Spells and Louds
Chapter 151: Finding Closure
(Spellman Estate)
Neil had just finished calling his mom and Sabrina. He then heads to the backyard and sits underneath a tree and looks up to the snow falling.
Gwen comes out in her winter clothes and sits next to him, with her head leaning onto his shoulder.
"So, how did it go with Sabrina and Diana?" asked Gwen.
"They were a bit, confused and saddened to know the truth behind Leon and Sergei. They needed some time to think all of this through" replied Neil.
Gwen then looks to her husband. "You don't seem to be amused by this, are you?"
Neil then sighs and looks up. "I don't know anymore. When I found Sergei he was wandering in the frozen hellscapes of Siberia, with little to know memory of who he is. Leon was in an underground fighting arena and it was not easy escaping with him. What the hell is going on with us?"
Gwen then kisses his cheek. "I know this is new information that you and you're brothers are trying to deal with. But you three have to remember that there are people out there who will do whatever they can to make you guys feel better. Just have some faith."
Neil smiles and kisses Gwen.
They then continue to just sit next to each other underneath the tree.
"Thanks, I needed that" replied Neil.
"So, where are Leon and Sergei?" asked Gwen.
(Volgograd Russia, formerly Stalingrad)
Sergei walks through the city and asks some of the people to a certain location and surely enough he finds it.
The memorial grounds to the fallen heroes of Stalingrad.
He goes through all of the graves and soon he finds three gravestones.
Stephan Vasilyonok.
Serafim Lonov.
Demyan Volchok.
Sergei stands in front of the three tomb stones and he sees one tomb stone next to them and it bears his name. Sergei Dragunov.
Sergei chuckles. "So, this is how we met after all those years ago huh comrades?"
Sergei then pulls out a knife and makes a small cut to his hand. He lets the blood drip and fall onto the dirt on front of his gravestone.
He then steps back and pulls out a bottle of Russian whiskey, he takes one sip and pours the rest onto the three tombstones.
"Nashey Svyazi, Nashey Istorri I Nashego Bratstva. Do svidaniya moi tovarishchi!"
Translation: To our Bond, Our History and Our Brotherhood. Goodbye my Comrades!
Sergei then walks away from the cemetery, but he felt like he was being watched.
He turns around to see three soldiers near the three gravestones and all three of them were holding bottle of whiskey and smiling.
Sergei smiled and saluted and they saluted in return, before fading.
Sergei then walks away, knowing he found closure to both his family and to his men, that he once called brothers!
(Auschwitz Poland)
Winter has come and is already covering most of the area with a white blanket, to some it is assign of the holiday season. But to others it is a reminder that this is the chilling death.
Leon has arrived to the place that took his mother's life.
He just stands in front of the gates and looks around. He sees no one else is there, but he does spot some Apollo jest fly over the place.
It wasn't January 7 and yet he felt like this is the right moment to remember his mother, the one who died within this wretched Nazi death camp.
Leon then collapses to his knees and cries.
Someone comes from behind him and places a hand on his shoulder, it was Dana.
At first Leon didn't want her to come. But she insisted, this was the place where the woman who raised Leon was killed and she wanted to at least help him find closure, that and chances Leon might kill himself, but we all know he can't be killed so easily.
Leon doesn't have any pictures of what his parents looked like, but he knew that his mother loved Forget-me-not flowers.
He then grabs the bundle of flowers from his jacket and so does Dana from hers.
Leon slowly gets up and walks towards the gates. He then places the flowers onto the side of the wall, Dana does the same.
"Leon, are you okay?" asked Dana.
Leon then started to speak in German. "Meinne Mutter, ich kante dich schon einmal, Aber ich sehe nur kleine Einblicke, wer du warst. Gleiches gilt fur meinen Vater. Ich wunschte nur, ich konnte euch beiden beitreten, aber ich weib, dass du mir leiber zuschauen wurdest, wie ich mien Leben lebe. Neben dieserneuen Familie, und ich weib, dass Sie beide auf mich aufpassen werden. Sie werden stolz auf den Mann sein, zu dem ich geworden bin. Der Held, zu dem ich geworden bin. Ich liebe euch bede."
Translation: My mother, I knew you before. But I only see small glimpses of who you were. Same goes with my father. I only wish I could join both of you, but I know that you would rather watch me live my life. Alongside this new family, and I know you will both be watching over me. You will be proud of the man I have become. The hero I have become, I love you both.
Leon then kneels down, kisses the flowers and lets some tears shed. But he smiles, just to know at least he knew that he had a family and that they fought against evil.
Leon then took the note out of his pocket, it was time he read what his father had left for him.
"My son, if you are reading this. Then I have already passed away and so has you're mother. You have successfully found the Tiger Tank I personally built for you, do not see it as an instrument of Hitler's war machines but see it as a weapon you can use against his tyranny. I am truly sorry that I wasn't there to watch you grow up my son. But know this that I will always be watching over you and so will your mother, become the hero our country needs, end this reign of evil and find the peace that you deserve. I love you Leon. From you're father Dimitri Davion."
Leon then places the note next to the flowers and cries with a smile.
Dana kneeled next to him and started to speak. "Ich werde auf deinen Sohn aufpassen und ihn von ganzem Herzen lieben."
Translation: I will watch over you're son and love him with all my heart.
Leon looks to Dana with shock.
Dana looks to him and smiles. "I may have taken some studying into you're native language."
Leon smiles. "Ich liebe dich so sehr."
Dana smiles. "Ich liebe dich."
Translation for both: Leon, I love you so much. Dana, I love you.
The two of them share a small kiss, then they get interrupted by some coughing. They both turn around to see four elderly German men.
"Can I help you boys?" asked Leon.
One of the elderly spoke up. "Kommandant?" asked Alfred Litzke.
Leon was now shocked and knew who they were. "Meinne Crew?"
Leon approached the elderly men and they put on the hats they wore when they were tank crew with Leon.
Leon then put on the Tank officer hat the guardian gave back to him.
They all saluted to each other and laughed.
"We have a lot to catch up on my friends" said Leon.
"Of course ve Kommandant. Ve are all Tiger Soldaten" said Dieter Berndt.
"You don't have to keep calling me that, just Leon will do my friends" replied Leon.
"But of course, Leon" said Joseph Shultz.
"And who is zis young frauline?" asked Arno Shrolfe.
Dana stood next to Leon. "Hallo, ich Heibe Dana. Ich bins Leons Freundin."
Translation: Hello, my name is Dana. I'm Leon's girlfriend.
Leon smiles. "She speaks German, or rather yet studies it."
"I'm still studying the language and it is rather difficult" replied Dana.
The elderly tank crew chuckle.
"You lucky Bastard Leon" said Joseph Shultz.
They then all walk away from the Death camp and into a black police escort van and the driver was Peter. "What up kraut?"
Leon chuckles. "So you sent them here?"
"Nope, Gyro said that you might end up here for closure, so he sent me to find you're surviving tank mates" replied Peter.
They all hop into the car and drive off towards the nearest town.
Then the flowers and the note by the wall are picked up by a womanly apparition, who just smiles and watches as her son leaves. She is glad that he now knows who his parents were, who he was before and who he will be in the future.
(FutureTech HQ)
Martin looks upon all the technology they built, the Victor stands next to him.
"All this time, everything we've invented. Was from the War of the Three Powers" said Victor.
"I would be pissed off to the fact we've been lied to. But for some reason I'm not" replied Martin.
"At least we now know who we were before" said Victor.
"Yeah, the two commanders who fought alongside together, against the Empire of the Rising Sun" replied Martin.
"So, do we keep on building these machines and forces of war?" asked Victor.
"The hell we are. This is our way of remembering all that we have built, all that we have fought for. This is our legacy to the world and to those who would remember the world we came from! Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3!" said Martin.
Victor claps. "Nice speech man. Glad we were both allies back then."
"Yeah, you were against the Premiere and I was against that maniacal President Howard Ackerman" replied Martin.
They both continued to watch as the new invention is being built with the help of Jack Cyber and Tadashi. The King Oni.
"So, how did Lisa take this chilling news?" asked Victor.
"She fainted after I called her over the phone. I'm sure she'll wake up and call back, eventually" replied Martin.
"Becky's birthday is on the 14th of December" said Victor.
"Becky, the red head with the green fire powers. Okay, so we're all going to celebrate her birthday party?" asked Martin.
"We are" replied Victor. "You do know how old she's gonna be now right?"
"She will be 17 at that time, so Dana is older than her, even though they are both friends. She likes some ace Savvy stuff, she is still a fan of it and her favorite flavor for cake is raspberry or blueberry. She is one of Leni's friends so we're going to have to invite a lot of teens to wherever party she wants to be a part of, I'm sure she will be thrilled to see the Rest of the Royal Defenders there as well" replied Martin.
Victor crosses his arms and smiles. "You really know her don't you?"
Martin then continues to eat the chocolate wafer he had with him. "Yeah, why?"
Victor smirks. "Oh nothing."
They both remain silent, though Victor knows something is up with his associate/boss Martin.
"So, wanna see what other weapons we may have forgotten in our brains?" asked Victor.
Martin looks to the memory scanner device. "Sure, why not."
(Spellman Estate)
Lincoln looks to the picture of himself with all of his sisters.
It was the same picture of the incident "The Whole Picture."
Lincoln smiles and looks at all of them, Lori texting, Leni calling, Luna on her axe, Luan wearing her funny glasses, Lynn playing football, Lucy reading, Lola and Lana fighting, Lisa looking at her check board, Lily running around naked and the pets just doing what they do.
"Where did those days go?" Lincoln asks himself.
Then the door to his room opens and it was Linka. "Hey bro, Hybrid are trying to invade the Tal'Darim homeworld of Slayn."
Lincoln grabs his blaster. "Let's go sis."
He leaves the room and lets the old picture of sister's stand next to the new picture of the Spellman's.
To be continued ….
It seems they are all finding closure, well some of them. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.