Chapter Two: Memories and Mirror worlds.
"I'm surprised she's still breathing, really." The doctor, brown haired balding middle-aged
gentlemen, told Lewis and Jen, looking over the comatose Carily. "Worst dog attack I've ever
seen." He muttered as he left the room.
"Poor kid." Lewis sighed brushing back Carily's bangs.
"What the hell were those things? They gave me a weird ' this has something to do with Oblivion
and the Primals' vibe." Jen said, holding Carily's hand, sitting at her bedside.
"The Primal forces are just as confused as you are Jen." Abdizur, formally known as Scree,
said, coming out of the shadows.
"Not even Chaos-horn boy?" Lewis asked.
"No, not even Abaddon. He's actually frightened of these beasts. We're hoping this young lady
knows what they are." Abdizur said, ahand full of the glowing demon dust. Gently he sprinkled
the dust over Carily. A second image of Carily appeared, but it was as passed out as the first.
"Not good. Very not good." Abdizur muttered, picking up the astral projection Carily. "What
now?" Jen demanded, "I mean she's suppose to be awake and like ' I know what those dogs gone bad are!'"
"I'm taking her to Arella and Abaddon, The Primal forces may know what is wrong with her."
"Well make with the pixie dust, we're going to." Jen said, standing up.
"That won't be necessary." Abdizur reassured.
"I don't trust Abaddon as far as I can throw you with a broken pinkie, there's no way
we're not going." Lewis said, crossing his arms over his chest stubbornly.
Abdizur looked from Jen to Lewis and sighed, "Alright, go back to your apartment and get
comfortable, I'll be there soon enough."
About an hour later Jen, Lewis and Abdizur were stepping through gate to a round plain
building surrounded by guards from Aetha, Solum and Volca. There were more Ferai then
Wraith or Djinn, much to Jen's relief.
"What's up with the guards?" Lewis asked.
"I'm not certain. Your Carily must be a high risk factor." Abdizur commented.
"Curious and curiousier." Jen said, Carily was becoming less and less of just an orphan.
They entered the room to it find plain and dark, with the Primal forces hovering other Carily's
form, which lay on a plain table.
"Where did you get this creature?!" Abdizur demanded when he noticed Jen and Lewis.
"She's a not a 'creature.'" Jen stated blankly, "Unless you kidnapped her as well."
"No, he did not. But she is a hybrid, much like you and Lewis, Jen. She's from a Mirror
Realm."
"A what?" both Lewis and Jen asked. "An alternate reality that's very similar to our own,
with a few differences, if any at all."
"This girl is one of those differences. In our reality she would never come into existence due to
some chain of events not happening here that happened in her reality."
"Once again, sounds like something out of one of your fantasy novels Lewis. "Jen joked,
and then frowned, "Does this mean you are sending her back?"
"No, her reality has been utterly destroyed and we're not certain how she entered ours."
Arella stated simply. "Ouch, poor kid." Lewis said giving Carily's hand a squeeze.
"A Mirror Realm can only be destroyed if the Primal forces are both destroyed. This is why
we have taken a great interest in her. We have to know what killed our Mirror Images."
Abaddon stated.
"So you can destroy Arella?" Lewis growled.
"He can try..." Abdizur growled.
"So why is Carily still knocked out?" Jen asked.
"She is gravely upset from the attack from the hell beasts and repressing her memories to the
point she is attempting to bury and forget her past. Normally that would not be too harmful, but
for a hybrid..it can be deadly, it causes far too much mental damage." Abaddon and I are going
to view the memories that we can in hopes of waking her up." Arella said, "We'll start in a
moment."
Arella and Abaddon began to prepare while Jen looked over Carily. "Jeez Kid, you are
just full of surprises." Jen smiled, suddenly noticing little things about Carily. Carily had never
really let Jen and Lewis close to her, and now Jen could see why. Here and there Jen could
recognize pieces of Lewis and herself in Carily's face. Her nose, Lewis's chin, so on and so
forth. It was almost creepy...and Arella had said she was a hybrid... Suddenly Carily's face
started to fade away.
"What the hell?" Lewis barked, the room fading as well. "We are entering Carily's mind,
where she can not follow."
"She'll be safe." Arella assured, when the appeared on a rock cliff, that appeared to be in
Solum.
"Damn...not this place again." Jen shivered.
"Hey look, over there." Lewis said, pointing.
Near the edge of the cliff, which was about fifteen to twenty feet off the ground, was a, about ten
year old Carily, shivering away, peeking over the edge of the cliff.
"Will she see us if you go over there?" Lewis asked. "No, we are merely in the shadow of
her past. What as happened, happened. We can not interact with it." Abaddon stately, matter-
of-factly.
They went over to see what or whom Carily was spying on. Jen recognized Jared, the crazy
ass Shaman and Abdizur, but she couldn't make out the two humans, other then one was male,
and the other was female.
"Thank you for coming." Jared boomed. His voice had gotten deeper, " The Shaman
has..alarming news."
"Screams!" The Shaman began, "Screaming and yelling from the Necropolis! The spirits
are not happy..The spirits...SPIES!" The Shaman screamed, glancing up at the cliff, firing a
fireball in Carily's direction.
"Holy-!" Carily yelled, jumping out of the way, unfortunately slipping on a piece of ice, and
falling head first down the cliff. Jen and Lewis began their decent down being carried by Abdizur,
while the Primals' floated behind them.
"And she survives that how?!" Jen squeaked, seeing Carily fall dangerously fast towards the
base of the cliff. That's when a blur of movement grabbed Carily.
"That's how." Lewis stated. They landed on the bottom just in time to hear a familiar voice
screaming. "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?! YOU COULD HAVE
FUCKING KILLED HER YOU ASSHOLE!" said a ten years older Jen, who was grabbing
the Shaman by the horns, shaking them and him ruthlessly. Nearby was Carily, securely snuggled
in a ten years older Lewis's arm.
"There's a side of you I never want to be on the receiving end."
Non-memory Lewis commented.
"Who is the child?!" The Shaman demanded.
"To make a long story short. When Jen saved Oblivion ten years ago, she was in the early
stages of pregnancy with Carily, the young girl." Abdizur stated calmly, "Now Carily, how and
why did you come here?"
"How...not sure..." Carily stated, trembling and shaking, "Why..well..I had a bad
dream..and when Mommy and daddy wouldn't wake up...I started to freak out and I just
wanted to be with them and and and...I'm sorry..." Carily began to sniffle.
"Hey hey hey. It's okay rocker girl, just as long as you are okay." Lewis said softly. "Other
then the fact that my very short life flashed beefore my eyes. Yep I'm fine..expect for the fact that
I now know how many time I've come close to walking in on you guys...yucky..." Carily stated,
not so sniffling.
"Oh great, she takes after you Jen..." non-memory Abdizur sighed.
"And that's a bad thing?" Jen asked.
"If you two are done, the group has moved on." Abaddon said. Quickly they followed the
memory group to the Necropolis.
"Hmmm it's interesting how Carily was able to come to Solum with out aid." "Interesting
indeed." Jared agreed.
"You okay kiddo?" Jen asked Carily, who was holding her hand, and whimpering softly.
"No. It's just... a slamming force hit my jaw a second ago, like I got back handed, but not
hard..." Carily said, rubbing her jaw bone. "Hmm tell us if you feel anything else, okay?" Abdizur
said, as they walked into the Necropolis. Soon they came to the area with two doors, when
Carily fell to her knees. "Owowowowowow-whipping! Owowowowowow- back!"
"What the hell is happening to her?" Lewis demanded.
"In cases where Hybrids are born, they can usually feel other born hybrids' pain when
nearby, until the learn to block it."
"The closer they get to each other, they more pain other feels." Jared supplied. "That what
caused the screams. A hybrid is being beaten."
"Can you tell where, Carily?" Jared asked. "The door to the left." Carily whimpered getting
back to her feet.
"Where I was kept, how appropriate." Jared said, as they made there way through the left
door.
A scream filled the air followed by cursing. "Iknus mak ta benus!" came in a young girl's
voice.
"Do I even want to know what she said?" Jen asked.
"It's very rude." Abdizur explained. "Is that even physically possible?" Carily asked, wide-
eyed and paled.
"You can understand it? Oh lord.." Abdizur said, as they hurried down the hall.
Finally they came to the room where Jared had been kept. A young girl, about Carily's age, was
chained to the ground via a neck collar and chain and her hands were chained behind her back.
She was being beaten by five Ferai, one of them with a whip. Jared lunged at the Ferai with the
whip while a Ferai transformed Jen cut through the girl's neck chain. The girl leapt up and ran out
of the room, hands still tied behind her back.
"Hey! Wait!" Carily called out chasing after the girl. They stopped at Devena's tomb,
where the girl found an axe to break her chains with.
"Easy there. I'm not going to hurt you..." Carily said slowly and calmly. The girl snarled and
swung at Carily, getting her square in the jaw.
"Why you little.." Carily snarled.
"Hey, how come the other kid isn't feeling the effects of her own punch?" Lewis asked.
"Hybrids can hurt each other without causing themselves pain." Abaddon stated. Carily swung at
the girl, hitting her squarely on the nose. The girl snarled and charged at Carily. Carily
transformed into a Ferai and leapt over the girl. She grabbed a nearby mirror and turned toward
the girl.
"Look, you're hybrid, like me. Part human, part demon." Carily said, showing the girl her
reflection. The girl had waist length tangled and greasy dirty blonde hair. The fur she was dressed
in was matted and dirty with blood. Her eyes, hazel, were red from crying. Carily's Ferai form
was like Jen's, expect her horns were shorter.
"You can change to." Carily said, transforming back to human. The girl changed into a Ferai,
and sniffed her reflection, grunting, she changed back, and began to sniff Carily.
"Seems you've made friends fast." Jen came in, smiling and human.
"I don't know if it's friends yet." Carily commented, watching the girl.
"So what's going to happen to the child? She can't stay here, she belongs in Mortalis."
Jared said.
"We'll take her. Who better to help her make sense of her life then other Hybrids?" Lewis
said. The girl cautiously walked over to Jen and took her hand.
"Okay then, lets go."
End Of Chapter Two.
Author's Note:
: Carily comes out. AquaBolt is a bit busy right now, so I'll be doing the author's note. : Takes out a piece of paper. Firstly, she'd like to apologize that it took her so long to get this chapter up, but things have been hectic at home. Anyway...this chapter was suppose to be a bit longer, AquaBolt decided to put what she had at the ending of this Chapter at the end of the next chapter. Special thanks to Billie-girl, Chirugal, and Rex Rodentium for reviewing her story. Also to her best friend Katie who helped a lot writing this fic. Also, if the memory Jen seemed out of character, Aqua figured she'd be maternal and protective when it comes to her offspring. And who wouldn't get all protective over a sweet angel like me? : blinkies:
AB: SWEET ANGEL?! You glued my butt to the computer chair!
Carily: Umm... Bye!