Dawn Of Twilight

Authors Note:

[I noticed that many of my readers are confused about what caused the issue of him being called a demon child. Well if you are one, you might as well read this. Thanks]

[Note: Thanks for reading]

Suddenly, some kind of compressed force pushed me outward from the cramped wet space I was in, and the light pillar which endowed me.

It seemed to be a slow, and yet painful process, which brought pressure on my whole body.

Sometime later, the world of darkness clouded my eyes due to the light pillar slowly toned down, though not to the point of sight clarity.

Strangely, I could hear voices speaking in an unknown language that soon became a bit familiar to me.

'Am I blind?', I thought to myself as my eyes couldn't make out a thing except for complete darkness. Where are the babies? Almost panicking while in my thought, I became flustered at what was touching my body, a hand that seems a bit rough yet slightly fat, lightly touched my ċhėst.

The weirdest thing was that the hand seemed to cover my entire body, and I was sure, it wasn't those wings being.

'What the heck happened?'

My line of thought was made short, as the fat hand turned me around to the side. As it lightly rubs my buŧŧ! For crying out loud, I felt irritated. As if that wasn't enough it slapped my buŧŧ that I felt it jiggle.

But for some reason, I felt pained from both the light slap and my heart. Cus that was the first time I had such a weird experience and feeling.

'What heck do you thinking you are doing?'

Hearing the shriek, the faces of everyone in the room were a bit perplexed.

"I think, he is alive. And it a ba..by boy!" The midwife said with a low gasped, before proceeding to rub the baby back as she gently held him in her other hand.

"Xinlloc Zniarb Charmon."

Immediately after, pronouncing those words, like an incantation. The entire room soon became quieter as everyone stared at the baby's back anxiously.

However, slowly on the baby's back depicted a rough golden outline of a little snake biting its tail.

After seeing this, she furthered furrowed her brows. Followed by the low gasps and murmurs behind her, everyone began taking a peek at the baby in her arms, as their faces showed various expressions.

But none looked pleased some even seem to be afraid, as they instinctively shifted from the baby as they all stared at the baby weirdly, akin to looking at an alien or a monster.

.....

Meanwhile, the baby lied limp in the arms of the fat person, though his eyes couldn't see a thing. It still swiftly adverted from left to right instinctively, trying to make the best of how bad his current situation might have become.

She seemed like out of a masterpiece painting with dark skin, which complemented her beauty, if it wasn't for her disheveled hair, the blue lines under her eyes, and sweat beads covering her exquisite oval carve face, her beauty would have been made more obvious.

Everything within her periphery, including the bed sheets, was stained with a mixture of yellow urine and blood. Which made her, needed an urgent warm bath.

While his eyes were void of light, the room had become pale and quiet. The Old midwife had carefully finished cleaning his body and had wrapped him up in clean clothes.

*****

Previously ( before the delivery).

"What's wrong with the baby? I thought it was meant to be a girl?"

The old Nana had a worried and gloomy expression at the same time, earlier she had told Christy it was going to be a girl seeing a baby boy was a strange occurrence. How would she explain herself to christy?

She knew Christy from her childhood and had delivered all her babies. Nana could not deny that this delivery had been strange.

The labor had been the weirdest one she had ever seen, cause it lasted for hours she had been forced to stop multiple times to avoid over bleeding. When she could finally see the baby's head sprout abruptly, she knew something must have gone wrong.

After severing it, Nana had immediately followed the old rules of every male born child "The spell of a demon", after her incantation the situation went from bad to worse, but she still explained to Christy it was a baby demon boy, not a girl. For a few minutes, Christy had remained silent after her delivery of the baby and sudden news.

Nana could not help but heave a sad sigh, as she left Christy to handle her emotion.

While still caught in her inner conflict, she had nonetheless still handed the mother her child. As the midwife observes to witness a miracle.

Strangely, he felt a soft and tender touch of a woman as she brought him closer to her ċhėst region. She began to slowly embrace his little body into her arms, resonating loving words to him, that warmed his heart.

"Oh my little prince, Mommy loves you so much. I'm never going to stop loving you. Your mommy is gonna stay with you for life, and never..ever am I gonna leave your side"

The woman's voice sounded exhausted, as she quietly mumbles these words to his ear, and as she closed her eyes. And began to slowly rocked him back and forth in her warm embrace.

....

Surprised! The declaration from this woman which I guessed should be my mother, melted my heart to no end. 

Has I giggled like a little girl with buŧŧerfly's swarming within my stomach, but to the outsider, it was all weird and they couldn't blame the mother for her misfortune, but the child was another case a demon child. 

Children were considered a blessing but now they couldn't say for some male born, because it was more or less considered a curse to birth a demon child.

Nana was startled and amazed, for most mothers would immediately reject their child, exaggerating their sorrow and wail till they were exhausted of any strength.

Their husbands would pursue them, outside if the baby was their first child after marriage. And they would be ostracized by their fellow women, even their friends would flee from them, afraid of giving birth to a demon child by being in contact with them. But what was strange and even more difficult, to imagine was loving a cursed demon child.

Suddenly, another man entered the bedroom bringing with him two little girls, who race towards the mother.

Seeing the little girls and the man she expressed a warm charm of a smile, as she unwrapped the newborn revealing his head for them to see while pressing him forward gently.

The girls had black eyes full of excitement. Strands of silky shaded black hairs tied in a ponytail, delicate tan oily forehead, lending a delicate charm to it. 

Their beautiful small nose was slightly raised upward, below it was cute little pink lips which reveal their canines as they smiled in anticipation.

There were dimples, carve under their chin bone, all in all, their bundle of delicate features could be said to be photogenic of their mother's.

The man appeared to be in his middle-aged, was not too tall(6ft), nor was he robust and muscular. A bit rough looking and a handsome face, which wore a slight joyful smile hung on it, and a broth red eyes in total.

"Mummy, is this our baby? And are....they going to take him awake like big brother?"

Christy ċȧrėssed the girls' cheeks in response to their question," Shush honey, Mummy and daddy will protect him"

....

A tough hand which later I discovered was a man hands carefully adjusted my clothes revealing, puffy black eyes and with a bit winkled cone-head. Now they have a new rank added as a member of their family.

*****

Tobi's first day as a baby was peaceful but wonderful and anticipating the family, the family had to skip most of their duties. To savor the moment of newborn first cuddles, first feedings which tasted like bland milk without a sugar syrup and ended up with barf.

And first skin-to-skin snuggle, which he felt was a little irritating as they took turns in the family bonding.

Tobi was dubbed as his new name, and life was far from over, as he had the formalities of a baby to fulfill like eat, sleep, poop, relieving his bladder, barf, and the occasional baby noise or finger grabbing routine.

*****

"Oh goodness me, this is even worse than we thought!

"Do you think this time they would come? Would they take him away like his big brother? Tell me, Christopher? Would they take my child from me?

"Christy calms down, we don't know for sure maybe we could hide him? Or send him far away before they would reach for him.

"Okay, at least we should let him grow at least four to five years before we think of doing anything?"Christopher [Note: Tobi's father] said afraid of making his wife sad, he knew their situation and how difficult it was as it was going to be one filled with ridicule.

"Okay, in five years we would try to run as far away as possible, I don't think they would care about just one child right?

"Well let hope for the best outcome," Christopher said with his hand tightly locked into Christy's hand.