What Violet saw in the backyard, truly disgusted her. Dozens of Doghouses all lined up and sitting inside each of them was a skeleton of a dog with heavy chains around their necks. And it smelled like decaying things, Violet was holding back a gag at the smell, While Spring didn't fair much better. He nearly fell off Violet's shoulder, luckily she caught him and was now holding him instead. Vince was at one of the Doghouses near a giant cage, there were Doghouses inside but they where all empty. There was a bright Flash as two angels appeared in the middle of the field both had weapons out and where posed as if they had been getting ready to fight. Both confused as they looked around them and they lowered their weapons. Violet and Vince recognised both of them, Whisp and Tech,
"What the Hell?..." Whisp said looking around, "How the Hell did we get here?.." She looked around and spotted Vince, while Tech sheathed his sword, and looked at Whisp.
"Well that's not good.." Tech said, "Plus how the Hell do you think I would know?..We were at The Hall of Memories, and it appears something has gone wrong there." Tech spotted Vince, and looked at him curiously, "But if I may ask what are you three doing here?" Vince walked up to the angels and explained what had happenedand Tech froze at the mention of the Necklace. "Well that's definitely not good. But was it the paw print with Claws?" Tech asked,
"Yeah, but it was only half of it, and what ever it was told us to find the other half." Vince said nodding, Tech looked at him curiously as Whisp sheathed her sword as well.
"Do you know what that necklace represents?" Tech asked, and Vince shook his head, "Now I know you saw some of the things she showed you, But I would prefer to discuss this away from the horrors that have been left to rot here. Especially, with my own reasons why I hate being here, How about the tree house? You Three can meet us there." Tech nudged Whisp, and the two walked away, while Violet holding Spring came up behind him.
"This place is horrible, This is where Flower stayed?" Violet asked and Vince nodded, and pointed at the cage behind him,
"In the cage, mostly, with the champions, Which I'm guessing the dogs that won the fights." Vince shivered, remembering what she had shown him, as he thought about it without realizing he began to manipulate the world around him. Soon a image of the three year old Flower stood in the cage, and was attacked by a dog, before she yelled at it in a strange language. Violet saw it and realized that her brother had closed his eyes, and didn't realize what was going on.
"Vince? You see what's going on right?" Spring asked and Vince opened his right eye and the Image faded, and he looked around.
"What? There's nothing around here.." He looked at his sister, who seemed to be thinking, Vince looked around and Violet looked at him.
"Vince what was Tech talking about what did Flower show you?" Violet asked, and Vince shuddered,
"Tech's wings weren't always metal..." Vince said turning away from his sister and closing his eyes again, as two images flickered in place at the field, Tech and the black dog. The black dog began to rip Tech's wings off, "The Brother in red ripped them off." Violet shivered at watching the angel have his wings ripped right off his back, she walked up behind her brother and put her hand on his shoulder. Vince jumped and the images faded, he looked at his sister and looked out at the forest. And his eyes flickered, Violet backed away from her brother just as something leapt out of the forest. It was a massive wolf, it was jet black and had red glowing eyes. It ran at Vince, but it was particular and only wanted him, he jumped up into the air just in time, extending his wings he hovered there right above the wolf. He pulled out his crystal dagger and threw it into the ground near one of the wolf's paws, Spring knew that the teenager could aim and not miss. The ground near the dagger began to freeze over trapping one of the wolf's paws. The wolf growled and broke the ice, and jumped into the air, knocking Vince to the ground. Vince stood up his eyes black with a white irises, he flicked his wings forward and Ice shot off them and hit the ground near the wolf, trapping all of it except its head. Vince walked up to the wolf, and growled, "Go Home or I will Kill you." The ice melted and the wolf changed into a blonde haired man with Red eyes. The man was alive and a half blood, the man spoke.
"All those friends with the traitor will die with the traitor." The man began running turning back into the wolf and running away. Vince had an image flicker into his head, Flower in her dog form, wearing a muzzle and bleeding from the mouth. She had her eyes closed, and appeared to have given up all hope. The Image was giving him a splitting headache, he stumbled back, the demon blood began dipping out of his eyes. His sister steadied him, and he looked at her, Spring was on her shoulder and looked unaffected by what just happened.
"Vince, Are you all right?" Violet asked her brother who nodded,
"I'm fine...I...Lets just go see Tech and Whisp...Okay?..." Vince replied shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Spring looked at him,
"How did you know that was going to happen? With the wolf I mean." Spring asked, and Vince looked at him.
"I'm one third demon remember? I can sense weak spots in a wall, I can also sense different escape routes, and I can sense if a demon is near me or not. And that, That was a Half blood of the Brother in Red." Vince explained and Violet looked at him.
"Is that how you escaped from our uncle?" She asked, and Vince smiled and nodded,
"But the worse part is I can sense the others like me..." Vince said looking at the moon, his wings twitched and froze over. Spring looked at him curiously
"Flower?" Spring asked and Vince nodded and began walking into the forest, he walked up to the tallest tree in the forest. From above they could hear a Familiar voice.
"You have no idea how much I hate that woman! She is unreasonable! And I could not imagine being in your place, Living with her!" It was LuLu, Vince walked around the tree and began to climb the ladder followed by Violet with Spring. They came up to see LuLu in human form, with Tech nodding.
"You are correct, Fawn is Unreasonable, But you have no reason to judge her." Tech said calmly, which set LuLu off,
"She called my pup, ((Her "Daughter" Flower)) A freak of nature! She comes to the graveyard every Damn day to blame, Star, when I am right there! Mary Ann made her own decisions, and not Star, she had no choice at all!" LuLu shouted, "I do not care if she is an angel, if she does it again I will tear her throat out! And I will not stand by and watch as the Brother abandons his sons or Star, He made Kaynine upset, when he just left. And he thought that Kaynine didn't see that he said good bye to Felix, when he did! It pisses me off! Tech look I trust you, but I cannot trust someone who can't respect other people's feelings!" LuLu saw Vince and took a deep breath,
"Are you done now?" Whisp asked and LuLu growled at her, and Tech looked at Whisp as a warning not to push LuLu. Whisp took it seriously and shut her mouth, LuLu looked at Vince and her eyes narrowed.
"Jeez and I thought A demon was bad enough, remind me never to get on LuLu's bad side." Vince said to himself and William nodded,
"Sure will do but I doubt you will listen." While LuLu looked at him curiously,
"Are you alright?" She asked as Violet came into the tree house, Spring hopped off her shoulder as she entered.
"How did you guys miss the demon half blood that attacked Vince?" Violet said, while LuLu turned her attention to the plush Spring and looked at him Strangely.
"Well you said it was only after Vince, that makes sense." Tech shrugged and Violet gave him a questioning look.
"How does that make sense?!" She asked / demanded
"He's an impure, most half bloods of certain demons or angels, hate impures and want to see them destroyed. Besides that he's like Flower, and those two are friends, and me knowing Flower there was only about one half blood who didn't seek her destruction." Tech explained and LuLu rolled her eyes
"And we all saw how that ended, Brother in Red: 1, Star: 0, or at least he thought, it was Star who got the last laugh on that one." LuLu said turning into her dog form and sitting down with her tail curled around her back leg, and William looked absolutely confused,
"How did Star get the last laugh? He made me kill her!" LuLu flicked her ear and looked at Vince,
"William Forgot that I can heard him, after all, one I am dead, and two I am a guardian in the form of a dog." LuLu said, and William gave and exasperated sigh and seemed to give up on the dog.
"I'm done, I can't do this any more, Anything that has any relationship with Star can hear me. Even the dogs. And Lilly.. I can not deal with that Family anymore." William sighed, and LuLu flicked her ear again,
"Well William you can't quit, that is your curse for not listening to Star in the first place." LuLu retorted and Will looked annoyed but at least kept his mouth shut.
"Either way about the necklace, Vince, its a symbol of ownership. She had to wear it at all times. It showed to everyone that she belonged to the Red One, and that she was his and his alone." Tech said and LuLu looked at him, the fur in her back was spiked up.
"And the one day she didn't wear it, and William listen closely, she only took it off because she knew she was going to die. That was the only reason that she left during the day, no matter what had happened, she was going to die anyways." LuLu admitted and William had this look of complete shock,
"But if it wasn't just me, what would have killed her?" William asked, and LuLu's ear twitched again,
"She was sick, and she knew it, she had been declining in health for the past two years. Before what had happened, maybe because of the experiments, only she knows." LuLu said sadly and Vince thought about it.
"Would that Sickness cause her to bleed from the mouth?" Vince asked and LuLu looked at him in shock.
"It did, almost every day, and it hurt all the guardians knowing that we couldn't do anything. Watching her wither away was painful for all of us." LuLu admitted "But why would that matter? She can't get sick now right she's dead..."
"Well that was the last time we saw her, Bleeding from the mouth, ((He was originally going to say "And Violet thought she had rabies" But it was deleted due to what LuLu would have said back was way too inappropriate for the rating)) Before she disappeared." Spring replied and LuLu's hair on her back rose up further,
"I hate saying it but what if this whatever it is can kill her this time? If she was dying from it when Afton killed her. As to how she could get it again, maybe because she died before it killed her, so it resided in her systems undetected." William suggested, and LuLu nodded but then looked scared and began to pace while Tech rolled his eyes.
"LuLu calm down, don't worry we'll find her.." Tech told her in an attempt to calm the dog,
"Calm down?! What if it was your child then Tech? What would you do?" LuLu demanded, and Tech became silent, and Whisp spoke up.
"I might have an idea where she is at.." LuLu looked at Whisp, "We where in the Hall of Memories, and where taken out and placed with those three, so I'm suggesting that she is there." LuLu's ears went back and she made a whining sound, before her ears flipped forward.
"But if we know where she is at, Then the real question is who is behind this?" LuLu said and Spring had the first idea,
"What about the Brother in Red?" He asked but Vince shook his head,
"Solstice trapped him in the deepest pit of hell, and if he ever came out she would burn him to death, and as I know she is the sun, so.." Vince replied with cream eyes and both angels jumped back, Vince shook his head and his eyes became normal.
"What about Afton?" The normal Vince suggested, and Tech shook his head.
"He can't, he doesn't have any powers. Or at least anymore." Tech said, and William looked aghast at the suggestion,
"Your Kidding, So when I shattered myself, I took Afton's powers with me?" William asked and LuLu nodded, William looked annoyed, "And Nobody told me anything.. So we have been targeted, by Afton, and nobody told us Anything?!" LuLu looked down,
"Sorry, We didn't know how to tell you" LuLu sighed, while Violet was watching the whole thing absolutely confused. She wasn't the only one confused Spring was too, another image Flickered into Vince's head, but this time the pain was so intense that he fell. Violet looked at her brother and Spring was near him, Spring was still up, so whatever it was was only affecting Vince. LuLu moved over to Vince and whispered something to him, "Focus on the details." The world around them began to flicker, the Image of Flower in the empty room, muzzle on her face and blood dipping out of her mouth as her body seized up. She looked extremely exhausted, but another image appeared next to the first one, A bunch of people all with wings staring at the seizing Flower. The wings where either white or black and Tech froze. The images disappeared as Vince passed out from exhaustion and pain. LuLu looked at the angels, "Well at least we know who is behind this,"
"Some of the angels-" Whisp began,
"And some of the demons." Tech finished her sentence, "No wonder they spared us, they can't risk losing two angels or the brother would have found out." There was a loud bang outside and LuLu jumped out of the side of the tree house to investigate. She looked extremely worried when she came back.
"Uhh...Tech, Violet...you two might want to come see this.." LuLu called, and Tech and Violet came out of the tree house, and followed LuLu to the Doghouses. LuLu turned human and pointed to what appeared to be something laying on the ground. There was a large wing covering whatever it was, the feathers where matted with blood, and the wing was crooked. Tech walked up to it, realizing it was an angel he moved the wing to discover that it was Insanity. What was more disturbing was that he was missing one wing, cut right off his back. Insanity was bleeding, but he was alive, he had cuts and bruises, and a stab wound to his abdomen. Violet actually felt bad for her "Father" but she still helped Tech take him to the tree house. Whisp was unhappy with them until she saw the damage done to him. They would at least fix him until they found out what had happened to him. Vince finally stirred, and Spring was beside him as he sat up.
"I hope you had some good dreams." Spring said, and Vince laughed,
"Yeah Right, I have never had one in my entire existence." Vince replied, and sat straight up, "There's someone here, but something is wrong."
"Your right, Insanity is here." Spring replied, While Vince looked like he was processing something.
"No, Like he changed his ways, and he paid for it...Type something is wrong." Vince said matter-of-factly, and Spring looked confused,
"You have been awake for three minutes and you already know more than the rest of us.." Spring rolled his eyes, "Anyways how can you tell that."
"I already told you about the one third demon, but when that works with the one third angel, I can tell who is innocent and who is guilty." Vince shrugged, and Spring counted that up,
"What's the last Third?" Spring asked, and Vince smiled,
"Mortal, the human part of me that wants to talk with him and find out what he did. While the demon part of me wants to kill him for what he did in the past. And the angel part of me wants to let him live and give him a second chance. Its like a giant war in my head, but right now I agree with the human part of me." Vince replied and began to descend the ladder, Spring watched him, Vince stopped and gestured for him to jump. He did and Vince caught him, Vince let him sit on his shoulder as he walked over to his sister and Tech. Vince remembered what happened to Tech's wings and suggested that they build new ones out of materials that they found laying around.
"But what would we use?" Tech asked, and Vince thought about what Flower had told him.
"The cage, Flower told me that the sick and the unhelpable where there if I can find the bones of the dogs that had those issues we can make new wings out of the bones." Vince suggested, and LuLu's eyes widened, while Tech thought about it and nodded,
"It might work, especially since his other wing was so badly damaged that we had to remove it." Tech said and LuLu stepped forward,
"One that is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard, two since I am partially a dog I can help, plus to even live as long as I did I had to fight those dogs. And I wouldn't mind a little break from watching the fallen angel." LuLu said turning into her dog form, and running off for a quick second, bringing back a bag, a grocery store bag. "I would start off near the arena." The Three of them headed off, Spring would be absolutely no help but he just needed to be in someone's line of sight at all times. LuLu lead Vince to the arena and Vince could sense the weak spots in the ground and the bones hidden beneath it. He looked for the pits with a lot of bones of dogs that had mental issues, and he found one, he called for LuLu, and she began to dig uncovering a wooden box filled with bones, she looked at Vince questionably and he nodded and dragged the box over to one side. And LuLu continued to dig uncovering more boxes but Vince only approved of a few, but she hit something metal, and pulled out a metal box with a lock on it. "He only did this to champions that won all their fights but died of other issues." LuLu explained and Vince unlocked the box and found the bones of the dog. And they where huge, the dog that these bones had come from must have been massive.
"I think that's it, Two wings and feathers, worth in bones. Let's bury the other unused boxes. He set Spring down, in one of the gate like sides of the cage. And he and LuLu worked as a team to bury the unused boxes, once they where done they took them back to the forest side of the yard. Vince had Violet watch Spring while he worked with Tech to build the wings. Once they where done it was time to test them on Insanity, Vince and Tech lined up the bone wings and they connected to Insanity's back. After they where done, Insanity began to move, he sat himself up and looked around with wide and wild eyes. He calmed down a bit, before he noticed his new wings and what they where made of and freaked out. Vince managed to calm him down, and was getting Insanity to talk to him. "Why where you so beat up? What happened? Don't bother lying I can tell if you are or you aren't."
"I couldn't take what they are doing anymore, the demons wanted a specific soul from the Hall of Memories. But they didn't realize that, the whole family had been reincarnated, they began not letting her sleep. And she began to have seizures more frequently, and they where going to tear her apart I couldn't stand by after that..I though of my own children and if I saw that happening to them..How would I react?...I'd beat their asses into the ground...They had set you up for failure.. they both pieces of the necklace." Insanity said, and Vince could sense he was telling the truth.
"Had?" Vince asked, and Insanity nodded, and pulled out of one of his wounds what looked to be a necklace.
"If I didn't steal the other half." Insanity replied and Vince saw that the charm was the other half of the charm around Flower's neck. His eyes widened and Insanity handed him the necklace, Vince thanked him and got up and left. LuLu curled up near the angel and allowed him to pet her. He fell asleep and Vince was talking with Tech.
"Are you sure he was telling the truth?" Tech asked, and Vince nodded,
"Okay if you don't believe me tell me something I'll see if it's a true statement or false." Vince challenged, and Tech nodded,
"Okay," Tech thought for a second before saying, "William Afton is an Angel half blood."
"False...Wait what?!" Vince said sure at first, but it soon dissolved into confusion, "William is a demon half blood?!"
"Well I never knew my parents...so maybe.."
"That is correct," Tech said before saying, "He is related to Afton."
"True...Wait... What the absolute hell?!" Vince cried, and Violet looked at him, with Spring on her shoulder.
"Wait...What the absolute Fuck?!?!...I was possessed by something I was related to?!"
"William never grew up around his parents so he never acted like a demon." Tech said and Violet was actually waiting for Vince's answer, which was almost immediate.
"True...What am I saying?!?" Vince Said confused, but sure of the true part, He held the necklace up and Tech's eyes widened. "They set us up, they had both parts all along. According to Insanity, they where looking for a certain soul in the hall of Memories but couldn't find any of his family, because they where all reincarnated. And I have a feeling I know who they where looking for because he is here with us. Isn't that right Tech?"
"Maybe." Tech sighed,
"I'm just going to take that as a yes, either way they where looking for the oldest souls in the Hall of Memories." Vince continued on, he stopped and heard a whine from LuLu, he stopped moving and his eyes flickered, "They are here, and they have Flower,"