The First Death
The sound of flowers being trampled is heard over the gentle winds flowing through the meadow.
"Everyone shut up. Wait till I open cage… 1 2"
Vatu's eyes open wide
"3"
A man quickly grabs Velveti by the neck with a pole leash and shoves the fox into Wire wood cage on the ground. Vatu sits up just as Rosa is already being grabbed by another man.
"AHHH!" She's pulled away and Gagged .
"ROSA!!!"
Vatu reaches out when (WHACK!) his head bobbles back and forth as blood squirts from his head falling to the ground; Face down convulsing on the floor.
"Hehe not only did we find that nobles pet but this girl will pay nicely"
The man with a pole says.
"who's gonna carry the girl?"
The man finishing her restraints says.
"get stoolie to do it" man with the pole replies. A Towering man with a head shaped like a potato and a bulging gut showing under his dirty ill fitting shirt
"Fuck you I have something much funner to do" He steps on Vatu's back looking down.
"I'll catch up later. So run along"
"dammit stoolie you and your sick habit" Says the man with the pole.
"How could I pass up an opportunity like this? HeHe and if you want that girl to be sold a virgin you better leave before i finish with the boy, Unless you think you can stop me"
"Mmph fine make it quit you pig, Patrick you carry the girl I'll get the cage"
"Fine" lifting Rosa onto his shoulder.
The two begin to walk away, Rosa Screaming with every ounce of her strength under the gag but not for herself. The sky and clouds begin to change as if it's being dyed with a thick gray.
"My my what a cute thing you are a little skinny but that snow white skin"
He takes a deep whiff behind Vatu's ear, kneeling down and shoving his head into the dirt. Stoolie starts pulling his pants down and whispers
"Go ahead and worry I wont be gentle"
Stoolie pulls Vatu's shorts down, getting ready with a disturbed face. But so wrapped up in the moment he doesn't realize this strange dark energy gushing out from vatu. With his head shoved in the dirt vatu changes, his hands stop flopping around and digs his fingers into the dirt.
"Ooo looks like you have some fight left, HAHA I love it! fighting always makes it feel better"
Vatu forces his head to the side against the huge man on top of him, Staring up with a single eye full of hate as something black swirls in his pupil .
Stoolie shutters as a heavy wave of fear runs through him, Breaking out in a cold sweet Seeing a phosphorus white iris surrounded by bottomless pitch black looking at him from this boy.
"What? What the fuck is this!"
Vatu's left hand moves to grab the wrist of Stoolies arm pressing his head against the ground. Sending a horrible chill up his arm, As the loudest crunch rings through Stoolie's head.
"AHH HAAH AHHHHH!"
"WHAT THE FUUUUCK"
Pulling his right hand away Stoolie cries out in pain. Vatu arches his back putting both hands to the ground, Feet scraping away at the dirt to gain leverage, Twisting and turning under Stoolie.
"POP!" Vatu's whole top half whips the back of his head into stoolies chin sending him flying back
"AHAAGUHA FUCK WHY" Stoolie crawls a little back turning over he barfs up blood and teeth.
Vatu still after the headbutt his body is oddly shaped perfectly like an L, Facing the sky he leans down a little to the ground holding himself up his legs stretch out as horrible cracking popping sounds are heard. Vatu's body contorts in unnatural ways he slowly stands back to stoolie.
"Rose..a" Coughing up blood with obvious tinges of black sludge.
"….Rosa, Rosa, Rosa '' Continually saying her name while wobbling in place
"I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE"
Stoolie gets up to his feet pulling out his club.
BUT IT"S TO FUCKING LATE!!!"
Spitting out blood with every slurred word.
"AAAAHHHHHH!!"
He charges with the club in left hand. Vatu faces away from Stoolie uncaring, his club inches away from striking.
The tension sinks as the wind goes quiet, Stooley's attack is stopped by Vatu grabbing Stoolie's whole left hand in his right, Looking down at the ground; still facing away.
"Rosa Rosa Rosa Rosa Rosa Rosa Rosa"
Using all of his strength Stoolie struggles to pull both club and hand away but neither budge one inch.
"EEEHH!!! Just go DOWN!"
He goes to strike with his broken right hand
"Where IS ROSAAAA!'
Vatu turns his body around twisting Stoolie's left arm, Shattering his elbow, Sending blood everywhere; Bone protruding from the gushing wound Stoolie screams.
"AHHHHH"
Vatu with his left hand jams two fingers each into Stoolie's eye sockets thumb dug up under his upper lip and slowly pulls the skin down. blood spraying out from his exposed flesh as the last bit of skin snaps off. Leaving only bleeding muscle under his eyebrows.
Seconds after; Unfazed by the man's screams Vatu kicks at his right knee Shattering it outwards. Pathetically he slowly falls and begins to wallow on his knees.
"Where is Rosa" vatu asks looking down on stoolies pitiful state
"I…. Don't .. knooow I don't " Sobbing heavily barely alive and panicking
"Please glubug, Stop globe" Choking on blood head bent over pouring blood out.
Vatu raises his leg smashing his foot the back of Stoolies head into the ground
"Where is Rosa"
Silence from stoolie.
"Where is Rosa"
He stomps his head in again
"Where is Rosa"
Still unable to respond
"Where is Rosa"
Vatu begins to violently stomp over and over saying
"Where is Rosa , where is Rosa , where is Rosa , where is ROSA!... where is she'' bloody black tears fall from Vatu's face hitting the pool of shattered skull fragments and brain that was stoolies head.
"Man this meadow is huge it's a miracle we found the fox" "Got that right, but fuck. This bitch won't stop squirming" "Well deal with it, Buyers pay more if their uninjured"
The two men carrying Rosa and Velveti the fox see the edge of the meadow right as rain starts to fall.
"Alright things are turning up for ol hector hehehahaha"
says the man holding up the cage holding Velveti.
"Should we wait for Stoolie so he doesn't get lost" Patrick says carrying Rosa
"Fuck that sick freak, I'm done with this pathetic life. We just hit the motherfuckin jack pot, Right here" Lifting the caged fox
"We are set FOR LIFE pat, so fuck that guy"
Patrick "Yeah I guess you're right let's hurry then, I hate him but if finds us without his share there's no way we can take him down even if we hire 10 bodyguards he'll tear through them like paper"
The rain starts to fall a little harder.
Hector "Fuck it was sunny a minute ago, lets kick it up a notch it'll be a pain in the ass if it starts pouring"
Patrick " Okay, let's g..."
hector looks at Patrick to see the girl falling forward and Patrick's feet moving back but still on the ground
"AAAAHHH!!! WHA WHAT'S HAPPENING!" Patrick screams as he falls to the ground and dragged instantly over a hill screaming
"HELP ME HELP ME I DON'T WANNA DIE !" Hector, stunned, He looks at the hill unable to turn away or stop listening to Patrick's screams. Then nothing, only the sound of rainfall getting heavier and heavier when a figure is seen walking up over the hill, a small silhouette too small to be Patrick. It stands there at the top unmoving.
Rosa crawls around trying to get the rope off unaware about what's happening. Hector terrified at what's about to happen he drops the cage and pole. Pulling out a single shot flintlock pistol and aims, Shivering in his boots, Hands shaking like a leaf.
"STAY BACK (in a scared tone) what ever the fuck you are" standing very still in the light rain as if it was a statue unfazed by his threat.
"Damnit, damnit, damnit, you wanna die, fine"
Still shaking but sediment to pull the trigger suddenly a rain droplet falls in his eye and he blinks
"huh where is it"
In the second he blinked it was gone, Then as if his heart was run through with a knife he feels a freezing cold sink into his body struggling to take a single breath he looks around seeing nothing. But just as he goes to look behind him he catches something at the bottom of his eye , Right under his nose with black eyes Vatu looks up at him.
In such a panic Hector aims the gun and shoots.
BANG!
Rosa stops struggling to see what's happening, Velveti cowers in the back of her cage. She sees Vatu standing in front of the man but with his head tilted back a little.
"Vowwto"
Rosa says her mouth gagged and trying even harder to escape. Hector looks down to see the back left of the boy's skull blown off. Hector feeling happy, And would be smiling if he looked away but no his eyes couldn't look away from the wound if by some instinct be it fear or an late moment of intelligence he did not avert his gaze and saw something unholy seeping from the wound. Jet black sludge leaking slowly out, Closer there's a writhing mass that would be Vatus brain but no human brain moves like a pile of worms or oozes black ichor. Vatu snaps his head straight, looking up at Hector with dead black eyes lit with a bright white glow that seems to sink deeper as you look at them. Unable to move or speak, frozen in fear Hector hears something hit the floor. The sound of wet cloth hitting the floor he moves just his eyes shaking in fear seeing something no bigger than two golf balls covered in blood on the ground. All his strength vanishes ,Body feeling so cold that his legs begin to buckle. Hector stares at the growing pool of blood at his feet
"Wha what the hell did you do, Wait is that … are those… my balls" Hector breathing heavily.
"Rosa"
Vatu says with a strange demonic tone as hector falls back on his ass crawling away un terror
"Rooosa"
Vatu stomps his ankle with inhuman strength shattering his leg.
"please stop I'm sorry just stop" (crying) hector puts his hands in front of face cowering, he feels fingers run through his right hand and left gently holding vatu pushes them to the side revealing vatu smiling like the happiest child with eyes closed
"hehe this is a dream, it has to be this can't be real heheahaha" hector says in denial.
Vatu opens his eyes slowly as his smile gets bigger, sinister with black eyes, he crushes Hector's hands, all of it bursting blood and fingers everywhere.
"aaaaaahhh" hector struggles wailing in pain,
Vatu steps on his chest and grabs his left arm with both hands and pulls
"no no no no no no" (tearing) Hector's arm rips from his shoulder, blood spraying horrendously.
Hector can only scream at the top of his lungs praying for death. Vatu sits down on his chest and begins to strangle Hector, Muffling his cries sounding like a fish on land.
"Where is Rosa, WHERE IS ROSA… I WANT ROSA… ROSA ROSA ROSAAA!!!"
Squeezing harder and harder moments away from death, Eyes bulging out his skull Vatu suddenly feels someone hug him.
"I'm here vatu, You can stop now, I'm right here"
Snap the sound of Hector's neck breaking, Rosa jumps from the sound, She starts to cry.
"Its okay I'm still here"
Vatu looks behind him to see Rosa wet under rain tears running down her face. Rosa sees Vatu's' blood drenched face with eyes pure black her arms still wrapped around him.
"No matter what you do or look like I will remember, I will always see you as the boy who granted my wish"
Rosa grabs the sides of Vatu's face and leans in.
The rain falls as if it were crying, Heavy pouring down on the two.
Black bleeds down his face, The glow from his pupils blink on and off. He sees Rosa on his lips and turns around, Reaching his arms behind her. Pulls tight Kissing her back, Rosa breaks the kiss off pulling her head back.
"Vatu is that you" Rosa says in a shaky happy tone.
"I found you, The real you, Right, Right" with tears falling down vatu's face.
"Hey It's the real me okay, I'm real, you big dummy" they hug tightly in the rain.
A shiver runs up vatu's whole body "woe… vatu are you okay" She loosens the hug to look at him "You're really cooold" said giggling with a shiver. Vatu's eyes open wide he stares right at her but doesn't feel like he's looking at her and sees absolute terror on face.
"What's wrong? VATU TELL ME! what is it"
She grabs his face but he doesn't respond. In the distance multiple dogs are heard barking "no, no, no there can't be more. Come on vatu we have to run"
Rosa feels a hand pull her gaze to face vatu.
"You have to run take Velveti and run… fast"
"No are you stupid I cant, I cant just never see you again. I won't, can't, go back... not alone" Rosa says crying hysterically the whole time. Vatu gently pushes her off and starts to walk away
"why why cant you be with me" she grabs his hand. He turns his head
"just one more look" tears and snot running down his crumpled face.
"VAAAAAATU I… I… I '' She falls down crying into her arms.
If clouds aren't alive then why do they cry?