Now here's a thought to think about: can you ever forgive family for everything they have done?
What if that person was the closest one to you, someone who has earned your complete trust since day-dotted-one?
Blood-related or not, it doesn't matter.
Family is family.
There's nothing you can do about that.
Temporary 'Grey Army Base', Blighfall, Dellone, Under Realm
Thursday, 22nd December
2:23pm
Corey felt a radiating pain within his back, faint yelling and gunshots ringing in his ears.
And now, a burning sensation haunted his wrists as metal gripped them and held him back against a cemented wall, and something strapped around his neck.
He finally opened his eyes to meet an old hospital room which had been stripped empty of everything but wall, ceiling and tile. Looking around the room until his gaze fell on Sean who sat a foot away from him to his right, Corey glad to see him unharmed and safe before re-noticing the heavy weight clinging to his wrist.
Looking down, shackles gripped both Sean's and Corey's wrists that kept them bound to the wall, and glancing back up at his friend made him realise what had been strapped to his neck- some sort of modified shock collar yet Sean's was a little different from Corey's, it had this tiny vile of silvery liquid attached to the responder whilst there was no vile on Corey's.
But when Corey's gaze drifted around the room again, that's when panic started seeping in as he saw no sign of Vixen "Where's Vixen?" Corey immediately questioned Sean as the older teenager shook his head, indicating that he had no idea "I just woke up a little before you" Sean stated.
The soldier hit Vixen in the back with the rod, it electrocuting the poor boy who instantly fell to the ground, dropping the staff as well before it faded away. Vixen breathed and gagged in pain before the soldier zapped him again...
Corey immediately scrambled up onto his feet before he started yelling "Where the fuck is my brother?!" he sharply questioned, yanking on the chains bounding him to the wall behind him "Let him go!" he continued, quickly earning the attention of the two Grey Army soldiers passing by the room, peering in through the door's small window "You fucking heard me- WHERE THE FUCK IS MY BROTHER?!?" Corey almost screamed. However, the two soldiers just laughed at him and kept walking, the anger burning up inside Corey causing his eyes to brightly glow a toxic green "You fucking shits- get back here, you fucking cowards!" the boy continued to yell, still yanking harshly on the chains "I'll fucking kill you if you hurt him!" he spat the warning as Sean sat there, watching in both sadness and worry for both Corey and Vixen, wherever he may be.
Vixen sat in the command room of the army base, one hand cuffed to the arm of the metal chair.
He woke up an hour ago and been in this room since.
His back rotted of tingling pain from being electrocuted twice, his hands and feet feeling almost numb. He had almost feeling the strong urge to vomit yet had kept it in to avoid being laughed at and or mocked by the soldiers that stood in the command room with him.
'Was this really worth it?' Vixen questioned himself, the strong taste of stomach bile silently drifting up his throat 'Electrocution, betrayal, manipulation and death, of strangers and himself, just to meet one man?' the boy closed his eyes, a new question popping into his head.
What if Chad and Bella are right about him?
Vixen's eyes snapped back open as the door to the command room behind him opened, heavy footsteps pridefully making their way into the room "Leave us alone" a harsh rottenly low voice ordered "Yes, sir" both soldiers standing guard in the room answered before leaving, closing the door behind themselves as Vixen's body stiffened a little, feeling a cold set of eyes landing on him. The footsteps started again, toward the teenager, he stayed still to show no fear and kept his gaze setted ahead of him, and how hard it was to hold back such a horrifying flinch as the new man uncuffed his hand from the chair before taking his place in front of the boy.
The man looked roughly like Vixen: black hair, greyed cold eyes, the height he'll soon have, yet so much different from the boy too. He didn't have Vixen's pale skin, he had lightly tanned ivory skin, his hands harshly rough and covered in faint scarring. The man was old yet had muscles and a decent built body to make up for it, unlike Vixen's barely decent-weighted skinny body. The man's face harsh and jagged whilst Vixen's was technically more appealing to look at, a trait he clearly got from his mother.
And now, that horrid looking man looked down at Vixen with his sickening smirk as he finally acknowledged the boy's existence and greeted him "My son" the man said pridefully and the second he said it, Vixen wanted to vomit even more. "Grey Leader" the boy greeted back "Or should I say 'Frank'?" "'Father' would be more preferred" Frank smirked, the second set of words making Vixen feel a little more repulsed by the man before him, and even more when Frank looked him up and down. "You look just like me-" "I look more like my mother than anything like you" Vixen stated, throwing Frank off a little "You acknowledge Nicole as your mother, but not me as your father?" "She was the one kidnapped and forced to marry an army leader" the boy reminded the man who just rolled his eyes. Frank's gaze turned away from Vixen "Technically, your hair makes you look a little more like the Light Spirit when he was corrupted" he stated, eyes flicking back to the boy who successfully managed to hold back another horrified flinch.
"Growing it out, aren't you?" "And?" Vixen immediately questioned back "So what if it makes me look a little like Nightmare Shadow? it's not like I give a shit about what they all think" he said, attitude rotting his words like any sort of teenager, yet the disturbing bit was the fact that hearing those words made Frank smile just a little more "And what a blessing it'll be, to have a son resemble the Light Spirit, Starlight, as much as possible" the army leader smirked. Frank stepped forward, arms opened and basically ordering the boy to hug him yet Vixen jumped out of his chair and stood behind it, using it to create the distance he wanted between himself and the man "You left me in the Human Realm with two random soldiers" the boy harshly stated "Tow of my best soldiers-" "You left me in a world with a lie that my parents were dead" the boy snapped. "Thirteen years, I never heard a word from you or my mother, just made up fucking stories from two soldiers about how 'great' you were- I then got kidnapped by more of your fucking soldiers and thrown into a testing centre" Vixen continued.
The soldiers pushed Vixen into an office, closing a door behind him before the boy came face-to-face with Alex Ruins, the leading doctor of the mad house he had been kidnapped and taken to "I have a message from your father" the man behind the desk started "And an order from him, for me to tell you the basics of what is happening and who you really are, and when you get back home, Chad and Bella will explain everything else when you return home" Alex stated...
"You couldn't even be bothered to show up and explain everything yourself- do you even know what it's like to have a random guy tell you bullshit about your so called 'father' is a leader of some fucked up army? that you were cursed by an ancient divine spirit and bound to die and come back to life?" Vixen continued to spout the questions "You forced a literal divine entity to give me an ancient curse you had no idea whether it would actually work or not". Frank stood there, continuing to listen to his son as an annoyed and bored expression drew across his face "You fucking encouraged him to create a fucking loophole in my curse- do you have any fucking idea of what you done? how badly you fucked up my life?!" Vixen spat. "I fucked up your life?" Frank questioned with a raised brow and re-growing smirk "I knew I had a great son, but I didn't expect he'd be exactly like me... as horrible as me" the man said as Vixen's eyes narrowed.
"I wasn't the one who betrayed his only friends just so he could meet his father" Frank stated as Vixen stiffened "I didn't lead all your friends to their deaths, you did" the man listed "Or trapped three of said 'friends' in a realm with absolutely no way out, you did" he continued "The only thing I have done is get someone to curse you with an immortality curse and the honour of that person being a godly divine spirit" Frank pridefully stated, clearly proud of what he had done. Vixen's face contorted "Honoured? there is no fucking honour in being cursed with a prophesied death" the boy snapped yet Frank laughed "And yet you risked everything just to meet me" he said "My only child and heir to my name and title" he smirked as Vixen's eyes widened a little.
"Your father?" Bella repeated as the twelve-year old boy nodded his head, the woman turning her head to Chad as if asking him whether they should really tell the boy the truth or not "Tell him what we all think of the Grey Leader, he needs to know what the soldiers really think of his father" Chad answered Bella's silent question. The woman sighed, turning her head back to Vixen "Your father has been the leader of the Grey Army for much longer than a century, at this point, he's turned into a mad man who cares for nothing but power and his own pride" Bella carefully told them boy "But you are part of his 'power and pride', the man will do anything to make sure that you, his plan, succeed" Chad grimly added...
Both of them were right... meeting this man wasn't worth it.
And he had hurt his only friends doing so.
Vixen shook his head "No- Chad and Bella raised me, Nicole gave birth to me- they're my family, not you" the boy stated "You were never my father-" "Whose blood currently runs through your veins right now, Vixen?" Frank hissed, harshly grabbing his son's arm "Whose name have you been carrying for the pass thirteen years?" the man continued "You are my flesh and bone, no one else's" he stated. "You will join the Grey Army, you will become its next leader and you will follow in my footsteps... or else I'll kill that boy you've been calling 'brother' since you fucking met him" Frank threatened.
Vixen stood there, frozen and wide eyed as Frank called the two soldiers back into the command room "Take the hypnotic to one of the guest rooms and make sure he stays in there until I say otherwise" he ordered before harshly placing these shackle-like bracelets made of angelsilver onto his son's wrists. The boy hissed in pain as the bracelets slowly burned his skin "And that will stop you from using any of your powers on my soldiers" Frank smirked, Vixen went to run at him before the two soldiers grabbed him and dragged him out of the command room and down the corridor.
Several turns and corridors later, Vixen now walked in between the two escorting soldiers.
As they stepped through the ward they just entered, Vixen started to hear the faint sound of banging. They quickly approached the room the banging was coming from, Vixen glancing in through the room's window and seeing Corey desperately banging his shackles against the wall in attempts to break them. "Corey!" Vixen shouted, pushing pass the soldiers and over to the door, the mention of his name made the other turn around "Vixen!" Corey breathed, going to run over to the door before the chains stopped him from making no further and a foot away from the wall "Corey, Sean" Vixen breathed in relief, seeing the older teenager with Corey. The two soldiers grabbed hold of Vixen again, dragging him away from the door "No- COREY! SEAN!" the boy almost screamed, struggling in the hands of the soldiers as they continued to drag him down the corridor.
"NO!" Corey shouted, yanking on the chains a couple more times before starting to bang them against the wall even harder than before "Stupid fucking chains!" the boy hissed, smashing the shackles harder with every swing "LET ME OUT!" Corey yelled.
They took him further away from the last ward of the base which held his friends before the two soldiers pushed Vixen into a small room and locked the door behind him, walking off.
Vixen stumbled a little, looking around the small bedroom and then at the iron door that was easily locked from the outside and the outside only. He rushed to the door, yanking at the doorknob then attempting to kick it down before just banging his fists repeatedly against the iron door "Let me go!" he yelled.
Vixen quickly added the new rune to the portaled mirror, a rune bound to send him and Angelina to the Under Realm where his father currently was, a rune that will shatter the portal to keep anyone else from following them through. Now all he had to do was get Angelina to go through the portal willingly...
Vixen dropped to the ground, onto his knees with his head hanging low, seeing the skin under the silvered bracelets already begin to bruise.
Everything he had done was to finally meet and see his parents, his real parents.
He killed himself and his friends, he betrayed them, hurt one of the kindest people to him, destroyed their only way out of this realm and gotten caught... just for some selfish mad-man.
None of it was worth it.
And worse of all... he had turned into his father whilst doing so.
Sometimes, there is nothing you can do to unbound yourself from a fate you've created.
There are three main paths: the path of your parents, the path of your friends, the path of yourself. Whatever influences you the most is the one you end up on... so who did you follow?
The people who raised or birthed you? The people you chose to hang around? Or the person you should've been listening to since the very start?
When you take the wrong path, you don't realise the mistake until it is already too late. And once it's too late, you have to continue forward until the path is completed
So now a new question remains.
Can you forgive yourself?
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