As soon as Helga finished dressing me, she picked me up and started walking down the hall. I could see where I was going because I was........well you know, blindfolded. It took her a little while to finally open a door. She sounded like she was having difficulty probably because she was holding me.
When we finally entered the hall I heard many people murmuring softly. It smelled wonderful in there from all of the food. For the ceremony you would have an entire table full of meats, vegetables, fruits, desserts, and anything else you can imagine. I learned most of this from listening to people's conversations. My room is very close to my father's room and my brother, Daniel's room. I heard them talk to a lot of different people and by doing so I learned a lot of information regarding politics and E.Us.
Helga then walked a little while and put me down on what seemed to be a little stool. As I left her arms I could feel my body trying to regain its balance. Being in a baby's body is incredibly difficult when you were accustomed to an adults.
The murmuring stopped and a man started to read some long boring texts about the ceremony and how it came to be. I was really bored so I just sat there and thought of the ways I could torture the annoying man.
First I would chain him up. Then I would slowly pull off each of his fingers and toes while he watched his loved ones be ravaged by a collection of men. I would then tell him I would make them stop if he ate a pile of his own shit. If he refused I would let him see them being raped while their fingers and toes were being pulled off, until he finally decided to do what I told him. If they died before he gave in, I would hang the corpses of the loved ones and dissect their bodies. I would then take out the organs and put them in a pile of shit.
After I did that, the man would have his ears cut off and remaining apendeges. After cutting those off I would cut off his nose and lips. I would lay him down and put a three sided cage with a bunch of rats in it on to his stomach. The side without the wall on it would be facing his stomach so when I placed a lamp atop the cage the rats would bury into his stomach killing him from the inside, that is if he didn't bleed out first. If I was feeling exceptionally good that day I would gouge out his eyeballs while all of this was happening.
" And so, Agiel Mortem, we will now reveal your eyes and they conduct the full body exam." The man said after going on and on and on about some shit no one cared about. I nearly fell asleep during all that, and I would have if not for my lovely, happy thoughts.
The man then came behind me and untied the cloth surrounding my face. His hands felt cold on the back of my neck. They had they same feeling as the Abyss. They same emptiness that radiates from its depths. I wanted to turn around the moment he untied the cloth, but I knew I shouldn't. It would seem unnatural. Irregular.
When the cloth fell from my face I saw the spectecal before me. I was in a hall that had red banners streaming to and fro and a huge golden dragon that looked down on the audience. The hall wasn't too big but I could tell my father spent a lot of money doing this.
I turned around and saw the audience, they were wearing all sorts of clothes. Blues, reds, purples, blacks. The ladies were wearing form firing dresses and Cinderella ball gowns. The men were dressed in what seemed to be this world's version of a tuxedo.It had gold buttons lining the jacket and seemed to be made of a velvety fabric. The only difference between my world's tuxedos and this one would be that this world had some interesting colors. Lime green, neon pink, electric yellow. The men looked stranger then the women, needless to say.
I was laughing so hard inside, but I couldn't show it on my face because this was concidered normal. Can you imagine seeing a person with cuts every where and a horrified expression wearing a lime green suit? Thinking about it made me almost laugh out loud. I was curious how they even got that color.
But as I looked closer I could see that their mouths were all agape. I don't think I had something I between my teeth, so probably one of three things happened: one, my eye color was shocking, two, I had an insignia smack dab in the middle of face, or three, I had strange eyes and an insignia on my face.
I turned my oversized head around and found a small mirror a little to the side. I couldn't reach it from were I sat so I made a grabbing motion towards it with my small, chubby fingers. I couldn't walk yet so it would be strange if I just walked off the stool and picked it up. I also made small grunting noises indicating I wanted that.
It was hard being a baby. So much effort was needed to pretend you weren't doing anything. I am going to have to 'learn' how to speak earlier, just like I am going to 'learn' how to walk sooner. Somebody realized what I wanted and brought the mirror to me.
The person was a young girl only about eight or nine. She had black hair and two blue eyes. She was definetly special. One in half a million people may have two eyes of the same color. Her was oval shaped and she had a thin nose and rosy lips. She was cute, but not beautiful. She had an innocent vibe to her. I doubt she realized how special her eyes were.
She placed the small mirror in my hands before retreating quickly. She seemed scared. I doubt my eyes could be that scary. I soon changed my mind.
I had straight back hair that was around my ears. It was pretty long for a baby my age. But when I saw my face I gasped. Even I, who has seen a lot, couldn't help but feel surprized.
Just when I was about to do something it happened. The Abyss came. This time there was no corpses. It was just the Abyss and its wide, gaping self that seemed to draw everything towards it. I walked toward for I felt a pull from that direction. It was as though it was calling to me.
I knew that I should be careful because it had already killed me once. Well, I am the one who walked off the building, but it made me. It grabbed at me told me to join it. Which is why I was being so careful.
Soon I got to the rim of the hole. I was a decent distance away but I could still look into it. It looked at me. It felt strange. Just like that other time. It was like someone was in the back of your head and saw everything you did. It was uncomfortable.
"Why are you watching me?" I asked, purely out of curiosity.
"Hehehehehehehehe." A cruel laughter rang out in the air. It was dry and merciless as though laughing at another's pain. Oddly enough, it sounded like the man who was at the reveaance ceremony.
"Why do you laugh?" This time I asked to see if I could make a conversation out of this. That would depend on Abyss though.
"Hehehehehehehehe." The laughter rang out yet again. As soon as the last 'hehe' resonated through the air, all that was left was silence. Dead silence. I guess that was the end of that conversation.
And as if on cue, the corpses began to crawl about, as though symbolizing that my brain was my own again. Their hands grabbed me and weighed me down. And just as I was about to turn away from the Abyss. One of them pushed me. I fell into the Abyss. The darkness grabbed at me and embraced my being. I felt as if I was falling forever and when I finally opened my eyes I was at the ceremony again.
The last thing I heard before I left the Abyss. Was not a threat or an insult. But merely a single word, "Bye."
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When I woke up I saw Ellie and Kris hovering over me. They had a worried expression plastered on to their faces. When they saw me open my eyes and smile at them their faces shared the sigh of relief.
"Are you okay, Agiel?" Ellie said in her worried sick tone. Even though she was slightly relieved she still was worried. After all, her brother just spent five minutes shaking on the ground. It would twitch sometimes, but most of the time his little body was shaking.
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I slowly shook my head, but then decided that if I was going to talk, let's pretend something strange happened when I passed out and suddenly I was able to talk.
"Y-yes." I said softly in my childish voice.
Everyone then looked shocked. They all appeared to be frozen. Ah, that's right you can freeze people then expose them to incredibly hot temperatures quickly, and repeat that until their body can't take it any more. When you think of killing techniques in a time of worry.
"D-did you just s-speak, son?" Father asked, still pale with shock.
"Yes, father." I replied softly. I was acting as though I had just learned how to speak.
"H-h-how did you learn?" Father asked.
"I blacked out, then I had this little voice come and tell me what I could do!" This time I was going with the child elicited over whatever voice.
"Is that so?" Father looked skeptical but quickly recovered. "Did this 'voice' tell you anything else?"
"Yes. It also taught me how to walk." As I said this I got up on my feet and slowly began to move my small legs. I fell down a few times because my body still was unbalanced. My head was still huge compared to the rest of my body, but I could still walk.
Father looked ready to faint after I did that. Ellie any better either. Father'so face returned to color shortly after that, then he said with a firm voice, "Son, come with me."
He then picked me up, for he could see I was having trouble walking and we began to leave the hall, of course father being the gentlemen he was, told the party goers to enjoy the food while they checked on my condition. It seems none of them saw that I woke up yet, and still thought I was unconscious. A few people came to ask if father needed help, but he politely refused.
Father took me down the long corridor into his study. That was the place he used for all of his mayorial duties. Book shelves lined the walls and a wooden desk polished to a deep luster awaited us as we entered the room.
"Agiel, I'm going to check for the insignia now. Would you mind taking off your shirt?" Father asked, as he went and got his reading glasses.
"Yes, Father. But I might need some help." I replied. You don't have very good muscle control who you are little so doing things that need finely tuned motor skills are a bit hard. Of course taking your clothes off is not at the top of the finely tuned motor skills section but when you're my age it's something that requires a lot of effort and is quite hard without another person.
"Of course Agiel." Father then came by and asked me to lift up my arms and then pulled the shirt off over my head. "It doesn't look like the mark is on your chest. Would you mind turning around?" Father said after observing my small chest.
I turned around and I heard father gasp. After the gasp I could almost feel his smile radiate on my back. It was quite scary.
"Congratulations son, you're going to be an E.U." Father said as I turned back around. "Now the only issue is what your element is.
And option one it is. Strange eyes wins.
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Kris's POV
My wife Tiffany gave birth to our son, Agiel. Unfortunately this would be the last because she died right after she gave birth. I promised her that I would love him even if I did feel that he caused her death. I knew in my heart th this wasn't right for he was just a little boy and its not like he would want to kill his own mother.
I can't spend as much time with any of my children as I would like because I am busy running the town. Daniel is going to be a great mayor when he gets older and Timothy and Ellie are currently attending Fortem Academy, the best in the entire continent of Terra. And little Agiel barely ever crus and seems so intelligent for being so young. He views everything with curiosity, but seems to look at people in a weird way. He alway has a glint in his eye. He does look different but I still love him
Well I can't wait to see Agiel's reveaance ceremony. I hope that he is an E.U. na cause when my wife died we lost a importantE.U. in our family and every one counts. Manyfoghts between towns and clans are determined by the strength and number of the E.U each side has.
Finally the day has come. It's Agiel'srevealance ceremony. I have invited many nobles in town and some of the less fortunate families because I know doing things like this would be what my wife wanted.
The speaker today is different from the person who did Timothy, Ellie and Daniel's a. He is very good but I feel he has an ominous aura around him and the way he keeps eyeing Agiel puts me on edge. as soon as Agiel's eyes are shown I knew that he was special. They were unique and I doubted anyone else had eyes like him in the entire world. Which is incredibly large.
But I soon get over my shock when Agiel collapsed on th ground and began to shake and twitch. It lasted for a few minutes but he opened his eyes soon. Seeing his eyes up close was startling. They seemed beautiful. Liked ou could lose yourself in them.
"Ar you okay, Agiel?" I doubted he would answer but just seeing him acknowledge me would me a good sign that he was okay.
"Y-yes, Father." Agiel said ain a quiet voice. I was shocked that he said those words. Ellie had the same expression as me. It seems that I wasn't hearing things.
"D-did you just s-speak, son?" I just had to make sure I wasn't going crazy.
"Yes father." He spoke in his soft childish voice yet again.
"H-h-how did you learn?" So it seems I wasn't hallcinating or anything.
"I blacked out then I had this little voice tel me what I could do!" He eemed so exicted when he said that. I was a bit skeptical though because it had way to many holes in it and it could easily be fabricated. I recovered quickly to make sure he knew that I wasn't doubting him, but even if the expression stayed on my face a bit longer he is only a year old even with the voice in his head.
"Is that so?"
"Yes, it also taught me how to walk." Agiel then sat up from his position on the floor and gradually stood up, and much to my surprise he began to walk. He lost his balance quite easily but I was still amazed he could walk that this age. I needed to check for the insignia, but I felt this wasn't a good place to do it at. "Son, come with me." I said. I then scooped him up and started walking toward the exit after telling Ellie o stay here with her brothers and the party goers to eat some food.
I took him down into my study and asked him if he could take his clothes off. He said he could bit he would probably need some help. He is still an infant which I will probably struggle to remember.
I went and grabbed my reading glasses and a wet that there was no mark on his chest. I then asked him to turn around. When he did I gasped from the shock at first but then. I smiled with joy. He would be an E.U.
Then insignia he had was so different rom everyone elseI knew. The is insigna was around the middle of his back and was a deep black circle with lines protruding out of it. It almost seemed as though the lines had a pattern which was undescernible to my eyes. It was about three inches across, the entire insignia that is, which was bigger then average.
Now the only issue was determining his element(s).
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If anybody as any ideas on what Agiel should look like or what color his eyes are please comment. You can also suggest an elementidea. Nothing is really planned out so I will be happy to hear your thoughts.