Chapter 10: Eavesdropping.
Graviray continued to stare at his hands as they trembled in fear. Reece approached her younger brother and placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Bro. Are you all right?" she asked as she stare into his eyes.
"No Reece, I'm far from all right. Look what I did to those demons. What I did to them scared me." that was all Graviray could answer. He got back on his feet and pulled the hood of his black cloak over his head.
"Graviray?" heard a familiar voice from behind him. He turned to see his mother and father. Sherry was terrified of what she saw him do. That power he used to defeat those two mamodos was the same power that both she and Brago had thought they destroyed those many years ago during the battle for Mamodo King. Even though Brago didn't show it, he was just as worried as Sherry is.
"Mom... Dad." Graviray's voice sounded like the way it was when he was six. Sherry moved closer to her son, but he only moved back. He feared of what will happen to him. Or what will his father will do to him. He has a scar for proof of what happen him when he was ten. Brago, Reece, and Graviray were training in the mamodo world. But one time, Graviray's anger was starting to overcome him in his training. It made his powers become lethal. And in one time, he lost control and almost put his own sister's life in danger. Graviray didn't mean to, but his father used a Gigano Reis spell on Graviray to stop him. It may had knocked him unconscious, but it left a permanent mark on his back. He never told his mother, and Brago forced Reece not to tell either.
The mark was still on his back. And it even emotionally scarred him to this very day. His mother approached him again, but then he back away again. Sherry stopped and looked into her son's eyes. She could see the fear growing inside him, along with the evil spirit. She held out her arms to him. Graviray relaxed a bit and came into his mother's arms.
"Please don't fear me, my child." she said as she buried her face in her son's hair.
Thirty Minutes Later.
The Belmond's Car was parked by the driveway of the Belmond Mansion. Brago and Sherry schedule a meeting with Kiyo, Megumi, Koko, and Kiyo's cousin Emmie.
Graviray was worried to death by what he did earlier. But he walked into the mansion anyway.
"You're not in trouble Graviray, your father and I are just worried about you." his mother said as she kept her arm around his shoulder, and she pulled him closer to her side.
Later.
The other parents showed up with their kids. Except I'm not quite sure if Emmie has any kidsyet. Brago and Sherry led them into the laudry room that was really a basement with laundry machines, washers, and driers.
"Okay you two, what's this emergency that we need to talk about?" Kiyo asked, but was then nudged in the back by his cousin.
"Hush Kiyo, I want to hear what's going on with their kids." Emmie spoke to him.
"Actually it's only our son." Brago corrected the cousin of the reader of the red book.
"Okay, what'sgoing on?" Megumi spoke lastly so they could get on with the conversation.
"Hold on for a minute." Sherry responded. She walked over to a button of the washer and drier that was closest to the stairs. It caused a loud noise that all their kids couldn't hear them talking. But their children were already outside the laundry room door.
"Our parents are covering with the washing machines." Reece said to the others, who were trying to listen as well.
"TO THE CHUTES!" Graviray called out. Then both Reece and him began running to another part of their mansion. Kiko, Neo, and Meggy didn't get but they followed the Belmond siblings anyway.
With The Parents.
"We believe that something is happening to Graviray. Something bad." Sherry began talking.
"Well that would sure explained the part when he fired that ball of light out of his hand." Megumi responded.
"No duh." Brago responded as well.
"But how can he do something like that if Brago doesn't evenhave that kind of power?" asked Emmie.
But then Kiyo spoke next.
"It's really impossible... unless,"
With The Teens.
"Just get down there and find out what they're talking about." Reece said to her brother as he was wrapping some rope around his waist.
"Fine, just don't drop me this time... donkey killers." Graviray responded as he snuck into one of the laundry chutes. The others were holding onto the rope and they were slowly and gently lowering Graviray down to the laundry room.
Graviray was dangling from the rope upside down as he was now looking at the adults talking from the chute. But fortunately for him, theycouldn't see or hear him.
With The Parents.
"Unless it's Zofis." Kiyo finished his sentence.
Everyone except Brago and Emmie gasped.
"But he was destroyed back in the final battle. How can he still be alive?" Sherry asked in shock.
"Well, you know what they say: Spirits never sleep with unfinished business." Kiyo answered.
"So what your saying is that the spirit of this Zofis person has somehow possessed Graviray." Emmie asked in dome sort of a sarcastic tone of voice.
"It's possible. I mean, he possessed me when he was alive." Koko responded in fear. She was indeed scared when she first met Zofis, before hetook overher mind. And worse of all, that horrible night when he raped her, before the final battle. And then she was left all alone to give birth to her daughter.
"And that also explains why our son's eyes have been changing." Sherry.
" But why did he possessed Graviray instead of Kiko?" Megumi asked next.
"Maybe because Kiko wasn't born with his powers. But she may have his powers, but isn't able to unlock them.He probably wants a body with real mamodo blood, like Reece and Graviray." Kiyo explained.
"But something tells me that there's more to this mystery then what we now know. But what?" asked Sherry as she began to pace a bit. But within a few seconds something shocking came into Koko's head.
"Kiko." she said.
"What?" everyone except Brago asked.
"What if it's Kiko that Zofis is really after, and he possessed Graviray only perhaps to preserv his spirit." Koko explained to the others.
Graviray still watched them talk, but a voice was speaking to itself inside his mind. "Close, but not exactly my so call mate." the voice said.
"Anyway, whatever we think is going on, we're going to have to tell our kids." Brago spoke out to the rest of the others.
"How do you think they'll handle it Brago?" Sherry asked.
With The Kids.
All the kids pulled Graviray out of the chute, but he was still dangling from the rope.
"I'M POSSESSED BY AN EVIL MAMODO!" Graviray yelled out in shock.
All the other kids gasped, but then they lost their grip of the rope. And Graviray ended up felling down the chute. They all looked down as soon as they heard a loud banging crashing sound.
"I'm okay. Concrete broke my fall."
To Be Continued... Next Chapter: It happens, the kiss... and the return of you know who. Bum, Bum, BUM!