Chapter 4: The Long Awaited Forgiveness

An hour later... Serenity carefully climbed onto some large thorn vines until she reached the top of the highest one to look at the horizon of many species within the nightmare lands.

She let out a sigh seeing how everyone was miserable and some that tried to make the best of the situation but she knew they weren't happy, no one was.

She saw a man trying to move a beast but only fell in the mud, his body was burned from torture recently.

Two people came up to him and helped him out.

Serenity stood there for a while looking at everything going on in front of her.

Serenity heard a grunt behind her and turned around to see Akechi climbing up.

"Hello?" Serenity asked curiously.

"Hello, you must be Serenity, yes?" Akechi asked.

"That would be me, can I help you?" Serenity asked.

Akechi stood there two feet away from Serenity.

"My name is Akechi Goro. I'm a recent new friend to Aizen, and supposingly his friends. That must mean you too?" Akechi asked.

"Yeah...?" Serenity asked as she was still confused.

"I'm sorry if I disturbed you, I just was curious why you was here all by yourself." Akechi said.

"To be honest, I'm here because I'm trying to get my mind off our current situation." Serenity said.

"How we are all living?" Akechi asked.

"Yeah. It's been breaking my heart and sanity." Serenity said.

"We cannot let such things corrupt our thoughts and steal our hearts. We control our own destinies, no one should control us." Akechi said.

"Exactly." Serenity said.

"Hopefully, Tenebris can be killed." Akechi said.

"What if one day he gets tired of torturing us and decides to ultimately kill us...?" Serenity said.

"Least our suffering ends." Akechi said.

Akechi put on a smile making Serenity feel safe.

"Like the saying goes, a little death never-" Akechi began to say.

Serenity's eyes widened.

"Never killed anybody..." Serenity finished.

"You know the ol' saying?" Akechi asked in surprise.

"It's a favorite quote of mine!" Serenity said.

"Really? That's quite interesting." Akechi said.

Akechi and Serenity began to talk a bit more about one another for a few minutes.

Walking up to them was Akira.

"Hey uh, I don't mean to interrupt but would you like to join us Serenity?" Akira asked.

"It's guy's day isn't it?" Serenity asked.

"Yeah, why?" Akira asked.

"And you want me, a girl in it?" Serenity said.

Akira just shrugged.

"I suppose." Serenity said.

Akechi and Serenity followed Akira.

Akira noticed how Akechi and Serenity were still discussing their interests and Akira cocked an eyebrow with a slight grin.

They walked up to the group.

"So this is where the party is." Serenity said.

"Yo, it's a party now!" James said.

"Hehehe!" Yammy chuckled.

"Nice to see you." Starrk said.

"Likewise to you all." Serenity said.

"How are you Serenity?" Ryu asked.

"I'm doing alright. So what are we talking about today boys?" Serenity asked as she sat down with them.

"Same old boring stuff." James said.

"Well let's spice it up. Nishio, remember the time when-" Serenity began to say.

"Mom, nothing embarrassing please." Nishio said.

"Relax, I'm not going to tell them the time you flushed your own glasses down the toilet." Serenity said with a grin.

"M-mom!" Nishio said.

"You flushed your glasses away?" Gin asked.

"It's just, some kids at school made fun of me and I broke them in two and flushed them away." Nishio said.

"Three hundred credits." Serenity said.

"Oh shit." Pain said.

"Didn't you wear glasses, Akira?" Aizen asked.

"Yeah but, just for looks." Akira said.

"Not for any eye correction?" Nishio asked.

"Or for looks?" Gin added in asking.

"Yeah?" Akira said.

"I have never heard such a thing." Sasori said.

"Must be a future thing." Kylo said.

"Actually that wasn't a style in our future." Ken said.

"Well, it was for me. I had to look less intimidating." Akira said.

"You, intimidating?" Hidan asked with a laugh.

Akira just rolled his eyes.

"Come on, show us your angry face." Serenity said.

Akira tried to give a mean look but it came across as scary than anything.

"You know what, maybe just have a plain look." Hide said.

"Agreed." Ken said.

Akira just gave them all a slight grin.

"Thought so." Akira said.

A few minutes later as they were talking, the girls showed up.

"Oh, so this is where you guys have been." Cosmic said.

"Enjoy your day ladies?" Stolas asked.

"We had a good time." Lopunny said.

"Serenity, you bored with us so you decided to come here?" Zinnia asked with a grin.

"The boys can tell some interesting stories." Serenity said.

"Embarrassing as some can be like when Aizen tried to dance." Gin said.

"Hey!" Aizen shouted.

"You tried to dance? Come on anyone can dance." Aruriania said.

"Well, I-" Aizen began to say.

"There you are!" Jessica shouted.

"Oh fuck." Everyone softly said to themselves.

"Jess- agh!" Aizen shouted.

Jessica grabbed his neck strangling him.

"You killed me!" Jessica shouted.

Everyone watched what was going on.

"Is she always this crazy?" Akechi asked.

"You wouldn't believe the shit she-" Qrow began to say.

"Someone help me!" Aizen shouted.

"We can't die so it won't do her any good." Gin said.

"Oh yeah I can still breathe- but I can still feel her squeezing my neck!" Aizen shouted.

"Jessica, just tell him how you feel." Cosmic said.

"You killed me for your own selfish gain!" Jessica yelled and got off him.

Aizen stood up dusting himself off.

"I was selfish!" Aizen yelled.

"You admit it?" Jessica asked.

"He admitted it!?" Everyone shouted.

"Yes okay I admit it, I was selfish- yes I killed you and everyone to have the power of the sphere for myself! Now look at where we are at, it was all one big trap! So continue to hate me for eternity since that's what it seems we are at for eternity, here in this hell!" Aizen yelled.

Jessica was quiet and everyone else looked down.

Aizen sighed and walked over giving Jessica a hug in which she returned the hug back.

"I'm sorry." Aizen said.

"And I'm sorry for shouting at you and trying to kill you back." Jessica said softly.

"Gentlemen and ladies- but mostly fine gentlemen, may I suggest we dance?" Zarbon suggested.

"I think-" Aizen began to say.

"How about we teach Aizen how to dance." Jessica encouraged.

"That's the spirit!" Zarbon said.

Nnoitra began a beat with Grimmjow and James following up with it and a few random people nearby got into the beat and tapped their feet.

Everyone began to dance in weird ways while Jessica helped Aizen to square dance.

"Good, see?" Jessica said.

"Holy shit- Gin! Gin! I'm dancing!" Aizen shouted.

"Great, don't get cocky." Gin said.

Akechi looked at everyone with an amused look.

"Come on!" Serenity said to him.

"I'm fine thank you. It's entertaining to see you all act like fools." Akechi said.

"Oh, that's it!" Serenity said grinning.

Serenity grabbed his hands pulling him in and forcing him to dance with her, which embarrassed him at first but he did it regardless for her and the two noticed Akira approach with his own style.

Akira was impressing everyone with his dance moves and everyone began to clap for him.

Suddenly there was some awes and Akira turned his head to see Makoto walking to him with a grin on her face, the two both grinned at one another and had a dance-off.

The two impressed everyone but then Dray and Cosmic approached and had a dance-off with both of them.

Everyone danced for a few more minutes before they was all tired and decided to begin to head back to their bone huts.

James was taking a long breather and Mangle kept patting his back.

"Fat people take awhile to-" Mangle began to say.

"I'm not fat!" James shouted.

"What a fat person would say." Mangle said.

"Want me to beat her up for you!" Aruriania called out.

"I'll help, I still need to vent some steam." Jessica said.

"Now come on, don't go picking on my wife." Prompto said.

"Doesn't she shove you in mud when she wants to be playful and you have to get it all out of your hair?" Aruriania questioned.

"Nevermind." Prompto said.

"Traitor!" Mangle shouted as she ran off.

"See you at home babe!" Prompto said with a wave while Aruriania and Jessica chased after Mangle.

Ken and Eto walked along with Serenity and the three looked at some people nearby that looked sick and noticed one of them having recent burn marks.

"Guess that guy was chosen today." Ken said.

"Even though we had a good time today, I sure wish we'd have a good time all the time." Eto said.

"Serenity, you think this nightmare will ever end?" Ken asked.

"I sure hope so, I sure hope so." Serenity said with a sigh.

"I wish I knew the truth while it was in me, maybe I could have found a way to destroy that orb." Serenity said.

"What's done is done, besides there could have been something made to replace it, something much more deadly." Eto said.

"The end result would have been the same too." Ken said.

Serenity just nodded and the three walked off together discussing other things.

Nearby watching them was a four-eyed alien male.

"That's them." The alien said.

Three days later...

"Norman, Norman where are you!" Beverly shouted.

"I'm over here woman, trying to grab this stupid pig thing. Whatever this creature is." Norman said.

"Akira brought that over to us an hour ago, be careful with it!" Beverly shouted moving some bones somewhere.

"Tell it to be careful with me! Damn thing keeps struggling." Norman groaned.

Aizen walked up to them with a slight grin.

Norman and Beverly was youthful again but one thing Aizen noticed was, how he nearly looked like Norman by the eyebrows and jaw.

"Let me help." Aizen said quickly grabbing the pig creature.

"Thanks, son. This is a stupid pig." Norman said.

"You know I was shocked like you to find out I am the son you two had to give away during the bad times in Gielinor during my birth." Aizen said.

It was finally revealed, Norman and Beverly were Aizen's parents.

Norman sighed and patted Aizen's shoulder who in turn patted Norman's hand.

Beverly walked up hugging Aizen and had to pull him down to kiss his cheek.

"Good boy." Beverly said.

"Thanks mom." Aizen said.

"How are you and that annoying girl." Norman said.

"Jessica." Aizen said.

"Yeah, that bitch." Norman said.

"Now Norman it isn't her fault that she's a bitch." Beverly said.

Aizen just facepalmed.

"Kind of is." Norman said.

"She's fine, we both made up." Aizen said.

"You could have done better." Norman said.

A pig ran by and knocked Norman into the mud.

"Stupid pig!" Norman shouted.

"Oh, I'm so happy that you and Jessica re-settled." Beverly said.

"Thanks." Aizen said.

Approaching them was the four-eyed alien.

"Excuse me, primitive." The alien said to Aizen.

"Primitive?" Norman questioned.

"May I help you?" Aizen asked.

"I want to talk to you about the orb." The alien said.

Aizen was surprised and didn't know what to say.

"I overheard your friends speaking and I wanted to confirm this for myself, judging by your reaction it's true." The alien said.

"What's your name?" Aizen asked.

"Javik." Javik said.

"What would you like to know?" Aizen asked.

"It's nothing I want to know, it's something I want to tell you and your friends." Javik said.

Aizen, Norman, and Beverly were surprised and looked at one another before looking forward.

A few hours later, Stolas was watching Dray changing clothes with a wide grin on his face.

"Oh Draykey, such an elegant body, oh my how I want you to **** my *** and then I will bend ****** for you to ******** me against the rocks while others watch until I *** over myself!" Stolas said and began to shout.

"What the fuck!?" Serenity shouted hearing it.

"The fuck, Dad!" Octavia shouted.

"The fuck!?" Dray shouted covering himself after hearing it.

"Language, everyone." Stolas said.

Suddenly he was punched by Cosmic and she began to kick him while he was on the ground.

"What did I tell you! He's straight and married to me! Friend zone! Friend zone!" Cosmic shouted.

"I'm sorry! Help someone!" Stolas shouted.

Octavia and Serenity didn't help him and just watched.

"Ahem." Aizen said.

They all looked at Aizen.

"I don't mean to interrupt... whatever this is." Aizen said cringing a bit.

"What do you need, I'm punishing our neighbor." Cosmic said.

"Serenity can I speak to you nearby?" Aizen asked.

"But I'll miss the show." Serenity said.

"Serenity." Aizen said.

Serenity just sighed and followed him.

The two arrived and met Ken, Eto, and Akira.

"What's this about?" Ken asked.

Javik approached them.

"Me." Javik said.

Everyone except Aizen stiffened.

"Relax he isn't going to cause trouble." Aizen said.

"What's going on?" Ken asked Aizen.

"Javik here would like to talk to us about Tenebris and the orb." Aizen said.

Everyone was shocked to hear that and looked at one another before looking at Javik.