Chapter 62

Mokuba had been completely incapacitated thanks to multiple stun potions used almost in syncopation with each other. Seeing this Serenity had almost instantly backed off. For a few moments she just stared at them, before turning tail and running away. At that Mokuba made a strange noise of anguish, but his body was too frozen for him to say as much as half a word. Ni, on the other hand, had no problems in finding his voice.

'And the pair of you are supposed to be the ones who cleared the demons out of this place,' he moved himself close in beside Helen, presumably to stop any attacks that might be coming his way. 'You've proved to be pretty useless, do you realise that?'

The look in Mokuba's eyes suggested he wanted to say something, anything, but was completely unable to. At that Ni began laughing in a deeply mocking way, before jumping himself and Helen somewhere.

'We have to go after Serenity,' Kaiba's voice was calm. 'We've got to make sure she doesn't do anything to…'

'Right,' Tristan nodded, as the group on mass darted in the direction Serenity had headed off in.

They didn't get very far, however, when Kisara ground to a halt, forcing the others to do the same.

'What is it?' Kaiba glared at her. 'We don't have time for this.'

'I know, but…' she pointed into one of the shadowy alleyways.

As she did SK, CiCi and Damon slowly emerged. Without saying a word, the whole group Jumped themselves back up to heaven. There was no way in hell they were going to do anything as risky as taking the kids back to Earth until they knew it was completely safe for them to do so.

'So what do we do now,' Kisara turned towards SK, as the others went off for a well earned family reunion.

'We find our new place in all this,' his voice was almost too calm.

'I told you before I didn't want that.'

'The Mistresses and their Heirs need a Helper,' he folded his arms, as he stared off in the direction the others had gone in, 'I think you're more than capable of excelling at that role.'

'But what about you,' she studied him for a moment, 'isn't that your role?'

'I'm not so sure anymore, it's still to be decided. However you've proven to be a more than adequate replacement in the Pure's eyes which allows me the option of releasing myself from this role if I need to.'

'Was that your plan all along,' she frowned at him, 'because you always said…?'

'If I told you why I brought you here Kisara, you could never have earned the Pure's respect.'

'Why not?'

'Because you'd either try too hard or not enough.'

'And you couldn't allow either one to happen?'

'Not if you were going to earn genuine respect I couldn't.'

'And that was the all important thing?'

'Of course,' he turned towards her, his face a mixture of series intent and amusement. 'You know, I've had more than my fair share of doubts about taking you on. Your family secret makes you high risk, but at the same time it also makes you the perfect candidate. Because you know how to keep secrets and be discreet, I know that you'll never betray them. Because so much has been bred into your blood you're powerful and, not only that, thanks to your Hateling father's contribution, you've officially become Power Limitless so your power will never peak or cap off. You can only ever become stronger and more powerful. We have entered into a new order so the new line of Helpers and Council members who work for the Mistresses and their offspring should be of a completely different calibre to anything they've had before.'

'I'm also intelligent and efficient,' Kisara wasn't sure why she felt the need to point that out.

'You were top of your class, that's for sure. But you don't have to be intelligent to do this job, Jay proved that, you just have to know your stuff. And thanks to that Balancer friend of yours you more than know your stuff.'

'But aren't I a little… ditzy for this job?'

'You can be,' he tilted his head in thought, 'but that just means you'll fit in around here.'

'And what about you,' her frown deepened. 'If I take over from you what will you be doing?'

'I have my own journey I need to take before I figure that one out.'

'What do you mean?'

'You'll find out soon enough,' he turned and began walking away.

'SK,' she called after him, 'where are you going?'

'I'm not needed for a while, so I'm going to leave you to watch over things.'

'Will you be back?'

'That's still to be decided,' he glanced back at her for a moment, 'just like everything else.'

When Ni and Helen suddenly appeared before them, False couldn't quite believe it. He knew they'd been heading towards a trap, but he expected the trap to have been set by the Teen, not his father.

'What's going on,' he felt instantly enraged.

'What do you mean, what's going on,' Ni smirked, 'isn't it obvious?'

'We thought it was the Teen,' Lus glared, 'not you.'

'And the Teen probably thought it was him you were heading towards too. I made sure that's the feeling he got, so that he would do exactly what I knew he would.'

'Which is what exactly?'

'Get hold of his slave's Dorsoma daughter.'

'What?' Arados gawked at him.

'The Ashmar's daughter is a Dorsoma, didn't you know?'

'That's not what I meant,' he clenched his jaw, clearly trying to make it appear as though he'd known.

'Oh, my bad, you meant you want to know why I wanted him to get hold of the little Dorsoma, right.'

'You could put it like that.'

'Well, isn't it obvious? I want him to be able to take down anyone who comes after him. After all, I did promise him permanent control, in exchange for incapacitating a few brats.'

'Those brats are my siblings,' Arados glared. 'How dare you…'

'No uncle,' he cut him off, 'how dare you.'

'What do you want,' Lus was clearly trying to deflate the tension.

'For the three of you to leave the Teen alone, of course.'

What,' their voices sounded simultaneously.

'You heard me.'

'We can't do that,' Arados shook his head, 'not when…'

'Oh, my dear uncle, you've got much more important things to worry about than the fate of your siblings right now.'

Slowly Ni raised a hand up towards him and Arados's gaze took on a strange, absentminded look. Before anyone could say anything or even as much as blink, he moved his arm towards Lus and the same vacant stare appeared in his eyes.

'What did you do to them?' Helen slowly backed away.

'Don't you know,' he turned towards her. 'Well, you'll understand soon enough.'

'Don't do this,' False gritted his teeth, 'it's not fair.'

'I know its not,' he chuckled, 'but if you want either of them to be normal again, you have to do one little thing for me?'

'I…' he swallowed hard. 'How do I know I can trust you?'

'You don't. Neither of you do, but if I don't get what I want…'

'I think you should do it,' Helen's voice was low. 'Whatever it is… I think…'

'Okay,' False lowered his head in shame, 'I'll do whatever it is, just don't…'

'Don't want?' Ni's face filled with cruel amusement.

'Don't make me betray Kissy,' he flicked his gaze up towards Ni. 'I'll do anything, but I won't do that.'

End.