The Dark Ones

Part 7

Authors note: anything written in italics is Connors' thoughts

CHAPTER 10 - The Thoughts

The mind palace was flooded with new thoughts and information waiting to be sorted, but that wasn't able to happen due to the fact that Connor was not only unconscious but wrapped up in his own chains in his own conscious, he has no control on the actions he makes, so he has to wake up on his own.

Shane walked into the room they had kept for Connor to see Mitch and Christine at his bedside, Mitch had an easily visible look of concern on his face, Christine had a hard to read face of worry, but if you had a really good eye, you would be able to tell. Shane interrupted the silence

"Still nothing?" Shane asked with a hint of sadness in his voice and facial expression. The others looked back at him, Mitch looking like he was about to burst out crying while Christine had a little frown on her face. Mitch responded, giving everything he had to try not to cry when talking

"N-no, we haven't heard anything from him, it's been 5 days, but he hasn't moved a muscle. His power must be too much for him" Mitch showed the greatest amount of concern out of all of them, Shane tried his best to comfort Mitch by coming into the room and placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey, it'll be alright, we've had worse, I think the worst up until now was you, Christine, when you were out for 4 and a half days, I remember Ray was incredibly concerned.. well, that was back when he had a heart, but hey, we're all better now" Shane's words seem to comfort Mitch, at least a little. They all relaxed in the moment and remembered the good old days, almost forgetting Connor was in the room

Meanwhile 

The voices, they're too much to handle, each one telling me different things, each one telling me their history, but only the things I need to know, never what I want. I need to move, I need to leave, I need a snickers, I need closure! The chains only wrapped tighter around him and restricted every movement even his breathing, it seems death was near. What do I do, where do I go, how do I leave, why am I asking so many questions? I need to get out of here, I can feel my throat getting tighter and my oxygen supply getting smaller. I either die in the corpse of a new me, or I tell them what they want to hear.

"My time here has been short, but I have already learned a lot about the history.." The talk was coming from Connor, but he was still rendered unconscious "..but what I want to know is the truth about The Dark Ones and how they came together, but I feel there's only one way to make you cough up some facts.." The chains broke, he had control, but not skill or mastery, there is still so much more left to learn and how to grow stronger with his power. He arose from the bed, wide eyes, glowing eyes and a smirk on his face "..teach me!"

CHAPTER 11 - The Bonds

In the time that The Dark Ones have been around, there have been two types of bonds, spiritual and personal. Now Connor has the opportunity to ask Shane about them.

"Hey, Shane? When I was in my mind palace, I saw a person, same body type and structure as me, but it was completely purple with glowing yellow eyes.. it was strange, do you know what that was?" Connor asked Shane, with a slight bit of nervousness in his voice, but mostly interest. It was almost like he was a child asking his father about his past.

"That spirit, was you.. well, the 'new you', the 'dark you', the you that solidifies the fact that you are one of us. Once you are fully bonded with your spirit, you will be able to unleash all your power.." Shane said this with enthusiasm and inspiration "..but we also build bonds with the teammates we have, put it this way, the bonds that you have with the rest of us are very weak at this point in time, maybe it'll be easier if we sit down with a pint, with the others, good bonding time.

so that's what they did..

sorry there was no cliff-hanger I'll try and cut back on those for now.. I also seem to be having a writers block, so I think I'll take a break, but you'll have to stay up to date, because I won't be informing you when I'm coming back

BOOM! There's the cliff-hanger! - Sh4ne_N