SoUnD oF sCiEnCe

Desperaux and his mom were washing dishes the clank and clatter of the dishes and silverware filled the room and covered all other sound. Desperaux and his mother washed and washed saying little but still they didn’t hear the creak of the floorboards of the deck. Soon Desperaux said something to his mother, both oblivious to all other noise. On the deck a board creaked inside water splashed the dishes clanking and clattering as the mother and son washed them. Then a face hidden in shadows looked into the room. The person in the shadows saw the mother and son and smiled wickedly and their teeth flashed in the light from the kitchen. Slowly moving through the shadows a figure walked delicately over the dead leaves and branches. He had seen what he wanted to see soon he would strike.

Inside the mother and son still washed dishes but soon they were tired and went upstairs to sleep. Outside the strange person crouched, Moonlight struck through the branches as a cloud moved away from the moon. The figure was short and as a flash of moonlight passed over their face their eyes were red and their mouth was smirking. A dark red cloak covered their form and when the hood was blown back in a gust of wind the face was revealed as that of a young girl with short hair so blond it was almost white, And in the moonlight that flashed across her features she looked like a ghost.

The next day the mother and Desperaux were on their way downstairs to finish the dishes and outside someone was waiting for them. The girl was crouched behind a large potted plant that sat next to the glass doors. The day was cloudy and the girl was almost invisible but for the red cloak the color of blood. Soon the girl was ready with a giant axe in her hands and she leapt for the gilded glass doors smashing it and tumbling into the room. Desperaux mother grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the door then let go of him and said “go Desperaux save yourself!” then she let out a shriek as the axe cut her back but she was still breathing and still telling desperaux to leave to save himself but before he could move the front door swung open and two figures leapt in one a girl in a flowing coat with dark black hair that gleamed and a boy that was in a jacket and shorts with golden blond hair, the girl was carrying a gilded scythe.

Soon all that the mother and son could see was the blood of the small girl with the giant axe then all of them from the girl to the two who had saved them were gone.