&&_- Chapter 2: The End of the Beginning
Aug 13, 2011 23:24:37 GMT -8
Post by Shinryu on Aug 13, 2011 23:24:37 GMT -8
[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,420,true] Into ruin, I am sinking... Hostage of a nameless feeling! |
I turned and rushed up the staircase, my feet falling heavy on the steps, before a mighty crunch meant that the steps had given way. I leapt and clung to the top landing, coughing and pulling myself up as the heat grew in intensity around me. It was a burning hellfire, the flames dancing along the walls. I struggled to pull myself up to the second floor, smoke clouding my vision as I crawled on my hands and knees. Perhaps it was better than that I couldn't see, as I felt my hand enter a pool of something wet, and sticky... I shuddered at the thought, and tried not to look as I crawled over the corpse of my sister, and fought back a wave of revulsion when I noticed that not only had she been given the same treatment as my mother, but someone else had fulfilled another type of carnal urge with her body... whether it was before or after they had spread her entrails out on the ground in roped strands, well... that I didn't wish to know. The stench was almost unbearable as I crawled on, the smoke stinging my eyes, and my nose, making me dizzy. My hand reached up as I opened the door to my room at the end of the hall, and before I could register what happened, I was flung through the air, hitting the burning wall behind me, as a backdraft rushed out with near explosive force. As I fell to the floor with a thud, I got back up, wiping the sweat from my brow, to see a frightnening scene. There, on my bed, was the body of my father, the limbs of my family members, and their heads, all lopped off and placed in a pile, burning wildly, as though my room, not just my room, but their heads, had been where the blaze had begun. I shuddered at the sight, barely holding back bile, but soldiered on, looking elsewhere in my room, to see if anything else remained. I searched frantically with my eyes as I came to the doorway, and that's when I saw it... A message, painted with blood... bits of flesh still clingng from where the murderer, or murderers, had used them for brushes. That sight would be forever burned into my memory. YOU KNOW TOO MUCH, NINJA. YOU'RE NEXT. And then I was filled with rage. The flames burned around me in a perfect tempest as I stood, and rushed for the window, my notes, my family all but forgotten. It was not just some sadistic monster that had done this on a spree. This had been pre-meditated. These bastards, whoever they were, had attacked me because they thought killing my family would scare me, would hurt me. They were right in a sense... it did wound me. I no longer had a teacher. It was unknown to me at the time, but my desk had been burning for some time, and the files within it were also cinders. They took those from me too... But what hurt me most, was that they were free from justice. That they could commit whatever crime they pleased, and not fear retribution. I leapt through my window, the glass shattering as I rolled in the air, hitting the ground and continuing my roll to expend the momentum. I stood, and wiped the blood from my face, from my hand, from my arms... My clothing was charred, and my long hair had been singed, but those were the least of my worries. I watched and let the rage in me flow unabated as my house burned. A crowd began to gather, and people wondered why I wasn't trying to stop it; why I hadn't asked for help. I simply let it burn, and when the building collapsed with a loud and sickening crunch, I even smiled a little. Oh, I was free now... A free man. No more responsibilities. But would I be free? Or would I confine myself to the realm of revenge? No. I would not avenge my family. Vengeance is for the petty and the weak. Vengeance was too good for the bastards who had done what they did to me, and to the village. I would not avenge my family. I would render justice upon those responsible. But I wasn't foolish, nor hasty. It would be some time until I was capable of such a thing... for the time being, I needed to go into hiding... and there was only one person who could help me now, that I knew of... Only one person that was in the same dire straits as I. "Yuuki..." made by renni |