Camelton,2011

A circle of emotions surrounded me. I was perplexed, my brother who I thought was dead for the past ten years was standing right here. The void in my heart which I thought would never be filled again because of the loss of someone so dear to me was slowly filling up.

Seeing my brother alive and well with my own eyes consumed me with the feeling of affection, and thoughts, like we could be a family again just like the old days, circled my brain, me, Charlie, and Hamish but in these thoughts, I couldn’t help but feel this dismal vibe surrounding our happy future. I know what it was, it was guilt. The guilt of believing that he was dead, the guilt of believing what other people told me, made me accept that he was dead. With the whirlwind of emotions exploding inside me, I was suddenly taken into that dreadful day…

I was in the forest with my brother, Charles, on the outskirts of the town. We were not supposed to be hereafter nightfall because many demons were lurking around. The town and our shield protecting us from the demons were 200 meters away. I never should have asked Charlie to come with me outside of the town without an adult, the lake that we were facing felt menacing and scary. Today, there was no moon in the sky and a dangerous aura surrounded us.

“We should hurry up and go back to the town now, it’s not safe,” he said, picking me up as I had injured my hand in the afternoon playing tag with him. My brother and I are orphans living with my mother’s best friend and our caretaker, Hamish. Hamish had some work at his country home which left us in the care of Laux, son of the captain of SaberFate Guild, Reiyah.

Laux was scary and very powerful, who had a big scar like that of a lightning bolt on his right eye. I wouldn’t have agreed to stay with him if he hadn’t been Hamish’s cousin. Charlie was carrying me on his back, 150….100 meters left to reach town but to our surprise, we rounded up beside the lake again.

There it was, the demon dark and powerful standing in the middle of the lake, staring at us with its vicious eyes. Charlie gave out a loud cry and quickly covered me from its sight. The demon was slowly walking towards us, thus increasing our terror. Charlie took my hand and started to run in the direction of our town.

We couldn’t get too far as it came right in front of us and with a swish of its hand threw us on the ground with a gravitating force. The demon had blood-red eyes and jet black hair, he was dressed in all black with its sharp and murderous tails poking out from behind.

“My name is Megiculus, and I am looking for Nightshade’s bearer, now which one of you is that.” ME! He was looking for ME! And because of that Charlie was in danger as well. I could never harm my big brother who had always cared for me, so I decided to be killed or taken or whatever it wanted to do to me in exchange for keeping my brother alive and safe.

Megiculus was staring at us looking for an answer. I had to say, higher-class demons were terrifyingly calm and composed. Before I could say that it was me the demon was looking for, my brother whimpered, “Me, I am Nightshade’s bearer.” dread filled me, I did not want that, why would he say that just to save me?

My eyes were filled with tears now and I stared at my brother shocked, no words coming out of my mouth still holding his hand and not able to hear any sound, realizing that I was wailing at the top of my lungs because as soon as my brother said those words, one of Megiculus’s tails pierced his gut and that monster was laughing at us seeing our despair.

It hauled up my brother and took him into the lake leaving me wailing and close to unconsciousness on the ground. When I opened my eyes, I could smell the disinfectants of the hospitals and saw all those fluid and IV needles pricked in my arms. I tried to get up when a firm hand helped me in a sitting position, it was Laux, and sitting….sleeping beside him was Hamish, he looked exhausted.

Last night came back to me filling me up with sadness. I had lost my brother and he had sacrificed himself for me. I guess Hamish and Laux were saying something to me, probably asking if I was ok or that it was not my fault but I couldn't hear anything. All I thought was ‘My brother died, Charlie died for me and now I want to avenge my brother’s death..’