> The “Gifted” Boy > by TypeNull101 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter One: “Second Chance” > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It’s midnight now, all the kids are soundly asleep dreaming away about maybe getting to have a family, or even dreaming about wishing to get out of this hell hole. While the kids sleep away, I finish up the last sentence of the note I’m leaving for the kids. I look it over to see if I didn’t put any difficult words for them to read or understand. Once that’s done I tape it to the rail of the bunk bed I sleep on. I carefully get off so I wouldn’t disturb the kids that sleep around me. I get all my stuff ready so I can be done with the task at hand. Once everything is good to go, I reach under my pillow and take out the blade I’ve been hiding from the kids and the old witch. I tuck the blade away into one of the pockets of my shorts, and prepare to leave. But someone decided to wake up unexpectedly and look my way with a drowsy look of confusion. “Big brother?” Amelia says quietly as she rubs her eyes so she can get a better look at me. “Where are you going?” She looks up at me with tired curious eyes. I sit on the edge of her bed and give her a warming smile. Amelia is a little girl that I’ve adored since the day she has arrived. She’s been the one that’s been the closest to me ever since I saved her from the nasty cruel lady. Amelia’s about five an a half years old and doesn’t talk or play with any of the kids here. She always spent her time with me when I’m not playing with any of the other kids. Amelia is a very very shy girl and she’s easily frightened by things, but she can at times stand up for herself. Amelia has long white silky hair that reaches to her legs, eyes the color of emeralds and smooth light tanned skin. She’s like a little cute girl from those anime shows I use to watch back when I was third-teen. Her being that, I’m the total opposite of her. I like to keep my hair really short because I hate having long hair. My hair is a three on top with a taper fade, and I always gotta have a crispy nice looking line up. My hair is a dark brown color, my eyes being a soft hazel color and my skin color being a bit darker than Amelia’s. I always have scars that riddle my body. I have one nasty one from when I saved Amelia. It starts from the top of my right eyebrow and ends on my cheek. Luckily the injury didn’t blind my right eye. I put a hand on Amelia’s head and tussle her hair around softly. “I’m gonna leave this place, and I’m not going to come back.” After that sentence leaves my lips, I regretted it ever leaving. Amelia’s eyes start to spill tears from the corners. Her eyes wide with horror at the thought of me leaving. Leaving her. Alone. “Let me go with you.” She says quickly but quietly so she wouldn’t wake up the kids around us. I sigh as I slowly shake my head. Amelia launches herself into my lap and hugs my body tightly, her face pressed up against my chest, staining my shirt with tears. “Please let me go with you, I don’t wanna stay here without you.” She mumbles in my chest. She starts to tremble with fear, a sign I know to well of what’s coming up next. I quickly wrap my arms around her and rock my body back and forth to quickly calm the anxiety attack she was going to have. “Shh shh....relax Amelia.” I say softly to her to calm her. “I’m taking you with me, ok? But you have to listen and behave. Now just calm down, breath in and breath out.” She’s does as she’s told and takes in a shaky breath in and then out. She does this for a few times not even bothering to release her grip on me, afraid she might lose me if she even loosens up a bit. I mentally cuss myself out for being so careless with the choice of words that had to slip out my stupid ass mouth. Seeing her in this state breaks my heart. Seeing this gentle girl breaking down like this pains ones soul to no end. Now I have to take her with me, I can’t leave her here. Not while that old hag is still breathing. Amelia shifts around on my lap and rubs her face against my chest. “I’m leaving with you, right?” She mumbles. “Yes you’re going with me, so go get your bag and pack your clothes up. Do it quietly though.” She nods her head and quickly does has she says. After that’s all done, she puts the straps of her bag over shoulders and gives me a thumbs up meaning she’s ready to go. I smile and wipe the tears away from her cheeks with my thumbs. “Come on then.” I said. We walk out quickly from the room full of children and out into the hallway. The whole time, Amelia holds my hand with an iron grip. The Old Hags Room We stand outside of the woman’s room, cautiously looking at it, as if she’s going to open that door at any moment. But, I know she won’t be opening that door anytime soon, she’s dead asleep. She’s been snoring pretty loud ever since she’s been getting old. I grab my bag, open it, and pull out some gloves. I put them on so I wouldn’t get any of my hand prints on the door. I take the blade out of my pocket hide it from the eyes of Amelia. I look down at her and see her fiddling with her jacket nervously. I take a knee so I can be eye level with her. “Hey, Amelia.” I say her name to get her attention. She looks up at me with her cute emerald eyes with fear, excitement, and curiosity. Fear being next to the door of the hags, excitement about being with me and going along with me, and curiosity of wondering where we’ll go. “Ok Amelia, I want you to stand out her quietly. Don’t come into the room for any reason. The only reason you can come in is if one of the security guards is walking by. You understand?” She nods her head. I nod my head back. “Don’t worry ok, I will only take a few seconds and I’ll be right out.” I get up and open the door as quietly as possible. I walk in and close the door gently so it wouldn’t make any noise. I tighten my grip on the blade that I hold in my right hand out of anger at how comfortable that bitch is sleeping, while the kids sleep on uncomfortable beds. I walk up to the right side of the old woman’s bed and look down at her with a cold blank look on my face. I switch the blade to my left hand and raise it over me. My right hand goes over her mouth and I clamp my hand down on it so she wouldn’t scream out. This gets the woman to awake suddenly with fright. Her eyes quickly dart towards me and soon widden with fear. Before she move her arms towards me, I bring down the blade down to her chest. After doing that, I failed to notice red demonic looking eyes watching me with much interest. Couple Minutes Later I walk out into the room and back into the hallway where Amelia awaits me. She’s runs up to me and hugs me tightly. I give out a soft chuckle at how clingy she is. It’s rather adorable to me when she acts like this. I’m glad she isn’t asking questions about why I was in the woman’s room. “Alright Amelia, lets get going be-....” I get interrupted by a voice that sounds utterly terrifying. This voice is deep and monstrous that the only words I can describe it is demonic in a way. ”My dear boy, you have peaked my interest in you. You showed such coldness in killing the woman that’s caused much pain.” The mysterious face chuckles darkly. I feel Amelia clinging to my form in a desperate manner to get away from the voice. I pull her behind me and take out the knife in a defensive manner. “Who in the hell are you? And what in the hell you want with me?” This is insane. This is something that I never thought would happen to me. A demon talking to me from who knows where. This is unreal and unheard of. ”Who am I you ask? Well I’m Grogar ruler of Tartarus, or what you humans call “hell”. Anyways my young lad, I came here to ask you a simply question. Don’t make this difficult either, it’s just a yes or a no. Got it?” I listen cautiously to every word he says, I then slowly nod my head. ”Good, now my qu-...” Before he can finish his sentence, the police burst through the double doors at the end of the hallway with their guns raised my way. “Freeze! Put your hands in the air and drop any weapons you have on you now! We will open fire if you do not cooperate!” ‘Shit.’ I mentally say. I must have been to distracted in killing the old bag to notice that there were cameras in her room. Even worse I was to distracted to hear the sirens of the cop’s cars coming our way. Amelia is in a state of panic, she doesn’t know what’s going on. That’s when her anxiety attack starts to kick in, and there’s no way I’m going to help her out this time. So there’s only one thing I can do. I quickly take out a needle, and inject her with a general anesthesia. It was the only choice I had at the moment. Bang!!! At this point, I don’t even know what’s going on. My body felt heavy and numb after hearing what sounded to be a gunshot. I guess I got shot because I wasn’t listening to the officers orders, or he thought I was doing something harmful to Amelia. I feel my body falling to the floor ever so slowly. My vision blurry as I stare at Amelia, her body on the floor as the anesthesia quickly took its affect on her. The corners of my eyes start to leak droplets of tears. ‘I’m sorry Amelia, but I guess.... I wasn’t able to keep my promise to you.” Then without warning a bright flash erupts in front of me, and the voice of Grogar speaks out to me again. ”Your not dying on me yet boy. You have much to do in this next life of yours, so stop the crying because your going to still keep that promise of yours. And with that said, we were gone in a flash with no trace of me or Amelia. > Chapter Two: Somewhere New > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.O.V [Gorgar] Tartarus/Hell I look over the boys form to see if there are any injuries on him, finding none to be seen, I extend my hand over him and start pouring my demonic energy into him. Black flame like markings appear on the boy’s arms, an indication that he’s a breed between human and demon, but a special kind of breed that I like to call “Demon Lords”. A dark sadistic smile spreads across my face, showing the rows of razor sharp teeth. ”This boy will be my greatest success in overthrowing those princesses. Once they are gone, I and the rest of my kin will be the next rulers of Equestria.” I chuckle out darkly. ”Now my dear boy, go cause trouble for the princesses.” With that said, I prepare to send the boy to the surface, but I stop to notice the small child that came with the boy. I study her a bit, seeing if she’ll be a asset to me. After studying her for a couple of minutes, I shake my head. Her heart and spirit hold no ill will, or the intent to hurt or kill someone, unlike her opposite over here. His heart and soul are pure, but can also turn dark and cold if provoked. Just my type of character I need to overthrow those princesses. Forgetting about the child, I’ll jusy let her stay with him. She won’t be a bother to my plans. Or so I thought. I wave my hand over them and transport them to the surface, waiting for the great things this boy will do for me. Equestrian Soil: In Everfree Forest P.O.V [The Boy] “Big brother.” ‘That voice. It sounds like Amelia.’ I mentally say. “Big brother, please wake up.” She desperately says as her hands lightly shake me. Her voice sounding on the verge to cry. I slowly crack my eyes open only to be met with the strong rays of morning sunlight to sting my eyes. I put a hand over my eyes to block out the bothersome sunlight. I slowly get up grugidly, as I rub the sleep out of my eyes. But I suddenly stop what I’m doing, memories flood back to me. I jump up and take out the blade I had with me and scan around the area, though, not expecting to see that the area I’m scanning would be a muggy forest. “What... the.... hell?” I say every word while looking around the forest. Amelia gets up close to me as she grips my shorts. I put an arm around her to keep her as close as possible to me. “Um... big brother? Why do you have those drawings on your arms?” She asks curiously. “Drawings on my arms?” I look down at my arms and see black flame like markings all over my arms. This starts to freak me out a little, but I hold it in because I don’t want Amelia to get any panic attacks. “I don’t know Amelia, but let’s forget about that and get out of-....” A bush to my left rustles and a twig snaps to the front of me. I snap up my blade, push Ameila behind me, and create some distance from the sudden noises. “Big b-brother, what’s going on?!” Ameila panicky asks and grips the back of my shirt. “It’s going to be ok Ameila, don’t worry. I won’t let anything happen to you I promise.” I say soothingly to her to calm her nerves. I turn my attention back to the noises just in time to see four wolv-... no not regular wolves but wooden wolves. These wolves are nothing by wood with sickly glowing green eyes, and jaws full of wooden sharp teeth. My heart sky rockets, and adrenaline starts to course through my body. “Ameila, stay here and don’t move from this stop, understood? Only reason for you to move is if one of those wolves come after you.” Without getting any reply from her, I move towards the abnormal wolves. I quickly size up the four wolves, they all seem the same size, though something seems off. Shouldn’t there be an Alpha with them? My blood runs cold. Ameila screams out in terror as another wooden wolf, two times bigger than the other wolves, holds down Ameila. Ameila thrashes around, kicking and squirming to try and get away from the wolf. “Ameila!” I run towards her, but I don’t even get close because these wolf grunts get in my way. I swipe my blade at them to scare them away, but it doesn’t work. I hear Ameila scream a painful cry, as the Alpha bites down on her shoulder. Blood seeps from the wound now created on her shoulder. “Big brother, help me!” Time starts to slow down, everything at every moment seems to freeze in place. My eyes stay solely trained on Ameila. Her face contorted in pain, tears flow from her eyes, as she has a hand out stretched to me. Screams of Ameila crying out to me clog my head up. The screams start to pain me to no end. Thoughts about losing Ameila starts to flood my head. Losing the only thing precise to me sparks something deep within me. I feel my body getting over whelmed with a foreign feeling. This feeling feels good, but at the same time very wrong. At this rate it doesn’t matter though, all I want is to save Ameila. I let the foreign feeling overtake my body. It feels powerful, like if I can destroy a whole skyscraper with a swipe of my hand. This power feels destructive, over whelming, and dare I say, evil. Time speeds up, the markings on my arms are glowing with red looking magma. My senses are ten times better than they were. That’s doesn’t matter now cause in a split second, the four wooden wolves turn to ashes with a swipe of my hand. I take a step forward, burning the ground with fiery aura that surrounds me. Then with unhuman speeds, I get right in front of the Alpha and burn it with a simple touch of my hand. I look down at Ameila, who happens to be out cold from the shock of all this. I take a knee and I put my hand over her wound. My hand doesn’t burn harm her, but heals the wound that the wolf created. Tears start to flow down my cheeks. “Ameila, I’m so so sorry. Only if I was more careful this wouldn’t have happened to you.” My tears drip down my cheeks and onto hers. I lean my head down in shame at letting those dammed wolves get to her. Then, a small delicate hand finds its way to my head. “Please big brother, don’t cry. You saved me, and you being ok makes it all better.” She smiles ever so sweetly to me, but then the smile gets replaced with confusion. “But big brother, what’s happened to you? You look different, like you changed. The markings on your arms are glowing red, and your whole body is covered with this cool looking fire.” She’s says with much excitement and then she locks eyes with me. “Wow big brother, your eyes look scary.” She says with a bit a fear. “Why? What’s wrong with my eyes?” I ask worriedly. “I don’t know, they look like cat eyes and your eye color is red now.” I raise a brow as I look over my body. There’s many changes, good and bad. Good because my muscles look a little more toned and bigger. Bad because this sudden change is off putting, and the fiery arua that surrounds me isn’t burning me, but it burns anything else I touch. Also, the markings on my arms. It looks like magma is flowing around inside the markings. All this is freaking me out, but I can’t let it get to me, I gotta stay focused. I take a couple of breaths and relax myself. Once that’s down, I instantly relax and with that the fiery arua slow disperses. Leaving only the my eyes unchanged and arms as well. “Whatever this sudden change was is a good and bad thing.” I say mostly to myself. I grab my bag with my belongings and prepare to head out of the forest. I take a knee and turn my back towards Amelia. “Come Amelia, let me give you a piggy back ride, so we can get out of this crazy forest.” I look over my shoulder and give her my signature warm smiles. This instantly makes her smile back. She grabs her bag and rushes up to me and climbs onto my back. I wrap my arms around her legs to secure them against my sides. Ameila giggles and nuzzles her head into my neck. “Alright Ameila, hold on tight.” And with that said I start off with a jog down a dirt road I spotted a few seconds ago. Going down the dirt road I keep myself on edge just in case any more strange animals decide to attack us. 8 Minutes Later Coming up to the entrance of the forest, I sigh in relief. During that jog to the entrance was ok, no animals decide to attacks but they did stalk us from the behind bushes and the dense trees. Strange thing is, I saw the all the animals we passed by. I don’t know how, but whatever is going on with me is starting to be kinda cool. My senses are way sharper then before. Actually ten times better than they were before. Stoping adruptly, I see people at the entrance of the forest, but then seem... odd. From where I’m standing I see three individuals that stand out the most out of the group of people I see. The three seem pretty tall, and from what I’m sensing from them, they are pretty powerful. Especially the one with rainbow flowing hair. Second is the one with starry night flowing hair, and third is the with regular purple hair with a streak of hot pink in middle. I don’t pay much attention to the rest of the people, they don’t seem as interesting at the three individual girls I look at. ‘Might as well introduce ourselves.’ I mentally say. “Hey, Ameila.” I call out to her. “What’s up big brother, is something wrong?” She asks as her normal cute self. “No there’s nothing wrong, but we are about to introduce ourselves to some people that await at the entrance of this forest, so be on your best behavior.” I say strictly to her, but she just giggles. “Big bro, shouldn’t I be telling you that you should be on your best behavior.” She giggles out cutely. “Good point.” I walk down the last bit of the dirt road and soon walk the forest. The sun hits us both with intensity. Being in a damp slightly dark forest can make your eyes pretty sensitive when you walk into something pretty bright. The people don’t seem to notice us, they seem to be conversating about something. From what I can hear, they speak English, which is good. I walk up closer, and stand a few feet away from them. “Um... hello.” All attention turns to me now which kind of makes me nervous as hell. “Um, me and my sister here are kind of lost and don’t know where we are, can you help us?” “Dear mother Faust, the demon is just a teenage boy.” The woman with the starry hair says with a shocked look. I narrow my eyes at the insult she threw me about being a demon. “You know that isn’t nice for you to call someone a demon.” I look over myself. “I mean, I don’t even look scary, or have horns, sharp teeth, and a ugly face. I’d say I’m pretty average looking from my perspective.” “Big brother, she seems like a mean lady.” She says nervously as she peeks behind my head to look at the group. “Very mean lady indeed.” I nod my head in agreement. “You guys don’t seem like the type to help out, so we’ll be off. Bye-bye now.” I turn to walk away, but all of a sudden my senses spike, telling to to duck, so I do. A rainbow streak passes over me and Ameila and hits the tree just a few meters to the side of me. I flinch back at the state this girl is in, she’s knocked out cold with a nasty bump forming on her head. I look towards the group and point at the rainbow haired girl. “Uh... I didn’t do anything, I swear.” I panically say. “Oh my goodness, Rainbow Dash!” A girl with pink long hair rushes over to her downed friend in a hurry. I go over to help her, but some type of gold looking bubble blocks my way. “What the heck is this?” I reach out my pointer finger to the bubble, and Pop it’s gone. I look over to the other people in confusion. “I’m not the only one who saw that bubble, right?” I say bewilderedly. They all have shocked looks, except for the two women with flowing hair. I watch as they both walk up to me, eyes narrowed as I feel some sort of energy being flexed out to intimidate me, but why? I haven’t done anything, or have I? “Demon, do you-...” I hold up my hand to stop the woman with the rainbow colored hair. This makes the one with the starry night man give me a scowling look. “Let me stop you right there. I’m not a demon, so stop calling me that. Just because I look odd doesn’t give you the right to call me that. Plus what kind of demon would be caring for a kid.” I say rather bluntly. “Yeah, that’s right! Leave my big brother alone. Stop bullying him!” She defends me, but quickly hides herself behind me. “I mean, please stop bullying him.” They look at Amelia, their eyes seem to soften a little after noticing her. “Boy, what is your name?” The one with starry night mane asks me. “I don’t have one.” I say. She looks at me with an amused look. I then sigh as I have to explain why. “We are orphans. I grew up in an orphanage in San Diego from the day I was just a baby. Ever since I arrived at the orphanage I never got a name. All I got was torture from that evil woman that was out caretaker. She’s done nothing but beat me and the other kids that lived in the orphanage. The orphanage was a living hell for me. That all changed when Amelia came, she changed my whole life. After getting to know her we became inseparable. I didn’t let our caretaker lay a hand on her, or any of the other kids. That’s why I’m riddled with scars, espically this nasty one right here on my right eye.” I point to the grizzly scar. “So ya, that’s the whole story to why I don’t have a name.” The starry haired lady snorts in disgust at my story. Her hands ignites with flowing blue looking arua that’s hums in a soft tune. “Do not make such lies demon! Do you think we will believe such petty lies from you?” The starry haired lady steps up to me, but then gets block by arm stretched out to block her. The person to block is the tall lady with rainbowed flowing hair. “Sister, why do you stop me from ending this vile creature?” She says in anger. “Haven’t you notice the child he carries with him. She isn’t a demon, she carries no traces of demonic energy on her, only the boy does. Also...,” The lady looks at me with a unreadable face. “He isn’t lying about what he said. I secretly looked through his memories when I put that barrier around him and seen the horrors he’s faced, and also.... Gorgar had to show his ugly presence to this boy.” This got the Lunar woman’s attention. She looks at me with pity, shock, and regret. She then walks up to me and stands directly in front of me, eye to eye. (By the way, I’m a pretty tall guy for my age.) Amelia slides down my back and lands on the ground. She stands behind me nervously, awaiting what the midnight lady might do. To my shock and the rest of the group was not what we were expecting. The midnight lady wrapped her arms around me in a comforting warm embrace. An embrace that felt so alien to me, but felt so good at the same time. I’ve never been hugged like this by anyone else but Amelia. “Don’t let this power get to your head young one.” She says with tears dripping down face, drenching my right shoulder in tears. “You don’t want to become something that I was in the past. If it feels like you’re being overwhelmed by this, come to me or my sister and we’ll gladly help you.” Her grip around me tightens further, pulling me into with more feeling. I awkwardly wrap my arms around her, not really understanding what she is telling, but the hug she is giving me feels so nice, like a mother hugging her child in a safe secure warm embrace. Two more join the embrace, Ameila and the woman with rainbow flowing hair. This gets tears flowing down my cheeks. Such an embrace shouldn’t be given to me, I’ve done bad, I’ve killed. I’ve killed for vengeance, to get payback on the woman who made me suffer so much. But this emotion I’m feeling and the love that I feel flowing from them is so overwhelming that its starting to make my cry, even Ameila is crying. I wish this embrace would never end, but at times things like this always have to come to an end.