Yesh, I'm back, and I shall be pumping out chapters for this story this week, because I know I will be getting grounded rather soon! XD Stupid report cards... But anyhoo, enjoy another riveting chapter!

Celt saw Sere talkign to him, but he heard nothing, and heard a dark tempting voice from within his mind, his sight blurring, the voice speaking to him. "Wasn't that a rush? All that power... it could truly be yours... accept it, let your heart open to darkness, let it become you, and you could exact revenge upon all those bastard Sheikah who cursed your race, and you could use the power I can give you to break the curse... let me take you over..." The voice said, and a pure voice chimed in. "No, don't let him use you like a pawn, he just wants to regain form..." and the two voices, dark, and pure, clashed, and wracked at his brain, until another voice shot through his mind, and it was Athos', roaring in anger. "I TOLD YOU NOT TO FALL INTO THE DARKNESS!" and suddenly, the two voices dissappeared, as his blurred vision was restored, his slowly slipping sanity returning to him.

"Stay away from the darkness!" Sere repeated, in the echo of Athos' voice, shaking the shoulders of Celt, who had gone limp, and apparantly he had gone into a dark trance, mumbling nonsense. Sere's eyes were solemn, and his knuckles were white. "Don't use anymore dark techniques like that unless you wanna become a Twisted like the others, and the one you fought on the ridge." and Celt blinked. "Ok, if you don't mind, enlighten me on this 'Twisted' thing." and Sere let go of him, and backed up. "Well, a twisted is what happens to a Garo when he or she resists the two opposing forces within the cursed gem. The markings on your body means that the darkness within you has just begun to get a grasp on you, and soon the purity within the gem will begin to force this back, warpign and twisting your body and soul. Hopefully, you won't become a victim of this." He said. Sere pointed him to the library. "All you'll need to learn can be learned in there."

Celt walked in, and Sere walked back over to the picture, and lifted it, and knelt down besides it, and payed. "Mother, please protect his soul." And on the picture, was... a Garo. "Of all people... why did you become a Twisted...?" He asked himself, placing his head on the shrine. Inside, Celt was looking through books. "First of all... let's clarify who this mysterious person Sere REALLY is..." and he pulled down a book titled 'The Only One' which was heavy with dust, and dropped it on the desk wtih an equal amount of dust layering it, and opened it. On the first page was an accurate illustration of Sere standing there, in the center of a group of other people, including him, a younger Raidell, a woman besides him that he had his arm around, and in front of the two, were two small children, a boy and girl, and then to the right of Sere was an older woman, and besides her was her husband, and Terea was also standing there, with the young Sere and what seemed like his parents. Each of them had a gem on their forehead, except Sere. Celt began reading.

Sere was born in Termina, a curious birth, the conception between a Garo and a Sheikah. They both put aside their racial differences, pasts and histories, and discriminations, and focused on their similarities, and fell in love. The mother was a Garo and the father was a Sheikah. They had a child before Sere, named Athos, who unfortunately, was born with the burden of the curse of his mother's race.

But their second child was a pleasant surprise. They got a child, curseless. Apparantly, the incredible bond of love between the two races had managed to break the curse on newly borns between the two races, living in harmony. The only problem was that most Garo opposed this idea, not knowing what had really happened between the Garo and Sheikah founders. If they were exposed to what really happened between the two, without proper training, the dark entity within the cursed gem would awaken, and try to take over the body to kill each of the Sheikah, but the pure entity that lived within would prevent the darkness to take over, and without a strong enough will to force both of the two back, they'd become twisted, from the two souls embodying the gem.

Sere, his mother, father, and Athos all strove to find a way to prevent the Garo from becoming twisted, and break the curse at the same time, so they would be able to live free lives, in peace, without being prisoner to fight the evil that was the same kind their founder had caused. The family believed that just because the founder and the followers were evil, and tainted, why did their descendants have to suffer the curse they don't even know existed, that they didnt even cause? Thats why they and most of the Sheikah had all worked together to save the Garo; they had suffered enough. Athos, though, underwent an attempt without telling his family, and performed an experiment in secret, and regretfully, became Twisted in the process. He was killed by Sere, to put him to rest.

Shortly after, his mother became unhinged as well, when the father contracted a deadly sickness, that put him on his deathbed. Emotionally stressed and stretched thin when the father finally died after months of suffering, the mother had no will to resist, and was warped when she lost her resistence; her love and her husband. So, Sere was left alone, family torn apart, and dead, with no family left, he took his father's place, and ruled the Sheikah in his place. A year after, he found out his mother had a sister, that she had neglected to tell anyone, because this particular sister had appeared on his doorstep, with her daughter, and husband, who still resides here, helping Sere find a way to break the curse. The two adults were like another set of parents to him, and lived with him, paying their debt to the curse as they helped Sere find a way to break it.

They two, learned and knew about the two founders, but had managed to resist them and keep them from warping them. Later on, the two had a son in the Sheikah settlement and built a small house and raised their children there, a small home away from home. When the boy was born, Sere was named his godfather, although they were cousins. When the little boy turned three, the mother, daughter and son left, but the father stood behind to help Sere. Most of their attempts to break the curse had sadly failed, but provided subtle hints, but three of the attempts had caused the Garos to become Twisted, and later that same year, had to return to his Garo home, because there was rumors that his wife was acting oddly.

Two years later, the mother too, became warped, and joined the ranks of the Twisted. Sere had shared many things with them, and the mother is missed dearly, to this very day. The mothers name was Snow, the daughter Raeth, the son Celt, and the father Raidell. Also, Raidell's close friend since she was a small girl, Terea, lives with him and Sere still attempting to break the curse, and is also a Garo.

Celt's head swam. Everything he had ever looked for was right beneath his nose, his family, his past, his life, everything. Everything had been right under his nose the entire time.