Sicily knew that something wasn't right. For one she couldn't see anything, she wasn't blind, she knew that much because she could see her arms and legs. Sicily honestly felt like she was in a dream of sorts. When she looked down at her hands she only moved them side to side. They moved, but it felt slow, sluggish and unnatural, and when they moved her hands seemed to move almost frame-by-frame in a sense.

Where was she again? She stated she couldn't see anything and that wasn't a lie she couldn't see anything in front, behind, or beside her, but she could hear.

She could hear amazingly well in this void. She could hear the sound of wailing. The longer she listened to the crying the more she became aware that it wasn't one person crying. No. These were wails and screams of other people. Each ranging in a different pitch or tone, but all keeping in the same frequency. It was strange. Instead of doing the reasonable thing and walking away from the crying she instead started to go towards it.

Her body moved slowly like she was trying to push herself through molasses. Like before with her hands she moved frame-by-frame at a snail's pace. Still, the more she walked the louder and more unsettling crying became. It became frantic and unnerving. Sicily couldn't see anything… that was… until she suddenly saw it.

Sicily didn't know how to describe this thing in front of her. It was like a black goo. Only it was shaped like a person kneeling.

This goo was breathing, and crying the loudest out of all of the cries. It was almost looking at a living breathing tar pile. The goo was dropping on the floor below, but it never vanished off of the humanoid. The humanoid suddenly glanced up at Sicily. The eyes were captivating to Sicily, an unusually bright yellow color, like sunflower yellow almost, their eyes glowed they were the only thing of color in this dark chasm.

"Y-You don't cry…" Then a voice suddenly spoke amongst the whining and crying in the background. This voice still spoke enough for Sicily to understand it. Their voice was whiny, almost child-like. "Everyone cries."

"Why would I cry?" Sicily asked the goop and yes, amongst the black goopy mess she could see the tears falling from the eyes of this creature. Slowly, Sicily squatted down so she now facing with the creature. "Who hurt you?" Sicily questioned next.

"It's a long story…"

"Well…" Sicily plopped down next to goo, now on her butt, she stayed seated. She then reached up with one hand to wipe a tear away from the goo's face. "I guess it's a good thing I have all day then, isn't it?"

"Aren't you even curious as to what I am? Or where you are?"

"Of course I am! But I'm more curious as to why you're crying."

"I-I see…"

Ben woke with such a start that the first thing he did was jump to his feet. "Whoa!" Someone grabbed him quickly by the collar of his shirt, the shirt he realized he wasn't wearing before. It a simple white long-sleeved shirt. Ben was face to face with Jase. Instant confusion. He looked at Jase up and down for a few seconds with pure confusion. This just wasn't adding up to Ben. He was with Firedrake last… right? Ben realized that part of his memory was blank and that scared him.

"J-Jase?" Ben all but whispered in his confusion. Ben blinked rapidly a few times before focusing back on Jase.

"Easy…" Jase let go of Ben's collar. Ben rubbed the spot where Jase had grasped for a second before focusing back on Jase. "You took a bit of a blow…"

"What happened?" Ben was trying his hardest to try and remember the last thing he did but everything was so foggy that all he could remember was Firedrake and something involving the Twins.

"I think you need to sit down first of all." Jase quickly and quietly led Ben back to the cot he's been resting on. Ben, still a little dumbstruck, rested his arms on his knees when he sat down and looked up at Jase. Jase walked over to the nearest sink and started pouring Ben a glass of water.

The place they were currently resting in was a trailer. Tiny and compacted. It was a one-room place. It was then that it started to click for Ben. He was back at the reservation. "... What happened?" Ben questioned Jase as he took the glass of water.

"You got what you wanted. You found Ohanzee's heart…" Jase explained, borderline condensing, to Ben.

"Why don't I remember it then?"

"...We were wrong about Ohanzee and their powers and unfortunately, we had to learn about that through your little group."

Ben felt his eyes go wide. A voice flooding inside his head. He couldn't remember what was said, but he remembered the voice. Ben dropped his glass of water and grabbed on to his head. All he could hear was just a horrendous high pitched ringing that verberated through his head and grew deafening with every second. "Whoa! Whoa!" Ben felt Jase's hand on his shoulder which was slowly starting to bring him back to what was around him.

Ben's heart rate started to steady, the ringing was lowering to a more tolerable pitch, and his head wasn't swarming anymore.

"Easy...deep breaths…"

"I can't answer that… but he can." Jase pointed to a sleeping Twigleg that was resting on the coffee table.

"Twigleg… is he okay?"

"He should be fine. Like I said you took a bit of a blow. Meaning he also took a bit of a blow."

"...The twins! They were with us! Where are they! I need to-" Ben forced himself up to his feet, ready to leave. He clearly remembered the twins being with him. Bit by bit his memory was coming back. he remembered the twins, and he remembered a fight. Between the twins? No…

Jase forced Ben back down on the cot. "Stop. Before you hurt yourself, please."

"... Amadeus…" Ben suddenly said out of the blue as another memory came up. "He was there… I remember…" Ben put his hand to his forehead and felt his brow furrow. "We got into a fight? I think." Ben narrowed his eyes. "What's wrong with my memories?" Ben finally asked Jase. Ben looked at his own hands and realized he was trembling. "Why are they so scattered."

"... Tch." Jase sucked on his teeth before sitting down next to Ben. "Look, I came in at the end… I know it was a mass panic. Your group not only found her heart but…" Jase sighed slightly. "Ohanzee, it turns out, is not a dragon or someone formed into a dragon by their anger."

"What?"

"God…"

Ben jumped at the new voice and turned to see who was talking. Ben felt himself suddenly square up slightly. It was Jason. For a second Ben wondered how he knew this was Jason, he never met Jason… right? No. Ben groaned suddenly the ringing was coming back to his head. Thankfully not as loud or abhorrent as last time. It faded away after a few seconds.

"I've seen it…"

"You need to be resting." Jase stood up suddenly. He had his arms crossed and seemed to be rather upset about Jason's intrusion as he now had a frown on his face.

"Can't." Jason spoke stubbornly with a head shake, "Not only is my head still pounding but after what I saw… I can't." He turned to Ben quickly. "What don't you remember?"

"... A lot…"

Jason sighed and chose to sit down on Ben's right. Jase chose the left. Ben was feeling almost entrapped as he was sandwiched between the two men. "I don't know what happened before I arrived."

"It was you… you were the reason I started yelling at Amadeus!" Ben suddenly remembered.

"Yeah… I'll admit, I should have stayed home, but I didn't, and now I'm roped in, but I guess I'll just start from where it all started for me."

"I was just outside my car taking a smoke when Amadeus approached me..."

Jason quietly puffed on his cigarette. Outside of his car of course, if his wife would smell the smoke she'd kill him. He inhaled for a second before exhaling the smoke and flicking the cigarette so the ashes would fall. Jason's mind flickered for just a brief moment to Lee.

Lelia was her full name, but that didn't matter anymore. She's gone. Unfortunately one of the ones to have died during the second attack. She was his friend and now…"

Jason huffed before sticking the smoke between his lips and taking another drag. He didn't want to think about it, he didn't want to think about her, he just wanted to find the terrorist and stop this madness; hopefully tonight. If Amadeus was right that is. Normally Jason wouldn't even think of taking Amadeus's word after all Amadeus was still a suspect and so were the twins, but he knew because of Lelia and all the others dead the case would be transferred to Homeland security before too long. No. Even though his boss wanted him off this case he wasn't going to stop. Not until this criminal was stopped.

Now, Jason wasn't dumb, he knew Benjamin Greenbloom has been in Kansas for a while now. He followed Ben and Sicily to the reservation; it seemed Benjamin wasn't exactly an idiot. He saw Jason from the very start so Jason learned to keep a distance after that so not to trigger anything suspicious. What Jason couldn't figure out is why Benjamin slept in a damn cave and not a hotel. He tried to get close. Tried. Something in his gut kept telling him to turn around before he got too close. Jason knew to always listen to his gut.

With another sigh, Jason flicked his cigarette away from him. The ground was gravel, the cherry will go out without starting a fire.

That's when Amadeus showed up. His windowless truck speeding down the gravel road at a rate that would most likely get him in trouble with the local cops, good thing Jason didn't give a shit right now. Amadeus's tires screeched to a halt sending gravel flying in every direction. Before Jason could approach Amadeus was already out of his truck. "Look, man, before you start-" Amadeus came around quickly. "I retrack my statement!"

"It's recant. Dumbass." Jason rolled his eyes.

"Retrack, recant, whatever! You need to listen to me. Okay? I still think Ben is weird, but I don't think he-"

"I'll be the judge on that."

"-No, you need to listen to me-"

"No. I don't! Maybe you forget but people are dead, people I knew and cared for! You can recant your statement about Ben all damn day, I won't listen. Not until I get a chance to talk to him. Now, you're taking me to him-"

"No-"

Jason didn't even hesitate, he pulled out his gun. Drastic move, yes. He didn't care. He was so close and he wasn't about to let a wishy-washy nobody stop him."Yes. You are."

"You don't want to play this game with me-" He saw Amadeus's eyes flicker to his truck quickly and Jason knew what was up instantly.

"If you think about going for Daddy's shotgun that's most likely sitting in the pick-up bed of your truck you're going to regret it. I will get to you first, do you hear me?"

"Do you think threatening me is the best idea?"

"No, but it's the last idea I have at the moment. You're gonna take me to Ben and his little group… Now."

"... Fine. Get on the passenger side."

Jason did as he was told, making sure to keep the gun pointed at Amadeus the whole time. Now, again, Jason wasn't an idiot. He knew what he was doing was wrong, but at the same time his gun wasn't loaded, but Amadeus didn't need to know that now. Amadeus climbed in the driver's side and simply took off.

The ride was awkward, to say the least, Amadeus drove and was tense the whole time. He felt his fingernails dig into the leather of his steering wheel. He kept glancing back at Jason and the gun. 'It's a standard Sig Sauer 9mm…' Amadeus felt the sweat start to bead at the crown of his head. Amadeus sucked in a deep breath and focused on driving. "...You haven't seen what I've seen, man." Amadeus finally spoke.

"Hm?"

"Like I said yesterday, I can't tell you… you'd think I'm crazy."

"I'm an FBI agent… try me."

"..." Amadeus just kept his mouth shut and continued to drive. Jason narrowed his eyes at Amadeus's unwillingness to speak about the issue. "You know you could have just followed me, right?" the subject changed.

"I couldn't risk you taking me in the wrong direction and wasting my time." Jason was pretty blunt about it.

There was more silence between them. Jason looked out the window briefly. He wanted to see the sky as the sun was starting to set as the twilight hour was just starting. Still, as Amadeus continued to drive Jason was beginning to feel a little unnerved. Not because he was currently holding Amadeus hostage and carjacking him at the same time, but something else didn't sit right with him,

It was the same feeling as to whenever he would get too close to the cave where Ben slept. This time, however, Jason was going to squish his feeling of unease down and just go.

The drive wasn't that much longer. All Amadeus had to do was go off the road and down a pretty intense hill and into a small gorge. It wasn't anything special, not like the Cedar gorge. Just a tiny gorge with a river running through it. It seemed to go on or a bit, maybe a mile or two at the most. 'The sky is turning darker' Jason realized as the sun was starting to set below the skyline and turn the sky a dark shade of inky black.

Amadeus parked his car right in front of Benjamin. The lights overexposed Ben to the point of almost being able to see him, and Ben himself put his arm up to try and block the lights off. "Turn your brights off, mate!" Ben yelled from the outside. It seems that because of the brights Ben couldn't see inside the truck. Amadeus looked at Jason. Jason got what he wanted so with a rather smug smirk he tucked his gun away.

"Thank you for your help."

"You're a dick." With that retort Amadeus shut the truck's engine off, thus killing the lights and allowing Ben to see.

Ben blinked a few times to regain his sight. While he was doing that Jason stepped on out of the truck. He was the first to greet Ben.

"Who are you?" Benjamin asked Jason a clear cautious tone in his voice as he took a slight step back. Jason noted the thing that seemed to be on Ben's shoulder. It looked like a doll or something of that sort. That ticked off the 'creepy' box for Jason.

"If my memory serves me right, we've spoken on the phone." Jason smiled at Ben.

"Oh-" Ben sucked in a deep breath through his teeth, and at that moment Amadeus got out of his truck and the very moment Ben saw Amadeus he went off. "You-!" Ben pointed, this caused Amadeus to jump suddenly, he, Amadeus, opened his mouth to defend himself, but Ben wouldn't let him. "-You! Kotzbrocken! Backpfeifengescht! Weichei! Pansy!" Ben completely roared out.

'Bi-lingual.' Jason noted as well.

"Uh, I recognized one of those words." Amadeus scratched his head. "I'm going to say the things you said in German weren't nice."

"Not at all." The 'doll' suddenly spoke and even turned it's head to give Ben a rather disappointed look.

"Is that a robot or something?" Jason rather calmly asked as he pulled his notebook out from his coat pocket. He wanted to get this impromptu interrogation done and over with.

"You need to leave!" Ben simply pointed towards Amadeus's truck. "You need to go with him!" He snarled at Amadeus.

"Oh, come on now, we just got here and I have some questions."

"Look, I'll be glad to answer any questions you have, later, not now!"

"Ben!" Everyone turned as Kyo came rushing towards the group at a hurried rate. She didn't even stop when she noticed Jason, it's clear she noticed him by her slightly shocked expression, but clearly whatever she found was more important. "I lost Sicily." She breathed out in a mildly panicked voice.

"How did you lose your sister? Where's Alice?" Ben softened his tone when he addressed Kyo. He still sounded a little on the peeved side though. Amadeus tensed next to Jason but didn't dare open his mouth.

"She took off running! I went after her as fast as I could but… she just wouldn't stop. I was afraid I was gonna get lost if I kept ongoing. Alice was right behind her though..." Kyo shook her head and then turned to Amadeus and Jason. She had a rather concerned look on her face once she made eye contact with Jason.

"Just keep calm and go back to Sorrel, okay? I'll be there in a moment." Kyo nodded at Ben's instructions. She gave Jason a bit of a nasty look before taking off.

Jason started writing right away. "Who's Sorrel? Lover?"

"Oh god no!" Ben's rather cold demeanor changed in an instant. He then shook his head pretty quickly to correct himself. "No. No." Ben finally just sucked in a deep breath. "She's just a friend."

Jason wrote that down. "I want to ask her some questions when I'm done with you."

Ben seemed ready to dismiss him, but then he just bit his tongue and crossed his arms. "Fine. I see there's no reasoning with you."

The questions were basic in all honesty. "Where were you on the night of the first attack?"

"Home. Norway."

"Anyone that can verify that?"

"My dad, sister, mom, if you don't believe in the immediate family then I know a Professor Spotswode."

"So let me get this straight. You're born German, sound British, and live in Norway?"

"Da."

"Weird one you are."

"Says the one who's obsessed with me." Ben chuckled softly. "Look, I got things to do… Can we hurry this along."

So, they did. He went through a few more basic questions which Ben answered effortlessly. That was until he got to the very last question: "Where were you during the second attack?"

"... I was with my friends in the upper parts of Kansas."

"Where are your friends?"

Ben pursed his lips for a moment thinking about what to say next. After a moment he just crossed his arms and shifted his weight from one foot to the other. "I know Sorrel is going to hate this… but to prove our innocence… follow me."

It pained Ben to do this, but because of Amadeus's mistake, he had no choice. So, they walked. They crossed the small river, it wasn't that deep, and up the other side of the gorge. Amadeus suddenly sped up his walking so he was next to Ben. "Look-"

"-Don't! Just… Don't." Ben partially growled before speeding up just a little bit more to get away from Amadeus. Amadeus just slunk back with his arms crossed.

"You gave me a chance." The robot (until Jason was told differently that thing was a robot) explained to Ben.

"There's a difference. You didn't imply I'm a terrorist or Pedophile." Ben, kind of quietly, told the robot.

There was some silence after that. The only sound being their shoes against the rocks as they continued to climb up the gorge. Jason didn't like that he had to walk to these people, the fact that they weren't there where Ben was put him on edge. So, he kept one hand on his pistol just in case it was needed.

"Okay… okay." Ben crossed one leg over the other as he interrupted Jason. "So, you held Amadeus at gunpoint, and then thought you might be walking into an ambush."

"Yeah."

"For an FBI agent, you're not smart."

"I just wanted to catch you in the act… I didn't think it'd be as crazy as it turned out to be." There was a moment of silence between the three of them. Ben tried to rack his brain for what happened next but he really couldn't remember much… Well, he remembered something. Something that happened just before Amadeus and Jason showed up-

"Sicily! Wait up!" Kyo yelled after her sister who already took up sprinting like her life suddenly depended on it. She was fine just moments ago… Ben rushed next to Kyo, but neither of them could compare to Sicily's sudden Sonic like speed. They had just landed no more than five minutes ago. Alice and Kyo shared a scared look before they both looked at Ben.

"Is she okay?" Firedrake questioned suddenly.

"I don't know…" Kyo frowned at Ben.

He just nodded at her. "Both of you go after her, make sure she doesn't get lost or hurt."

"Ben?"

"Something was wrong with Sicily from the start… What happened next? I need to know."

Jason frowned.

"I'll skip over my mild freak out and just get to the nitty-gritty…"

"I told you! 'Big issue,'" Amadeus gestured towards the dragon. Jason had his hand over his heart while he stared at the monster. This thing was huge! Probably about six stories high! The dragon tilted his head at Jason in curiosity. "If I would have told you, you wouldn't have believed me."

"You're right… I wouldn't have."

Ben let out a slow chuckle before quietly patting Firedrake's side. "What's wrong, Agent Jason? Not what you were expecting?" Ben just couldn't help but just slightly mock Jason. He's been hanging around Sorrel for way too long.

"I see…" Jason straightened himself up slightly. His teeth gritted as reached back to feel for his pistol. "I see why Amadeus would question you now… there's no denying it, you had something to do with both attacks! I mean… it's almost perfect a dragon attack who would have ever thought!"

"My fire heals," Firedrake told Jason softly. He leaned down so they were face to face. "Also, I would never harm humans."

Jason took a startled step back before suddenly becoming slightly indignant. "Prove it." He demanded almost childishly to Firedrake. There was a moment of silence as everyone just sort of looked at each other for only a few short seconds before Sorrel was the one to speak:

"None of us are hurt."

Jason didn't even give it a second thought. He pulled out his knife. "Whoa!" Nearly everyone suddenly shouted. They clearly thought he was about to stab one of them. Ben quickly pushed Kyo and Sorrel behind him to shield them if that were the case. Amadeus took a few steps back away from Jason, and Firedrake quickly got on the defensive and even though he stated that his fire heals he was clearly growling showing signs of quickly becoming aggressive.

"Oh, calm down you lot!" Jason snarled before suddenly slicing his arm. It was a quick slice, that clearly hurt as a loud hiss suddenly left his mouth. The slice wasn't deep, but just enough to draw a bit of blood. He then brought it forward towards Firedrake. "Can you heal this?"

Firedrake perked up suddenly and just nodded. With a simple deep breath in, he blew fire on Jason's arm. Out of everything; Jason was not expecting the fire to be blue. It didn't hurt. It felt pleasantly warm. When Firedrake was done moments later the cut he had made was completely gone. "Shit, you aren't joking…" Jason breathed out as he traced over where the cut should be. Nothing, the skin was completely healed.

"So, you as you can see, Agent O'Neil. It couldn't have been us."

"... Then what was it?"

Ben opened his mouth to reply with what he knew; before he could that Sorrel suddenly came up- no- she flat out bolted on all fours to Firedrake- bumping into Ben in the process. Ben looked confused at that. "Sorrel-?!"

That's when the chaos happened. Someone, Jason had no clue who came screaming out of the ever-growing darkness. This had startled everyone. All of their reactions were delayed as this person- a rather tubby forty-something male- went rushing at Ben. Ben, having no time to defend himself, got tackled to the ground.

Kyoto, who was standing next to Ben, had her hands up and stumbled back, slipping on a rock and falling back on her butt.

"Get off!" Ben's voice stretched a little as he tried to fight the man. His little robot friend had fallen off his shoulder in this process. It ended when Ben, seeing no other option, threw his arm back and punched this man square in the face. Then, just for good measure, when Ben got back to his feet he threw another well-placed punch to the man knocking him out. It was like watching a sack of potatoes fall to the ground as the man went down.

"Nice punch." Amadeus whistled. The man now unconscious, just laid there not even twitching. Ben let out a sudden hiss and Jason saw him shake his hand in pain.

"Been a while since I had to punch someone… Are you okay?" Ben leaned down and offered his palm to the robot.

"Am I okay?! Are you okay!?" He jumped on to Ben's palm. "He just seemed to come out of nowhere…"

"What's wrong with 'em?" Amadeus walked over and gave the guy a little nudge with his foot. "Why is he… like that?" Amadeus sneered.

Everyone, minus Kyo, who was still sitting on the floor, got in closer to look at the man. He was gray. Not like his skin was dead in color, but he was grayscale gray. His skin an unnatural darker shade whereas his hair, nails, and clothes were a lighter shade. "I've…" Ben got down on one knee to look at the man. "I've never seen anything like this before…" Ben then reached forward and pulled the man's eyelid back to get a look at his pupils. "He's not even a vampire. His eyes are gray."

"We need to leave!" Sorrel yelled in madly, but it fell on deaf ears. Even Firedrake seemed interested in this person.

"Guys-" Kyo breathed out, but she was cut off suddenly by Jason.

"-What could this possibly be? Like you're the paranormal expert here." Jason asked Ben.

"Guys-"

"-If I had to guess… some sort of possession? But…" Ben shook his head.

"Gu-"

"Possession? Most likely not!" The robot scoffed. "No, this is something else-"

"Guys!" Kyo completely screamed in so loud that her voice almost broke. That did it, everyone looked at her, she was standing now, but she looked too scared to come any closer. It was at that moment that Jason noticed her body language. She looked afraid. Her skin had turned pale, her breath ragged, and her fingers were trembling as she pointed at the man. "Th-that's Pastor Larry!" She finally cried out. Ben and Amadeus had a knowing look on their face, but Jason was seemingly out of the loop for this one. They then looked down at this 'Pastor Larry' together.

"He sure as hell didn't look dead a moment ago." Amadeus huffed.

"Dead?" Jason inquired.

"He's from the village that was burnt down… he musta survived-"

"We have to go! Go! GO!" Sorrel's voice caused everyone to turn and look at her now. She was constantly trying to get Firedrake to go.

Firedrake glanced up at her. "-Please Sorrel, what's the matter, I've never seen you act like this-"

Jason zoned out for a moment. He didn't know why he suddenly left the conversation, but something was wrong and his mind was telling him this. What was wrong? What was off? His mind was buzzing. Everything seemed to be buzzing. 'Something's wrong. Something's wrong.' his mind told him with every passing second. 'Something's wrong.'

"Jason?" Ben's voice had brought him back suddenly. Ben had this rather worried look spread across his face as he faced Jason. Jason blinked a little in confusion. "You want to put that away, mate? You aren't helping." Ben's eyes quickly shifted and Jason followed his gaze.

Jason had his gun out. He didn't even remember pulling it out, but there it was. Granted he had it pointed up towards the sky and not at anyone in particular… It was at that moment he realized something. It was dark. Unnaturally so, it wasn't like normal night time where one could see the moon or stars, no, this was… wrong. It was just wrong.

Then Larry woke up. It was… odd. He opened his grayed out eyes and very jankly got up, and it didn't look natural in the slightest. His whole body seemed to twitch and contort with every movement he made to get up to his feet. At the last bit he stood up straight with his elbows bent, arms up, and palms facing the sky. It looked insane. He then smiled, which sent a shiver down Jason's spine. The smile was not natural none of this was natural.

This seemed to creep Ben out as well as he quickly took a few steps back. "What's wrong with him?" Ben managed to sputter out.

"You don't need to worry about Sicily or Alice anymore."

The air turned stiff in an instance. Ben has never heard Pastor Larry speak, but he knew that was not his voice. His voice was there, deep and slightly southern, but another voice overlayed his. This one was a female speaking.

"What did you just say?" Kyo snarled in response as she took a few brazen steps towards Larry. Larry didn't even look at her. He kept his gaze behind her. He still had that unnerving smile plastered on his face.

"You need not worry about Sicily."

"Where are they!?" Jason's FBI instincts kicked in and he pointed his gun at Larry's head. "What did you do to her!?"

"Jason! Put it away, there's no need for that." Ben scolded him, but he was outnumbered in the gun department, because it seemed Amadeus (at some point) had rushed back to his truck, well he was back now with daddy's shotgun.

"Where's my sister?!" barked Amadeus as he pointed the gun at Larry. "I know about you, man, I've heard the stories!" Amadeus pumped the shotgun once, and that's when Ben came in, forcing the barrel down.

"We don't need to use that! That's not Pastor Larry!" Ben tried to reason with Amadeus.

"Ben?" Sorrel's oddly quiet voice was enough to send shivers down anyone's spine. Before Ben could look back at her and Firedrake something else happened. The sky was starting to darken, the moon wasn't visible anymore and it was becoming almost impossible to see each other.

"She protects us."

It wasn't just Larry talking either, more voices were coming towards them. Jason started looking around them and could see that they were surrounded by people. These people he didn't recognize at first. That was until he realized that they were all from that odd village that Larry was from as well, and like Larry, they were all grayscale, certain things a lighter shade than others, but they were grayscale nonetheless.

"Shit-" Amadeus turned and swung around with his gun pointed at the read- but he stopped and slowly lowered the barrel. "Alice?" He whispered.

In front of him stood Alice Mcathy. She, like the others, was grayed out, and like the others, she stood there, her arms up, with palms pointed up towards the sky with that same damn smile plastered on her face.

"She sees that we're all hurting-"

Then it was time for Jason's shock when he saw a few of his men scattered throughout the crowd. One of them front and center being Lelia herself and like Amadeus, his gun lowered in shock.

"-We're a family to her-"

Everyone was in their panic, Kyo taking this all the hardest as she collapsed to her knees and covered her eyes. "What's happening?!" She started sobbing.

"What...?" Amadeus turned to Ben for answers, but it seemed for once Ben didn't have any sort of answer as he just stood there shaking with his fear. Even the dragon and brownie seemed to be in their state of stunned silence. "Don't shut down on me!" Amadeus all but wailed as he grabbed Ben by his shirt collar and started to violently shake him. "My sister is one of those things! Get your head on right dammit."

"-Don't you want to join us?"

It was Alice who took the step forward as she reached a hand out for Amadeus to take. Amadeus stopped his shaking and looked at Alice for a moment before denying her hand with a simple slap. "Screw you, give me my sister!" Amadeus snapped.

Alice's smile faded- as did all of their smiles. Every single one of them had a frown on their face that would soon be replaced with an angry scowl. Every. Single. One of them. "I see…" their arms all lowered to their sides.

"Get on my back…" Firedrake suddenly whispered to their group. "Now."

"You're not going anywhere!" The ground shook violently as another dragon suddenly approached them. This one stood contrasted against Firedrake's silver color as this dragon was jet black. The two stood head to head the same size.

"Sicily!" Kyo cried out.

Sicily it was, on top of the dragon's head. like the others, she was grayed out, but she was different than the others. Her hair wasn't gray, but it wasn't brown, it was white, a pure white that stood out amongst the blackness that was currently swallowing them. Then, she was gone. Jason looked around frantically to where she went.

"I never said you could touch me!" Sicily showed up right beside Amadeus, scaring not only him but Ben as well. Both of them fell back, Amadeus fell on his back dropping his shotgun in the process. It was Sicily that was yelling, but that wasn't her voice. Unlike the others that had some sort of overlay, this was a different voice.

Now that Sicily was closer Jason could see her better. Her skin was a darker gray than the others, her hair white, as mentioned, and the tips of her fingers were almost black like she had gotten frostbite or something of the sort. "What did you do to my sister!" Kyo came up to Sicily capturing her attention, allowing Amadeus to scramble away. Sicily looked at Kyo a little startled for a moment, before a grin split across her face. Everyone around them followed this reaction. Before she suddenly vanished for just a moment only repair behind Kyo in an instant causing her to shout out and fall back, just like Amadeus had. Sicily had such a freighting aura around her than honestly, nobody knew how to react just being her presence.

Sicily then just kept that unsettling grin about her before she brought her hand up to her mouth and started to… laugh. When she laughed; so did the others. They had the same hand up their mouth as they did so mimicking her every movement and tone. "We know your little secret…" they all seemed to mock Kyo. Then, she laughed louder, and so did the others. "Oh, what a dirty little secret!" She suddenly threw her head back and laughed even louder and more obnoxiously. Jason didn't know this 'dirty little secret.' of Kyo's but judging by Kyo's head suddenly hanging he could guess it wasn't good.

Jason wanted nothing more than to point his gun at her, but something else caught his eye. Ben did. Ben seemed to be edging around Sicily, eyeing her up and down taking her 'new form' all in. Jason watched as Ben went for his bag. He opened it and pulled out something. Something that Jason just couldn't make out. Jason looked at Firedrake and Sorrel, Firedrake was currently watching the other darker dragon waiting for them to make a move.

The laughter died down slowly and Sicily stood up a bit stiffer. Ben paused suddenly, clearly afraid that he was caught, but then Sicily simply walked over to Kyo. "That was mean, a family shouldn't say things like that." She reached her hand out for Kyo to take.

"You're not my sister!" Kyo jumped up to her feet quickly and backed away from Sicily. "My sister would never talk to me like that, she'd never laugh at me!"

"Ohanzee." Ben finally spoke up. The air turned dry and stiff. It was suddenly so quiet that Jason was sure he could hear a pin drop. "That's your name. Right?"

Jason wasn't sure about all of this, because he knew he wasn't looking at Sicily, there was a difference that anyone could see. So, Ohanzee it was and Ohanzee was not happy. The darkness became more prominent and it was becoming heavy and uneasy.

"..." Ohanzee's head turned, her eyes suddenly a deep yellow color that stood out greatly against the darkness that was surrounding all of them. She looked crazed as she stared at Ben just out of the corner of her wide eye. Oddly enough, the others did not mimic her. "You." She turned her body around so she could look at Ben more fully. "You are a bad man-"

"-what did-"

Before he could finish his sentence tentacles suddenly shoot out from nowhere amongst the darkness and suddenly threw Ben back at least a good ten feet. What Ben was holding clattered against the ground and Jason finally got to see what Ben had. Some sort of handheld gun. Amongst the darkness, it was hard to make it out, but it didn't look like any gun he had seen before.

"Let him go!" Firedrake roared suddenly, no longer watching the dragon in front of him. No, Firedrake tried rushing towards Sicily but with a simple wave of her hand the black dragon was in front of him, halting him dead in his tracks. "Get out of my way!" He demanded to the other dragon.

Ohanzee wasn't listening to Firedrake, instead, with a clawed hand, she raised her arm and Ben, was lifted off of the ground by his neck. "Did you even care about who I once was?" Ohanzee questioned.

Ben tried to answer, but all that came out of his mouth was strangled gasps. He kicked and tried to get the tentacles off of him, but all that happened as his hands went right through them.

"Leave him alone!" Kyo went to rush as her, just like Firedrake, but then Ohanzee turned and swung her hand at Kyo and suddenly everything went from crazy to Bat-shit insane. A ball of light came out of her hand and struck Kyo dead in the chest.

Kyo let out a sudden scream of shock. Then the gray came, it started where the ball had hit her and started to the web itself through her whole body. Kyo couldn't do anything about it as it climbed up and up until she, like the others, was completely grayscale. She then fell face-down to the ground. Amadeus was the first one to run straight to her.

"Kyo! Are you okay-" He touched her shoulder. Her head slowly turned upwards towards him, her eyes wide and unblinking as that same smile that the rest of them had was printed on to her face.

"I feel so much better now, thank you." Kyo, as well as everyone else, said all at once. She then got to her feet in that same janky uneven movement as earlier before standing tall and straight.

"Holy-" Amadeus took a step back.

"I said let him go!" Firedrake's unfiltered roar cut through the air as he addressed Ohanzee directly. Ohanzee narrowed her eyes as she focused on Firedrake for a moment and with a smile. She did as he had asked and just tossed Ben into the nearest rock causing him to hit his head and fall face down to the ground.

Firedrake let out an infuriated roar and in his anger tried to storm up to Ohanzee.

"Hm." Ohanzee hummed weakly as she looked at Firedrake. She put her hand on her chin and the others, Kyo now included, followed her every movement. Jason could see the wheels in her head-turning. "Is it possible?" She thought out loud as she looked at the palm of her right hand.

"-No!" Jason realized what she was going to do, but it was too late. She let go of Ben and he fell to the ground with a low groan and with both of her hands she swung like before, but this time more powerful. An actual wave of light went and hit Firedrake's side.

Firedrake let out a sudden roar and suddenly shook Sorrel off of his back. He got down low and started roaring out. Like Kyo, the gray started to the web it's way up to his body, taking the shine away from his scales. He tried to heal himself and blow fire on himself, but as the fire started the normal blue it started to turn deep orange. Firedrake turned his head and breathed fire against the earth and the earth was scorched. His fire no longer healed.

"That's enough!" Jason didn't want to do it, but he no longer had a choice. He raised his gun to Ohanzee's head and fired twice. Ohanzee was gone before the first bullet left the barrel.

"That's cheating," A tentacle came out and snatched his gun out of his hands before tossing it somewhere. "I don't like cheaters!" Suddenly all he saw was yellow as Ohanzee was right in his face. Now, Sicily is shorter than him, by about a foot, but Ohanzee was face to face with him. She stared at him for several seconds before lowering herself to the ground. "I see… you just want to save everyone- but tell me, can you? Look at them, all of them…"

Jason did as she asked and looked at the chaos around him. Amadeus was by Ben, who hasn't gotten up, Firedrake was now completely blacked out like the dragon in front of him and both of them were staring down at Jason, smoke rising from their nostrils as they seemed ready to just turn him into charcoal, and of course, there was everyone else. "You can't fight this… just join me. Join my family."

Jason looked at Ohanzee's extended hand. "I'll protect you like I protected all of them…" she coerced him. The more she spoke the more… pretty her voice was becoming. She sounded sweet and almost motherly. "You need me, Jason." She finally whispered to him. He looked at her hand and realized that it sounded very tempting, and she seemed like she was doing a pretty bang-up job at doing as such. She loved them all, didn't she? Jason reached out for her hand ready to take it and become a part of her family-

There was a sudden flash of light. Someone had taken a photo. The light was so bright that it caused Jason to squeeze his eyes shut.

The light was what they needed. All Jason could hear was screaming. Screaming from Ohanzee that only faded away as the seconds passed. When Jason reopened his eyes the screaming was gone. That wasn't the only thing gone. Everyone was, Ohanzee, her mindslaves, and the dragons. Jason stood there for a few moments as a few deep breaths left his mouth. He looked over at Amadeus and Ben. Amadeus was currently hovering over Ben looking down at his phone.

Jason's head started to clear and he realized how close he had become to be one of Ohanzee's and that scared him. "Bro! Wake up!" Amadeus's voice cut and echoed through the gorge, something Jason never realized was missing until now. An echo. Jason looked at the sky and saw stars, the moon, and planes. He felt freed and that alone made him laugh.

"Stop laughing!" Amadeus cried at Jason. "This is serious, he's not responding, and we lost the dragon, and the twins!" Jason could see tears in Amadeus's eyes. Jason slowly walked over to Ben and saw that he must have really taken a blow it wasn't just him, but the little robot as well was unconscious. Quietly Jason crouched down and touched Ben's wrist waiting for a pulse.

"He's alive… I'll call for an ambulance bus-" All Jason heard was the cocking of a shotgun right behind him. Both Amadeus and him turned to see a completely grayed Kyo right behind them shotgun pointed.

"Whoa, little missy…" Amadeus put his hands up before he slowly stood.

"You've hurt me. All I wanted was new family members and this is how you repay me? I won't be hurt any longer… goodbye-"

Then there was a noise, a flash of silver, and Kyo was tossed in the air. Like not even gently tossed, no, she was just completely thrown a good twenty feet up by a dragon who was now whooping and cheering. "I missed you so much!" The dragon, who was smaller than Firedrake, cheered suddenly. This dragon was accompanied by another silver dragon, and wouldn't you know it? Another brownie.

"Junior…" The other dragon, one that Jason had realized was female, spoke in a slow and cautious tone. She not only noticed Ben, but noticed how gray this human was. This 'Junior' never noticed at first as he had caught Kyo in the air and actually started bouncing her up and down on his back causing several disconcerted 'wah-oh-ah!' to leave Kyo's mouth.

"Did you miss me! I was so worried! Where's Sicily!-"

"Junior!" Ben cried out loudly as he jumped up from the cot. "It was Junior! Where is he!? Is he okay?!"

"Calm down." Jase stood up and placed a hand on Ben's shoulder. "Do you want to see him?"

"Yes!" Ben all but cried in desperation. "Please…" He finally whimpered. "Does he know? About Firedrake, I mean?"

"Yes." Jase nodded in response. "Just...C'mon… there's still some of the story you're missing. We'll fill you in on the way in."