Days of Darkness: Winter's Rage (Book 2)

Chapter 4: The Journey Home

Once they wrapped Damien up, Christian hurried him inside and down to the clinic. He quickly found an empty room to place him and laid him on the bed. Damien convulsed wildly on the bed as Christian attempted to hold him down.

Nadia began to panic. She paced back and forth over and over again. All she felt was sheer terror at the sight of her love seizing uncontrollably.

Diamond got out of the wheelchair and went to Nadia and took her hand.

"Nadia, you need to pull it together." She ran her hand across Nadia's cheek to wipe away her tears and console her. "Damien needs you, Nadi."

Nadia took the time to compose herself. She walked over to Damien and sat by his side.

"Damien," she started. "If you can hear me, I've missed you. I need you to come back to me. I don't know what you've been going through these past three years, but it's been hell for me. Not having you here has really taken a toll on me." Nadia started crying again. "I need you to come back to me! Come back to your son!"

Damien shook violently once more and let out a loud scream. Electricity surged from his body, knocking Nadia and Christian back slightly, and ran through the building, and knocked out the power for a moment. As the lights came back on, Damien opened his eyes and looked up at Nadia and smiled.

"Hello, beautiful," he said to Nadia. He looked over to Christian and Diamond. "I see the gang's all here."

Damien sat up as Diamond handed him a cup of water. He looked around the room in amazement. "Boy, I see a lot of things have changed around here," he stated.

Christian joked, "Yeah, you have no idea."

Diamond stepped in to interrupt. "Really, guys. I hate to break up our reunion, but Damien, you need to be debriefed right away."

Nadia got on the defensive right away. "Diamond, he just woke up. Give him some time."

"Really, Nadia, I understand and I sympathize with you both. But given light of our recent encounter, anything that Damien can tell us might be of help."

"No!" Nadia demanded.

Damien grabbed Nadia's hand and relaxed her. "Baby, it's alright. I can't wait to get a lot of this off of my chest. I have three years worth of debriefing to give you all." He looked down at himself and asked, "Can I get some of my clothes, first, please?"

Later on, they all met in the conference room. The vibe was different from before. Where, then, it was only Diamond, Damien, Christian, Nadia and Cyris; now, there was a council to make decisions with Diamond at the head followed by Christian and Nadia. Included on the council was Kalico, Nadia's second in command, Law, the leader of the military, Jayce, Law's second in command, and Ty, the elder on the council. A seat was also left open for Damien upon his return home.

After introductions to the council were finished, Damien began telling his story.

"When I went through the wormhole, I felt lost and disoriented. Believe it or not, had it not been for Dante, I wouldn't have made it through. I ended up passing out halfway through. So, I don't remember making it to the other side. When I woke up a few hours later, Dante had confirmed that we made to his world and his time. We were right back where he started. So, Chris, congratulations. Your machine worked perfectly. You unlocked the secret to both interdimensional and time travel.

"Surprisingly, Dante was a lot more hospitable than I could've imagined. He fed me, clothed me and made sure that I was healthy. He explained to me that, on his world, they had been caught in a war for over fifty years with a being known to the world there as Omega. He knew him personally, though, because unlike me, he was an orphan. His family died long before the war. Dante knew him as Clarke and he raised Dante. But he later revealed himself to be a interdimensional being known as Omega.