Part One: Prologue
14 years ago
Fire engulfed the small room. Drew screamed as she tried to enter. Doc grabbed her by the waist, yelling for her leave the burning house and let him and the firefighters take care of things. As he drags her away, Drew screams once more, "My babies are in there! My babies!"
Red, orange, yellow, sliver, and warmth surrounded him like a blanket of suffocation. He is scared. He can hear his sister next to him crying for mother. Inner warmth lets him breathe as he listens to her cries over his own. Then he saw someone lean over the edge of their crib.
"Ah, Anna and Zak Saturday, the children of my nemesis, I am V.V. Argost. Here you are, together with me, without the protection of your parents, lucky me. They will never know that it was I that started the fire. Now down to what I came for: Which one shall I take? Zak, you are the male heir to the family 'business', but, no offence, I've always wanted at girl. Now, Anna, come to your new papa." With that, the creepy man reached into the safe haven of their crib and took her out.
A cold fist took Zak's little body as time stretched into what seemed like hours. Never had he been away from Anna ever. As a man lifted and carried him from his crib, to his crying mother, and away from the burning house, his first worded thought replayed over and over in his mind: "Anna, I will never forget you."
"Nor I forget you," was the faint reply every time.
6 years later
"Ha-ha Anna, Fisk, you can't get the ball from me!" Zak laughs as he runs kicking the ball way from a giant gorilla-cat and an imaginary friend while his parents watch him. He kept his promise, he thought, though no one believed him. They were going to be together forever. Nothing could separate them and…
"Goodbye, you don't exist anymore. That's what Daddy said." No, don't go. If you do I'll…?
"Zak, honey, are you okay? You stopped playing." Zak realized that he was staring into the place where the sky touched the ground. "Nothing," He replied smiling.
"Okay, go play with Anna and Fisk now."
"Who's Anna?"