A/N The next few chapters will be mainly centered around Brandon and Alec, rather Brandon and Alice. Maiknly because something really bad will happen to them in later chapters. Also, do you remember when Alice talks about Kidd scornfully? It changes because she doesn't have her meds, which will play a vital part in a few chaps.
"Oh great. Now he's gonna be bipolar too." Brandon grumbled, and returned his attention to his book.
"Not true!" Alice said. "He could develop Antisocial Personality Disorder, or Paranoid Personality Disorder or Avoidant Personality Disorder-though I can't really imagine Alec being shy, can you?"
"Never crossed my mind. If anything, he's probably gonna become paranoid." Brandon said, turning a page.
"Probably." Alice replied.
"Wonder who the next guard's gonna be." Brandon said, looking up from his book and down the hall.
Then a small girl walked in, making Alec peak out from behind Brandon again. Alice, however, looked puzzled. "Samara?"
"Yes?" the Belarusian replied.
"YOU'RE our guard?" Alice asked.
"Oh Christ. I'm getting tired of explaining to our former students." Brandon said, marking the page he was on and put his book away.
"Actually, Stein already explained to me, Cam and Fred." Samara replied.
"Where are those two, anyway?" Alice asked.
"I don't know, they were right behind me..."
"Probably trying to sneak up on Alice." Brandon said, silently sighing in relief that he didn't have to explain himself again.
Just then, the twin blades stumbled in unceremoniously. "Hello, teachers-er, ex-teachers!"
"Would you look at that? I was wrong." Brandon said, leaning up against a wall.
Alec inched out from behind Brandon a little more. "Who's that?" Samara asked, smiling. This made Alec hide behind Brandon again. "Awwww!"
"Jesus Alec, I've seen steelier nerves from a cat on a freeway." Brandon said, looking at the boy cowering behind him.
"So his name is Alec?"
"Yeah." Brandon said, sidestepping so Samara could see the boy.
Alec tried to hide again, but Alice grabbed the back of his shirt to keep him in Samara's sight. "He's so cute!" she squealed.
"Oh god, another one." Brando said, noticing how Samara squealed in a high pitch.
"Another what?"
"Another squealer." Brandon said. Samara chuckled.
Alice smirked, pushing Alec towards the metal bars that kept them caged in. "He looks like a puppy!" Samara gushed, making Alec whimper.
"Quit makin' me gag!" Fred joked.
"Oh, so I have to put with your flirting, but I can't say a guy is cute?"
"Yes."
"Sounds sexist to me." Brandon commented, cringing at Samara's squealing.
"The thing is a guy's compliments don't make people want to puke." Cam replied, making both Alice and Samara glare at the two Irish boys.
"That's a good point, but I wouldn't want to piss off these two." Brandon said, nodding towards the two girls.
The two girls grinned evily. Alec tilted his head to the side in confusion. Samara stuck her hand through the bar and pat his head, making him more confused. Brandon became a little afraid, slowly backing up from the two girls.
Alec poked Samara's hannd. "Are you real?"
"Of course I'm real!" Samara replied.
Hey, girls reading this! You know that feeling where you see something adorable and you wanna squeal and hug it to death? Alice is having that feeling.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Alice squealed, tackling Alec to the ground and squishing him, earning concerned looks from the three teens outside the dungeon. "I. Just. Saw. Real. Live. FLUUUUUUUUUFF!"
"Oh god, here she goes with her demented fantasies again." Brandon said, pulling out his book and beginning to read again.
"Oh god, I've gotta' tell Tsubaki when I get home! Oh, she's gonna' be so JEALOUS!" Alice squealed, magically in a sitting position. "If I knew this was gonna' happen, I would've bought a video camera!"
One can only imagine how Alec feels about this.
"Jesus, you're gonna give the kid a heart attack!" Brandon said, noticing the worry on Alec's face.
"Oops, sorry." Alice said before she started fangirling in the far corner of the dungeon.
"Christ, my fucking ears!" Brandon groaned, the two girls squeals puncturing his ear drums.
Cam looked at Alice in concern. "Alice! I think you're hurting Brandon! And freaking out Alec!"
"I don't think there is any stopping her!" Brandon called, clutching his ears in an attempt to block out the sound.
Alice then immediately stopped. "I'm good."
"Yep." Alice said, her eyes wandering over to Alec. "...I think I made his ears bleed."
"I wouldn't doubt it. I'm pretty sure you made mine bleed too." Brandon said, taking off his other hand. Alec placed a hand to his ear, quickly removing it. There was, indeed, some blood on his hand. "Nice job." Brandon commented, returning to his book.
"Er, I think he might need to go to a doctor." Fred remarked, cringing.
"Nah, I got him." Brandon said, and changed his wavelength to the healing one. He then rested his hand on Alec and healed him quickly. Alec looked at him in awe. "Don't look at me like that." Brandon said, walking back to the wall and returning once more to his book. Alec now had a confused expression on his face. "For Christ's sake, I hate it when people have amnesia." he muttered.
"..."
"I can heal people." Brandon explained slowly, making sure Alec understood him.
"Eh, you're just a hallucination, anyway." Alec replied, earning a curious glance from Samara.
"He's suffering from paranoia, amnesia, and hallucinations from the DNA transplant." Brandon explained.
"DNA TRANSPLANT?!"
"Ask Stein." was all Brandon said before returning to his book.
"..."
"Hey, when's your shift up anyways?" Brandon asked, feeling their gazes on him.
"In about two hours." Fred said.
"Why?" Alice asked.
"Stein said I had a wavelength similar to Ms. Marie's." Samara said. "He thought it might help you three."
"I can duplicate that frequency exactly. I don't know why he made you say here." Brandon said.
"Maybe he didn't know you could replicate that wavelength." Samara replied.
Alice looked towards Brandon. "You could that, but the whole we've time been here you didn't even USE that wavelength?!"
"Cause I didn't think it'd have any effect! I figured it only calmed down someone with insanity!" Brandon yelled back defensively.
"I thought he was just a wendigo! I never knew that he was insane!" Brandon yelled back, starting to become angry.
Alice scoffed. "I was talking about since we've been in here!"
"How the hell was I supposed to know he went insane?! I thought it was just paranoia and amnesia!" Brandon yelled, raising his voice a little.
"Paranoia is a kind of insanity!"
"Fine! You want me to fucking do it?! I'll fucking do it!" Brando barked. He then started focusing on the calming wavelength, but overshot it since he was distracted by his rage. He locked onto a lower frequency, and the room began to grow colder. Alice face-palmed while Alec was shaking, a bit scared from all the yelling, and trying to hide in the corner. The room grew colder an colder, Brandon too pissed off and focused to notice. By this time, Alice was shivering as well. Alec had backed himself against the wall, but flinched at the coldness of the stone walls, hissing.
Brandon started to shiver as well, breaking his concentration. "Why is it so cold all of a sudden?" he asked, goosebumps growing on his arms.
"I-I dunno!" Samara replied, her teeth chattering along with Cam and Fred's. "I think Alec is turning blue, though." Alec looked at his hand, seeing that it did, in fact, have a light blue tint to it and had a thin layer of frost on it, causing him to become horrified.
"W-wait, I-I'll get a f-f-fire going to help h-heat us up." Brandon said, his teeth chattering. He then focused his wavelength onto the fire frequency and lit the tips of his fingers on fire, causing the cold to go away. Alec hissed at the sudden heat, the frost immediately melting from his fingers. Brandon then focused his wavelength once more onto the calming frequency, the calmness emitting from his body. From the relaxing energy emitting from both Samara and Brandon's souls, Alec nearly fell asleep. Brandon also felt a calmness start falling over him, and he slowly slide down the wall into a sitting position, where he fell asleep. Alec and Alice had fallen asleep at the same time, as did Samara and her weapons.
They slept for about an hour, when Brandon woke up first. He noticed that his frequency had returned to normal, and decided to wake everyone else up. Alec bolted upright, blinking his eyes rapidly before yawning. "Alice, wake up." Brandon said softly, lightly shaking his weapon. Alice opened one eye and yawned loudly. Brandon then looked outside and noticed the three sleeping students. He then went over to the barred window. He began changing his frequency so that it began to cool again. He then focused it into his hand, and blew what appeared to be a cloud of ice towards the students.
The twin blades woke with a start, not used to the cold. Samara soon woke, a well. Alec was rubbing his eyes tiredly with his fist, looking like he'd nod off again any second. "D'AWWWWWWWWW! SO CUTE! YOU LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE KID!" Samara exclaimed.
Well, that woke him up. Poor Alec.
Brandon cringed at the squeal, covering his ears once more. "Goddamnit..." he muttered. Alec stared at Samara like she was crazy. "Christ, this is the worst pain I've ever felt." Brandon said, trying even harder to cover his ears. Alec also covered his ears, feeling a little bit of blood ooze out. "Stop fangirling! You're making our ears bleed!" Brandon yelled, feeling small amounts of warm liquid on the palm of his hand.
Samara immediately stopped. "I'm sorry!"
"Thank you." Brandon said, and began healing Alec again. He then healed himself and changed his wavelength back to normal.
"I was talking to Alec."
"Oh." Brandon simply said, then turned away. Alec just started snickering at him. "Shut up." Brandon said coldly, and pulled out his book again. This made Alec burst out laughing. "You seem to be forgetting something." Brandon said, looking up from his book. "You're human now. You're as weak and vulnerable as the prey you use to hunt."
"..."
"Wrap your mind around that." Brandon said, and returns to his book.
"Wait, he used to eat people?" Samara asked.
"Yeah. He was a wendigo." Brandon said.
"Um... how old is he?"
"240 some old years."
"THAT'S AWESOME!" Fred shouted.
"He's older than the country we live in!" Cam protested. He's also older than the country HE lived in.
"He also had an incident back in world war II, but he'd rather not talk about that." Brandon said, not once taking his eyes off of the book.
"Stein told us about the bullet wound."
"He tells you that, but not about the DNA transplant of the fact that he's a wendigo?" Brandon asked rhetorically.
"Actually, he did. I just didn't believe him."
"I know Stein's insane, but he's trustworthy too. He helped me control who I am." Brandon said.
"He experimented on me." Alice muttered darkly.
"You were an enemy." Brandon replied.
"I was following orders!"
"So blame your commanding officer, who was also an enemy." Brando said cooly, keeping his calm.
"IT WAS KIDD!" she snarled, her hair prickling, her fangs bared and her claws unsheathed.
"I know. But he was an enemy at that point." Brandon said, looking up from his novel towards his angry weapon.
At this point, Alice turned back into Kishin. She snarled at him, looking ready to attack. "You do not know the Kidd from my universe, and you most likely never will. That being said, you do not mention him, you do not THINK about him, and you definitely WILL NOT TALK ABOUT HIM!"
Brandon just stated the wendigo dead in the eyes and said two simple words. "Calm down."
"DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN, YOU PATHETIC HUMAN!"
"I would choose your choice of words more carefully." Brandon threatens, starting to become enraged.
Alice wrapped her hands around his neck, throttling him. "NEVER TELL A GIRL TO CALM DOWN! IT JUST PISSES US OFF MORE!"
"Let. Go." Brandon said as calmly as he could, which wasn't very calm. He felt his anger growing and growing, but he didn't want to transform here and fight his friend.
Alice calmed down when she felt her eye itching. She rubbed it with her finger and a contact lense fell out. "Goddamn, almost two months and I haven't had one chance to change my eye contacts. As soon as I get back home, I'm putting my glasses back on, even if they do make me look like a dork." she muttered, taking the other contact out. "...Now I can't see anything..."
"Well, that's not good now is it?" Brandon asked, calming down.
"I guess not, but I've lived almost 300 hundred years without 'em so I'm used to it. The headaches are horrible, though." Alice said.
"Maybe we could 'help' you with that?" Fred asked pervertedly.
"Dude, she's almost 300 years old!" Cam responded. "Besides, the whole 'kishin' thing is kind of a turn-off."
"Wow. Something that actually doesn't turn you two on. It's a miracle." Brandon said.
"I take offense to that." Cam said, while Fred burst out laughing.
"Search your feelings, you know it to be true." Brandon said in his best Darth Vader impression.
"'And besides, there are other things that don't turn us on!" Cam retorted.
"Like what? The girl's dead, she's your sister?" Brandon joked.
"Yes!"
"I'm not surprised." Brandon said.
"Well, we're not necrophiliacs!"
"If you were, I'd have to kill you." Brandon said.
"Why?"
"Because that's just sick." Brandon said.
"I know, right?"
"Exactly." Brandon said. He then remembered that Samara's shift was probably over. "Hey Samara, isn't your shift over?"
Samara looked at her watch and frowned. "Yeah, it's Alex's turn again." she said, making Alec frown. "Bye." she said getting up and leaving, her weapons following her.
"Hmm, that's weird. Maka doesn't have a shift." Brandon said, noticing that fact.
"Thank God." Alice remarked.
"Couldn't deal with it?" Brandon asked.
"I hate that bitch. So much."
"Oh yeah, that night." Brandon said, remembering the party.
"That too, but the one from my universe is a total bitch. She blames me for what Kidd did to her."
"I can kind of see her point, but it's also not right to blame you." Brandon said, voicing his opinion while trying to appease Alice.
"Besides, she looks better with the eye-patch."
"I wouldn't know." Brandon said, sitting down on the cot. It then hit him how tired he was. He yawned an asked "Hey Alice, are you tired?"
"Yeah." Alice yawned.
"Me too." Alec replied.
"You can have the cot if you want." Brandon said, sitting down, propped up against the corner of the room.
"OK." Alice said, quickly falling asleep with Alec following her. Brandon leaned his head on the wall, and quickly fell asleep afterwards.
They were awoken by a loud conversation. Basically, one of them was boasting and the other was telling the first to shut his mouth."Are you trying to wake them up?!" the second voice whisper/yelled.
Alec drowsily picked up a small stone that was next to the cot and threw it at the first. "SHUT UP!"
"...Told ya', BlackStar."
"Shut it, Kidd."
"Do you two ever stop talking?!"
"Christ, the last thing I want to wake up to is Blackstar's incessant boasting." Brandon said groggily, waking up.
Alec sent a sharp glare towards the two guards. "Shut. Up."
"Alec, you have no power over them. Your all bark but no bite." Brandon said, rubbing the tired out of his eyes. Alec grumbled to himself, causing a snicker from BlackStar. "Shut up, Blackstar." Brandon said coldly, his resentment for waking him up obvious.
"By the way, we brought you dinner." Kidd said, gesturing to two of meat.
Alec sniffed it. "HOLY SHIT, YOU COOKED LUCIAN! ...Oh, wait. That's chicken. Nevermind." he said, taking a bite of it before coughing it up. "Oh, gross! I ain't eating this shit! Give me some souls or something!"
"What the hell makes you think they're gonna give you fucking SOULS to eat?!" Brandon asked, afterwards biting into a piece of chicken.
"My mistake. Give US some souls."
"There's no way I hell that a. I'm eating a soul and b. there gonna give you souls to eat." Brandon said
"You don't know what you're missing out on."
"I'm pretty sure it's not worth being hunted down and killed like a wild animal." Brandon replied.
"It's sooo worth it."
"Have your intestines torn out by a student and let's see if you have the same opinion." Brandon said, glancing at Alec with spite.
"Dude, you already did that."
"But now you can actually die. You can feel the dark, cold death slide over you like a blanket." Brandon said. Alec started chuckling then. "What? You think I'd be funny if you died?" Brandon asked, a little confused as to why he's laughing.
"No, I was just wondering what it felt like." Alec replied, chuckling. He didn't know he could be so curious about something he used to consider trivial and found it funny.
"Trust me, it's definitely not a pleasant experience." Brandon said, thinking of his multiple near-death experiences. Alec just laughed harder. "You're not gonna be laughing if it ever happens to you." Brandon warned, pulling out his book.
"These two are giving me a headache." Kidd said before standing up and leaving.
"Fine, I'll surpass God without you!" BlackStar called after him.
Alec grinned. "Oh, so you want to be a god? There's a simple way to do that, you know~!"
"Really?" Alec nodded. "Oh no! I know what you're trying to do and it's not working!"
"Guess you don't wanna know, then~!"
"Tell me!"
"For Christ sake, are you truly that daft?!" Brandon exclaimed, angered by Blackstar's stupidity. "He's trying to get you to eat souls so you turn into a kishin!"
"I thought he was trying to get me to let you guys out."
"Both, actually~!"
Brandon face-palmed so hard the sound echoed down the hall way. "You're lucky I can't slap you right now." he growled through bared teeth. Alec snickered. "Shut up." Brandon said coldly, his resentment now directed towards Alec.
"I was trying to get us out! He woulda' fell for it, too! But no, you just had to tell him I was trying to trick him, didn't ya'?" Alec shot back angrily. "Do you actually LIKE being stuck in here!?"
"No, but we gotta fucking take responsibility for our goddamned actions!" Brandon snapped back, his rage building.
"Brandon, you're in JAIL! Being polite shouldn't exactly be a top priority at the moment." Alec replied.
"But responsibility is! Besides, of everyone that deserves to be in here, YOU'RE the most deserving of punishment!" Brandon yelled, his rage beginning to boil.
"Hey, I didn't kill Lord Death~!" Alec chimed. "If anyone, Alice deserves to be in here. Killing a Reaper is strictly taboo and punishable by death. Of course, death is more of a release than it is a punishment."
Brandon then charged into Alec and tackled him to the ground. "How! The! Fuck! Could! You! Say! That?!" he demanded between throwing punches at Alec.
Alec broke into an insane grin, chuckling like a lunatic. "I'm just telling the truth~!"
BlackStar's face filled with horror. "Oh god, they've lost it..." he muttered before running off to get Stein.
Brandon's pupils burned with rage, and any restraint he had previously was gone. He landed a few haymakers into Alec, then focused on to the soul blast wavelength but over shot it by a long hot. His entire arm began crackling with energy, emitting a blue light while random lightning bolts shot out in random directions. He shoved his palm into Alec's face and release all of his rage, pumping thousands upon thousands of volts I electricity into the boy's body. When Alec was completely charred, Brandon stood up and spit on him.
Alec coughed up some blood before Stein stormed in with BlackStar and Kidd trailing behind him. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!" Brandon just stood there panting, starting at Alec, who was sprawled across the ground, charred and smoking. "Alec is a valuable research specimen! You heal him right now!" Stein shouted.
"Ficker deserved it." Brandon muttered before reluctantly changing his frequency and healing him.
Alec sat up, coughing up more blood. "Research specimen, huh? Guess that's all I'm useful for now..." he said a quiet, raspy voice.
"That's the only thing keeping you alive." Brandon muttered, healing the boy still.
Alec frowned, feeling extremely guilty. "I-I didn't mean what I said about Alice... I'm sorry I provoked you like that."
"I shouldn't have snapped. I'm sorry. I've just been under a lot of stress." Brandon said, taking his hand away from the boy.
Alec cast his eyes downward. "Alice isn't awake, is she?"
Brandon glanced over at his weapon, and saw she was sound asleep. "No." he responded, turning back to Alec. He then offered his hand. "Need a hand up?"
"Nah, I'm fine." Alec said, leaning against the wall. Too weak to even move his arm. "I think I'll just stay here."
"Sorry about that." Brandon apologized again.
"It's OK."
"I had no idea I could do that." Brandon muttered aloud to no one in particular.
"Could come in handy one day."
"That it could, of I needed to provide Death City with power after an extreme blackout." Brandon joked. Alec gave a weak chuckle. "I doubt that's ever gonna happen though." Brandon said, considering the chances.
"It might." Alec joked, snickering.
"But what are the chances?" Brandon asked in reply, knowing they were slim.
"Dunno, but nothing is impossible! ...Except slamming a revolving door. 1, it doesn't work. 2, hurts like hell." Alec replied.
"I'm guessing you know that from personal experience?" Brandon asked.
"Yep." Alec chuckled. "Lucian dared me to do it."
"I bet Chuck Norris could do it, and then slam it closed." Brandon joked.
"Who is that?" Alec asked, earning a chuckle from Stein.
"What. The. Fuck." Brandon said, not processing that someone doesn't know who Chuck Norris is. Alec tensed up, afraid he might've done something wrong. "How do you not know who Chuck Norris is?! He's the single most epic being on the face of the Earth!" Brandon exclaimed.
"W-Well I don't have a 'computer' or a 'television'... whatever those things are..." Alec replied. The computer in his home was Medusa's and he wasn't allowed to use it.
"You don't learn about Chuck Norris through a tv or a computer. You hear about him by word of mouth." Brandon said.
"Oh, well I don't really get out much..." Alec said, feeling intimidated and slightly ashamed. "Don't hurt me?"
"I won't, but I can't say the same for Chuck if he ever finds out."
"..."
"I'm kidding." Brandon said, chuckling a little. Alec breathed a sigh of relief. "Or am I?"
"..."
"I got you again." Brandon said with a chuckle. He then turned and started approaching Kidd to ask him about the food when he slipped on the puddle of blood Alec coughed out. He fell backwards, slammed his head against the floor, and was out cold. Alec would have face-palmed if he had enough strength to move.
Several hours past and when Brandon awoke and Samara was now guard again. She was alone this time. Alice was awake having a conversation with her and Alec was still hunched against the wall. "...Yeah, I think Brandon and Alec were arguing while I was asleep this morning." Alice said.
"Really? What happened?" Samara asked.
"Stein told me Brandon practically cooked him. I wonder if Alec was even still alive before he was healed!"
"Aye, that little bastard was still breathing." Brandon said in an Irish accent. His eyes hen went wide when he heard his own words. Samara looked at him confused while Alice gave him a 'wtf' look. "Why the hell am I talking like a fuckin' Irishman?!" Brandon exclaimed, not knowing what the hell happened to him.
"I don't know." The girls replied in unison.
"This is fuckin' weird! I'm not even fuckin' Irish!" he exclaimed.
"What d'ya you think happened?" Alice asked.
"I probably messed up my brain with me hittin' my head on the floor." he said, thinking about it.
"Maybe. Or maybe Alec did something... since, y'know, you cooked him alive and all..."
"What the hell could have that laddie don to me that turne me into a fuckin' Irishman?" he asked, not seeing how it was possible. "Wait, I gots me an idea! Hit me as hard as you can on the head!" A vector-arrow shaped shadow shot out from underneath Alec as he let out a mischievous chuckle, and started hitting Brandon in the head. Hard.
VERY hard.
Brandon staggered forward, blacking in and out, then fell onto his back, hitting his head in the process. Alec laughed, but it soon turned into a coughing fit as more blood escaped from his mouth. Brandon began to stir. "Do I still sound Irish?" he mumbled, talking in his regular voice.
"No." Alec coughed in a strained, sickly voice. "Please remind not to ~cough~ laugh again..."
"Won't do." Brandon said, picking himself up from the floor.
"Fuck you. Hope the next time you slip on my blood you hit your head so hard you fall into a coma." Alec coughed out, now coughing up quite a large amount of blood.
"Well, if you keep that up, your wish may come true." Brandon said, noticing the amount of blood the boy was coughing up.
"This is you're fault you know," Alec replied, his body being racked by another coughing fit. "I could die because of this!"
"Good." Brandon muttered to himself.
"You're words hurt me." Alec said sarcastically. "Really, I don't see why you're saying such spiteful things now. I'm not a threat to you, I can't even move anymore!"
"But you still aggravated me. You've moved for the mosquito that keeps biting me to the annoying itch that's left." Brandon said, thinking of an analogy on the fly.
Alec glared at him. "OK, so first you injure me to the point where I can't even move and then you attack my pride? That's low even for a human!" he hissed, coughing up more blood.
Brandon felt his anger start to flare up. "Do you really wanna get me angry again?" he asked, the anger showing in his voice.
"Well, you've already pretty much hurt to the point where I can't move at all and my brother and neices are dead now. What possibly could be worse than that?" Alec asked in a depressed tone of voice.
"If you're trying to send me on a guilt trip, it's not gonna work. I have no guilt when it comes to these matters. I've tortured enough people to lose all feeling when it comes to events like this." Brandon said in a monotonous tone of voice.
"I'm not trying to make you feel guilty." Alec said softly. "And I don't care if you hurt me anymore, I'm useless now. I'm practically dead to the world, non-existent."
"Well, now you know how your victims feel." Brandon said.
"When I was a Wendigo, I ate already-dead bodies, I didn't kill people. I told you this when we were headed to Italy but I guess you forgot." Alec sneered.
"I guess I did." Brandon said, his anger flaring up a bit more at the insult and his forgetfulness. Alec was about to retort, but noticed that the two girls were listening to them argue and tearing up.
Ah, his pitiful state and new sob-story could get him so many women. Too bad things weren't looking good for him.
Karma's a bitch, ain't it?
Alec rolled his eyes at the two, before turning back to Brandon. "Yes, you did forget. And for that I look down upon you more than I already do." Brandon's pride then gave out a yelp of pain, which tripled his rage. He walked over to the boy o the ground, raised his fist, and began to bring it down upon the boy. He then stopped when his fist was near inches from Alec's face, and turned away. "What? Scared? Not like I could fight back even if you did hit me." Alec said boredly.
"No. I am just proving I'm the better man in this situation by not falling for you instigating me." Brandon said, breathing heavily in an attempt to calm himself.
"What can I say? I'm a realist, and reality ain't looking too good right now." Alec replied.
"I think slowly dying is a better punishment then me ending you with a haymaker to your skull." Brandon said in a slightly sadistic tone, an insane grin growing on his lips.
"I wish." Alec replied. "Death is a release, not a punishment. Like they are gonna' let me die, anyway! I'm too valuable of a 'test subject'."
"Once you've successfully proved that a DNA transplant could work, they'll keep you locked down here, a continuously running experiment." Brandon said.
"You think I don't know that?" Alec snarled, hatred and sadness dripping from every word. "Any death would be better than this hell..."
"I have a feeling if you don't eat something soon, your death will be soon." Brandon said.
"Exactly."
"So you're purposely starving yourself?" Brandon asked.
"Yes."
"You're one crazy son of a bitch." Brandon mutters to himself, shaking his head.
"Haven't you hurt me enough already?" Alec asked in a loathsome tone.
"Well, it seems that you're hurting yourself even more." Brandon said.
"It's my life, not yours!" Alec hissed.
"Fine. It you life. But you only get one."
"I'm almost 300 years old, I think I've out-stayed my welcome here on this earth." Alec replied.
"Suite yourself." Brandon said, and returned to his book. Alec wasn't even surprised by this, falling asleep. Alice gaped at Brandon. He glanced up from his book and saw his weapon. "What?"
"Alec just said he was commiting suicide... and you're reading a book. Dude! He needs serious psychiatric help!" Alice replied.
"If he wants to kill himself, let him! Who are we to stop him?" Brandon shot back.
"'He's seriously depressed!" Alice argued back. "We can't let him starve himself, suicide is a sin!"
"So? He's sinned enough. If to ask me, dying this way doesn't torture him enough for all of the other sins he's committed." Brandon argued back.
"Can you name any? Any at all?" Alice asked. "The only thing he's done since we've met him, other than help us, is argue with you! That's it!"
"But what had he done before he met us?" Brandon asked.
"Dunno, but he just said he only ate already-dead bodies." Alice said. "So he didn't kill anyone without following orders as far as I'm concerned, and we've already established he hasn't raped anyone while we were planning to visit Lucian."
"Alice, I know you used to be a wendigo and you thought eating bodies is perfectly normal, but that's cannibalism which is one of the worst crimes against humanity." Brandon explained.
"No, the biggest sin ANYONE can commit is killing a Grim Reaper." she said glumly. "It's punishable by death." She was practically quoting what Alec had said hours before.
"True, but cannibalism is the worst mortal sin." Brandon said.
"A human would naturally would be biased of the traditions of Ancients such as Wendigos." Alice replied.
"Still, it's just morally wrong." Brandon replied.
"Not to us. We've been around far longer than humans." Alice replied.
"Fine. Whatever."
"Though, you humans have gotten the better of us in the recent centuries." Alice replied.
"Because of the academy being established." Brandon finished, guessing at the reason.
"Yeah, but I don't see why the Reaper would side against us." Alice replied.
"Why?" Samara asked.
"Because there are two remaining kinds of Reapers; Lords, which are what Kidd and Lord Death are, and Death Messengers, which is what Wendigos used to be before Pandora and her husband went crazy and began the Great Slaughter."
"Well, it seems the 'great slaughter' may be the reason." Brandon suggested.
"You don't even know what that is, do you?" Alice dead-panned.
"I'm assuming, based on the name, that Pandora and her husband went crazy with power and began killing everyone, whether they deserve to die or not." Brandon guessed.
"Do you know who they killed?" Alec asked from his seat by the wall. "They killed other Reapers." he grinned. "Do you know who made them go crazy?"
"I'm guessing it was the reapers originally?" Brandon hypothesized.
"Actually, no one really knows. A lot of Wendigos think it was Medusa, after SHE finally snapped." Alec replied.
"I'm not surprised, because she could drive anyone crazy." Brandon said.
"I thought you'd be surprised to know that she's THAT old. This happened over a thousand years ago."
"I know witches could live for thousands of years if they're incredibly strong, but I didn't know Medusa was that old. Then again, she was part of mythology, with the mythological Medusa being based off of the witch one." Brandon explained.
"She looks so young." Alice chimed in.
"Probably because she keeps changing bodies." Brandon suggested.
"Possibly," Alec yawned.
"I wish things played out differently." Brandon said, leaning up against the wall with a sigh. Alice sighed, shaking her head slowly. "Actually, I really wish i was with the son of a bitch who brought us here, so I could repay the favor." Brandon corrected.
Suddenly, Alec's eyes glazed over and he started mumbling something in Greek. 'Shh, he's having a vision.' Alice thought to Brandon.
'Wait, you became a Looker after you became human?' Brandon thought back.
'No,' Alice thought back. 'Most Wolf Wendigos are Lookers from the moment we are born. Visions can only be triggered under extreme stress or fear. Other skills, such as hypnosis or telekinesis, can be used at will and mastered.' She paused. 'We can also control other people's bodies, invade dreams, etc.'
'I'm quite aware of that.' Brandon thought back, shuttering at the memory of the night they came home from New York. 'Then were you under extreme stress the first time we met each other and you had that image?'
'I'm always stressed out.' Alice thought back, glancing at Alec when he started muttering coherent english words.
The ex-kishin looked Brandon in the eye. "One who thought of you as 'friend,
His life will soon come to an end.
Then the portal you seek will come about.
Hurry, though. Time's run out." he said in an emotionless voice before passing out.