Andrew Tenebris

He was a normal english 16 years old high school kid. Well, not really, his ancestors were "black mages", "witches" and the like that came from Rome in the 2nd century B.C after the Romans discovered of their dealings with demons, necromancy and generally everything that was against morality. After arriving in England, they immediately continued the use and study dark magic, even more intensively than before. While they had problems with the local Celtic tribes and then the Romans, who weren't thrilled about the presence of demon's servants in the land, they thrived for some centuries but were almost exterminated when the witch hunts began in England, and as such had to abandon their dark ways. While this is a centuries old story, the infamy of the Tenebris family still haunts them to this day.

Well, it mostly haunts poor Andrew. Since he was a little boy the reputation of being a sorcerer has isolated him from his peers. In kindergarten no one wanted to play with him, in elementary school everyone called him a freak and in middle school bullies, taking advantage of his insecurity and the fact he had no friends, even beated him. And his parents were both managers of important companies so they were almost never present and the closest thing to a parental figure he had were the babysitters who continuously changed because they thought of him as too freaky. This only served to increase his depression and distrust towards others which in turn made everyone stay away from him. It was an endless, hellish cycle.

In high school it got somewhat better: everyone ignored him. Everyone just thought of him as that creepy and gloomy guy in the corner of the classroom and left him alone. Even the bullies stopped ridiculing him because they thought it was useless, the reason was simple: Andrew wouldn't have any kind of reaction, he just stood there taking it with eyes like the ones of a corpse. For them it was abnormal, since usually people cried, begged or just complied with everything they said, so they gave up. And so he passed most of his high school life alone and drowning in his apathy and loneliness.

Till one day, a girl came up to him:

"Hey wanna eat lunch together?"

He was shocked. No one had ever talked to him voluntarily since he was a kid, no, as depressing as it sounds, since he was born. And now this random girl came to him and told him to have lunch together. He could only answer

"Why?"

"Why not?" She said.

"Because i haven't talked or made friends with anyone in this school and i don't even know you"

Now that he thought about it, it must have been some sick and cruel joke, probably she just lost a bet or wanted to trick and humiliate him. While he was thinking she said

"You know, i have been watching you for a while, yes it sounds creepy but don't run, and i found it strange that such a kind and smart guy doesn't have any friends"

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, the other day i saw you watering the plants behind the gym,they were almost dead because nobody took care of them"

Andrew remembered that, if he hadn't watered the plants they would have died, they had lost all of their petals and had a sick yellowish green color.

"And then i got curious of why everyone stays away from you and i followed you for a while"

He thought for a second if he should have called the police, but decided to wait before making a decision, he wasn't sure yet if she was dangerous

"You just thought i'm dangerous didn't you?"

Maybe he should have actually called Area 51 or something like that,t he police wouldn't know what to do with a mind reader.

"Stop that! Anyway i followed you and i saw you help a little girl to find her lost puppy"

Yes, he remembered that girl, but he didn't help her just because of goodwill, she was in front of his house and her cry was as loud as a drunk green haired irishman with a passion for videogames, he couldn't allow it to continue.

*Wait, that means she knows where i live, i should make a run for it till i can* he thought. Meanwhile she continued, looking a bit pissed off for some reason.

"After i that i found that you got the highest scores in the whole school, and you're pretty decent in physical education, which brings us back to the question: How the hell don't you have friends?"

Andrew didn't know what to say, for him it was completely normal, he was used to it, he grew up alone after all, he never thought of the reason or if there even was one. So he could only answer:

"I don't know"

She looked surprised for a moment but then she spoke

"That's why we should eat lunch together"

"Uh?"

Andrew had no clue how that was a reason for eating lunch with her

"Well, basically if we hang out, i get to satisfy my curiosity for you and you will probably learn how to make friends. Great deal, no?"

He thought very intensively for a moment, more intensively than a supercomputer, more than all the scientists in the world, more than an average nerd playing a Suncraft game against a korean player and he could only come to one conclusion: this was his first, and maybe last, chance to make a friend. And he could only answer

"Ok, it seems fun"

Yes, it was a bland, unoriginal answer, and if anyone else heard it, they would think it was just two friends hanging out, but for Andrew this was the most important moment of his life.

"Yes, i knew you would accept! Come on now let's go!"

"Wait, i don't even know your name yet!" She stood still for a while, her face as red as a tomato for the embarrassment for forgetting something so simple, finally she answered.

"I'm Emma Greenwitch, let's have fun together from now on, ok?"

And that was the first day of Andrew's new life.

15 MONTHS LATER

Since Andrew met Emma,more than a year had passed.

While they initially had difficulties due to the difference of their personalities, they managed to become good friends, and then after getting closer to each other, lovers. This was the best time in Andrew's life: he got a girlfriend who he loved more than anything in the world and thanks to her he broke out of his shell and finally made some friends, they weren't many, but they were more than enough for someone who was alone all his life. While Andrew was reminiscing about this at the school gate, where he was waiting for Emma he heard an alluring, soft voice near his ear.

"Aaaw, Andrew don't touch me thereeee. Ah, It feels gooood"

"Holy shit!"

He let out a profanity, being shocked by the surprise attack of Emma and his sacred sword unsheating itself in reaction to her words.

"Oh, you're so cute when you get scared. And what do you have down there? I didn't know you kept a gun in your pants"

"Shut up! I am NOT cute!"

Andrew said, who had no intention of letting her win another argument. Since they met, every time they argued about something she would always win, either by using logic or by blackmailing him with embarrassing photos, who only God knew who took them since she was never with him when they were taken. While Andrew was thinking of some counterattack she responded:

"Acting tough, aren't you? But when i kiss you you look like you're going to melt"

Emma took a photo from her pocket in which they were kissing and he was redder than the sun.

"Dammit... But seriously, who takes these photos?!?"

Her expression turned to a smug smile "It's a secret! Tehehe"

Andrew gave up, and just sighed while trying to conserve the little pride he had left. At the same time Emma asked

"Since school is over, why don't we go shopping?"

His depressed face turned into one of pure despair when he heard that, because she was became a terrible beast when shopping, only satisfied by sales and the sound of his wallet bleeding dry.

"I'm sorry Emma, but i don't feel very well, can we do it another day?"

Andrew felt a very cold chill in his spine when she answered.

"Oh my, that's a problem, why don't you let me take care of you? After all it's my duty as your girlfriend. I want you to recuperate as soon as possible, so i'm gonna have to use some of those suppositories"

"Ma'am, i'm perfectly fine and ready to serve you in your shopping spree."

Andrew one time had a really high fever and she nursed him, she was so rough he couldn't sit for a week. Emma made a beautiful smile, but her eyes were filled with pride over her victory.

"Well, let's go then"

She started walking and Andrew began following her, with no pride left at all. They walked through every single store of the commercial district of the city, every time taking something away with them, be it clothes, small accessories or cute things in general. Every minute of that ordeal the poor boy felt his wallet bleed more profusely, like it was a period of Vapor sales. They explored every single shop, and by then the sun had already began to slowly set, leaving space to the moon, bit by bit. They didn't even notice the passage of time and suddenly Emma began panicking.

"Andrew! I have to be home in 20 minutes! It's almost my curfew!"

"Seriously?!?"

"Shut that lovely mouth and run!"

They sped through every single road, object and person in their way, hitting or making many of them fall in the process. Even though they were running at the fastest speed they could, Emma realized they wouldn't make it unless they took a shortcut. They were already in a more familiar zone and Emma remembered that there was a shortcut close by, even though she never used it.

"Andrew! There's an alley nearby that we can use as a shortcut!"

"I don't think we should!"

"Andrew, if i make it home in time i will kiss you so hard, it will be like rape, but not, because you will be very willing."

Andrew tried to understand the sense of that sentence,but realizing it didn't matter he just nodded with pure hope and dreams in his eyes.They reached the alley began running through it and where almost out of it when suddenly a man came out from a shadow with a knife.

"HEY YOU TWO! STOP RIGHT THERE! GIVE ME ALL YOU HAVE AND NOBODY GETS HURT!"

They stopped, scared and aware of what they got into and slowly left their bags on the floor. Emma began talking to him.

"Ok, ok, we're giving you all we've got so calm down ok. We just want to go home

The man responded, with a face that looked a bit too panicked and ashamed for a robber.

"YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! Ehehee.. eh.. eh... NOW GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!"

They were slowly backing away when they heard a voice coming from behind the robber.

"STOP RIGHT THERE SIR! CALM DOWN AND LET THE KIDS GO!"

It was a cop. Emma and Andrew felt relieved, they thought the man would have stopped and surrendered, but it was the opposite, he got scared and started running.

"SHITSHITSHITSHIT, I CAN'T GET ARRESTED, I HAVE KIDS DAMMIT!"

The cop shouted "WAIT! STOP!"

He took out his gun and shot two times but he only managed to graze his left shoulder because of the darkness of the alley. The bullets hit a wall which raised a curtain a dust that got into Emma's eyes and at the same time the man kept running and shouted "OUT OF MY WAY!" He raised his knife against Emma. The world stopped for a second. Andrew saw the man trying to stab the person he loved the most ,the one that saved him from a dark life of loneliness, the one person that would protect him even if everyone was against him. She had saved him. He couldn't just stand there, he had to protect her. He wouldn't lose her. He couldn't allow it. So he got between her and the mugger. He tried to fight him, but it was too late. Thankfully not for Emma, but for him. When he tried to stop him, he felt a hot burning sensation in his chest, close to his stomach, and when he looked searching for the reason, he saw a knife stabbed into him. He began coughing blood,and fell down.

"Oh, God no, what have i done, oh God, i.. i killed a child.. oh God.."

The mugger stopped and fell to his knees, and the cop arrived and pointed his gun at him.

"LOOK AT WHAT'VE YOU DONE! FUCK!"

When Emma realized what was going on, she went to Andrew, crying

"ANDREW! Oh no, no, no, please, no... you're gonna be ok, i'm.. i'm calling an ambulance, they're gonna save you, you're gonna get a badass new scar and you can brag about how you got it protecting me, and then, then we're gonna marry and always be together, ok?Andrew... please... don't leave me.. .i saved you from being a loner... you owe me at least this.."

Andrew gave a smile that came from the bottom of his heart

"Emma, it's *cough, cough* it's ok,i 'm just happy that you're fine"

She kept crying, holding his arm like she would have never let go.

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT BULLSHIT! IF YOU DIE I'M GONNA SHOW EVERYONE YOUR EMBARRASSING PHOTOS! SO STAY HERE AND GIVE A MIDDLE FINGER TO THE LIGHT!"

"Blackmailing me till the end, uh? I guess that calculating personality is one of the things that made me fall for you *cough* hey, Emma.."

She tried to stop crying for a moment, but failed and her tears fell on Andrew

"Yes..?"

Andrew's smile grew bigger than ever.

"I love you"

And just like that, warmth and life left the body of Amdrew. Emma's face turned from sadness to shock

"Andrew, hey, Andrew, stop that, it's not funny.... Andrew? Andreeeew, NOOOOOOOOO!"

"Well, that was depressing."

Said a voice from another world, locked in its own dimension of darkness.

"I usually watch humans because they're funny, but those of Earth are just sad, their God is a serious prick, whoever he is. That boy died like a true man though, so he deserves a reward. Well i guess it's time to work. NOOOOOOOOX!"

"Yes, my lord?"

Another figure sprung from the darkness, kneeling to the one who called him

"Make preparations for the interdimensional portal"

Nox responded with a mixture of surprise and preoccupation

"Why is that, my lord? We haven't used it for centuries"

His master responded smiling like a child "Because we have a new hero to summon, and i assure you, he's gonna be a hell lot of fun"

"If it's like that then it will be done my lord"

Nox returned to the shadows and he could hear his master shout one sentence

"LET THE LEGEND OF THE ABYSS GAZER BEGIN!"

p.s:Howdy there guys, no i'm not an homicidal flower, thank you for reading the prologue of the Abyss Gazer. Some of you may be thinking that i didn't describe very much the relationship between Andrew and Emma (and how they look like), but don't worry i will explain everything in future in the form of side stories that i will put just after important cliffhangers in the story, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH (in regards to their physical description,i'm not confident enough to make one since i first i want to be sure of being able to do one properly, since it's a very important aspect of the story,and i want it to be very detailed) Anyways, i hope you appreciate this story and support me.I appreciate any critic towards my story (and hopefully in the future, stories), since i'm just an amateur and i want to get as good as possible, so that you can fully enjoy what i make.

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