†*********†
"May I come in young master?" A maidservant wearing the name tag 'Alice' spoke into the intercom at another room, in the children's building.
"Sure." A kid replied to her and she heaved a sigh. Alice took a step back , and compressed mana, th perfect size to fit through the orb installed in the middle of the door.
She put the blue aura into the orb and after a subtle glow, the door opened by itself.
A very wide room presented itself with a neatly arranged medium-sized bed and two pillows. Beside the bed was a small silver table with a few books neatly arranged on it, there was no sign of disorganization in the room.
She used her eyes to trace through the other doors in the room, to find the game room. With a sigh, she walks to the game room and opens the door.
She frowns in disappointment, her young master, was playing a game in a very unorganized place. Beside him were empty snack packs and water bottles.
Her young master sat on his comfortable game chair while focusing on a sixty-four-inch Television displaying the game he was playing, his game room was filled with the most updated games.
"Young master your game room is a mess, you have to clean up." The maidservant said.
The young boy, within the age rank of five to seven paused his game, turns his neck to look at the maidservant, and looks at her with a dead serious expression.
He has black raven hair and a perfectly shaped triangular face, but different colored eyes which distinguished his looks adding to his beauty. His right eye is red and his left golden.
"Why? You're my servant, that's your job, isn't it?" He says, sounding haughty.
"The mistress has delivered, and your father wants your presence for the family ritual," Alice said half annoyed, barely managing to hold herself back from clicking her tongue as she started to pick up the wastes.
She had to put up with his bratty attitude, and although she thought she would have gotten used to it by now, it felt like he always found new ways to annoy her. But she wasn't going to lose her job because of this Damm brat, no, the pay was too good to forsake
"Ugh. Really? I have to babysit a younger...uh...Is it a brother or a sister?" He groans turning back to continue his game.
"It's a boy young master." She answered.
"A baby brother huh? I'm too lazy to have to babysit a junior brother. If he cries too much, I'll kill him," the boy said flatly. "Better one punishment now than years of annoyance, right?" Alice didn't answer. Her silence wasn't approval — it was survival.
"I know that silence, it means my idea is superb. I can't wait to welcome my baby brother." He said and left to get prepared. Alice continued with the clean up, once she was done she left.
....
Just as Sheon who is now in form of a snowflake floated around looking for who to possess, a small purple rune formed above him and sucked him in.
At the same time, a newborn child was layed down in his crib to rest after he was cleaned up, the rune appeared on his forehead and once it sparked it disappeared.
"Huh? Did you see that?" The nurse that got a glimpse of what happened said.
"See what?"
"I think his forehead just glowed." She tried to explain.
"Hurry up let's get out of here, the senior nurses will be here soon. Of course strange things happen, he is probably a miracle (what they call people with powers) and not ordinary like us.
"I guess so..." The other nurse said and they left.
.....
Sheon found himself in a dark room, devoid of any form of light. He was now back in his original form, but before he could get the chance to wonder, a pair of glistering purple eyes caught his attention.
As he looked at it, his eyes got hooked, he couldn't look away no matter how much he wanted. He recognized those eyes. It's the eyes that once sent angels down into the abyss.
Two radiant eyes stared back — not with hatred, but with infinite indifference. That was worse.
They didn't see a devil. They saw a mistake.
The Celestial Eyes.
Fear gripped Sheon, so much that he was frozen and slowly began losing his consciousness. It wasn't long before he fell down. A devil got defeated by a pair of celestial eyes.
************
~Boom!~
Inside the 'training court' in the Darkling's compound; there was loud explosions. Dust covered the battle arena as continuous clash of swords and explosions reverberated inside the building.
A man -who was spectating the spar from a transparent cubicle that was floating above the battlefield received a call.
"Hello, sir..." He answered with a tone of respect. After a short pause he replied "Yes sir, I'll inform them immediately".
Using magic he enhanced the volume of his voice enough to be heard by the duelists in the arena.
"That should be enough for today, prepare for the initiation ritual, don't delay your father's waiting. He said and as he turned to leave he remembered something "... It's a boy." He said and disappeared.
"Huff, Huff," Panting sounds were heard as the clouds of dust settle to expose the two young girls in battle.
"Huh? A baby boy? I guess we're even now. How strong do you think he's going to be? I'm sure he'll be stronger than Raphael, that dude's too lazy to even train." The youngest among the two said.
She's wearing a training suit that has a very similar design to a track suit. Her eyes are of different colors one red and the other golden, her black silky hair tied in a bun. She is Riley, Raphael's twin sister.
The other girl she addressed was Olivia, her elder sister–a blonde girl with red eyes and a well chiseled face. She was wearing a black crop top and sports trousers.
Olivia stretched out her hand and a tiny red portal opened; a bottle of water came out of it and she took it, opened it and drank after closing the portal.
Riley, the different colored eyed girl, waited patiently as her senior sister, emptied the bottle of water and picked up a clean towel to clean her sweaty face.
"Are you going to ignore me Olivia?" Riley pouts
"Do not address me so formally. Raphael is your twin brother, you should know more about him than I do. That aside, your attack has gotten more stable and intentional, but your movements are slow and clumsy." Olivia said as she started walking out of the arena.
"Why are you always cold? You should be a little nicer to our baby brother. You might scare him with this attitude of yours" Riley said as she picks up an eye patch from the table and wore it, covering her right golden eyes.
"Oh, I know what this is, you're too shy to express yourself right? You should know that I can see through your stone-hearted exterior." Riley said as she ran following Olivia closely behind
"That boy... I pity him. He just arrived in hell." Olivia said. Making Riley frown.
"I still don't get why you despise this family so much, what's your deal?" Riley asked in annoyance.
"You're still seven, you wouldn't understand even if I told you."
"Look who's talking, you're just twelve. TWELVE ... YEARS ...OLD." Riley dragged her words before she continued, "You're right, I don't understand you at all. You have the strongest eye amongst all of us, Just look at me and Raphael, half vampire, half witch. We will never be able to use any of those two powers to its full potential. But you have dad's eyes. The 'Blood supreme eyes' if anything, I should be the one cursing this family for making me so much half-assed."
"Go and get prepared, we leave immediately," Olivia said completely ignoring Riley's whining and disappearing from sight as a droplet of blood.
"So much for the hate speech, but she still flaunts her powers which is from the family. Why not stop using it if she hates us that much? Tsk I'm so annoyed." Riley complained before walking out of the arena.
***********
A nurse was carrying a peaceful baby; he had cried a little and was now sucking his thumb. They found the baby cute as they dressed both him and his mother. But, they were surprised to see the baby with purple eyes, unlike his family's red or golden eyes.
They started to get other ideas, but they did not dare say anything or else they'd be dead.
"Can I see my baby?" The mother, a woman with beautiful golden eyes and long blonde hair requests.
"Sure ma'am." The nurse says handing over the blonde baby to the woman and moving aside. She carried her son and looked at him with eyes filled with emotions: pity, joy, and sadness.
She wasn't sure if she should be happy or sad, she knew that this baby was going to suffer a cruel fate from his purple eyes.' To top it off, she checked his magical aptitude and saw that he had weak prowess for magic.
"You're just like his mother" She muttered with a sad tone.
She pitied the peaceful poor baby for being born into a family that seeks only strength and power. As a member of the Darkling family, you deny yourself of your humanity as you're expected to sacrifice anything to be at the top.
"Just hang in there son, you must." She said as she gently caresses the baby's face. In reaction, the baby holds her finger with his tiny hand and attempts sucking it. She didn't know when a chuckle escaped her lip, upon realization, a bitter smile replaced it.
"It's going to be tough, but don't worry, mummy will always be there for you." She whispered to him.