In Love With The Haunted Acapel

The Call

Very early the next day, the birds would chirp out the weirdest loud noise would come out of them. Everyone one had thought they sung hymns like the old stories exaggerated. As for Venus, he could but hear verses of disaster from the birds, waking him to the bright day of the late May.

He only thought of Rein next. Rein, a friend he made at Scarlene before they left down to Heinsen. He boasted to her to be an Acapel seeing she so much loved Acapels.

" Can you make me float?" Rein would ask him. Venus could do nothing as such.

" Um...um..um.." He clearly did fumble, lost to his thoughts of the best way out of it.

"....you know, Acapels don't lift people." He feigned a laugh in confusion, slapping her lap.

Now Rein was almost losing her petit belief that he was an Acapel. She took off his hands from her laugh in annoyance, sitting up with her arms folded.

He would always try compel Rainer to help him use his power, but Rainer couldn't. Rein finally disbelieved him since he couldn't prove that he was an Acapel. She thought of setting him up with guys in a fight to see if he'd reveal himself while in danger. But Venus already gave up even before the guys could saunter an inch to him.

" Deep s**t!" Rein snapped, signaling the guys to leave him.

The new building they had moved in to was in a total mess. Rainer had already begun sweeping off the cobwebs on the ceiling and the edges of the walls.

Venus had sat up with a long yawn almost falling to the dirty window while he stretched.

" Are you okay honey?" Rainer's voice resounded, following the rushed crashing sound.

" Yeah I'm okay... " He pensively responded, with an incongruous stare at the window, as though he saw a blue genie.

The paint of dust that be could see on the two pages of the windows reminded him of what be had seen last night. He quickly picked up his jacket and walked out of the house, slowly pacing to the strange shabby and small building next to theirs. There were little flowers with a short fencing sticks, demarcating the boundary between the two buildings.

As he walked, the dried leaves that had former a carpet made a cracking sound. He tried to be quiet though, but the fat leaves were way dried up by the cunning scorching sun of the Late May. On reaching the cracked wooden windows that had their frames chopped off by hungry insects. He tried so much to listen, but could hear nothing. Not even the chirp of insects nor a cry of a mouse.

" Hello?"" He called, leaving his mouth open as though muttering 'o'.

Venus summoned a little more courage, tinting around the thick wooden door knob, slowly pushing the on while it made a tearing sound.

" Is anyone here?" He spoke up again, quietly walking in. Venus looked around the room.

There were wigs hung on the wall with paints on the wall. He looked closely to see a piece of mirror glued to the wall. Attached to the mirror were different and several pictures of a young man. He looked comely and reserved. Facing away, he could see butts of cigarette on the floor, with empty drug cards.

Venus was beginning to think a lot about what he saw. He just couldn't arrive at a given thought but could hear a disant call by Rainer and so had to leave.

" How about letting me know about any stupid inch you make until you can at least yell like an Acapel?" Rainer scolded.

" Mum!" Venus cried out in a tender vexation, walking away to one of the rooms that had looked pretty neat after Rainer had the building cleaned up.

He fell on his single bed in great vexation. His nerves were greatly on edge, causing his muscles to shake in great wrath. When he closed his eyes, he felt he had his prey undey his arm and with his great strength could squeeze out the last unit of life in it as the room he was in became extremely hot.

Rainer felt the great energy surging within the whole building and rushed to Venus' room, standing by door, surprisingly staring at the furious Venus who laid on his bed.

" The gods of the Balgon.... " She pensively trailed off, worshipping before Venus.

Soon the surging energy died down as Venus sat up in a haste, he had a wheezy breath. At that time, Rainer was still worshiping the glory from the energy of the gods of Balgon which she had felt in the room.

" Mum?" He slowly called to Rainer who calmly stood aright, with a paused gaze at Venus.

" You...are the true son of Vuspkar! I saw and felt his so much energy... You did it Ven...." She spoke up finally, dipping Venus in great confusion. He felt nothing at all and had to wonder the reason for his wheezy breath.

" Was it a nightmare?" He said in a whispering tone as Rainer cut in.

" No, it's not. It's a call." She told him, slowly sitting with him on the bed.

" I saw a monster.... He was huge..." The terrified Venus tried explaining before Rainer cut in.

".....flaming eye balls..."

"...body full of burning veins..." He added.

"....bared fierce teeth in a wild snarl...just like I do."

" And great muscles..so much great muscles... " Venus trailed off thoughtfully, looking away in pensiveness.

" An Acapel, an Almoner. That was you, that is who you are, Ven.

Venus at this time was beginning to have so much attempts in evening his wheezy breath in fright. He had thought that Rainer would have said somethings about his nightmare that would have at least made him feel much better, but all the more, he was shoved to the inevitable reality.

Couple of times he had seen his mother transform into an Acapel, but what he saw was a lot more worth frightening. 'Was that all it was about, being a son of the gods?' He asked himself.

" What was the call and who is calling me?" He spoke with so much fear in his voice.