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"What going on?" Tin-Tin said in a panic rant. "Seriously what is going on? What is that glowing in his hand and how did it appear?"

Fermat just stared at the glowing light, completely shocked and in awe over it, and was in not capable condition to answer let alone give her a perfectly good and reasonable reason to what was happening. However once he managed to snap out of his shocked he quickly began thinking reasons, though not as reasonable as he hoped and wanted, but he suspected like always it had something to do with Alan's activity in the spirit world. Which left him with the pending question what exactly was he doing in the spirit world that would cause him making a light show in the palm of his hand.

Before he had the chance to think of a response they heard a door opened and heavy feet entered the silo, not too far from where they were hiding. It was times like these he was glad that Alan was unconscious, cause knowing him he would have most likely observed and listened for a moment before he would take action, which is something they were in no position to do at the moment since they were defenseless and though he believed Tin-Tin was smart and quick on her feet there was just so much she could do on her own.

He quickly shook those thoughts away as he and Tin-Tin tried to listen on the quiet conversation in the room. It was two men, older men even though not as old as Mr. Tracy or his dad, and they got a quick glimpse at them from their hiding spot before they walked away from their directionality. However a glimpse was more than enough to see that they were completely covered in black clothes, even their faces were covered to disguise their identity, but Fermat focused on the conversation as one of the men said with a snarky and rude tone, "Can't believe these people have all this stuff, what exactly do they do here?"

"Have no clue, but in the end it doesn't matter. We are here to find a brat with superpowers like the boss," the other guy answered. Shortly after they heard stuff being moved and tossed away in a loudly manner, which meant they were searching the place. He and Tin-Tin could only hope that they wouldn't do a careful sweep on the place otherwise they were pretty screwed.

"Why is this kid so important anyway? From what I heard he sees dead people, what could our boss want with someone like that? I mean what use to he or anyone have with someone who can't do anything here in the living reality?"

"Boss believes that the kid can do a lot more than what he thinks. He might be able manipulate these ghosts and spirits to do his own bidding, maybe even control life or deaf itself," the goon said confidently. If the voice wasn't coming closer towards them Fermat might have been seriously interested and amazed by the statement and wanted nothing more to hear more on what they thought his best friend could do, but as it happens that weren't an opinion so they moved as quietly and fast as they could away from eyesight while hoping that they wouldn't come any closer. Which was by then they realized that Alan's lightshow was still on and definitely no helping them stay hidden any better.

Fermat stared between the glowing light and Tin-Tin before he asked in a whisper, "What are we going to do about that?"

Tin-Tin didn't answer, just swiftly took of her thin shirt leaving her with only her purple tank top and put it over the light, and was obviously not afraid if it might burn or anything, which it didn't. However it really didn't darken the light much, it didn't darken at all just made the shirt glow instead. It was times like this he wanted to swear at Alan and everything that was going on because he was the one who brought them in this tight spot in the first place, but then again his best friend was in any position to defend himself on the matter so he shouldn't be complaining either. But when they heard the door between the room where they were hiding and the other room opened and was face to face with two black-covered men he actually regretted not swearing at all.

Despite the odd circumstances, he actually felt empowered by the whole thing and when he released the energy like his mother advised him to do something inside him felt strong and free, almost like invisible chains that had been holding him back finally broke. And when he finally opened up his eyes and saw what he had done he was quite amazed, frighten too, but still amazed by the whole thing.

The gate door had been opened slightly, just a peak really, but that small entrance was just enough for him to force and command those spirits back to the spirit world and to his side. Alan was actually shocked how many ghosts and spirits he had managed to force back, even more that the gatekeeper didn't attack him for doing so, which left him with the huge question how in the hell was he supposed to undo everything without causing even more trouble than what he had started with. Fortunately his mother knew the answer to that one as she chuckled lightly and said, "If you wishes to close the gate then do the exact thing you did before. Use your will to command the door close; the main source to your power is your own strong and uncontrollable will. So use it to your fullest."

He did what he was told for once in his life, which proved to be the right thing to do because moments later the door closed and vengeful spirits were forced by the gatekeeper to removed their presence from the scene, something he was thankful that he didn't have to deal with knowing fully well that how well they would to respond to him.

Anyways he turned his attention back on his mother and actually grinned proudly at him accomplishment, which she responded in the same manner, however the moment was short-lived when a powerful wind came out of nowhere, trying to make him lose his balance, and then his surroundings started to blur.

"What is going on?" He shouted as he covered his eyes from the wind's attack. Meru and Yoru was grabbing and clutching his shirt so tightly in attempt to not get blown by the wind that he flinched in pain, but he ignored as he stared at his mother waiting for the explanation that was literally hanging in the air.

"Your duty here is done," Her expression fell and that sad and heartbreaking smile was up. "It's time for you to return to the living."

His eyes widened in shocked, "What? No. I want more time. I have gotten the chance to see you again and without a flimsy memory that never helped or family members unwilling to talk about you like it is a taboo subject."

He knew that it was pathetic and that he did have to return back to his body and the others, but his selfish and desperate side was overpowered by the need to be with his mother that he was practically begging to stay by her side. She moved up to his side and placed her hand on his cheek, even though he couldn't barely feel or see her anymore, and said sad yet strongly, "You have to go. Your father and your brothers as well as your friends need you more than I do; besides I'm sure that they would be sadden by your departure and also you would miss them."

She had a point that he would miss everyone. There was still so much he wanted to do and more importantly he wanted to reconnect with his family and hopefully stop the whole estrangement and become a real family again, which was now a possibility since his secret was out in the open. When he was about to give his finally answer she shook her head, indicating that she already knew the answer before she said, "I will always be with you. Tell you father and your brothers that I miss and love them."

"I will," He promised and then everything started to grow darker and more blurry around him, but the moment before everything disappeared his mother managed to give him her final words, "Use your powers the same way when you get back. They will be the thing that will save you and everyone."

He nodded and understanding the message, however just when he thought that was the last thing she was going to tell him she took him by surprise when she continued on, but the difference was that the next words weren't for him instead was to Meru and Yoru.

"Meru and Yoru, you two continue and stay by his side and support him."

"Of course, even if you didn't ask us, we would still do it because we are friends," Meru said with a happy-go-lucky manner, but he didn't care about that that interested him. Did those to crash into his life because of his mother's interference?

Before he had a chance to interrogate any of them everything simply vanished and returned back into the world of darkness and unconsciousness.

Tin-Tin flinched when one of the goons grabbed her arm hard and pulled her up from the floor, while the other one kicked Fermat down on the floor easily. She flinched by the pain, but her anger was more prominent over the fact they were treating Fermat that way when he had done nothing to deserve such treatment. However they didn't seem too bothered by her or Fermat as the goon that had kicked Fermat stood and stared down on the unconscious Alan.

"I guess this is Alan Tracy, the brat that we were told to look for," He talked with a disgusting smirk that literally gave her shivers up her spine despite her being unable to see his face. "All this trouble for a guy who isn't even awake to fight back. I'm disappointed. I expected a lot more trouble, especially when the boss warned us about being careful around him. He must really be overestimating the kid."

Then he turned around to look at her before he used his gloved hand and took a hold of her chin, forcing her to look at him, "You are quite pretty. After we are done here maybe I should take you and have my way with you if you know what I mean."

Dread and disgust hit her stomach and she wanted nothing more than to throw up by the thought of what he was planning to do with her. However she refused to give this man the privilege to see her weak and defeated. So she simply glared at him before she moved her gaze away from him even though he still held her chin. When he finally let go he promised, "Deny me now Princess, but I promise that when we are alone you are going to scream for mercy."

Then the two of them went on and laughed at the matter like it was a hilarious joke. She and Fermat were completely powerless and now they had Alan in their possession they had indeed lost the battle even before it began, which was more frustrating than everything that they had not only disappointed their families and the Tracys but also their friend Alan, who placed his trust in them to do the job to keep them out of harms way. It was an excruciating feeling that made anyone just crawl into a hole and being left to die.

Surprisingly, out of nowhere a loud and annoyed groan was let out and they all looked at the direction of where they had heard it and were all surprised to see the former unconscious blond sit up and said really-really annoyed, "Whoever made you two kings of the world must have lost more than a couple of screws, but you two will be charcoal by the time I'm done with you for doing and saying such horrible things to my friends. And seeing as I'm really annoyed at the moment why don't I give you the lessons you won't forget about messing with Tracy men and the ones they care about?"

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