Chapter 82
Chapter 82
leading them out the blood covered John seemed emotionless, Ash couldn't figure out at all what was going though his mind but never expected the kind of scene she had just witnessed.
"Elena seal this entire building with roots and sink it as low as you can, get that earth bender to help if you must but I want it as deep down to hell as you 2 can send it. Ash, Alice could you both go to the study? Its private and somewhere I should be able to find you once I finish a small talk with Z. I, I need to think for a little bit and see if they have something that could help." He tells the pair. Alice with her fake smile gives a small salute and begins to walk away to the study as she was told but Ash lingered for a moment longer.
"John what was that! What made you snap like that? What's happened to Alice?" A clear unease and worry lacing her tone with hints of fear.
"Please, just go be by her for now, I will explain everything later, but right now I need to fix this, I have to make this all right, I have to help her. Please, just, just give me a bit of time." He tells her in a breaking voice filled with sadness and pain. With a small nod and a look telling him she wants her answers later Ash reluctantly left to the study as well not seeing the few tears slowly forming and falling from his eyes.
John now alone allowed a few tears to flow before wiping them and making his way out to find Z, they had to have something that could help, and if they didn't surly, they could think of something or find something, anything to help fix Alice, no matter what it may cost him.
With his determination now burning he rushed out the underground to where Z was last only to be greeted by a weird sight, standing infront of Z was another slightly shorter cloaked figure, there hood down and 2 long pigtails hanging down with their tops almost touching the ground handing a large bag over to Z.
As if feeling his gaze the figure turned to face him, there soft young girly features were contrasted by the impossibly wide smile stretching past there ears and the many many razor sharp looking teeth which a long tongue slowly slid across, they didn't remain long though, after giving a wink to John they seemed to zip open the air next to them and pass through to somewhere leaving only Z up ahead infront of him.
"Wha! What are you doing here? I thought I was supposed to be alone here! Look forget anything you saw and I'll-"Z began to say, slightly panicked but John quickly cut them off.
"I saw nothing and you will be getting 45% of the total earnings that magically showed up when the people disappeared, but I'm not here about that. Rather I want a healing potion, or a reverser, something that can turn a person back into their original race." He tells Z and quickly explains things only to be met with silence afterwards.
"I, sorry but I don't think its possible, if things have reached that level and although its not completed and still in progress there isn't a way to undo it, even if she where to be killed and brought back which would cost a fortune she would be returned in the same state she's currently in, the few things and ways that could do what you ask would kill her through there side effects or result in things being worse for her." Z finally said, there tone even well synthesized sounding heavy shattering what hope he had left.
"Here, ill give you 65% percent of the profit from my trade, and I'll throw in 10 free draws to the ones you have yet to do." The add causing John to look at them with hollow empty eyes and asking about some items, his request taking Z by surprise but slowly they nodded and exchanges where made.
Entering the study John told Ash he would be taking Alice out for a bit, that he would be back after it had gotten dark but to keep the place going well and protected in his place, before she could even ask what he was planning or why he had already ordered Alice to follow him and quickly left, leaving Ash even more worried than before, Johns tone sounded broken and defeated, she liked it to a protagonist who had just lost there purpose and reasons for living or like when Luffy lost Ace, or Whitebeards last stand, that was the type of feeling she had just gotten from John.
It was a long walk in silence for the pair, John didn't say single word and Alice just trailed along, he couldn't bear to even look at her, feeling pain and anger at himself each time he saw that forced smile.
Eventually they came to a run down house, some walls where broken and it was visibly on the verge of crumbling, slowly he led her inside to ravaged and destroyed remains of what was once a nice looking bedroom.
With a small sad smile he turned to Alice as he sat on the remains of what was once a bed. "I don't suppose you remember this place, do you?" He asked, tears in his eyes as he was visibly breaking and in pain looking at her.
Blinking for the first time in a long while she looked around and tilted her head to the side before shaking it no. "I don't remember, should I? Is this some kind of important room? Or am I supposed to do something for you in here?" She asks in a far to calm tone, her smile once bright now so fake and hollow it caused more pain to John.
Reaching into his pocket John took out 2 small bottles and put them on the floor before taking out a strange cube, and placing it in the centre of the room, pressing the top caused a flash as the room seemed to change, as if time ran in reverse the walls became clean and pristine, the bed looked new and comfortable, a chair next to it and a small nightstand at its side and everything seeming darker as if night had fallen, faint moonlight coming through the window. It was the room that Alice and John had slept in the first night together after the entire world had changed.