Chapter 19 - Darkness is coming

Part 19 - Darkness is coming

Azaria. "There is one more thing you must know."

Chloe. "Yes mom."

Azaria. "When we cured him we found a way to deactivate or block the crimson light completely, but it's not a cure. Just a temporary block.

Chloe. "You mean the chip in his brain or the new collar we are busy designing for him? Neither is a valid option to use unless really needed. "

Azaria. "No, nothing like that. Let me show you."

She then shows me his energy scans, there is no sign of the crimson light energy, just his blue light energy.

Chloe. "How is that possible?"

My mom takes the crystal out of its case. "This, it blocks it completely."

Chloe. "But how? "

Azaria. "The crystal is made of pure blue light, but look at this." She shows me the data collected on his blue light energy before and then she shows me the data collected a few minutes ago."

Chloe. "Doesn't make sense. How does this work?"

What my mom showed me was shocking, normally his blue light energy is already very high, already much stronger then any being in existence, but the moment the crystal is near him it sky rockets, our scanners count goes up till it just shows an error and a warning "energy signature off the charts."

Azaria. "And this is his brain waves since we brought him out."

Chloe. "I'm confused, his light side is completely predominant and the dark waves is almost completely dormant. Why can't we use the crystal to cure him?"

Azaria, "that is what Krish is looking into, but as I said it will still take a long time."

Chloe. "But why does the crystal affect him like that, but nobody else?"

Azaria. "Remember he found the crystal, it's like him and the crystal are connected. "

Chloe. "That makes sense. "

Azaria. "Why so?"

Chloe. "He could never use crimson light on earth, even after he discovered his blue light, and the crimson light only really becomes predominant when he thinks I'm in danger or when he becomes angry, but it's never manifested as long as the crystal was near him, it only started to show after we gave you the crystal and you took it to site 0 for safe keeping, but how close does it has to be to him in order to affect him?"

My mother smiles at me, "from what Krish has already found, it's effect on him has a range that extends to the edge of a solar system. "

Chloe. "That helps, because I can't exactly take it home with me, but don't you think he will suspect something is going on?"

Azaria. "He definitely will, but I doubt he will realize what it is, and with the dark waves inactive I don't think it would bother him. But you are right, I will keep the crystal in a safe place where only myself and Krish can access it. "

Chloe. "Thank you mom. But what about his memory? And we still don't know where he went."

Azaria. "There is something you need to see, I did look into his memories and I completely removed his memory from the moment you guys got home so the memories in the simulation will appear real. "

Chloe. "Thank you for doing this for us. But what do you want to show me?"

Azaria. "His memories of what happened, but be warned, you will see, feel and experience everything he went through. "

I think for a bit, but I know that my mother won't show me unless it is important.

I nod at her and the next moment everything goes dark.

Inside Sin's memories.

I woke up with Chloe sleeping in my arms and I get up to get a glass of water, it is still dark outside and I noticed that I have only slept for 2 hours.

I go and sit in the living room and close my eyes and the next moment I'm with Azaria and Chloe with other people in what seems to be a control room, it shows images of different parts of the planet, everywhere Seleons are running for their lives and I see soldiers coming down from the jump ships and lander running out and firing into the shadows, but then the shadows grow and as it gets closer to them that's when I make it out, it's not shadows, it's shadow creatures, but the weapons are ineffective against them. I hear Azaria's voice ordering the soldiers to drop their weapons and use only blue light energy, they immediately follow through, it then shows other images of the rest of her people blasting blue light at the creatures, it seems to work and kill the creatures but they keep coming, eventually everyone gets overloaded and when the creatures get to then I see them ripping her people apart, you can hear people crying and screaming in pain.

That's when the room started to form shadows everywhere, I hear Azaria order everyone to stand their ground and they form a circle in the middle of the room, I can see Azaria, Krish, Chloe, Zoe, the twins, and other Seleons stand together, I fly up into the air and fire at the beings with crimson light, but it has no effect, that's when I switch to blue light, as I switch the whole room lights up, and it pushes the shadows back, but then it comes in more aggressively, we all fight for our lives, but eventually we get overwhelmed and the creatures pin me to the ceiling and I see how they pin everyone else to the walls, that's when one appears in-front of me. "Do you remember me?"

I immediately recognize the creature from the prison cell, the one that set me free.

"You were supposed to feed us, but you stopped, now we will take everything from you, everyone who pulled you from the darkness. You will be alone and you will suffer. "

Then the creature were gone and I saw how they ripped everyone to pieces, I could hear their screams, hear their cries, and when they were done the brought my daughter in and they brought her and Chloe to the middle of the room and dropped me on the floor, as I looked up at them I could see the fear in their eyes, both crying, both my wife and daughter begging me to help them, but I can't move, I look at them to see the creatures slowly pull them apart.

That is when I woke up, their final screams echoing in my ears.

I know what I have to do, I won't kill again, but I'm not letting this happen to my people.

I look out the window and I see it's morning already.

I know if I do this I might not come back alive, but if my people are safe then it's a prize worth paying.

So I prepare Chloe the best breakfast I can, it took a while to prepare, then I take a shower and get dressed, and I go and sit next to Chloe, just looking at her, the woman I love, no matter how much I look at her, she just becomes more beautiful by the second, every time I see her it feels like the first time I'm looking at this beautiful woman, she is so vulnerable and she needs to be protected.

I allow myself to feel every bit of love I have for her and I can feel my feelings for her growing. I know if I fail that this might be the last time I ever see her. But I'm not allowing her to get hurt.

She eventually wakes up and looks up at me, she smiles at me and I give her a kiss, I show her her breakfast and she wants to know if I'm not joining her, but I tell her I got something to do and I will see her in an hour, as I prepare to jump to the shadow planet where I know these beings live I can feel my crimson light energy surround me, and in a flash the room is gone and I'm standing in the ugliest world I've ever seen, everything is black, dry a hot, I hear screeching in the distance and I can make out that there are millions of these creatures heading my way.

I immediately power down my crimson energy and let go of my anger and I focus on all my love, all the love I have for Chloe and towards each one of our family and friends, I focus on my vision and on the love her people have and as I close my eyes and feel all that love I can feel my blue light growing, it eventually got so bright that I can see it through my eyelids, I open my eyes and I immediately create a blue light based armor for myself. My entire body is covered in blue and white armor. The blue light lights up the entire area as well as the sky, the creatures stopped approaching me now, they are avoiding touching the blue light.

I know if I don't wipe each and everyone of them out my family will die, I once again close my eyes and I see Chloe infront of me, her beautiful face, her eyes, her smile.

I open my eyes, it's time. I fly up into the air and once I'm high enough to get a clear view I stop and I look around me, I can see the swarms moving, stretching out as far as the eye can see.

They can't enter the blue light, the moment they touch it it destroys them, I don't know the size of this planet, but I know I will have to clear the entire planet of them.

I take a final look around, that's when I go into blue light speed, I immediately fly in one direction right around the planet blasting a nonstop stream of blue light out of my hands, the circle of light around me. Everything around me is completely frozen, I'm moving so fast that the creatures are frozen in place and after a few minutes and flying around the planet a few times there is no shadows left. I fly around a few more times and check every hole and crack I can find and nothing left, this planet has been cleansed. My people are safe.

I land as I need to switch to crimson light to go home. I know that it will take me a few minutes as I need to feel the right emotions in order to use it. As I land and my blue light fades completely it goes dark around me, than I heard his voice, the creature from the prison, the one from my vision. "You killed all my children, damn you, my entire kind wiped out in mere seconds? How? "

But before I can answer I feel a sting, a burn in my back and immediately my entire body feels like it's on fire, I look around as I hear the creature also scream in pain just to see him vanish into the weapon he just stabbed me with.

I knew I might die here, but not like this, I can feel my strength fading fast, my vision blurring, my body already burning up. I summon my last bit of energy and in a flash I can see Chloe in-front of me, but my vision is fading. And then there is nothing, I can hear Chloe screaming, calling for help, after a while I hear other people enter the room, I can hear them talking and then moving me.

After a while I feel a burn and I can feel the blade been removed from my back.

Then I hear voices in a distance.

I try to open my eyes, but I can't, I can't move, I'm thirsty, so thirst, even a drop of water would be better then anything right now, my body is on fire, every part of me is burning, the pain is unbearable, and it's just getting worse, I can feel my heart beating out of my chest, it's beating so fast that it feels like my entire body is shaking.

I try to ignore the pain, I force my mind back to Chloe, to the good memories.

Azaria. "That's everything until you guys uploaded him into the simulation.

I feel like I want to cry, "he knew this might happen and he still went, why didn't he just speak to me first?"

Azaria. "He knew you would try to stop him."

Chloe. "I would."

Azaria. "What he saw was a warning and he acted out of love and selflessness, he prevented the destruction of our world, and once again saved countless life."

Chloe. "Yes, and he won't ever know."

Azaria. "It's best that he doesn't, the pain you felt in the memory was nothing compared to what he really felt, if he remembers it will destroy him. "

Chloe. "Okay mom, but we can't keep messing with his memories forever. We both know that it will eventually fracture his mind."

Azaria. "I know. But we are doing this to project him. "

Doctor. "We are preparing to transfer him, he should only wake up in about 4 hours."

Azaria. "We will talk again, go be with him."

I give my mom a hug and I leave.

I get home to find that Zoe and the twins already made sure everything matches the last night in the simulation, everything must look exactly the way we left it the night we went to bed. The medical team places him in our bed and they give a a few instructions and leave. So I run around removing his clothes and then I take mine off and get in bed next to him, it's about another 2 hours till he wakes up and the girls are all back in their rooms, I finally fall asleep to wake up with him laying next to me smiling at me.

Chloe. "What are you looking at?"

Sin. "My beautiful wife."

I just smile.

Sin. "I dreamed about us."

Then I got worried. "What did you dream?"

Sin, "I dreamed we went to that beach on earth that you always said you wanted to visit and we had the most amazing time together."

Chloe. "Would you like to tell me what we did?"

Sin. "How about I show you?"

Before I can answer he starts kissing me again and after about an hour I find myself laying next to him out of breath. "Wow, where did that come from?

Sin. "I just love you."

I can see in his eyes that he really means it and I give him another kiss. "I love you too. Okay we need to get up and shower, the girls must be wondering why we are not out of the room yet. "

Sin. "Oh geez I completely forgot we have guests, how much did I drink last night?"

Chloe. "I think we all went a bit over board last night, specially Zoe."

Sin. "When doesn't she? That one loves to party. "

Chloe. "That she does. But she works hard, so she deserves to party hard."

Sin "good point."

We both take a shower together while we continue our conversation.

Chloe. "So I was thinking.."

Sin. "Here it comes."

Chloe. "You don't even know what I was going to say."

Sin. "You want the girls to move in with us."

I gasp, he knew what I wanted to say.

Chloe. "How did you know?"

Sin. "I know you and I saw how you enjoy having them around."

Chloe. "I know you and the twins have a history since they tried to kill you and all, but that.."

Sin. "Wasn't them." Finishing my sentence for me.

We got out of the shower and as we get dressed and ready we continue talking.

Sin. "I think it's a great idea, you need friends and female company, and the twins are fine, I know it wasn't their fault. "

Chloe. "Thank you. Are you going to tell them or should I?"

Sin. "Your kids, you tell them."

I laugh.

We leave the room to find them waiting for us, they all whistle at us.

Zoe. "Someone had a great morning wake up call. "

I blush, "how did you know?"

Crystal. "You are pretty noisy."

Now I blush even more, she's right, I am pretty noisy. "Yeah yeah."

Christine. "It's okay, we are happy for you guys. You look really happy."

Sin. Putting his arm around my waste, "thank you, yes we are. " kissing me on the cheek.

We then take a seat and Zoe brings us coffee, and I decide to get straight to the point, "so kids." Laughing at the joke. "We need to talk."

Zoe. "Kids? You do know we all went through the procedure even before Sin did. "

Chloe. "True. But let me finish, we have been talking and we decided to ask if you girls want to...."

But Zoe interrupts me.

Zoe. "Yes, we would love to move in with you guys."

I look at her and narrow my eyes.

Christine. "She was eves dropping at your door. "

Chloe. "Zoe, really? "

Crystal. "She's right, we would be privileged to move in with you guys, thank you. It would be nice to be a family, and living on the ships isn't fun anymore. "

Chloe. "Then it's done, you can stay in your rooms and one more thing Zoe. "

Zoe. "I promise, no more eve's dropping."

Chloe. "Thank you. Feel free to make yourselves at home. Oh and we are thinking of taking a trip to earth, just for a week or so, it's been years since we left, I thought it would be good to visit earth again, who knows? Maybe you girls can meet some of the new hybrids on earth and find love."

Zoe. Immediately runs to her room and comes out with her luggage, "when are we leaving?"

I just laugh at her. "Not so fast, I need to first run it by my mother."

Zoe. "So we are never going." She sits back down.

Chloe. "No, I just need to sort a few things out and then we can go, it should be about 2 days till we leave."

Crystal. "But how will we get there? Your mother won't leave as she's still very busy with the new counsel and stuff."

Chloe. "That's the big surprise, I'm finally getting my own flag ship, it's finished construction a few days ago and will be arriving tomorrow, full crew and everything."

Everyone congratulates me, and cheers.

Anyway my new flag ship is similar to my mothers ship in a lot of ways, but we made a few modifications, since we found out about our new enemies we added additional weapons and space drive technology which will allow us to use slip space to escape a surprise attack till it's safe to jump home. Well all our ships are currently been upgraded, and then we made preparations for if ever Sin goes dark again so we can hold him onboard till we arrive at his new prison, but I hope we never have to use it though.

While he was sedated we have also upgraded the implant in his brain with additional features, but all on that later.

I know it's risky to take him to earth and if anything goes wrong he will have a buffet there. But he really wants to go to my favorite beach, but at-least now we have the crystal, I just hope my mother will let us take it with.

Well I'm about to go out to see my mother, the girls all left for their duties for the day and Sin will go see his mother, they want to run more scans on him and he is actually happy that there might be a cure for him soon. Seems he does want to be being of light instead of darkness, but only time will tell, and this trip to earth will be a great test for him.