.:: Chapter Eleven ::.

Past


Amon

All these memories keep resurfacing. Those that I've locked behind walls, kept hidden for twenty years. I do not understand why they are starting to resurface. Some of it has left me shocked, and I realized many things from them which I had forgotten, tried to forget.

Once I think about it, I have never really known my father. Actually, I do not know who my father was, since he left my mother and I when I was just a baby. My mother would never tell me anything about him when she was sane, and it was only until her powers took over her that she started rambling things that she had wanted left unsaid.

I remember her telling me that she had never loved her husband, my father. She had said that it was an arranged marriage. And even though she had rambled on in her insanity about how she had had a lover and had a son with her lover, my half brother Nagira, not once did she mention my father's name.

I had grown up knowing no father. It wasn't until STN-J finally came and took my mother away that I was taken under the care of Zaizen. He had raised me, sort of. It was him who had told me to forget about everything in the past, and it was him who helped me lock back the memories. And many years later I am wondering all about it.

There are so many questions left unanswered and for the first time in my life, I have the urge to have them answered.


Over the next few days, Robin helped Amon control his powers, while somehow figuring out how to unlock hers.

Many of Amon's powers had been unlocked that night, but they had no clue how many he had. So far, they had found out he had the ability to control the temperature, causing things to freeze or heat up, the ability to stop time for a while, the ability to control wind, and several others that seemed useful, depending on your purpose for them.

Robin would have to have another talk with the Eve, since Amon and her had decided that they had better unlock their powers and know how to control them by the time the people back at STN-J had decided to release them.

Robin had never told Amon about what the Eve had said about Michael. She wasn't sure he would accept it. But finally, she would have to tell him anyway.

So during lunch one day, Robin decided to tell him.

"Amon, when I talked to the Eve, and I asked her how we would help raise the coven and let the truth be known, she said she did not know. But she did tell me what we could do to for starters..."

Amon glanced at her. "Why did you not tell me earlier?" he asked.

"Because I wasn't sure you would like what she said.

"The Eve said that we should talk to Michael and find the list of witches and help them by helping them control their powers. She said that he was to be trusted and that he would understand. Amon, don't you think we should take the chance? I mean, if you think about it, we don't really know much about him, except he was parentless when STN-J caught him hacking into the database."

"That's all the more reason not to tell him."

"Amon. It's the only thing we can do at the moment. Unless you can come up with something better."

Silence.

"Very well then," Amon said, reluctantly. He really didn't want someone else to know about his surfaced powers.

Robin sighed. It certainly didn't take any powers to figure out that there would be lots of trouble in the future.


Back at STN-J, the hunters once again found themselves locked into the building without nothing to do.

It was frustrating, having this job when there was nothing to do except look for things that weren't there.

It had come to desperate measures to relieve their boredom and though Karasuma first resisted, she finally succumbed to it.

It being the famous game known as Truth and Dare.

They sat in a sort of circle, and it was Michael's turn to dare someone.

"So, Doujima, Truth or Dare?" he asked.

Doujima grinned. She was feeling gutsy today.

"Dare."

Michael thought for a moment. What should he dare Doujima to do? Finally, he grinned evilly.

"Doujima, I dare you to give Sakaki a lap dance." Sakaki's face turned red.

Doujima gave Michael an odd glance but then did the deed, causing Sakaki's face to turn redder, while Doujima only had a slight hint of pink in hers.

"Ok, my turn," she said laughing her dare off. "Hmm... Who should I ask?" She settled her glance on Karasuma. Karasuma fidgeted a little.

"Ok Karasuma, truth or dare?"

Karasuma paused to think and then hesitantly replied truth.

"Have you and Amon ever been an item?" Doujima asked. Sakaki, Michael and her had always wondered about it. None of them ever knew though because they had came into STN-J much later.

"No, Amon and I were just friends."

Doujima pouted, disappointed. "You're no fun."

Karasuma offered a small grin. She breathed in relief. She had gotten off easy this round. Anyway, it was her turn. She turned to Sakaki.

"Truth or Dare?"


In the evenings, Robin and Amon had made it a habit of eating dinner, then taking a shower and then curling up on the bed and watch a movie. Well, at least Robin curled. Amon... well, you get the picture.

Robin sat there, her head against Amon, intent on the movie. As usual, Amon took this time to think about things, since he wasn't very interested in movies.

He now no longer slept troubled by the dreams of him and Robin, at least not as often. Of course, there were still times when they did come to visit him but at least not that much. He was grateful to that.

There was only a week left until they were released. Amon was faced with the choice of pretending that there was only partnership between them, or should he let it be known about his feelings for Robin? His thoughts wandered back to that conversation in the office with Zaizen....

No, it would not be wise to let it be known, especially to Zaizen. Amon had never kept something from Zaizen, until it came to Robin. But he would not let Zaizen know, he cared too much for Robin to do that. Amon sighed. He knew about Zaizen and the little accidents concerning all the witches who's control had gone haywire. He did not want that to happen to Robin.

He sincerely hoped nothing would go wrong with Robin's powers. If he were to be forced to hunt Robin.... No, it wouldn't happen. Even if he did, he would not hunt her. He would be selfish for once and not hunt her. It would kill him to hurt her.

He glanced over to the night table next to the bed. On it was his precious orbo gun and the orbo necklace. For some odd reason, he felt uncomfortable near it. It was strange, he had never felt like this around it until his powers had arisen.... Of course! He remembered Robin saying that she would never wear the orbo. It was something about it being uncomfortable and unnatural. Was this what she felt whenever she was around it?

He supposed he would get used to it. After all, he had to. There was nothing else to protect him from the powers of other witches. He didn't have Robin's amulet to keep him safe.

He had wondered about her necklace. It was different and the design was strange. He wondered what it was made of, and how it protected her. Funny though, he had never wondered about the orbo, and he had never questioned his orders. Until now. Now that he thought about it, he never knew what the orbo was made of and why witches didn't like it. Actually, no one knew very much about orbo, unless they were Zaizen or people who worked at the Factory. All everyone else knew was that witches did not like it, it would subdue witches and render their power useless.

And then his thoughts wandered towards Robin's dreams. Why did she get them? Should he trust them? How come he didn't get them? And who, what, where, when.... There were so many questions left unanswered, and so many questions Amon refused to answer, refused to acknowledge.

He had never questioned his past, never wanted to know who he really was. He supposed at one point of his life he did, but then something changed and he remembered it.... Something bad had happened, causing him to scorn life and questions and become what he was today.

He never told people his last name. He didn't really know it himself. He could use his mother's last name, but that wasn't right. It was supposed to be the father's last name. But he didn't know his father, he didn't even know who his father was. So he didn't know. He supposed the closest thing Amon had to a father was Zaizen, but Amon knew Zaizen wasn't his father. According to his mother, his father had left her when he had found out about his mother's lover and that she was a witch.

It had been an arranged marriage, with no love, his mother had told him. Amon's father had fallen in love with his mother, Rena, but the love wasn't mutual. Her mother had told Amon that her father was rich, and greedy and so was her husband. So when Amon's father had asked her father for her hand in marriage, the old man could not refuse. So, Rena had been forced by her father to marry her husband.

However, it wasn't all that simple. It was around that time that Rena had fallen in love with someone else. When she learned that she was to marry someone else, she was heartbroken. There was no possible she could persuade her father to let her marry the man she fell in love with, since he wasn't as rich. So Rena had gotten married to a man who doted on her, and was spoiled constantly. She never noticed it though. She was head over heels in love with another man. She gave birth to a baby, whom they had named Nagira. But this baby did not belong to Amon's father. This baby belonged to her lover. However, because the baby resembled enough to Amon's father, that his father gave no thought to it.

It had pained Rena to look at her son everyday and know that it was the son of her love, whom she was denied. But she loved him despite that.

Three years later, Rena gave birth to Amon. This time it was actually his father's baby. But it was his birth that Rena was found out to be a witch and that Amon was a Seed. And while they tested Amon, they also tested Nagira and found out that though he was not a Seed or a witch, Nagira did not belong to Rena's husband.

Rena's husband was heartbroken. But he was a strong man and did not fall apart. Instead, he became cold and where there was once love, there was nothing. However, he was truly in love with Rena, so he could not turn her or Amon into STN-J and could not bear to harm Nagira. So he divorced her and gave her her dowry and then kicked her out of her house. He told her that should he find that her powers had gotten out of control, he would turn her in. Rena did not cry too much though, for though she did not love her husband, she was fond of him anyway. However, this left her free to openly love her lover and they got married despite the fact that her father had disowned her.

Four years later, Rena lost the man she loved. He died in an airplane accident, half way around the world on a business meeting. She was heartbroken and torn. It was then that she lost control of her powers. It wasn't as is her powers had gone wild and rampaged around the city, destroying everything. It was more like her powers had destroyed her mentally, leaving her insane until, at last, there was nothing to destroy and then it would start destroying everything around her.

It was fine at first, because people just thought that she was overwrought from grief and that she would get over it with time. However, then her powers started destroying things around her and her ex-husband found out about it and had no choice but to turn her in.

Amon remembered that night, though it was all in bits an pieces since he had only just turned five that year. He remembered how afraid he had been for his mother. He knew that something was wrong with her, but he hadn't been quite sure. He and his half-brother had basically taken care of themselves at that young age, since they knew that their mother was in no condition to take care of them, when she could hardly take care of herself.

"Amon, what's wrong?" Amon snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Robin's voice.

"Nothing. I was just thinking."

"Do you want to talk about it?" Robin asked. No reply.

"Alright, but if you want to talk about it, I will be here." The Robin turned back to the TV, where the credits were rolling down. She turned off the DVD player and crawled under the sheets.

Amon turned off the lights.

"Goodnight Amon," she said.

"Goodnight," he replied.

And as Robin snuggled next to him, he resolved his mind. No, he would not lose someone else he loved.


Ooh! Another chapter. It's slightly longer too. Now you guys have looked into a bit of Amon's past.

I know what I said in the other chapter about how this stories gonna be bla bla bla... Well screw that. Totally, completely forget about that. I'm not even quite sure I understood what I meant.

But to make a couple of things clear:

- No, Amon is not really Zaizen's son. This is just something I added.

- Now I know Nagira and Amon share the same father but different mothers, but for this story to work, I'm changing that.

- Another thing I am changing is the fact that the seeds of the Craft are passed through the fathers, but instead of paternal, I'm changing everything to maternal. (Meaning instead of the seeds of the Craft being passed along fathers, it's gonna be mothers.)

- Ok, Amon and Touko shared a father. Eeew, gross, they dated! But hold on a second. Anyone familiar to King Arthur's legend? Well in the legend, Kind Arthur and Morgan le Fay were half-siblings, but they didn't know that so they were lovers and even had a son. It's the same with this case, except Amon wasn't too interested in Touko and they did not have a baby, or sex for that matter. (Thank God!). They have no clue that they are related. For heaven's sake! Amon doesn't even know who his father is, the poor guy.

- So here's it all: Amon and Touko same father, different mothers. Amon and Nagira same mother, different fathers.


Thanks to all the reviewers! Ok, I've decided that I will only list those reviewers that I have something to say to other than thanks for reviewing, and yeah, I'll update soon and glad you like it. Because, honestly, I'm running out of ways to say it so it has the same meaning. And plus I don't want the thank you list to be longer than the story. That's not right. BUT I WANT TO THANK EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REVIEWED AT LEAST ONCE! YOU WILL FOREVER BE IN MY HEART!!!

Jade27: Thanks, I'm glad about that. I'm like that sometimes too, whenever I find a good story, I ignore all the other ones out there.

JadeGoddess: No, Amon isn't Zaizen's son, at least not according to all the spoilers I've read. I'm only half way the series myself, anyway.

AnimeFreaks13: No prob, no offense taken.

Amon's Angel of the Darkness: Aw, you're disgusted. Hmm... and as for the last bit you said about Zaizen beating up Amon, well, we'll see.

Sakura Blossom-Cilla-85:P: Yeah, it's sort of disgusting, but things happen.

Sakura-Chan79: I love writing twists. And I love the attention of readers.

Daisy-Chan Mistress of Evil: I wish I could've seen you.

Saki5: What's an orange chiffon? I don't mind, your review made me laugh. I agree, Robin and Amon are a hot couple. I love Amon though, he's such a wonderful, dark bishie. And Zaizen eating a Happy Meal? I can't see that, even with my extensive imagination. And you got my idea on the whole no witches to hunt thing down pat. (Insert large grin)

THANK YOU ALL MY REVIEWERS! I LOVE YOU ALL! LOL. Anyway, I have so many different reaction to Chapter 10. Makes me feel like I've caused controversy. LOL.