September 15, 2005

Franklin Church, Orphanage

""Happy Birthday Ziv!""

The orphanage was in high spirit because of Ziv's birthday, not exactly his actual birthday, but the time when he arrived at the orphanage when he was a baby.

Too many things happened in the past few years, but everything he experienced let him grow and make him slightly mature.

There's some people to their orphan that invited over to celebrate his 9th year birthday, there's some unfamiliar and familiar faces that Ziv met throughout this few years.

The people that Ziv familiarizes the most is Mr. Arthur, because of their interest in the arts, he decides to teach him from basic to advanced techniques and styles of art form.

While Mrs. Fiona and her family are next, because of their hospitality and care that they showed to him for years he more or less familiarize himself with their family.

The last one is the least familiar among them, Father Damascus a newly appointed priest that arrived at the church a year ago. He's kinda plump and not good looking man, but his amiable like Father Luis, but for some reason people feel something off about him.

"What you wish this year!" Isabel asked him after blowing the candle.

"I wish for us to stay like this forever." he smiled brightly to everyone from the people in orphan to Father Luis, the Miller Family, Mr. Arthur, and Father Damascus.

"Yeah." Isabel smiled, but there's a trace of sadness in her eyes.

"Thank you for taking care of me throughout this years Sis. Veronica, Sis. Lily and everyone!" he sincerely said.

"No. It's our pleasure with Sis. Veronica to take care of you, Ziv. Instead, we become grateful that you grow up into a kind, lovable and smart boy." Sis Lily said while slightly sobbing when she was talking.

"Enough with the drama. Let's just eat instead!" Sis. Veronica said while wiping his tears evident that she also cried.

They happily eat with a table full of food and everyone was laughing and joking around that makes the atmosphere joyous.

The next was gift, a lot of gift he receives are from the people that attended, including the people at the orphanage, but he share it to Clara who was staring at the gifts that he received.

"You can pick anything you like Clara." he said while smiling.

"I-is it okay for me to do that?" she hesitantly said, but her hands is not.

"Of course, just leave me with something." he slightly laughed while saying.

"Hihi~!" she smile brightly when she picks a small teddy bear and a few items that she likes and got satisfied with that.

The people who saw it involuntarily smile except for a certain someone who is looking at Sis. Lily and Isabel while licking his lips.

...

A cold and snowy late november on Franklin City.

The day when Ziv's birthday celebration has passed and the winter is coming, now people are getting ready for Christmas.

In a cold afternoon outside of the orphanage, Isabel is standing alone while looking at the sky feeling lonely.

"What are you thinking?" someone suddenly said.

"W-wha- who!?" she asked, startled while looking around.

"Oh, It's you Ziv." she said when she realizes who it was.

"Yep. So anything to share?" he asked again.

"Ye- No. I think you wouldn't understand either." she abruptly stopped, seems hesitant to say it.

"Okay, if there's anything I can do, just ask me. Also It's cold outside you better come inside right away." he said when he saw, so he enters the orphanage.

"Hm." she nodded, then she waited for a moment when she saw him walk towards the door of orphange, she didn't went inside instead walk towards the church.

A few moments later, Ziv opens the door, then looked towards the direction of the church.

'Recently she's been distracted by something and always gone, the others also notice it, but she kept telling us that It was nothing. All of us are worried about her.' he thought while looking at the direction she went to.

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'I need to know the reason why she kept disappearing.' he resolutely decided to follow her.

He follows her tracks and soon discovered a door on the second floor of the church where people don't know about.

When he opened the door, he saw a narrow spiral stairway that going downward where he doesn't know the destination.

'Why is there a stairway here?' he thought for a while before deciding to go downstairs.

When he was on the stairway, he observes the surroundings, the walls are kinda old and It's mossy and wet, but the confusing thing about this stairway is all of the torches are all new.

'Is there someone living in this place? If so, why is Isabel going here?' he thought while cautiously walking.

He kept walking until he saw a wide corridor that atleast wider than the stairway, it has a 4 rooms with wooden door, 3 of them are open with lights coming out inside the room.

When he peeks at the first room on the right, he saw a different type of 'things'. It's a room full of sadistic items he can see ropes, whips, candle wax, handcuffs and etc.

Ziv was utterly shocked when he saw it even though he doesn't know most of the items inside, he understood that something is not right.

"Ahh-! No! Please!"

Then there's a sudden cry that he heard from one of the rooms.

"That's Isabel!" he said while dashes towards the direction of that room.

"You don't need to resist, if you do, I'll go for Chloe, Clara or maybe Sis. Lily. Hehehe." a person indecently said.

"No. Stop isn't enough for you to just hurt me?" Isabel weakly said.

"You know that there's also a kid like you 2 city away from here. She's beautiful, tender and I enjoy when I r*pe her, she also said the same thing, but she gives in eventually with my mighty Excalibur." he explained crawling on the bed while smiling indecently.

What Ziv saw inside the room is a lot of candles and a huge bed with Father Damascus naked crawling towards Isabel, who has tattered clothes cowering in the edge of the bed, she's full of scars and bruises all over her body.

"Isabel!" he exclaimed.

"Ziv. Please help me!" when Isabel saw him she immediately called out

"You little piece of sh*t. I'll now kill him because you didn't let me f*ck you dirty b*tch!" he angrily said when he got interrupted

"No! Don't do that!" Isabel refused.

"You heard her kid, then get the hell out of here! If you don't I'll f*cking kill you right now." Father Damascus said while walking towards Ziv.

Looking at this, Ziv was panicking inside, he didn't know what to do anymore, especially facing Father Damascus infuriated face different from his amiable face that people always saw.

Father Damascus wants to grab Ziv shoulder to drag him out for ruining his fun when he dodges to the side and quickly circle around his back, Ziv instinctly grabs the knife on the top of the cabinet then..

*Splat*

"Ah-! What's going on?" Father Damascus sluggishly responds to Ziv stab while he touches the stab area.

When he saw the blood from his wound he reacted exaggeratedly while wailing like a pig.

"Y-Y-You H-how dare you hurt me little sh*t! Give me the knife!" he angrily shouted while trying to reach Ziv's knife, but his not fast enough to get it.

Ziv stabs 3 more times while Father Damascus tripped and fell with his back while the candles are burning his body, then Ziv suddenly climbed on the top of his body.

"Ah! No! Please! Sto-" Father Damascus cries for a few moment before it stopped because he's already dead.

*Splish* *Splat* *Slash*

Ziv stabbed 13 times in Father Damascus stomach while it was burning, Isabel, who was stupefied on what she saw tried to stop him, but she was too late.

She heard him called her after he finish and when she looks at his face, she saw him smiling not just a ordinary one, but a smile when she saw him completes his artworks before.

"Isn't my carved roses, beautiful?" he emotionlessly asked while still smiling.

"Isn't it a Beautiful Art?" he asked again while looking at Isabel.

"Uhm." Isabel involuntarily shudder and nodded in response.

After that he slowly relax a little bit and regain his clarity to think after that he immediately starts puking.

The next second his hands are shaking while his eyes are tearing up and sobbing.

"W-w-what should I d-do? I-Isabel?" he weakly asked, seemingly realizes what he has just done.

She gulped, trying to stop her urge to puke, she then comforts him by saying.

"It's going to be okay, j-just put down the knife and let's get out of here. O-okay?" she said while putting down his knife.

The fire that starts from earlier started to spread on the wooden floor and ceiling by the candles that lying around the room.

"We should get out of here before this fire kills us." she said while holding the weak hands of Ziv.

They run until they saw the exit of this place and she breathe a sigh of relief then checked Ziv's lifeless expression.

"Ziv! Listen to me what you have done there is right! There's nothing to worry about, okay?" she reassures him.

"B-b-but I j-just kill an person.." he stuttered while saying.

"It's okay, just for now don't talk about it or mention it from anyone, okay?" she said.

"Pinky promise?" she added when she saw him nods.

They quickly get out of there and the fire is starting to spread because of the gasoline that Damascus pour on the stairs for his escape plan.

"Look at that! Is that a smoke?" someone exclaimed while pointing towards the smoke.

People started to walk towards the direction of the smoke when they saw the back side of the church was on fire.

"Oh my god!"

"What is happening?"

"Can somebody call the fire station and an ambulance!"

People are now gathering at the entrance of the church while calling for some help and also checking if there's someone inside the church or the orphanage.

When the fire is starts to be visible inside the church, Father Luis get out of there and instead run towards the orphanage to see if everyone was safe out there.

The fire is at the back of the church while it's kinda near the orphanage the cold is preventing it from quickly spreading.

"Thank God they're safe!" he sighed in relief, then walk towards the orphanage to evacuate the nuns and the kids out of here.

When Father Luis saw Sister Veronica got outside the orphanage with anxious and panic expression he approached her.

"What happened? What's wrong?" he hurriedly asked.

"The two kids is missing while there's on fire over there." she anxiously replied.

"Who?" he asked.

"Ziv and Isabel."

"Uhm.. Okay.. Did you check the whole orphanage? If they're not here, maybe they're already went to the safe area." he said trying to calm her down.

"But Luis! They're not here! What I'm going to do if something happen to both of them!?" Sis. Veronica loses her cool while thinking about the possibilities that they may got hurt.

"It's gonna okay, Ziv and Isabel are both smart, but we need to evacuate first the people on the orphanage." he calmly said.

"Yeah." seemingly realizes that panicking isn't helping, she quickly bring the kids out of here and wait for the firefighter to stop the fire.

When the firefighter, ambulance and police arrives, they quickly stop the fire from spreading while the others is on standby.