Creven’s Perspective – Chapter Two – Part Four

Quickly the man pacing the room stopped and turned as I walked in before laughing and clapping a hand over his mouth, a natural reaction really to having an eleven year old boy walk in.

“Afternoon,” I said as I closed the door behind me and stood face the man with my arms folded, “Ben right?” I asked and the man tucked his hands into his pocket and raised a eyebrow.

“Yes,” he replied before laughing again, “I do apologise but, after what I’ve heard about the Shadows and integration, having a child walk in wasn’t quite what I expected…I’m not exactly the type to think ‘aww cute a child’ and be thrown off guard.” He stated motioning speech marks with his hands.

“Naturally, but Ben, do I look like a normal ‘child’ to you?” I asked copying his actions, to which he frowned slightly. Many people always found the violet of my eyes and hair unusual, but this was a man used to the supernatural, he would suspect even more.

I watched him continue to frown and open his mouth to say something before closing it again. Quietly and softly I walked around him and just kept circling in complete silence for about ten minutes never letting my eyes leave his.

“Okay, stop that.” He said with a shudder before backing into one of the corners. Simply nodding I stopped in the middle of the room and sat down, again my eyes on his, trying as hard as possible not to blink.

A few times he tried to avert his eyes from mine, but always seemed to be drawn back to them, the colour captivating him, his curiosity actually leading him into my snare. Adrix and Blake had certainly been right when they said he was able to protect his mind, but my actions or lack of them were unnerving him, leading the man himself to weaken trying to work out what I was doing, his own paranoia working in my favour.

I just needed one push, something big and surprising to push him over the edge. From reading his notes I guessed that he may not have come across any Kitsune before and I was sure that my changing forms into a fox would be a surprise, and I was right.

“Bloody hell!” The man screeched and jumped further back against the wall holding a hand out in front, “Do not come any closer…” He stated, fear in his voice, the surprise doing exactly what I wanted, the few unguarded seconds where I could access his mind the information right there in front of me, the thing which had been on his mind the most and until now protected from everyone. “What are you?” He asked as I turned back his breath still short.

“A violet Shadow.” I answered before turning around and heading towards the door which I opened and started to step through before turning back quickly, “Butley Priory right?” I asked with a quick wink watching the man shake his head and begin to start pleading before I stepped fully through and shut the door behind me.

“Nice work.” Adrix remarked clapping me on the back before motioning towards the door back into the corridor but before leaving a quickly glanced over my shoulder looking through the window. The man was on his knees at the door, hands banging on it, shaking his head furiously repeating over and over again ‘Please no, just leave them, they haven’t done anything, please don’t hurt them.’

“Adrix what will you do now, when you send people to Butley Priory?” I asked looking up at him but it was Blake who answered instead.

“Not answer that question until you are old enough to handle the answer.” He said bluntly exchanging a look with Adrix before we all walked back down the corridor, Adrix keeping one proud hand on my shoulder.

A small smirk began to spread across my face, my first mission as a Shadow had been a great success and Adrix was proud of me, I couldn’t be happier and the buzz which it made me feel was like something I’d never felt before – I could read people, manipulate people, I had power.

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Creven’s Perspective – Chapter Two – Part Three

“Adrix where are we going?” I asked taking a sideways glance up at him as we continued to walk towards the detention blocks. I knew the general direction in which we were heading but was curious as to which block we would be entering, each named after a letter of the Greek alphabet depending on how secure they were, or rather, how dangerous the prisoners or subjects as they were called were.

“Only to Alpha block Creven, I want to start you off gently after all, couldn’t imagine that Corbin would be too happy if he knew I threw you in with Zeta block.” Adrix answered my question with a slight chuckle and I sighed.

“Right now I doubt he’s even noticed I’ve left the party.” I added and Blake gave me a sorry look.

“It’s not going to be that bad Creven,” He started to try to explain before taking a small pause of which I was able to fill.

“Not until its been a few months, they start redecorating, doing everything as a couple, have children who will then take more priority than me…” I said looking slightly down at my feet before smiling up at Blake. “Can I move in with you?” I asked quickly to which both of them laughed.

“Creven, I know Lena and Corbin very well now, it will all work out well. You have no need to worry.” Adrix answered as we reached the main doors to Alpha block.

Blake swiped his access card through the slot and the doors slid open before we all passed through into the main entrance beyond. A simple open space with a desk directly in front and two corridors down either side. Adrix waved to the guard on reception before heading down the right corridor.

“Now Creven listen closely,” Adrix started as we walked further down, “This is one of our standard detention blocks, small reception, then cells down the sides here, only about ten in this block, small as they are generally only needed for a small amount of time.” He continued to explain before stopping outside a cell door.

“Okay, so what do you want me to do then?” I asked just wanting to get straight to the point, straight to the interesting part.

“Steady Creven, you’ll need a bit of background information first.” Blake started and I turned to face him folding my arms looking attentive. “The case you are about to face is a forty year old man, who has been able to block his mind from us, he is human but has supernatural friends.” He added and I nodded.

“We need information, location information on where his, shall we say ‘friends’ are currently in hiding,” Adrix took over picking up a clipboard from a hook on the door and handing it to me, the man’s name, age, photograph and full details printed on a piece of paper which I read quickly.

“So you want me to break through his mind and find out the information? The location where these people are hiding?” I asked and both Adrix and Blake nodded.

“Exactly that Creven,” Adrix said opening the door which first led into a small room, just big enough for a couple of people to sit down and look through a one way window into the main cell. Nodding I walked over to the window and peered through, the man dressed simply was pacing up and down around the room a slight nervous look on his face.

“Simple!” I remarked with confidence in my voice before looking up at Adrix who was beaming down at me, one hand on the handle to the next door.

“You’d be surprised, be careful and good luck, Adrix and I will be right out here.” Blake said quickly placing a hand on my shoulder before I nodded and stood to face the door, standing taller and straighter as Adrix opened the door and I stepped through.

 

(as always thank you for reading and keep your eyes open for more! – Cx)

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Creven’s Perspective – Updates

Good Evening All!

If you follow ‘Creven’s Perspective’ then very soon I will be grouping parts One to Five together to create Chapter One. This will then be very shortly followed by the beginning of Chapter Two! As mentioned at the end of Part Five there will be a bit of a time jump, with Chapter Two starting when Creven is eleven years old – I have got some great ideas in store and will hopefully get them all up as soon as possible!

I will also be editing Parts One-Five and working on a bit of editing to help improve them!

As ever thank you for reading!

Cx

Creven’s Perspective – Part Five

Adrix looked down at me with a slightly perplexed face, something which I hadn’t seen before. Folding his arms he sat back down in his chair as I carefully sat up, feeling still slightly wobbly on my own four paws, no chance of being able to control my transiting back into being human.

“Well Creven, you do know how to give everyone a bit of a scare don’t you…” Adrix commented his eyes fully fixed on me as I slowly nodded my head and after that he tried to explain what had happened, starting with my Father’s hand, how he was okay, but would probably have a scar from where I struck out at him.

Adrix then tried to explain what he thought the dream may have been about, I didn’t know how he knew exactly what I’d seen at the time but it didn’t actually bother me. It was nice to have someone trying to make sense about it all, especially when they said that it probably was ‘just a dream’ and ‘nothing to worry about.’ Whether or not that was true I would just have to wait to found out.

From then on life returned to normal, I switched between human and fox every few days until I finally learnt how to control my ability and was able to change at will. I worked with Adrix basically everyday expect for the holidays, and my training as his own student became more like school to me, of course with a little extra added work from the normal teachers within the Shadows compound.

As for my father, his hand did heal, and even today you can still see scars. Corbin was gaining more and more promotions within the Shadows, becoming one of the specialists in the espionage training centre, he was also becoming highly sociable, meeting up with people every other night and of course he had his weekly ‘date’ nights with Lena.

Life at the Shadows remained constant and not really that interesting for many years, it was only when I was about eleven did Adrix first come to me while I was at home with my father and ask a special request. A request which changed my life and me.

(Thank you for reading – keep your eyes open for a separate post for some new information on ‘Creven’s Perspective’ – Cx)

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Creven’s Perspective – Part Four

“Creven, Son? Is everything okay?” I heard my Father’s voice ask, the concern in his face definitely coming through into his voice too. Slowly I nodded my human head and gently leant into Lena’s hand as she pressed it against my forehead.

“He feels really warm Corbin.” Lena remarked removing her hand and taking a step backwards, “He was fine a couple of hours ago, perfectly fine.” She continued and inside I had to agree. Ignoring their conversation I replayed my dream experience over in my mind. I could, and still can, remember all of it, the colours, smells, sounds. On hearing my memories version of the screaming I shuddered suddenly, different emotions flowing so quickly and with such force.

It was only on Lena and my Father’s reaction that I realised I’d somehow changed back into my fox form, their startled expressions and the slight increase in distance from which they had been standing. But that wasn’t my main focus of attention, I needed to get rid of the dream, to think about something else, anything else.

For the first time I started to panic, really panic. None of it made any sense, it was genuinely scaring me. Without realising I had fully dropped my guard down on my telepathic abilities, I had the dream and my Father’s and Lena’s thoughts and conversation all jumping around in my mind, out of order, at different volumes.

A flash of red and the intense smell of blood came back to me and I quickly darted off the bed, jumping to the floor and tried to find the nearest thing I could to hide under. With the yells of my name from two different voices I shuffled as far back as I could underneath the bedroom wardrobe, trying to get to the far back, away from the noise and light.

“Creven, please come back out, what’s wrong, show me what’s wrong if you can!” Corbin exclaimed while getting down on his hands and knees to try to peer under the wardrobe to see if he could actually see me, but my black fur was working well in camouflage. “I know he’s under there but I can’t see him.” I heard him turn and tell Lena.

“Maybe it’s best to just leave him be for a little while, something’s spooked him, it’s an animal instinct to hide from it, which is what he’s doing.” Lena tried to reason with my Father, and she was actually correct, it’s just a shame Corbin couldn’t see that to begin with.

“He’s still my Son Lena, animal instincts or not and I want to know, I may be able to help!” Corbin snapped back at her.

“Corbin I know that, but right now he’s acting more fox than your Son, I doubt you’ve ever seen him like this before.” Lena replied before walking over to the edge of the bed to lean against it.

Corbin sighed slightly before reaching a hand out towards me. In the slight darkness and my own confusion I hadn’t seen his hand and jumped when I felt something touch me, my reactions acting quicker than my brain, the feel of something soft and warm breaking under my claws, then the smell of blood hit me again as the hand was pulled back with a yelp of pain from my father.

It was less than a second before I’d realised what I’d done, struck out towards my Father’s hand with my claws fully extended and dug them in, ripping away at the flesh on the top of his hand. I’d never hurt him before, I’d never hurt anyone before. The world around me suddenly began to feel like it was spinning, the light at the bottom of the wardrobe was getting fainter and further away.

Slowly I managed to make my way back towards the front of the wardrobe and out into the light of the room, with a quick glance around I couldn’t see anyone, but could hear Lena talking animatedly in the bathroom. I tried to make my way over to the door, my limbs feeling sluggish, unresponsive and unstable. Then there was my right paw, sticking to the carpet leaving a red paw print behind as I walked.

I don’t remember much more of that day, I managed to get to the bathroom, saw Lena holding a red stained bundle of tissues against my Father’s hand and the look of surprise and pain that was still in his eyes. At that point the whole world felt like it made a gigantic lurch sideways, I felt nothing, then I woke up in Adrix’s office.

 

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