The Dark Heirs Volume 1

Chapter 25 (2): The real puppet master

Tw: abuse, murder, yelling, deceive, cult, mind control?
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Nele looked at herself in the mirror. She liked her short hair, it looked pretty, even though the cut wasn't that good. She smiled, she was going to annoy her father with that. He had always liked her white hair and thought of it as holy, one of the reasons he abused her. Now it was cut short.

She walked out of her room to the dinner table and grinned. "Hello family."
She mumbled. Jochen jumped up in shock and anger. "You disgrace... What have you done to the holy hair the angel gifted you? You dare throw away a gift.. a present... You were lucky once and you're so ungrateful with it? You're not eating today." He scolded waving with his hand to send her off to her room. Nele was no longer having it, being brave enough to not listen to him and just sit down at the table. Jochen looked shocked at her audacity. "I'M YOUR FATHER. IF YOU DON'T LISTEN TO ME I'LL-" He was cut short by Nele. "You what, huh? Kill me like our mother, you criminal? That behavior will get you behind bars this time, Nanako knows where I went." She stated and just started eating without her father allowing it.

He was dumbfounded and just sat down to eat too. Elfriede was also shocked but was glad the frail girl at least ate something.

The next day she approached her father again. "Father." She said. He turned around. "Don't you dare talk to me anymore, brat." He snorted back at her. Nele smiled. "Is that fear I feel? Fear that you don't have me under your control anymore? I won't let myself be controlled ever again. You're a terrible father and now you will pay the price." She exclaimed to which Jochen laughed. "You think you'll get through with that? The entire cult are my docile followers. They'll always do what I say." He scoffed folding his arms over his chest provocatively. She chuckled. "I already have and I won't give up till I striked you down!" She assured and left his room.

Nele spent multiple hours in her room thinking about what she said. Her father might have been right, how was she gonna go against an entire cult. She sighed. It felt wrong, going against her own family.. but after what Jochen did to her mother and Jude and how he treated his children, she couldn't feel anything for anyone there anymore.

The next morning Nele was woken up by her father and two cult members with covered faces dragging her out of bed. The girl screamed and struggled but she couldn't escape their grasp. They yanked her onto the altar, chaining her to it.

Jochen stepped in front of her and the cult and held up his hands. "We have all come together to return the special child the angel has given us. Angel, thy majesty, we want to give your gift back to you. It was wonderful as long as it lasted, but I'm afraid it's... spoiled..." He grinned menacingly swiftly swinging a dagger in direction of Nele's heart. She screamed and cried and raised her arms up in defense when suddenly everyone was silent.

Nothing happened.

She was still alive.

Nele used the time to get herself unchained. It took her a while but she managed to open the lock with her hair clip. She looked at the faces of the people. Most of their eyes were glassy and their faces expressionless. Nele was stunned. "What happened?.." she asked herself nervously. "I... Guys, please go back to normal..." At her words, everyone suddenly became normal again. Jochen looked stunned as Nele was suddenly not at the place he wanted. She wasn't chained up anymore, nor was she dead. His daughter stood a few feet away from him looking horrified. "How did you-?" Suddenly a thought entered his head. "No, don't tell me... You have a power... teleportation I'm guessing?" He questioned approaching her again with the dagger in his hand still. "Let's test your reflexes then, he said suddenly dashing towards her, his dagger ready to strike her.

"STOP!" She yelled full of fear and the same thing happened again. Everyone was frozen, even her psychotic father. She started theorizing what her power might be and decided to do a little test. "Jochen, drop the dagger and bow." She commanded and to her surprise, he obeyed like he had no will of his own anymore. That's when Nele realized she might have gotten the strongest power of all of the cult members, even though not many even had a power at all. She could control minds.

"Everyone except Jochen, return to normal!" She demanded to which the other members returned to their senses.
"Dear People, my father wanted to apologize." She announced and then whispered to her father. "Go up the altar and apologize for your bad deeds and never hurt me again, you monster."

Docile and completely at her mercy he walked up the stairs to the altar and lowered his head. "I've done you wrong. Our belief isn't real. It's something I built to have control over you. I killed, I abused, I lied, I manipulated and for everything I'm deeply sorry. Forgive me." He begged desperately kneeling deeply by now. Nele grinned, it felt good being the one in control once. The members were getting confused. "Fake? But I believe in the angel. No belief is fake!" One of them shouted. Nele sighed. "You can keep living out your beliefs, but we have to stop hurting people. We won't hunt angels anymore. We won't hurt others again. We will love every child." She exclaimed, spreading her arms. The crowd was silent at first but after a moment started cheering for her. This was the start of a revolution and she would reform to cult to something save, that's her goal.

In the afternoon she goes outside since there's no one stopping her anymore with her newfound power. She went to a telephone cell and called Gudrun's number. She answered. "Hello? Gudrun Miller speaking!" Gudrun's voice felt awesome to hear for Nele and she smiled. "It's me Gudrun! Nele!" She exclaimed happily. Gudrun also seemed happy as she almost cried on the other end. "I was so worried when I found out they took you.. how are you? Did they hurt you?" She asked concerned. Nele chuckled.

"Oh Gudrun, you won't have to worry anymore, They will never hurt anyone again. Not when I'm done with them." Nele declared and hung up.

This was going to be awesome, she thought.
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YAYAY:3
Jude out!!