Death is Red

Shadow

Shadow
   We all were sitting in the middle of the old abandoned factory floor. Everyone was discussing the matter at hand, and I was lost in thought being very quiet like I usually was. I guess I got too lost in thought because all of a sudden I hear a voice yelling my name.
   "Shadow!!" the voice said. I quickly shook my head and looked up towards the voice.
   "Hmm?" I hummed. I looked up at the voice standing before me.
   "What are your thoughts on it" the voice said.
   Oh where are my manners. My name is Shadow. Well its my new name. To some people I am classifiyed as emo, but to others I am normal. Thats because the people that call me normal have problems of their own. The person shaking me? Thats Jackson. He is the one that pointed this problem out. The girl next to him? Thats Magic. She is his girlfriend. We have two others but... they were taken hostage. And we were told that their life is on the line.
   But before we get into that, lets go back. My name before Shadow was Lillian. I was the first born from my parents Michel and Michelle.

---Flash Back---
Young Shadow
   I was running around the yard chasing a pretty blie butterfly. My favorite color is blue! I kept chasing it until I heard my mom.
   "Lillian! Come inside before your food gets cold!" She said. I looked at her and nodded.
   I looked back at the butterfly and waved. "Bye Miss Butterfly!" I ran inside and sat at the dinner table.
   My dad had walked into the room and walked past me ruffling my hair. "Hey there sweetie" he said with a smile. I smiled and started to eat when he sat down.
   After I was done eating, I was about to get up and go to my room until my mom got my attention.
   "Lillian. Me and your father have something we like to tell you." She said it with a smile so it has to be good.
   Both of my parents looked at each other and smiled then looked at me. "Your going to be a big sister!"
   I gasped then got out my chair and started running around. "YAY!!!" I yelled while running. I am so happy I am going to be a big sister!
---Four Years Later---
   I was sitting outside under a tree watching my four year old brother running around playing in the backyard. I'm 10 now and I started to like nature more. I would draw butterflies and trees and stuff like that. I looked over at the porch to see my mom standing there smiling. I guess it's time for dinner.
   I get up and look at my brother. "Brian its time to go eat!" I yell. He stops and runs to me and hugs me and I hug back. He lets go and runs inside and sits at the table. I follow him and sit at the table and our dad comes in and ruffles our hair.
   "Hey kiddos" he say with a smile. We smile back at him and start eating. Once we're done, me and Brian go to my room and starts watching a movie while sitting on thw floor.
   About a good 20 minutes into the movie and I hear my mom from downstairs.
   "Lillian! Brian! Can you come down here please?" She said. Me and Brian looked at each other. I paused the movie and we both headed downstairs. Me and Brian walked to our parents and see them smiling.
   "Brian, Lillian. You two are going to get a little sister!" my dad says. All of a sudden me and Brian just start running around like crazy. I get to be a big sister again!
---4 Years Later---
   I am now 14, Brian is 8, and our little sister Riley is 4. We are all in the car on the way to the doctor. This morning our parents took a good look at us and sceduled an appointment with my doctor. My eyes are half brown and half red for some reason. I don't feel any different. I still like nature, I'm still kind, caring.... I am still the good 'ole Lillian.
   When we made it to the doctor office, my doctor immediatly took us to the back. I was scared to be honest. I rarely go to the doctor for health issues. A simple check up is all I get. But this... this was scary.
   "Well Miss Lillian can you please sit here?" the doctor said as she patted the exam table. I got up on the table and sat down and looked at the doctor. She was talking to my parents about my information. I look at Brian and Riley and see they have the candy the woman at the front desk gave to them. I don't mind not getting Candy for the purpose of I just don't like it. I ate it once and spit it out. Just don't taste right.
    "Well Lillian I am going to check your eyes okay?" She says. I nod and see her get the microscope for checking eyes. She shines the light in my eyes and I flinch a little. She could have warned me she was going to do that.
   Soon she was done and she looked at my parents. "She has Autum Heterochromia. Its a disease that is not life threatening and its not contageous." She said.
   "So... its like a disorder?" My father said.
   "No its a disease when DNA is only 10% from each parent. The other 90% is DNA from an unknown source. At least this is what it looks like. I was to do a DNA test to make sure my prediction if that is okay. And seeing that you have your whole family here I need either a hair or blood sample. But from Lillian I will need to take some blood," the doctor informed. Wait.... take blood? As in take it out of me... with a needle... in my arm? Oh no... (A/N: Italics means the character is in their thoughts)
   My mother looked at me then at the doctor. "Lillian never had her blood taken before." She told the doctor.
   "I'm terribly sorry ma'am but its what got to be done. Its so we can get a good look at the DNA" the doctor said. My mother nodded and had pulled out a strand of her hair and put it in the bag the doctor gave her and wrote her name on it. My father did the same and put it in a different bag and wrote his name. And Riley and Brian did the same.
   The doctor had came to me with gloves and a needle with a bag. "Okay on the count of three I'm going to put the needle in your arm okay?" She said as she wiping my arm with an alcohol wipe. I nodded a little.
   "Okay.... 1.... 2.... 3..." she put the needle in my arm and I started to cry a little. It hurt so much. Then she took it out and put a cap on it. Then she put the needle in the bag and wrote my name on it. "You did good Lillian" she said as she put a band-aid on me where she put the needle and rubbed my back.
   My mother had got all the bags from everyone else and handed it to the doctor. "I will be back in hopefully 40 minutes" the doctor said. My mother nodded and sat down as the doctor left.
   About 40 minutes later the doctor comes back with a piece of paper. "It seems my prediction is correct. Your daughter has Autum Heterochromia. The DNA in her is scrambling around. Nothing should happen to her majorly other than hopefully her eyes. But maybe if you dye her hair, it could be protected from anything happening. But I would not suggest perminate dye" the doctor informed us. "But her eyes are going to change colors in the spand of about a month" she said.
   My parents talked a while longer and then we had left. I was surprised. So I won't have brown eyes anymore. Whoa... I thought to myself. When we got home my mother and father wanted to make sure I am going to behave right around people just incase something do happen. I don't mind at all. The private school I'm attending isn't the best. The public school my parents told me about sounds ten times better. I can't wait!
---1 Year Later---
   I am now 15 and in highschool. Everything been fine ever since we found out I had Autum Heterochromia. I acted the exact same. I met a lot a friends and I did dye my hair like the doctor said. Its a light blue color, which is my favorite color.
   I was walking home from school which isn't far from where we live. I walk inside and see my 9 year old brother and 5 year old sister on the bottom step of the stairs. They were hugging each other with their eyes closed.
   "Brian? Riley? Whats wrong?" I asked. They looked up at me.
   "Lillian there is a scary man in the living room with momma and daddy" Riley said in an almost crying tone.
   "He keeps asking mom and dad about something and I think I saw a gun on him" Brian said. I had hugged both of them and saw the katanas that my dad has hanging on the wall. If he tries something I can try and do something.
   "You two go upstairs to my room. Watch a movie and don't have it loud. I will be up there in a few minutes." I see them nod then go upstairs. I go to the katanas and get one off the wall and hide behind a wall listening to the man.
   "You owe me money Michel and I am not leaving here without it." He said. He sounded really bad. It was terrible.
   "I don't have it right now John! I am telling you!" My dad sounded terrified.
   "Then you and your pretty little wife here are going to have to go" he says. I peek in the room to see him holding a gun to my dad.
   I had ran in and got infront of my parents and when he shot I blockes the bullet away from me and my parents and it went back to the man and hit him.
   He falls to the ground and I slowly put the katana down. I get my phone out my pocket and call the police.
   The police arrive about 5 minutes later and takes him away. One of the officers come to me and my parents. "You are lucky your daughter came home when she did or who knows what could have happened." He says then leave. My parents hug me and I start crying fearing that if I wasn't home they could be dead.
   Later that night I was going to sleep and I head my mom and dad arguing, which is new to me to hear. I go to sleep hoping it was just for tonight. But I was wrong. It lasted for nights upon night. Until my dad had enough. He moved out of the house and me and my siblings were upset.
   I went on with life still being me. Until I came home and saw Brian on the floor with a bruise on his arm. I run to him and hold him.
   "Brian what happened to you?" He doesn't respond and just looks over at something. I look where he's looking and see Riley. I run over to her and see she has a bruise on her face.
   Riley and Brian gets home from school earlier than me and the only person here is our mother. I hear the stove turning on. Mom. I go into the kitchen and see my mom looking for a pan.
   "Mom do you know how Brian and Riley got bruises on them? Was it from school?" I asked her, but no response. I walk over to her and puts my hand on her shoulder. "Mo-" all of a sudden I get hit by the pan that was about to be put on the stove. I fall and black out.
---1 Hour Later---
   I wake up and see a white ceiling. Where am I...? I sit up and see a doctor and my mom. Am I in the hospital...? Why? The doctor looks at me.
   "Ah! I see you are awake Miss Lillian. You had a terrible accident. You got hit by a rock in the eye apparently and got rushed here." The doctor said. "You can take those bandages off your eye in five months okay?" She says then leaves.
   What? But mo- I look at my mom and remember everything. My hand clench the sheet of the hospital bed in anger. She did this. She caused this. She ran my father off. She is a lier. Thats when I made my mind up: I am going to get Brian and Riley out of that house. And let them live better.
   We left the hospital and I didn't say a word. I didn't have any emotions. I'm not me.
   Five months passed and I was allowed to take off the bandages that covered my left eye. I stood in my bathroom and took them off carefully. After they were off I took a step back. M...my eye. My left eye was all black with my pupil being a darker shade of red compared to my other eye. Thats when I remembered. Brian and Riley are getting out this house. Tonight.
   That night I went into Brian's room and woke him up. "Brian get up" I whispered. He had sat up and rubbed his eyes.
   "Lillian? Whats going on?" He whispered.
   "Shh... I need you to pack and tell Riley to do the same alright?" I said. He nooded the went to riley's room. I went back to my room and started packing myself.
   About 5 mimutes later, Brian and Riley were at my door. They had their backpacks for school and their bags they use for vacations. I had a backpack and the bag I use for vacations also. But thats because I am leaving and not staying where they are staying.
   "Alright we have to get outside without waking mom up. So lets go" I said. They nodded and sneaked downstairs. I follow behind them and get the katanas off the wall. I look around and see mom's car keys and get them. Brian and Riley were already outside and waiting for me so i quickly went outside and shut the door.
   I get in my mom's car and put my bags and the katanas in the passenger seat. Brian and Riley hets in the backseat and I start the car and start driving.
   "Lillian where are we going?" Brian said.
   "Somewhere where you and Riley will be safe. Mom is being terrible towards you two and I refuse to let her keep being the way she is." I say as I keep my eyes on the road.
   "Is that why daddy left?" Riley ask while hugging her plushy.
   "I guess so..." I say unsurely.
   A few minutes later I make it to a house. I get out and Brian and Riley follow me. I knock on the door and a light comes on. Then a man comes open the door.
   "Lillian? Brian? Riley? What are you three doing here at this time of night? And Lillian what happened to your eye?" My father says.
   "I got to talk about it later. Dad she been hurting Brian and Riley bad and thats sorta how my eye got this way. Please can they stay with you?" I ask him in a desparate manner. He looks at me and then at Brian and Riley.
   "Its terrible what she's doing to you all. Of course I will." He says. Brian and Riley runs to him and hugs him while crying with joy. I would normally smile. But this time I didn't smile. I just looked... emotionless. I turned to walk away but was stopped.
   "Lillian where are you going?" My father asked. I turned and looked at him.
   "If I stay... I'll be the bystander while people get hurt.... But if I go... I will help people before they get hurt like me..." I said. My father looked shook but nodded his head in understandment. He went to me and hugged me. I hugged back and got in my mom's car and drove back to the house.
   I got my things out the car and put them by the front door. I walked inside and went upstairs to my room. On the way to my room I grabbed a vase. I closed all of the room doors and went in my room.
   I threw the vase down on the ground and started to hear my mom running though-out the house. Then she came into my room.
   "Lillian where is Brian and Riley?" She said in an almost screaming tone.
   "Somewhere safe from you..." I said with no emotion.
   "Lillian Renae where is your brother and sister?!" I slap her with all my strength. She put her hand where I slapped her and looked at me with shock.
   "I said they're somewhere safe... from you," I say and start to walk to the door then stop. "and my name isn't Lillian anymore..." I look back at my mother. "Its shadow..." I walk out the room and toss the keys back on the table downstairs. I walk out the house and get my things that were out side and walk down the street.
   I find a old abandoned factory building and go inside. It didn't look so bad. With a little help maybe I can do something with it. And if I train myself I can protect this city if needed.

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Well this is my new story Death is Red. This first chapter summerizes Shadow's backstory and it builds up to the point of how it started with them talking in the factory. And the disease Lillian has is not a real disease. I just made it up for this AU. It is basically when your DNA is a little bit of your parents and a lot of it is making its own. But I hope you enjoy this book. Two characters that do not belong to me are GamerPlayzYT OC Magic and KeylaTheCat OC that will be in future chapters. I hope you like this story! Its gonna last a while! ^^
Word Count: 3026 (Just the story and not this part)