Fusion

"You're hybrids." Andrea had just said.

That would have rang a lot in Jake's head if he knew what a hybrid was. He got the general idea but what exactly was a hybrid in this context. "What do you mean we're hybrids?" he asked.

"You two are not entirely human." Andrea said. "You are both a human and a melynx."

"What the hell is a melynx?" Sky asked. He was looking better by the second and soon it would be as though nothing ever happened to him.

"It is a race of people that uses only energy just the way humans now use magic." Andrea explained. "The purple energy you both can use is because you are both part melynx. And you get your melynx side from me. I am a full melynx."

Jake received a system notification and was wondering what it would be at the moment.

[Species update of user: Hybrid]

'So that's what that was.' Jake thought. 'Ever since he got the system it had a species attribute which always showed [Human*] and not just [Human]. Jake had always thought of what that could mean but now he finally understood it. The system could already tell Jake was not full human from the first day he got it.

"Did my mom know about this?" Sky asked.

"No Sky. She didn't know." Andrea answered.

"What about mine? Did she know?" Jake asked.

"Yes Jake. My energy got taken away from me and I've been trying to get it back since then." Andrea said. "I got so engrossed in trying to find a way to regain my energy that I lost focus of what actually mattered in my life. I told her everything when she said she could not tolerate my behaviour anymore and that is when your mom and I got separated. She never understood why I needed to get my energy back so desperately."

"So this bastard that bragged about killing our moms," Jake said, "do you know him? What he said about you killing his wife is that true?"

"I don't know him." Andrea said. "But what he said about me killing his wife might be true."

"'Might be true'?" Sky said then looked straight at Andrea. "You don't know?"

"Let me explain. When I was on Vaxoryn – that's the planet we Melynxs come from – I was banished because I fell in love with the wrong person. I can not begin to explain all of our ways right now but my punishment for doing what I did was banishment."

"You were punished for falling in love?" Jake asked.

"Yes. By someone everyone refers to as the Master – my father."

"Your father banished you for falling in love with 'the wrong person'?" Sky asked. "Sorry but I think we need some context in with this 'wrong person' stuff."

"Alright. We're called Regals on Vaxoryn. And then there are non-regals. We are part of the Xendor bloodline which your assailant already told you." he said to Sky. "I was the chief of the Xendor bloodline and I fell in love with a non-regal which is practically a crime and I was banished for that."

"But that's stupid." Jake said. "What kind of law is that?"

"I started a fight in the castle of the Master and I fought a lot of guards. I don't know if I killed some or not because that was the least of my worries when I was fighting for my unborn child and it's mother.

"My brother Lumian is the one who ordered that your mothers be killed. And he also kept my daughter from me all these years."

"You have a daughter?" Sky and Jake said at the same time in surprise.

"I only found out when I went to Vaxoryn recently to find out what I could about where Jake was. She would have come back with me but we were attacked by others in the same clan as the person that attacked the both of you."

"Are you talking about the Aramante?" Anna asked.

She and Rheya had been standing to the side quietly and had just been listening to the conversation but Anna had finally said something. She recalled Veer mentioning something about Aramante when he first attacked and she fought him.

"Yes." Andrea replied. "There are a lot more where he came from and now she is trapped there. Lumian is not going to let her go."

"If he's your brother, that means he's our uncle. He's also an uncle to this so-called sister of ours." Sky said. "Why is he doing all of this to his own family?"

"I'm not too sure myself but if I was to take a guess, his overambition and maybe the jealousy he feels towards me. Lumian has always wanted more power than he had and he is willing to do anything to get it. Including betraying his own flesh and blood."

"So let's go stop this guy." Jake said. "He might be our uncle but apparently he's not a very fun one."

"Hold on a sec." Sky said. "Earlier you gave the impression that you knew why I don't seem to have any magic in me but obviously I still do."

"Yes. The Melynxs don't simply want both of you because you can use both magic and energy. Normally, hybrids are extremely rare but what is even rarer is when the magic and energy in the hybrid fuse together and become one. The hybrid no longer has magic or energy. It is a combination which massively increases the strength of both the magic and energy." Andrea explained elaborately.

"So that's why Sky's magic became stronger?" Jake asked. "Because of this fusion thing?"

"Yes. I also had my suspicions that it was what was causing him the excruciating pain he felt before. I only confirmed it now."

"You've been lying to us our entire lives." Sky said. "Both of our mothers were killed and you knew who was behind it yet you said nothing!" he yelled and stood to his feet.

"I was protecting you both." Andrea said. "None of us could have done anything and they could have taken you too but I made a deal with them."

"You made a deal with the people who killed my mother?!" Sky exclaimed. The house was beginning to shake and the equipments in the house that were made from metal had also started vibrating.

"Sky, calm down." Andrea said, also standing up and looking around at the rumbling house.

"Don't tell me to calm down!" Sky shouted. "I spent every night thinking about my mom and how someone took her from us. Just for you to tell me you made a deal with the people responsible for it?" His eyes were slowly getting filled with purple energy.

"What should I have done!?" Andrea yelled back. "I was protecting you and Jake."

"Sky, calm down." Jake said, going to stand in between Andrea and Sky. "Look at me." he said to Sky and turned his face away from Andrea. "Calm down. At this rate you're gonna bring this house down."

Sky looked at Jake then turned away and raised his foot up before bringing it down hard on a couch. He released the energy that had built up in him through his leg and the couch bursted open then the energy stopped when it penetrated the ground by a few inches.

Jake was angered by the whole situation but he was still strangely calm about everything. Sky was usually the cool-headed one who just couldn't be bothered but the subject of his mother's death was obviously very upsetting for him. Maybe Jake was calm because he had somewhat spoken to his mother through whatever it was Rheya had done to him when they first met.

"I get why you did what you did." Jake said to Andrea. "But it doesn't mean what you did was right. What kind of a deal did you make with this people?"

"They were not to interfere with your lives until you were both eighteen." Andrea answered.

"And after that?" Sky asked. "What is supposed to happen after that?"

"There's no telling what is going to happen but it will not happen." Andrea said. "I haven't completed what I've been working but it's ready. And you two are so much stronger than you were."

"So let's go say hi to our uncle and teach him a lesson." Jake said. "I wasn't able to do anything to Veer when he first showed up. Thanks to Miss Anna I'm still here and Sky killed him already. But this Lumian guy is not getting away since he's the mastermind behind my mother's death."

"I understand you both want to go to Vaxoryn right now." Andrea said. "Believe me, I do too. But even with your current strength you're both not strong enough to stop Lumian."