Demon Heart: Chapter One: The Tale of Orpheus

sorry this is so short, but it's only about Orpheus's early life. I hope you enjoy :)

One day after 9 months, the swelling by the stomach was going away, but so was the young woman's life, after giving birth to her son, she attached the carved wood necklace with his name on it "Orpheus" around his neck then she slipped away...

The Baby Orpheus was no ordinary infant, for I will tell you his tragic way of coming in to the world. The Demon "Nukpana" had grasped hold of the beauty "Mala" sadly for Mala she was raped by Nukpana, and was left holding his child, Mala could not stand the gossip about her in her town of "Hunnuk", so she left.

 

After Leaving Hunnuk, Mala then went to the Capital "Magnville" Mala was living in poverty, in the slums of Magnville, with two mouths to feed. So she ended up working two jobs, but a month before she was going to give birth a psychic told her that her baby son would be a  demon, like his father, and that because it would be so hard to give birth to him she would die straight after. Mala, releasing that she would die and had no-one to care for her son, began to panic, so that she worried so much over the next month that she only just noticed that her waters had broke!

 

Mala had just enough energy to walk to the orphanage, she gave birth on their door steps, cut the umbicle cord, and tied the necklace around his neck. The baby was beautiful...except for the right side of his body, from his shoulder it had a mass of black vines coming out of a moon, it looked like a tattoo, the vines had reached to the bottom of his leg, to his fingertips, and to the side of his face. Mala thought "my poor son, who would grow to love a demon?", little did she know...

 

When Orpheus was seven, due to extreme bullying, he left the orphanage and became what was known as a "street rat" and all he knew was how to pick-pocket and basic writing and maths. Luckly though Orpheus's demon skills assissed him in survival he used his speed, cunning and stamina, to steal food. But he started to feel embarressed about his looks, he grew a long fringe across his face, and wore a black clothes which covered his neck all the way down to his legs, and he wore gloves as well, so his ahem "birthmark" could not be seen...forever...