Familiar: Eye of The Jabberwocky
Chapter 2: DNA
The shower was warm, warmer than usual. Ever since Leo had gotten better he was able to do things he never could, like turning the shower water past the middle mark. His illness had kept his body from turning the water too hot, they feared it would cause a bloody nose. Now Leo loved his long hot showers, and the way his body relaxed underneath the water. Leo was depressed when he climbed out, but he dried off and put on his clean robes.
When he opened the door leading to his room he was dressed, and alone. When Leo went into the bathroom the doctor was in the room. All that was left was a file he'd left on Leo's bed, so Leo decided to snoop. He picked up the file and opened it. He was confused because it was his file, so he read it thinking he had the right. It was in the doctors hand writing, a description of Leo and his illness. At first it was all old information until Leo reached the section of his treatment. He read it and read it over, shock taking over his body. The files fell to the ground, but Leo stood there in shock.
"Liar." Leo muttered, a tear falling out of his eye. The door knob jiggled and the door was pushed open. The doctor and nurse were the first to enter the room, followed by Lacie, Oswald, Levi, and Jack. Eyes fell on Leo and the file on the ground and Leo panicked. "I went to pick up the sheets and it fell, I'll get it picked up."
"No I'll get it, why don't you go with Mr. Baskerville. You need to sign a few papers and your cleared to go home with you family. I don't know how that man did it, but you are completely healthy.
"I told you." Leo muttered.
"Leo you're all better, that's amazing." Lacie smiled and ran over to Leo, scooping him into her arms.
"This means you can go to the circus tonight."
"He's already been there, ran out this morning." The doctor muttered.
"Have you made friends Leo?" Jack asked next to Leo.
"Yes, they're all really nice." Leo smiled.
"Oswald get over here with those papers so we can get them signed and then go shopping for clothing." Lacie got excited, she even jumped up and down with Leo.
"Here you go." Oswald muttered and held out the file.
"Alright, this will only take a few minutes." Leo said and sat down at the desk in his room Lacie sat next to him and pointed to where he had to sign. After at least twelve signatures Leo finished and handed the files back to Oswald.
"Alright let's go, you need a change of clothing. Your going to look so cute when I'm done with you."
"Should I be happy or scared?" Leo joked. He walked over and happily joined the family.
Hours later and Leo returned to the circus with his new family and the doctor and nurse. There was a group of circus performers heading for the tent while Leo waited in line. "Hey Oswald, can I go talk with them?"
The man didn't answer Leo. Lacie chuckled and leaned over to Leo. "Call him papa or father, that's what he wants."
"Uh, ok. Dad can I go talk with my friends." This time Oswald turned and nodded. Leo smiled at him and waved before he ran off to the circus performers.
In the group he saw the cat man, Sharon, Elliot, Oz, Zwei, Xerxes, and Raven. When they saw him run over they smiled. "Hey guys."
"Hey Leo." Oz said wrapping an arm around Leo's shoulders. "How are you buddy?"
"I'm fine, how are you?"
"I'm pumped, today's the finals of the week. It's where we all make new tricks and have a month to perfect them."
"That sounds like fun. I was thinking of sitting in the stands till Mr. Xerxes points me out."
"Nope, you'll wait backstage. Then we will present you, maybe I'll have you jump through a hoop." Xerxes joked earning a slap on the head by Sharon.
"He not an animal, ok."
"Yes my lady." Xerxes said rubbing his head. "Just sit here and wait your turn ok?"
"Alright, but what do I do when I get on stage?"
"Just enjoy yourself." Oz said, his ears flopping around.
"So when do I go on then?"
"You're the first act." Xerxes said and grabbed Leo's hand. He pulled the boy to the stage, everyone smirking at him. Leo let out a gasp as he was pulled into darkness. The lights came on and Leo was faced with a crowd staring at him. Xerxes had dragged him out onto stage during the opening. Leo blushed behind his bangs and shook in his boots.
"Aw Mr. Leo, welcome back say hello to the crowd." Yura said, smiling at the boy.
"Why did you drag me into the opening ceremony?" Leo whispered to Xerxes.
"First acts are always in the opening ceremony."
"This is embarrassing."
"Leo is up and moving for once in his life. He even ran ten blocks this morning to thank me for my magic. Isn't that right?" Xerxes smiled at Leo.
"Eh, it's true. I can run, I can stand without getting lightheaded. My doctor said I have perfect health, yesterday I was on death road." Leo said, hiding behind Xerxes.
"Would you like to demonstrate how better you are?" He asked.
"Uh, I guess. What do you want me to do?"
"Stay calm." The next thing Leo remember was being lifted up by the ticket collector and thrown to the sky.
"Eh!" Leo let out in shock as he looked down. Yura, Xerxes, and Liam looked pleased. Something grabbed Leo's hands and he looked up to see Oz's smiled. Leo let out a sigh of relief, then Oz winked at him. Leo realized what was going to happen when he noticed the bar Oz had behind his knees, and noticed it swinging. "Don't do it." Leo whispered, but Oz just chuckled and threw Leo to the next person, who was Raven. The only thing that upset Leo was that Raven had a blindfold on. It wasn't a second later that Leo was thrown to the next person, who happened to be Elliot. This time Elliot was standing up on the bar and he forced Leo to stand when he caught the boy. Leo clung to Elliot in fear and looked around to make sure it was secure.
"Stop moving, it's safe? We've use it before and Yura said it was in great shape before the show." Leo's eyes fell on Elliot, whom smiled at him.
"This is high up."
"You get use to it." Leo looked up again and behind him.
"Why's that side thinner." Leo said and nodded to the rope behind Elliot. The older turned and glanced at the rope, stretching itself.
"Leo hold on to your side, don't let go no matter what." Leo did as told and both boys grabbed Leo's side.
"What's wrong?"
"This ones about to snap, I need to get you over to Gilbert, then get I need to get on another one."
"What?" Leo muttered. There was a snap that resounded around the stage and the bar below Leo disappeared. There were screams from the audience.
"Hatter!" Elliot yelled, holding Leo up with one hand and the other holding them up. Xerxes eye widened.
"Reim throw me up." He said, a blanket in his hand. The man nodded and picked the albino up, tossing him at Elliot and Leo.
"I'm going to let go." Elliot said and released his hand before Leo had time to react. Xerxes closed in and wrapped the blanket around the three. It was dark for a moment, but the blanket passed and they were on the stage safe. There was a small silence before Yura smiled and raised his hands.
"Welcome to Fairytales Against the Clock Circus, where nothing's as it seems." The crowd bursted into clapping, but Elliot was focus on getting Leo out of the tent and to the safety of the outside. As he left Oz followed with Xerxes, Raven the second act.
Elliot found a spot on the ground and sat Leo on the ground. "Oz can you get him a drink?"
"Yah." Oz said and ran off as circus folk started collecting around Leo.
"Is he ok?" Sharon asked kneeling in front of Leo, whom was shaking like a leaf.
"Was that…was that really a trick?" Leo asked.
"That was Yura covering his ass. He lied, he didn't check those bars." Elliot growled as Oz returned.
"Elliot calm down." Oz said as he gripped Elliot's shoulder. "Your anger will just cause problems." Elliot growled, but sighed.
"Never do any of that again, at least tell me. That scared the hell out of me." Leo said, taking the water Oz offered.
"Is this the kind of show you gypsies put on, endangering a boy's life!?" The doctor yelled as he rushed over, followed by the nurse and Leo's family. "
You almost killed him!" The doctor stopped in front of Leo, whom shot up with a hidden glare.
"I don't want to hear it from you!" You of all people worrying about me! Stop pretending!" Leo yelled.
"What are you talking about?" The doctor asked stumped.
"I read my damn file, the state was willing to treat me as long as needed, but you told them you were terminating my treatment! You told me they wouldn't pay for me!" Glares were aimed at the doctor, even from his own nurse.
"You said it yourself, you were on death road, not getting any better. I wasn't going to let the state waste money on a dead person!"
"I still had hope it would work! Even if it wasn't I still hoped!"
"Well it wasn't working!"
"Get out." Oswald said, a glare on his face.
"What!" The doctor yelled turning around.
"Get away from my son you stingy old man before I make you!" Lacie growled and kicked the doctor toward the circus opening.
"Stay away from my nephew!" She yelled. The doctor stumbled, but caught himself and turned.
"He was a lost cause anyway." The doctor said and walked onward. Leo just fell to his knees, Oswald kneeling down in front of his son. Leo looked up and in seconds was engulfed in a hug.
"I'm sorry he did that Leo." The nurse said before taking off to the car the doctor had drove.
"I think we should go home, Leo's not in the best of moods now. Today's been so overwhelming." Jack said as Oswald patted Leo's head.
"Why don't you guys stay and watch, your daughters seemed interested. Mr. Leo can rest back here, we assure the beds are fine." Xerxes said, spinning his cane around.
"Alice and Alyss really do like the circus, maybe we can stay and pick Leo up later."
"I can stay I'm fourteen, I can take care of myself." Leo said, still hugging his adoptive father.
"If you want to then we will come to get you at the end of the show."
"Alright, I'll see you then." Oswald smiled and patted Leo's head. After Leo released him Oswald, Jack, and Lacie hurried back to the circus tent.
"Come on Leo, I'll find you a spare tent." Elliot said and walked with Leo in tail. Leo waited till they were out of sight before asking Elliot.
"I've been wondering, what happened to Oz's ear?" Elliot looked down with a deep frown on his face.
"He was attack on the streets one night. He went to the store to get a portable heater for Yura, and some kids knew him from the circus. They laughed at him and pulled off his hat. The cut it off, and were about to cut off the other one when he escaped. When he came back to camp Gil was the first to find him, bloody and crying."
"God, that's horrid. Has anyone else experienced something like that here?" Leo asked.
"Cheshire's eyes, they were taken out by some psychopathic high schoolers, he was just a little kid. Break used his magic to take out his own eye and make it useful to Cheshire. You should have seen how happy Chesh was when he got his vision back." Elliot smiled.
"What's your story Elliot?" Elliot stopped in place.
"Lets lay it down easy, I have four siblings and a mother and father. When I was born my mother lost it. My sister Vanessa, and my two brothers Ernest and Claude protected me from my brother Fred and my father. Fred was a scientist and wanted to "examine" me. When I was ten I ran away from home and I haven't went back."
"Claude, isn't that the name of your snake?" Elliot turned with a smile.
"Yes, when he first hatched the way he acted reminded me of Claude."
"Don't you ever want to go visit them, I mean it's been four to six years. They're family, don't you miss them."
"Sometimes."
"Maybe we can go visit, take some of the circus people to show them that your accepted in life."
"I didn't leave because I wasn't accepted, it's because even my siblings looked at me like a freak."
"The more reason. I think you look perfectly human." Leo smiled, contagious to Elliot whom returned it.
"You have a cute smile, you should smile more often." Leo's eye widened and his cheeks flushed a bit. "Anyway it's not that simple with my lifestyle, I excepted I'm a totally different one than them, one they despise." Elliot continued to walked ahead. "Who needs family anyway." Leo remained behind looking Elliot.
"Anyone does, I still wish I could ask my parents did what they did." Elliot stopped again in front of a tent and turned to Leo.
"Don't be greedy, nothing good comes from it. They had their reasons and you don't want to know why they left you with no eye." Leo walked over toward Elliot. "You've got a new family, maybe two if you keep visiting. That sound better than none." Leo couldn't help but smile at the blonde as he walked into the tent.
"This is my room, I can wake you up late if you'd like, or I'll just put you in your parents car."
"Wake me up, I've been carried too much in my life." Leo smiled and walked into the tent, the flap falling behind him. Leo watched the silhouette disappear before laying down on the bed. It was stiff like the hospital bed he practically lived in, so he just fluffed the pillow and laid down. It had been too hot since the summer started so there wasn't a blanket to cover up with, but Leo didn't mind, his mind was on other thing anyway.
He couldn't stop thinking of the histories the circus performers had, how friends and family wouldn't accept them. It reminded Leo of himself when he was younger. As a child he'd been in the children's wing, but never got to play with the other kids. They were mean though, one time it got them in big trouble. The rumor of Leo not having an eye got around and some boys had snuck into his room, and held him down to see. They told all the other kids how weird he was and everything. That's when Leo was moved to the regular hospital wing.
Leo turned over and over on the bed, but his mind was too busy to rest. In the end Leo got out of the bed and decided to visit Zwei wondering if she was on later in the show. As he exited the tent he looked around for the performance tent, going to the biggest tent nearby. It wasn't the performance tent, it was an empty tent, except for a few candles placed in a circle around a large mirror, almost as big as Riem, the ticket collector. It had a golden rim around it with Latin imprinted on it. Leo found the mirror beautiful and hypnotic, drawing him in. Leo didn't realize how near he was till he reached his hand up and brushed the glass surface. It was then the hypnotic wave disappeared and Leo made a hurry from the tent, not wanting to get in trouble. He didn't notice the purple glow between the glass mirror and rim.
Leo ran back toward Elliot's tent, and ran into Sharon on the way. "Leo where are you going?"
"I'm just trying to find the performing tent." Sharon lifted her hand and raised it in the direction she was coming from.
"It's that way Cheshire's performing, Elliot's up after him."
"Is Oz done?"
"Yes, we can go see him his tent is toward the performance tent. I just need to change first."
"I'll accompany you, I'll wait for you outside your tent." Leo smiled and Sharon returned it.
"Alright, my tents the opposite way." Sharon turned forward only to gasp. Leo turned when she froze and joined her. There was a creature crawling toward them, it had spider-like legs and a baby dolls head. "A Familiar." She said and held her hands to her chest. "How?" She muttered as the creature got closer.
"Sharon lets go!" Leo yelled and grabbed Sharon's hand, running as fast as they could.
"We need to get help, like Oz or Break!" Sharon yelled, gasping for breath.
"What is that thing!?" Leo yelled as the creature got closer.
"It's a Familiar titled Mad Baby!" Sharon said. "How'd it get out of the abyss?!"
"Abyss!?" Leo asked, but the ground under him was removed, knocking him and Sharon down.
"Ow my ankle." Sharon muttered and wrapped her hands around her ankle.
"Are you ok?" Leo asked, covering Sharon.
"Play with me. Play with me…Key" The Mad Baby said crawling next to them.
"Ah!" Sharon gasp. "Equ-!" She was cut off by the Mad Baby falling back, splitting in two.
"A Familiar, how could it get out of the abyss." Leo looked up, seeing Oz standing in front of them, a scythe in his hands.
"Oz?" Leo muttered, earning the teens attention. Leo was met with bright crimson eyes, not his usual emerald.
"Oz! What happened!?" Elliot yelled running over to the trio, Xerxes in toe.
"A Mad Baby. Must have crawled out of the mirror, but how?" Oz said.
"K-Ke-Key." The Mad Baby mumbled, right before Oz cut it into fours.
"Only contractors and dukedom leaders with keys can get it open."
"What the hell was that thing?" Leo muttered, still in shock.
"Mad Baby is one of many Familiars, they live in this place called the Abyss. They can be summoned by other Familiars, or keys that five families hold." Elliot explained and kneeled down to the duo. "Are you both ok, we heard the crashes and got worried."
"Sharon did you use your key, or give it to anyone?" Oz asked as Xerxes picked her up.
"Hell no I always have it on." Sharon said pointing to her earrings.
"Did you see anyone near the mirror?"
"No I didn't…but I saw Leo running from that direction. Leo…did the Baskervilles give you any item of sorts?" All eyes landed on Leo whom was still stunned.
"N-no."
"Did you see the mirror?" Oz asked, his eyes normal.
"Yes I did. I was looking for the performance tent. It just seemed so hypnotic. All I did was touch it, then I left. Honestly." Leo said, eyes on the now crumbling Familiar.
"Leo, are you a contractor?" Oz kneeled down, red eyes burning into Leo's dark purple one.
"A what?!" Leo yelled, confused.
"Lets see for ourselves." Xerxes said. He picked up his cane and tapped Leo on the forehead.
"What is that?!" Elliot asked staring behind Leo. Said boy turned, met by a sleeping mouse behind him.
"Eh! What is that!" Leo asked scooting back.
"That is Dormouse." Sharon muttered and looked at Leo. "You're an illegal contractor."
"A what?!" Leo asked.
"Let wind it's back up and see what happens." Xerxes said and immediately Dormouse's eyes opened.
"Don't touch me human!" It growled.
"Are you illegal?" Oz asked.
"Who wants to know?!" Dormouse looked at Oz.
"Oz, B-Rabbit of Pandora. We request your information."
"Dormouse, contractor of Leo. Illegal, by DNA." Dormouse said.
"DNA? What's that mean?" Leo asked, Elliot squeezing his shoulder.
"Someone took something with you DNA and dipped it in this Familiar's blood." Oz muttered.
"Something like hair?" Leo said, his eye wide.
"Exactly…Break you-." Oz began.
"Yura did too. You might want to notify the Baskerville's that their son is an illegal contractor." Elliot said and helped Leo to his feet.
"What's going to happen to me?" Leo asked, staring at the Dormouse.
"Time has stopped your body, but an illegal contractor's Familiar will eat away at his brain. If you try to break the contract it most likely to kill you." Elliot explained.
"I don't want it with me, I didn't choose this. Please get it away."
"We'll find away, but first we must close the mirror you open, or more Familiars will leak out." Oz said and led the way. Elliot dragged Leo toward the massive tent, followed by Xerxes and Sharon.
"I didn't mean too." Leo muttered.
"We know, we won't get mad." Sharon smiled.
"It's up to the order to decide what happens to you now, knowing you have no formal contract with your Familiar, leaving it uncontrolled or tamed. You might be put to death." Xerxes said earning a smack from Sharon.
"What does this Pandora thing do, other create contracts?" Leo asked.
"It protects the world from attacks, created from when Jabberwocky was sealed?"
"I remember that one, it was a bloody and brutal fight." Oz said opening the tents flap.
"The Jabberwocky?" Leo asked.
"It was a Familiar that became too independent, it's owner sealed it away and removed its eye-ball. Jabberwocky killed thousands and ruined homes. His eye is its key, it's sealed inside one of the mirrors. He can't come back if his eye isn't there." Sharon explained. "My grandmother fought against it when she was around my age, she's told me thousands of stories."
"Alright Leo, seal it." Oz said and pointed to the mirror.
"How?"
"However you opened it." With a little shove from Xerxes Leo stumbled toward the mirror. Once in front of the mirror Leo placed a hand on the glass. Nothing happened.
Leo looked back with a confused look. It suddenly changed to surprise when something grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him into the mirror. The four people standing ran toward the mirror, Elliot banging on the now solid glass.
"Leo!" He yelled. "Leo!"
"Elliot stop, he's gone into the mirror!" Oz yelled.
"We have to get him out, he doesn't know what it's like in there!"
"Elliot we can't do anything except alert all the dukedoms. We can only get him if all of them agree to open their doors."
"They won't agree, not for one child. They won't agree to opening up all doors, the Jabberwocky could easily escape."
"But Leo's-!"
"I know, but for now all we can do is hope. If we hurry then we can reach him before he's killed by a Familiar." Sharon said.
"But they have to open the doors, they can't leave a child in their, not in the abyss." Elliot muttered resting his forehead against the glass.
Leo sat in the dark place, his clothes soaked from sitting in the water. He had to have been there for five minutes the least, still he had no idea what happened. He felt something pull him into the mirror, but nothing was there. "Dormouse, how do I get out of here."
"A human like you won't be able to get out without help, not even I can help you."
"I'm tired Dormouse, so very tired."
"You can't fall asleep, a Familiar would eat you in a second." Leo stood up and growled.
"I'm not staying here Dormouse, open the mirror."
"I can't."
"You can't or you won't?" Leo asked.
"Your not my blood contractor, I don't work for you."
"But my DNA made a contract with your blood."
"I still don't do what you say."
"Dormouse! Get me out of here!" Leo yelled, but the Dormouse just floated away.
"Hmph."
"Dormouse get me out!" Leo yelled louder.
"K-Key!" A voice said behind Leo, gathering both the Familiar's and Leo's attention. Behind them stood a weird creature, it looked like a doll with its mouth stitched shut.
"Run." Dormouse said and got on its feet. Leo ran after him as the Familiar charged at them, hands pounding on the ground, making it shaking underneath Leo and the Familiar.
"Dormouse do something, please!" Leo yelled before the doll scooped him up. "Ah!"
"K-Key!" The doll said opening its mouth, tearing its stitches apart. "Eat…Key!"
"Ah! Dormouse help me!" Leo yelled and covered his face. It wasn't a second later that he was released, along with the dolls arm.
"Get up and run faster brat!" Dormouse yelled. Leo got to his feet and ran as fast as he could, a golden light following him.
"Dormouse, get us out of here!" Leo yelled.
"I told you I ca-!" Leo cut him off by grabbing his tail.
"I am your contractor and when I say, "Get me the hell out of here" I mean now!" Leo yelled. He stumble as the Dormouse turned, but Leo didn't fall in water. He hit solid ground. "Ow." He muttered as he pushed himself up on his knees. He looked around and noticed he was back in the tent, but no one was around. Very carefully Leo got to his feet, turning he notice the mirrors glow was gone. Grabbing his arm Leo ran out of the tent, hurrying till he was away from that mirror. The circus was abandoned, it was late at night, Leo wonder how late.
"Who's there?" A voice said behind Leo, scaring the boy. He turned to see Elliot glaring with a snake around his neck.
"E-Elliot." Leo muttered, taking a step forward.
"Ah! Leo." Elliott said and ran over to Leo. "Is it really you?" Elliot said holding Leo's shoulders.
"Yah, I got out." Leo said.
"You look like hell, I'll get Oz and Sharon up. Hell we need to call your family."
"I was in there for ten minutes, no one tried to help me."
"Leo, we all need to talk." Elliot said as he lifted Leo up in a bridal type style.
"Alright, I'm just tired, so very tired Elliot." Leo said before nodding off against Elliot's shoulder. The teenager hurried to Oz's tent, opening the flap.
"Oz get up." He said and kicked the teenager in the leg.
"Ow Elliot! What was that for?!" He yelled.
"Shut it. Listen to me, Leo got out, I just found him wandering outside." Oz stood up and looked at the unconscious boy.
"How'd he get out?" Oz asked looking up at Elliot.
"Get the others, call his father and tell them he's back." Oz nodded and rushed out of the tent. Elliot laid the boy down and covered him up. A few seconds later Sharon came running into the tent.
"He really did escape. The only one that had ever done that was-."
"Is Dormouse really that strong." Break said as he walked into the tent.
"Leo, Leo get up." Sharon said as she shook Leo. The teen moaned but opened his eyes.
"What?" He groaned.
"How'd you escape the abyss? Did Dormouse do it?"
"I think so. I fell and was out."
"How about we wrap you up and you can go to bed." Sharon said with a smile.
"Ok." Leo said and sat up. "What time is it?"
"It's around one in the morning. Leo we need to tell you something." Elliot said.
"How long were you in the abyss!" Oz asked.
"It was around ten minutes, my watch stopped working so…"
"Leo you've been in there for two years." Sharon said.
"What, don't joke about that." Leo growled.
"The abyss has the ability to distort time." Oz said. "I would know that much."
"Two years and you didn't try to rescue me."
"Leo we tried, we needed all the gates open, everyone except the Nightray family would allow us to retrieve you, they didn't want to open it."
"Why?" Leo asked.
"Because it would give the Jabberwocky a chance to escape." Elliot muttered.
"Jabberwocky?" Leo's eyes widened.
"Yes, if all five doors open at once then Jabberwocky could escape from the abyss and find his eye."
"Then I'm glad you didn't open the mirrors, if what everyone said is true we don't want that monster escaping." Leo smiled. "Anyway I got out with the help of Dormouse."
"It's your fault for getting pulled in." Dormouse said popping up behind Leo.
"Well, we could have escaped sooner if you had listened to me in the first place."
"Well I didn't have to help you, I should have left you to the dolls. You never said thank you."
"Thank you for not listening to me you rat."
"You humans are so cruel. I should have let the doll eat you."
"Maybe if you had done as I said before hand I'd be more grateful." Leo said folding his arms.
"Damn human." Dormouse said disappearing.
"Your Familiar doesn't respect you, you will be more of a danger with a rogue Familiar and the order will be more willing to cast you back into the abyss." Xerxes said. "We must teach control, first off we must prove as help to Pandora."
"What's that mean?" Leo asked.
"You get to meet the Five Great Dukedom Leaders. Jack Vessulias' father, My Grandmother, Duke Barma, Duke Baskerville, and lastly-" Sharon said.
"My father, Duke Nightray." Elliot muttered.
"We will have you meet with them at the conference center."
"This sounds like a fun new chapter in my life. When do we visit?"
"Tomorrow, we'll get you the proper clothing." Xerxes smiled.
"Aw those uniforms always hurt my scales." Elliot said.
"Everyone just needs to rest, tomorrow's a busy day." Oz said. "We'll make you up a tent soon Leo, somewhere far from that mirror."
"Thanks you." Leo said, sighing in relief.
A/N: I think the story should start picking up here, next chapter has more character development as well as history development.
I hope more people like this.