• Chapter four –The caged phantom
    An eerie figure yet to show itself…

    A scream could be heard amongst the crowd, The windows above the ballroom started to break and fall to unsuspecting people. “What is the meaning of this?!” The queen was outraged, A figure jumped in from one of the broken windows “ Surprise Surprise, I came for only one thing..” He looked surprised as he saw me “hmm…make that two” He smiled devilishly… wait… those.. those.. My teeth started to clench, my fists started shaking, I looked at him with pure hatred and disgust. “How did you surive..father?!” He laughed at came closer to me, He was quick enough to take both my daggers from under my nose. “ An assassin can do all sorts of things in just a matter of seconds…” “Why are you here.. ?” “ To see to it that the queen dies with your blade… My son..” “Tch.. Don’t you dare call me your son! And how stupid do you think I am?” He smirked “very.. I know your secret” He raised one of my daggers to my face. The crowd simply stood and watched, No guards were present in the castle. All were with their families to celebrate the last day of the flower festival. Just then two thugs suddenly appeared from my back and held me down. More masked figures jumped down from the windows and controlled the crowd.

    My father took the dagger and slit in on my cheek. “Grrrahhh!!!” I shouted, blood dripped from my dagger, one thug forcibly opened my mouth “ No!!! D..Dont!” Annaline was petrified, Radien too was held back by a thug “Eriden!” he shouted. My mouth was opened as wide as it could, he placed the dagger above my mouth, blood slowly dripped from the dagger and into my mouth. “now… The demon is reborn…”

    (author’s view)

    Eriden looked at his blood stained dagger, as he did he saw his reflection on the silver blade… A reflection of a boy he once new… not too long ago… “Who is that I see? That cant be me…”A wave of flashbacks suddenly hit him, the thug had let go of his mouth “m..other..” he mumbled instantly, his eyes began to fade into an eerie darkness.

    --flashback—

    “How could you use your own son as a killing machine!?” mother has always been beautiful, but looking closely you could tell that she couldn’t sleep at all. “ how could you possibly understand? This way, we can survive” “survive? How can I rest peacefully knowing that you are using our boy to draw blood?!” he looked at her with cold eyes “enough… I have no more use for you..” he took a knife from the table, but before he could do anything little Eriden stepped inside the room “mom?” his father smiled “she’s not your mom Eriden, She is an impostor. Come on, kill her” he held out the knife, but Eriden shook his head “ No, that’s mom..” He frowned “ fine. Ill kill her myself!” He stabbed her on the abdomen, his mom instantly coughed out blood “ Mom!!!” He ran to her, as she coughed blood also sprayed on Eriden’s face“ Your father is deranged… D..ont… listen to him.. a..anymore.. Please eriden, for mom’s sake..” She closed her eyes, “ She’s still alive Eriden, Kill her!!” Eriden started crying, his mom was the only one who loved him as a boy, and not as a murdering killer.. He unsheathed both daggers “ Die father… No… your not my father” He turned around, his father in cold sweat. He rushed in catching his father of guard, he managed to stab him in the abdomen too. He kicked him back, but Eriden got up quickly and somersaulted, he landed on his father’s shoulders and stabbed him again. But his father had enough of his childish games, he pulled him of his shoulders and threw him out. “If you don’t do as I say, you have no use anymore…” he slammed the door shut, Eriden shouted as he continually slashed the wooden door with his daggers. The last thing he heard was the final shout of his mother. He covered his ears… “no more.. no more..” He crawled up and stabbed the door with his daggers…

    That day since Eriden’s blood-stained daggers were stuck to the wooden door many thought the killer was her own son…


    ~End of flashback~

    Eriden immediately stood up, “thank goodness-” Before annline could finish her sentence she realized something was wrong, his eyes looked dreary and lifeless. His father handed him his daggers, “now Kill.. Kill… KILL!!!!” Eriden positioned himself, his arms crossed… 1,2,3…. He suddenly disappeared, what happened? Annaline thought. Suddenly to everyone’s amazement and horror blood started spilling in every direction, from the masked figures to the people in the crowd. No one was spared, she was scared to death and hid in the pillar, so did raiden. The whole crown tried to run towards the door, but none could even reach it. All had their heads or limbs cut before they could even touch the door, the decapitated heads still screamed in pain. One body still continued running to the door without a head, some had their necks only sliced halfway making their heads hang on the their backs, blood spewed out from their neck like water in a fountain . His father has disappeared, and all were killed… now the queen sits alone in her throne, too afraid to even move. He laughed maniacally as he slowly made his way to the throne, the whole room smelled of blood and flesh… “ you are next.. your majesty..”. The queen gazed at her people who were now drenched in blood, once lively and now were dead. Each head he crushed made horrifyingly disturbing sounds. Eriden took his time knowing every slow grueling step tortured the queen. He had finally reached the throne

    The queen started crying, Eriden stared at her blankly “I hate it when I see older people cry, I told them before..” He stepped on the queen’s head forcing her to bow to him. “ I don’t take pity on them..”she was scared, but knew that it was not his fault that any of this is happening, she looked at him as a boy… nothing else… “ Any last words?” he chuckled, she took a deep breath “ how about.. a last request..?” Eriden smirked and withdrew his foot; she knelt down in front of him. “very well, what is your last reques-” he was caught of guard when she suddenly leaned closer to him, she hugged him tightly “ I know this is not you, this is not your fault… this boy before me, this is not you.. you’re a boy…” she looked at him and gave a warm smile “ You’re a boy.. a human..” his eyes widened, but he closed his eyes and shock his head. “that isn’t me..” he pushed the queen and raised his daggers “that isn’t me!!” She closed her eyes to embrace death… Eriden’s hands wobbled as he looked at her… she was still smiling… still smiling.. smiling.. like his mom… he quickly regained control of his body…

    *slash!*

    “..ngh…m..mom..”