I'm gonna make this story mostly be about Zofis, Brago, Koko, and Sherry's side of the story.
But don't worry, Zatch and his friends will still be in the story. I'll let you all know which chapters will have Zatch and his friends in it.
For now, enjoy the new chapter.
Reunited
"This way, miss." A nurse was escorting Koko down a long hall in a hospital. Two days have passed since Koko brought Zofis to the hospital. The doctors immediately took him to the emergency room. They told her she would have to leave and head back to her college, yet she didn't want to leave but she has no choice. When she came to check up on Zofis yesterday, the doctors told Koko that two bones of Zofis' rib cage were cracked and were close to breaking off and so they had to operate through the whole night when she first brought him in.
"Here's his room right here. The doctors said he'll probably wake up soon," the nurse brought the brunette to the room Zofis is in.
"Thank you, nurse." Koko replied as she opened the room and closed it. It was dark inside, but there was a little bit of light peeking through the closed blinds to help her see. Zofis laid in his hospital bed. It appears that the doctors took his clothes off and changed him into hospital patient clothes. There were really small intravenous tubes, one on each of his arms and two were going into his hospital shirt, placed over his chest. He was asleep, Koko can tell by his calm breathing. She grabbed a chair, set it next to the hospital bed and she sat in it, watching over the sleeping demon.
'Zofis,' the woman had a lot going through her mind. 'Zofis and Zoe are siblings, so why isn't she hear to be with him? I haven't seen her at all in two days. Did something happen to her? What's going on?'
"Koko..." a familiar voice spoke, snapping the brunette out of her thoughts. Zofis' eyes opened slightly. "Is that you?"
"Yes, it's me," Koko held the mamodo's hand with her own.
"Koko... there's something I have to tell you," said the mamodo as he coughed afterwards.
"Take it easy. What is it you need to tell me?"
Zofis looked at Koko with look in his eyes that Koko can tell that he has something to confess to her. "In the war for king when we defeated, your friend Sherry wanted me to erase your memories of the battle. I told her, or maybe something 'else' told her that even if I was sent back to my world, you would still have memories of all the bad things we did, and the memories would torture you from inside, and it may cause you become so stressed it will weigh down on your conscious of life, and it may even cause you to... kill yourself," Koko gasped in shock by hearing this, but the she insisted Zofis to continue.
"Sherry told me to erase your memories of the bad things we've done. In the end I did what she said and I erased your memories, but... I didn't erase all of them. The only memories I didn't erase were the memories of me. I just couldn't erase them, Koko. I know what I was in the battle, but even someone like me has feelings for a special someone. To me, that someone is you," Koko blushed a bit, but it was hard to see it because of the dark room. "But... with the memories of me still inside your mind will might cause the memories I did erase to come back." Koko did remember only a few of those memories coming back, but she only remembered them a long time ago before Zofis came back to Earth.
"I'm sorry, Koko. I never meant... to put you through all of this." Zofis turned his head away from Koko to the side. He was too tired to keep talking.
"Zofis," but it was too late. Zofis was already asleep again. "I'm sorry too. I'm sorry that I wouldn't believe you." Koko lowered her head and sighed. 'He needs his sleep. I guess I need some sleep too.'
Somewhere outside, Brago and Sherry were walking down the sidewalk. Sherry wasn't done with her business yet. As usual, random people were staring at Brago and as usual, Brago ignored them. The blond was still thinking about what happened those two days ago. "Lamppost."
Sherry looked up and immediately stopped, her face almost about to make contact with a lamppost. She gave a stressful sigh of relief before moving around the lamppost and next to her mamodo. "Sorry, I have a lot on my mind."
"Get over it, already." said the dark mamodo.
"No, I won't get over it."
"Whatever," Brago turned and focused on where he was going. 'Why can't she just put the damn past behind her? The way she's acting like this is pointless, the damn war was over a long time ago and she's acting like it's still going on. This is really getting on my nerves.'
"Brago, why does this have to happen the way it is?"
"You've asked that question already, I'm not telling you. You already know it,"
"Well I don't like it, Brago." Sherry was getting angry.
"Then you better start getting use to it. Incase you remember, I didn't like it when you were my partner but I got use to it,"
"I think about it, Brago. But I still don't like it," Sherry finished, her arms folded across her chest.
"Fine, but I suggest you stop before you make a scene." Brago replied, indeed their bickering was causing people around them to stare at them strangely. The dark mamodo and the blond both ignored them and continued to walk down the long sidewalk. Brago suddenly caught the scent of something that made his head jerk up in shock. He can smell it as plainly as smelling normal air. A cold, dark, evil feeling rose inside him. He smelled this scent... two days ago. "Sherry,"
"What is it?"
"It's her. Lets go," Brago took off running but stopped after seeing Sherry with a look as of she doesn't care. "Do you really want to lose your friend this time? Move it!" This made Sherry angry, she rushed over and both of them ran off to the hospital Zofis and Koko were at.
It has been awhile since Zofis made his confession. Koko had finished her college homework for the day, and was really beat from these last two days. The brunette went to sleep after writing her answer to the last question of her science homework. She laid her head on Zofis' hospital bed and went to sleep, her college supplies set aside. She looked so peaceful in her sleep; too bad it isn't gonna last very long.
Zofis' hand suddenly twitched as it grip hold of the bed sheets. His eyelids seem to twitch a bit too, as if he was having a nightmare. The door opened, light immediately cracking through into the dark room. The light outside the room immediately fade away by the shadow of a person entering the room and closing the door. The person slowly walked up to the bed, with its really long hair being dragged across the floor.
The person looked down at the sleeping human and sleeping demon. "So here you both are. So close, yet so far from each other." the person spoke in a cold chilling feminine voice. Then she turned and looked down at the sleeping Zofis. "Zofis, if only you knew how disappointed I am in you. Once again you failed me. Well, I'll ensure that'll be the last mistake you ever made." the woman reached her hand out at the psychic mamodo, her fingers spread out in a position that looks like it's gonna grab hold of something tight and not let go.
Koko suddenly stirred in her sleep, the woman's voice woke her up. The brunette's eyes opened and the first thing they saw was the woman's hand reaching towards Zofis' sleeping form. She screamed and end up falling back in her chair, hitting the ground hard. "Who are you?" she asked both scared and demanding.
"I should be asking you that, my dear." the woman answered. Koko got up got a better look of the other female. She was about the same height as Koko with really long orange hair that the ending part of it all was being dragged on the ground. She was wearing a larger of Zofis' common white outfit, except it was all dark purple and the puffy part of the sleeves were white instead of purple like on Zofis' usual outfit he use to wear. She had purple lips and pale white skin like Zofis use to, and has four red lines on her face, two lines going down from each of her eyes. But her most horrifying feature were those red-yellow eyes that always express evil within them; the very same eyes Zofis use to have.
The woman walked up to Koko and began walking around her, observing her body. Koko was so scared that her fear was preventing her from moving. "Hmm, healthy body, perfect features, and pure emotions. Leave to Zofis to find someone like you in his life,"
"Who... are you?" Koko asked again, this time more scared than demanding. The other woman chuckled evilly by this, but answered anyway.
"My name's Zenaida. And I'm... Zofis' mother." the woman snickered. Koko gasped in fear and took a step away from the adult mamodo. "What's the matter, human? It looks like you're turning pale." the demon's snicker turned into a grin, exposing sharp teeth that Zofis has. Koko was left speechless due to her newfound fear. "So... you're the one called Koko, am I right? And I take it that you're my son's human partner,"
"What do you want with me?" Koko manage to say something in response. The other chuckled evilly in response. "Answer me,"
"My dear, it's not you I want; It's my son that I want,"
"Then what do you want with him?" Koko demanded. The demon frowned at her, and then walked up to her. Koko took another step back, but Zenaida was now right in her face. The brunette was caught by surprise when the adult mamodo slapped her across the face. Koko turned to look back at the one in front of her. She felt a stinging on her cheek and it wasn't the feeling of being slapped. Placing her middle and index finger on her cheek and then checking them, there was small bits of blood on the tips of her fingers. When Zenaida slapped her, one of her claw-like nails scratched her cheek. Her soul was filled with fear once again.
"Has anyone ever told you not to talk back to your elders?" Zenaida asked in a disappointed tone.
'Curse you, damn you.' the brunette said in her thoughts, anger rising. The adult mamodo smiled coldly as she began walking around the woman in circles.
"But if you must know, I'll have to tell you everything about him,"
"What happened to him? What was his life like back in your world?" Koko asked as the other continued to walk in circles around her.
"My son was born with unique gifts. Since his father was a psychic mamodo, he inherited his psychic abilities while his precious little sister inherited my necromancer powers. However my daughter made a mockery to the ways of necromancy, but necromancy isn't the powers I use as spells. But as for my son's life in the mamodo world, it's ... an nuisance. I thought he would be strong, since he is my child after all. But it turned out he wasn't as unique as I thought he would be; he was... weak. He was one of the weaklings in our world because of his powers. His powers were so weak, the only thing they can do is cause a little bruise or a small burn,"
"But if his powers are weak like you said, how come they were deadly here in this world?" Koko demanded an answer by this.
"A little birdie told me that you have pure hatred and anger inside of you. With hatred and anger like that, his powers would increase by infinite. But since you and he lost, it seems that your hatred and anger wasn't strong enough to make him win. But as I was saying, his powers were very weak, everyone tortured him. They not only treated him like dirt because of his weak powers, but also about our family... or perhaps my side of the family,"
"And what about your side?"
"The family I came from was exiled from the rest of our society in the mamodo world, because our unforgivable ways. Because my family's powers were not of god; they are gifts from the devil." Koko gasped in fear again, her whole body beginning to shake by the cold uncomfortable feeling of Zenaida's fingers tracing across the back of the brunette's neck.
"It's because of that, Zofis was treated as an outcast. And to make it worse, he never had the courage or determination to stand up for himself, something he wasn't born with. All he did was run and hide like a coward. Then an angry mob came to our home and killed his father, leaving me and my children to go into hiding. And out of those mamodo who ruined his life... was Brago, the mamodo who hangs around your friend Belmond. The family I was from and Brago's family both shared a feud, but I ended that feud by killing every member of his family myself and myself only. Brago wanted revenge, so I let him killed my husband so that way I can do whatever I want to my children. Out of all the other mamodos who my son feared, he feared Brago the most."
The brunette growled, getting angrier and angrier at the adult mamodo.
"Nah, ah, ah, I'm still not done. After going into hiding, Zofis couldn't bare the pain and suffering of losing his father and being treated as an outcast, the darkness in his heart grew, but it still wasn't enough to make him stronger. Yet... he told me that he'll stop being a coward and he said he'll do whatever he could to become stronger. He became part of the battle to be king, yet he wanted to become king so he can prevent all the weaklings from being treated as outcasts. I said I'll help him become the king and he believed in me, but... I have my own reason for him to be king," Zenaida gave another evil grin as she continue to walk around Koko in circles. Koko was getting angrier. "I want him to become king... so I can put the entire mamodo world in its place and show them all who the real master is. And I was gonna make him the king one way or another,"
"You mean he was so determine to become the kind of king he wanted to be that he had to control my mind?"
"Actually, all of that was my doing. You see if he was fighting the battle the way he wanted to fight, he would surely lose. I had to make he didn't lose. I took advantage of the trust he's given me and so I gave him... and another personality," Zenaida snickered evilly again standing right behind Koko, her breath was brushing against the back of the brunette's back. "I take it you're well aware that some mamodo who wouldn't want to fight were given second personalities that forces them to fight. Well the second personality I gave to Zofis was different from the rest. This personality was my own creation, very unique from the rest. Unlike the other personalities who remain in control of the mamodo's body as long the human partner casts, this personality I gave to my son remains permanently in control of my son throughout the whole battle, taking full advantage of his psychic powers and making Zofis many things he never wanted do, like taking over your mind for example. But his book was burned anyway so his second personality, the one who was in control over his body as much as it was in control over your mind, was destroyed and so it disappeared from his being."
"Grrrrr," Koko was getting furious.
"Yet the other personality I gave to him was a bit connected to his original personality. He said he would stop being coward and fight in the battle, yet even with that other personality controlling his body he was still a coward, hiding away at those ruins while the millennium mamodos did all the fighting for him. And at the end, when Brago told my son how much he was afraid of him, it appeared that the other personality was just as afraid of Brago as well. But then... the evil personality's control over my son somehow disappeared like that, giving my son and his original personality full control over his mind and body once again. But it doesn't matter anymore. Zofis lost the war, after all the power I gave to him, he still lost. He has failed me for the last time, and for that I... just can't let him live anymore." Zenaida stopped walking around Koko and walked towards Zofis' sleeping form.
"I... can't believe you!" the demon stopped and turned to face the brunette. Koko's brown eyes were expressing extreme anger at the other woman. "Zofis is your son! He loved you like any other child would love their mother, and yet you took his life away! If you would've let him fought the way he wanted in the war then maybe, just maybe, he would've won! He trusted you, believed in you, and you lied to him, betrayed him, and used him! It's because of you, he and I done so many evil things and hurt so many people! You've ruined both of our lives! You are no mother; You're a monster!"
"Shut up!" the adult mamodo swung her arm at Koko, knocking her to the ground. The demon turned back around to do what she came for. Koko got back up and charged. Zenaida suddenly grasped Koko by her neck and held her up. "My dear, let me finish my job." Zenaida reached her other hand towards Zofis' form, preparing to do whatever she's going to do.
"Koko!" A familiar voice shouted as the door burst opened. It was Sherry, and Brago quickly followed in.
"You again?" Brago hissed at the adult mamodo. Zenaida immediately released Koko and the brunette clomped onto the ground. The evil demon looked down at Zofis.
"You're damn lucky, child. But next time, I'll make sure you'll die." Zenaida looked up at Brago and Sherry and snickered. Her really long hair began moving by itself in midair, spreading out in all directions, swirling and moving in the same patterns a snake slithers. Zenaida's hair wraps itself around her body and she disappears into the shadows.
Several Minutes Later.
After hearing what happened, the doctors and nurses immediately rushed to Zofis' room. Brago, Sherry, and Koko had to wait outside until the doctors say it's okay.
"Sherry," Koko spoke to her friend. Sherry turned and listened. "I know that you want what's best for me, but I need Zofis. And... there's something going on here, and I need to find out what it is. But I can't risk trying to make things better if you're still gonna try to kill Zofis. So until I find out what's going on, I would like us to go our separate ways for awhile,"
"What?" Sherry was shocked to here this.
"She's telling you to back off," Brago said out all of a sudden.
"I know what she's saying, Brago,"
"Whatever," Brago got up from the chair he was sitting in. "I'll be waiting outside." and so with that, he walked off. Koko got up too.
"Koko," Sherry spoke.
"Please don't take this personal, Sherry. I just want some time off by myself... and with Zofis." without turning around to look at the blond, the brunette walked off down the hallway.
Sherry held her head in her hands, full of thoughts and stress. 'I'm sorry, Koko. But I'm not ready to back off... not yet."
