Apology for any grammar mistakes. I'm just weak in spelling.
I don't own Fairy Tail, only the OC's and this plot.
It was a pretty short chapter without Tyler's background, so I paste it under the original chapter.
Warning: Last part of this chapter is therefore pretty dark, if you don't like that, then I suggest you don't read the part were the past of Tyler and Rose will be explained.
Have fun reading!
~Flemeth~
Lucy had slept silently the rest of the night without any trouble. She felt relieved, but knew she needed to go on research. First she wanted to check if Laxus really lived there, after that she want to search more about the sandman in the library of the guild. Maybe Freed or Levy knows something about the Sandman. She hated the idea to face Laxus just after one day, but this wasn't the time to be peaky. She could be in great danger, who knows what the Sandman wants from her. It can't be any good.
She was walking through the forest towards the location, where she had crossed path with Laxus in her dream. Her hand was touching a barrier and runes came in her sight.
'Well clearly a rune barrier. How do I get past this?'
Lucy flinched back when the runes were merging into a projection of Freed.
'Lucy? Master Laxus isn't home, can I help you with something?'
So Laxus does lives here. 'Actually, I was looking for you. Do you have any knowledge about the Sandman?'
Freed shook his head when nothing came into his mind. 'Sorry, I have no information about a Sandman, why do you ask?'
Lucy felt disappointed, but knew the changes. It was a spell that hadn't been used in years, it has even been stamped down as lost magic. 'I will explain everything at the guild, you can find me in the library.'
Before Freed could ask any more, she ran out of his sight.
~~~~Laxus dream~~~~
Laxus was walking in the streets of Magnolia. It was surprisingly quiet. He heard the tapping of feet on the street coming closer. 'Laxus!'
Lisanna cheerfully taped her hand on his back. Laxus could feel a strange sensation, but didn't thought much about it. 'I will go on a mission, see you in two days.'
Laxus was confused by the sudden change. Wasn't Lis mad at me? He shook his head and noticed how stiff his body felt. The last thing I remembered was that I was in my office. Have I fallen asleep. He pinched himself. Nope I feel pain, so this must be real. Something isn't right, but I can't really place it. Maybe I should lay down on bed some more, my body feels stiff like hell. He walked through the forest and noticed Blondie standing there in front of Freed run barrier. Wasn't really a person he was ready to face. Let's just get this over with.
'Blondie, what are you doing here?''
Lucy looked at him annoyed, her facial expression had multiple mood swings. She was clearly in thoughts. He could smell Freed and Mirajane walking towards them. They stopped a couple meters before them. Freed had a confused look on his face, while Mirajane had hearts in her eyes. Laxus cursed in between his teeth. He was sure whatever was happening in the demons head, wasn't any good. 'Lucy, what are you doing here?' asked Freed.
'I was taking a stroll on this beautiful day, when I crossed my path with Laxus.'
'Really….?' Asked Mirajane doubtful.
'Is everything ok, Lucy? You seemed a little bit stressed.' Freed said and he walked towards her.
Laxus looked at her and noticed indeed the tension in her stance. Why is she on guard? Again this strange feeling in my gut, that something isn't right.
'Stay away from me!' Lucy grabbed her keys and her whip and took her stance.
'Lucy? What's going on?' asked Mirajane.
'I know you are here sandman mage.'
"Sandman mage? What the hell is she talking about?" Thought Laxus.
'Lucy, calm down. We are your friends.'
'Open the gates of the lion and ram, Loke, Aries.'
In a golden flash Loke and Aries appeared.
'You prince have arrived.'
'I'm sorry, I will try my best.'
The tension was getting heavier. Laxus couldn't figure out what was going on. No one moved for a couple seconds. He noticed how Lucy was observing and took action when Freed hand went for his sword. He stood there confused when a fight had broken lose in front of him. What the fuck was going on? Anger went through his veins and lightning was sparking around his body. He ran between them and launched his attack on the ground.
Mirajane and Freed flinched back, while Lucy eyes widened from confusing.
'Why the hell are you fighting and what is a sandman mage?'
He turned around to look at Lucy, but she was gone. That's just great.
'I'm sorry Laxus-sama, we were only defending ourselves,' said Freed. Mirajane turned back in her human form and was getting towards the point off crying.
'I don't understand why she attacked us.' Mirajane ran towards Laxus and cried her heart out on his chest. Laxus eyes widened and flinched by the sudden touch.
He felt the same strange sensation. His guts was telling him the presence of danger and he looked at Mirajane.
'Who are you?'
'I'm everyone.'
The woman changed into a middle age woman with blond hair and gray eyes. A woman he had seen so many times on family pictures. Laxus had never the change to meet his mother, but on the first sighthe knew it was her. He looked at her as if he was seeing a ghost. The blond woman smirked by his reaction and changed again.
'Really everyone.'
Now Lucy was standing in front of him. He felt how his body became stiff. The images of her smile, of her laugh, of her tears, of every little detail he unconsciously had absorbed into his mind was filling his mind. He could feel her heat, her touch, her smell, things he have missed without even knowing he was missing them. An image of Lucy crying that night, made him cringe. He is the idiot, he knew that. He should make it up with her.
'But I'm right here, you can make it up to me now, Sparky,' said Lucy in a flirtatious tone.
Laxus wanted to wrap his arm around her, but stopped after a few inches.
'You're not her.'
Lucy had a devilish smile on her face. 'I told you, I'm everyone and you…you are mine.'
Multiple magic circles appeared on his body and he felt how his body was getting chained down. Lucy smile was getting brighter, by the confusion written on Laxus face, but then she felt it. The same magic like a Celestial Mage.
A yellow light was emerging from his body and cracks were started to form on the chains. Laxus didn't think much about the strange magic that wasn't his and used his own strength to break the chains for definitely.
Lucy laughed. 'How gorgeous, how gorgeous!'
Lightning was cracking around his body and charged forwards towards the fake woman. Lucy didn't flinch and kept smirking.
'Time is up boy, see you next time.' She said while licking her own lips as she disappeared.
Laxus stopped his attack and looked around him, everything turned black and he could hear a voice.
Laxus opened his eyes and saw Freed standing next to him. He looked around him and pulled some sticky paper from his face. He had fallen asleep.
'Master Laxus-sama?' said Freed concerned.
'Morning? How late is it?'
'It's 7.30 a.m. Do you want to rest? I can take over your duties until…'
Laxus waved him off. 'I'm fine,' growled he.
Freed nodded and pointed out the paperwork. 'Here is the work for today.' He looked at another pile of paperwork in his hand an looked at Lucy's desk.
'Should I bring it to her. I know she should rest, but…'
'I will bring it. Thanks Freed.'
Laxus placed his finger on the bridge of his nose and started to stretch out. 'No word from Wendy?'
Freed shook his head with disappointment. 'Unfortunately nothing, Master Laxus-sama.'
The rune mage felt an disturbance in one of his rune barriers and activated his rune. The rune spread out and changed into a mirror with runes around it. The mirror showed an image of Lucy standing in front of him.
'Lucy? Master Laxus-sama isn't home, can I help you with something?' Freed noticed her surprised look, before it changed into her usual smile.
'Actually, I was looking for you. Do you have any knowledge about the Sandman?'
Freed shook his head when nothing came into his mind. 'Sorry, I have no information about a Sandman, why do you ask?'
Laxus eyes widened by the word Sandman. He had heard that word before in his strange dream.
'I will explain everything at the guild, you can find me in the library.'
Before Freed could ask any more, she ran out of his sight.
'That's weird. Master Laxus-sama do you perhaps know, why Lucy was near your house?' Freed looked at the lightning mage noticing the serious expression.
'I don't, but search anything you can find about this Sandman.'
'I will, Master Laxus-sama.'
Laxus saw how Freed was leaving his office and looked at his own hands. The strange sensation, the feeling of chains surrounding knelling his muscles. The dream…
'It was no dream, Master,' said the First.
'What you have experienced is the lost magic Sandman. I happen to read something about it in my earlier ages, but never experienced or heard from it until now. The dream is no dream, it is reality itself. Pain, love, hunger, air….everything is real. If you fall or get stabbed you will get hurt and you can really die. I will help Freed with the research, I think my knowledge will come in handy.'
Laxus nodded in approval and looked at his hands again, when the First had vanished.
It was no dream, but reality. Was the first Lucy in his dream then real or still part of his dream?
That was something he really wanted to find out, she felt different then the Freed and Mirajane he had seen in his dream or the Lisanna for that matter. His head felt like a rock and he yawned. He needed some coffee.
Lucy opened the doors of the guild hall and saw just a couple guild members eating their breakfast. Lucy smiled from ear to ear when she noticed her blue hairy friend in de corner of the guild reading a book, with Lily on her lap, while Gajeel was eating some iron. 'Levy-chan!'
The bluenet looked up and smiled. 'Lu-chan!'
'It's been weeks where have you been?'
'Urgh, we were stuck in a magical trap, while trying to receive a magical book in the ruins of Nosgare. Those two idiots were fighting and activated all the traps we could find.'
'Sorry Levy!' Yelled Jed and Droy crying wanted to hug their teammate. A metal pool came rushing in and slammed her two teammates into the wall.
'Idiots,' said Gajeel, while he stepped back in his familiar corner.
Lucy chuckled and gave Levy a hug. 'I'm so glad you are here, I really have missed you.'
'I have missed you too Lu-chan. Are you alright? I heard you were badly wounded.'
Lucy smiled sheepishly and looked at Gajeel.
'Don't look at me Bunnygirl, I'm not gossiping around.'
She glared at them and even Lily had stopped eating his kiwi.
Her eyes went from a deadly glare towards a concerned one and she looked back at Levy again. 'Levy I need your help?'
'Huh? Sure…What's wrong?'
'I'm having troubles with something called a Sandman.'
Lucy noticed how the mechanical rings in Levy's head were working in overload.
'To be more precise, someone is invading my dreams and attacking me there. And everything what happens in the dream, responds in the real world.'
'But that is impossible…..'
Levy grabbed the wrist of Lucy and pulled her towards the library. 'Levy?'
'How many dreams?'
'What?'
'In how many dreams have you noticed the sandman.'
'This was my third why?'
'On the first night, the sandman must visit you in in real life, while you sleep, he doesn't have the fully control yet. After the first night, it's will be getting harder and harder for you, to wake up.'
Lucy's eyes widened. 'I was drenched in water, Loke told me he couldn't wake me up otherwise.'
'The more reason to hurry.'
Everyone in the guild at that moment were looking at them, until the door of the library was closed with a slam.
Laxus opened his door of his office and ignored the lack of interest from his guild mates. He had heard them and knew that the library will be off-limits for a curtained of time.
-At one of the Council prison-
'DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!'
'AAAH.'
Alarms were roaring and guards were falling on the ground one for one with a purple magic circle above their heads.
'Pitiful humans,' said a man named Zero with half long gray hair and red looking eyes. Zero and a woman named Flemeth, who has brown long hair and a purple mask on her face were walking through the corridors searching for the exit.
'Zero, everything has been prepared. We had some delay because Creco's demon core was defeated, but in return I have managed to find something very interesting.'
'What did you find?' One eyebrow went up in question, he had always liked the wicked mind of her. The experiments she use on her victims or more precisely the screams she can create from her victims.
'Two subject to experiment on, they are from Fairy Tail.'
Zero looked at her with a mischievous glint. 'Fairy Tail?...Natsu?'
He wrapped his hand around her neck and chocked her. The woman was smiling wickedly, by the lack of oxygen. The power this man had, the power she felt in love with. Zero pushed his lips on her mouth and kissed her deeply. He released her neck softly and looked deeply in her eyes.
'Who? Who are your next subjects?'
'Laxus Dreyar and Lucy Heartfilia.'
Zero smirked. 'Good, you can experiment on them to your liking, as long as you don't stand in my way for my revenge on that Fire Dragon Slayer.'
Flemeth placed her right hand on his cheeks and lent closely towards his face.
'Of course my darling, if it's vengeance you want, I can give you vengeance. If it's power you want, I can give you power. If it's screams you want, I can give you those lovely screams. I will do everything for you, you know that.'
'Good.'
Flemeth looked up by a suspicious mind she knew too well. She made towards her husband the notion of a presence. Zero speeded in the direction and caught the eavesdropper, who was screaming now from the pain.
'Well, well look who we got here,' said Flemeth wickedly. 'It's our old friend Sebastian.'
Sebastian glared at them. 'I was never a friend of you! AAAH!'
A loud crack could be heard, when Zero twisted Sebastian's arm in an unnatural direction.
'Is that how you treed me after so many visits I have given to you, so many stories you have told me.'
'Stories, I have never…'
The woman placed her hand on his head and pushed her magic through his mind. 'Shh, you did…but not voluntarily.'
Images of his last days were flowing into her. The conversation with her daughter Rose. The conversations Sebastian had with other people. All the info was flowing into her mind.
'Memory Lost!' A purple circle was forming above Sebastian's head and the memories of Flemeth's presence was erased.
'Don't kill him Zero.'
'He is one of your subjects.'
The circle disappeared and Zero knocked him out with a hard kick.
-At Tyler's Ship—
Wendy looked at the ceiling in her room while lying in her bed. The conversation with Tyler still filling her mind.
Side note: Going to the past what she can remember of the conversation.
'I have seen and fought beasts, demons and even an evil dragon. You aren't a monster, Tyler-san. You are just a human being, with a difficult and harsh past.' Wendy gave him a little smile. The man in front of her seemed so vulnerable.
'Would you still believe that, if you knew my past?'
'I think I would.'
'Let me show you then.' Tyler placed his hands gently on Wendy's and Charle's head. Wendy was holding her breath, unknown of what was going to happen. Charle was on guard shrugging back by his sudden movement. Only when she saw the future that is wasn't an attack she finally relaxed. Tyler spoke a small chant and closed his eyes. Wendy saw how the surrounding was changing into a little children's room made out of wood. The house seems to be in the middle of the forest. A little girl around the age of 9 with brown hair was crying in her bed, while a little skeleton bird was trying to cheer her up. A younger boy around the age of 7 ran from the door right through Wendy's body towards his sister's bed.
Wendy screamed when the boy ran right through her. She placed her hand on her mouth, but saw that the little boy and little girl didn't responded on her scream.
'They can't see you or hear you. This is a memory. A memory of my past.'
Wendy looked closely at the two children in front of her. The little bird was brushing against Rose's arm. Rose looked up with tears in her eyes. Hatred and pain was filling her eyes, when she saw her minion in front of her.
'I HATE YOU!' Rose screamed while pushing the bird away with all her force. The bird crashed against Rose's bed end, it stood up and began walking back towards his master.
'Rooos, what's wrong?'
Tyler stood near her bed looking concerned at his sister. He saw scratches and dirt on her face and arms and her clothes were ripped.
'They bully me, because of that.' Rose pointed towards the little creature on her bed.
'Your magic? Mom spoke how happy she is about you.'
'Lies…' Rose whispered.
'I want magic too, going with mom towards her work. It's lonely here…'
He couldn't finish his sentence. His sister grabbed him by both arms and looked at him with fear in her eyes.
'Don't show mom your magic.'
'Rooos?'
A door opened and they could hear her footsteps. Rose looked up and knew what was coming.
'Please don't show mom your magic or me. Don't show your magic towards anyone.'
The footsteps stopped near the door of her room. 'What's all this?' asked a young pregnant woman in the door opening.
'Come on Rose, it's time to go to work and meet with your father.'
Fear was visible in her eyes for a second until the light went out in her eyes. The little bird flew onto his master's shoulder. Rose simply nodded and moved towards her mother. She turned around smiled happily and waved towards her little brother. The little Tyler just stood still in her room, not understanding what was going on.
'At that age I couldn't understand my sister's mood swing. But later I understood that she was under my mother's control. Almost every day my sister went with mother towards her work. The days she was free, my sister would be silent sitting in a corner. Sometimes she would ran away, coming home full with scratches and dirt on her body. Bullied by the neighbor town members. Who were just scared of her or better said scared of our family.'
'Why didn't mother stand up for you?' asked Wendy.
'She used the town to control us. We had nowhere to go. We were kids looking for acceptance. The little love our mother gave us when we were young and the acceptance we couldn't get by the villagers, made us think that home was the most safest place there was. At first my sister was happy with her power. Mother looked so happy. I can still remember the first day.'
The scenery changed, they were standing in the living room. Rose stood happily in the door opening next to her mother.
'Why can't I go?' asked the little Tyler.
'It's a very dangerous place, when you are big enough I will happily take you with me.'
'I'm a big enough now.'
'You will not be a big boy until your magic will come in development.'
'Magic?'
Flemeth looked proud at her daughter. 'Show you little brother what you can do, sweety.'
Rose nodded and grabbed a little skeleton bird from her pocket. It moved freely as it was alive.
'Your sister magic is controlling this cute little creature.'
The little Tyler's eyes widened, he looked from the creature towards her mother back and forth. 'Do you have magic too mom?'
Flemeth nodded and held up her hand a little purple magic circle could be seen. From the little purple magic came a little butterfly.
The little Tyler looked from the skeleton bird towards the butterfly back and forth, he stopped at the ugly little skeleton bird. 'Mom's far more cooler.'
'Mean!' screamed Rose.
Flemeth laid her hand on Rose's shoulder. 'Rose's magic is beautiful. Not all magic are the same, they come in different shapes and different purpose. But all magic can be beautiful if you look closely at it. Well now we don't want to be late. Tyler take care of the house while we are gone, dinner is standing in the fridge. Let's go sweety.'
The door closed and the time moved forwards. It was getting dark outside and the door opened. The little Tyler ran towards the door. 'Rooos, Rooos! How was it?'
Rose looked at the floor and looked up when she felt a pinch in her shoulder. 'It…It…was great,' said Rose without a smile.
'You must be tired, go to bed sweety,' said Flemeth.
The little Tyler looked at how her sister walked past him without even looking in his eyes.
The scenery became white.
'Every day my sister would come home. The smile I always saw was slowly dying. The sister I knew was changing,' said Tyler. 'My sister told me nothing about my mother's work or about our dad. I wanted to have magic as fast as possible, but since that day that my sister told me to show no one my magic, was also the day that my sister never came home. My mother told me that Rose was doing so well, helping them with their work, that she had permission to stay at dad's place. Unconsciously I knew that wasn't the truth and I became scared. Scared that my powers would show up. In the meantime was my little sister born. Months pasted by and I only saw Rose on holiday's together with my father. Rose looked fine at that moment. But now I knew that was all a lie. Years pasted by and finally I was getting my powers. The problem was, was that my magic wasn't physical. I heard my mother's mind flowing into my own. My mother looked at me with a wicked smile knowing that my magic had awaken. "I know you can hear my mind, Tyler." Before I knew it I was under the control of my mother. I got my conscious back at my mother's workplace.
'What kind of work does your mother do?' asked Charle.
The scenery changed and they were standing in front of a big white tower in a shape of an half-moon.
'She was working for the Bureau of Magical Development.'
Wendy and Charle looked at each other. 'Bureau of Magical Development…?' Wendy looked at the entrance and her eyes widened with horror. Charle followed her and knew now why it sounded so familiar. Before them stood Brain, the man they had fought with the Nirvana accident.
'Brain? What's he doing here?' asked Charle.
Flemeth walked with little Tyler and her little daughter in her arms towards Brain. The little Tyler shook his head, not knowing how he got here and saw Brain standing in front of him. Without thinking he ran as fast as he could towards his father with a big smile. 'Father!'
'HUH! Brain is your father?' asked Charle. Wendy couldn't believe it either and was shaking on her feet.
Tyler nodded. 'Well the personality Zero is more our father, my mother didn't liked Brain. He was too soft and too weak for her liking.'
Brain knelt down and brushed the little Tyler's hair in a mess. 'Tyler, you have grown big.'
The little Tyler smiled proudly but insecure, with his big sister's last words echoing in his mind.
'Am I going to live with father?'
'As long as you do as we tell you,' said Flemeth.
The little Tyler looked at his little sister and pondered. 'And Melissa? Isn't it going to be dangerous for her.'
'I will protect her, I can't leave her alone at home, she is only 2 years old and you are finally big enough to help us with our work. We will be all living here now as one big family.'
The little Tyler nodded and glared at his mother's fake smile. No words were entering his mind now.
'Sweety don't go peak into other's mind, that is very rude.'
Tyler looked at his feet with shame. 'I didn't mean to.'
Flemeth pushed Tyler further towards the building. 'We know, we will help you gain control of your power, just like we did with your sister.'
Tyler looked up by the idea of seeing his sister. 'Can I see her?'
'You can in time.'
The scenery changed into a white corridors, they were standing in front of a window that led to a big training room. Everything was white. The children's clothes, the furniture.
Wendy, Charle and Tyler looked at how different kind of children were practicing their magic while being monitored by different scientist. One boy pasted out by exhaustion, a scientist shook a no. Two guards walked towards them.
'Take him away, he is no good.'
The guards pulled him up and took him out of the training room.
'I have learned and trained here, with many other kids. Physicaly but also mentally. The mentally part was the real hell. That was the section my mother did. She really loved her job. Placing illusions and fear into people's mind, seeing how they respond. The place I really wanted to go years ago was a hell. You needed to be strong and do everything what they told you to do, without any exceptions,' said Tyler while holding his emotions in bay.
Wendy knew that this was hard for him. 'What…What happened… if you were too…weak?' She asked hesitated.
The scenery changed into a specific white room where Rose, Tyler and two other boys around the same age were standing next to each other.
'What you are going to see is shocking, are you sure?'
Charle looked at Wendy who was giving Tyler a nod, that she was sure.
The boy from the previous room that had collapsed was now screaming to give him another change. He was thrown into the room by the guards. The guards moved out of the room and closed the door behind them. The boy couldn't escape and fear was visible in his eyes.
'Tyler,' said one of the scientist in the room.
Tyler looked at the boy and saw his memories. He knew who he was and what kind of live he had lived just by looking at him. He froze the boy's mind and the screaming had finally stopped. The boy stood still with no light in his eyes. He controlled the boy to move towards them.
'Leoric, you know what to do,' said the scientist.
A boy with black short hair was clenching his fist, but didn't move.
'Leoric! Do it!'
Leoric looked at Rose and the other boy, who had blond short hair. They all looked scared and they searched strength in each other. Leoric held his hand high towards the boy who was standing emotionless before them. The boy suddenly screamed uncontrollably in pain as life-force was ripped from his body.
'Good, now Sebastian contain Leoric's magic. Neutralize all the raw magic from Leoric that goes out of control. I don't want to see any damage on the wall, floor and doors.'
The boy with short blond hair raised his arms and contained Leoric's magic in a specific area around the victims body. Rose wanted to look away, but knew she would be punished if she did. She saw how a human body was consumed until only bones were left.
'Good, now Rose it's your turn. Make it into your minion.'
Rose raised one arm and a magic circle was formed under the pile of bones. The bones raised into the air and formed a human skeleton. She let her minion move with disgust.
Leoric walked towards a flying orb and pushed the absorbed life-force into the orb. The orb filled itself with a purple color liquid.
The scientist nodded in approval and walked towards the orb. 'That was training for today, go to your room.' He grabbed the orb and walked out of the room.
The scenery became white
Wendy looked with terror in front of her. She just saw an innocent boy die in an horrible way.
'It's a cruel way, but in the end he had escaped hell, we were still living in it. We four were always together. We were the main subjects of their experiment. Whenever we saw are parents, we could do nothing then just obey their orders. If we did not then our mother would take control over us and do it for us,' said Tyler emotionless.
'We went on missions outside the tower as the dark guild Death Psych with our mother leading us. The sight of a happy family, was filling us with hatred towards them. Why did they have the live they never had. It's pathetic really…I was no match for my mother, otherwise we would have fled the tower ages ago. We kept struggling. We killed, abducted many people. And reported our results to our father. We have killed so many people. We killed…killed…we are monsters.'
'You are not a monster!' yelled Wendy with tears in her eyes. 'Everything you did was against your will.'
'Was it!'
Wendy flinched back by the sudden emotions that was written on Tyler's face.
'With every kill, you start to feel more numbed. The things that made us human, was slowly disappearing. In the end we couldn't feel anything whenever we killed. A normal human being should be feeling something.'
'You did what you had to do to survive.'
'And we did, but…. not my little sister.'
The scenery changed again and it was showing Rose, Tyler, Sebastian and Leoric cells, they needed to stay until the next mission.
The door flew open and a woman with long black hair was entering their cell.
'That woman, that is Ultear,' said Charle.
Ultear looked at the four, who looked broken and more death than alive.
'Escape and live your life, this tower has no use for me.'
Ultear moved further away and the four could hear screams of the scientist they have known for years. The members looked at Tyler.
'She spoke the truth, she is really planning to kill all the scientist and the experiments with her. We need to leave. Mother is nowhere near us and there is chaos in the tower now. We need to leave now,' said Tyler with determination.
Wendy and Charle flinched in surprise when they float through the air following the four members of Death Psych who were running through the corridors. They stopped at one cell and forced their way in.
'Melissa!' screamed Tyler.
On the ground laid a lifeless body of a little girl with half long silver/gray hair. Tyler went searching for a pulls.
'She is death.'
Rose started to cry in Leoric's arms, trying to find some comfort. Leoric watched the lifeless body, seeing the blackness of her life-force. Knowing all too well that the girl is gone. He sees energy in colors and energy also called magic is everywhere. People, animals and even plants had their own color. You can tell what kind of mage it is, just by the color of their aura. Fire mage has a red color, ice mage has a light blue color. But this girl has no color anymore. He looked more closely and noticed a slight blurry sight of color hidden in the darkness of her body, but her head was really black.
'She has died because of brain-death,' said Leoric carefully. 'She is death for 4 hours most.'
Tyler looked up and pushed his magic through the little girl's head. The connection dots in the mind were ripped apart and the only person he knew could do that was their mother.
'Flemeth!' he spewed like her name was now a disease.
The scenery changed back into the room of Melanie.
'We're back,' said Charle.
Wendy looked at Tyler, unsure of what to say. 'Did your mother killed…'
Tyler nodded. 'Apparently was our sister a normal human, without any ability for magic. Power and control is everything for Flemeth. It disgusted her having a normal daughter, she prefer to kill her own daughter then the shame of having a weak daughter.'
Wendy laid her hand on his arm. 'I'm sorry Tyler-san.'
Tyler looked at the girl in confusion. 'Why are you sorry?'
'For your lose, for the things your mother and father did to you and your sister. That you didn't had a normal live with a normal family. What your mother and father did was inhuman. You shouldn't blame yourself for being too weak to fight. You are still fighting now. She is gone and you want to grab your freedom and your own life. Maybe not in the right humanly way, but I can't blame you. You are still seen as criminals and if you have never learned the norms and values it can became really hard to do the right thing.'
A silence was filing the room. Tears were falling from Wendy's cheek.
'Tyler-san? Promise me….promise me that you don't see yourself as a monster.'
Tyler walked towards the door and looked one more time back at the little girl crying for his stake. 'I can't promise you that.' And he disappeared.
Side note: Back in the normal present. Flash back ended.
A knock could be heard on Wendy's door. It wasn't locked and for some reason she had given lot more freedom than first.
'Yes?'
Rose opened the door with Tyler behind her, who was looking at the ground. Avoiding eye contact. Rose looked at Tyler and back at Wendy and smiled painfully. She had found him crying in his own room after the conversation between Wendy and Tyler. It was hard on him and before she knew it she pushed herself from her wheelchair and hugged Tyler as hard as she could.
'Rose-san, did you need me for something?' asked Wendy when the silence grew too long for her liking.
Rose blinked a couple of times before she realized she was staring. 'Wendy, we are off the ship for most of the day. We are going to free my husband, so that you know.'
Wendy thought about the image of her hugging Leoric in the tower, it could be possible the husband she was talking about. Leoric the power to absorb life-force from every object. A cold shiver went through her spine.
'Can….Rose-san, can I come with you?'
'Wendy?' said Charle shocked.
Rose blinked now more out of confusion. She didn't really felt comfortable with that idea. Tyler laid his hand on her shoulder and gave a simple nod. Rose sighed and nodded. 'You can come if you want.'
That was it for this week, next week will be the rescue of Leoric and the results of the Sandman research.
Kids don't choke a woman while kissing, just like punching people with electricity. It is dangerous lol./.
The end was pretty dark but I hope you could follow it and understand it.
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