Nielu [REWRITTEN]

16 - Belatrix Laws

Icy blue eyes glance left and right as Ethan takes a step forward, halting at the front door of a cottage. His left hand reaches out to grab the knob and twists it open.

He can see a table surrounded by chairs and a red haired werewolf sitting in one, a brunette sitting across from him laughing loudly. An onyx haired man stands in the kitchen talking to a lilac hooded woman and a smaller teenaged girl with silky black hair and purple/pink armor.

The teen girl turns around, fixating a pair of chocolate brown eyes at him.

"Oh! Hello there!" she smiles.

The red haired werewolf turns his head as does the brunette, only she gasps lightly then shifts her eyes away from him.

"What am I doing here?" Ethan mumbles.

"You are in my dimension, so welcome, Ethan." the lilac hooded woman tells him.

"Irene, right? We've met before. When you gave me your staff to give to my mom." he replies.

She strolls over to him. "Excellent memory, young one. But, you shouldn't be here, is this right Blaze?"

The red haired man moves to get out of his chair and eyes the teen with one blue eye and one green. "How'd you die? Please tell me it wasn't Aaron, Aphmau, or even worse; Daniel."

Ethan shakes his head, grimacing at the thought. "No. My parents would never kill me or my sister."

"Hold up! Who are your parents?"

"Um, Aaron and Aphmau, why?"

"You look nothing like them." Blaze comments.

The eldest Lycan child frowns. "I don't look like them? Maybe you just need your eyesight adjusted." he growls. "Or maybe you've gone blind during your time here."

"I assure you, I'm not blind." the red haired, heterochromia eyed man throws the teen a harsh glare.

Ethan glares back as Irene moves to stand in the middle of the two wolves. "Now, now, you two; ease the fighting. Ethan, however young you are, you don't belong here. You have a life to live and enjoy. So, my daughter here, has something she would like to tell you."

She nudges the onyx haired girl forwards and the armor the girl wears glimmers in the sunlight. "You can either stay here with all of us, or you can go back to the land of the living, whatever you decide will be your fate."

"No shit, I want to live. I can't leave the people I care about like that." he mumbles.

"So you wish to go back?" Irene asks Ethan.

"Yeah. It's like you said, I have a life to live and I'm sure as hell going to do that."

He smiles at her and the goddess sighs. "Very well. But tell me this first, do you believe you deserve your friends and family?"

"Of course I do, why?"

"As we speak, there is evil out there that wish to harm the people you care about deeply. Returning you back there, may worsen it or it may bring a sense of hope." Irene reminds him.

"I know, but I can handle it."

The teen inwardly groans and immediately shouts in pain as he attempts to sit up. Zane turns his body around as he, Nana, and Nico all race towards him.

"Not cool, dude! You died on us!" Nico hisses at Ethan.

"I did?" he whispers. "I don't remember that. Hell, it's fuzzy."