The Whispers Of The Fallen: Xen Genesis

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EMPRESS DEPARTURE…

BOOM… the sound of a loud explosion. The view was taken from a random observer, his visions was blurry, sound of loud screams, indistinct chatters, people crying in agony. In the scene, you could hear children screaming and suddenly they stop, like an immediate disconnection from a network, or probably they were instantly slaughtered.

(Whisper) "Elizabeth… Elizabeth" it calls…

Elizabeth suddenly wakes up. It was a dream, or you could call it a NIGHTMARE. She wakes gasping out loud, panting rapidly. Her heartbeat per minute was at a hundred and fifty, she was hyperthermic, at the same time she shivers, gnashing her teeth, like she was hypothermic. It was a mixture of both.

She had prepared some kind of shelter about the size of a regular room, close to where the weapon was earlier described to be in, she placed in this sort of illusion that confuses travelers and presumed enemies about the presence of such place, when one passes by, in an attempt to look for that place she was found to be, or maybe a random traveler whom somehow crosses that path, he/she will lose track or won't be able to sense the presence of that place. He/she may cross Elizabeth's shelter multiple times but won't seem to sense its presence, as Elizabeth just sitting there staring at the person.

She quickly got up from the mat, prancing forward to a bowl of water hastily, she deeps her hand into it spilling it on her face, washing her face with it. She was putting on an ash robe, her hair was unfastened, therefore displaying the true length and beauty of her hair, it went down below her shoulders reaching her waist region. She then binds her hair together behind her head forming a ponytail. She takes off the robe, then putting on a black armless shirt, she then fastened her boots into her legs like she was preparing for a battle, she picks up a white coat from a hanger, she puts it on, it reached a length below her knees. She makes her way to the shelter exit picking up a large box.

Getting outside to the snowing atmosphere, it was cold outside, almost below zero degrees. Elizabeth drops the box on the be snowed ground. Looking around, you could see, destroyed platforms, rocks, holes in the floor of some places, caused by explosions, it may be obvious that the explosions were caused by the weapon she had set out to look for. There were some burnt cloth that belonged to Elizabeth, which were heavily scalded, and was therefore hung on woods standing about seven feet tall. As she makes attempt to open the box, the sharp part of the box's lock makes a cut into her hand, spilling her blood into the white snowy floor, she stares deeply at the cut as some distorted memory flashes by, the cut quickly heals leaving only the stains of blood behind. She had this confused look like she has seen this before, it felt like déjà vu. Ever since she woke up, she kept on having this dark feeling, that kept her nervous, and at the same time submerged deeply in oblivion. She then takes her attention off the just healed cut as she opens the box. In the box, there was this red towel 'covering', at the very top covering everything below it, she takes out the towel, dropping it on the besnowed floor, revealing what was underneath, the so told weapon Elizabeth had gone to uncover. The weapon was like an armor, for only a half of the body of who wields it, it was more of like an endoskeletal armor, once worn, it's like the wielder has nothing on him.

Elizabeth stares deeply into the box, suddenly she closed it. She had concluded her research and was preparing to go back home, after spending roughly five years studying the weapon, she visited Arcadia once in a while, just to check how thing were… and also out of curiosity to see her family again, which were the people of Arcadia and her close foster children.

She puts on the box on her back like a backpack, then parking all her belongings into an organized form, then she placed them on a horse she had earlier taken from a farmer, leaving the useless ones behind. She climbed on the horse, this time she decided to travel not with her legs, but with a horse, she felt exhausted, it was all weird, because she hardly lose her strength like that. She kicked the horse by the side as it began racing along the path she wanted, she then cleared the illusion she had placed up. And then She journeyed back to Arcadia.

UNKNOWN…

The scene appears to be really dark. There was this dark figure of a boy sitting on a platform like a large rock, his appearance was vague, he was backing the view, as he sobs softly, like a child who was recently scolded. The boy continues to tear out, placing his head in between his knees, bowing his head down…

BACK TO REALITY…

Elizabeth was about ten days away from Arcadia if travelled by a normal average human when running. This was during dusk; the sun was about setting. She suddenly got this intense grip of terror, a cold grip of an inimical presence moves slowly within her bones, she pauses… her eyes widened in surprise… obviously she dropped the horse she was riding on along the way… she stayed still for a while in surprise, you could see fear in her eyes as is shivered, then suddenly she started running, zooming forward towards Arcadia.

"What is this terrifying energy I feel" … she was moving really fast, that even a regular Xenian would call abnormal, covering half of the ten days journey in about three minutes.

"I sense intense hatred, an intense hatred, spreading so rapidly, how can one bear this much resentment for a fellow, I must get to Arcadia… what… what is this… this doesn't feel right, no, no, no… what has happened? I am almost there…" she said, then taking a deep breath sniffing in.

"I smell blood, I smell blood everywhere, why do I smell blood… don't tell me, please don't… I hear souls screaming in regret and agony, there is so much horror, I just wish for the first time, my senses fail, for this time let my eyes see no evil, let my ears hear no evil, let my nose smell no evil, for the first let them be incorrect" she made this declaration as her eyes began to water. So, she kept on running.

Finally, she approaches the main gate, although she could move faster than the speed of sound, seeing the gate from afar felt like she was a thousand miles away from it, she thrusted her hands forward, towards the gate, finally getting there.

The gate seemed shot. "open the gate" she yelled...

"your Empress is here" she said… there was no response… "Open the gate, it is me, anyone," she said again still there was still no response….

"Have you all gone deft, please open the gate" she yelled again bursting into tears…

"No…"

She then gave the gate a gentle soft push, then it opened slowly, like it was never locked… right at that moment, her heart trembles in fear and regrets, she froze for some moment trying to process the scene, what was going through her mind was what she might find opening the gate more widely, her eyes shaken as her knees trembled, she slowly and shakenly withdrew her hand from the gate, that moment the weather changed giving a windy dark look to the surrounding, as the wind blew heavily, droplets of water falls from the sky, it began drizzling slightly fast.

She then pushed the gate slowly, there was this intense scent of blood coupled with this burning smell of actual flesh, she smelt it but still tried not to believe what she senses. The gate was half way through uncovering the horror, as tears drips from her eyes, her heartbeat rises up, her blood pressure intensifies.

Finally, the gate was turned opened as this cold wind emerges from the inside blowing Elizabeth's hair backwards therefore causing a twirl on the leaves on the floor like a mini-tornado. There was absolute silence, her facial expression was like that of a person who has gotten delusional… she seemed not to have said anything, after what she is seeing… there was silence in the scene… and suddenly she screams.

She screamed in so much pain… there were several impaled bodies of soldiers burnt almost beyond recognition, they were impaled from their bottom, about thousands of them including the ones that were recruited from other regions… while those ones were there, there were piles of bodies reaching a height of thirteen feet covered in blood, some stripped naked, these were perhaps civilians.

"What is this horror, is this an illusion, am I dreaming" she cried out.

"This is not possible… this is not possible, you can't be dead, what is this, this is inhuman" she cried out as she voiced slowly cracks due to the intense stretch she was putting on her vocal cords.

"Sergeant Marcos, is that you, Beatrice, Julius, Carlos… everyone… this can't be, I need to wake up, this is an illusion, I must be hallucinating, please tell me that I am insane, no… no blood! My people"

She cried out walking slowly along the path, stepping on ashes of the people she loved, the bones of the people she cared for, the blood of the people she adored… suddenly she remembers something… it was Sebastian. She then shouted his name "Sebastian" as she raced towards the palace.

She gets to the palace, finding it destroyed, crumbled and burnt to pieces, all those artifacts, those statues, those sacred rooms nearby, were all burnt to the ground. All she saw were the remains of the people she cared for scattered miles across the kingdom. She was baffled… she walked upon skulls and limbs. She then screamed "Sebastian" as she scatters through the piles of body, in search of him… she tried to sniff him out as she possessed acute sense of scent and most of her sense organ, but it was not possible as his presumed remains were mixed with others, 'presumed' because there might not be any thing left to be called remains.

She kneels down and then shouting out…

"X's, this is what you wanted, huh, this is what you wanted you foolish beings, I will wipe out you all one by one, I don't care about your connection with the spirits, I will watch you burn in my hands, I should have never followed your orders, you are all foolish creatures, foolish beings, I hate you…

My son is dead, Sebastian is dead, he was all I had, my people, the people I had sworn to protect, the people I cared for, they made me needed… I taking orders from you all makes me a fool too, what is more than a thousand years being on Earth for, nothing…"

As she screams in pain,

she laid on the floor as it began to rain,

heavily indeed,

she stared at the sky,

as she slowly got drained.

While she was on the floor, her ears captured this loud sound, it was like music playing from a long distance, she then went on her knees and placed her hand on the floor to feel the vibration. As the rain diminishes gradually towards ending, she traced the sound feeling all vibrations, following, going through the vines, the sticks, stones and all solid materials that reflects sound. The rain droplets splashing on the floor became ten times louder… as she looked through, following the direction of the sound, she could visualize the route exactly, how they were, while looking ahead.

She spotted the location, there were a lot of people dancing, playing drums, celebrating like there is no tomorrow, they had savory lamb meats steaming up, freshly baked bread, wines, the kinds that could get you drunk in no time, being served from a large round wooden container placed at every collection of people separated by a distinct distance, it was like a ceremony. She immediately recognized the place, it was the rivals, the neighboring empire headquarter, as farther as about four hundred miles.

The rain stops as the full moon emerges out of the clouds displaying its glory, dominating the night's sky. Casting its light on Elizabeth face, capturing those deadly inimical frowns, she was filled with rage, looking up ahead she stared at the place, as she could see them all from that long distance, she had this stare displaying death itself. At an imminent instant, her eyes glowed green.

"They are jubilating for victory, those inhuman souls, they are happy, I will wipe them out"

Elizabeth had never looked this serious to cause harm. It was like staring into a psychopath's eye embedded in hatred and agony as he slowly drives a knife into your eyes, watching you suffer and pay for what you have done.

She powered up, as the energy she emitted from her body dries up her cloth which had gotten wet from the rain, resulting in an emission of steam from both the surface if her skin and her cloth, giving this foggy appearance, like you could only see those glowing eyes as it changes color to white given a great significance of power… she flew off the floor, flying into the deep clouds and above towards their direction.

Right in the kingdoms territory of Arcadia's rivals, they were all celebrating, dancing tearing the nicely fried thighs of lambs, and all sort of meat. The Emperor stops the music, to make a toast, thereby suspending his hand mid-air, with a glass containing colorless wine. He is a chubby man with long hair reaching the middle of his back, he had bushy brows that were long enough to reach his sideburns when stretched, reaching a height of about six feet five inches.

"My brothers and sisters gathered here… I want to say thanks to you all for everything, for the cooperation, it was nice we came out victorious. Our friends and families lost, they are heroes, and they kept on fighting for what they believed in, that Arcadia is the enemy, we wiped them all out… we came, we saw and we conquered… we shall do the same for every other empire or kingdom that stands in our way, we shall kill them all, and taking their women, burning the men, the fighters that stands for hope to them, they shall watch their very last hope crumble in carnage, in the raging flame.

Arcadia has been our long enemy right from the days of Kalek, they were this small civilization that always stood against us, they called our ways madness, our acts to create a united nation. But now they are history… history to be told, it was though a pain and a nightmare to watch them die like that, but this is the price we have to pay. Our friends from there grew into enemies' overtime, but it is fine, may the souls of Arcadia rest in peace… I make a toast to our lost friends… I make a toast to our lost families… I make a toast to our lost warriors, our fighters who placed their lives in the line for our survival… I make a toast to those who went through all these from the beginning of the war right to the end and survived… I make a toast to you all seated here, gathered together to celebrate our victorious day… As we eat and drink, let it wash away our pains and awful memories away, we shall all see the light, and the bright future of insight and resilience… of unity and diversity… drink my friends" as he concluded his speech, they all clinked their neighbor's glasses, in response to agreement. The Emperor, Valack walked down to his chair reserved for him and spotted a teenager at the age of sixteen, he was frozen, like he saw something terrifying. The emperor Valack walked up to him and said…

"Brace yourself kid, you're a soldier, a Xenian, don't let the past rule over your emotion and sanity, they are gone, what happened there wasn't your fault, it wasn't our fault, it is over and we won… that is it… that is all that matters, what you saw, throw all memories of it in the garbage and live on okay… we won" Valack placed his hand around the boy's shoulder as he nodded in agreement, looking a bit of relief… most of the warriors looked the same way.

In the minds of them all they thought they had wiped out the whole of Arcadia including the empress Elizabeth… but they were wrong. As the emperor took his sit… a large boulder about nine feet radius, just flew out from the sky crushing over thirty people, including some weak Xenians… immediately there was this unusual force field moving so fast tearing people apart, just moving and killing them one by one in matter of a split seconds, like you are alive and suddenly you are dead, it was a terrifying force, you couldn't even see it at all, so you don't know where to run to for safety…

There came this unknown man from the chaotic crowd trying to find somewhere safe… he stood in the midst of those people as he slowed down their movement thereby moving at the speed and time of a speedster kind of Xenian… even with that he couldn't spot what was embedded in the force field… he strained his eyes as it glowed in the color gold, he possessed the superhuman ability of superspeed, complementing that, he could slow things down in terms of view and not reality, thereby giving him the ability to sense someone's movement and act instantaneously. Thereby bleeding from his eyes before he could spot what it was…

The renowned white colored hair… the eyes of like that of pearl… the beauty of an angel… the energy of a thousand sun… the speed far greater than a falcon… the strength of a multitude of Xenians… this was the description of the renowned Alderic Clan, a full blood kind… The Empress of Arcadia.

Elizabeth flew up to the sky looking down at all of them, she had murder in her eyes… she was invincible… her hair floating above her, light was continuously emitted from her body… she has not gone into this form for a couple of centuries. This was the power of a goddess, she looked nothing like the regular Elizabeth. As she stared down at them as they all ran for their lives… the soldiers stood their ground to fight back while some merely looking at her eyes fled for their lives… they launched their attacks blasting out concentrated Xenic energy from their hands in its pure form to increase the damage inflicted, as she waved her hands at her face region, her left hand to the right, and her right hand to the left… she converged the energy into a single point and then shape them in form of spears or sharp blade and sent it back to them as it pierced through their heart onto the floor thereby expanding from behind bursting through other vital organs internally like a raging virus, going in a molecular form piercing through cells, to stop Xenic cell regeneration and division, it was like a crystal as it fades into bright lightened saw dust having this gas like feature, as it faded, the suspended soldiers leaning on the sharp blade fell down to the floor lifeless.

More soldier came at her some being able to fly, flew up to her as she catches their punches and their kicks, chattering their limbs, breaking their bones, the parts she came in contact with; going into close combat with some which proved a bit of resilience, and ended up hating why they did that as they were given an even more dreadful death than the others… there were others shooting arrows from high walls, coupled with Xenic energy… Eliza stared at them and made that entire place combust into flames, burning them entirely, it was indeed a rapid fire that could melt steel instantly in less than a second. As people fled for their lives, embarking on quick evacuation, she rendered all the fighters useless… slaughtering them one by one after she took enough she landed on the ground, more charging towards her with weapons moving at a speed that made her a bit visible, she charged after them touching their forehead as they burst into flesh and bright light, the flesh faded into Xenic energy, this was done by expending a huge amount of energy that one regular Xenian presumed to be powerful could contain: this amount of energy was forced through them as they exploded from the inside in response of excessive intake.

She made sure none of the soldiers were left. All these destructions were done in less than five minutes… after she finished with them, she charged after the civilians killing majority of the men and some women she found hatred in… "Who is that" Emperor Valack asked…

"Attacker is described to be a woman with her hair as white as snow…" the head commander answered…

"The Empress… you let… The Empress live, I thought she was killed in the explosion… how come she is alive" said one of the highly ranked soldiers, perhaps a general.

Valack looked up staring from a distance at Elizabeth causing a lot of destruction

"So, the rumors were true… She's an Alderic, she survived the blast… I'm sorry but we've awakened the sleeping raging beast… I am sorry Elizabeth… I am sorry my people…"

Across distance afar, far away from the kingdom, you could hear people screaming, shouting, pleading as Elizabeth slaughters them in pure rage. Valack then slammed his palm against each other and then opened them as some form of blue energic force field emerges from his palm thereby spreading across the entire empire's quarter, immediately some specific soldiers and people began disappearing one by one, Elizabeth stopped to watch them vanish… she then flew up to get a better view… staying at an hawk's eye view above, the soldiers kept on launching attacks towards her as she remained in that position to realize what was going on, the attacks were hitting her like tiny needles, they were somewhat painless to her.

Finally, she spotted Valack, and said…

"Valack, you are the one… you placed a marking on them, so you could summon them… I knew this was your technique…" she immediately flew towards him in attempt to grab him by the arm but Valack seeing her coming towards him immediately opened a portal behind him and said in Latin…

"Oculus pro oculo, anima pro anima, sit ut iterum conveniamus, Lady Eliza"

Meaning…

'an eye for an eye, soul for a soul… may we meet again, Lady Eliza' and then as Elizabeth came so close about grabbing him, Valack stared at Eliza in the eye, with the look depicting out, 'I am not scared of you' as he smirked and scoffed… Elizabeth was only able to grab a piece of his cloth while watching he get away… all these happened in less than a second… as everyone was frozen while Elizabeth sowed through the air towards Valack. The moment Elizabeth stopped with that force and speed, landing on the floor with Valack's piece of cloth in her hands, with that inertia, there was this loud sound like a super sonic boom that was as a result of that instantaneous stop, it tossed everything weak away from that region like a form of wind, making cracks to walls.

She stood there staring at the cloth, while depreciating from the high Aura she was recently on, the energy she was emitting slowly died down, as her hair changes back to the usual color thereby dropping down to its rest after floating above her… while the few soldiers around about twenty of them out of ten thousand excluding the cowardice ones that made use of their ability to flee away, the twenty cornered her in an intent to attack, yes, they were hesitant and sort of resilient, they knew she could end her without them taking another blink, but they still kept on coming. Elizabeth stared at them and said…

"So, this is what's left… what have I done? What have you made me do…" she said... staring at the entire surrounding, as the image of the impaled soldiers of Arcadia flashed into her head… she grunted and growled holding her head, like the memory came with this heavy pain like an headache, she fell on her knees and spat out blood… you may think this was as a result of her burning that much energy, but no, not true… she began crying… while bowing her head, placing both of her hands on the floor…

"You are all inhuman, inimical creatures… you are fiends… look what you made me do… it can never be undone… you see wars only bring death and destruction… yes, carnage is its offspring, so many lives taken… so many souls… hatred is born, regrets that prompts more carnage arises in terms of your dissatisfaction and just when you hope to stop, you're corrupted by greed… wanting to always be the winner… now my friends go live your lives, go have fun okay, you still got some, not all is taken from you, you still have who to return to, my people were all wrecked, my family gone… I am all that is left of Arcadia, so go"

She cried in agony and then stared at them, still seeing them still intending to attack.

That moment the soldiers mistook her cry for weakness and so that as an opportunity to behead her… one of them ran up to her, and ended regretting as she held him by the hand twisting it three sixty degrees around, braking his bones as he screams in pain, she did not want kill him, but another one came again as she touch his forehead without hesitation, it was like she sent in some kind if sharp crystal into his head, as it nears the brain, the crystal quickly spread into more sharp one like a spreading cancerous cell, piercing his brain from hundreds of directions, she then looked at the rest and her eyes glowed blue as they all fell unconscious. This was done by some serious energy manipulation. She simply used their energy against them.

"All those hiding, I know where you are, you can come out now" she announced.

She immediately gasped in surprise, she turned to left, she was like she heard something…

"There is a survivor, I can hear a something moving" she immediately ran from there towards Arcadia instantly. When she got there, she immediately went to the palace region to the direction she could hear the sound coming from… she began looking everywhere as the movement causing the sound stops. She could immediately sense the sound because she had her ears on Arcadia the entire time, if you could visualize her fighting earlier, you would see that majority of the times the enemies attacked her, she tried to maintain a single position except otherwise, so she could listen attentively.

The sound came again, this time she spotted the exact direction, as she turned to that direction slowly… taking desperate and suspenseful steps, as she walked towards from afar about a hundred meter away, she began running hastily, this time at a normal human speed… as she raced across towards the direction of the sound, taking another step, she then stepped on something. She took a look at what she stepped on, slowly raising up her foot, she saw a half skeletal but partly dried flesh of an arm, from the elbow to the palm, she stared closely and noticed there was this golden bracelet blended with little touch of diamond, covered with ashes giving a vague appearance, she squatted to get a clearer view, the bracelet was around the wrist of the arm. From the looks of things, it was the bracelet Empress Eliza had given to Commander Christine when she was nine years old as a gift… it also has a small vaguely crested symbol of fire, darkness and light by its side, the three dragons, one red, the other black and the last white. "What really happened here, this is Christine's" she said… She removed the bracelet from the wrist and kept it in a pouch, as she resists crying out. She then sited something else golden within the palm of the arm enclosed tightly… Elizabeth opened the it and saw the necklace she had given to Sebastian five years ago. "Sebastian…" she said as she cried softly… she quickly picked up the necklace and wrapped it around her wrist. She then noticed that same movement that drew her back… there was this black figure, a human like figure, it was giving this shaking movement like it were alive. She drew closer to it and noticed it looked familiar…

"Lugard, is that you?" she asked as she came closer and touched it, it was actually Lugard… but the burnt version of him, don't get your hopes high, he was stone dead squatting like he was covering or protecting something, it was like in form of ashes… the hard kind though. He was totally burnt beyond recognition. Normally, someone like him supposed to have healed instantly, same as most of the soldiers that got burnt and a mere fire or explosion shouldn't be a big deal, but for some reasons that channel was blocked.

Eliza noticed he was protecting something, since he was backing her and squatted like he was covering something… she pushes it to the side, thereby revealing what was behind. It was Sebastian. He was still alive, still breathing. "Oh, my goodness, Sebastian… what have they done to you"

She burst into tears, Sebastian was completely burnt at his other half. The left part of his body was burnt beyond recognition, while the right was untouched, but he was still alive… he was in his final moment as his heartbeat slowly diminishes. He was slowly breathing… Elizabeth tears off the right part of his shirt immediately, she placed the tip of her five fingers of her left-hand on his chest as she passed Xen energy into him resulting to the tip of her finger glowing bright, alongside with the veins and other blood vessels. Around that region she placed her fingers was the brightest.

"This won't hold him for long, I can't lose you… I can't, you are all I've got. What should I do… what should I do?" she appeared restless, her heart pounded… she began panting really hard like she was having a panic attack. Suddenly there were flashes of memories… the image of the people of Arcadia flashed into her head. "What is this?" she held her head with her right hand as more disturbing memories flashes in...

FLASHBACK MEMORIES…

"What is it son" Elizabeth said...

"why are you awake"... there were vague voices in the background, people screaming in pain and agony…

"Help… please help… no!... please don't, we surrender…"

In these memory… blood splashes on the wall, there were these beings, whether humans or something else, it was not revealed. They were tearing people apart, slaughtering them and deriving great pleasure in doing it, they laughed, they chuckled… they smiled, smirked as they enjoyed the moment… their appearance was vague in Elizabeth's memory…

Suddenly, she saw herself emerging from the shadows with her hands covered with blood…

"you killed him… same as the others… you are no different from the rest"… leaving that, more memories of the people of Arcadia dying beforehand, only displaying them dying and not the killers… some being stabbed in the throat and then suspended up with a spear.

Elizabeth looked surprised saying this in this memory… "Sebastian are you okay?" ….

"Mother, you are leaving?" he asked. Elizabeth then went away with that feeling thinking it could just be some sort of dispensable feeling… she then replied

"What are doing here, you're supposed to be in bed, go to bed son" …

"Mother, I'm scared, I can hear voices of them… they are screaming, can you save them… you have to save them… its getting louder… I can hear their voice" Sebastian said covering his ears and crying out loud.... there was this distortion in the memories flashing in, showing other ones… one picturing a rapid explosion coving up Sebastian.

"Mom, what if you don't make it, or maybe we all perish before your return, what if…" Elizabeth then cuts in… "Sebastian don't say that, okay, don't say such a thing, we are all going to be fine…

"Mom, I've been having this dream… mom don't go, don't leave me, stay, stay with me" Sebastian said bursting into tears hugging his mother, as he sobs on her shoulder, "Sebastian, I would always be with you, stop crying, be strong, you don't stare deeply at your past and let it overwhelm you, you use it to make amendments, you learn from it, use it to make you stronger… take this…" she then takes off the necklace always dangling on around her neck, and she puts it on Sabastian's neck

"Take this necklace, it will keep you safe, it signifies 'self', it has those symbols you always find on the wall of each lobby in the palace and sacred places of the kingdom, Fire, Darkness and Light, is the symbol, it is a symbol of peace with the mind, with this, you would always feel my presence, I would always be with you… now go to bed okay" she kisses his forehead.

BACK TO REALITY….

Some of the forceful memories were part of when Sebastian came to her after the last meeting looking all stressed out, while some were some long lost memories.

"So, he dreamt of this moment, I felt it when I touched him… he came to me looking like he lived through horrible pain and events for like a thousand years… I won't let that nightmare be your reality, I will save you son, I won't let you die, even if it cost my life, I can't lose any of my family again, I have lost too many, it is enough… no more death"

"But it is deadly, it'd be a risk" Elizabeth said...

(WHISPER) 'use it… make use of it… use the…' It had this whispering distorted voice, a voice sounding so persuasive.

"No, shut up, don't tell me… never…"

(WHISPER again) 'use it, its all you have to save your son or you want another soul added to your burden, you want a plus one corpse… use it'

"Shut up…" Elizabeth yells angrily and frustrated

"Shut up, you fiend… this isn't you… this isn't me"

(WHISPER) 'you call me fiend and welcome me when you needed me, we are alive because of me, I saved us… you call me fiend, who is the true demon"

The 'mind utterance' flashes images of her slaughtering those people from the rival empire… they were screaming in pain.

(WHISPER) 'you see, you are your demon… we are one' the voice echoes and fades away. This was like Elizabeth talking to herself, yelling at herself.

"I have to use it"

She said stretching her hand and then the box she previously had on her back came by as she caught it, she controlled it to her location.

"I am going to save you son… "I have to use the weapon"

"I have to activate the most feared weapon…"

TO BE CONTINUED...