Ch14: The Long Road Ahead
Our group all decided to see Cain off together before heading off to Caldeum. All 7 of us (Mira and Haedrig included), and even our zombie dogs headed to a hill south of Tristram before we would head off, Deckard Cain's body laid down in peacefulness on a stack of twigs. Everyone was in a somber mood, but none more so than Leah, who was tearing up just at the sight of Cain. "All just a bunch of stories... yet all of them turned out to be true..." Leah sobbed as she took Deckard's book of the End Days into her arms and began to sob.
"He was a great man. One of the greatest in recent memory. He made many sacrifices to help his allies," Tyreal said with a stern face. Leah then got very defensive and looked at him with a scoff. "What would you know about sacrifice?" Leah asked him with tears in her eyes. It was then that Tyreal's eyes glowed brightly and we were all 7 given a vision of him going against the will of Imperius and the Angiris Council.
"Y-You chose..." Leah gasped as Serena got a little woozy from the angelic experience... probably since she was a demon. "Oi... that made me a bit dizzy... not used to angel stuff like that..." she said as she fell into my grasp and began to sleep it off. "And so... I fell. Willingly. Because I knew that mankind would be the world's only chance at survival," Tyreal said to Leah with worry in his eyes as well.
"Tyreal... that was a very noble thing to do..." my mom actually teared up as well. "I've never seen a more brave thing than to go against your superiors..." Mira sniffled as she cried a bit too. "I will finish it Uncle... I will finish your work completely, no matter the cost," Leah sighed with tears as she took Cain's book and placed it neatly in her bag. "We must go on our way now... so long... Deckard Cain..." I sighed as I placed the torch of flame against the twigs, the fire coming forth and covering the old man as we all walked away towards the caravan.
"Are you doing okay Leah?" I asked her as we sat in the back of the caravan along with everyone else. All the others, even mom and Tyreal, had all fallen asleep and me and Leah were the only ones still awake. "I'm just... I know everything that you do... I saw your mind just as well when my power erupted back then..." Leah admitted, her words not really surprising me too much.
"I had a feeling that something like that would happen... so you know what we need to do in the future, correct?" I asked her with a frown. "Yes, and I know what you plan on doing to prevent me from dying by Diablo's evil... you plan on shattering the Black Soulstone the moment we seal Belial and Azmodan to prevent them from doing anymore harm, and then killing my mother afterwards before she can kill us... to think that my mother is still alive, yet her heart is full of malice towards even her own daughter," Leah sighed. "Yeah... it sickened me too when she betrayed everyone..." I sighed.
"But we should absolutely not mention any of this to anyone else," I frowned at her. "Only myself, you, Tyreal, my mom, and Serena know the plan, so we mustn't talk about it, not even to each other. Because your mother can betray us just as well as we could betray her." "I know that much. We should keep this plan to ourselves and shouldn't mention a word of it from now on... at least not until we seal Azmodan and Belial away," Leah frowned.
It was then that my right arm actually fell off, armor and all, making it very embarrassing for me. "Here, let me help you with that..." Leah frowned as she took her hands around my fallen arm and placed it back in the socket, a strange power exuding from her hands into my skin and bones that felt hot to the touch. It didn't take too long to figure out what the hell she was doing as she finally stopped and looked immediately shocked at what she had done. She had melded my arm back into place with the powers of Diablo within her!
"By the gods... d-did I just..." Leah asked as she gawked over the deed done. "You just channeled your power and controlled it to meld my arm together with the power of hell forge... just look at the red metal left behind," I gawked as well, looking at the metal the now held my arm to my shoulder the whole way. "Thank you, Lisa... you helped me learn to control my power better..." she sobbed into my armor with tears of joy. "You're welcome, Leah... you're welcome..." I smiled as I hugged her gently. We fell asleep a few short minutes after.