We were all on a bus to our next destination it was nice not having to walk for a moment “Karolin could I have the terminal Marston give us for a moment please?” I looked inside of my bag for a moment until I found the tablet size terminal, “here you go Yun, are you going to search for something on the internet?” he smiled “remember you wanted to see my kids?” I nodded Parker poked his head from his book and Anre remained snoring on his sit, “Well I remembered that the oldest had a blog, I'm not sure if it's still up but it´s worth a try” he typed something on the search bar and his eyes lightened “oh, I can't believe is still up! Here look” he passed me the terminal “object d´Art” the blog had a very refine and classic look, amongst the post there were some art pieces sined by Alina and a few pictures of herself and her brothers and sister I found out why the site hasn’t been taken down “In loving memory of Alina we have immortalized this blog as a remembrance for her and her family” the post was signed by a person with the handle Kana878.

I tapped on one of the pictures of Alina, she had long hair up to her chest, and a light green dress with a jacket over it, if I had to guess she probably was taller than me by  a few inches, “I know that look, don’t worry look at her shoes” Yun said her boots had a heel giving her a few extra inches, “well as you two probably noticed that´s Alina she was the artis of the house, I liked…” he looked through some of the pictures on the blog and tapped on the one he was looking for “this one I really like this picture” the picture showed a parted sky the sides showed a rainy and gloomy place everywhere where rain fall seemed depressing, but a figure was parting the clouds letting in the sunlight everything bathed in the light was happier a livly “its amazing Yun” Parker said “you most be proud of her” you shook his head “I´m proud of all of them… look here is a picture of… huh?”

The picture showed the four kids sitting on a house porch but Yun was right something was odd, there was a big space in the middle where something should be “I think someone altered this picture… I'm supposed to be there in the center” Parker placed his hand on Yun´s shoulder “Hey, come on, you know maybe it was a condition to keep the website running” “What are you all yapping about?” Anre woke up and looked at the screen, “oh what a lovely sight Yunni” We kept talking and looking at the pictures and paintings for a while until our bus took a sudden stop, “dear passengers we are sorry to announce that this bus will be taking an emergency stop at this checkpoint, personal of the Maw of the Dead Man have asked us to perform a surprise check-up”

“okay let's consider,” said Parker, “we can try to hide or-” he made a tiny knife with his paper “I can cut open the window so we can escape” “I agree with Parker, if we stay we are defiantly going to have a conflict with whoever comes” I looked at Yun, he nodded lastly Anre thought for a moment but couldn’t come up with a good plan so he went with us when nobody was looking at us Parker quickly cut the window, Anre went first, he landed outside with s thud  Parker was next he exited without too many difficulties, “come on” Yun helped me to get out quickly as he just jumped off, we all started to make our way to the bushes trying to be as stealthy as possible, “I think we are on the clear” “are we? The guards from the maw are right there” “Nop, you are not safe” “Come on Karolin have a little faith” “… I haven’t said anything” We all looked in the direction the voice came from a young guy was crouching near us he had the insignia of the Maw´s officers and hoisted on his hip a conductors baton “Salutation! It´s nice to meet you three inmates and miss soon to be a corps!” the man stood up and saluted at us with a very unsettling pure smile, we all got away from him the guys put themselves in front of me and prepared for battle.

“Who are you?” Anre asked not taking his eyes from the man, “Oh I been waiting for that question my whole life!” the man seemed elatied by the inquiry of his name “I give it a biggggggggg long thought becose you know how things are at the Maw, “you get an acronime” “you get some random number combination” bal bal bal, si I settle on the name Morgan!” he finaly declared after a flamboyant display of chiled like wonder, he is clearly insaine “o…key buddy we wished we had more time to play around but we have places to go” Anre lunged and try to hit the man with his hammer, after an explosion of dust Anre was kicked back toghards us, the man had his leg extended he slowly put it down “Yep, the place you guys are going” he took his baton form his belt and held it like a rapier at us “is back into your hole” he held his conductors batton with both of his hands and smiled at us, as if he was inviting the guys to fight him.

“Please don’t hold back you can come all at once or one by one the result will be the same!” he lunged forward trying to stab me with the baton, Yun grabbed me and jumped out of the way, and we landed on the bushes “Hide” Yun whispered and returned to the fight, “oh quick and decisive I have a feeling you´ll keep me on my toes” “shut up!” Yun went for a punch to Morgan´s head but he was very good, managing to deflect the hit “See? Not so tough against another martial artist” Morgan giggled with glee “What is it? Not finding anything to magnetize, maybe it was a mistake to go away from the bus!” Morgan managed to best Yun in hand-to-hand combat, he then changed his grip on his weapon holding it like a dagger “So Mr. priest what you got for me?”  “I presume you already know what I can do, no?” Morgan nodded a lot “Origami, the ability to change the shape and reinforce paper” Parker made his Paper fan and engaged him in combat, “That won't work!” with a single trust he dissemble the fan but instead of getting worried, Parker held in his fingers a paper “won't it now?”

Parker moved his hand back as the scattered papers reformed behind Morgan, taken with his guard down he was smacked against a tree the paper acting as binds preventing him from moving “You shouldn’t assume you will always have the upper hand Young man; now care to tell us everything you know” “Parker!” Anre rushed and tackled his friend to the ground, and the air was parted and cut in half, freeing Morgan from his bound Morgan moved his baton as if he was a conductor of some unseen orchestra, cristalin swords formed and danced around him, “as much as it pains me to admit you did caught me off guard, like I said my name is Morgan Caulfield and I have been tasked with the mission to bring you back to the maw” the swords dispersed as he stopped his motions “you… are his son?” Yun stood up and walked to the others, Morgan shook his head “no… I am rather, I'm unsure myself all I know is that my task is to protect the innocent and trap the evil doers” “Morgan that thing you did… that was a gift right?” “Forget about that look at his arm!” from the swords and paper part of his arm was cut instead of exposing bone or blood I managed to spot metal.

“oh… Mr. Coudfield is going to be angry at me, but yes I'm the first automation capable of manifesting a gift, it was thanks to you all that I am able to exist” They looked at each other in horror “Oh don’t worry the maw ran out of materials so until you return I won't have any brothers or sisters” he moves his baton once more “so, can you all give up? All I want is to bring you back and finishing the execution order, you don’t have to watch, and I promise to make it as painless as possible” the guys ran at him the skirmish lasted for a long while, sparks, papers, explosions, and swords flashed in and out of sight “I can't go back… I am enjoying my time in the sun!” “they… this is so profane… playing god this is not right” “Karolin if you can hear me…”  my eyes started to water as I heard Yun's thoughts “I want you to run… we will be fine I can't lose another child so please run”

“you know, you all are powerful I give you that” Anre, Yun, and Parker were on the ground at the end of the struggle they managed to land some crucial blows on Morgan but he was still standing “how does it feel? Knowing that you fail” he limped towards Parker he raised his baton preparing to strike at him, “they told me I have to bring you back, but they dint say anything of in which condition” I can't take it anymore, I can't abandon them no matter how much Yun asks me to, even if I can't fight like them there has to be something I can do “so… this is-” I hit him square in the temple with a stone I picked up from the ground “leave them alone! I'm the one you want!” Morgan smiled “Oh so I don’t have to chase you to the end of the earth how thoughtful… just what do you think you are doing?” Yun was grabbing at Morgans's foot, fighting against the pain from his injuries, he looked up anger and rage painted all around his face.

“I told you to run Karolin!!!” “oh, have you grown to care so much for another kid? Thinking that maybe just maybe” Morgan lifted his leg and kicked Yun into a tree, he spat some blood as he landed “This will atone for your sins? That you will be forgiven for your horrible acts?” “that in the end we can all go home and play hose together?” he limped toward Yun and pulled him up by his hair “How does it feel? To lose another kid for your actions accursed vaulter!” I threw another rock at him he looked back at me “I like to believe I'm a reasonable person, girl, but, with all that has happened here” he closed the gap between us Yun still in his grasp “I don’t think I feel so generous as to make this quick and painless”  he threw Yun´s body to the side and began to slowly walk towards me, my legs give out when he flung a crystallin sword near me crack!  The sound of broken glass came again

“… no…NO, I can't let it happen again!”  Yun was still struggling trying to move to help me but it was useless he was to inyured “well, missy it seems that this is the end of your short life” Morgan lifted his baton and a few blades swarmed him “Move…” Crack! “she needs you now!” Crack! Crack! “even if it turns me into a monster…” Crack! Crack! Crack!!! “I WILL NOT LOSE ANOTHER KID!!!”  more cracking noses filled the air as the blads descended upon me I was expecting to fell the edges or pain but instead I felt water hitting my nose and then more and more droplets started to fall “… what is this? how can you be standing up!” the blades were deflected by Yun´s kicks he was looking down almost like if he was in a trance I saw the cracks on his lower back again, this time something was coming out, formed out of something akin to mud was leaking from the cracks, forming a tale of a bird was forming with the mud.

“… what is it? Cat got your tongue?” Yun remained speechless just swinging his arms lightly in the rain, Morgan moved his baton once more to attack Yun but the second he moved his hand Yun immediately kicked him in the face, with each and every movement made by Morgan Yun´s immediate reaction was to strike at him, all of his attacks were very strong even tho he was semiconscious just a minute ago, with one last kick Yun sent Morgan flying out of the rain´s radius and stopped once more, “Sir.!!!” More guards arrived at the scene preoccupied with the well-being of Morgan “… let go! I will kill him!” Morgan tried to retaliate but one of the guards informed him about something “… fine, you are lucky we were ordered to retreat but remember my words, vaulter, once a murderer always a murderer, the crew of guards quickly left us but the rain didn’t stop, Yun attacked anything that entered the rain like if he was possessed by something

“Karolin don’t move!” Anre ordered me “We don’t know what's going on but if he turns on you…” Parker didn’t bring himself to finish his train of thought “I… I…” Yun started to speak his voice sounding distorted and raspy as if something was stuck in his trout “Pro…Pro…Protect I… must… Protect” More and more tar started to come out of the cracks engulfing Yuns lower body “Guys… is Yun suffering from M.S.S?” he is transforming into a monster like the one we fought back at Pekod, the tar started to spill from his mouth forming a beak his normally dark eyes were now golden like the ones of an eagle or a hawk before I could do something Yun moved quickly to attack Anre as he entered his range he tried to punch the big mountain of muscle that was Anre but he overcame the barrage of hits and held him in place “Lass give me a hand here!” I snapped out of whatever state I was in and quickly ran “And what am I supposed to do?” Yun was turning more and more into a monster sharp metallic objects protruded from his body impaling Anre in the shoulder, he grunted but held his ground “Karolin!” Parker called me “Try to link with him, I don’t know try to find him and bring his consciousness to the surface!”

Parker arrived and helped Anre hold Yun, I looked at him he was almost fully converted I held his hand and concentrated “Please, please, just let me be able to help my friend!”  I opened my eyes when I no longer was able to hear the struggle I was back at the same place I saw the monolith in Yuns head the place was a downpour I had to find Yun I tried to look around but with the rain, I was unable to see much, until a flash of light from a thunder reviled the area, Yun was sitting in an old rocking chair gazing at the blood-stained monolith he seemed like he had an old book in his hands “The thunderbird was truly an ugly bird…” is he reading format the book? “a horrible visage, it had no soft and hollow feathers only tar and bone, lighting fall wherever it goes, it wished to protect but it could only hurt”

“Yun stop reading that book!” I tried to take the book from him but a bolt of lightning fell nearby “It used to have four kids but, alas, none was around anymore” With each passage that he read he sank farther and farther into the ground “Yun this is not you!” “It wish to know-“ he stopped and looked at me he seemed tiered, like if in a moment he aged fifty years “Yun you are kind, not a monster, and you always protect me and the others so please, please won't you come back with me?” “Alina? Is that you… right, you never liked these kinds of stories” he thinks I'm one of his kids “I think I won't read anymore for now” he walked near me and held my hand, I grasped it and concentrated hard on bringing him back to reality.