The Return of Mevolent

Chapter 26

A/N: This is a filler.

Chrysanthemum

I returned to the dormitories after memorizing every single corridor in the castle. So far, no extra routes except for the ones that the Resistance already had access to, which were guarded. Heavily, I should say. Lexi lay on her side of the room, casually sharpening her now-shortened sword, which hung from her dress belt. "Nice day?" I asked.

She groaned. "The worst. That memory sigil you gave me is gonna blow my head up. Can I choose not to remember some of their conversations? "

I frowned. "What's wrong with some of them?"

"I feel like I'm Juliet's nurse passing messages from lovers." she stated simply. "But I got some good info. Mevolent is gathering an army, just as expected. He's looking for people with Shunter heritage to be his new Shunter since there's only two left: one's in Resistance custody and one is Olive's crush. Can you get Torrent?"

I nodded and reached out, like Cassandra had taught me, and searched for Torrent. Torrent? I asked. You there? I felt a groan sounding from Torrent's mind. Please get out of my head, Chrys. 

Sorry. Need to check on you. Lexi insisted. I grabbed Lexi's hand. She was in now.

Okay... so this is how mind messaging works? Does everything I think come out?

Yeah it sorta does.

It sucks. I could be taking a shower and Chrys just pops into my head and shouts: HURRY UP!

It's handy!

I feel bad for you. At least you have practice. Met anyone?

Guess what? I've got Sanguine.

I thought he's dead?

Apparently not in this Dimension. And Tanith's in the Resistance. Another guy as well is a spy. His name's Damien Ivory.

Stupid name.

Hey it's not that bad.

I still can't pronounce Chrysanthemom.

It's not Chrysanthemom.

Lol. Chrysan-the-mom.

Shut up Torrent not helping. It's Chry-san-the-mum. Like Chri-san-fe-mum.

Chrysan yo mom.

I'm sniggering here. Meet ya tomorrow where?

Don't know. Waiting for Olive's instructions. Cutting connections now.

Wait wha....

I cut off the connection in my head from Torrent's mind. Lexi was smirking. "Good night, Chrysan-ya-mom."

I groaned. "Good night, A-lex-and-ra." And I drifted off to sleep. Who knew that the dreams came with it?

I was standing in a house. It was pretty neat, and there was a girl standing in the middle of it. I nearly thought it was Lexi, but when she turned, I saw her eyes. Chocolate brown. This had to be Lexi's mom, Jade. She looked around nervously and suddenly I was Jade. I gang of robbers ran in with guns, and demanded all my money, and in the chaos, I/Jade managed to draw a gun and aim at the robbers. The robber in the lead grinned his broken tooth, but suddenly jerked and fell to the floor and the same as his colleagues. And then a man with black hair and emerald eyes walked in.

Nefarian Serpine.

Jade didn't recognize, but my consciousness did. "Who are you?" I asked, helpless inside Jade's body.

"I am Nefarian Serpine."

The dream shifted.

I was now a very pale Jade holding a small baby. Nefarian Serpine stood before me.

"Please, Jade, let me take her." Nefarian said.

"I can't! You left me alone. You left US alone. I can never let you near her again. Not our child, my child."

"Please Jade, I'm begging you. Just one day. Her eyes are too dangerous in the society I came from."

"Only if you tell me why you left."

Nefarian sighed. "I'm a wanted man, Jade. I've done so many terrible things and I've been trying to make up to them. I've been hunted across the world because I was the right-hand man of a Lord who wanted to spread our spiritual beliefs around the world. I believe that there are great gods, and I'm to summon them to rule our world. I will bow to them, and I will become one of them. And after this is over, I'll be dead or I'll be the King of the World. I'm still being chased, and our daughter cannot hold my green eye trait. It'l be recognized instantly. Please, Jade."

I nodded mutely, and handed him the baby. A glance at her face and I sucked in a breath. It was Lexi.

Nefarian whispered sweet mutterings into baby Lexi's ears, and only my Sensitive mind could hear it. "I'll keep you safe from them, sweetie. I'll keep you safe from the accursed Skeleton Detective."

The dream once again shifted, and now it was of Lexi's childhood.

But I wasn't Lexi.

I was Raven.

Skulduggery's face loomed into my vision. "Do you get it, Kathryn? Find her, and befriend her. She could be the end of the world or our savior." I once again nodded and ran off. People awed at me, but all I wanted to find was Lexi. She stood there, but she was nearly unrecognizable. Her hair, always in a pony tail, was down, and it was not how I thought it would be. Lexi's hair always looked brown, but in this image, it was jet-black and fell in large waves. Her eyes were brown, and she wore a pair of dark blue glasses. She need glasses?

"Hello." she said absently. She was still the same now.

"Hello Violet. I'm Kathryn."

"How do you know my name?"

"Because I want to be your friend."

I watched Raven and Lexi's childhood progressed, and their friendship developed. As she grew, she looked more and more like the Lexi I knew.

The flashback suddenly stopped, and I was in the time of Mevolent's war.

China Sorrows ran around, in her hands clutched a small baby. Skulduggery's child. Raven's father. She knocked on the door and a woman looking just like MeI wokevolent opened the door.

"Mellony, please. Raise this boy as your son, keep him away from magic. Keep him away from Skulduggery. Or Mevolent."

Mellony nodded and I watched this boy grow. He looked a lot like Skulduggery, and he went by the name of Ben Kensworth, which meant he was of a mortal family. I watched him meet a girl, get married, have a child up until the they meet again. 

I watched me/Raven get into trouble when I nearly fell off a building before Skulduggery saved me. I kept going through Raven's memories until suddenly it all went black and a sense of pain coursed through my body and the spirits of my friends rose above me and disappeared. A voice whispered in my ear, cold and harsh. "You've learnt your lesson, child. Now use it in life. Keep your knowledge safe, or I will come for you." 

I woke up with a start. Some of the visions I kept quiet, but what I really saw, instead of those, will be kept in my heart forever.

A/N: 1119 words. Some of the dream I'm keeping quiet, so they'll come in flashes at the beginning of the Chrys perspectives to keep you intruiged.

Disclaimer. Some of them don't belong to me. Only the new ones and it's pretty obvious which ones.