Chapter 7
Her mind was filled with pictures and memories from her past. Some she recognised but some she didn't.
She found herself in a small room with white walls, a bed in the middle with people surrounding it. As she looked closer, she realized it was Zalgo, her father, Slendy, and three more men she didn't recognize but assumed they were Slendy's relatives by their appearance. They all looked younger, and as she walked closer, she spotted a woman holding a baby in her arms on the bed.
Nobu's hands shot to her mouth as she saw a tall, thin woman with snow white skin and hair, she had no features other than her mouth, which was pulled into a gentle smile directed at the child in her arms. As she watched them, her father moved down and kissed he woman on the lips and the baby's forehead.
"Mon. . .and . . .that's. . .me." she let out an inaudible whisper as she realised this fact. Her mother was a slender. Slenderman is her uncle.
Suddenly the scene shifted and she is in a different room now. The walls are painted a light shade of dusty pink. Her mother and father were in the room, sitting on the floor, playing with a now one year old version of her. The scene brought a smile to her face. But she frowned as she realized her mother didn't die giving birth as she was told.
The scene changed again, taking her to when she was three years old. She was playing tag with her parents in their back garden, but she noticed something strange. Her skin was white like her mother's, she had brown-ish red wolf ears and fluffy tail, with two black horns sticking out of her forehead. She guessed it was the mixed genes of the two families. 'Why did they hide the truth?' she thought to herself sadly.
The scene shifted again, to her ninth birthday. She had a little party with most of her family members there. They seemed to really like her and she seemed fond of them too. For some reason she clung to the slender with a trench coat a lot. 'We must have been close' she thought with a smile. 'They were forced to pretend to be strangers, and even then only Slendy came to see me' she frowned looking down. 'No wonder I always felt a connection with him.' Her mother tucked her into bed as it was night time now. Little Nobu didn't let her leave though, she asked her to tell her a bedtime story. As her mother began talking with her soft voice, the light of the full moon shone through the curtains, illuminating the room in silver light. Little nine year old Nobu clutched her head and groaned in pain. Her mother instantly tried to help her and figure out what was wrong. In an instant Nobu pushed her back with incredible force, sending her into a wall.
She watched in horror as her younger self grew taller, more demonic, and six thin and black tentacles appeared out of her back.
Her mother screamed at her to stay in control and that it's gonna be ok as she stood in a defence stance, but nothing reached the child's ears as she slowly walked towards her frightened mother, her tentacles swirling around her and cutting everything they touched, being razor sharp.
As Nobu neared her, the woman shot up and tried to hold her down with her own tentacles, but only managed to have them cut off by the child's ones. She desperately screamed for her to snap out of it and not to let the blood lust control her, but nothing worked. That hungry demonic look in Nobu's eyes just intensified, hearing her mother's pleas.
By now, her father heard the commotion and tried to open the door, but some kind of black misty looking substance covered the walls, including the door, preventing him from interfering.
By now, Nobu was shouting at her younger self to stop, but to no avail as she reached her mother.
Grabbing her right arm with a tentacle, she sliced it clean off. Her mother refused to cry out. Tried teleporting out but it failed, the black mist is keeping her in the room. One of her legs got cut off as well. She stood in front of her as she pulled up a tentacle for the ready, aiming at her mother's heart.
As she drove the sharp appendage through the beating organ, the moon disappeared behind some clouds, returning the child to her senses. She shrunk back down, her tentacles disappearing alongside the black mist. Her father finally breaking through the door froze in the doorway as he saw how much blood was spilled everywhere. His wife's blood, and daughter standing above her. He couldn't move, he was paralysed by what he has just witnessed.
The child stared at her mother in absolute horror, confused about what happened, but she pulled her into a one armed hug, with the last bit of her energy, her mother told her she loved her. As the life left her and she started turning cold, Nobu broke down in sobs, holding onto her mother's bloody corpse. Not being able to take it anymore, she passed out.
Her father snapping back to reality; didn't waste any time. He grabbed her unconscious daughter and ran to the under realm with her to seek help from his brother, Zalgo.
Nobu was sobbing and hating herself for what she had done. Confused and angry.
The comforting feeling appeared in her mind again and helped her stop crying.
She sniffed but stood up to look at the next set of memories.
Zalgo was shocked at the death of his sister in law and more so that his cute little niece was the murderer. He looked through some ancient books that contained dark magic. Finding what he was looking for, he turned to his brother. He told him that they needed to seal away her powers as they were too strong for her to control at this young age, and to erase her memories on what happened, it would have most certainly have broken the child's fragile mind.
They proceeded with the seal as they created a big magic circle placing her in the middle of it and casting the spell.
Nobu watched in awe as her powers were locked away and she began to get a human-ish appearance. Her skin turned a light tan colour, her frame shortened and her horns disappeared. As they sealed most of her power, they were not able to seal all however. She was left with her Hell Hound powers, which were dominant from her father's side.
The scene changed to when she was ten and Zalgo visiting her. Everything has gone back to normal, they moved house, and she believed a new past.
Zalgo brought along a 'friend' of his. He introduced him to be Slendy. But he had a sad aura around him, and Nobu now realised why.
He was no longer allowed to call her his niece, or interact with her the same way, nor were his brothers. Most of them weren't even allowed to see her.
This upset Nobu as she felt that pain in Slendy. It must have been hard losing his sister then a niece as well.
Suddenly it showed Nobu from very recently. It was after her father was killed.
She sat in front of Zalgo, shivering and clutching her head, sobbing uncontrollably as he held her close to him.
Zalgo erased her memories of what happened that night and secured her seal again.
Now Nobu found herself just floating in darkness.
"Wha? Where am I?" she asked confused.
"That doesn't matter. Have all your questions been answered?" a soft voice asked, but Nobu wasn't able to make out if it was a male or a female's voice talking to her.
She brushed it off and looked down sadness written all over her face.
"I killed my mother. I'm a monster that should be killed, instead I'm here, still alive." She cried depressed.
"That's not true. You're not a monster." It sounded from beside her.
"I killed my mother with cold blood!" She cried looking at where she thought the voice was coming from.
"You lost control of your powers. The human's full moon always affected the Hell Hounds. Being that young you couldn't fight its power, and being a mix of two of the most powerful families in the under realm didn't help the matter." It said trying to comfort her. It's calm wibes helped calm Nobu.
"My father. Who killed him?" she asked hoping it had her desperately awaited answer.
"I don't know. You're memories of that night were completely erased and could never be restored. The only reason I was able to restore your other memories was because Zalgo was weaker back then. I'm sorry. I restored your Hell Hound powers as well, Zalgo sealed them after what happened to your father." The voice said then just as it came it disappeared.
Nobu found herself laying on her carpet floor with the mysterious book under her palm.
As she sat up, she could feel her powers racing through her body. Reaching up, she felt two wolf ears sticking out of her head and then a long fluffy wolf tail from her butt. She smiled, at least she had these back. Her wounds have instantly healed after she got her powers back. Go instant healing.
Opening the book, she found the words 'Keep fighting. I have the method of how to beak your seal. You're not yet ready but until then, take care.'
She stared at the page for what felt like eternity, thinking over what she had just learned.
She should confront Slendy about it, and Zalgo. Wait, maybe not him. She doesn't quite trust him with the info that she knows her true past at the moment. He might erase her memories again and permanently this time.
A knock on the door made her jump. She stared at it confused and only now did she realise that it was morning.
"Shit." She whispered standing up and hiding the book under her bed again. "Who it?" she asked with a tired voice, pretending to just have woken up.
"It's Clockwork. Come down to eat." She called from the other side of the door.
"I'll be down in just a sec, need to clean myself up." Nobu said grabbing some clean clothes and the baggiest hoodie she owns.
"Ok, hurry up though, cause Tobs will eat all your pancakes." She said with a chuckle.
"He wouldn't." Nobu frowned snapping to attention.
"Oh he would." she said walking away.
"I'll be down in a sec." Nobu shouted and ran into the bathroom, avoiding her gaze.
Cleaning herself up, she changed and returned to her room. Pulling her hood over her head she hid her ears, and then wrapped her tail around her waist, pulling her hood over it. Checking that the appendages are well hidden, she left for the dining room.
"Nobu. Good morning." Toby grinned at her from his seat.
"Mornin guys." She smiled greeting everyone.
"Why is your hood over your head?" LJ asked tilting his head to the side in question.
Nobu decided to ignore him and walked into the kitchen to see Slendy.
"We need to talk." She said as he looked at her. Making sure no one was around she pulled her hood off revealing her ears.
"We need to talk." He agreed as he put his hand on her shoulder and teleported her into his office.
"How?" he simply asked.
Nobu sat down in the chair in front of his desk and began to explain what had happened last night.
"I'm so glad you remember me." He said pulling her into a hug.