"Monsters!"
"Murderer!"
"She must be banished!"
I heard the crowd screaming from afar, yet loud enough for me to hear. I saw nothing but darkness, yet their voices echo inside my head. Their screams have gone louder as it repeats. My head is in pain as if any time from now, it will explode. I open my eyes, and I saw a familiar abode.
The slate grey colored walls, pure white granite floor, midnight black doors. Everything is in the same position as it was before. It is our home we used to live in for years. Our home 7 years ago.
"Please." A voice of a young girl pleads but it seems no use. I roam my gaze around the room and I saw a little girl sobbing while sitting at the corner of the room. She has straight golden long hair matching to her pale white skin. She's wearing a simple white dress with spots of red. I can't see her face because she's leaning towards her knees. Yet, I know who she is. And I know that these red dots on her dress are not just a design. Those are blood.
"I didn't mean to. Please." She said pleadingly, but the voices went louder. They're coming.
"Monsters!" The people repeatedly said in the chorus. The little girl a while ago turn up her head and there a saw her face. She has deep blue eyes and blood-red lips. Her glare can make a lion turn into a scaredy-cat. Her mere presence is enough to shut anyone's mouth.
I look into her emotionless eyes and there is nothing. Her tears dry up. Her emotions are gone. But the pain and hatred remain.
"I SAID STOP!" She exclaims. Her voice echoes in the four corners of the room. I felt the walls shook and cracked a bit. While the floors shook for a moment.
Suddenly, a teenage young man opens the door of the room. He has red hair that looks like fire and a pair of jet-black eyes. Next to him, I saw a girl younger than him. She has grayish hair and a pair of icy blue eyes, matching her cold stare. It's his younger sister, perhaps.
He walks toward the little girl without any hesitation and the younger one follows. "Hira," He said while wiping the tears of the little girl by his thumb.
"We need to leave this place." He said in a gentle tone while caressing her cheeks. Hira didn't bother to answer him. Instead, she just stood up and give a little nod.
As of cue, the young man gestures his hands, and the younger sister follows them going outside. But they have not yet gone far when the crowd saw them.
They run into the woods as fast as they could. But not too soon, they were cornered. They were all panting, but seems like they would have some fight.
"People like you have no right to live in the world! Monsters!" A man shouted. The crowd became louder and the others form as if they are preparing to attack.
The two immediately cover Hira. Out of their power, they made their special weapons. They may not still grasp their whole power, yet they should, for they have someone to protect. The young man made a flaming saber sword, while his sister materialized a halberd made of ice.
People attacked in one blow but the two still manage to dodge the attacks. They're fight went smooth, not until someone attacks from above.
They did not expect anyone to come from above the tree. He thrusts his dagger into the young man's shoulder and the other touched the woman's arm.
"Arghhhhh..." The young man screams in agony. The dagger used by the man is no ordinary. It has poison in it that made the young man squirm in pain. His rich blood is flowing out of his wound.
Hira gasp with her eyes wide open as she saw her older brother's blood. Pain and hatred immediately aroused in her system, disregarding her fear awhile ago on what may happen next.
Her deep blue eyes turn blood red. The whistling wind blew making her golden crowning glory turns into midnight black hair that flows along with the whistling wind.
"Arghhhhh!" The people around her scream in too much pain. The kind of pain that is like their power was draining out of their body. Bit by bit, they are getting drained to a point that their weapons vanished into thin air.
The girl standing in front of them this time is different from the young girl they want to kill earlier. From being weak and fragile, she turned into a monster that anyone should be afraid of. Even her siblings, themselves.
Hira looks at the attacker directly into his eyes. Fear is evident in his eyes. His hands were trembling in fear. With that, Hira smirks at him that sent shivers to his spine.
"Die," Hira whispers into the air.
In an instant, everyone around her, aside from her siblings, are now gasping for air as if they were strangled to death. Soon, they start coughing blood and fell to the cold ground. Lifeless.
"Hira," Her older sister said even if when is also gasping for air. Hira turned to her and only then realized what she had done. The expression softened in her eyes and a tear rolls down her pale white cheeks.
Her eyes returned to deep blue and her hair turned to gold again. She looked around and saw the lifeless men lying on the ground.
"It's my fault. I killed them! I'm a monster!" She said repeatedly. Blaming herself while crying over and over. The young man held her hand even though he seemed to be twisting his flesh in extreme pain.
"It's not your fault, Hira. It will never be." He said and plastered a weak smile on his thin lips. And gradually closed his eyes. She shook her head. "No, I'm a monster. And it's all my fault."
Everything got worsen because of Hira.
And the worst part is, I am Hira.