《Crimson Moon》Vol. 3- Chapter 0: Birth of the Successor (II)
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Last time…
Uriel and Alejandro decided to investigate beyond the hills where they live. They encountered a cemetery with the name “CIBOLA.” Alejandro decided to enter and touched a box that was in the center of the cemetery. Unfortunately that brought attention to a Sombra who attacked Alejandro. The boys were saved by a mysterious man in a Charro Suit. The next morning, Uriel woke up feeling strange as he had a nightmare regarding a giant monster. He feels strange as he and his sister Valerie go to school...
After Valerie and Uriel went to school, Roberto and Maria saw each other with a worried face. Maria asked:
“Hey dear, can you please come at your lunch time and eat at the house? There are some things that are bothering me.”
“Sure, I will come at noon, then we can talk, but for now I need to go to work. Take care of Daniel,” Roberto grabs Maria´s shoulder and gives her a goodbye kiss on the forehead.
He grabs his suitcase and plays with Daniel´s hair. He walks outside the door and heads to his car. Roberto turns around and he sees his son waving at him in the window and he smiles at him once again. The car takes off. Daniel lies on the couch because he got sick of a fever. This is why Maria decided to leave him at home to rest.
Maria feels the presence of an entity in the hill next to her house. She feels chills going down her body and quickly goes to the window to see but there was no one outside.
“Something is wrong, I can feel it” Maria looks at the window, Daniel pokes her arm and she turns around with fear and sees Daniel with the phone and he says:
“Hey Mama, someone wants to talk to you” Daniel gives her the phone and he goes to the living room to watch television.
Maria with a pale face and shaky hands slowly lifts the phone and answers; “Hello”
“Hello, Good Morning Maria it is me, Sister Griselda, how have you been?” The woman answers, Maria feels relieved.
“Hello Sister Griselda, we’re doing fine. How are you?” Maria politely replies.
“I had better days, niña, right now we are in a state of alert for what is happening in your region and I am calling you to see if there has been any strange movement in your area?”
Maria remembers Uriel´s behavior however she decides to reply:
“Nothing yet to report, but I will be in alert if something happens”
“Alright niña be careful in Sun City, I will be arriving at Sun City tonight, come and visit me, I have presents for the children”
Sister Griselda replies making Maria smile and feel joy:
“Yes sister, I will gladly go to visit you. Tomorrow is Saturday so I will bring my children as well.”
“Excellent, Maria, be careful today, because tonight there will be a red moon and “he” might appear in your region. Say hello to your husband for me...”
Sister Griselda ends the call leaving Maria thinking about the red moon and “him” as she begins to prepare lunch for her husband and son.
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In the offices of the “International Bank” located downtown of Sun City, Uriel’s father who is the regional manager works in his office doing some important financial transactions on his computer.
Suddenly he heard a knock on his door. Roberto walks to the door and opens to see a tall man with no hair, a padlock beard and sunglasses
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The man’s name is Darius Lucifugus, 50 years old, a banker who came from Eastern Europe and serves as an ambassador for that region. His story is still unknown because he does not like to talk to Mr. Vazquez due to their contrast of personality.
“Good morning, Darius, how are you today?” Mr. Vazquez greets him with a sincere smile on his face.
“Good morning Mr. Vazquez, I came here to pick up the reports on the balances and please call me Mr. Lucifugus” Darius says with a serious tone.
“Sure thing, I finished them yesterday, they are at my desk” Roberto goes to pick them up. As he goes there Darius asks Roberto a very awkward question:
“Hey Mr. Vazquez, I remember you mentioning that you have two kids going to the same school as my children, am I correct?”
Roberto stops and with a suspicious face; “Yes, my three children go to the same school and I think your son and mine go to the same class, but why are you asking me that question?”
“For no good reason, I was just curious” Darius replies to Roberto with a serious face aRoberto gives the document to Dariu; “Thank you”
“Cheerful as always eh…” Roberto tells Darius in a sarcastic tone in which Darius replies to him; “It’s none of your business”
Darius leaves the office. Darius makes a phone call to a certain person. The person in the other side of the phone:
“The job is for tonight, I want Roberto Vazquez to disappear tomorrow morning, have I made myself clear.”
“Yes sir I have prepared my men and I am about to make my move” Darius replies with a serious tone.
Darius makes another phone call; “Olivia, I hope you're ready…”
“Yes dear, everything is ready, we’re about to make a move as soon as you order us…”
“Good, we will begin the operation today at noon, be ready” Darius hangs the phone.
Mr. Vazquez on the other hand prepares himself to leave his office and go to his house; “I guess, this is goodbye…” Roberto turns off the lights with a serious face.
Roberto begins to walk towards the parking lot. Roberto is about to get on the elevator; “I see…” Roberto feels that someone is following him. Roberto takes the stairs instead.
As soon as Roberto closes the door, he jumps the stairs and falls towards the 1st floor. Roberto releases mana from his feet and lands safely on the first floor.
Darius opens the door and sees Roberto walking in the first floor. Darius chuckles; “Roberto, you knew about me huh…No matter...there is always a Plan B”
Darius makes a demonic smile and his glasses start to glow with a red color.
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At the same time…
Sun City International School…
The bus arrives, Uriel and Valerie walk towards the entrance. Uriel with a worried expression, Valerie notices and asks:
“Big Brother, are you alright?”
Uriel comes to his senses and replies with a fake smile:
“I’m alright...don’t worry Valerie…”
Valerie also smiles thinking; “I know you’re lying, Big Brother”
As they pass through the front door, Olivia Lucifugus (who was at that moment the Principal of the Elementary Division) looks at them and greets the siblings:
“Good Morning, Uriel and Valerie. How are you today?” Olivia says it with a very suspicious smile that makes Uriel and Valerie feel uncomfortable.
Both of them replied to Olivia with a shivering low voice; “G-G-Good morning Olivia we are fine thank you”
“Please enjoy your school day we never know when it is going to be the last” Olivia laughs sarcastically. Leaving both students frightened.
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Olivia Lucifugus is a white skin woman who is over 40 years old. Her face has wrinkles and her attitude towards the students is very unpleasant. She always receives the students with a serious face, correcting their postures and uniforms, however today she acted differently towards Uriel and Valerie which drew suspicion to Uriel.
Uriel thinks to himself; “What's with her attitude, she never greeted us like that before.”
“Calm down Big Brother you don't need to worry about it, just enjoy your day and I´ll see you later” Valerie says to Uriel and runs to greet her friends in her classroom.
“She's probably right I should concentrate on my exam today” Uriel thinks to himself and enters his classroom. As Uriel enters the classroom a boy jumps from behind and makes him fall to the ground.
(BOOOOMMMM)
Uriel turns around, gets up and kicks his legs to make him fall to the ground as well.
“Man you are slow as always Uriel” The boy says to Uriel as he stretches his hand towards Uriel.
“Damn Alejandro, that hurt, you know” Uriel says while he grabs his hand to stand up.
Alejandro Sanchez was a 11 year old boy who had brownish short hair, his eyes were orange in color, a chubby body and his skin color is white. He is always next to Uriel, his best friend since preschool. Alejandro has complete trust in Uriel.
Both of them play around as they go to their desks. Another person comes to greet them and he says:
“Good morning guys, you two are goofing off as always”
The boy sits on his desk next to them. He opens his book to study.
“Good morning Raul, are you ready for the exam?” Alejandro asks as he puts his arm around Raul´s shoulder, almost dropping his book.
Raul pushes Alejandro back to pick up his book to study; “Did you study last night, Alejandro?”
“No, I didn’t,” Alejandro replies. He puts his hand on his head sticking his tongue. Raul throws his book at him with a furious expression:
“Then study for God's sake!”
Raul screams, making Uriel burst into laughter.
Raul Diaz is a 11 year old boy, a thin body with glasses, has brown hair and brown eyes. He likes to study, making him the most intelligent kid in the class. He does not like Alejandro´s attitude, but he does like to hang out during lunch time with Uriel and Alejandro.
Uriel looks at Alejandro who is acting normal; “Alejandro, I wonder if you remember what happened last night?”
As Uriel sits on his desk, someone walks sneaky behind and whispers into his ear:
“Good morning, how is my future husband doing today?”
Uriel jumps off his desk with a surprised expression. He turns around to see a beautiful girl who is smiling at him. Everyone looks at the girl. The girl once again greets everyone by saying; “Good Morning everyone!”
“G-G-Good morning Marjorie” Every boy in the classroom answers her with red faces and shivering voices. Marjorie smiles at them. Soon, every boy decides to go and talk to her, creating a huge circle around her, except for Uriel, Alejandro and Raul.
Uriel turns around to see his friends and talks to them. Marjorie puffs her cheeks because she did not get Uriel´s attention and he did not greet her.
Marjorie Bellerose is a 11 year old French girl, with white skin, silver hair, and blue eyes. Boys consider her the most beautiful girl of the class, making the other girls jealous. Every boy wants to talk to her, but she only likes Uriel.
“Well I see you boys are talking about what happened last night, am I right?” A girl with glasses talks to the group of Uriel.
“Oh hey how are you doing Victoria?” Uriel answers back to her. Hiding in the back is another girl who also tries to speak to them; “G-G-Good morning everyone”
Soon Alejandro stands up and tries to talk to the girl behind Victoria saying; “Good Morning Angela,”making her go behind Uriel.
Victoria Salazar is a Spanish girl who is 11 years old. She wears glasses, has red hair and red eyes. Her skin color is brown, similar to Uriel´s. She is a very smart girl ranking 2nd only behind Raul. She likes Uriel too. She often fights with Marjorie over who is his girlfriend.
The girl behind Uriel is Angela Conte; she is an Italian girl who is very shy. She is 11 years old, has black hair, and brown eyes. She has white skin and she also likes Uriel, but she is too shy to talk to him directly.
Marjorie sees Angela behind Uriel and Victoria talking to his group, making her frown. She leaves the group of boys surrounding her and quickly grabs Uriel´s arm pulling him towards her, making the group of boys jealous and stare at Uriel.
“Good morning Victoria, I see you are talking to my future husband again.” Marjorie says with a fake smile, grabbing Uriel´s arm tightly.
Victoria gets jealous and grabs Uriel´s other arm and tries pulling him towards her. She replies; “Good morning Marjorie, I think you are being too forward to Uriel” she says it with a fake smile.
The two girls started to pull Uriel to their side causing Uriel to blush. Alejandro gets jealous and cries out “blood”
“Damn it, I wish I was him…”
Uriel responds to them; “Come on girls, you’re going to rip my arms out…"
The door opens and a group of boys enter. The one that is in the front pushes Uriel away from the girls saying in a sarcastic tone:
“Can you please step away from my girlfriend, Uriel”
Two other boys put themselves in front of him as bodyguards and the one that pushes Uriel grabs Marjorie´s arm. Uriel stands up and smiles:
“Good morning, Aleister, I see you often forget that we are too young to be thinking about a girlfriend and you should be thinking in improving your grades”
-TCH- Aleister feels angry and the whole classroom laughs. Marjorie quickly steps back and shouting; “I am not your girlfriend.”
Marjorie´s words surprises Aleister and he decides to sit down.
Aleister Lucifugus is the son of Darius Lucifugus, He is 11 years old, has white skin, thin body, black hair and reddish eyes. He is not very friendly, does not have many friends except the two boys that are always with him. He hates Uriel because Marjorie likes Uriel.
The two boys who are always with Aleister are Claudius and Marius Lucifugus; they are twins and cousins of Aleister. They are both tall and have obese bodies. The twins have short white hair and brown eyes. They are the bodyguards of Aleister and follow his commands.
(RRRRRIIINNNGGGG)
The teacher enters the classroom:
“Alright class we are about to start, now I know you heard about the incident last night, but let’s’ not talk about okay. Let's focus on our class”
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During the day Uriel and Valerie had a normal school day. Uriel took his history exam in which he scored the highest. He also has math, science, English, and Spanish classes during a regular day. He always eats lunch in the cafeteria.
On a table located at the far right side of the Cafeteria...
“Hey Alejandro, how is your head feeling?”
“I’m doing alright? Although my memory is very fuzzy, what happened last night?”
“You fell, and hit your head…” Uriel replies, Alejandro laughs. Raul looks at them with suspicion and sighs:
“You guys sure are dumb, right?”
“WHY YOU!!” Alejandro shouts making a fist.
“Can you believe that Uriel?”
Alejandro asks Uriel. However, Uriel is lost in thought remembering again the dream he had last night. He begins to shake uncontrollably, making Raul and Alejandro worry.
“Hey, wake up, wake up damn it” Alejandro shook Uriel until he reacted once again and saw his friends with a worried face.
“I´m sorry I was just thinking about my dream and got lost in thought.” Uriel tried to calm his friends down by making them smile.
“What kind of dream was it?” Victoria, Marjorie and Angela asked him as they sat down at their table.
“Well, it was more like a nightmare, but that is the thing I can’t remember. I only remember the fear.” The table soon goes into silence. Soon, the principal calls Uriel and Valerie through the microphone.
“Uriel and Valerie Vazquez please come to the principal's office for important news, Thank you,”
Uriel stands up from the table. As he is about to leave, he bumps into Marjorie; “Don´t worry, everything will be fine okay, please come back.”
“I will don´t worry,” Uriel responds with a smile, but he is very worried inside.
"HEY URIEL, I WILL SEE YOU TONIGHT SO THAT WE CAN WATCH SPACE RANGERS, DON'T FORGET…" Alejandro shouts as everyone waves at him, Uriel smiles and replies:
"I WON'T, GOODBYE!!"
Uriel leaves the cafeteria and in the hallway, he meets Aleister standing in the exit and tells Uriel; “Good bye, I hope we don´t see each other again, just kidding”
Aleister says in a sarcastic tone, laughing at him. Uriel replies “Funny as always I see” and he exits the cafeteria and heads to the principal's office.
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Uriel walks down the hallway and sees Valerie going there as well. Valerie sees Uriel with a frightened face.
“Big Brother I'm scared” Valerie says while holding his hand.
“Don't worry I'm not going to leave your side.”
Valerie stops shaking and she nods to him.
They arrive at the principal’s office. They open the door, but the lights are off. They walk in and see Olivia in the dark and she says to them:
“Come closer, my children, I have some bad news for you. Your parents won't be coming to pick you up because they had an accident in the office so these people here are going to take you to them.”
The door closes and the light turns on suddenly. There are three people behind them; they are all wearing formal attires with suits and ties. One of them tells Uriel and Valerie to go with them.
“We won´t, my parents told us to not go with strangers, leave us alone" Uriel says with a confident voice as he grabs Valerie´s hand and pulls her towards him.
“Don’t let go Valerie” Uriel tell her with confidence giving her bravery as well.
“I won't,” Valerie replies.
Uriel pushes the chair towards the people causing them to fall down. Uriel and Valerie run to the exit however, as soon as they are about to reach the exit.
A mysterious black portal appears below them.
“AAHHHHHH” Uriel and Valerie fall to the portal and disappear.
The portal disappears and the agents including Olivia tell Darius on the phone:
“Mission accomplished sir, now it’s time for phase two.”
Alejandro heads to the bathroom hears a noise, he quickly runs to the office and sees Olivia sitting at her desk:
"Where is Uriel and Valerie?" He asks, frightened.
Olivia responds with a gentle voice; “They went home my dear, don’t worry”
Alejandro leaves the office with a suspicious expression in his face knowing that something is wrong.
January 31st was the last day the children of Sun City International School saw Uriel and Valerie for the last time…Stay tuned…
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