Chapter 4
Let's make it more clear
At the same night which the previous chapter ended
He turned and turned, interwining his blanket in his waist more and more times. This procedure continued until he decided he had enough. He needs to do this.
He has to.
He has to feel close to her for a few momments.
He finaly threw the blanket away and made his way to her room.
Even the closed door of her room brought back memories.
He opened it and entered to a clean room, but with a messy bed.
Yeap, this is Zhalia. What's the point of making up the bed if you are going to sleep in it again?
She always asked and she always said it in a way it sounded legit...well it kind of sounds legit indeed.
His mind flew to what seemed a very distant memory now
after the battle with the proffesor
Dante and Zhalia had finally managed to take care of the mess in Dante's house. Unfortounately, Lok insisted on having a party there and the adults of the team couldnt say no to all their friends much to their desire to do so.
"I may have survived the battle with the proffesor, but cleaning is not my thing. God, how do housewife's do this? I would never wish to be one!"
Dante let out a chuckle as both adults literally threw them selves on the couch, both of them exhausted.
"So i guees i will have to clean the house by myself"
"Yeah, like you always did. I am sorry to inform you though, but i wont be staying here long enough for you to lecture me about my responsibilities as your roommate"
Dante eyed the blue haired female who had her eyes shut and was slowly drifting to dreamland with curiosity
"And what exactly does that mean? Will you make a run for it every Cleaning Sunday?"
The amber eyed male said trying to keep humor in their conversation, though he already knew what Zhalia was about to say and it was something he didnt want to happen, but at the same time, he had also saw this coming.
He let her down today, he had let her fight by her self and now she will propably go somewhere she can feel safe...
Because after all this, he believes that sfter this she doesnt feel safe with him.
"I am saying i am moving Dante"
The dark haired female said lazily with her husky voice. She looked so seductive with her eyes shut, her lips slightly parted, her sweaty face and neck where her blue hair were stuck, it made Dante want to kiss her with all the passion he is holding back at the mooment.
So many things they can do together... if they just stop being stubborn
"Mind if i ask where?" Dante asked with the same tone in his voice, but if Zhalia's eyes were open, she could have seen him frown in diplease.
"I'v got a friend who lives nearby, Daniel. I can stay with him for a while and then i will rent an appartment. This mission has propably given me more money that i have ever had my entire life"
With that statement, Zhalia half opened her hazel eyes and could now she him frawning. She chuckled at the sight and gave him a smirk
"What is that face for?" She said keeping that smile on her face.
Both adults knew she was slightly drunk, but the way Dante spelled her name afterwards made her come back to her senses. His tone was serious and he as looked straight into her hazel orbs.
"Zhalia, you can tell that friend of yours to cancel his prepearations for your arrival, cause you are staying here. I am not letting you go, especially after what happened today. I know i failled and i am sorry, but i dont want you to go. I will do better next time i promise, but if you go...this house will seem empty without you"
Zhalia's attempts to keep a serious expression were no longer required. She heard all she needed to hear. He wanted her here and she didnt really want to go, she just didnt want to be a burden.
Dante looked at her with a loving expression and held her hand. Both of them got up from the couch and Dante signalled her to follow him.
She did so, and he lead her to her room. She sat on her bed, trying really hard not to fall down.
The drink caused her a headache and also an unexpected dizzyness, which Dante realized and that's why he brought her to her room, to sleep...
Even though at that momment sleeping was the last thing he wanted to do.
The way she looked at him was really tempting...more than what he can handle.
'Focus Dante, you are a man! You can control yourself'
He said and was about to get up, but then Zhalia did something he had no warning of.
She fell on the bed and pulled him on top of her. She wrapped her arms around him, as if she was a little girl and Dante was her teddy bear.
"Don't go...Stay"
Dante knew it was the drink talking now, but he really wished Zhalia would say that to him.
No, he mustnt give in. If it happens, it will happen when she will be sober.
"Look Zhalia, you are drunk. You should rest and i have to uh-!"
He gasped as she turned them so that now she was on top of him. Dante felt her full weight on him.
"God, why are you doing this to me now!"
"Come on Dante, stay"
He was losing all control, he was ready to give in, until they heard the doorbell ringing.
With that Zhalia totally passed out on top of him. Dante carefully put her in bed and tried to remember how to breath.
At the doorframe was Lok, who had forgotten his cellphone.
At least now it wasnt a bad timming for him to interrupt.
after the battle with the betrayer
Everyone was now on their way back to Venice and way too exhausted to say anything. Only their faint smiles betrayingh their happiness.
It didnt take long for the teens to fall asleep but a spesific blue haired woman couldnt.
She had so much going on in her head and she could barely believe she had lost him and he came back.
Her uneasyness didnt pass unnoticed by the man who was the centre of her thoughts and whose steps led him by her side.
He looked at her and flushed a smile waiting for her to smile too, but instead she tried to look annoyed by frowning.
"Hey, i told you, you cant get rid of me that easily" He said trying to lighten up her mood
"Indeed" she replied "I just need to know what happens at the end Dante."
"What do you mean?" The male asked her confused
"I mean that you did this again. You gave up, when we could have found another way, just like then with the proffesor"
Dante was sure that Zhalia knew those cases were completely different, but he made her get through a lot today, so her emotional state must be messed up.
"You wanna know what happens at the end?" He asked her and she nobbed.
With that, he took her hand and palced it at the left side of his chest where his heart is.
Before Zhalia could give him a questioning look, she noticed that his heart beated really fast but she didnt have time to say anything because he sushed her.
"Do you feel that? It beats for you Zhalia. I will never leave you and that is a promise i intend to keep no matter what. That's why i survived and this is what happens in the end. I will never ive up on you"
Zhalia had no words to say, but on the other hand no words were needed. She was left paralized again upon his kindness and the love he was showing to her. A love she had missed and sometimes wondered if she was worth it.
However she didnt htink twice when Dante leaned closer to her face and she sterted to lean too.
They were only inches apart, just like the day her appartment exploded...
But just like that day...
"Hey guys, cant sleep? Me neither"
Lok the momment wrecker strikes again...
They never really talked after that night and Dante knew it was his fault.
All those memories, all the momments..
If he had done something she could have been here now.
Dante lets out a sigh and lays on her bed, bringing her scarf to his nose once again.
He had kept it exactly as he had found it that day.
His mind flies back to the creepy scene at the hospital.
She must have suffered a lot...
He cant get his self to imagine what the man who kidnapped her has done to her, or what he is propably doing now.
The amber eyed man clenched his fists and punched the wall besides him, angry with his self and his inability to find her.
He just hopes Carter has found something...anything..
With his mind being attacked by thoughts, he falls asleep.
Not because he relaxed, but spending all those nights thinking about her and blaming his self have exhausted him..
He has to sleep...he has no choice...he is too tired of everything...
At the same time, at the streets of Venice
"This room could be a thriller scenery!" Said the bearded big man with astonishment at his partner, who was now frustrated with his failure "I am sorry we couldnt find anything"
Carter was at a dead end again and he just keeps thinking that there is something he still hasnt seen.
It's right there under his nose, he just feels it!
It has to be there!
"There must be something i havent included in my thoughts, i still have so many questions and i am sure the answears are in that room"
"Well, maybe it's my fault. I disrupted you back at the plane"
"No no, dont think about it. Everything you said was right and it was about time i admit it"
"So who was it?"
"Hmmm?"
"That person you left behind"
"My daughter" said Carter feeling dissapointed with his self
"Oh...that...must have been hard"
"She was only 9 Montehue and i just left her there with this psycopath"
"A.C right? What's his real name?"
Carter looked at Montehue, not sure if he must tell him. But for the first time after years, a person made him realize that it's time for him to stop hiding in his cell and face his choices and also make up for his mistakes. Montehue deserves to know.
"He...he is my brother, Airdan"
Montehue's eyes widen in surprise
"Wow, your family tree is really messed up!"
"Oh trust me, there is more"
Montehue signalled him to go on
"My wife and i divorced after i left Brooklyn, my daughter, behind. She took our son Daniel(remember that name guys, he is important) and went to Canada where her parents are. I havent seen my boy ever since. I think he moved to Venice and he works as a detective. At least that's what my wife has told me"
"Oh...sounds like some Mexican drama"
Both men laughed at Montehue's comment, which was on point...kind of.
"Indeed...my life is a mess"
"A mess you are about to fix"
Said Montehue while patting Carter's shoulder. The older doctor smiled at him.
"Will you help me get it together with the clues?"
"Count me in"
And with that, they headed to the HQ where they were planning to stay for a while...
At the same time (again)
She punched the stone wall with her hand again
She didnt care if she was bleeding again...
She just wanted it to stop...
Even though she loves the silence of the night..
She has to fill it with her screams..
The nights are really hard when you are a Hybrid...
Cause when you drift to sleep, you are vulnerable, unprotected...
And they can easily take control...
She turned and hit every corner in her room...
Dropped on her knees, press her hands on her head...
Screamed at the top of her lungs...
Cryed...
Threw her self on the floor, punched her self...
Anything to make the war inside her stop..
Hours passed...
And she finally managed to regain control... and remind her self that Hybrids like her dont sleep.
But the night is longer when you want it to leave...
So is her life...the more you want something to end, te longer it seems to last.
Her mind travelled back to Zhalia's dead looking figure...
'If only she knew' Brooke thought
If only Zhalia knew that if it wasnt for her, she wouldnt be cooperating with Eathon now...
Suddenly an idea came to her..
Why not? She wont listen anyway, she is still asleep...and Brooklyn will finaly get the chance to tell her...
Without second thoughts, she made her way to 'the lab' and sat besides Zhalia. First she made sure she is not being watched, before she turned her head to face the blue haired woman.
She took a momment to look at the tortured female, took a deep breath and prepeared her self mentally for what she is about to do.
"Um...you propably have no idea who i am..and you wont remember any of this tommorow...but you need to know Zhalia. That if it wasnt for you, i wouldnt have hope...we might be able to escape and it's all thanks to you...All right, here goes nothing"
10 years ago, Amsterdam
"So, will you take me today?"
The young 9 year old girl jumped in front of her dad, trying to look as cute as possible to convince him to take her with him.
"Brooklyn, you are too young. You are not ready to watch a surgery"
"But you help people daddy, i want to do that too"
"Why dont you start by helping your mum with the laundry"
"But that's boring"
"I know, but i cant take you with me sweety, sorry"
The tiny forest green eyed girl pouted.
Most girls in her age wanted dolls or other toys, but she wanted a microscope and surgery tools.
After their vacation in Africa, where her dad saved a helpless sick child, performing an open heart surgery right in front of her, she wasnt scared, but amazed, she wanted to bacome a doctor too.
Of course she wasnt supposed to watch bak then, but no one caught her, so all good.
Her older broher, Daniel, always called her weird, but loved her more than anything in the world. He was obsessed with tv shows like CSI, NCIS,FBI,CIA etc and he really wanted to become a detective.
Every time they played together, he was the detective and she was the medical examer. She would always fill her clothes and her dirty blond hair with ketchup and turned her dolls into frankenstein experiments.
And when they werent playing in the house, they would spent their time with their few friends, playing sports or going from place to place..
They once went to a hunted and the only one who wasnt scared was Daniel. He always reminded Brooklyn that ghosts or monsters dont exist...
Little did he know that monsters are human's themselves.
"But why?"
"I have a day off today, i will stay here and" He then lifted his daughter up and cuddled her "i will take care of my little Frankenstein and my James Bond"
After he giggled her for a while, he let her down and gave her a warm hug
"I love you little Frankenstein"
"Hehe, i love you too daddy"
"Do you want to play with Lirves?"
The dirty blond child glanced at the silver amulet in her neck.
Her dad didnt know much about titans, but her mother is a seeker, so her and her brother have seeker powers and they were given a titan for their protection.
Carter and Eliss decided to raise them without involving them to the Huntik world, but they kept them aware of it. They would wait until their kids grow up and decide themelves wether they wish to join the Foundation or not.
"Yeah, i do. Mommy said Lirves is a strong elemental titan. He spits ice! He made me an ice tower last week, but it melted"
"That's because we are in the middle of July honey, it's too warm outside."
"I will go play with Daniel, Lirves will put me to sleep instead. I love his fluffy fur"
Carter smiled and watched his daughter head to the back yard of their house to play with her older brother (who is 3 years older).
He calmly headed to his room to check some files, but the doorbell's ring stopped him on his tracks.
He didnt expect Eliss to be back so early, neitrher he expected some one. The events of the last week replayed in his mind like a cinematic trailer.
His brother has been calling him at the weirdest times of the day, telling him to cooperate with him, or there would be consequenses. Eliss suggested they should report him to the foundation but Carter couldnt bring his self to do so. He knew his brother means no well to anyone, but he still had hope that he was his brother, he still hoped it was the Airdan he remembered.
And now here he was. Right in front of Carter's doorframe, ready to change his life in the worst ways possible.
Carter glanced at the back yard to make sure his kids didnt notice anything. He had hopped that he could bring Airdan to his senses.
Which turned out to be pretty pointless.
Even though Brooklyn and Daniel invoked their titans, Lirves and Deragon, Airdan easily captured them, but in the last momment, before Airdan could use a teleport spell, Deragon pulled Daniel away.
Airdan took them to his hideout, which looked like a gothic vampire castle. All those statues, the black stone walls, the knifes and ancient weapons hanging on the walls, alongside with his favourite body parts of his victims, as if they were trophies.
Brooklyn grabbed her dad's white pullover and held onto it tight. She had no idea this man was her uncle, no one had ever told her, Carter wanted to keep his kids awy from him.
But there they were, in his hands...waiting for the worst to come.
And how could Carter, some one without powers and a very coward man, defend his self against his brother, who has both seeker power, posseces forbidden magic, spirit and blood magic AND is way more confident and strong?
Lirves stood in front of them protectively, but Airdan moved his hands with circle moves and then clenched his fist, which caused the titans body to grow painfully numb. He vanished and returned to its amulet.
"Lirves no!" cried the young girl "Why did you do that? You are mean! What do you want from us?"
Brooklyn stood up in front of him with more courage than her father who was practicaly begging her to stay close to him and keep their distance from Airdan.
Airdan smirked. His teeth were visuable due to the ripped flesh on his face, which made him look very creepy. But Brooklyn wasnt scared.
She knew that his appearance is not scary, but his intentions, which she wanted to know.
"You are a brave girl love. I suppose you took that from your mother, cause there is no way your dad can stand up to me like that"
He said with a cheeky, underestimating grin towards his brother.
"But if you want to know, i am your uncle"
The little girl's head throbbed for a second and she turned to her fahter.
"Brook honey, dont listen to him! Just come here, ok? We can make it"
Airdan lauhged at his words. His deep voice echoed to the hallway outside the room they were at and Brooklyn could swear that his laughter made the castle's walls shake.
"The only thing you will do Carter, is help me. We both stated it, let's finish it"
"I didnt start anything Airdan! It as all you and your thirst for power!"
"That's were you are wrong my dear brother. Even though you are the most coward person i have ever met, your knowledges give you potential and you" Airdan glanched at Brooklyn and couldnt help but notice, she looks so much like Eliss.
Dirty blond hair, forest green eyes, slightly tanned skin and big rosy lips. The older man smiled, leading his head to psychotic thouhgts about all the things he can do to this girl.
"Your bravery gives you great potential. But first i need to know, is family important to you?"
"Yes more than anything" answeared Brooklyn without hesitation "But if you are my uncle, why didnt you show up all this long? Why did you try to hurt us? And who hurted you?" She asked pointing at the weird wound in his face.
"Brooklyn dont talk to him!" Her father warned her once again.
Airdan was surprsed upon hearing her calling him uncle, but more about the concern in her voice. He was certain she really meant that family is impotant to her, cause even though the little girl was irretated, she was also concerned about his well being. She had no aware of his existance so far, but just knowing he is her uncle made her care.
It took Airdan a while to replace his surprised expression, with his usual cold and emotionless one.
"Your dad didnt want me to meet you love. He thinks i will hurt you, but all i need is your help. See this scar? I need to heal it but only with your help. So...will you help your family?"
"Brooklyn dont listen to him! He is lying!"
"But daddy, he is hurt! We are family, we can help him! Your job is to help people, wy dont you do that with your brother?"
Carter was speechless at his daughter's words and pure heart. Airdan kneeled beside her to match her height, while Carter didnt dare to make a step closer, even though he knew his daughter's safety was highly doubted at the momment.
Airdan looked with his tow coloured eyes. A grey silver and a bloody red eye...
"Your dad doesnt want to help and i respect his desecion. But if you choose to help me, he can stay here and look after you"
"Wait! I want to help you, but what about mommy and Daniel?"
"Dont worry love, as soon as you finish your task, you can see them."
The dirty blond child nobbed. After all, this is what her dad had taught her, to help people and its time for her to prove him she can.
"Alright, what should i do?"
"Brooklyn, please come here"
Airdan then casted a spell, which transfered Carter to a cell and after he assured his niece her dad was going to be alright, he took her to a different room.
A room full of books and pictures of wizards, titans, seekers, legends...
Brooklyn was amazed, she loved books and she would gladly suck the knowledge out of each and ever one of them.
"You like them love, you can read any of them you want. In fact, you will have to read some of them. Some kind of homework"
"Alright!" she said with enthusiasm. "So how can i help"
"First love, you need to gain power, more than any other seeker. Then you will be able to help me"
"Uncle, dad said that power is not important when you have love"
"Pfft, your dad is wrong love. It's better for you to learn now, that this world is cruel. No one can be trusted and every one can hurt you, even the ones you love the most"
Brooklyn's face turned sad and fear overtook her. Airdan brushed away her hair from her face.
"Dont worry love, i shall learn you how to protect your self and know who truly loves you. For example, your dad doesnt truly love you, but i do"
"That's not true! He loves me!"
Airdan let out an apologetic sigh and went to his office to bring something.
"Why dont you like each other? Is it because he is not helping you?"
Airdan didnt bother to answear her and returned with a crystal ball in his hands. He put it on a table and waved his hands on top of it for a second.
"If your dad loves you, then why is he leaving you?"
Brooklyn frowned and looked at the crystal ball where her unle was pointing at. It ws blury at first, but soon the picture of her dad running out of the castle popped up.
"No! Dad no!" Brooklyn saw him run like there was no tommorow.
The young girl brust in tears immediately and Airdan put a hand on her shoulder.
Without a warning she threw her self into his arms and cried. Airdan was startled by her action, but didt spoil the momment.
He was amazing at pretending after all.
"Shhh. your dad might be gone, but i am here. I can protect you"
Airdan gave her some time to recover from her sadness, not willing to understand that you cant recover from such a thing.
He started training her with spells no seeker has ever heard of, or maybe only a few know.
He made her excelent at compact at the age of 10. There was no time to rest, she was only sleeping 5 hours a day and the reason she was dealing with him was because she believed he is the only one left for her...the only one who loves her...she cant hate him even when he punishes her... and his punishments are really painfull, but he says it's for her own good.
To learn from her mistakes and get used to pain.
She remembers her first punishment...
"I am sorry uncle, this spell is hard"
"Dont worry love, i can help you learn it"
Airdan said and lead the girl to a room which reminded her of a lab. He made her sit down and took a paperclip out of his pocket.
"Now listen, everytime you do a mistake, you will draw 10 lines on your back with this. This way, you wont repeat them in order to avoid the pain. I will do it this time, but the next time, you will do it on your own"
"But uncle...wont it hurt?"
"You'll get used to it love. You have to. For me"
With that Brooklyn stayed silent. If it wasnt for him, she would have no were to go now. Her dad left her, she has no idea how to find her mum or Daniel. Her uncle is the only one she has now, and he said that she will see her brother again...sometime.
Airdan lifted up the girls electric blue t-shirt and started digging her skin. Now that she is 19, she is used to pain, but back then when she was 9, this pain felt nothing like the pain she felt when she hit her knee at the table while she was pretending to be a super hero, or when she fell from a horse at her mum's cottage...
This was hell!
But she managed to get used to it...
Another unforgetable momment was when she got her first titan into her body. She was 10 again, and her back had more wounds than a soldier's one.
Her uncle asked how much she loved Lirves and she said a lot of course. Then he took out Lirves's amulet and muttered some kind of spell. Then a blue glowing light flew from the amulet to her and surrounded her.
She felt her head being crushed, as if it wanted to make room for some one...Lirves.
Airdan told her that now, she and Lirves are one. She was able to hear its thoughts and she could use ice powers...but she also had those terrible headaches and the feeling of her sel...dying..and some one else taking control.
Airdan also told her that she has to get used to it for him...and so she did.
She remembers the exact order of all the titans inside her, just like she remembers the ways each of them has tried to take control over her.
1) Lirves, the ice tiger
2)Peter Pan, it allowed her to have a shadow form
3)Disguiser Kai, he allowed her to change forms to anything
4)Enchanter, he allows her to enchant items
5)Dreamealker, she allows her to interfere in people's dreams
6)Jaqlyna the Adventurer, she can travel through dimensions
7)Hanzo the mind Dominator, he allows her to have control over some ones mind or change their thoughts
The worst nights were with the Dreamwalker, because she let her sleep, but did anything she wanted with her dreams and brought back painfull memories to life.
Brooklyn had endured a lot in her life...
The titans, the punishments, the sight of people being tortured, her being tortured because of her failures in a couple of missions...
And she had always thought she was doing the right thing...
Bu all of that changed when she met Zhalia...
Airdan had told her to watch her, keep an eye on her every move...
And so she did...
Zhalia is strong and her relationship with Klaus reminded her of hers with Airdan some how.
Of course she is not as strong as Brooklyn, but her strength and determination alongside her ability to keep her emotions to her self were characteristics of hers that Brooklyn admired.
Then she met her team...
Brooklyn was sure that Zhalia would achieve her mission, she had faith in her, she had become something like her idol...
But watching her change...watching how this Dante Vale treated her with so much love, Lok Lambert, Sophie Casterwill, Cherit, they all had forgiven her without punishing her...how was that possible?
The answear was simple...they loved her. They loved her as a teammate, a friend, a person...they loved her as Zhalia.
Brooklyn could tell that this Vale loved her in another way.
Something in the way he looked at her reminded her of the way her dad looked at her mom.
She didnt know what kind of love that is...only that it felt really good, judging by Zhalia's reaction...
After witnessing Zhalia's adventure, she started questiong her uncle's "love"...
Why was he punishing her, why didnt he look at her like that, why did he make her go through all this pain if he loves her?
Maybe he doesnt...
No! No! It has to be another explanation!
After the battle with the proffesor, Brooklyn left her hiding place...which happened to be the walls of the castle, since she had her shadow form activated and made her way to her uncle's castle.
Airdan never wanted her to know her surrroundings, so he taught her a teleporting spell which would take her to the castle's main hall.
She rushed towards his office only to find out he wasnt there.
She decided to poke around and find something...anything..
Come to think about it, he has never told her his cause, how exactly is he planning to get rid of his scar.
Is his scar a curse?
She searched through his library quickly and carefully and then noticed a book in his desk.
The book was sealed with blood magic, but that wasnt a problem for Brooklyn.
She opened it and after reading the first 2 pages, she realized it contained information about a legend. A legend which can give some one ultimate power...
The tale of the strongets hearts
In a summary, the book was about three families who were given the duty by the Godness of Moon, the God of Universe and the God of love, to carry the three strongest hearts.
1) The Golden heart, the heart of a believer. A person who will never stop believe they can achieve something even though it seems impossible. A person who will keep hope alive to people's hearts
2)The heart of Glass, the heart of the tortured soul. It belongs to a person who lives all the dark sides of life, a person who feels any emotion more than anyone. A person who can appreciate life and take the fall for the ones who cant handle their emotions
3) The Gem heart, the heart of love. It belongs to a person who never stops loving. There is a place for every one in their heart, no matter what they have done. This person reminds other to not allow the hate for some oen change who they are and that only love and warm feelings bring salvation.
Tow of the people who carry those hearts usually have surenames which are normal words, such as colours, planets, flowers, emotions etc
Those hearts are enchanted and if you take them out of their owner's bodies, the owners keep living. They die only if their hearts are destroyed.
Any one who has one of those hearts under their possecion can control their owner.
Those hearts are sympols of light. The most pure hearts in the world.
So what does he want with those hearts? thought Brooklyn.
Why would he want them? Could it be to heal his scar?
No, that cant be it. Did he want to control those people? Why for?
After all these years, she still doesnt know his intentions...
Then it came to her...
Power! All he wanted was power! She had raised her, making her believe that power is everything, that it's the only way to survive, but Zhalia just proved her it's not the only way...
Sure it's usefull, but it emptys you, it takes you away all the small momments which Zhalia was living for the first time with her team and Brook hasnt lived for a very long time...
She had almost forgot how happy she was before her dad left her...All she could think of was how unfair has life been to her, and how her uncle is the only family she has left...
But Lok, Dante, Sophi are not related to Zhalia by blood...and still, they are like family to her...
Her mind ached upon the realization that he was using her...
He took advantage of her love and turned her into a weapon in order to get what he wants.
Brooklyn didnt care anymore if that was power or anything else.
She only knew one thing...She has to get out of here.
She could use Peter Pan and Disguiser Kai to escape...
But before she leaves, she will find out exactly what her uncle wants with those hearts...
Being in a hurry, she closed the book and left it exactly as she found it. She used Peter Pan to scan the castle and see were her uncle is and surprisingly he wasnt there...but that didnt mean he couldnt pop out of no where...
After some time she found another book...
Forms of Darkness
There were many kinds of darkness in the world, Brooklyn's mind couldnt even imagine how a few of them can possibly exist, but the first thing that caught her attention is the darkness that is very well known to all of us.
The darkness inside humans
The worst kind of darkness. It isolates all of the flaws of a human, all their urges, their anger and negative emotions and create another dark half into a person's being. Many people fight those darkness every day, but the only way to win it is by using magic.
Note: There are 2 ways to destroy darkness in some one.
- The sword of the Godness of the Moon
-The seperating cuese
Brooklyn couldnt exxactly undrstand how can the first one be found or used but you dont have to be a genius to understand the second one...
Those books being side by side in his desk must mean something...
Paniced by the possibility of her uncle finding her here, Frustrated upon realizing that he has used her, angry towards her self for allowing this to happen, sad because she aknowledges the possibility of staying here and being his slave, his tool forever,
Brooklyn got it together, held her teras and tryed her best to focus on her new goal...to turn against Airdan...
To do what Zhalia did, even though it took her so long
To do the right thing...
To get out of this place...to find her parents...she wasnt sure how she should face them, but she just needed to see them...to finally meet Zhalia in person...to thank her and get to know her...to help them...to find salvation...to find love...the love from a human to another...
She let out a deep breath she didnt know she was holding and closed her eyes in order to allow the 2 titans she needed make their powers accesable.
Disguiser Kai gave her hazel eye a white colour while made the right side of her head shaved and white...Peter Pan made the other side of her hair light green and her green eye ,gold...
She was ready!
But before she could even change forms, she felt the room shake...the magic energy rising rapidly...and she knew...he was here
Her breathing and haertbeat rised...
She was terrifyeed...
If he has been punishing her with knives in her back, screws in her hands, chains in her legs, paintings of Dali in her bones...
What is he going to do to her now?...
She nearly jumped as he felt his hand on her shoulder and turned around at the speed of lighht to face the man whose presence has become so familiar to her...but has never scared her like that...
"Hello my dear niece"
He casualy said with the usua perfect, stable tone in his voice, which made her even more frightened...this is not good...
"What a pleasant surprise finding you here in my office! There must be something important you have to tell me, am i right?"
Brooklyn eyed him with the coldest stare she could make and gathered her courage. It was time! Enough already!
"I know about the hearts and the darkness spells and curses. I know everything! All my life you made me believe i was abandoned! That there is no love for me! That the only way for me to survive this world is power! But this was never what i wanted! It's what you wanted! You took advantage of my childhood and turned me into a monster only to use me for your selfish intentions and gain power! You never loved me! You are horrible! You are the most horrible person on earth and i wont let you use me anymore!"
Airdan watched her, keeping the exact shame expression and shaked his head.
"Nu-huh. That's not how it goes love. You are smarter than i thought, i have to admit that. Though it took you long enough to understand what you are" After he said that, he got closer to her
"You are the same, pathetic, foolish little girl who holds onto others. That's what you are. I just gave you a purpose, you can almost say i did you a favour and got you out of your pathetic life"
Brooklyn was fierce, she wanted to attack, but then she remembered Zhalia. How cool she would act around her enemies, her way of thinking...
Brooklyn must stay calm and think straight.
"You gave me a purpose? Turning me into a monster you mean! An i am not the one holding onto people! You are! You would have managed nothing without me dealing with your bullshit everyday! I am sick and tired of you! I wont help you with your intentions and you cant make me!"
"Oh really? What a shame, i thought i could...Oh wait! I actualy can"
He said and with a smooth move, Brooklyn felt the blood curl in her veins...he was controling her blood circulation in a way it drove her insane...
No matter how many titans she has inside her...blood magic is something she cant defeat.
"You chose quite a bad timing to make your revolution, but let me remind you love, that this is how the gme looks like when i am dominating. I control you! You are mine! Is that clear?"
Brooklyn said nothing and tried to keep herself on her feet. But soon she felt weak and dropped on her knees. Her blood flow wasnt norma...and it made her wanna rip her veins of.
"You wont kill me...you cant" the damaged female said, putting a lot of effort to make her voice stable and confident, to show him she's not afraid of him
"Don't worry love, i wont kill you"
"Then what are you gona do?"
"The worst thing possible... nothing"
"Huh?"
"I'll just let you keep living your misery. Cause just like i cant kill you...you cant escape. Cause if you even try, you will never see your brother again"
"Yeah, like you ever intented to let me do so"
"As a matter of fact i did love, but i wont get to the details. Now go! Get out of my sight!"
He said and with a quick motion, Brooklyn's blood circulation started working normaly. With the last drops of strength remain in her body, she lifted up her head to face his sureal features.
"I just want to know one thing...why would an man like you want the purest hearts in the world?"
"I thought you were smart enough to undestand, love. I guess i have overestimated your inteligence"
Back to the "lab"
"Turns out the answear to my question was so much easier... And here i am now, ploting against the person who i had grown to consider as my family...trying to do the right thing...to go back to light. If it wasnt for you, for everything you have shown me, i would propably still be his servant, an object for manipulation. I know you are not aware of any of this but...Thank you Zhalia Moon. You are an amazing person, you deserve to be loved. You desrve to be free. I really appreciate all you have done, for opening my eyes. You know, after that night i discovered his cause, he told me to stop watching you. He definately realized that you influenced me. But i still protected you...i promised my self i always will.
When you joinned the blood spiral, Rasimov had expected you. He actually had made an entire plan of how to unmask you and kill you...but he never did so...thanks to Hanzo, the mind Dominator and the last titan to join me...and i am still trying to protect you. I dont know for sure if i can get you out of here, but i know that i wont give up on you...i wont"
Brooklyn finished her speech. She had shared her entire story, or at least the most important parts of it. She wanted Zhalia to know...some how. She felt like she needed to do so.
She took a glance at her and noticed that a hint of colour had started to come back to her face. she smiled.
Brooklyn wiped her face. She didnt know when she started crying, but she was sure she did, so she wiped her tears away.
This confession made her feel like a burden has been lifted of her shoulders and she is now more that determined to accomplish her mission.
She allowed Peter Pan to take over and rushed to her cell, not knowing that all this time..
Zhalia and Eathon have been listening.
In the morning (finaly next day came)
"Why on Earth did Lok wany us to meet so early?" Harrsion said feeling more sleepy than ever, despite LeBlanch's efforts of waking the team up with his delicious coffee.
All of them, Dante, Sophie, Den and him were now at Sophie's mansion, waiting for the blond teenager who asked for the emergency meeting to show up.
Dante was the last one to show up and he was feeling really tired, but notiing Den's odd behaviour and of course, Lok's sudden call, made him immediately wake up.
Harrison could also see the crystal clear displease in Den's mood and the most irretating part was that Sophie seemed to know something about both Den's behaviour and Lok's request, which made Harison feel a little lost and Dante more eager to find out what is going on.
"Sophie, did Lok say when he will arrive?" asked the adult seeker
"He will be there at any minu- Oh, here he is"
The strawberry haired teenager said as she sw her boyfriend's figure enter the room, carrying a huge backpack which seemed to be really heavy.
"I am not sure if i want to know what is in there" said Den
Lok greeted the teamand gave him an apologetic look. Then did something Den didnt expect.
He told the team about the cards and everything that had happened in room 998 the day Dante took him there.
Sophie wasnt surprised, since she already knew, Den was taken aback by his action when Dante and Harrison seemed slightly annoyed with the fact that Lok kept it to himself. But at the end they showed understandind, after all he wasnt feeling well those days, and asked him to show them the cards.
"A 10 diamond and a 2 diamond" stated dante as he took the cards in his hands
"Yeah" confirmed Lok " I have tried to figure out what they mean, cause i wanted to help, but it turns out i cant do it by my self. Besides" He paused and looked at Den "keeping secrets is the last thing we need...and i am sorry i did so"
With that, Den smiled to him and Lok knew that he had forgiven him.
"What are we waiting for then? Let's get to buisness!" said Harrison.
"Oh guys, wait!" Lok then remembered the backpack he has brought with him. He lifted it and threw its content on the table.
There were books and notes. Sophie immediately recognised a few of them.
"Really Lok? Zhalia is missing and now you decided to finaly study literature?"
"Don't you get it Sophie? Maybe the cards or the numbers in them are symbols? They could be anything!"
Sophie looked at him with surprise. Lok looks more determined and brave than he ever did. He really want to solve this mystery and make things the way they used to be when Zhalia was around, but she knows that a part of him does every action for his dad cause he is Lok's fisrt priority. She is more than happy to see that he is not only back to normal, but ready to do anything! Even introduce his self to what he hates the most... boring books, well, for him boring.
They all grabed a book and started searching. Lok had made a good picking, he chose poems like The magic of Numbers by Kenneth Koch, or poems with the title numbers by Louis Golding, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Augustine Bowe etc., or poems which would contain the word cards in them, such as 'On the cards of dice' by Sir Walter Ralegh.
But Sophie couldnt help but notice how Dante was lookng at the cards or shaking them round and round. He would take them where the light falls and then back to were he had first placed them. The female teenager couldnt help but wonder what was going on in her mentor's head and what has he found out.
"Dante, is everything alright? Did you find something? You have been staring at the cards with persistence for quite a while"
Suddenly every one was eyeing Dante with curiosity. He repeated the procedure one more time. Put the card in the sun and keep it there for a while. The amber eyed man noticed that the more he would put the back of the card in the sun (the part without the numbers), the more he could see something...
Then he finaly spoke, allowing every one in the room to release the breath they have been holding.
"Hmmm, invisible ink" He pointed out so casually, but on the other hand, things like that are very well known to a detective.
"Invisible ink" repeated Sophie, obviusly knowing what it is
"If it is invisible then how can you see it?" asked Lok causing Sophie to facepalm
"Invisible ink can be applied to a writing surface with a specialty purpose stylus,stamp , fountain pen, toothpick, calligraphy pen, or even a finger dipped in the liquid. Once dry, the written surface looks as if it were blank, with a similar texture and reflectivity as the surrounding surface.
The ink can be later made visible by different methods according to the type of invisible ink used. The ink may be revealed by heat or by application of an appropriate chemical, or it may be made visible by viewing under ultraviolet light. Inks which are developed by a chemical reaction may depend on an acid-base reaction, reactions similar to the blueprint process, or any of hundreds of others. Developer fluids may be applied using a spray bottle, but some developers are in the form of vaporous, e.g. ammonia fumes used to develop phenolphthalein ink. Security marker pens or UV Markers with fluorescent ink that glows when illuminated with a UV light is often used to invisibly mark valuable household items in case of burglary. There are especially security maker pens formulated for writing on non-porous surfaces such as glass, plastics, metals, etc. The inks that have been applied and can then be identified by using a black light or other UV light source. Security marker pens can be obtained commercially and are widely used as a crime countermeasure"
Lok stared at his girlfriend as if she was speaking in some kind of forgotten ancient language, which would propably have been much more understandable to him than all this.
"Sooo...that means" asked Den who was just as confused as Lok
Dante let both cards in the sun and told them to wait.
"The cards have invisible ink in their back and as Sophie said, there are spesific ways to make it visible. One of them is heat."
Said their mentor after the ink became even more visible.
"Really Wikipedia? You could have just said what Dante said" commented Den
"How was i suppised to know that Dante was about to mntion an ink visible with heat. I just tried to make my self usefull"
"And you did Wiki" added Lok
"Am i going to get stuck with this nickname for a while?" asked Sophie with bored tone
"Oh yeah" said Den, Lok and Harrison synhronised, while Dante was standing above the cards, waiting for the ink to become completely visible...and when it did.
"Lok"
"Yes Dante?"
"Write down the clues we have so far'
"Right!" said the blond boy and took papper and pen and signalled his mentor to begin.
"Alright, so far we have a 10 and a 2, or a 12, cards, diamonds and we are not sure if all of them mean something, but the numbers definately do...and at last...G1"
Said their mentor as his eyes caught the G in the one and the 1 in the other card.
Who ever is on their side likes to play with codes...
But Lok feels confident that he is going to figure it out...
He has to...
For Zhalia...
And for his father...
A/N Hello everyone, chapter 4 is here and no, those memories are not the Zhante scene i promised. This chapter gave me a hard time and i really hope you will like it.
Thank God internet exists, otherwise i wouldnt have been able to find all these info,
So, we have a 10 and 2, or 12 and the G1. Which exactly is Brooklyn's code? Can Lok figure it out?
What do you think will be Zhalia's opinion about Brooklyn's story...
And will Carter and Montehue manage to figure out something?
Why would Airdan want to use the purest hearts in the world and what does it have to do with Zhalia's dark side?
Just hang in there and you will find out~
PS: I have noticed that the most chapters i post, the less views and reviews i get and i am kind of worried, since i am very new to writing, i cant tell wether you get bored of the story or not. I have decided to stop the Harmonists (In case some one knows about them) and keep up 'Our Dark Side;, but i dont know how it will end up.
Anyway, love to you all from Irene Rays~ 3
