Short Story (Cerpen)

Little Suzanne

Category: Fiction Fantasy Short stories

Title: Little Suzanne

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Suzanne is my brother. It is different from the others. I don't know why he's so special. Me? You can call me Grance. I had to keep protecting her, my parents said. At first I didn't understand why they said it without giving a definite reason, leaving only a question mark. But now I understand that after they are gone, and I will continue with their final request. Suzanne's Guard.

It used to be easy to do it because my sister and I were little. We were living in St.'s church. Ursula's. We're orphans, that's where our last shelter is. But now he's grown up. He kept pushing me with questions I couldn't explain until the time came. But he never wanted to understand. He'll be mad if I don't budge. And that's what I'm so afraid of. It will be a very scary figure. A person who did not want to happen and was avoided by my parents.

“Already Brother. I just want to be free like the other kids. Is that wrong? Is my request too excessive, huh?!” his yell.

“You don't understand, Sue. You are different.” I am clear.

“What's different, Brother? I don't understand because Brother never gave me a reason!”

“Not yet.”

“When?!”

I can only be quiet. He was angry too. Now it's different than usual. It shows strange symptoms. Tails began to appear one by one behind his body. His ears continued to grow. Her smooth white skin now turned a smoldering red color. His eyes blackened and grew. His teeth as well as all his fingernails and hands were elongated. His mouth continued to give off an unpleasant aroma. His body continued to grow up to 50 times so as to destroy whatever was around him.

All over his body emitted embers of fire that continued to flare. He looked at me sharply. As if to pounce on me. I'm appalled. Is this what my parents were worried about? So creepy.

I took out the last thing my parents gave me before they closed their eyes. It turned out to be a weapon. I'm shocked. “This is Voch. This weapon is a tool of defense as well as resistance if the time has come” so said by my parents. The weapon was like a samurai, fluorescent blue in color and always shrouded in a thin mist.

He attacked me with his claws. I fell 4 meters. I haven't stood back yet, but Suzanne has stepped forward towards me. He kicked me until I got blown away among the bushes. He came back closer. Suddenly he lifted my body with the grip of his hand. I was right in front of his face. As he prepared to put fire out of his mouth into my face I parried it with my Voch so that it turned around on his face. It's raking in pain. I slipped out of his grasp.

For a while I hid behind the trees while recovering my strength and injuries from the fierce battle earlier. He soon found me. Shouting calling my name. Her voice boomed. I'm still hiding. He was angry because he could not find me. He vented his anger by destroying everything around him.

Fortunately, we were in a forest far enough away from our church that there were no casualties. I attacked him suddenly from behind. His body is badly injured. He turned around looking for the direction of the figure attacking him. Now it's in front of me. He looked at me sharply. Before long he attacked me with a big blow to his hand. I went back to fending it off with Voch. The fight went on non-stop.

I'm hurt bad. At that time Suzanne directly attacked me who was no longer able to rise. It will soon tear my body apart. I don't know what's on my mind so I direct Voch to his chest. But my attack missed. Voch just hit his hand. He's getting angry. I knew from his eyes he would kill me.

He took the fallen Voch from my hand. Then he picked up the Voch and attacked me with my own weapon. He threw Voch at me. Voch stuck it right in my heart. He laughed happily to see me dying. I tried to say my last words to her.

“See. This is what I'm so worried about. You will turn into a terrible figure who will destroy the people around you as well as yourself and you do not know it.”

Slowly he began to wake up from all his anger. The eyes that were originally sharp like an eagle were now turning softly. His body slowly returned to its original form. The flame that had always enveloped his body had now disappeared. It has changed to its former form, man. Me? My condition is getting worse. I can't move my limbs anymore. The mood was quiet. It all went dark. Only the cold I felt. Blood kept coming out from the wounds of the fight earlier.

“I'm sorry, Brother. Oh myGod. What have I done?” Suzanne was sobbing.

“Su-suzanne's chat. Stay alive de-for the sake of brother and o-parents ki-i-ta. We'll always take care of you even though it's no longer on-side you.”

Slowly the world is getting colder. Slender. I can't hold on anymore. Only the cries of Suzanne I heard slowly began to disappear with silence. I hope God will take care of Suzanne. Protecting him so that he grows into someone who understands the meaning of life and will not be a scary creature for everyone, but can protect them as well as himself.