1 The story of a monster

{In a white room.}

*Cough*Cough*

{In a white bed.}

"Mother..."

{A beautiful woman sits.}

"Oh, don't worry sweetie it's nothing..." With her glowing blue eyes, the mother looked at the child beside her bed.

*Cough*Cough*

"Red..."

{A white world was tainted with 'life'.}

"Huh?" As warmth emanated from the hand covering her mouth, she looked down. Her eyes widened, pupils trembling.

"..." Her long, light brown hair was blown by the gust of wind coming from the open window.

"Oh, it's nothing really, I just had too much cherry drink, don't worry." The mother's playful words contrasted with the child's serious blue eyes.

It was not normal for a small child to show such an expression. Even more so as the thing reflected in his eyes wasn't 'the red' in his mother's hand, but the transparent red veil over her.

"..." As the veil looked like it would embrace her, his eyes turned to a darker blue.

{The world of white tainted by red was reflected in blue.}

While he climbed onto the bed, his eyes reflected the contrast created by the red veil and his mother's glowing blue eyes.

"Huh, what is it, sweetie?" His strong hug surprised her.

'I will...!' The child stared with hostile eyes at the red veil behind his mother.

"Don't worry..." She returned his hug with clenched hands dripping with red.

"I'll... I surely will make it vanish, just wait for me..."

{The white world was embraced in the transparent and empty bleeding of a heart.}

"I don't understand sweetie, but I promise, however long it takes, I'll wait..." Her words were light, but her eyes had a pained look in them.

...

"Hahahaha... catch me, but you can't."

"Just wait! I'll get you!"

"Hm..." Hearing the children laugh, the blue-eyed child returned from the story.

'Waste of time...' The blue-eyed child was across from the playing kids, on the other side of a big road, he was below a big tree leaning on its trunk while hiding in the tree's shadow.

"Uhm..." As he opened his eyes to look at the kids, he become blinded by the rays of light coming through the foliage of the tree.

*Step...*step...* He heard steps with a heavy sound come toward him, after which a deep voice called to him.

"Why don't you go there and play with them?"

'Uh... ' As he recognized the voice, his empty and dead eyes changed to show some light.

"They are slow..." His words were unconcerned.

"Hm, indeed they are slower than you... but you can hold yourself back a little, my son you don't need to use always everything." Hearing his father's words his face broke a little.

"Uh..." As he turned to his father, his face changed to show something like irritation or nuisance.

"...you wouldn't hold back either." His voice was not respectful, but something similar was hidden in his eyes as he looked at this rather short man.

"HM!?"

"Ah..." Hearing the muscular man's husky hum, he shuddered and turned back to look at the playing kids.

*Step...*step*

'Ah... Why...?' As the heavy sound of approaching steel-toed boots started again, he sighed in his mind.

"Ugh...Ahg..." At the same time that the footsteps stopped, he felt a touch on his shoulder.

"..." And feeling the strong and painful grip, he turned to look at his father.

He couldn't see his father's face due to the sunglasses and the shadow cast by his father's cap.

"Your mother would be sad if she learned that..." Seeing his son stand up without a word, the man stopped mid-sentence.

"Hmh..." As the child walked towards the other children, a smile appeared behind the short man's full beard.

"This is not fair, it's a blatant threat..." Just as he reached the road, in a low voice, the words slipped out from his tongue.

"...!" The moment he looked to the sides, to cross the road, something flew past him.

'This!?' Seeing the red flash in the corner of his eyes, he reflexively turned around.

'Unfortunate...' He saw a little girl running after a ball, the red veil above her.

'One day... for sure... I'll make you disappear...' While the veil seemed to embrace the little girl, his fake childish face, which appeared after he walked out of the shadows, completely turned around with hatred burning in his blue eyes.

The hatred was not directed at the girl, but at the red veil that wanted to take away the one thing he wanted, the one thing he felt, the one thing he could call his purpose in this wretched thing, called life.

*squeak...* Hearing the screeching of car brakes, he turned his head, his angry face disappeared and a fake expression of fear appeared. 'She's going to die, it's too late buddy...'

"...!?" But then as he turned back, something happened that changed his face again, this time into a real inquiring one.

'Why? How!? How the hell did it vanish...!?' He had seen it descend many times before, but this was the first, it never left before finishing what it came for.

"Huh...?" He felt a strong gust of wind push him, with something flashing in the corner of his eye again.

"Uh!?" As the car crossed in front of him, his blue eyes focused on the other side.

'Why is...?' His eyes were fixed on his father, who was holding the little girl in his arms.

*Ahhhh...* "It's The Man With The Bag!!" "Run, he will take you away!!!" As the children ran away screaming, the man put the little girl down.

"If you run out onto the road one more time, without looking around, I'll go to your house..." The man had a deep and serious voice.

"Uh... Kya!!!" While the man spoke, the little girl glimpsed his face, she began to cry as she also turned to run away.

"How did...?"

"Huh?" Hearing his son's voice behind, the father turned, but when he did, he saw not his son's clear blue eyes looking up at him...

"...! Who...?" He saw the empty and dark eyes of a 'monster'.

"How did you...?" The question of the 'monster' sounded desperate.

"..." The father lost his voice, he could not speak as he looked at the little 'monster'.

"Help me...! Help me, to do it, to make it vanish...!" The monster's pleading made the father shudder.

"What are...?" Horrified by his own question, he stifled his words.

"I-I want to be as strong as you!"

"..." The father still couldn't speak.

'No...' As he remembered similar eyes from the people, he once called his comrades, he settled down.

"I'm sorry..." The father knelt down, white metal pendants jingling around his neck as he grabbed both of the little monster's shoulders.

"..."

"I'm sorry, son..." The father's words become soft.

"Help me..."

"Yes... Yes, I'll..." His head fell with self-blame.

"..." After a second of silence, he glanced up, his face has changed to a determined one.

"Boy, I'll tell you four...!" The softness vanished from his voice, rather it was raised with a domineering and harsh tone, but he abruptly stopped as he looked at his son's face, his grip strengthened as he continued.

"Five, five commands...!"

...

"Do you understand!? You will follow them until there are lives to live!" With the words of his father, the child desired to be a 'human'.

"I... I will follow..." As he was only a child he was weak so he wanted the strength he saw in his father.

"I will make it vanish!" He wanted to use that strength to protect the one thing he could feel, and so he followed what he was told.

"..." He was taught in this way and it was this that made him 'human' again... he had no choice but to believe the man's words.

But as time went by and the years passed, the child learned something...

...

{Belove the clear sky.}

"Mother you said...you will wait..."

{On the green and lush fields filled by the people of the past.}

"No, sorry it was I who was late, I'm sorry..."

{A young child stood alone.}

{The beautiful woman sitting in the bed decorated with wood and marble looked at him.}

...

'Don't worry sis I will protect you all!'

{Now besides the woman a young lady sits.}

"I was weak, I'm sorry..."

{A teenage boy stood alone.}

{With that they both looked at him.}

...

{Not far away, between the forest of stone that represents the past.}

'My love it doesn't matter what comes I will protect you!'

{A young woman sits looking at him.}

"I wasn't there, I'm sorry..."

{A young man stood alone.}

...

....he learned that he was not the one to stop the red veil, but that he was the bringer of it.

"Stand up, my son!" There was almost nothing left, but he still resisted breaking the mask his father had created, or at least until the day came...

...

In the dark of the night, five men dressed in black were chasing the young men, the only light coming from the full moon that was high in the sky.

"Somebody help me, please call the police!" The young man shouted.

'This area is deserted, it doesn't matter how I call for help, no one will come...'

"Why me? Did I do something wrong?" As he asked, he ran to a half-collapsed house, climbed its wall, and jumped over the rubble to land on the wall across.

"It was your father, but you need to pay!" One of the men in black called out as they jumped into the house through the window, one after the other, falling because of the rubble.

"Fools..." The young man got down from the wall and dashed to the garden through the back door.

As the five stood up and ran to the other room, another continued. "Your father messed with the wrong people!"

"Huh!? Fuck...!" Running after the blue-eyed young man, they saw a small jungle in the back of the house.

"Then why don't you find my dad first?" He ran through the small jungle and the debris, knowing the place well he was unharmed, and quickly reached the back wall.

"Hop..." He climbed over with ease, and as he got to another house he started running straight to the gate.

"So sluggish..." When he got there, he turned back to see the five crawling on the back wall, with bleeding scratches everywhere.

"Anyway, bye..." As he become convinced he had escaped, he closed the gate and started running again.

But then, it happened just as he was catching his breath on the asphalt road, a voice stopped him. "Oh, we found the old man first...!"

The young man only took a few steps before turning back.