The Reaper's Daughter

by Amasis Isis-Ra

Creatures called the Light have stolen the Grim Reaper's scythe. If it is not returned the world as everyone knows it will cease to exist. The reaper's daughter along with her mother, younger brother, and friends set out to retrieve the missing scythe. Can they do it before it's too late? (Note: Not for children under fifteen) Co-Writer: Kerrie Michelle Thompson

4. A Hidden Truth Revealed

Chapter 4

A Hidden Truth Revealed

Elvira looked at her parents quietly. Gakupo turned away from his children to hide his face. "Is something wrong, Gakupo?" Farren asked her husband.

"You know very well what's wrong, Farren…" came Gakupo's quiet reply.

"Um… not really…" Farren said.

"It deals with the circumstances of Elvira's birth…" Gakupo said quietly.

"Oh… I know what you mean…" she said and looked away her eyes turning sad.

"Does someone mind telling me what's going on?" Elvira asked. Gakupo faced his family again.

"Elvira, have you ever wondered why Farren is your adoptive mother?" Gakupo asked.

"Yes, I have." Gakupo sighed heavily.

"You technically don't have a mother to begin with…" Elvira stood up with her hands, palms first, on the table.

"W-what?" she asked in sheer shock.

"Hades raped me, impregnated me, and then ripped you from my body eighteen years ago." Farren and Seymour turned towards Elvira who looked completely shocked at the news. Before anyone can react, she faints landing on the floor flat on her back.

Gakupo blinked at her and then went over to her; he knelt down beside her, and made a glass of water appear out of nowhere. He dumped the glass of water over his daughter's face to wake her. "Wake up my dear Elvira," Gakupo said in a gentle tone. Farren facepalmed as Elvira sat bolt upright her hair and face soaking wet.

"WHO THE HELL POURED WATER OVER ME?" Gakupo looked at her with a blank look on his face.

"I did." Elvira, to Farren's surprise, calmed down and sighed.

"Thanks… b-but is it true…?"

"Is what true?"

"What you just told me."

"I don't lie. I always tell the truth." Farren nodded her head in agreement.

"He's telling the truth, Elvira, I was there when it happened eighteen years ago," she said looking intently at her adopted daughter.

"I am a samurai. I can never lie," Gakupo said as he stood up again.

"This is confusing. Hades actually exists and my sister is his daughter," Seymour said somewhat lost.

"I killed Hades. He existed for some time. He tried to make me kill your mother while she was pregnant with you. I fought his hold as much as I could. He turned Farren's cousin, Adrian, against her and he turned my opposite half into a Vampire… He wanted to plunge the world into darkness so I put a stop to it," Gakupo said slowly and carefully so not to give away too much unneeded information. His son and daughter merely watched him wonder.