Chapter 11: New Year, New Life.

Warning: These Chapters will or may contain depictions of violence, strong language and adultery that may not be suitable for some readers.

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"Hey kid, do you want to know how I ended up here?", Michael asked Kerado.

"Maybe.", He answered.

"Hmph. Well to be honest I.. killed my whole family.", Michael revealed.

"Except one.".

Kerado looked at Michael with disbelief in his eyes.

Kerado inquired, "What?".

Michael reinstated calmly, "You heard me, I killed my whole family.".

"W-why?", Kerado asked.

"Simple. I didn't like them.", Michael answered.

Michael started his story with a sad but strong tone, "Ha. My dad wanted me to became a assemblyman just like himself. But all I wanted was to live my life how I liked. My mom also agreed with him even though she didn't work a day in her life.".

"One day my told me I should live my life the way I wanted. So whenever she was called to come to school because I got into trouble I told her the same thing.", He ended of that with a chuckle and a devious smile.

"My was a beautiful woman, very beautiful. That's why I had so many sibling, fifteen of them and all fourteen of them was liked by either dad or mom. The other was like me, non of them liked my or him.", His voice started to be filled with a rage suddenly.

Kerado was listening cleanly to his friend without flinching his ear the other way.

"You might think I'm a monster, but it's because I have a dark side of me.", Michael went on. Tears started to flow down his eyes without his noticing.

"Mic, you're crying.", Kerado told his friend.

Michael suddenly felt the tears flowing down his cheek and leaving a wet surface behind, "Oh, umm. It's just that dust went, that's all.".

"Right..", Kerado inquired.

Everytime Kerado revisit this memory his anger for becomes something a pot of boiling water under on unlighted stove. But whenever he remembers the time Michael beat him up the stove is turned on.

"Kerado. Their are many villains in this world who are just like me. You can't judge cause even though you did your crime out of justice, it was still a villainous act.", Michael explained.

The northern region of the world has gone to chaos. The alone thing is Kerado currently don't know this, or anyone else in there with him.

It was his birthday today, January 1, 2041. No one was their to celebrate it, neither his paralysis demon father, since he isn't sleeping. So he had to celebrate it himself and his own. A good opportunity came.

"..."

*VROOM, VROOM, VROOM*

The loud noise of sirens filled the atmosphere of the juvenile detention center.

"Did someone escape again or something?", The juveniles started to ask amongst themselves.

It was lunch time so everyone was out of their cells.

Kerado was eating his slog food by himself as usual. He was a hesitantly digesting his food, when he disturbed by the buzzing of the sirens.

All delinquents looked about the place trying to see what was the problem. They saw guards rushing to bathroom of the center.

"Did someone shit their self, hahaha!".

"You think almost all them would be this active because didn't get proper potty training, hehe?!".

The shouts of guards and inquiring of the delinquents was add onto of the annoying and loud noise of the sirens.

Kerado grasps his spoon and slams into the table because of annoyance.

"Look at mister anger issues.", Someone mumbled.

*CRASH!!*

Suddenly a loud crash was heard from were the most of the guards went; the bathroom. Screams and gunshots were also heard echoing through out that area. It leaved an eerie atmosphere around the center.

A memory suddenly popped up in Kerado's mind. A memory of conversation with Michael.

"If this place is wicked then is prison worst like this. And if so... how horrible is hell?", Michael lips spoke out.

*CRASH!!!*

Something burst through the walls of the confinement suddenly, interrupting Kerado's trip to memory lane. Clouds of dust block the vision of all in that area.

Kerado heart suddenly stopped and after the abrupt pause his heart started to beat fast. Did he have a hear attack?

Suddenly a shadow was seen in the dust. Kerado eyes starts to cry at of the individual appearing. It was his one and only companion, his paralysis demon, hai dad.

Why was he crying?

His dad started to walking his direction. His skin was dark and blood was flowing down his head. He held a knife in his hand as he approach Kerado, his own son.

His father grabbed his son's head and pulled it up. Look at the disfigured face of his dad, he couldn't stop crying. He didn't want to cry.

His vision suddenly went blurry and then pale and then blank. He went unconscious.

"..."

In the darkness of his slumber, his eyes slowly start to open. A bright and stinging light hits Kerado's eyes bring him pain. He closes his eyes in retreat of the light. Tears flow out of his close eyes slowly.

He open his eyes once again , blocking it with his right hand. His vision is blurry, too blurry. He can't make out anything, only thing he can see is yellow and white.

He asked himself, "I am in heaven?".

After saying such words his vision slowly goes back to normal.

"Of course not.", He sighs in disappointment.

He lift up his body of the dusty bench he was laying on. His face was covered in dusty making look like he dived into a pill of it. He puts his legs on the ground and tries to get up. He felt a laziness in his legs making him unable to walk.

"Fuck!", He cursed out loud. He wasn't anger, but confused.

Looking around he saw nothing but rubble. Steel, giant cracks of rocks and pure dust. The place was a pool of mess.

After feel he could move he got up. Giant rocks surrounded him preventing from traveling. He walked towards one of the rocks infront of him. He began to climb, holding on to any cracks or steel sticking out of this bounder.

Finally he made it to the top. What he saw filled him with both disbelief and worry.

"Is this a terrorist attack?", He asked himself. Outside was chaos. The sky was filled with smoke and buildings were on fire. Sirens were buzzing unstop and faint screams and cries were thrilling.

"Mexico is fucked.", He said while so sliding down the rock.

What brought him more disbelief was something unusual.

Looking clear he saw something falling from the sky like particles, "Why is it snowing?".

"Was I out for a whole year?!", He asked himself.

That wasn't the case. It was still new years. But unusually snow was falling from the sky. It was cold, but Kerado didn't realize the temperature yet.

Suddenly something hit him, "Shit!". He started to run in the thick and deep snow, not realizing how cold it was. His destination was home.

His house wasn't that far away from the juvenile center. It was a mid drive from his home to there.

His blood was rushing down to his legs and freezing at the same time. That's when he realized the temperature.

He fell down on the ground but the snow protected him.

"It's so cold all of a sudden.", He explained.

He had ran an half a mile without realizing. He got up back to his feet and started running once again. He was relentless.

"..."

Two and a half hours has pass, since Kerado left his confinement. He was finally at the door at his home. He knocked on the door with strength and agility.

"Is anyone their?!!", He shouted. Kerado was worried. He didn't know what time it was so he didn't know of they were at school. But would they be at school in this sudden climate change?

After not hearing a response, something else came to his mind. Break down the door.

Using all his strength he started kicking the door. With a few kicks the rusty door came crashing down leaving a loud slap on the ground and echoing inside the entire house.

"Nin! Kelly! Anyone here!", The ten year old boy cried out loud.

After hearing on reply, he started entering the house. He ventured into the eerie and silent, but some sort of welcome vibe.

Kerado searched all the rooms and all the hiding spots and find no one. He went into his parents room which is now his former dad's room once again. Inside he took up his father's phone and check the time and data.

What was on the phone was: 3:07 PM. Jan 1, 2041.

Kerado collapse onto the dirty and smelly floor. He started to cry. Because he worried and scary that something had happened to his siblings.

While on the floor, he looked under the bed of the his parents. He saw something like a bag under there. He reached out his hand under the bed. He pulled out the object and saw that it was orange hair dye.

"Hair dye?", He inquired. He doesn't know what it is doing there but he takes it with him anyway.

After a while of grief he exited the house. Now he was wear a black fluffy jacket and jog pants.

His second destination was the school were he siblings went to.

"..."

The snow was continuing to pour down slowly. Float down to the earth gracefully.

Kerado was at the gate of his brothers and sisters school. Happy Hearts basic and infant school.

Kerado climbed the gate of the school and jumped over into the seemly abandoned property. He entered inside the school by the front which wasn't locked.

He ventured inside the haunting place. Something strike Kerado's attention. On top of the ceil were filled with moss and vines. Looking upwards something fell down on his forehead. It was some type of liquid.

In a panic he rubbed his face aggressively fast like a mad man, "Ahh!".

"What the hell was that?!", He asked the silence of the place in anger.

He continued on his way to two of his brothers class, class 3. Inside was empty like the entire school itself. Inside the class was decorated with mose and vines.

He went to the other class which would have his remaining siblings his other brother and his two sisters. Inside once again was empty and decorated with the vines and mose.

After finding no success with the search of his remaining family, he started searching the entire school, bottom to top.

Even after all that searching he found no one and luckily no-thing.

A thought that put his mind to ease popped up in his mind, "Maybe the military or somebody saved them and moved them out of the city.".

The thought of his siblings be dead brought tears to his eyes so he thought of this to bring himself to ease. Kerado looked at the hair dye in his hands. He smiled suddenly.

The kindergarten didn't have showers, but they had sinks. Inside the eerie bathroom he was washing his hair with the dye. When he was down he looked at himself in the mirror.

He put his finger under his chin and said, "Look at the handsome fellow.".

"Wait?".

A question popped up into Kerado's mind separate from the others that he couldn't find to answer.

"If the country is descending into chaos doesn't that mean that I could do whatever I want technically?".

He smiled at his own reflection suddenly.

"..."

"New year, new life!", Kerado exclaimed while walking down the street.

He had different clothing on him that was suitable for the weather. He had two big bags on his two shoulders that seem to be stacked to the brim. He he had a huge smile on his face as he walked around with the things that he just took.

Little did he know what the world had transcended to.