Clarity of Accidents--Another New Story!

Here is another story about how an accident and one person that caused it but could it be merciless or vulnerability? Find out in this tale by me, enjoy! --KatDon

In the police jail cell; one of the cops came to 15 year old Anubis Twain's cell and unlocked it. Jude looked up as the guard said, "Hey buddy, you're free to go." Anubis gave him a suspicious look, "Oh yeah, says who?" He asked. The guard gestured to someone standing there, "He says he knows you." said the guard. There was his fraternal brother standing there with an angry face. Anubis looked relieved, "Bata, hey bro!" He started to say but Bata cut him off, "Don't give me that crappy greeting, let's go Anubis--Dad's waiting." He said harshly. Now Anubis knew he was in big trouble but he's always been in trouble. It was quiet down the road as Anubis looked away from his father. "How could you be so reckless?" demanded his father. "Dad, I wasn't doing this to get attention!" protested Anubis. "Oh no? Then what do you call going at about faster then above the normal speed while driving? You could've hurt someone!" His father protested. "Oh c'mon dad, nobody was nearby! It wasn't like I was about to hurt somebody!" Anubis claimed. "Listen Anbu, you got to let people noticed you for your good deeds. Not doing reckless things, like driving so fast or getting in trouble! Tell me who were you with!" His father said. "NO ONE, I WAS ON MY OWN!!!" Anubis cried out. Just then, the family didn't know that a car was coming in at them. Anubis then noticed, he looked horrified. "DAD, WATCH OUT!!!!" He cried out. His father noticed and looked scared, "OH CRAP!!!" Too late, the car collided with one another and a bright light took over. Anubis woke up in the hospital with bruises and cuts on him, he was greeted by his bandaged but happy brother who embraced him. Anubis asked, "Where's Dad?" Bata looked at him regretfully, "I'm  sorry, he didn't make it." He said. Anubis was shocked, he couldn't believe it. His father was dead! 

At the funeral; Anubis was so ashamed of himself for not stopping his father, or saving him or the other family in the other vehicle. Once the funeral was over, Bata enter the room, "An?" Bata asked in a soft voice. "Please leave me alone." Anubis said weakly. "Anubis, it's OK." His brother assured him but Anubis sat up almost immediately, "DON'T TELL ME IT'S OK, ALL RIGHT?! I KNOW IT WAS MY FAULT!!!" Anub shouted, but he hid his face. "I should've saved Dad, I should have listened to him, I should have told the truth, I should--UGH, DAMMIT! DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT!!!!!" He sounded so upset, his brother came to embrace him. Jude felt bad for all the things that happened and he turned to Bata, "I'm not good at saying such emotional crap but I just want to say, thanks for being there for me--even if I'm a jack ass." He said. Bata smiled sadly, "You're my brother, Anubis. It's what I'm here for. Always." He replied. And the Twain Brothers reconcile, thus starting a new beginning. That night, Anubis dreamt that he was walking on this plank and the scenario was all white. "Hello?" He called, "Is anyone there?" Nobody answer until he felt someone's hands around his neck in a tender act of love. "I want you, come find me..." A girl's voice whispered in her ear. Jude woke up, gasping for breath out of fright and fell back asleep. Images of a liplock kiss, then the lips departed as Jude's voice whispered against the gasping beautiful girl, "Did you like that? I really hope you did. Because I've been wanting to do that all this time." Lips osculated together in a passionate manner, hands on skin. In an embrace of something tender and sweet. Cannot see but can feel the touch of delicate skin, it sends a feeling to be alive. When they breathe; it opens the airways and a heart beating in this life and breathes again, so beautiful....Licking lips. Fingers interlocking, hands holding together against white sheets. Cushty panting. Velvety incoherent whispers. It was dark, it felt blurry, so hard to see but there was a feeling of flesh entwined, caressing hair, touching skin. 

Head threw back with a jerk. Nails digging into the skin. Blood scars like scrapes on a chalkboard. More cushty gasps that were reserved: "Oh, oh, oh...." gasped a female's voice. "That's it...That's it...You're entering a whole new world." said Anubis's voice softly. Biting bottom lip, but a pleasurable scream shrilled out. Anub sat up, he couldn't believe he had a dream that way. He was covered in sweat and his nose was running. "Anubis?" His brother asked. Jude jumped and glanced to see Bata in the doorway, "Everything OK?" asked Bata. "Yeah, it's nothing. Just a dream." claimed Anubis. Bata nodded, "So...What was all that panting and whispers I could hear? And you were talking in your sleep." He remarked. "I was?" Jude asked. "Yeah, you were saying, 'it's gonna be all right.' and 'I'm here'. You were also saying, 'That's it' twice and 'you're entering a whole new world'. For the love of--Geez An, what do you dream about in there?" explained Bata. "Maybe you should've listened." said Anubis, looking mortified and red face. "Look, keep your dreams to yourself, OK?" Bata said. Anubis gave his brother a look, "Keep yourself out of my business, all right?" He said. Bata sighed, "Fine. I just want to show you something here." He replied and hand him the newspaper. Anubis took a look at it, "Supernatural Accident?" said the headline. It said that in the accident, a girl might have caused the accident of Anubis and Bata's father to die as well as the other people in the opposite vehicle. Anubis was angry to read this and learns where the girl is hiding out at the cathedral although people brush that off as nothing. That night inside of a cathedral; Anubis and Bata were waiting with his camera and other things. They didn't have to wait long when the Twain Brothers suddenly can see someone coming and saw a glimpse of Ashley, "Belle Dame Sans Mercy!" Bata said softly. Anubis gasped when he saw her as well. Ashley let her hood fall and fell on her knees near a pew and folded her hands together. "I confess to Almighty Goodwill, To blessed Mary, To the blessed archangel Michael, To the holy apostles, to all the saints. And to you, Father, that I have sinned in thought." She prayed. 

Just then, there were monsters known as Manananggals attacked and Ashley fights back while Bata is getting this on his brother's camera, "Now we're going to prove who you are, you witch!" He said to himself. Ashley uses her psionic telekinesis to take down the Manananggals."Come on Bata, I need help--Now!" He begged. "I'm on it!" Anubis said, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. When the battle was over; the Twain Brothers came from their hiding spot to confront Ashley. "What are you doing here? Just tell me, who are you? Really?" Anubis demanded. Shock to see them; Ashley felt weak and she fainted. When she woke up, Ashley didn't know what she was doing or where she was. But she found herself with the brothers however she couldn't see them completely. "Can you tell us your name?" Bata's voice asked. "They're all dead..." Ashley said weakly. There was silence, "Who is?" asked Anubis nervously. Ashley started to speak but she stuttered. "My--my--my--" She felt someone's hands on her shoulders, "Whoa, whoa, take it easy!" Bata commanded sternly. Ashley begin crying, "He's a bad man, a bad man! He's evil!" she sobbed. Then Ashley begin to howl in anger. "MURDERER!!! MONSTER!!!" she screeched and thrashed. Then, the hands on her shoulders pulled her into his chest. "Hey, hey, easy! Take it easy!" He said loudly but Ashley thrashed more and more. "I'll kill 'em! I kill 'em and---" screamed Ashley. She then calmed down and sighed into the guy's lap. "Easy, easy...That's right." said Anubis caressing her hair. He soothed Ashley again: "You're okay, you're just upset. It's OK, shhh." Ashley spoke up, "You're all gonna die...." And passes out. 

The next thing that happened, Ashley woke up to find a piano. A piano that she once had as a child, she remembered that sounds of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" that she used to play with her father. That was so long ago, Ashley was seven years old at the time of that happy memory. Ashley walked over to the piano and begin to play this classical piece. Her fingers were adequate on the keys, she let the music guide her. She didn't realize she was attracting someone else's attention. Ashley felt like she was living in her happy moments of her past all over again! Ashley was in a garden, underneath a cherry blossom tree. The petals of the blossoms were falling off were cascading down like snowflakes. When she saw this as she laughs joyfully. She was like a butterfly fluttering and fluttering in the spring, from flower to flower. It was so peaceful, being in someplace that wasn't...By the time she finished, she felt cool over her. "Ahem!" Ashley snaps out of her daydream and turns around to see a young man applauding. He had disheveled dark haired, he looked like a nice guy with a rebel going on--It was Anubis. He was looking over at Ashley and wondered if she was a merciless killer however he just saw a shy, fidget girl standing there in the room. 

Ashley moved away as she seemed embarrassed. "Oh! I'm sorry!" She whispered softly. "That was beautiful." said Anubis. "Th-Th-Thank you, I hope I--" stammered Ashely. "I, um, looking for someone name Anubis Twain?" Ashley said. Anubis grinned impishly. "You're looking at him." He replied. Ashley looked embarrassed. "Oh....! I didn't know! Your voice is familiar, I didn't see you clearly in the van. You were the brothers from before, right? Thanks." Anubis nodded. "Its fine, you look lost." He noted. Ashley turned away with a flushed face. "Was I?" She said, looking at the window which begin to rattle. "Everyone can be lost sometimes, even I can be so you're not alone." Anubis reassured her. Ashley said, laughing to herself but she felt a fool. "I don't think I'm lost, I think I have gone a little crazy."  Then, the window cracked in a startling matter. "Whoa!" Anubis cried. Ashley covered her mouth, "Oh! Oh, damn! I'm sorry." She said. Ashley turned around and locked eyes with Anubis. Embarrassed; Ashley bowed her head, Anubis put and arm around her in an embrace so gingerly that Ashley felt comforted and safe for a moment, just a moment she felt safe. "Looks like someone is getting too comfortable." A voice said. Ashley jumped and saw a man standing with a skeptical look on his face--Bata. Introductions went about as Jude watched the vulnerable Ashley answered them. 

To get her settled; Ashley entered the classroom, she opened the door to see students talking amongst themselves as they wait for their teacher to come. Ashley looked to see a lone desk in the back of the class and walks up and takes her seat there. Just then, the door opens and the chatter silenced. In walk a teenager, Ashleywas surprised to see that it was a teen boy walking in. He had dark hair and powder blue eyes, pale skin and he was pretty cute. A mature looking boy in well-dressed clothes. "All right, take your seats." He said. "Let's settle down now." The young man cleaned his throat and continued, "Welcome, My name is Bata Twain." Ashley was stunt, "That's Bata Twain?" She mumbled. "He's nothing that I would picture." Just then, the window cracked and the students jumped. Unfazed; Bata glanced at Ashley, “Was it you, Miss Samson?” He asked. Ashley shrugged her shoulders, “No. Why would you say that?” She asked. “You looks like your trouble to the core.” Bata noted, “You looked like you want to rebel but who knows! Maybe you will.” Ashley glared at him, who had his back turned. Ashley clenched her fist. "Oh, I'm trouble to the core? How does he know that I'm trouble? Who does he think he is? Low life child prodigy my ass." She thought. "He doesn't know a damn thing about my past!" However, Ashley felt her nose running so she wipes her nose and to find blood on her hand. Ashley gasped, "Help....Help me." She looked around as she saw no one was paying attention. She looked up and gasped. A zombie-like demon had a grin that showed his sharp teeth and chuckling at her. "What's the matter? It's just a nosebleed, just plug it up!" "Stay away from me, stay away from me!" Ashley begged but she is surrounded by other people who looked demonic and undead. 

Ashley backs away in horror, she then stumbles as she heard a zombie taunting in a satanic voice, "Bleeding to death? Your time has come. You sweet, little, fidget girl!" Ashley backs away on the floor as they were closing in on her. Then, the demonic zombies chanting: "Die, die, die!" Ashley panted, gasping. This was too frightening for her. It was like hell, there was no escape from here. "Help me, help me! Help me! Help! Please! AUGH!!!!" She screeched. Clutching her head as she cowers away from the zombies, who continued to jeer and laugh. In reality; The others are concerned at the hysterical Ashley. "Is she OK?" one student asked. "She looks scared." replied a girl. "Somebody--Get a doctor!" called another student. Bata immediately rushed over and took Ashley by the shoulders, "Hey, Ash! Ash! calm down!" He begged. Ashley continued to scream so Bata begin to do something out of element: He slapped Ashley across her face. Ashley stopped screaming, she panted as her hallucination ended. Ashley look to see that her nose is no longer bleeding. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." Bata said, looking ashamed. He embraced Ashley, who looked dazed. Ashley was being treated at the medics, she looked better but her hair was a mess. She heard someone calling her name, Ashley looked up and saw that it was Anubis running towards her. Overjoyed with tears in her eyes; Ashley embraced her friend as she was happy to see him. "Are you all right?" Jude asked, he pulls away from the embrace as he looks at her tired eyes. "Yeah, I'm fine. It's nothing, really." claimed Ashley. Bata then scoffs at her, "Well it's not your fault that you cause two things to collide right?" He remarked. Ashley gaspsed when she heard this, she looked over at the smug Bata who walked away. 

In her rage; Ashley doodled a crude art of Bata Twainin class, she gave the drawing sharp teeth and a word bubble next to him, saying: "Blah, blah, Blah!" It was so funny when she finished because she laughed to herself. "And pray tell what's so funny, Miss Samson?" Bata called out. Ashley calls out smugly, "Nothing Mr. Twain." Bata marched over to her desk and snatched the doodle. He looked at it, then sarcasm crossed his face. "Is this how you see me?" Mr. Twain asked. He showed the doodle to the class, who snickered at this as Bata crumpled the drawing and stomped it with his foot. Ashley didn't flinched. Mr. Twain leaned in her face and said, "Respect me or I'll fail you." Ashley glared back at him, "Fail me and you'll be sorry!" She replied. "Ooooooh!" went the students. Bata was surprised by this and narrowed his eyes. "Are you threatening me?" He asked. Ashley shrugged. "I'm simply giving you a warning." She said. Bata smirked, "Hmm...Interesting." was all he could say and continued his lesson. After class, she sneaked off to the library to dig up some research and was trying to find some files on anything but she couldn't find a thing! Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw some scrolls in the back and gets up to take a look. As she opened one of the scrolls; she couldn't read what it says. She heard someone coming and hid. It was Bata, he appeared to inspect the scrolls, Ashley watched him carefully as she saw him looking at one. “Does he know?” thought Ashley. Without thinking; she pounced at him, who fell down and felt Samson's hands around his throat. "You know how to read this thing?" She demanded. "Y-Y-Yes. I do." Bata managed to choke out. Ashley loosens her grip on her him and gets up as Cain panted and cough, "Good, you can help me understand it. Go! Do it! Get down to reading! What are you waiting for? Is it hard for you to read too?" She commanded. Bata looked at it and said, "This scroll, I don't think we can use it. It has a--" "‘has a--has a--has a--' What? Tell me one word and I'll be satisfied. The scroll has a problem? A password? An aneurysm?" Ashley guessed. "A secret code." Bata said, he looked at her with chutzpah. Ashley narrowed her eyes. She pinned his neck to the wall hard with her shoe, "How do I know you're telling the truth?" She asked. "Because--If--If I lied then you would get in trouble and I'll be in trouble." gagged Mr. Twain. Ashley released him, "All right, top secret is in your hands." She said. Ashley turned to walk away but Bata stops her. 

"Hold up! Look, no one, such as yourself, should look at this. Besides, if you discover it then--" He said. Ashley raised a finger to hault him. "Don't tell me, they'll gag me and lock me up to keep my mouth shut." She said. Bata looks at her before he nods. "Exactly." He said. "Gotcha." Ashley said with a thumbs-up. The two of them left the library. At night; Anubis heard Ashley screaming. He went to the chamber and opened the door. "Hey, are you OK?" asked Jude. Ashley had a nightmare of her walking the streets where she saw one car about to crash into the other and tried to stop it however she lost concentration by the sound of another car and that's when the cars crashed. She was screaming and thrashing about earlier. She was now startled to see Anubis as she ducked her the covers in terror. "S--sorry, just ghosts haunting me in my dreams!" stuttered Ashley. Anubis looked at her, "You scared?" He asked. "I--No! I just..." Ashley didn't know what to say. "Um, are you're OK? I'm not sure--" Jude place a hand on her forehead but he suddenly saw visions in his mind. Ashley try to push him away, "Let go of me! Ah!" She gasped. But Anubis didn't, he could see images in his head that were memories: A girl happy smiling and playing. Another memory shows of that happy girl crying as she tries to cover her ears from the screaming coming from downstairs. A third shows a woman screaming as the girl cowers and whimpers, "Don't you dare cry or I'll give you a good damn reason to cry!" The woman shouted. The girl was a young version of Ashley, who was abused as child. There was a dream that showed of Ashley move away from her mother, Ashley's mother, who had pleaded with her not to go. But Ashley did not listen. Her mother tried to stop the car, she was yelling: "ASHLEY, MOMMY LOVES YOU!!!" 

Ashley's driving escort locked the doors as she drove away, while Ashley's mother screamed, "I will find you and bring you home! You hear me? I WILL FIND YOU!!!" "What the--?" Anubis thought, "What is all this?" Ashley thrash about violently from her friend, "Stop it!" She cried. "Get out, GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY HEAD, STAY OUT OF MY MIND! PLEASE!" More memories invaded into Anubis's head, he saw a massacre. Anubis was horrified, "Ah...What...?" He thought. "Stop this..." He saw in his mind of people getting shot and all sorts of people tortured to death. Ashley pushed him away and ran off while Anubis went to find his brother to go find her. In a flashback; Ashley remembers how her mother Hanna was very disgusted by Ashley as they couldn't stand the sight of her so she send her to live with Hazelelponi. Hazelelponi was kind to poor Ashley and taught her craft as well as art. Ashley developed into a dollmaker as she made friends of her own. She pretended that the dolls she made were her sisters and Ashley became an 'imaginary friend ventriloquist' as she pretended to speak as her own imaginary friends. She was so angry of the cruelty her mother did and decided to sent in a doll for her mother but created a knife in the doll to try to kill her mother. As a joke around the time she was 13; Ashley was honored to wed to the spoiled and pompous Bedan, who was also disgusted at Ashley and cheated on her with the clever and beautiful, Delilah Cendron. Then, her mother and many others tied her up, spin her on the pedestal wheel, and threw fruit at her as a sort of humiliation. Ashley was so ashamed and she retreated to isolation of Hazelelponi. Hazelelponi cared for Ashley, where she comforted her and gave her love. Then, a fire broke out in Hazelelponi's home as Ashley survived with severe burns as Hazelelponi died in the fire. Ashley remembered that she saw Delilah and the other girls. 

There, she vowed revenge where she killed those who wronged her, wrapped up and placed in a statue made out of woven fibers called a wicker man as the bodies are place in there and lightened up. Ashley watched the wicker man light up as she begin to dance around slowly, swaying back in forth. Starting to remember old memories that were kept held in for so long, and is now feeling the pain again from it. In reference for all the many times Ashley got by when she held on to her insecurities, and assumptions. After all the pain Ashley goes through, she continues to fall. She  can’t give up on herself, even though she would be better off if she did so. Anubis and Bata is simply a item she can't get over regerdless of what happens in her, and wishes she didnt need them in her life. she wishes she dosen't need to chase them and try to work things out. They're like a appendix to her, It's in most of our bodies, but theres no real general or vital use for it. "I still fight and I don’t know why....I still fight and I don’t know why." thought Ashley while thinking of Anubis and Bata, "If my heart breaks into despair and sadness, why are you the one that cures them? If If love isn’t something that makes sense, why doesn't it make so much sense to me?" "Ashley!" Jude called out. Ashley turned around, "Anubis? Bata?" She asked. The Twain Brothers look at her, "Why are you so scared? Why can't you admit that you killed our father?" Bata demanded. "Because it was an accident!" insisted Ashley. "Like hell!" Anubis said, he stepped forward and seized her while saying, "Look, tell us you did it and we'll--" But stops when Anubis saw in Ashley's mind of a flashback: She was walking the streets of a highway where she saw one car about to crash into the other and tried to stop it however she lost concentration by the sound of another car and that's when the cars crashed.

Anubis is shocked to hear this and he doesn't hate her anymore. But Ashley was bleeding from the wound as she wanted to die, she fainted however Anubis and Bata rush to save her. Poor Ashley who was crying and she could barely breathe however she lives. Bata learn from Anubis of what really happened in the accident and forgives Ashley in the hospital. Ashley is not relieved and she becomes kamikaze, she wanted to end her life nevertheless Jude wouldn't let her, and the same goes for Bata. Anubis turned to Ashley and locked eyes with her while talking to her, "You cant blame yourself because you never had real love to understand. You have no understanding of something that was never there. It's not your fault." Ashley begin to cry happy tears however she had to say, "If my heart breaks into despair and sadness, why are you the one that cures me? If If love isn’t something that makes sense, why doesn't it make so much sense to me when you're around me?" Anubis smiled and looked at Bata, who smiled too, then Anubis turned back to her, "Because I'm your clarity in the ashes." He replied. Ashley smiles and so her life to recovery would begin. She was going to get stronger and never cause anymore problems with her powers. And she made good friends--Anubis and Bata Twain.