Eliza (Book 1)

.+* Chapter 33 - Baby *+.

Sofia's View:
* Thank you, Miss Sofia.

* Oh sweetheart you can call me Sofia.

* Gaster says otherwise. I have been programmed to protect and honour you, Miss Sofia.

* Make me proud by being resilient and kind.

She was gone. If her soul was still remaining we could've brought her back. It had been a week and today was her funeral. I put Amelia into her pushchair and we went into the real world. We went to the overground and her stone was within a big group of flowers. Grim and Eliza were already here. We placed flowers down.

* I'm so sorry for your loss.
I said, holding Eliza's hand.

Everybody knew Ellie as a creation of Gaster's but only a few people truly knew that she was my idea. A very long time ago I worked for her Gaster and when she was created, I took care of her. When I left her and I promised she'd stay strong.

Stronger than we made her to be.

Eliza smiled at me at me before looking at Amelia. She was fast asleep as usual. I went to Grim, he seemed to be deep in thought. I stood besides him.

* She did well.

"She was too young..."

* She would want us to be happy.

He smiled and faced me.

"You're not wrong."

Eliza came, holding little Amelia. Grim took her into his hands.

* I'll leave you with her for a bit. 🙂

He nodded and turn to face Ellie again. I was walking away towards the others when Grim called my name.

"Sofia, look."

I looked at Amelia and she was starting to open her eyes. We were going to see her eye colour! As a family, we're we're guessing green to go with her soft brown hair. She opened them and looked straight into her uncle's eyes. The others came to see.

"It's not green."

I went to see for myself.

Blue and....black? Both eyes had different colours. But that blue was not an ordinary blue, it was the same blue as one of Grim's eyes. I could tell by his face that he had realised that too.

^ Black? Which family member would that come from?

* Perhaps it's her magic...?

She cried and I picked her up and calmed her down. I was as confused as everyone else. She had a sort of familiar feeling to her but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. We all laid more flowers down for Ellie before heading back home to Grim's house. There I was able to lay Amelia down on a blanket on the floor. She seemed to only look at Grim.

"I don't like her staring at me." He said, staring back at her.

* She's a baby, she's just curious.

She continued to move awkwardly on the fluffy blanket, Aurora sitting to play with her.

Eliza's View:
The room felt empty without but I couldn't just stay miserable. Corn helped me bake some cookies and we all sat down to eat them and chat. I had a heavy work schedule starting the next day so I wanted to take a nap. So I did on the sofa.

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* Magic analysis?
I asked another Eliza. She had decided to bring a whole lot of magic kits. According to her, we will never know our true magic potential if we don't know what abilities we truly possess.

* Well one of us here aren't telling the truth.
It turned out that I wasn't the only Eliza that had just lost her Ellie. All of them had, without a hint. We all reacted in the same way. It happened at the same time, same place. It had to be an 'Eliza'. But none of us could cast a spell that great, or so we thought.

* You might as well just step forward and show yourself.

* It's obviously Swap!Eliza, her Ellie died when she was the only one with her.

* W-W-What?! M-Me?!

Everyone began to argue and I sat still, observing. I cast a silent spell, collecting sample magic from all of us and testing it. One by one they turned around as the results started to show. Everything was normal until it stopped to one.

* You think you're so smart?

It was an Eliza from a recently broken timeline, and boy did she look mad.

* You did this? Why?!

* Because if one Eliza has to suffer, we all do.

She glared at me before blasting my way. I quickly woke up. It was clear she wasn't a fight with to me because I was starting to feel tired again.

Just give into it.
She'll attack you one way or the other.

I couldn't allow it.

^ Everybody ready for some cake?

There was a knock on the door.

* Aunty Eliza, the cake is ready.

* Sure thing Aurora!

I went out of my room and we went downstairs together.

It's only going to get harder to stay awake.

I sat down as Star gave out the pieces of cake. Grim sat besides me, putting his arm around me shoulders.

"You alright?" He asked.

I nodded, keeping as awake as possible. Celeste and Victoria shortly came after. They wanted to meet the baby and check up on everyone.

* Eliza can we talk?

* Sure.

* In private.

We went outside and she sighed.

* I was looking through family files and pictures when I came across this.

She took a document out of her family deaths as well as some old pictures.

* Everybody thought my parents were separated before their deaths, but according to this, they were killed at the exact same times in the exact same way. Magic.

I was zoning in and out...

* Oh, really?

* And in the same areas, a forest not too far from our castle. I went through old security footage and found this.

She gave me the pictures and it showed Celeste along with two men walking into the forest. They had her firmly gripped on her arms and she was practically being forced. You could tell by the tears on her face that she didn't want that.

* I fear she may have seen who and what killed my parents.

Celeste opened the door.