Chapter One: Before
A warm late Augusts’ evening was upon Hultimore, the secret area which humans that held no gem upon their left palm were not able to see. Gemmers believed that if they visited this area for any amount of time at least once in life, they will be born a 更多 powerful Gemmer after death.
No one stepped upon the streets of Hultimore after dark. It was forbidden. Most obeyed this rule and stayed indoors. Yet, the silence of Hultimore was broken, as a lone traveller stepped out across the barrier between dry, barren land and a city full of magic.
His footsteps echoed in the empty 街, 街道 he walked on. He turned a corner, his big black boots stepping slowly towards a small white house with a miniature front garden with a rather lonely looking daffodil in a concrete 花 pot. He smiled to himself.
A woman was inside this little house. Her bobbed dark hair sat on her shoulders, and 紫色, 紫罗兰色 eyes shone. She sat in a small room with cream carpet and red walls, a little glass vision box, 或者 what Nogems would call a “television” 或者 “TV”, a low wooden 表 and a few pictures of this woman and her family on the wall, all smiling and breathing out of their frames. And, a black leather armchair, in which this woman was perched, a large pregnant belly ballooning out as she stacked the third empty plate onto the wooden table, and licked her fingers.
She was eating 更多 and 更多 each day, and the Pregnancy Advisor told her she was due to give birth tomorrow, and she was hoping that she wouldn’t come out the same size she goes in after eating so much.
He knocked the door once.
Carol groaned and heaved herself out of her chair, stumbling a little.
He knocked the door twice.
Carol struggled into the hallway.
He knocked the door three times.
“Okay! I’m coming!” she shouted. Just then the door burst open. Carol squealed and clutched her belly, and staggered backwards as wood and splinters flew out towards her. She held her arms over her head and glanced up.
A man in a dark 兜帽, 罩, 发动机罩 stood there, black 披风, 斗篷 billowing at his feet. His face was covered 由 the hood. Carol was tired of strange men dressed in black. Last time she met one... well, actually she doesn’t remember what happened the last time she met a man dressed in black.
But she was pretty sure they were the one who got her pregnant, seeing as she found she was with child about a week after the man knocked on her door, once, then twice, just before she’d opened the door.
...
Carol’s eyes widened at the dark figure. She didn’t know what happened to her that night, but she sure didn’t want it to happen again.
“Who are you? What do 你 want?” she said, sounding stronger than she felt.
“I am a combination of Death and Satan. I am the shadows in the corner of the room. I am the feeling 你 have when 你 are alone at night. I am Evil.” He 说 eerily. Carol gasped and started to back away from the figure. Evil was the Gemmer world’s worst nightmare. He raped and killed women for pleasure; he travels the world, taking the truth out of everyone’s lips with force. If they are no use to him, he will kill them. He has his Followers in the United Kingdom, keeping a lookout for any plotters. These followers were brutal women, sneering men, and frightened, yet bratty children, all across the country.
“What are 你 doing here?” Carol asked weakly.
“I have come for the child.” He said. Carol blinked then glanced down at her ballooning stomach.
“My baby? Why do 你 want my baby?” she asked.
“Because your child is a threat to my power. She will shun me down, and she will eventually kill me, so I must stop this happening and bring her up with my ways.”
“But it’s an unborn child how do 你 know of this?” Carol kept on backing away from Evil, her 心 was racing. Her pregnant belly kept getting in the way. She had no idea what to do; Evil kept taking one step closer to her every time she took a step away from him.
“I’ve been told.” He said. Carol furrowed her eyebrows.
“Told? 由 a Prophet? But how did 你 get a Prophet to work for you?” Evil laughed. His laugh was cold and empty, with no humour. Carol caught a glimpse of yellow teeth and thin lips.
“Please, silly woman, don’t mock me. I am the most powerful Gemmer in the world. I carry a teardrop 翠, 翡翠 on my palm; I can get anyone to do my bidding. Just like I made 你 nine months ago.” Carol gulped. Knowing that her baby held Evil’s blood in its veins she feared for her child’s fate. She did not know whether her child would be like Evil, 或者 herself.
“I suspected so.” She whispered. She glanced down at her belly, the unborn child that was protected 由 a layer of skin and kept 安全 in a soft bag of water held a fate of death, hope, destruction and love. She knew she could not care for her child, but she wished to hand her child into loving, trusting arms.
“Why are 你 here now? I am still pregnant.” Carol said. Evil glanced down to Carol’s belly automatically.
“For the child is due soon.” He said.
“But it’s not due ‘till tomorrow.” Carol said. Evil grinned wickedly.
“You have your dates wrong Caroline.” Carol frowned, ignoring that Evil has not heard her name once, and yet he had spoken it.
“What do 你 mean?” she asked. Evil chuckled. Carol licked her lips, frightened to her very wits, using all she had not to 显示 it.
“I mean that your water will break any 秒 now, and 你 will give birth in this very house, on the floor, and I will take your child and bring it up with my ways, my doing, and we will walk this earth, every step we take will be 更多 powerful than the next. We shall make every person we come across tremble, we will be the ultimate rulers of the earth. Me and my child, both 更多 powerful than every average Gemmer. And then, when the child is born, 你 will die on this floor, in this house, tonight.”
“But why this child? How do 你 know it will be powerful?” Evil slapped Carol across the face; she cried out, and fell to the ground, she held a hand to her cheek and let warm tears roll down her face as she lay on the floor, looking up at Satan incarnate stand over her with a wicked glint in his dark green eyes. His patience was wearing thin. Evil despised women. He thought of them as those that will drag him down, to the bottom of the 食物 chain. They were pathetic, weak, and had to have men to think for them.
“You mock my abilities again, woman, do 你 not know who I am? Have I not explained to 你 who I am? I could get every Prophet on the planet to do my bidding and each one I’ve been to has told me a 星, 星级 will be born on the 秒 of August, 1996, at eleven fifty eight pm.”
“A St-Star?” Evil glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was ten-to twelve. He had eight minutes; her water had to break soon.
“Yes, stupid woman. I am an impatient man, Caroline, and I do not have this night to waste.”
“Then please can 你 go.” She 说 weakly.
“NO! This is of high important ignorant scum!” he 说 menacingly. Carol swallowed and let 更多 warm tears trickle down her face.
“I – I really don’t understand. What do 你 mean 由 Star?”
“Caroline 你 stupid girl, the child will be the First Born Star. Its palm will 熊 a 星, 星级 Gem, an 翠, 翡翠 I presume, seeing as children should take after their fathers and not their mothers.”
Caroline didn’t mention that she took after her mother, who was a Ruby, and not her father, who was a Topaz. Just then she had this weird feeling, a feeling of dampness, as if she’d just wet herself. Her water had broken.
“Ah, now things will speed up a little.” Carol had no idea how Evil knew her water had broke, but she ignored this as the pain kicked in almost instantly. Twisting, thumping agony. She chewed the inside of her cheeks so she wouldn’t cry out. Gemmers are usually able to give birth almost instantly, instead of a long process of contractions and waiting, but they usually have help to get them to the Healer’s Block.
She closed her eyes as Evil bent down towards her; she ignored what he was doing, and pain was kicking in now. She screamed. She heard crying, and then everything went black.
Chapter Two: Hooded Stranger
A man stood over Caroline’s unconscious body. His face was not visible under his hat, but he cast a golden barrier between Evil, holding a naked child, and Caroline. Evil glanced at him from underneath his hood. The stranger smiled and nodded his head.
“Do 你 not know who I am vermin?” Evil said.
“I know perfectly well who 你 are, Fur.” 说 the stranger. Evil’s eyes widened.
“This won’t be the end. I will kill her, and I’ll hunt 你 down and 你 will watch her die, then I will let 你 weep, letting 你 suffer, then I shall come and kill you, like the merciful ruler I am.” 说 Evil. The stranger smiled.
“Well, Fur, let’s hope we don’t meet again, shall we? Leave Caroline Beech alone.” Evil’s eyes narrowed, but the naked child in his arms was screaming, and he needed to leave quickly. So, in a bright blue flash, he was gone.
The stranger stared down at Carol, her hair was stuck to her forehead with sweat, and he could hear the child’s crying and –
The stranger stopped his train of thought, as he realised that if Evil had left with the child, then how could he still hear the infant’s cries?
Some things were meant to be, and others just happen.
A warm late Augusts’ evening was upon Hultimore, the secret area which humans that held no gem upon their left palm were not able to see. Gemmers believed that if they visited this area for any amount of time at least once in life, they will be born a 更多 powerful Gemmer after death.
No one stepped upon the streets of Hultimore after dark. It was forbidden. Most obeyed this rule and stayed indoors. Yet, the silence of Hultimore was broken, as a lone traveller stepped out across the barrier between dry, barren land and a city full of magic.
His footsteps echoed in the empty 街, 街道 he walked on. He turned a corner, his big black boots stepping slowly towards a small white house with a miniature front garden with a rather lonely looking daffodil in a concrete 花 pot. He smiled to himself.
A woman was inside this little house. Her bobbed dark hair sat on her shoulders, and 紫色, 紫罗兰色 eyes shone. She sat in a small room with cream carpet and red walls, a little glass vision box, 或者 what Nogems would call a “television” 或者 “TV”, a low wooden 表 and a few pictures of this woman and her family on the wall, all smiling and breathing out of their frames. And, a black leather armchair, in which this woman was perched, a large pregnant belly ballooning out as she stacked the third empty plate onto the wooden table, and licked her fingers.
She was eating 更多 and 更多 each day, and the Pregnancy Advisor told her she was due to give birth tomorrow, and she was hoping that she wouldn’t come out the same size she goes in after eating so much.
He knocked the door once.
Carol groaned and heaved herself out of her chair, stumbling a little.
He knocked the door twice.
Carol struggled into the hallway.
He knocked the door three times.
“Okay! I’m coming!” she shouted. Just then the door burst open. Carol squealed and clutched her belly, and staggered backwards as wood and splinters flew out towards her. She held her arms over her head and glanced up.
A man in a dark 兜帽, 罩, 发动机罩 stood there, black 披风, 斗篷 billowing at his feet. His face was covered 由 the hood. Carol was tired of strange men dressed in black. Last time she met one... well, actually she doesn’t remember what happened the last time she met a man dressed in black.
But she was pretty sure they were the one who got her pregnant, seeing as she found she was with child about a week after the man knocked on her door, once, then twice, just before she’d opened the door.
...
Carol’s eyes widened at the dark figure. She didn’t know what happened to her that night, but she sure didn’t want it to happen again.
“Who are you? What do 你 want?” she said, sounding stronger than she felt.
“I am a combination of Death and Satan. I am the shadows in the corner of the room. I am the feeling 你 have when 你 are alone at night. I am Evil.” He 说 eerily. Carol gasped and started to back away from the figure. Evil was the Gemmer world’s worst nightmare. He raped and killed women for pleasure; he travels the world, taking the truth out of everyone’s lips with force. If they are no use to him, he will kill them. He has his Followers in the United Kingdom, keeping a lookout for any plotters. These followers were brutal women, sneering men, and frightened, yet bratty children, all across the country.
“What are 你 doing here?” Carol asked weakly.
“I have come for the child.” He said. Carol blinked then glanced down at her ballooning stomach.
“My baby? Why do 你 want my baby?” she asked.
“Because your child is a threat to my power. She will shun me down, and she will eventually kill me, so I must stop this happening and bring her up with my ways.”
“But it’s an unborn child how do 你 know of this?” Carol kept on backing away from Evil, her 心 was racing. Her pregnant belly kept getting in the way. She had no idea what to do; Evil kept taking one step closer to her every time she took a step away from him.
“I’ve been told.” He said. Carol furrowed her eyebrows.
“Told? 由 a Prophet? But how did 你 get a Prophet to work for you?” Evil laughed. His laugh was cold and empty, with no humour. Carol caught a glimpse of yellow teeth and thin lips.
“Please, silly woman, don’t mock me. I am the most powerful Gemmer in the world. I carry a teardrop 翠, 翡翠 on my palm; I can get anyone to do my bidding. Just like I made 你 nine months ago.” Carol gulped. Knowing that her baby held Evil’s blood in its veins she feared for her child’s fate. She did not know whether her child would be like Evil, 或者 herself.
“I suspected so.” She whispered. She glanced down at her belly, the unborn child that was protected 由 a layer of skin and kept 安全 in a soft bag of water held a fate of death, hope, destruction and love. She knew she could not care for her child, but she wished to hand her child into loving, trusting arms.
“Why are 你 here now? I am still pregnant.” Carol said. Evil glanced down to Carol’s belly automatically.
“For the child is due soon.” He said.
“But it’s not due ‘till tomorrow.” Carol said. Evil grinned wickedly.
“You have your dates wrong Caroline.” Carol frowned, ignoring that Evil has not heard her name once, and yet he had spoken it.
“What do 你 mean?” she asked. Evil chuckled. Carol licked her lips, frightened to her very wits, using all she had not to 显示 it.
“I mean that your water will break any 秒 now, and 你 will give birth in this very house, on the floor, and I will take your child and bring it up with my ways, my doing, and we will walk this earth, every step we take will be 更多 powerful than the next. We shall make every person we come across tremble, we will be the ultimate rulers of the earth. Me and my child, both 更多 powerful than every average Gemmer. And then, when the child is born, 你 will die on this floor, in this house, tonight.”
“But why this child? How do 你 know it will be powerful?” Evil slapped Carol across the face; she cried out, and fell to the ground, she held a hand to her cheek and let warm tears roll down her face as she lay on the floor, looking up at Satan incarnate stand over her with a wicked glint in his dark green eyes. His patience was wearing thin. Evil despised women. He thought of them as those that will drag him down, to the bottom of the 食物 chain. They were pathetic, weak, and had to have men to think for them.
“You mock my abilities again, woman, do 你 not know who I am? Have I not explained to 你 who I am? I could get every Prophet on the planet to do my bidding and each one I’ve been to has told me a 星, 星级 will be born on the 秒 of August, 1996, at eleven fifty eight pm.”
“A St-Star?” Evil glanced up at the clock on the wall. It was ten-to twelve. He had eight minutes; her water had to break soon.
“Yes, stupid woman. I am an impatient man, Caroline, and I do not have this night to waste.”
“Then please can 你 go.” She 说 weakly.
“NO! This is of high important ignorant scum!” he 说 menacingly. Carol swallowed and let 更多 warm tears trickle down her face.
“I – I really don’t understand. What do 你 mean 由 Star?”
“Caroline 你 stupid girl, the child will be the First Born Star. Its palm will 熊 a 星, 星级 Gem, an 翠, 翡翠 I presume, seeing as children should take after their fathers and not their mothers.”
Caroline didn’t mention that she took after her mother, who was a Ruby, and not her father, who was a Topaz. Just then she had this weird feeling, a feeling of dampness, as if she’d just wet herself. Her water had broken.
“Ah, now things will speed up a little.” Carol had no idea how Evil knew her water had broke, but she ignored this as the pain kicked in almost instantly. Twisting, thumping agony. She chewed the inside of her cheeks so she wouldn’t cry out. Gemmers are usually able to give birth almost instantly, instead of a long process of contractions and waiting, but they usually have help to get them to the Healer’s Block.
She closed her eyes as Evil bent down towards her; she ignored what he was doing, and pain was kicking in now. She screamed. She heard crying, and then everything went black.
Chapter Two: Hooded Stranger
A man stood over Caroline’s unconscious body. His face was not visible under his hat, but he cast a golden barrier between Evil, holding a naked child, and Caroline. Evil glanced at him from underneath his hood. The stranger smiled and nodded his head.
“Do 你 not know who I am vermin?” Evil said.
“I know perfectly well who 你 are, Fur.” 说 the stranger. Evil’s eyes widened.
“This won’t be the end. I will kill her, and I’ll hunt 你 down and 你 will watch her die, then I will let 你 weep, letting 你 suffer, then I shall come and kill you, like the merciful ruler I am.” 说 Evil. The stranger smiled.
“Well, Fur, let’s hope we don’t meet again, shall we? Leave Caroline Beech alone.” Evil’s eyes narrowed, but the naked child in his arms was screaming, and he needed to leave quickly. So, in a bright blue flash, he was gone.
The stranger stared down at Carol, her hair was stuck to her forehead with sweat, and he could hear the child’s crying and –
The stranger stopped his train of thought, as he realised that if Evil had left with the child, then how could he still hear the infant’s cries?
Some things were meant to be, and others just happen.
January 15, 1815
Journal,
Its cold. My 食物 is almost gone, I can’t feel my hands. I 迷失 my hat; my ears are frozen. My sisters are dying. Sasha has pneumonia, and Nastea’s 迷失 her 涂层, 外套 and shoes. My hair is falling out. I look at the broken down train behind us. Tree’s sleep soundlessly on 最佳, 返回页首 of it. I sit at a 树 trunk, with 你 on my lap, and a scrawny pencil in my hand. Nastea sits beside Sasha, feeding her berries and herbs. I hope things get better, Journal. I hope things get better.
Bye Journal,
Nadia
Journal,
Its cold. My 食物 is almost gone, I can’t feel my hands. I 迷失 my hat; my ears are frozen. My sisters are dying. Sasha has pneumonia, and Nastea’s 迷失 her 涂层, 外套 and shoes. My hair is falling out. I look at the broken down train behind us. Tree’s sleep soundlessly on 最佳, 返回页首 of it. I sit at a 树 trunk, with 你 on my lap, and a scrawny pencil in my hand. Nastea sits beside Sasha, feeding her berries and herbs. I hope things get better, Journal. I hope things get better.
Bye Journal,
Nadia
she unloads his gun
She and he waits for this
he releases his love
In blue and green orbs
she gives him 更多 and more
A million miles away
A million years girl
In a black woven chest
he digs his nails deep
She trusts in him for what he does
live in a house in the suburbs
He kisses the pain with blood and light
sleeping it off in the morning
A million miles away
A million years girl
In her world of his
she unloads his gun
In a world of his
she covers the sun
A million miles away
A million years
A million years girl