Chapter 21 Rotten in the Core
The earth splintered swallowing the camp, Haku floated with Kent and Nikki jumped back on her broom under Gaia's wings as Lenore the bird changed size and scooped up a much smaller Speedy. The core of this planet was revealed as a brown stone chamber as from inside someone shot at the sky. It was the same person disguised that killed Kent. With the hidden face he had to accept the truth, it was his own father.
"Kent!" Violet cried from the core struggling free from her mother's grip.
"Only Kent and Haku. Everyone else leave." His father uttered. Haku looked at Nikki and Gaia nodding. He didn't want his friends to be hurt and knew Hyousuke had no uncertainties about shooting them.
"Violet!" Kent said as he struggled from Haku's grip. Kent was in many ways a truer mirror than any of Haku's crystal ice ones. He was a reflection of the raw central parts of Haku as a person. With that being said he's just as self-sacrificing as the boy who was a living weapon and dying human shield twice for the person that was almost like a true father. He thought back to how weak he was before Zabuza, a homeless child fighting off dogs for edible garbage, knowing that he needed to stay so Kent and his precious person would be protected. The entirety of his strength unlocked to protect Violet could only do so much.
A light brighter than anything on the strange forest threatened to burn the trees, forcing Nikki and Gaia to fly away in hopes of extinguishing it. Through the trees they could just make out an angel wandering lost and confused, yet somehow familiar. Haku used the distraction to create an ice wall around Violet as Kent faded then teleported down into the core to save her. Baptisia screamed in fury before he could hold her, teleporting the Yuki men to the place where all the unworthy souls wait.
It was a place where nothing reached you anymore. The lack of stimuli could drive one insane, usually the souls sent to hell were teleported here without warning. If they failed to repent after being broken in this solitary confinement, then their torture trained angelic warriors. Once they were used up, heaven them sent downward as twisted husks. "I see, it's time to correct my mistakes. I'm not sure where your mother and I went wrong-" Hyousuke said to himself. Baptisia sending him here, was the last chance he had before once again letting his sons be the death of him.
"Don't you ever speak of her!" Kent and Haku said, their tone arctic. Both now saw Hyousuke, this man may have fathered them but what makes one a true dad? They saw it was something out of Hyousuke's grasp, to care for them or their mother despite their uniqueness. Kent felt that it was his turn to do something right. For months he stood behind his family as their fame was unknowingly built on the lives of countless supernatural.