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An Anastasia Story

Chapter 1: How It All Began

A circular gold music box with a figure of a royal couple that twills inside it played a waltz. Soon the waltz died out and the figures fold down as the lid closed. A woman, who was dressed like royalty itself, mixed up the music box and slipped it inside a purse and closed the purse as she had turned to walk out of the room.

She walked down a flight of marble stairs that had a red rug, her green velvet cloak dragging down the steps as she walked. Then she was outside and snow fell lightly from the sky.

"Your Highness." A guard greeted as he gestured to the royal carriage. She climbed in and another guard closed the door for her. The driver yelled, "Hyah!" and snapped the reins, making the horses whinny. Then the carriage began to move.

There was a time, not very long ago, when we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. My son, Nicholas, was the Grand King of Albion. True, we lived with Methuselah, but we learn to live in peace with them. However, our peace with them was very thin and was about to break at any moment.

The royally dressed woman walked up a flight of stairs and turn to walk into a brightly lit room as a guard bowed in respect. She nodded and continued to walk into the room. This room was an elegant ballroom, where hundreds of both Terran and Methuselah danced to a grand waltz. The orchestra played fantastically they danced to it.

The woman from earlier sat down upon a grand throne as she waved and called, "Hello darling." She looked out and saw a richly dressed man with his wife and young daughter as they dance. His daughter had shoulder length crimson red hair and sapphire blue eyes.

We were celebrating our ties with the Methuselah and how much we greatly loved them as our own.

The richly dressed man then picked up his red hair daughter and swung her around in the air over his head. "Oh Father!" She squeaked and he set her down.

And that night, no star burned brighter than that of our sweet Esther, my youngest granddaughter.

Esther ran up to her grandmother with a big smile. She came right next to her and hand her a picture that she had drawn of her grandmother. Her grandmother smiled and took the drawing from her as she placed it on her lap.

However, no one seem to notice a young servant boy, who had silver hair and an apple in his mouth, as he walked out of the servant's area and into the grand ballroom; only a few feet behind the former Queen of Albion and Princess Esther.

She begged me not to return to Paris so I had a very special gift made for her to make the separation be easier on the both of us.

The silver haired boy watched, as he whipped his mouth with his sleeve the juice from the apple, as the former Queen gave Princess Esther a circular gold music box. Esther gasped as she fondly looked at the present.

"For me? Is it a jewelry box?" Princess Esther asked as she took it from her grandmother gratefully.

However, the silver haired boy could watch any longer, for a plump man in a tux came over to him and said, "Abel, you belong in the kitchen."

Abel tried to get away, but the plump man grabbed his arm, causing him to drop his apple as he was dragged away back into the kitchen with a grunt.

"Look." Her grandmother said as she picked up the necklace on her lap, inserted it into a slot on the side of the music box, and turned it twice. The lid opened and the couple arose as the waltz began to play. Esther gasped as she recognized the tune, "It plays out lullaby!"

"You can play it at night before you go to sleep and pretend that it's me singing." Her grandmother explained. Then her grandmother began to sing the lullaby,

"On the wind,

'Cross the sea,

Hear this song and remember."

The two of them rocked to the song as Esther joined in with her grandmother,

"Soon you'll be home with me

Once upon a December."

It ended and they both chuckled. Her grandmother handed her the necklace and said, "Read what it says."

Esther obeyed and looked at it as she read out loud the capital gold lettering, "Together in Paris." She gasped and asked, "Oh, really?" The she wrapped her arms around her grandmother in a hug. "Oh! Grandmother!" Her grandmother embraced her as she laughed happily.

The once grand ballroom now was dark and sinister as the night grew late and the people had stopped. For an evil, but handsome looking, being, which was only around the age of sixteen with blonde hair and blue eyes and wore a white cloak, walked down the ballroom. People gasped and moved out of his way when they saw his long, sharp fangs that peeped over his lips that smirked evilly as he walked toward the Royal Family.

But we would never be together in Paris. For a dark shadow had descended upon the house of the Blanchett's. His name was Cain. We thought he was a holy man, but he was a fraud—power-mad and dangerous.

Cain made his way up to King Blanchett as King Blanchett said bitterly, "How dare you return to the palace!"

"But I am your confidant!" He protested.

"Confidant?" The king repeated. "Ha! You are a traitor! Get out!" He yelled.

"You think you can punish me? The great Crusnik 01! You foolish Terran! I shall see it that you and your family will die within a fortnight!" He spoke with words tainted with evil.

The guest and along with Esther gasped. Abel had crept behind the former Queen and her granddaughter and was watching the man. His eyes had grown wide when Cain had said: the great Crusnik 01! It seemed he recognized this man and was deeply afraid of him.

"I will not rest until I see the end of the Blanchett line forever!" Cain yelled and raised his hand over his head and pointed his palm at the huge chandelier as a pulse that of a sound wave came out of his hand. It hit the chandelier causing it to fall toward the ground and the guest. However, they quickly ran out of the way right before it hit any of them.

Consumed by his hatred for Nicholas and his family Cain gather a group of Methuselah in order to destroy them. Together they marched to the palace gates and Cain blew the gates down with his sound wave attack. From that moment on the spark of unhappiness in our country of fanned into a flame that would soon destroy our lives forever!

Cain and his followers stormed into the palace courtyard and began to break everything down and slaughtered and drained people from their blood.

Inside the palace, the King and Queen gathered their children and ran down the large hallway to outside in order to escape. "Hurray children!" King Nicolas yelled.

Esther turned around and gasped, "My music box!" She ran back to her room as her grandmother called, "Esther!" Her grandmother followed her and called, "Come back! Come back! We have to leave it here! Esther!"

Esther opened the door to her room and closed it. She ran to her dresser and picked up the small music box. The door opened and Esther looked at her grandmother as her grandmother closed the door again. "Esther!" Then the sound of Cain's attack was heard again and screams filled the air. "Oh!" Her grandmother gasped and she ran to Esther's side. "Please hurray! We must leave now!"

Abel popped his head out of a servant's secret enter in the wall. He ran over to them and said, "Come this way! Out the servant's quarters!" He pushed the to the door and into the entrance. "Hurray! Esther!" He yelled to her.

However, what Esther had came into her room for fell onto the floor. She came back out of the secret entrance and said to Abel, "My music box!"

Quickly he placed a hand on her shoulder and said, "Go! Esther!" He pushed her inside and closed the secret entrance. Voices came from the hallway, "They're in here!" The voice's owners opened the door and said as the looked at the Abel, "Where are they, boy?"

Abel looked at them, his eyes full of rage. "Nanomachine Crusnik 02. Power out at 40 percent acknowledged!" He then transformed. His jawbone length silver hair was like a halo over his head, his once glacier blue eyes, along with the whites of his eyes, now brunt red, and fangs slipped over his blue colored lips. "You will die!" Abel yelled, however, it wasn't his normal voice; it was scratchy and sinister.

Outside the snow fell down harder and faster then before as the former Queen dragged Esther along. "Grandmother! Where are we going?" She asked as she tried to keep up.

All she answered was, "Keep up with me, darling!"

Cain was waiting for them. He stood on top of a bridge and smirked foully. He jumped and landed right behind Esther and her grandmother. He lugged after Esther and grabbed her leg. Esther screamed and the former Queen gasped, "Cain!"

"Let me go please!" Esther screamed and squirmed under his grip.

"You'll never escape me child! Never!" He yelled at her.

"Please! Let me go!" Esther screamed and suddenly there was a flash of lack wings and silver hair in front of her. The being hit Cain and Cain lost his grip on Esther. Esther crawled backwards then ran together with her grandmother.

Cain snarled and transformed to duel with this other being, but when he looked up the being had already flown away into the stormy night sky as a black feather flew now by Cain's hand. He picked it up and crushed it in his fist as he yelled, "ABEL!!!"

A train whistle blew as Esther and her grandmother pushed their way through in the large crowd at the train station. The train had started to leave as her grandmother climbed into the caboose. She turned to Esther, who was running after the train yelling, "Grandmother!"

Her grandmother reached her head out to her and said, "Here! Take my hand!" Esther grabbed her hand she her grandmother instructed, "Hold on to my hand!"

"Don't let go!" She pleaded as she ran after the train with tears in her eyes. However, the train was to fast and their strength left them, causing them to move let go. Esther fell backwards with a scream as her grandmother cried as tried left, "Esther!!"

The train whistle blew again as it left the station. Leaving Esther behind….

So many lives were destroyed that night. What had always been was none gone forever and my Esther, my beloved grandchild, I never saw her again….