Trigger warnings: Parental abuse, both physical and sexual.

Aurora & Ikuto
ACT ONE: Enter the Muse
Chapter 1.18 – Enter another Life

The man was a monster.

Aurora knew her father was a monster, but not how much of a monster he really was. She arrived down stairs in her school uniform. She didn't look her father in the eye, eating the space breakfast he'd ordered for her to eat. She got up, only for her father to wiggle his finger for her to come over. Aurora stepped over to her father, noticing he was angry, and it felt like she had done something wrong. At his side, he pushed a hand into the middle of her back, pushing her down so her stomach was across his legs.

She didn't protest. Father did whatever he so pleased when it came to punishing her, and she had obviously done something to upset him. She felt his rough hand pull up her skirt, exposing her panties to him. The man proceeded to pull her panties down so that her bottom was exposed to the air, and she felt air rush between her legs, causing a blush to spread across her cheeks. The man's hand raised up high, and then came down hard on the most tender spot. He kept spanking her until she admitted she had sinned by wearing a school uniform, going to school without permission, and not finding out he had dis enrolled her, and even going so far as to wish to actually have a life.

He then took her up to her room, watched her strip and get dressed into an outfit which was very fancy, with partial see through spots all over the place, and he took her to the opera which was playing. Her eyes sparkled, and she thought of Ikuto, and how much she wanted to be with him. When the got home, she found herself lectured, the man asking her if she thought about any guy, and he made her feel dirty for thinking of Ikuto. She went up to shower, and everything went to pot when the man climbed into the shower with her.

And he took everything.

Aurora felt her dreams falling apart. Her father kept whispering into her ear from behind her in the shadow how much she looked like her mother, and then began to call her by her mothers name. Nothing about his movements were gentle, but instead forceful, telling her this was her punishment for thinking of another man then himself. After raping in the shower for what seemed like a long time, he proceeded to rape her in her own bed, leaving her a crying mess, wishing she could just cover herself up. He left her there, telling her she would be punished again if she tried being with that person, her Ikuto.

"Why? Father's aren't supposed to do things like this? Why is he so evil? Why does he have to crush my dreams." Aurora drifted in and out of sleep, having a ton of nightmares.

The first dream, she dreamed she was being presented to her father's business partners as his pregnant wife, and how they had a beautiful child on the way. She was dressed in a beautiful dress much like the one she wore tonight, and in another she dreamed she was in a dungeon. Painful bands of iron were around her small limbs, and her belly was swollen with child. She was giving birth, and her father was telling her to hurry up so they could go to the next chance to have an heir. Hot tears streamed down her cheek, and she woke up.

"Someone please rescue me." Aurora felt the tears fly down her cheeks, and her small Chara flew out the window, almost noticing what was wrong, and trying to do something to rectify the situation. However, she finally decided she simply needed to leave, and began to tie the bed sheets so she could escape through the window. She started out, only to find her father grabbing her, having come back to enjoy her again, though he said it would be more punishment.

He stripped her nightgown off of her, tearing it to shreds, moving to fuck his own daughter again, when a voice came from the doorway. "Back off from Aurora."

Aurora's eyes blinked a couple of times, her entire body wracked with pain. Her father pulled out a knife, and she felt him cut her wrists, telling the person – Ikuto – nobody could have her other then himself. Ikuto lunged forwad, twisting the knife into her fathers gullet, only to have the man pull it out, and slice open Ikuto's throat, collapsing to the ground dead. Ikuto fell to the bed, his hand reaching out for Aurora's pained one, tears streaming down her face. "Why? This life, it was going so well until father intervened."

She found herself bathed in a glowing light, knowing full well she had died. Aurora opened her eyes, and saw her Chara in front of her. But instead of being dressed in baby clothing, her Chara was now in fancy dress. "Aurora..."

"Hey..."

"My ability, my real self has awakened. Do you want a second chance?"

"That would be nice. That would be really nice."

"Then give me a wish, something that will change in the new world."

"I wish my father was not a part of my life, that he was never, ever able to touch me."

"Wishing him out of existence will have consequences Aurora. He gets a wish as well."

Tears streamed down Aurora's face. "I'll take the consequences. I need him gone."

Her father appeared in front of her, his face full of anger. "How dare you! How dare you wish me out of existence!"

"She can't completely wish you out of existence. Your existence however stops before she is born, and she will be raised as an orphan instead. Be glad we don't give her a new parent."

"Then I curse her. My wish is that because she wished me away, that someone new will appear in her life, one which will torment her. I don't know how, but they will! They will torture her, until her new life begins! If she even gets a second chance at this one!"

Author's note – This is the ending that was always planned for Act One from the beginning. I got really stuck on this last part, and originally this was broken up into her father abusing her and not letting her to go to school, her father taking her to the opera, her father raping her, and the death, and then the second life scenario, but I struggled to write the abuse part, and decided to keep things brief.

In other words Aurora was not able to escape from her father during this life time, but the end result is her having to deal with a new trouble. This new trouble is Amu showing up, but acting exactly like her persona specifies – rather then it being a mask for her real personality, and making Aurora's life miserable. There is a lot more planned, as there are multiple lives planned, at least three, this having been the first, and up to nine to represent the Greek muses, but I'll be lucky if I can get past the second, what with how long it took me to write the first one, and the latter ones, my friend Aurora and I never really planned them, and she's kind of forgotten about this piece.

She's more interested in the "new" story I promised her, but oh well. By that I don't mean the second in this series. It means though I am free to break the story up into arcs based around each life, and each in a different story. That means though I'm left to come up with six more lives though, and figuring out an end for the third one. Wish me luck! Let me know what you think as well. Much appreciated. :)