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"Why are you crying?" her mother asked as she glared down at her with vibrant green eyes.

"I-I fell," she sobbed and cradled her knee which had a scarlet scratch.

Her mother scoffed, "You are crying over that? I had to push a human being out of me and I didn't cry. Crying does not solve anything; all it does is give you a headache. Is your cut healed? Is there a bandage on it? No. Instead of doing these important things, you thought it was best to invest your time into crying. Get up and stop your sniveling."

"Who was that human being and why did you do it?" the girl asked innocently.

"You! Silly girl!" her mother laughed, and squeezed her wet cheeky, "And I did it because I love your father."

She saw her mother's face glow as she smiled in the afternoon sun and her eyes sparkled, which made her smile in turn.

The woman in the red tunic and white pants began to walk away, she beckoned the young girl to follow. She watched her mother's back grow further away from her. Mustering all her strength, she got to her feet, and winced from the stinging in her knee. The pain stung, but she did not want to be left behind by her mother. She hobbled as fast as she could and caught up with her mother, who looked down at her and smirked.

"There are only two instances I will allow you to cry: at your wedding and at a funeral. Even then, crying is pathetic. Shade, you never show weakness to anyone, or they will think you are vulnerable, and take advantage of you."

"Yes, Mommy," the young Shade wiped her nose and eyes on her arm. She saw her mother hold out a hand and she gladly grabbed her hand. "I love you, Mommy!

Shade had heard some strange noises coming from her parent's bedroom. She rolled her eyes and covered her ears with her pillow. Gross. A thud against her wall made her sit up. She heard her father's muffled voice through the wall.

"Val, get a hold of yourself!"

Grunts and scuffling was heard followed by glass shattering. This alarmed her. First, her mother disappears for two days, and now she has returned? Shade pulled off her covers and rolled out of bed. She silently crept to her door and quietly opened it. She only had to take a few steps to get to her parent's bedroom door. She cracked the door open with her heart in her throat and ears. She froze at the scene illuminated by the light crystal in the ceiling.

She clearly saw her father standing over her mother. She had a knife sticking out of her stomach and she clung to his leg, tears streaked her face. Her mother   crying?

"Grey..." her mother gasped.

"I will not let you harm our daughter," she heard her father say between gritted teeth. Blood stained his white sleeping shirt and pants where gashes cut the fabric. He had his hand held high with an ominous faintly purple glowing shard of... something.

"She... has my... power..." her voice was dark and twisted, she saw her mother grab his hand and the handle of the knife in her abdomen.

Grey twisted the knife, pausing her movement, and he brought down the shard into the middle of her chest.

Her mother's face twisted in silent agony, her head slunk to the side, and Shade made eye contact with her mother's red sclera, glowing yellow eyes, which made her shiver. A smirk plastered her mother's face.

"Mother?" she accidentally spoke out loud, receiving her father's attention.

His face broke into shock, "Shade! Run!"

A billion thoughts blurred through her mind at a billion miles per hour. Her father had just murdered her mother. Suddenly, a red phantasm escaped from her mother and darted towards Shade. Her father bear hugged the phantom.

"She is no longer yours, demon!" he yelled. The phantasm turned in his arms and absorbed into him.

Shade had crawled as far away from that thing as the door let her. She sat panting heavily underneath the doorknob. She saw her father collapse to the ground on all fours, clutching his chest.

"Daddy!" she suddenly stood up to go to his aid but she hit her head on the door knob and the world faded to black.

Shade shot up in her bedroll with her hand in the sky. She was covered in a cold sweat and panting. Something burned on her chest. She touched her mother's amulet and hissed when the glowing red amulet burned her. It got hotter and heavier so she broke the chain and threw it to the dust. She thought she head laughing coming from the amulet. Her mind twinged with pain.

"That's not what happened..." she growled as the pain intensified, "He killed her in cold blood!"

She screamed deafeningly at the sky, a shriek which made Pyæ quake.