Arcane (KHR / Katekyo Hitman Reborn Fanfic)

Prologue

Her tall stature, exhausted form, and terrified visage were exposed as she dashed in the darkness and set foot in a beam of light illumanted by a lamp post. On one hand she dragged along a hard-covered luggage, and the other held a phone on call.

[Run.]

A sudden breathing sensation on her nape had caused Valerie to stop her own, filling her mind with red flags. The girl's reflex was outdone, everything that had followed happening in an instant. A strike on the arm caused her to be thrown on the street wall with tremendous force, her back side hitting the concrete. Her mind, blank.

With the nasty sound of bones breaking came along Valerie's pained scream. The tears she previosuly held back with so much force finally fell from her heavily blue-pigmented eyes.

[You never wanted this.]

With the air knocked out of her, she fell to the ground in stupefaction. Strands of her midnight hair blocked her sight, and even worse her vision went blurry from tears.

Lying on cold pavement, a gush of hot liquid warmed her, spreading like a puddle beneath her. Despite her clothes absorbing the blood, the puddle still spreads in great speed.

Valerie inhaled sharply and pushes herself up from the ground with her hands, her back causing continuous pain. A bone had been misplaced, stabbing her inner body parts.

She was baffled to how the woman can use such force as if she weighed like paper. The stranger didn't have a form that's of a bodybuilder to throw her that easily.

As her foggy vision fades, the girl looked for two things: The maniac, and her phone that was thrown away along with her luggage.

The cloaked and hooded woman was within her peripherals, approaching closer and closer. While her phone is not too far away, her luggage close to it.

[You were desperate.]

Though it's very faint, the raven can hear her parents' voice from her now cracked phone.

A strong wave of resolve rushed within Valerie. Her mind now fortified, and her will evermore stronger.

More hot tears strolled down her face as she stood up from the ground difficultly, her eyes filled with unwavering determination.

For her well-being, she will rise.

For her life, she will survive.

For her family, she will conquer.

Valerie stammers as she runs to her phone. Every part of her ached so much more with all the movement she does. But all those pain are secondary to the rising pain in her chest as she thinks of not being able to see her parents again.

[And you were hopeful.]

At the moment she bended her knees and was about to reach down for her phone, the hooded woman pulls Valerie's wrist away from it and drags her farther. Utter despair befell on the girl's face. And the weight on her chest had disappeared. It's as if her heart had stopped existing.

"No!" Valerie let out a long earsplitting cry, stretching out her limbs for her phone. She clawed at the pavement with her free hand and thrashed her legs around, her wails full of denial.

"Dad! Papa!"

She was so, so desperate.

[But it was your fate,]