🥀Crystallight 2: A Family Reunion🥀

🥀Chapter 13: The Factory🥀

~~~~~~~~~Iv's POV~~~~~~~~~

I regret it.

I regret this.

I regret all the lies I told.

I regret keeping this all to myself.

I knew it was wrong.

I always did.

But it was the only choice I had to protect them.

And yet it just made it all so much worse.

I'm sorry about it.

All of it.

But it doesn't matter now.

Because I'm going to set everything right.

I'm going to make everything go back to the way it used to be.

I'm going to fix it all.

I'm going to stop Ashley.

Even if it's the last thing I ever do.

So many thoughts zoomed through my head. I didn't know what I was going to say, or do, or how to react when I found Ashley.

I had casted a tracking spell, and managed to find her location. Which was actually a really familiar place...

The laboratory, the one we went to as kids. The one that caught Ashley and sent her to prison. I felt chills travel down my spine as flashbacks from that night came back to me.

How I hated this place.

I went inside, gulping down whatever fear had started to form inside me. Unlike many years ago, this place was now closed and broken down, as if a bomb had gone off and destroyed everything except the building itself.

It was empty, rusty, dirty. I was surprised I hadn't blown up in sneezes from all the dust.

I had formed an orb in my hand to light my way, making sure of my surroundings as I walked forward.

I soon entered a familiar room, the same room where Ashley nearly killed me all those years ago. It didn't have any of the tanks. Actually, it barely had anything.

I looked around, the atmosphere changing almost instantly. She knew I was here, didn't she? She sensed me from the start. I should know, we share most of our abilities.

The doors had slammed shut, which made me look over out of instinct, and it was then when I heard her humming.

I remember that lullaby, my aunt would sing it to us when we were very young. Though I could never memorize the lyrics.

"You're just in time, sweetheart!" I turned to see Ashley walking over to me with a wide smile. It looked innocent, but it was far from it at this point.

I glared at her. "Even after all these years, you still haven't grown up."

Her thumb passed over her nails, inspecting them. "There's no fun in letting things go. And besides..." She looked at me, a smile spread across her face. "It got your attention~"