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CHAPTER 11
The past, and a revalation
Squall watched as the mystirious floating man vanished.
"Hm......."
Within the time frame of five weeks.....
Squall soon headed to the surface, to meet Adus at the Monument, leaving Sean and his friends with their tutor, Dr. Montague. Sarah hung out with them and struck a chord with ZERO, who soon began to tutor her in the ways of rapid speed combat. Sarah's skills she had learned from Squall were geared toward standing her ground and fighting with in-your-face style of combat, hitting hard with hammerblows intended to destroy and devistate, whereas her new teachings were focused on fast hitting, fast moving combat, to deliver quick and sucesive hits that would slowly eat away at an opponenets defenses and ruin their ability to deliver a counter attack by forceing them to remain defensive. Sarah soon learned to merge the two styles into something new.
David, under Montague's tutalage, soon learned the nuances of being a Force, wich included other, less combat oriented skills, including science, engineering, mentoring, leadership, and other skills in that area. He quickly learned how to control his natural abilities to use techniques, and learning from Montague, and personal expiriance, that individuals each had a certain aspect of magic that they had a natural aptitude for, such as how Sean seemed to have one for Healing, despite how he had managed to cause devistation with his Grants attacks, which Montague confided with them that the healing arts and Grants had a common source, allowing such an aptitude for anything in the light oriented category to work for healing and Grants. David learned that he had an aptitude for electricity, and Montague picked up on this, and taught him primarily in this area for a time, before begining an emphasis on David's weak focuses, heat, cold, light and dark.
He was told, and taught as well, that learning the other skills as well as having the one you seem to be better at, can be a good thing. Montague taught David and Sean both that dark wasn't truly evil, but oriented in attack, and in effecting certain other things, such as strengthining allies and your own defencive and combat capabiliy along with doing the reverse to your enemies. He DID emphasise that there was a certain level of hazard in using dark connected things, especially the combat technique recently banned from use, Megid, the death curse, as it had been used by a madman years before, 5 to be precice, as a weapon of murder, on a killing spree ended by a Hunter, who had sought the madman out to defeat him.
Montague would never say the man's name, and if Sean or David would ask, Montague would either ignor the question, or tell them that the Hunter had never had a known name, and had died nameless, after defeating the madman. Sean, David, and Sarah, who hung out with them and was tutoring herself about Forcey stuff by listening in on Montague's teachings, never bought this coverup...they knew that Montague was being sectretive about this man's identity...
As for Sean.....
Montague was tutoring him in a separate class, and on things other than Forcey things, knowing that Sean's mother had taught him thse things already.
Montague's focus was more on helping Sean to gain control of the abiities that they knew he had, and trying to discover nes that had not yet revieled themsleves to Sean. There had been much success at this, and Sean, who had agreed once to allow Montague to study him, grew curious as to why Montague seemed to have some ideas of what to try to find as far as his abilities were concenred, and how the Doctor was comparing the results of various test with those of someone else, and after Sean found records that had been made of someone unidentified on the data sheets.........
Sean confronted the Doctor.
Sean walked into Montague's office, and tossed a folder onto his desk. Montague was listening to some kind of horrible screaching music throigh headphones and did not hear the folders impact. Sean unplugged the headphones. Montague looked around for a second, then...
"Why did you do that?" the Doctor asked.
Sean pointed at the folder.
"Oh dear.....you found it, didn't you? I knew it was only a matter of time, time I knew was running short." Montague said.
"Who." Sean asked.
Montague sighed.....he got up from his chair, walked to his window, which looked out on a view of Ragol, where the sun could be seen setting below the horizon of the planet.
"Squall." Montague said.
Sean looked surprised, no, shocked. "What? I saw your notes....I compared them myself, to the ones you made from your studies of me, and now.......does this mean....?" Sean said.
"....That your like him, nonhuman, something he calls a Valka?" Montague asked, Sean nodded.
"Yes.......it is true.........and....something that bothers me......I can feel another source of power within you, that is giving you your insanely high power boost to your control of techniques, including your ability to pratically anihalate those SHADOW in the Monument about five weeks ago. Something that Squall explained was something of a trademark of his race, their own source of ELEMENTAL magic, different from our Techniques, but can be merged with Techniques, like how you have been doing that without even knowing......If you don't learn control of that source soon however............it could consume you from the inside. Squall told me a horror story from his childhood, how a friend of his....lost control of himself and was destroyed by his own hatred. Being the truth-seeker that i am...I asked for some proof of this....Squall offered the best proof that he could, a front row seat into his memories of the event....even if I could show you...I would NOT show you....No one should have to see it." Montague said, his eyes were filled with sadness and fear. He looked away, toward Ragol. "Squall also told me other things...about you....that he said that if anything were to happen to him, I was to tell you, when you were ready.....and not before, Squall made this very clear to me." Montague said.
Sean sensed there was some that he could be told, and he pressed the attack.
"There IS something you can tell me though, right?" Sean said, not asking, saying for fact.
"Yes." Montague told him. "Sit." Montague said to him pulling a chair up to the desk with a wave of his hand. Sean sat.
"Years ago, you were found, on Ragol. Squall and your parents came along, I was with them, and we could not leave you just sitting there, a baby. We all decided to take you in, for a time, we were stranded on Ragol, and during that time, we raised you collectively. Once we found a way back to Pioneer 2, we registered you under a name, Sean. We had to decide who would be your completely adoptive family, and your mother and aunt, sisters who you had taken a shine to, and the same going for them, decided to take that role, legally adopting you." Montague said to him. "....I see. I knew of the adoption, and I know for a certainty that I would never change how things whent. Never. I did not know the details though...." Sean said.
"Yes, the four of us decided that you should know some of this now, there are those things that you need time to mature before you should know of them, however, that is all I can say. I actually knew who you were six weeks ago, in the Hunters Guild......I have been keeping tabs on you for a while now...." Montague said to him.
Sean just stared at the planet.
"Perhaps, I should have waited...?" Montague said...."No. It is better this way, that I know this." Sean said. "There is one other thing that I need to tell you.......the form you are in ow, Human in appearance, is a result of some tinkering with your physical structure, curtousey of Adus, a friend of Squall's.......Adus showed me how to counter it, and restore it, and I can show you if you wish to.....however, certain levels of stress with result in a temporary revert to your true form, or a partial revert, but it will be temporary...like what happened to you in the Hunters Guild that day...." Montague said.
"Show me how to reverse the effect, and restor it." Sean said.
"Roger that.....now, or later?" the Doctor asked. "Now." Sean said, eager to see the results. "Alright.......its not something that I can outright say directly...more of something that has to be transfered by mental connection.....look me in the eyes Sean." Montague said. Sean did so.......
Elenor walked in on their staring contest. She set a damaged MAG on his desk, then sat down, waiting for him to finish with the task at hand......ten seconds later....
Sean broke contact....He saw the damaged MAG, picking it up, he realized what was wrong with it right then......he realinged some key internal parts in it, and it came back online. "There ya go, Ely." Sean told her, releasing the MAG and watching as it floated around for a bit, before floating toward him. It refused to leave him...."She seems to like you." Elenor told him. "Sean....you think you are ready to try your new ability yet?" Monntague asked him. "Yes." Sean said.
A green aura glowed around him, and he soon was only a glowing object within a pillar of light.
When the light faded, he looked different.
Montague touched a control on his dest, and a vanity mirror raised from the floor.
Sean turned toward it, to see himself. "Dang...wicked!" He commented. His face was like Squall's...his hair was a greenish color, he looked at his hands, which ended in claws...."Dang....that looks like it would hurt...." he said.
He heard somemone approaching, courtesy of his enhanced hearing. He reverted to his Human form, the conversion completed just before David entered the room. "You ready to head home, Sean?" David asked him. "Go home. You have had a long day. Get some sleep, Sean." Montague said. Sean gathered his books and crammed them into his backpack. "See you tommorow, Doc!" Sean told Montague, who waved at him. "See ya Ely!" He said to Elenor. She waved to him as well.
Sean and David headed home, Sean's new MAG following him.
