Parallell destruction

Harry

"Home?" I ask. "Now that we are safe, there's a lot to tell you but not tonight. You all look like you need some sleep" Arvellon states and looks a bit humored at our wasted and tired faces. I chuckle a little but my friends stay silent. Then someone enters the room.. or something. I'm not sure since they entered right trough a brick wall, like a... "You look like you've seen a ghost" he says, bad dad joke. "Are you? A ghost?" Nic asks obviously scared to death. "Guess you could say that. I'm the remaining energy of some dead guy from your universe." he says. "And my name is Rafael, I'm here to take you to your rooms." Rafael floats, yes floats, toward us. "I want Harmony next to my room" Arvellon says and everyone gives him a weird look. "For her safety" he says and looks at me. "What about my friends's safety?" I ask sounding offended. "No one is after them. They want you Harmony." "THEY?" I ask. "I'll tell you everything in the morning,  now get some sleep." He says and Rafael takes us to our rooms. Of course my room is placed at the other end of the hall, far away from my friends. Having only Arvellon the stranger and vampire as my one neighbor did not feel safe at all.

Getting ready to go to sleep I feel anxious. Will the entity still visit me tonight? Am I really safe inside these walls? For the first time since I can remember, I don't have my mom and dad here to help me calm down after waking up panicking tonight. And I don't have my meds! Although... do I need them?

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03:00 I wake up screaming and Arvellon comes rushing into my room. "Harmony! Is everything alright!" He sounds genuinely worried about me. Why is he protecting me? "I-I need my medications" I stutter. "What?! For what?" He asks surprised. "I'm not sure, my parents give them to me when things like this happens. They're like sleeping pills, makes me feel weak and tired." I whisper. "Harmony" Arvellon sits down at my bed. "Those sounds a lot like the symptoms of your kind being exposed to the elememtary stones." he says. "The what now?" I ask him. "Your kind, Aerphirs, are the strongest of all creatures. There has been a lot of attemnts on making you weaker, defenseless but nothing has worked until those stones where found. They're said to be the original materia." Arvellon tells me and I do not (as expected) understand a word. "I'll pretend that I got that and ask why those stones would make us weak" I say confused as I'm trying to get my breathing back to normal. Arvellon pets my back as he answers me. "Those stones are the only existing thing that the Aerphirs has not created. They're alien to you and you seem to have formed your abilities because you are kinda "allergic" to everything but yourselves". "So who created the stones?" I ask him. "Nobody knows. But Harmony, are you sure that your parents are who they say they are?" Arvellon asks me and I am instantly offended. "What? They know nothing about this stuff. They've spent their whole lives thinking that I'm ill, just as I have." I tell him. "If you say so. Just don't take any more of those meds again. You being weak makes it easier for the demons to get to you. If someone would have put crushed pieces of an elementary stone into your pills, that would explain why they get to you so easily despite of your strength." I don't understand a word he's saying, partly because I'm super tired and partly because he sounds more craze than I've ever done. He gets the hint that my facial expression gives off and starts walking to the door. "I'll let you sleep. Will you be alright?" "Yes." I answer him not being able to get any other words out. Is he trying to say that my parents where poisoning me with some magical stones? And is he denying the big bang and saying that Aerphirs are responsible for the creation of... everything? Maybe I'm just dreaming. Wouldn't surprise me, I have a hard time telling the difference between my awake and sleeping state.

The next morning I hear a knock on my door. I grunt thinking it's Arvellon but then Luce puts her head through the door crack and I smile. "Mornin" she says. "Goodmorning Luce". She steps inside and I can't help but to stare at her undressed body, well she's not naked exactly but she's only wearing underwear and a loose t-shirt. We didn't really have time to pack for this trip. She notices me staring and comes to sit down at my bed. "So... How are you doing?" she asks me. "I'm not sure. Aren't you scared? I feel like I'm going to wake up at any second to realise that this was all a psychosis of some sort." She laughs. "I know what you mean. But hey, it's kinda cool too! I think we're finally going to get some answers!" She says being the usual caring Luce. We hug and then go to meet our friends down the hall. To my surprise Arvellon is with them. "Harmony!" He sounds way to excited, what's the deal with this guy? "Let's go down for breakfast everybody. There's someone waiting for you Harmony down there, someone who could give you all the answers you desire." He sounds pleased with himself. I guess his duty to get me here is served. I wonder what his job is? Like a spy maybe? A bodyguard?

We get downstairs to a huge diningroom and as we where told there was a boy sitting at the end of the table. Red hair, hazel eyes, freckles all over. He kinda looked like me. As we enter the room the boy arises from his chair and looks right at me. "Are you Harmony?" He asks. "Uh yeah" "I'm Harry. Your brother" the boy says and I suddenly run out of breath. I sit down next to him and can't do much but just look at... Harry... my brother. "Wha-" I start but can't finish my own sentence. "I know this must be a lot for you. I've understood that you didn't even know what you where. And that you've been lead to believe that your powers were not even real?" Harry looks concerned. "She's a bit shy" Lo says and giggles. "I don't think that's what this is about Lo" Nic tells her. "So who are all of you?" My brother asks them. "We're all she has at the moment. And where have you been all her life?" Nic asks him sounding kinda pissed. My brother keeps calm and answers him. "I haven't known she was even alive. I sent out my guard to look for her as soon as I found out she existed. Our parents never told me about her but when the castle was infiltrated two years ago by the demons they told me to find her, you Harmony, in case anything would happen to them." Parents? I didn't even think about that. "Wait. Who are your parents?" I ask him. "King Callon and Queen Felanis. I'm afraid they both passed away that day." He says. "Uh.. there isn't any way they also went by Kim and Claire?" Where my parents really not MY parents? "Whomever you have been living with since our parents sent you away for protection. They are not your real parents." Harry tells me. "Alright alright, can we please just start with the basics here before going into details? We don't even know where we are or what we are, let alone who our parents are" Luce says sounding frustrated. "Of course." My brother tells her. "What would you like to know?" "I want to know what we are, who we are, where we are, and how the hell all of this is even possible." Luce has taken on her mom-roll again. "I'll try my best. It seems as if you don't know about... well anything."