"Go… With you…?" Darky questioned, "Most of these people are my nakama…"
"Hm… I see. Your life was never full of torment." Millisar closed his eyes, before looking into Darky's, "...No, I take back that statement… I see. That's fine. I won't force you to make a choice. Just come and see with your own eyes what happens to those like you and me."
With a swish of his cape, Millisar left.
Darky stood, and ran after him after he left fully. G and Nassau followed her, Lila leading the others.
They finished going through the Catheirn, fighting a monster at the end.
"The Spirits… Aren't calming." Darky looked extremely rattled and scared, while G looked heavily worried.
It was… rare, to see Darky so utterly scared. She, G, and Ayn tried to calm the Spirits, but were stopped by a voice…
"I see…"
"...!" Nassau's head shot to where the voice came from, spotting a winged woman.
"Millisar?" Flash questioned.
"Hmm… So you know Millisar." came the voice, "Welcome to the birthplace of suffering. I am pleased you could join me."
"Wings, huh? So, she's a Summon Beast too…" mused Nassau.
"She's the Fugitive Summon that destroyed this place?" questioned Ticah.
"I feel a strong power…" Ayn spoke.
"It seems to be… She seems alright in a place where the Spirits are in pain." Lila said.
"You're…" Darky looked surprised.
"That power earlier… You must be the Summon Beast Millisar spoke of." The woman smiled, before looking concerned, "Why are you accompanying humans?"
Darky shrunk back a little, surprising mostly everyone. No one had ever seen her like this…
So scared and unsure. The woman, noticing this, looked determined.
"If they are forcing you, let me release you from those bonds." she spoke.
"What the hell are you blabbing about?!" Nassau yelled, "Darky's one of us. Stop making stuff up."
"I see that the you, that boy, and the girl there aren't human… Entirely, anyway." the woman then said, "Are you the Demi Beasts I heard of?"
"Kascuza…" Darky said, her voice small and meek, "They are called Kascuza… Of the Garbah tribe…"
Phicra smiled, "You seem to be closer to Summon beasts that humans. I am pleased to meet you."
Nassau grinned, "Why, thank you. But that's not why we're here-"
Darky cut him off, "I want to see… The Vital Lab… Miss Phicra…"
"...! How in the world do you know my name?" Phicra questioned.
"That… doesn't matter… I want to see your place of suffering!" Darky exclaimed.
"Very well… Please, study it to your heart's content… What the humans have done to us." She left. Darky immediately followed, G close behind. The others followed the siblings, and gathered in the vital lab.
"Woah, this room is seriously torn up…" Nassau frowned.
"Even I feel how bad the Spirits are…" G glanced at Darky, who looked even more scared than before, if that was possible. He looked to Ayn, who didn't look as bad as Darky, but Ticah had to help her.
"Such… Strong emotion…" Darky gasped out, "Sadness… and suffering… and-"
"Hatred." Phicra and Darky said together.
"Our hatred for the humans who confined us in these capsules and exploited our abilities to connect to the Spirits of our worlds." Phicra said, "The humans who used us as tools to control Spirits for their own power."
Darky bit her lip, remembering something from a past…
She tuned out a few things for a moment, ignoring her surroundings…
Being pressured constantly to the point that your soul feels like it is ripping to tiny little particles of what it once was…
The pain of that is…
Unimaginable…
She saw Millisar and a Summon Beast that she recognized as Ghardib appear and speak to Phicra.
She felt the Spirits become even more unstable, and fell to her knees.
"Why… Why…?!"
"...! Darky!" G exclaimed. Darky screamed, an aura almost evil surrounding her.
Explosions rittled the lab, everyone just barely acknowledging Mardin's arrival…
Darky screamed again…
And the Vital Lab fell to the underground…
Darky awoke before G, quickly leaving him behind, knowing he'd be fine, and heading away.
She… knew that she had a monster to defeat…
A monster… she created…
She didn't remember summoning it, losing control…
But she knew that she did it… And that she'd have to fix it.
