AN: Yo! I'm back with chapter 6 of the story and this one may or may not be as laid back as the other chapters. What i mean is, a lot of harsh language will be present, so without further ado, let us begin

Also, feel free to put any OC suggestions you guys have in the reviews or simply PM me, this story will be long, looking at around 60 chapters, so OCs will be needed from now till the end.

-Gedeon-

Gedeon was walking through the chilly night of Eterna City. He knew Sinnoh was a cold region, but this was quite ridiculous. The average nightly cold was below 40 degrees. That was seriously frostbite levels of cold! Or maybe that's an exaggeration, but it doesn't matter now. The young adult was looking around the silent city under the moonlit sky. A lot of thoughts were floating in his head. From the recent bodies of two young trainers and a pokemon.

YOUNG TRAINERS.

They were no older than 12 years old. So who could've done it? What were their objectives? Gedeon needed answers and he knew one place in Eterna was the right place. It's active at night time only, which isn't suspicious at all. Well maybe this was, because the location isn't even known by Gardenia herself. But with a clue from Looker, he was able to follow the path towards the mystery place. It was just outside the city, by the notorious landmark of Sinnoh.

Mount Coronet.

It held many mysteries and more along the lines, and now it held his next possible lead. Gedeon didn't know what to expect here, but he had to remain vigilant. As for one, he was in a more unfamiliar region. There are only three people from this region he knew. Gedeon was now walking over a short bridge.

"I should be over the spot now." Gedeon moved his head down and looked at what seemed to be an opening. "That must be it, the jump from here would break my legs, so I'll fly with Flygon."

And with that Gedeon summoned his dragon type pokemon who began to shiver from the cold air.

"Sorry bud, but we need to get to that opening, I'm sure you can see it. If you want you can use Flamethrower to warm up." Gedeon patted the Flygon's head, getting it to give a small chortle. Flygon gave a mighty flap of its wings and flew down towards the cave opening.

Gedeon jumped off the large insectoid dragon type pokemon and landed on the rocky ground without making a lot of noise. "Flygon, whip up a Sandstorm in five minutes, got it?"

Gedeon's reply was a nod as the mystical pokemon landed on the ground, leaving Gedeon to go ahead in the cave. Which the young adult thought was eerie.

CLANK! CLANK!

Gedeon walked even slower, blending in with the darkness due to his black cowl. Gedeon didn't know what the source of the sound was but it was loud and hurtful to his ears. It was like a grinding feeling, or the scribbling of chalk on a rock. Gedeon silently went forward, light began to show, which he was thankful for. He looked up ahead and noticed several people.

"So how was the test?" One voice spoke, it sounded deep and filled with malicious intent.

"It worked like a charm, the trainers had no choice but to face death!" The second one was quite psychotic.

"This works just perfect, excellent work." The deep voice spoke again, this time a bit more excited. "Anyway, let us open up the bar, it's opening time."

"Haha! This is my queue to leave then, I want to test more of these particles, I'll inform the boss. She'll be quite pleased."

Gedeon waited a few minutes before walking into the supposed bar, he was impressed at the old tribal-like paintings and the overall old style of the bar. Gedeon made his way to seat, he looked and saw more people flooding the place, thankfully he was here first.

"You're new here?" The deep voice from before spoke out to the chocolate colored eyed boy, who turned his attention to him. The man was definitely in his 40s, having silk back gray hair and a muscular build, it was obvious this man kept training himself. He wore glasses that covered his eyes, but Gedeon knew they were cold.

"Yeah, I heard from a friend that this place has the best drinks around." Gedeon half lied, thankfully the older man just went with it.

"Hm, i got ya, so i have the Green Apple Smoothie, that'd be a nice way to end the night."

"I'll take it, Green Apple's are quite tasty, and a bonus is that they're in a smoothie." Gedeon smiled, although he found it remarkable to pull off this facade, thankfully his training paid off. A few minutes later, the man returned with a rather large mug, with the drink he ordered.

"It looks great…."

"Ha! You have good taste then kiddo, it's on the house, first timers get their first drink free, it's only fair." The man laughed as he went away to serve more customers, leaving Gedeon to his drink.

"It is good…." Gedeon took a sip before noticing a red haired girl around his age sat next to him. She had quite an unreadable aura, however Gedeon shrugged it off.

"Are you the one who threatened Cyrus?"

Gedeon didn't answer right away as he finished his drink in one go. He looked at her deep ruby colored eyes, which Gedeon had to pry his eyes from, they were quite alluring.

"Yes, I did. Let me guess, he had you come after me or something?"

"No." That was a shock. "I came here of my own free accord, although i would have guess he'd send me, I'm more approachable than the other two."

"You shouldn't give away information like that."

"Ha, it doesn't matter, my name is Mars, what about you?"

"Gedeon Alexander."

"And you shouldn't give your name out like that either." Gedeon didn't say anything and went for another swig, but was met with none.

"Ha! It was good! Oh Mars, I see you're back." The older man said as he noticed the red-haired girl next to Gedeon.

"Yes, Also, get this kind fellow one more of that, and same for me. I'd appreciate that Verde."

"I understand." The man named Verde walked off.

"What is your objective?"

"Don't be so stiff, I want to negotiate. It's obvious you're here to scout for information. If you hear me out, I promise to help you out as well."

"Odd, but it comes with the job, I guess, sure. Let me hear it." Gedeon shrugged as Verde slid both their drinks to them.

"Thanks, as you probably guess, I do work for Team Galactic."

"Mhm."

"Our main objective is to change the world, however people seem to have a lack of understanding of our main goal."

"I get it, you want a new world, but does anyone else want a new world? Do you truly know this world enough to go ahead and decide to change it for someone else?" Gedeon argued, which got Mars a bit stumped. She couldn't respond back immediately as she went and drank the smoothie in her hands.

"Don't answer that, I just brought up some points that I feel you should take into account."

"It is true, i didn't think of it, it's just…"

"What is Cyrus to you?" Gedeon muttered, just in case people knew who the megalomaniac was.

"He's like a father, one I never had."

Gedeon didn't say anything after, only finishing up his smoothie and staring into the empty glass. A father. He wished he got to spend some time with him, however, his father and mother were funnily enough, treasure hunters. They would always talk about how it was their dream to get the finest treasures of every region, however that came to a stop when an incident happened in their journey in Sinnoh.

Now that he thought about it.

'My Parents died in Sinnoh! This region…..there's something cursed about it.'

'So, what will you do then?'

'What i always do best, figure this out. Maybe this beast is the reason they're dead! Even more reason for me to put an end to it.'

`Great! I like that, you seem more motivated now, let's finish this once and for all.'

"I have to get going now, It was nice talking with you Mars, Oh! And I think you would look great with short hair, that's just my opinion." Gedeon left the red haired teenager to herself as she continued to blink confusion.

"Short hair…." Mars pondered inquisitively.

-Next Day-

"Good Morning Gedeon!" The voice of Gardenia entered Gedeon's ears.

"Hm? Oh, Morning to ya." Gedeon held a cup of tea in his right hand, bringing it up to take a sip of it just as Gardenia sat at the table he was at.

"You wake up surprisingly early." Gardenia pointed out, which got a shrug from Gedeon.

"I actually didn't sleep, I barely slept. I was up all night reading about major incidents that happened in Sinnoh 10 years ago."

"Really? But why is that?" Gedeon placed his cup of tea down and sighed.

"I don't say much about it, but someone close to me died 10 years ago. I simply want to know if the connections between the recent incidents have any connection." Gedeon answered with pain in his voice. He didn't wish to tell Gardenia the full truth, but it wasn't exactly a lie either.

"I understand, i won't pry on it anymore, also, Looker wanted me to give you this."

Gardenia tossed an envelope over to Gedeon who caught it and stared at it hard, the gym leader said her goodbyes and left him to his solitude. The young adult couldn't figure out the cover of the envelope but it was obvious it was extremely important. Gedeon moved his hands to the little pull section and tore it. Chocolate colored eyes skimmed over the contents before growing wide eyed.

"An invitation to a Pokemon League meeting." Gedeon almost spat out his Tea, this was big, an invitation to meet Champions and Elite Four members of each region in one place was big! Gedeon knew it was Looker trying to gather information about the Beast as well, the International Policemen was smart, and rather cunning in his own way. If this was Gedeon from years ago, he'd be ecstatic but he outgrew his shell and matured.

Gedeon looked at the date and it wasn't for another month, this was the perfect time to continue his investigation. Gedeon noticed the location was in Sinnoh's Resort area. There is supposedly an isolated location for these types of meetings. Gedeon wasn't nervous at all, he just wasn't prepared for this. What shocked him the most was that Alder endorsed him to come. But the problem with that was that Gedeon hasn't seen him ever since he returned from the portal 3 years ago.

"Guess there's no use in declining this, I was gonna have to face him again."

'If I'm honest, i wouldn't have agreed to go, for all we know, this could be some ploy.'

"Very true, Susanoo, but I should go, after all I'll get to see the strongest trainers of each region...and who knows, maybe this'll help me get stronger." Gedeon left his money behind at the table and left. He had to prepare for the next few days ahead.

"Maybe Skyla was right, I do need some sort of partner." Gedeon breathed heavily feeling his stress behave.

Not far away from Gedeon over in another city, Cyrus was looking at a bunch of statues. Behind him, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were looking as well, with Mars taking in more interest than the other two.

"What are these statues inscribed on?" Mars asked as she walked by Cyrus. The man noticed that after returning, Mars was more or less, energetic on learning.

"These rock forms are possibly over thousands of years old, however the most intriguing thing is, who wrote these." Cyrus rubbed his left hand softly over the ancient texts.

"Do you know who could've?"

"Yes, the Alexander family. They were one of the first humans and their family range was as far as almost every region but Kanto and Johto." Mars blinked, remembering her talk with Gedeon. "However the family of Alexander had dwindled."

"Um, I believe the one you asked me to gather information on is from the Alexander family, his name was Gedeon Alexander." This got everyone silent, before Cyrus chuckled lightly.

"Is that so? Then this must be some sort of fate. To see an Alexander is one thing, but to talk with them is another, they were so distant that they looked down on other Humans. They possess extraordinary powers." Cyrus explained with a smile cracking on his face.

"So, Is this Gedeon more of a problem?" Saturn asked, a bit confused.

"No, this could be the best opportune time to have him join us. He has yet to know of his latent abilities, or even better, he doesn't know of his heritage." Cyrus turned around to look at the 3 teenagers. "I want all three of you to enlist him, if he refuses, feel free to battle."

"""ROGER!"""

'Could this be your grandchild, Dagan? If so, fate has moments. Hm.' Cyrus thought somberly.

-Eterna City-

"Great work Seltas! We're getting close to mastering Draco Meteor!" Gedeon complimented his Flygon, who was flying around with a grin on its face. Gedeon, despite it being quite cold, was working out alongside his pokemon. He wore black track pants with purple trimmings and no footwear. The sweat poured down his body like drizzle on a humid day.

"Let's see, what else can we do…" Gedeon hummed as he held a hand to his chin, before seeing Drifloon float in front him, giving him an eye smile. "Oh! We can make use of your ability. Flare Boost is possibly one of the rarest one's and luckily you have it. The only problem with that is I have no fire types….which I realized, Sinnoh quite lacks." Gedeon watched as Drifloon began to spin around happily, getting him to chuckle.

Gedeon moved to the side to avoid getting hit by Krookodile.

"You wanna fight me? You're getting bolder." Gedeon mock joked at the aggressive looking Pokemon, who snapped its jaws challengingly. "Heh, i would...but we should take a rest, yeah?"

Gedeon sat on the grassy ground, letting Floatzel spray him with water to cool off. Krookodile lay down on it's back with Drifloon sitting on its belly. Which Gedeon found quite adorable, Flygon was patrolling the small area. Shortly after finishing, Floatzel jumped in a nearby fresh pond, which was inhabited by a family of Buizel, funnily enough.

Taking out a piece of paper, Gedeon looked at the invitation to the Pokemon League meeting or PL for short with a hard look. He wanted to decline this so badly, only because he didn't know what was gonna happen. He was extremely skeptical about this and one slip up could be dangerous. The young man wanted to investigate the incident of his parents but it's like the region is hiding the information on it. But if that was the case, why hide it? This was something he could probably look further into at the meeting.

The distant sound of splashing took his attention and he looked to see Flygon swimming in the pond.

"Such an odd one." Gedeon's ears twitched slightly which caused him to to look around to see he was immediately surrounded by people in weird astronaut looking suits.

"Well, at least it was better than Team Plasma's at first."

"You're coming with us!" One of them said, only to get ignored as Gedeon took out a burger and bit down on it.

"This is actually good."

"OI! I SAID-"

"Quiet down." This time, Gedeon turned his attention to see Mars again, however this time, her hair was cut short, however a tuft of hair was pointed straight in the front.

"Oh, It's you, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon." Gedeon's Pokemon paid this altercation no mind, they continued doing what they were doing.

"I'd like for you to come with me, I'm sure you know why." Mars said quickly.

"Don't have a choice do i? Well I can hear Cyrus out again."

"Great, I'd like to avoid pointless battling."

"Eh, I was gonna have my Krookodile slap the one who shouted at me with his tail." Gedeon said as he returned his pokemon.

An Hour passed and Mars led Gedeon to an isolated area, it would seem this was where Team Galactic was located for now. Gedeon inspected the area with mild interest and couldn't help but feel weird as he looked at the stones with weird writings. Gedeon drifted away from Mars who watched the young man look at the inscriptions on the pillars.

'The ancient text! Oh man, this is wonderful.'

'I can read these….but why?' Gedeon rubbed his right hand over the wordings.

"To a bygone era, it shall feast, from a forgone era, it shall awaken and in the present it shall destroy all creation."

"So that's what these translate too, you really are his grandchild. Fate sure is at play here." Cyrus appeared with his blank expression.

"Could this be what my mother read to me as a kid? I thought it was just something stupid to give me nightmares, yet this proves it real." Gedeon turned his attention to Cyrus.

"Tell me, do you understand other humans?" Jupiter and Saturn stood near Mars, Saturn was almost Gedeon's height while Mars and Jupiter were a bit shorter but not extremely short.

"You can never truly understand someone, as we're a species that will continue to evolve, as one grows, they become someone new." Cyrus was quite stumped at the answer he received, he expected something more cliche but this was rather unanticipated.

"Why do you say this?"

"Hm, when i was a child, i liked a lot of things, but as many things happened and i continued to grow, you grow out of your shell and evolve, like a Nincada to a Ninjask. You can understand one but be completely in the dark about the other." Gedeon's answer seemed to get the three other teenagers to think hard on what they just heard.

"I understand, you must be that child I saw when Mister Dagan taught me quite a lot of things about the world." This got Gedeon to blink, how was Cyrus anyway?

"My grandfather was your teacher? Now that I think about it, we used to travel a lot, so I'm not surprised." Gedeon scratched his head.

"I don't mean to be persistent on this, but I believe it would be beneficial to have you along with me and these kids, you're still unfamiliar about your own latent capabilities, which i assume is because Dagan wished for you to remain pure."

"If the hot guy does join, I call dibs on being his roommate."

"Eh?"

"Why would he stick by you, dumbass." Saturn said to Jupiter.

"Huh?"

"There's no way he's going with any of you, he's my partner." Mars smugly answered.

"What?"

Cyrus only watched on with mild amusement at the teenagers. He didn't understand any of this but it made him chuckle just a bit, which made him feel a bit….a bit more understanding to humans. Thankfully so, he was glad that he didn't need to waste any time fighting Gedeon. Cyrus was sure that he would lose.

…

A few hours passed and Gedeon was situated in his new room with Mars, he didn't notice before, but it seemed she took his advice for cutting her hair. He wasn't sure why, it was just a suggestion.

"So, why is my code name Deimos?" Gedeon wasn't sure, but he felt Mars had a big role in choosing his name, Deimos was a moon that circled the planet Mars.

"Well, you're already a commander, however you're still new." Mars answered.

'She definitely likes ya.'

'Doesn't take an expert to see that one. Even me.'

"Anyway, we should go see the others, we actually have a meeting."

"Got ya." Gedeon nodded.

…

"Ah, you're here, we can finally begin now." Cyrus said with a cough. "Gedeon, you said that you're an investigator, I'd like to know what you're trying to solve."

"Well, recently bodies of both human and pokemon have been flaring up, however only cases of this in Sinnoh. And recently I learned of the culprit."

"Who might this person be?" Saturn asked, getting Gedeon to shake his head.

"It's not a person, it's a pokemon itself."

"Wait, huh! But…" Jupiter felt her brain rot from confusion.

"It's a forgotten legendary pokemon that was defeated by Susanoo, I'm sure you know of him, Cyrus."

"You mean that beast has returned...for revenge?" Cyrus asked.

"If the markings on those rocks, it could be that my ancestors are warning us of it. I feel like my mother was also trying to stop it from returning, along with my dad, but were killed. I'm sure this legendary pokemon has a trainer."

"Yes, that's one assumption we can gather. Going by the lore, it's a large hydra-like beast, so we can give it a code name for now." Cyrus said, showing signs of distress at the revelation.

"How about, Hydreast?" Jupiter suggested.

"I kinda like that…." Saturn said, with Mars nodding in agreement.

"Same, I have no issues." Gedeon spoke up scratching his head.

"Very well, we'll call it that for now." Cyrus said as he closed his eyes to think.

"This is troubling. I'd say we try to focus on stopping this creature." Saturn spoke, it was clear that worry was in his voice.

It was clear that they wanted a different world without constant conflict, however, this was a different scenario, it was clear that this was something any human would do. Well, any reckless human that is, but humans themselves were a reckless species that would continue to be reckless. It was one trait that they possessed.

Cyrus didn't know if this was what they called compassion or not, but it felt like it was right.

"Fair enough, we'll shift our plans into saving this….world."

-Unknown Location-

"Verde, how is everything coming along?"

"Everything is coming along nicely, the particle cells of that serpent can fully control a pokemon." Verde flicked his glasses up as he stared at someone in front of him.

"That is all I care about, results. Keep updating me, after all these cells will lead to a new world filled with pure souls."

"You have my guaranteed success, boss." Verde said with a bow. "May I also bring up a pressing matter."

"Go on…"

"I believe the PL is starting to catch on, what should i do about this?" Verde asked.

"Nothing, after all, even the strongest of champions will falter in face of fear."

"Understood, I'll have Loka continue his testing." Verde said as he left the dark corridor.

"It is almost done...see to it that you keep your promise, human."

"Don't be so hasty you persistent snake, just like a Grumpig, you keep feeding it and when it's full of fat, you gut it to receive more of the reward"

"Hmph, very well, don't keep me waiting too long, Orochi, I do want to feast soon, after all, I feel his presence upon this plane. I do not wish to feel my heads being cut off!"

"Worry not." The one named Orochi spoke, being cloaked further into darkness.

...

Back with Gedeon, who was looking over his recent notes on a few things, first being the classified information of the Pokemon Outrage case. So far he knew that a formidable being was at work here. And it's possibly tied with his family. Which wouldn't be too far off the mark, his mother probably knew the beast awakened again. He was sure this beast probably knew of Susanoo's existence and took precautions to avoid the famous pokemon trainer.

"Hm, I don't have nearly enough reliable proof to actually state that a pokemon is behind these incidents. No one would believe me at all." Gedeon slammed his head onto the table in frustration. He was short on this case, he had about two weeks to bring something to the plate at the PL meeting. It was starting to stress him out.

"You look like shit." The door creaked open and in came Jupiter and Saturn who had large bags in their hands.

"I feel like shit, what's in the bags?"

"Just some stuff to help out." Saturn answered.

"Oh." Gedeon watched as they placed a bunch of Tea on the table and some other things. He was surprised at how they knew he liked Tea, must've been Mars.

"Just let us know if you need anything else."

"Right."

…

Two weeks passed and Gedeon was now back with Looker on a boat to the resort area of Sinnoh. Gedeon received some more reliable information that'll get the PL to take these cases more seriously, and he wanted to know about the unsolved cases in the last 10 years. He knew the current Sinnoh Champion, Cynthia, had nothing to do with this, so she couldn't be at fault.

Lance was someone he wouldn't connect with, given his rather strict persona and overall arrogance as a dragon trainer. It didn't help that Gedeon was also trained to become a dragon trainer but fell short of it. Lance would most definitely know about the accidents that happened years ago, if anyone knew, it was him.

Steven, the champion of Hoenn would probably be the champion he'll become friends with, they both had quite a lot in common and Steven recently became Champion so i'm sure the Hoenn native will feel quite nervous in the presence of others.

Gedeon knew Alder was attending so he didn't need to worry. This left the Kalos champion who he learned was named Diantha, she was a well renowned actress and she utilized Mega Evolution, something Gedeon wants to learn about.

"We'll be arriving there in less than ten minutes." Looker informed the young adult who was looking at the ocean. Feeling something amiss.

"Looker, i get a feeling some-"

CRASH.

"EH!" This caused Gedeon and Looker to almost fall overboard. Gedeon was quick to recover and act as he saw a child falling into the ocean.

"I'M COMING!" Gedeon leapt over the rails of the boat and into the frigid waters of Sinnoh.

The young adult saw the child going further into the water and decided to call out his Floatzel, who immediately understood what was happening and dived for the child. Gedeon looked to the side and saw something glowing red as it rushed towards him. The young adult didn't know what happened but his body instinctively moved to the side. He finally made out what it was and it was an extremely furious Gyarados, who wasn't blue but red in color.

Gedeon was then carried by Floatzel and was at the surface in a few seconds.

"Grab on!" Brown colored eyes watched as a sturdy rope was in front of him. He grabbed the child and was pulled up. "Are you alright?" Looker asked worriedly.

"Just help the child, i gotta get back-"

"GRRSHAA!"

"FUCK!" Gedeon and everyone on board watched as the red Gyarados appeared a few yards ahead. Halting the movement of the ship.

"Noelle! Are you ready?" Gedeon called out to his Floatzel, ignoring the cold air brushing against his wet skin. "Use Ice Beam on the water to make a platform for me!" Gedeon jumped over the ship rails again and landed on the icy platform thanks to Floatzel.

The red Gyarados roared as it charged at Floatzel who kept on grinning.

"Let's start off with Aqua tail!" Floatzel leapt out of the water and soon after it's twin tails gushed with raging water. The Gyarados copied the same thing and quickly went to bash it's tail against Floatzel, however the smaller pokemon outmaneuvered it and slammed it's water cloaked tail against's it's white underbelly sending it back a bit.

Gedeon noticed that the Gyarados had purple glowing eyes, which was not normal at all, it was like it was possessed or something like that. Gedeon knew he was the only one who could stop this before it destroys everything in its path and itself. The young adult knew he had to catch this Gyarados, it was the only way!

A storm started to brew which got Gedeon to narrow his eyes. He gripped another Pokeball and summoned his Flygon. Who was eager to fight.

"Seltas, protect Noelle from any electric attacks!" Flygon nodded its head and prepared itself.

Gedeon knew for sure this had something to do with Hydreast, no pokemon had glowing purple eyes of rage. It must've been infected with the Hydreast mind control or something. Gedeon snickered angrily and his eyes shifted to gold.

"I'm going to save you, Gyarados!" Gedeon looked at the storm cloud again and noticed electricity building up. "Seltas, jump in front of Noelle!" Gedeon called out as Gyarados used a Thunder attack, which Flygon took head on. Flygon was beginning to flinch a bit before roaring the attack away.

'Seltas nullified it by roaring? He's gotten stronger.'

…

Back on the ship, Looker was getting the people to calm down. Nothing is worse than a panic ship in the middle of the ocean, these cold waters can kill the unprepared in a matter of minutes. Looker was worried about Gedeon, sure he was strong, but Gyarados was acting extremely abnormal. He knew of the vicious tales of Gyarados but this one was completely destructive and hellbent on killing.

"It must be this Hydreast that Gedeon has told me, the powers to completely take over the minds of Pokemon. It's psychic capabilities are astounding." Looker complimented in fear. Looker was beginning to question a lot of his past works and wondered if this was gonna be his worst case yet.

"Have you contacted the resort?" Looker looked to see a young adult with wavy grayish blue hair that covered his left eye. He wears what appears to be a military-like outfit with a long flowing red cape around him. The man also had delicate looking tan skin.

"Oh, Tobias, you were here? Anyway, yes I have. They should be arriving soon."

"Hm, I see." The one dubbed Tobias said as he looked in the direction of the ongoing battle on the water.

"You're not going to help, are you?" Looker asked while directing someone to a safe spot.

"I see no need, after all, this guy has an outstanding aura, perhaps he'll be the one to give me a decent battle." Tobias said while leaving. Looker just shook his head and looked at his watch.

"Just hold off for a bit longer." Looker prayed.

-END-

AN: We've hit 5k words and so that concludes this chapter. We saw things such as a glimpse on the main villain of this arc to the introduction to Tobias who may or may not have a part in all this, I'll leave that to everyone's imagination.

So, how do you guys feel about the characterization I did for Cyrus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars? I think I'm doing good so far. I know of very few stories on this website who have them play a part in a story, so I'd like to start that. I also feel like I'm doing Looker some justice as well. I know of one ongoing story which actually inspired the crime aspect for this one. It's about Ash being wrongfully accused of murder and it's really an emotional story.

I also wanted to show Gedeon's inner turmoil here a bit, should he hate his parents or should he uncover the mystery behind their deaths. It's something he'll struggle with as time goes on.

I will also explain how Cyrus survived in the coming chapters. I feel like that's gonna be everyone's complaint.

I took a few leaps in this chapter as you can tell. I don't want this arc to drag on for no longer than 10 chapters, so I may take a much longer time and make a bigger chapter. I'm looking at 10k+ words. This took me a few days so I feel like in two weeks I can have 10k words done. So in the meantime, don't forget to submit any OCs you may want to be added. Also any questions and even advice is welcome, if you feel like the story should have something added, feel free to give me your thoughts!

With that said, stay safe and healthy!