during mealtimes. You're interrupting Herr Carlson." (I think that's it.. probably not but oh the fuck well)

To say Five was irritated was an understatement. He was pissed. He stood up.

"But I'm ready. I've been practicing my spacial jumps. Just like you said," Five said, spacial jumping over to his father.

"A spacial jump is trivial compared to the unknowns of time travel. One is like sliding along the ice, while the other is akin to descending blindly into the depths of freezing water and reappearing as an acorn."

Five pursed his lips. "Well, I don't get it," he said, wanting his father to explain more.

"Hence the reason you're not ready." Reginald put his utensils down onto the table and looked at Five sternly. "Now, I forbid you to talk about this anymore," he said, going back to his food.

Five looked at the table for a second and thought. He then ran out of the dining room and out of the academy.

"Number Five! You haven't been excused! Come back here at once!"

Five ignored his father as he ran out of the house without looking back. He focused on time traveling a pushed himself through time. He appeared in a summer-like time period with a everyone who walked past wearing brightly colored clothing.

"Not ready my ass," Five muttered to himself.

The next time period was in a wintery setting, everybody dressed properly for the cold weather. Five made a move to go to the next period, but when he got there, he knew that a mistake must have been made. The boy looked around for someone, anyone, and saw absolutely nothing but burning wreckage everywhere he looked. He ran back in the direction of the Umbrella Academy and saw rubble everywhere, just like every other building he had passed.

Five started calling out for his siblings. "Vanya! Ben! Dad! Anyone?!"

After spending a few moments of calling out for his family, Five eventually gave up and started climbing through the debris. He could see five bodies scattered around and lying dead in the wreckage of his home. Five first walked over to a blonde male. He noticed that his hand was clenched shut around some sort of object. Five opened up the male's hand and found a prosthetic eye. He rubbed the blood off and got a better look at it. After examining the eye closely, he shoved it in his pocket and kept looking around.

The other bodies he found out belonged to Klaus, Allison, Luther, and Diego. There was another body, a kid, but Five couldn't figure out who the kid was. The only reason he knew that the adults were his siblings was because when he had found Klaus, he saw the academy's logo on his wrist. The dead teen was clearly part of the academy as well, since he too, had the Umbrella Academy logo on his wrist.

The boy collapsed to his knees and looked down at the ground. He felt a few tears run down his face as he looked at the ruins of the only home he had ever known.

So I decided to just put this part up even though it barely makes any sense. It was kinda rushed but oh fucking well! I just wanted to get a part up before you all send an assassin after me or some shit. Anyway, the next part of this chapter should h o p e f u l l y be up soon, but as always, I make absolutely no promises. School is a piece of shit. Hope you have a wonderful day/night wherever you are!

~trxshxchxld✍🏻