D E A D H E A R T S

Prologue

I was sitting in the darkness of my room. My eye wide, blood running from my eye.

How was I supposed to think after seeing that?

I heard a slamming door and I jerked my head to the noise.

No! Please no! I screamed in my head, gripping the sheets underneath me.

They were coming for me.

I quickly got up, hearing the creaking of the floorboards approaching my bedroom.

I hid in the closet, quickly closing the door of it and watched out the shutters that only someone inside could see out of.

I closed my eye tightly, covering my mouth and nose when they came into my room.

I had practiced.

They wouldn't hear me like this.

My eye widened in realization of something.

What if they could hear my heartbeat?

What if they could feel the aura of my corrupted soul?

Suddenly, I froze.

There was a shadow coming through the shutters.

Then the door to the closet opened "Don't hurt me!" I screamed.

"Hb?"

My eye shot back open and focused on the vessel of the familiar voice.

There was a girl there, short, of course. She had long brown hair that had a purple streak in it, she was wearing shorts, purple converses, purple jumper, purple ears and tail lowered, and worried blue eyes watching me.

"Hb, are you okay? What's wrong?"

I was now shaking, terrified from what had just happened.

I had been scared out of my life and it was just my mate.

So pathetic.

"Hb?!" She sounded panicked now.

She got down on her knees and touched my face softly, making me jerk back and hit my head off the wall.

I was too panicked to feel the pain.

Not that I would anyways.

My wide eye stared at her and the worry in her baby blue eyes escalated.

"Hb...?" She murmured and more blood ran from my eye and I hugged her tightly, making her squeak in surprise.

After the squeak, she immediately got the message.

She hugged me back "Another nightmare...?" She asked in a murmur which I nodded back in reply to.

"What was it about?" She asked me softly.

"Dead....people...." I muttered.

She stiffened immediately.

Hold the phone, why did she do that? Did something I say in that sentence of two words that affected her so harshly?

What was really going on?

"Dead people?" She echoed and I nodded in response, deciding not to say anything about what she was doing.

She looked away for a moment "They're getting worse..." She muttered and leaned away from our hug.

"Hb..." She started.

I knew where she was going with this.

No...don't say it...

"You need...help..." She muttered and I leaned away as well, not looking at her with my red eye darkened.

"Please, Hb, we've been over this."

Wait.

Hold on one damn second.

We've never been over this.

This was all fake. This was all a dream.

"This is all a dream..." I muttered, looking at her.

Just as I expected, she wasn't herself anymore.

It's hollow black eyes stared at, no, into me, it's body rotting in places. It looked disoriented. Like a beast.

Like a Dead Heart.

Dead Heart's are true to their name.

They have bleeding monstrous mouths where their hearts would be.

These creatures visit you in your dreams, easily disguised as one or more(if there's many) of your loved ones. They send you into a coma and you die in three days while in your coma.

The death symptom?

Major shock.

There's been so many lately that doctors made a name for it.

Heart-Power-Down syndrome.

I'd hate to think it wouldn't have something to do with the death of the heart in the body.

Often the brain would shut down first when you die.

If Dead Heart's attack, your heart goes first.

But that's if you get caught.

I haven't been caught.

Yet.

The creature lunged at me and I punched my arm.

I awoke finally to see Hikari, my mate, leaning over me and looking worried as fuck.

She noticed my eye was open and she hugged me tightly.

"Shit..." I muttered, having a killer headache "Hikari, baby, do me a little favor and tell me what time it is."

She didn't answer but pointed to a clock that read 4:30 a.m.

My eye widened and I looked at her "Shit, you're supposed to be at work." I reminded her.

"I know." She replied.

"Then why're you-?" I started.

"Because I was fucking worried about you!" She snapped.

Goddamn...

"Sorry..." I muttered, looking away.

She looked at me in realization that she had snapped "Shit...I-I'm sorry...I-I didn't-"

"It's okay." I interrupted her "We all have our moments."

She nodded, slowly looking away from me, obvious guilt in her actions.

I sighed and rested my head back down.

"What was it about?" She asked the same question.

"Someone trying to steal my heart." I gave the same answer.

She resulted with the same pout and retort "I hope they don't try to steal you from me..."

I sighed and looked at her, brushing my thumb over her cheek.

"Me too."
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Though I wish it was more, this pretty much summed up a bit of Hb, and I can answer any questions you may have about the stories and direct you to the people with the characters.

Hikari- xXHikari18
Hb- Me