Dinosaur King - Remake! Out of Time and Space

Chapter 23 The Perfect Creation

Warning, this chapter contains uncomfortable and disturbing scenes.

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They stared at Reese in utter shock. Something was wrong; the voice wasn't her own, her right eye was black alongside a strange mark around it, similar to the ones she had on her hands.

"No...No, no, no, no, no!" Zoe cried. This person was supposed to be their enemy, but this was her sister.

What is going on...?

Reese only laughed devilishly. It was a much deeper voice than her own. "That's the despair I love."

"Zepar, stop this impersonation," Rex demanded.

"Impersonation?" Reese shook her head. "No, this is no impersonation, no illusion."

"Quit this. What did you do to Reese? Where is she?" Mike questioned Zepar.

She frowned, massaging her temple. "Oh, myself. I knew she is the smartest one of you, but I didn't expect you to be that dumb. This is her. This is her actual body, her real body. I've already shown you how I can take over someone's body, haven't I?"

She was right; she took over Drack's body and it created the same marks on his body as Reese has now.

"How can we trust that?" Max asked her.

"You don't have to. The only thing I can tell you is that when an Akuno member possesses someone, there are these marks that appear on the body; we can't go unnoticed."

"...Right... Sabi had it too," he realized.

"I am not doing this to trick you because that would be pretty useless since I have these marks."

"Then why do you control her body?!"

"Because she gave it to me," when Zepar said that, they all looked at her confusedly, "she betrayed you."

"She'd never do that!" Zoe snapped.

"She already has. People do unusual stuff to get what they want; they're so curious, guilty, jealous, and desperate that they're willing to give up their own selves just to get what they desire, isn't that right, Rex?" Zepar glanced at the blond.

Rex's hands curled into fists, his nails digging into his palms.

"It's not that unbelievable anymore, is it? Just like you, she saw no other way out of her situation." Zepar pulled the shirt up, revealing Reese's wound. "She was full of despair and I was her only hope."

"How does that make her a traitor?" Aki wondered, "Rex and many others did the same; they aren't traitors."

"You're right. That doesn't make her a bad person, but I am sure this does." Zepar placed her hand on her chest; a dark crystal slowly materialized in her hand. It was similar to the crystals they know; it was black with red, green, blue and purple in it, just like the Dark Pterosaur.

"The Last Crystal," Spike recognized it as the only one. The others looked at him, not understanding.

Zepar smirked. "It seems like she isn't the only traitor."

"Dad, what's that suppose to mean?" Max asked his father.

Spike turned away from them all. "Remeber what Laura said about the crystal? It is the reason why Zepar is so powerful again. Reese is the one who created it. I walked into the D-lab during her work; she did several tests on some type of gas, creating this thing. Zepar appeared right after she finished, telling us what the crystal caused. I promised Reese to keep everything a secret; she wanted to tell you herself and destroy the crystal."