Capter 1 - Harsh MemoriesA Chapter by TheDarkCryLoveA flicker of light almost struggling to exist, in a room where not
just your breath wheezed out clouds of mist. The long white candle dripped its
wax down the elaborate silver holding, producing a hiss of heat meeting cold
metal, in a room where everything seemed so dark, so cold, so lost. Perched awkwardly
on the bed, fingers brushing the floor, Alexander breathed heavily with a
slight snore. Alexander was a tall, pale boy, looking like he was in his late
teens. The only thing to brake a sea of pale skin was his frosted over,
shimmering blue and white hair folding over his face, matched with pale stubble
on his chin. Strangely his unblemished skin held two peculiar dark scars down
each side of his spine. The silence was
broken by a loud, deafening, bang somewhere outside the room, as if something
had been struck by lightning. With a deep groan Alexander rolled out of his bed
and landing on the floor, arching his back as if he was a very large cat.
Standing up he seemed even taller, the tip of a large chandelier brushing the
top of his head, his white wavy hair still covering most of his face. Yawning,
Alexander grasped hold of a silver laced black jacket, wrapping it around
himself without putting his arms though. Flicking the door
open, the room flooded with light from the hallway, large chandeliers and
candelabras illuminated a royal hallway, with dark ruby damask wallpaper meeting
skirting boards seemingly made out of solid gold. Sliding round the corner and
down the hallway was a short, fiery haired boy, bouncing of the floor with each
step in glee, each jump caused his feet to narrowly avoid a thin streak of purple
light, tearing up the hard wood floor with a loud crack each time. The boy was
running straight towards Alexander, his bright red eyes screamed as shock
covered the boy’s face, skidding to a halt inches away from Alexander. Shortly after another boy flung himself
around the corner, he was older than Alexander and had a head of short messy
black hair, which seemed to shine purple under the candle light. The older boy
came to a halt, puffing deeply and bent over double. He said with a wheezy
voice “Roru! Get her now you little s-“the elder boy looked up and saw
Alexander, cutting his sentence short “oh hey Alex, morning” he said still
panting. Alexander replied with a deep yet pleasant voice, addressing the man
elder than he. “Lucas” Moments later Alexander’s pale hand
curled around the red haired boys shoulder, a piercing blue eye penetrated his pale
hair “Roru giving you trouble again?” Roru was shivering under Alexander’s
grasp, as if frost was forming on his shoulder, as Lucas replied cautiously “he
was in my lab again” The air around them grew colder, frosty like the room
Alexander had just come from, the pleasantness from his voice vanished “and
that is why the floors are ruined…” he paused and looked down to Roru “again?”
both the boys where frozen like statues, only shivering from the cold, watching
Alexander extensively. He turned his head to an iron cast window “have you been
to breakfast yet? Mother will be waiting” both the boys where surprised,
expected to get yelled at by a brother they saw little of. Alexander didn’t leave his room much, like
his brother Lucifer, he liked to bolt himself in his room and research for
weeks on end with no sight of him, and it had been this way for years. Because
of this his two brothers and sister began to speculate about the rarely seen
brother, It had begun with how cold and emotionless Alexander was whenever they
saw him, and how he seemed to be surrounded in a vale of frost, then it quickly
developed into stories like he was mentally disturbed or dangerous, and that he
did in human experiments in his room, the only one to put a stop to this gossip
was there mother. Alexander followed his two brothers, the
youngest already feeling more cheery since the frosty grip was released from
his shoulder. Walking down an elaborately decorated hallway, all of the house
seemed to be tastefully and wealthily decorated. Alexander lead the trio,
taller than them all, with the eldest brother deliberately keeping his
distance, the youngest Roru however seemed happy to walk next to Alexander, a
smile across his face as if it was his birthday. Along there route along more and more
hallways and corridors, they came across the fourth and final sibling, her
personality the polar opposite Alexander’s. There sister Amarantha was the
third eldest, Dressed in a poison green skirt, black and green leggings, a
leather jacket and again a bright venom green shirt advertising her favourite
band. Unlike her brothers, she did not show any
sign of fear towards alexander, turning up her nose as if alexander where a
walking corpse, her deep hatred for her brother slipped out from her lips “now
the gits came out his room” snarling violently “hear I hoped you had dropped
dead in that room” everything about Amarantha was aggressive, her condescending
voice was no different. For a second time Roru and Lucifer wore a look of
horror on their face. Oddly even Alexander had widened his eyes, he
was use to Amarantha’s insults and felt they were well deserved. But behind his
sister stood another woman, her skin just as pale as Alexander’s and her hair
flowing like liquid silver down her extraordinary plane white kimono, giving
her a ghost like, sickly appearance, but where alexander gave an aura of coldness
this woman took the breath out of everyone and radiated a light and comforting
warmth. Amarantha looked at her brothers quizzically,
not realising the woman behind her till she followed her brothers eyes, slowly
round her shoulder, all colour draining from her face along with any
aggressiveness as she stuttered guiltily “m-m-mother!?” squeaking slightly. The
Silver haired woman pulled her face to show a sulking disappointment, yet even
then she gave an air unquestionable respect and power, a power most fearful as
it held no ferocity or rage. “Amarantha, what a horrible thing to say
about your brother” even without any aggression in her voice, it still caused
Amarantha to wince and begin to shake. It was Roru who spoke first “its ok
mama, it’s just a joke. You know” he paused thinking of something to say to
help his sister “like break a leg” anybody could so through this feeble lie,
yet with Amarantha’s excessive nodding in agreement, at which Alexander was
sure if she nodded any harder her head would fall off, yet there mother turned
her gaze to Alexander, to see if it was true as he nodded slowly. Their mother
smiled and beamed happily “ooh the full family is here for breakfast,
wonderful!” As she turned round and entered the doors
behind Amarantha, Alexander’s sibling gave out a sigh of relief, Lucas wiping
his forehead. Amarantha turned to her brother, her courage rebuilding as she
gave a rather poor attempt of gratitude “thanks… but this doesn’t mean I like
you now!” a growl returning to her voice, causing a soft smile to pull across
Alexander’s face as he was the first to enter the dining hall. Bright white
marble filled the double ceiling height room, a large extravagant chandelier
seemed to drip from the roof like a stalagmite casting a warm orange glow
filling the entire room. The table was dressed in silver platters of
food varying from toast to a full roast beef, right below the chandelier stood
a bowl large enough to fit in with a large, blood red trifle pudding. All the
others had passed Alexander as he stood facing the back of a chair, fighting in
his mind whether to leave or not before he took a few more steps, trying to
ignore the chair before a voice echoed making alexander’s hair stand on its
end. As he turned the corner of the table the man
in the chair was still looking at alexander, his slicked hair looked as if it
had been coated in blood through its black locks, twisting around his head the
man’s snide grin and violent green eyes accompanied a long pointed nose hanging
above a bushy Gotie and elongated chin. No hatred was set deeper, not even that
of Amarantha towards her brother, than this hatred Alexander had for his
father. None of the siblings knew why the room had gotten deadly cold again as
the two tallest men sat lock eyed across the table, his mother took seat next
to her husband, although seeming oblivious to what was happening, a shifting
gaze towards her husband broke Alexander’s and his father’s lock. Alexander had never told a soul of why he
despised his own father, yet everyone knew of his hatred, some had made some
link to the fact that 10 years ago, Alexander was much like Roru in his lively
spirit. But upon returning from a journey he had set of with his father, at
which his father returned several days later as pale as his son as if the blood
had ran from his body, Alexander’s personality had changed to what it is now.
Some wondered how he had survived for 2 years later as he had never been seen,
yet as his mother was sat on the hospital bed again, he cast his father out of
the room as he assisted the doctor in the birth giving of his youngest brother. Since then he had rarely been seen, other
than on his family member’s birthdays, taking careful consideration to always
miss his fathers, and a few glimpses on family celebrations before he vanished
again. But were as people wondered were Alexander always went and did, every second
of his younger brothers life was known, pranks, messes, cakes missing, general
chaos, always pointed towards Roru as the culprit. First to finish his breakfast Alexander
quickly left the table, a few seconds later Roru came running to his side,
panting heavily as asked “were you going brother? Can I come? Please?”
Alexander again pulled a strenuous, unused smile as he nodded. Heading out of
the building and into the open spring air. The two boys stood alone in a godly garden,
roses rising above their head in the archway and a maze of hedges. The gardens
where a maze of flowerbeds, trees and stone sculpting’s, including a large
centrepiece made of magnificent marble, a tiger was made of white marble locked
in combat with a hot to the touch black marble dragon, water spotting from both
of their mouths and into the pond below. But for all the grandeur of the
garden, not one gardener could be seen as the boys walked towards the fountain. Although he was young Alexander had already
been at war, a war that seemed to stretch to the beginning of time, he was a
commander and lead many people into battle and to their own deaths. Alexander
winced as memories came flashing back, bodies, an arm soaked in blood, and a
strange silhouetted figure standing in front of hot flames, he could taste the
ash and rotting flesh in his mouth, making his stomach tense and heave. Regardless of the
fact Alexander could not raise a weapon, his uncle would find a way to bring
him back onto the battle field, Alexander was after all ‘the blood red
blizzard’ a title he took no joy in owning, but with his worthless father
snaking out of any situation to do with the war, it was left to the next in
line to the family, although he had an older brother Alexander did not know why
he and his youngest sibling were heir to their family, not singularly but in unison,
it is simply what old man Jikan-shaku had told, and no family questioned his
knowledge as he was never wrong. Standing by the
fountain Alexander watched the coy fish, not really paying attention as his
mind was racing, and once again he collapse to the ground, face scraped by the
stones. He found strength to press his hand on the ground and try to lift
himself up, it was surprisingly easy, had he starved himself? No, he though, I
eat plenty. His head swung to the side to see a horror shocked brother with
fiery red hair hoisting him up with his head under Alexander’s arm. Sweat was
dripping from his forehead but he felt even more heat from his brother, feeling
as if he was boiling alive he stood on his wobbly legs and pulled his arm away,
gruffly snorting “sorry” with no tone of apology. He brother barged
him with worried questions, but alexander ignored him as he walked back into
the house, his brother still ranting “are you ok?”, “Are you sick?”, “Should I
get mother?” Alexander kept ignoring him, it was a short walk that seemed for a
lifetime before he could slam his bedroom door on his brother, collapsing into
his bed causing a hissing steam as if his body was just on fire and had been
doused. He felt like a
git for ignoring his brother, but every day it got worse, Alexander couldn’t
even cope with sitting by his frosted over window too long without the heat
making him collapse, but he couldn’t concern his family, he muttered “I’m
already a crap enough son, I won’t make them work more to make me better”
Alexander could not remember when this started happening, but year by year his
room got colder, then month by month, now it was week by week it had to get
colder. What was wrong with him? Alexander had
drifted off, it was warm, fruit and salt filled his nostrils a*s grains sank
around his bare feet, he couldn’t see because of a blinding light popping shadows
in his vision. After a short time his eyes adjusted and with realisation he saw
he was at a beach and there was a family, a toddler in a green one piece was
kicking her brother in the shin, the boys glasses sliding off as he fumbled in
the sand, a few feet away was a woman with liquid silver hair holding a fiery
haired baby in her arms. Down by the water there was a man with short blood
black hair, kicking up a large splash of water over the toddlers, stopping
there squabbling. It took a while for Alexander to see the boy sitting next to
his mother, poking the baby with curious interest, his white hair short and
spikey. And Alexander
just stood there, watching the scene of when his family had last gone to the
beach, or at least the last time he was with them at the beach. Then the man by
the water looked at alexander standing on the sandy bank a few metres from his
family, a cloud hid the sun as the air got colder, the kids and mother ran off
to the side as the man came running, yelling, brandishing his fists at
Alexander. Then he woke with a scream. Soaked his sweat
a scream filled his room, but it wasn’t his own, it came from outside his room.
For a moment his heart stopped as time slowed down, then time came speeding
back as he flung the door open so hard it almost fell off its hinges, he ran to
god knows were, following the screams, then they stopped. The screaming had
happed just around the corner, grabbing hold of the wall he twisted around and
felt like he slammed into a brick wall. He stood frozen,
afraid for the first time in a long time, as tears trickled down his pale face,
his hand still clutching the corner of the wall as he couldn’t take his eyes
away. No it couldn’t be really, it was just another dream, but he could smell
the fresh blood, he could feel his body protesting to give on living, it was
too real. For the second time that day his legs shook as he walked just a few
steps then fell to the floor. This time it was his scream that filled the
corridors and echoed through the gardens, he lifted up his bloody hands holding
onto a ball of blood covered silver threading. He continued to scream, feeling
like that little boy on the beach, as tears burned down his cheeks, he pulled
the ball of hair up and held onto the shoulders of a woman, stroking aside her
silver hair, all he wanted to believe it wasn’t her, all he wanted was to
proven wrong, but no sooner had he parted the woman’s hair had he regretted his
decision, horror struck on her face, Alexander curled over the body of his mother. © 2014 TheDarkCryLoveAuthor's Note
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Added on April 25, 2014 Last Updated on April 25, 2014 AuthorTheDarkCryLoveCleator Moor, Cumbria, United KingdomAboutI am a man who loves many arts; Martial arts, Drawings, Poetry, novels, ect i am one who is hard to anger and i have been a pacafist for since 2009 I have my own website http://thedarkcrylove.weebly.. more..Writing
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