Shadow Beings

59. The Daunting Being

I gulped as I heard loud gasps around me, silence deepening with the increasing expressions of shock and bewilderment. A solemn aura took away the peace from the atmosphere and yet Jay's smile didn't waver once. Amidst the tension a comforting silence remained, perhaps brought by the calming breeze that blew through the forest. I closed my eyes, feeling free of all the weight pulling me down.

Suddenly, the blistering cold hit my face, sending a shiver through my body. My eyes were wide open, alert, and I slowly turned towards Jay. His gaze was still at the sky, the profound light in his eyes seeming as if they experienced something beyond the space above, and a sense of quiet propagated from him.

"What do you mean," Theo asked in a low tone, his voice shaky., "brother?" I noticed Jack standing behind Theo and Jonathan, holding Iris safely in his hands, a worried expression was now on his face.

The grating laugh filled the atmosphere once again. "That's your leader, keeping secrets from you."

"No," I said, shaking my head. "it was no secret. You blocked the information from him, and he only learned this a year ago. Someone made him forget the information, then gave it back to him quite recently."

"I never blocked anything."

"Stop." Evelyn raised her hand, her forehead wrinkled and her eyes narrowed. She was oddly calm, her presence as if stopping a chaotic wind. "What is going on?"

Jay looked towards me, giving me a reassuring nod. Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath and began speaking.

"Three millenia ago, three spheres of energy were formed. They were the 'children' of an entity of the Shadow Dimension, whom we refer to as Triyeal.

"These three were also different entities: The Angelic entity, The Shadow entity, and the Demonic entity. All three of them were to be born together three millennia ago, holding the ability of mind-control, although it's a little different than what we have. It's not an ability as they have all the power in the world, so they can really see through anything. Their bodies limit that power and manifest it into this. The three entities came down to the physical world to oppose a fourth entity that was spreading chaos. It was the time for the Shadow Beings and thus all of the living to be guided into a world of change."

I stopped for a moment, looking at everyone around me. They hung onto each and every word of mine.

Auras rife with anxiety. Fragments of curiosity, sorrow and realisation.

With a deep breath, I continued speaking.

"However, all those years ago
something interfered - that fourth entity - which I don't understand fully. On the day of the three entities' birth, 18th February, only the demonic entity was born. This fourth entity blocked the Angel and the Shadow, postponing the breaking of their energy spheres, their birth to the late twentieth century."

"The fourth entity was once very powerful but our ancestors hindered his energy, making our... work easier." The air around trilled hauntingly, a wave of nostalgia and melancholy calming that desolate aura, perhaps coming from those entities. "It feeds on the Demonic entity's power and now is in control of most of it.

"Whom we know as the Demon Lord Vlad is actually a being of two entities in one body. The change we want today is the change that actually should've come three millennia ago. The Demonic entity is in Vlad, but it isn't the one that controls the individual Vlad.

"The Shadow-Trapper entity is our leader, Jay, and the Angelic entity was my mother, Pranetra."

Silence filled the air and I quietly sighed in relief. Slowly, I moved my head around to see everyone's expression, their eyes fixated on me. Everyone's expressions, even Galen's shock was something I wasn't surprised at. But the look of bewilderment on Jack's face made me feel guilty. His eyes widened in astonishment, his expression still soft somehow. I tried to look for the little boy who'd always pester me to play music, the cheeky and shy boy who'd do anything for his loved ones. The naughty boy who would trouble our parents day and night along with Holly. But, all I saw on his face was a man, shocked at the truth about his mother and even his sister, probably. I searched his eyes for anger, frustration, anything a normal person would feel.