A Lost Memory: Alitheia

Episode 15: Slag Machis Allegra continued

"It said in the journal that once it shape shifts into something it can only use it once," Colchester explains and Mandisa adds that they will have to wear it down by making it reveal all its beings or creatures it has collected.

"But what if it has more than fifty or maybe a hundred of these things it turns into?" Jiro queries.

"If we get tired we can just run back to Fitz's room, rest and try again the next day," Kacey informs him.

"Do we really need to get rid of this thing? Can't we just wait for help or something from our real parents?" Fitz asks weary.

"I honestly wouldn't be bothered by this thing but, yes we do because we going to run out of food at this point," Eliza tells her.

"Even if help came they wouldn't know what to do," Colchester adds.

"Only we know how to get rid of this thing," Kacey finalizes.

"Well that settles it then!" Micah grunts and grips tightly onto the broom stick in hand.

"Let's kick some Kapnos ass!" Kacey yells and the group begins to laugh as this eased the tension in the room.

They cautiously leave the room one by one eyeing the corridor as they step out as the sky took on a grey and gloomy form that could be seen from the large windows in the corridor.

"You have some explaining to do-" Colchester starts off gripping Mandisa's arm while she cuts him off by saying that she doesn't owe anybody an explanation.

"You two let's get a move on," Akira whispers back to them.

"I'll explain when we get back-" Mandisa is interrupted by a screech in front of her by Fitz.

They rush up to Fitz standing against the banister, Kacey asks what happened and she explained to them a vicious black dog had growled at her and disappeared through the double doors into the kitchen.

"Did you just say dog?" Colchester queries alerted.

"Do you think it's the Kapnos demon?" Allegra asks him and Jiro answers.

"I don't think so," he says and Colchester asks why he says that.

"Because it's standing right there," Jiro points to a figure of his mother standing below the stairs with open arms calling him.

Allegra rushes downstairs with a pair of scissors in hand, screaming at the top of her lungs and plunges the scissors on the top of its head. At that moment it takes on the shape of Micah.

"Hey, it's okay-"Micah was about to finish his sentence when a pair of scissors is struck into his neck but he manages to say, "Pocky," before closing his eyes and fading away. A loud shriek comes from Allegra as the residents rush over to her.

"Micah! No, wake up!" she yells holding his limp body in her arms on the stairs while the Kapnos demon turns into a crow and flies away from them.

"Isn't there something we can do to-," Allegra begins to say and Kacey shakes her head.

"I'm sorry, his gone," she says gripping at her t-shirt in hand.

"For the time being we should get some food in the kitchen and get some rest," Colchester suggests and they agree.

"Can I have a moment with him?" Allegra reluctant.

"We can bury him out in the garden," he says and just as they were about to pick up his body, it turns to dust and vanishes before their eyes.

"What just happened?" Fitz asks a question that pondered on all their minds.

"Wait, do you think that happened to Junior too?" Akira queries and Mandisa rushes down with a shovel in hand to the front garden as Colchester follows behind her.