The Purged Ones

Chapter 23: A New Secret

Everything was clear to me now. Radian was my mother who carried me around as she went through the terrors of war. She escaped the city of Nexus because she had me in her. A baby needed to be in a safe area and not risk its life every day. What gets me was that she never mentioned she was a cambion yet. I guess I had to read on with the letter:

“I ran and ran as fast as I could until she finally caught up to me. The other lady stared at me while she held something in her hand. It was a strangest liquid that I’ve ever seen. The shorter one who held the liquid came towards me. She said some strange words that I couldn’t process. She told that this is what Yeul wanted, it’s what she planned for the future of this world. This will be the start of a new beginnings for balance. 

She began to pour the liquid down my throat and that is when everything about me changed. It was much worst for me because I knew it will eventually swallow you to. The guilt drove me into insanity once I figured out that it transform me into one of those demons.

At first I didn’t want to believe such thing but they caught up to me and stabbed me to see if I was worthy of becoming one. I manage to escape with a huge wound on me.

Was it a miracle that you survived? Or was it a curse that you survived because of the demon curse…”

My mom accepted what she have become. She told Eve that she was a cambion because she accepted the fact that it was forever.

“Yeul wanted me to become a demon?” I mumbled alone and Minerva sat there with a blank stare on her. All I was about to do at the moment was to sigh after sigh without any clue of what was going on. Fiora and Saya was at fault for turning my mom into a demon. I wondered if my father knew about this. That was the remaining puzzle that is left to be unsolved.

“We have to go back.” Minerva said.

“I can’t yet. These people use to follow my mother and came here for my mother. I won’t leave without saying anything!” 

The same lady came in to check if we were alright to leave. We were as we followed her out of the room and realized that everyone have gathered around. Their eyes all focused on me and it made me nervous. They don’t know what happen to Noah and Alexandra and it made me even more nervous than before but I had to tell.

“Where Noah and Alexandra?” a man asked.

I hesitated at first with the fear of them blaming their death on me. I could’ve saved them from the monster, but I was too weak to hold them back from the danger. It just sad for me to even think about it. My heart felt weak at the moment. 

“Where are they?” a woman next to the man asked again. Minerva looked at me as she noticed I struggled to confess.

Then suddenly I answered back. “They’re gone…”

The whole crowd gasp at my answer. Not a single tear escaped my eyes because I never had true feelings for them. I only knew them for a week until their deaths. I also felt different towards everyone as if I lost all feelings towards the world. I think I had more hatred within me once I figured that this was all Fiora and Saya’s faults. I clenched my teeth and my fist.

“Their sacrifice was not in vain, right?” another woman asked as she gently grabbed my arm.

I never looked at her in the eyes because I still felt guilty. “No...” I lifted my head slowly and saw that some of the men are eager to know what happened. They had vengeful eyes. It sparked a little idea in me. It was if a light bulb turned on in my head as I looked into their eyes. “Gather everyone one as soon as possible.