Cries of Blood

Written by Violetofen4

Chapter 1
"There is no more Kristina." she growled.

The words flung against me like a million needles.

What did she mean? But she turned away from me again, dazed and confused. I sucked back tears.

"Kramer!" Xena called from somewhere nearby.

"Leave me alone! I hate you, I hate everyone!" Kristina snapped. I don't think she even recognized me. What happened to my sweet little girl, what turned her so profound and hateful in nature?

Blustering with grief, I tried not to howl out my pains as I exited the room. Xena was standing there, one arm against the wall, looking startled.

"Why did you bring Richtofen back!? You don't know what Alois will do if we keep him alive..." Xena stammered, adjusting her black robe. I shook my head.

"Xena, I couldn't bear to see him die. I would feel guilty the rest of my life, don't you have sympathy for your fath-"

She cut me off: "I don't care about him anymore! He's not the same father from when I was eight! He's a madman who should be in an ASYLUM, Kramer, an ASYLUM!"

I narrowed my eyes.

"If you don't want to see him in public then we'll keep him somewhere else safe, okay? Somewhere in the hidden hall where Arluin and Aviine are!"

"Near my ''children!?" ''

"What harm could it do him? He needs something to lighten up his life, you have no idea what he's been through." I argued, but I could see easily this wasn't going to go anywhere.

"What about what I've been through? You saw what happened to Kristina, it may look bad now but wait until Alois comes and takes her away again? The same will happen to her. He's obsessed, Alois is, with having supernatural children. He's determined to mindwash her into a SLAVE like he tried with me, and you have to be more understanding! It's going to happen unless you step up and protect her. She's still in there, she's been mindchipped if it wasn't evident!"

I paused in silence. Mind-chipping. I knew too much of that. Richtofen, Groph, Schuster, Peter, Harvey, all mind-chipped before.

"So does that mean that Adelina, Lilith, all of them are likely mindchipped too?" I asked.

"Yes. I only escaped because he didn't bother chipping me." Xena replied.

"If Adelina's alive."

"Yes...if."