A/N: As it was commented that it was hard to understand the parts dealing with the eyes. Going to try it this way by using just Tomi thoughts and notes [main points will be in their own bit]
-Oxford - Thursday: Part 10-
Tomi sat in his room, a cigarette hanging from his lips unlit. A pen tapping against his little notepad, it was all written in code. There was a reason for that of course, he trusted no one, not really. Trust was a simply a way to assure one's survival and he knew that when someone scarier appeared one tended to bow their heads towards them, all in hopes of their own survival. His little Kuon had been much like that, he realized that people weren't to be trusted at such an early age but he hadn't been able to fully let go of that little belief no matter how many times it was shown to him. Tina, a woman who had shown to care had been one of the first to turn against him. Throwing the beauty that had been his Kuon who had not fully developed into either side because he hung so tightly to Rick that he destroyed himself to live as Ren Tsuruga, a disgusting creature in his mind. Then there was his Hana, she was different. To say he had been drawn to her wouldn't be far from the truth, he had never seen someone whose eyes shown like molten gold, even Natasha eyes paled in compared to hers and before he had seen the beauty of Natasha's eyes, eyes that not even Makar had been able to hold a candle too. So what was the difference, what made them seem so much duller in comparison?
His eyes trailed towards his notepad and as if he was reading Russian or English or any of the other languages he read it with perfect ease.
Three Eyes of Magic, Power, Control [Known by many names.] Gold, Violet, Red [always the same three].
Tomi's eyes narrowed as he thought about the so-called oldest of the three types. Was that not why it had been called the Eye of the Gods? Pharaohs touched by the Sun God Ra. It struck him as odd. They believed that they were the living as Horus. This made a bit of sense he supposed, Horus was thought to get his power from the Sun God Ra. So it wouldn't be surprising to think that those born with eyes of gold were touched by Ra himself. Regardless they were worshiped, they were special. They drew people to them. They also didn't tend to have the best of lives from what he could tell. Able to make the world theirs but what was the cost? They blended into society, to fit perfectly into whatever role was given to them. Perhaps the truth was they were shapeshifters, and as all the stories go about shapeshifters pain and hardships were their only promised future if they were lucky death. Yet how much could he be sure about that?
The children born to that woman, that woman who his own ancestors kept pregnant until her death. None of her children seemed to carry her trait and just like that they disappeared. Only one popping up from time to time also powerless. His Aunt was a lovely sample of the curse he supposed as well. Raped and forced to give birth to the child because of the blood. A child born with golden eyes who due to his biological father would never be trusted within the family always watched without even knowing why. Then there was Kyoko, a child whose own mother didn't want her, who worked hard to have love and a future with the man she had given her whole being too, never asking for much other than to one day be loved back. To be sold, to become a sex slave... and had he not stepped forward, had not been in wonder at the fact there was someone outside of his family with those eyes, would he had even lifted a hand to help her? Perhaps not, he wasn't a good nor kind man. Even if that's what she saw.
Gold [Golden and/or Amber] - Eyes of the Gods
Abilities: Blending, Draws people to them.
Cursed: Draws people of all kinds. A promised of Pain and Death.
True Bloodline: Unknown, Lost? Dead? None?
Note: The God Ra, Shapeshifters?
Now if he only had the proof, he would say that the Eyes of the Dead was the second oldest of the three eye colors. He would have connected them to the God Orisis, it made sense in his head he was the God of the Dead and what a perfect way to blend the two. For when the Pharaoh died, he became Orisis at least according to the stories but no. Their family came from Greece thousands of years ago, that was where it was said their blood awakened. They traveled sometime in the 1500s to Russia, and their family had always had an ear with those in power since then. Easy he supposed when you think about the fact that their eyes were violet and the powers that came from that. Not just the ability to see, speak and touch the dead as if they were indeed Grim Reapers. Yet the fact that the living couldn't hide their memories from them. No, they were able to force memories out of a person, to get the information that they needed or wanted. That it was near impossible to hide it, he had found a way long ago in how to do it. Yet he also knew that even that had not been because of him but those before him, people who had wanted to keep things hidden from even their own family members. They could also learn apparently with a lot of struggle that tended to end up with the person going insane if they failed to keep unwanted memories from entering their mind with a single touched.
Reino had been a long time coming he supposed. While distance cousins, had also been born with the violet eyes they never have shown any sign of having the powers and abilities of old. Vas had been disappointed that he had not awakened, he had seen it coming once they all realized that Reino was able to see the dead, exactly what it would mean for Reino, oh he might have been Nikita's little boy and that was the only thing keeping him from being truly tested upon... in a more lab rat manner. Just like with Natasha her connection to Vas and Boris kept her safe, it helped Tomi guessed that Natasha had the color she did. The only thing desired by her would be to have children to keep the family strong. Lucky for her that they had a way to freeze her pretty little eggs, she didn't have to be the mother, she didn't have to give birth and with her eggs frozen they could run all the tests they wanted and they have been. It was Vas' dream like so many who had come from before him to have full control of the powers at hand. To be able even to grant it to others who have proved themselves but Tomi also found it hard for him to get away from wanting this information.
Yet it had made Tomi move to protect Reino, in a way he would not deny that he cared about his young cousin. Make him his little playmate, at least that's what Vas and Boris had called it. He might not have been able to fully stop Vas and his siblings from using Reino but he could keep the rest of the family from having such thoughts. It was enough for the time and it gave him a card, control over Reino's future. No, if they wanted Reino they would have to play with him and no one in this family wanted to play with him. Tomi's eyes trailed towards his notepad, making the final notes on the Eyes of the Dead.
Violet [Hues of Purple and Violet] - Eyes of the Dead
Abilities: Talk, Touch, See the Dead. Memories of the living [maybe the dead]
Cursed: They live the memories, Madness
Cure: Alcoholism [numbs], Removing their eyes [No longer see the dead]
True Bloodline: Zhatka
Note: Blocking possible, Death is possible while living the dreams [or so claimed]
The last of the three were the ones he himself held. Yet he also knew there was almost no knowledge dealing with it. The ritual held to gain the blessing of the Devil or Demon depending on what information you used. Rituals were something that was very common in Egyptian Text and he wanted to believe that he could connect his own eyes to the Eye of Horus, was he not protecting those he was fond of? Was not the Eye of Horus a symbol of protection? Yet that was not the case, no first known record came from Germanic Text on Demons of all things. In truth over time science was able to prove that it was just a form of albinism. Red eyes were a trait found, just like those who lack pigments and could end up with white hair, genetics. Well at least one would think that was the case but he had pigment so the most that could be said was that he had the kind that affected only the eyes. Yet, there was never a case of visual problems reported in their family well in the Damon family. No, something else was indeed at work for them. Their sight was just as good, 20/20. It really did make it seem like they were simply the children of the devil as if a demon was indeed hidden inside of them. Might be why they were more likely to torment their victims, to enjoy peeling them layer by layer. Well he didn't enjoy it, but Boris did, and Tod Damon had.
Tomi ran a hand through his hair, no it wasn't their eyes. At least he didn't think that was the case. The truth of it was their blood. The eyes only played a feature in the mind, perhaps. Allowed them to see things, that they wouldn't be able to see otherwise. His skills in it had become rather good, if they were born through a blood ritual then it only made sense that the blood was the key. The blood ritual of the mind, their eyes helped assure it would happen, a focus point while implanting the trap within their mind. A trigger he knew was tripped, it always blinded him those so-called mind traps. It was just a shame he couldn't see them, at least he hadn't found a way yet. The Damon family made it near impossible to get information about their abilities and just because she had been his daughter, they were not willing to give it up, nor more than Tod Damon had been. Fact, he knew he was supposed to be able to trap them forever in their own minds, but so far he had not been able to get that to work. Fact, he was able to imprint himself his very mind into another. Kyoko in a way was not part of his plans to study himself, he honestly had just wanted to protect her. Imprinting was not listed as even possible. So was a new development? If so what did it mean for her and himself and was there a way to break it. Did he want to break it he had done it because he had grown to care, or what he believed was caring about someone? Ownership perhaps was closer to what he felt, he had felt he owned Kuon, he owned Reino, these were his things. Their lives belonged to him and him alone.
His eyes turned back towards his notepad he no longer wanted to think about it at all. There was just too much he didn't know or understand still.
Red - Eyes of the Demon [or Devil]
Abilities: Mind Traps, Imprinting?
Cursed: Migraines, Imprinting? Unknown
True Bloodline: Damon
Note: Blood rituals, mistaken for albinism
What had been new to him, not the fact that there were claims that they had found a way to awaken the powers hidden in lower eye sets. Well, a secondary and even a third and mystery classification as he was seeing them. Added new factors to the mix, information could be gathered. Yet he had no idea how to gather that information or where to look, 'No not true, Hude I'm sure their pet was where they got that information from.' At least for the mystery class perhaps, but it gave him something to look into. To busy his mind when he was not playing with the life of Shoutaro. He smirked as he tapped the notepad with his pen.
Secondary Class Eyes: Blue, Green, and Brown.
Most common type of eye colors.
Brown - [No name]
Ability: Trustworthiness, Able to make anyone trust them.
Cursed: Unknown
Note: Unable to trust easily [Loners]
Green - [No name]
Ability: Personal Luck
Cursed: Jealously? Unknown
Note: Green-eyed monster?
Blue - [No name]
Ability: Lure people in. Cast peace and calmness over the soul/person.
Cursed: Unknown
Note: Link to the Eyes of the Gods?
Tomi frowned at the little to no useful information he had gotten from his meeting with them. Some of it felt more like personality traits to him, but didn't they say that these weren't personality traits. So that meant they must have had at one point and time the abilities that could truly cause such feelings. Feelings of being able to trust a person with a single glance maybe? Yet the downfall they couldn't trust people? No, it was they couldn't easily trust others. So that was not likely the case. If he could gather their so-called names perhaps that would help him be able to gather a better idea of where they fit. No bloodlines though, he was sure of that at least that much. Too many people were born with these other eye colors so that meant to him that only set few of these people had the same powers. However, the only one that troubled him was the idea of being able to lure people in, to wash them with peace and calmness, to make them unable to sense the own danger that was heading towards them. Were they somehow linked to the eyes of the Gods? They had the ability that lured people to them, but they did it without meaning too, this sounded like they meant to do it. It was planned as if they could selective who it was where with the Eyes of the Gods this was not the case. It was forced upon them, they had no control other than to blend, to merge with their surroundings and even that didn't seem to fully work for them in the end.
Third Class Eyes: Dark Brown/Black, Gray
Trait-based only. No powers, no abilities seemed to be found within them.
Dark Brown to Black - [No name]
Note: Very intuitive
Gray - [No name]
Note: Extremely smart
Then again weren't the secondary class ones now just that unless what was being said about how the Chinese had found a way to awaken these powers again. That brought up a lot of questions, what did they find that generations of Zhatka hadn't been able to figure out themselves? Was it something that was only shown in these other classes? Was it something found in what he was calling the Mystery Class?
Mystery Class Eyes: Hazel, Multi-Colors [Duel and Changing]
His pen tapped slightly on the edge of the notepad, the hazel eyes perhaps had held the greatest power at one time. Perhaps in the past, they actually came from a certain bloodline. That seemed far more likely, perhaps nature had realized the mistake it had made in humans and thought to correct it the only way it could. Yet it wasn't able to zap all of them away. Yet they killed it, so there was likely no one who was pure enough. How much research had gone into them? He didn't have that information. It was believed to cancel the effects of those with the Eyes of the Demon, which he knew was not the case. Yet they didn't know that and he had no desire to correct them on it either. So that meant the three main weren't affected by them, why was that? What was different in their DNA compared to the rest of them?
Hazel - [No name]
Abilities: Able to cancel out all but the main three
Cursed: Unknown
True Bloodline: Unknown
Note: Mutation? Long-term cancel? Must have had an original bloodline.
That left the ones that may not even be one type but two different types. He had zero information on them. Everything was unknown. They didn't even have an answer or an idea. They had tested it for several generations and gotten nowhere so did they really hold anything? Were they a mixture of the others? It was frustrating to not have more information but he had no way of asking them.
Multi-Eyes - Type 1
Two different eye colors, no known information.
Multi-Eyes - Type 2
Change from one color to another. No known information.
What he did know was that his little Kuon was Type 2 but he had never seen anything to hint to any powers or abilities. Other than he was a very pretty but that could just be because his mother had been a very pretty woman and his father was a pretty man.
"Tomi, your ride is here." His eyes turned towards the man at the door, before slowly lifting his eyes to the eyes, violet. Someone in his family too far down the line to care.
"Did you ever awaken your eyes?" Not that he really cared but perhaps there was a trigger that he had been too young to realize at the time.
"No. Why?" The man shifted slightly not looking into his eyes. Not that it was uncommon, Boris was a legend on his own. Deadly and dangerous that no one could control but his two older siblings. He wasn't seen much different only the rumor was that they had no one who could truly control him. He was dear Tod Damon reborn he looked just like his dear great-grandfather he always been told that much.
"No reason," he said standing up, "Grab my bags." He said pocketing his notepad. As he grabbed his phone and lighter. The man looked at him questioningly and he grinned, "Well unless you want to be my test subject." He said lighting up his cigarette as he blew a cloud of smoke at the man.
"Ah, no thanks"
Kyoko sighed heavily as she laid on the bed, her arms spread out. She felt useless as Daiki was coding a program to help her look through the results of missing people. Not just here in the UK but apparently he was also looking into those who had entered the country since her attack. Something felt off to her but she couldn't put her finger on it either. Heth was here for sure looking for young women to bring into the sex trade but he wouldn't have just started after being caught he would have been doing it before. So that meant that there were others who had been caught by him and well if she recalled how quickly the women at Bakkin Hana had been able to be trained then how exactly how many had he gone through. Surely not as many as he could do now though. "Maybe we should look at those who are leaving too..." she said softly. Yet they wouldn't be allowed to travel if they were damaged not until they were healed she placed an arm over her eyes, "No that won't work, not right now" she whispered.
Ruto sat down next to her and she slowly turned her head to look at him. "Miss Kyoko, you are doing what you can. Please trust Daiki to get this program set up for you."
Kyoko sighed heavily, "It's not that I don't trust his skills, it's just how many more will go missing because I didn't think? How could I had forgotten?"
Keiji dropped his book on the bed next to her causing her to jump slightly as she rolled over, to have him glare at her made her want to hide. Which she found herself doing by moving closer to Ruto. "Your main task is stopping him correct?" She didn't say anything just nodded her head, "Then adding to your workload will do no good for you or them." She looked down slightly she didn't really believe it. She closed her eyes as she felt Ruto's hand running through her hair causing her to sigh heavily.
"He will have help..." She felt sick already thinking about him. Yet there had been that police officer, the one she was sure was in contact with him. Yet rather or not he worked with Heth she didn't know. All she knew was there was something off about him, something that made her feel disgusted inside. Something she wasn't sure if anyone else had picked up. Her eyes turned towards Ruto for a moment, 'No I'm sure Ruto did' her eyes turned away from him 'I'm sure Daddy would feel it too, he seems to be able to read the heart so well. That there is something wrong with that man's heart.'
Keiji eyes turned towards his phone all four phones went off, so did each of the computers. Her eyes darted towards her own phone as she sat up.
Child Rescue Alert - Alice Patterson, age 17, missing since late last night.
Believed to be abducted by at least two masked men from her home. They were last seen getting into a silver SUV.
[Link]
Kyoko clicked the link it was the first Child Rescue Alert she had seen since Heth had shown up. Actually, since she had been here in during fashion week. The girl in the photo didn't look much like her, at least not in her mind. She was clearly had Asian in her, enough to give her the look of someone with mixed blood. She didn't have half mixed looked. Her hair was long and black. Much like hers had been when she was sold by Shoutaro, but it was her eyes, it was her eyes that hit her. They weren't exactly gold but it had that lighter brown mix in them that gave the illusion of such eyes. Her eyes turned towards Ruto for a moment "He's in there" it was the last photo that made her sure. Made her believe fully that the Police Officer was indeed working with or at least helping Heth maybe he was like one of those men, the kind that liked young girls.
