Whispers of the Heart
Fractured Code
Chapter 29
Within the Closet
He felt torn to pieces, ripped in three, breaking or cracking into many different pieces. Much like that one time...long ago when he felt all was lost. Here was this angel looking upon him like he were made of silver or gold. He could still feel the heat from the hot springs taking him down to the bottom of the pool. He watched as her face disappeared above him the deeper he drifted. Her name still on his lips. Glass, thats what he was called. Two parts to the same whole, but shattered into many different beings.
Zareth opened his eyes on the grassy null outside of Ninjago City. He knew this place very well. He took Danny there a few times. He looked around seeing many faces he didn't know, yet he knew them so well.
"Good afternoon Zareth." Said a woman with horns, and wings. She looked very soft and pretty.
"Have I died or something?" The woman laughed and shook her head.
"No nothing so permanent. They still need you, they will always need you. But your mind needs to heal so here you sit." He looked around again seeing different people. One girl who looked to be pretty young.
"Who are all of you?" He asked.
"I am Duck your first incarnation. The one to receive the melding powers from the first spinjitzu master." She said kindly. Zareth opened his mouth with a smile only to be glared at by her. "Not related." She spat. A man standing near her laughed and shook his head.
"She's right. She drown and my the one who got it from his old man." He pointed at himself. "The names Colby." He chuckled running his fingers through his hair.
"So your the one who had the kid with Angela?"
"Yup." He seemed very proud of that fact. "Was he good or what?"
"He had two daughters...one that had a son named Roy that I just found out about a bit ago and another that couldn't have children do to an accident...so helped create nindroids. One of which I'm connected to, and the other one is married to the other."
"Really?!" He smiled proudly. There was another standing off in the back. "Thats Peaches, she don't talk much. Afraid of people after she was killed for trusting them to much."
"Understandable." Zareth said waving at her. She just blushed and looked away.
The little girl turned away from him, but held out her hand. Zareth looked at her for a moment.
"Thats Dutchess...she was a Queen once, until her brother killed her and himself." Duck said. Zareth gasped taking her hand and kissing it. Dutchess blushed and pulled her hand from him. Zareth was ever the charmer.
"Zareth madam." Zareth introduced himself. He looked at the man with an instrument over his lap. It was the clarinet he played not to long ago.
"Reed!" Zareth said pointing at the slinder instrument.
"I uh...h-how did you know?" He asked.
"Roy had your instrument in his cabin. It had your name on it." Zareth exclaimed. Reed smiled.
"Oh yes...I helped you play it. You can never tell if something is real here. We're all in your processor ya see?" He said quickly. He turned to look at the last one. One that Zareth knew well from a certain dream. The dream he had that resulted in him pointing a gun at Danny.
"Hello again kid." Glass mumbled. He didn't really want to talk to Zareth at all.
"She regrets it ya know." The room started to become dark. "She hates her old self. She'd rather forget it all."
"Yeah...right…" Glass threw the wheat he had sticking out of his mouth and started to walk off. "Guess she can apologize soon then hum?"
What was that supposed to mean? Zareths eyes opened slightly, cringing from the light in his eyes. He was being dragged down the hallway by his shoulders again.
