NOVEL NEXT Chapter 2: Ch. 2 Aedan Bones
I opened my eyes for the first time in this new life of mine with my head hurting and seeing something I didn't expect, a body.
I saw a woman holding onto me, shielding me with her own body, with tears coming down her face but with a fire in her eyes they could not extinguish. She looked frightened but it did not stop her as she keep looking at me. She had long chestnut colored hair, a pair of steel blue eyes, soft features which shows that she must have been pretty if it wasn't for all the dust and dirt across her face.
"It's alright Aedan, it's alright, you're ok. Daddy and mommy will take care of all those nasty men. Just keep quiet for a while ok?" She said to me trying to reassure me as she wiped a bit of blood of my head.
It looks like something happened and this Aedan died and that allowed me to become him. Thinking about how the Mr. & Mrs. Death sent me here. And it looks like I'm young, like no more than 5 young.
The woman In front of me took me into her arms and ran while holding me and muttering to herself " I hope the order notices what's wrong soon, because if they don't I truly don't know what we can do."
We arrived at a staircase where a man was running towards us. He turned around the instant he heard a noise coming from the door behind him whipped his wand and shot out a series of spells resulting in a large cut appearing in the door and a man falling while clutching his throat.
"We have to go now my love. We can't hold them back. The house-elves are all but dead and everyone else is simply trying to drag more down with them." The man who I assume would be my father by that way he looked at both me and the woman who appears as my mother.
This whole time I've just been so confused. I wake up in an unknown house, held by some woman who is apparently my mother, and we are running around while screams and explosions just keep happening. There are bodies laying on the ground and people fighting everywhere. I keep looking at the man in front of me in the hopes of getting some kind of information.
His hair was short and brown, it must have been styled in some manner but unfortunately for him the battles made him looked completely disheveled. His hair had mud and what I presume is blood matting it, his face looked stern and serious with sharp features, a neatly trimmed mustache and strong looking chin. His green eyes looked at the both of us tenderly, but also with a hint of sadness in them as he seemed to know that all this would not end well at all.
"Hide with Aedan, I cant let them find the both of you." He said in an authoritative tone while at looking at my new mother.
"You think I'm just going to leave you to fight alone Edgar! Not a chance in hell!" She almost growled back at him with an angry look in her eyes.
"Serena please. We can't just leave Aedan alone in this world. Hide him and yourself. This way I can truly protect you both." He replied imploringly at his wife.
She looked at the man for a moment with a steely gaze before slowly nodding.
"Thank you my love." He said with a sign of relief.
She kissed him briefly before running towards the back of the house. We came to a large room filled with bookshelves and a fire place lit with a few reading chairs near it. She pulled a blue book and it opened a secret compartment behind one of the bookshelves. She put me in the room before hearing shouts and more explosions coming from the direction we came from. She bit her lip placed me down on the bench inside before looking at me.
"Aedan, you are our beloved child and I'm so sorry for having to do this, but I simply cannot leave your father. You will have to be strong for Mommy ok? You are the proud heir to the house of Bones. You may break a few, but we will come back stronger. We are never afraid to fight for what we believe, even when the world doesn't share that belief. So be a good boy and stay quiet for me please. Because I need to believe that what I will do will keep you safe. I love you so much, so very much and I know that in the future you will do me and your father proud." She said as her voice went from determined to unbelievably soft and gentle.
She bent down and place a soft kiss on my forehead. I don't know why, but that one kiss made me unable to hold back the tears I didn't know I was about to shed. I truly did not want this woman you looked at me like I was the world to her, to leave me. I felt such pure love in that one kiss that i just couldn't keep it in. I don't know if this came from me or from whatever was left of the original before he departed, but I didn't truly care.
With my blurry eyes I simply looked at her and nodded resolutely. It doesn't matter if I just came here or that I just met these people. They are protecting me as their child. They are giving their lives for this and showing what it means to truly be resolute. I decided to do as the woman asked. I will make her proud of her decision. I will be in this world which I wanted to explore and discover as Aedan, heir to the noble house of Bones. I will fight as they did, for what they believe was right. It might not be the same but my will shall be.
With that the woman, my mother, Serena Bones, gave me one last look with deep emotions in which I could see sadness, love, anger and determination, stepped out of the safe room and closed the door behind her.
"I love you Aedan and I'm so sorry for leaving
you so soon." She said as the door finally closed with a click.
I simply couldn't help but shed tears for her and the love she tried to express before leaving. The longing to see your own child grow as you watch over them and the fact that she could no longer afford that luxury.
And so I waited like she asked.
I waited for what seemed to be at least an hour until I felt something shake. I focused for a second and felt it shake a second time, only stronger. Then sounds like a hammer striking against the wall started. It got louder and louder until I finally heard "CONFRINGO!"
And the wall in front of me exploded.
A man in full black robes, wearing a silver mask akin to a dead mans face, with ornate design near the eyes and on the forehead. It made it seem as if snakes were coiling themselves on the mans face, emphasizing the madness in his eyes. Besides him was a tall woman with long, thick, shining black hair. She had thin lips, dark, heavy-lidded eyes, and a strong jaw. He tight black dress and black boots added to her presence as someone you saw herself above others. And she truly believed she had nothing to hid since unlike the man, she did not have a mask, showing clearly the most famous or infamous and devoted death eater; Bellatrix Lestrange, looking almost as she did in the movies, only younger.
Her eyes stared into mine as I didn't budge an inch to the two death eaters.
"Hahaha!" She cackled with an almost insane glee. "He doesn't look scared. The little half-blood filth stares into the eyes of his better and dares not beg!" She suddenly switched to rage as if it was only at the flip of a switch.
"CRUCIO!" She yelled as she pointed her wand at me.
In that instant, pure pain shot through my body. I couldn't breath, everything just stopped working like I wanted. I was a simply on the floor, writhing, unable to even yell as the pain made my entire body feel like it was on fire and breaking every bone at once. You cannot imagine what it could make you feel. This is the spell she used to drive two of the bravest Order of the Phoenix members to insanity and I'm getting first hand experience as to why that is.
She pulled back her wand with an insane grin on her face as she looked at her work.
As the pain stopped I could finally breath. Giant breaths filled my quickly as I shivered from the leftover pain. After a few seconds I simply look right into her eyes again and glared.
The grin on her face dimmed seeing this. She lifted her wand and as she prepared the cast the Unforgivable curse again as an arm shot up and said "stupefy."
"You dare stop me from executing the lords order Barty!!" She shrieked at the man beside her in anger.
"Not at all mistress Lestrange. I simply believe he will be useful, very useful in one of the dark lords experiments. Strong willed, has some bloodline even if it was polluted by that filthy mud-blood. He should be perfect." Said the man, that from what Bellatrix said should be Barty Crouch Jr.
And that's how after an hour of being reborn I lost my new family and was put at the center of some of the darkest magic known to wizard kind as Aedan Bones, heir of the noble Bones family.