Black Feather Falls (COMPLETE)

HATECA'S DREAM II

Fukushima Prefecture
Tōhoku region on the island of Honshu
Kurokawa Castle
December 24th, 1261
11:35 pm

She drops her head on the table and released a loud breath of relief. "That boy is most definitely my child. He'll surely be the death of me. Shadows emerged from out the walls, which slowly materialized into two figures - male and female.

"Permission to speak freely ..." She cavalierly lifts her hand in response. His shadowy figure morphed slower than his partners'. "You can no longer keep such pertinent secrets from them. Even more so now with the gifts you so naively bestowed upon them."

"Brother!" She yelled sternly, causing him to shrug his shoulders and give her a 'what' look. "Forgive him, my lady." She released worriedly in an attempt to ease the anger that might erupt from the lady in response.

"No, there's nothing to forgive. He's right." She says with her head still on the desk. "I just wish I could tell them the truth."

"Why are you so content making them hate you?! You're only doing this to-"

"Stop! Say nothing more!" She unexpectedly bellows out. She rises off the mat and begins examining the room with her now glowing purple eyes.

"Found you! Alexis attack 12'o clock." Alexis, dressed in her traditional ninja catsuit, quickly responded. She pushed, out her claws and shot them in the directed direction. A shadowy figure such as theirs emerged and swirled around the room randomly and swiftly created havoc, in an attempt to find an escape. It dashed towards the door but Hateca had already sealed them shut with her magic.

"Nothing slips past me!" She lifted one finger and within a millisecond the thing was at her mercy. She forcefully pulled it towards the mat her son sat on earlier and bound it with ancient shackles.

"I take it it's one of yours?" They glared at her with rage in their eyes. "I see ..." Alexis was shocked but her brother was unmoved by the whole ordeal.

"That's-" She cuts him off.

"I care not for his name. I've only interest in how he slipped past my thirteen barriers undetected; to the point where he camouflaged himself so perfectly in my presence."

"He's our brother ... the best in the family." She spoke but the shock of seeing him had yet passed. "Thomas! What are you doing here?!" Alex grew impatient. "ANSWER ME!" He vehemently demanded with evident frustration in his voice. His brother was silent and refused to speak nor materialize.

"Why was he spying on me?" The cool and uncharacteristically calm disposition of Hateca was unnerving to experience. Hateca's eyes, still glowing, examined his shadowy form from head to toe and forced him to materialize with her magic. Suddenly all the shadow that he cloaked himself in vanished revealing his muscular, handsome self. His face was blank, emotionless and empty.

"As I figured." She said discerningly. "He's being controlled." She slams her fist into the table leaving a dent in it. Alexis attempted to comfort her brother but Hateca cast a stare of disapproval.

"That man will raise hell on Earth to locate me." Her eyes trail to the desk while the siblings' voices raise in conflicting opposition.

Shut up!" Her heart grew heavy as she knew she had a tough call to make. She got up from her seat, walked over to him and placed her hands on his head.

"If he's being controlled, chances are he's been an unwilling double agent for some time now." Her eyes closed and examined the depths of his knowledge, which was dangerous because it could cause permanent damage to the individual.

"Hateca! You can kill him like that!" His sister cried out in fury. "HATECA!" but Hateca kept going, ignoring everything. Minutes kept passing by and all she did was ignore their cries but they weren't bold or foolish enough to try and stop her.

"He's innocent." Alexis bellowed aloud for her brother. "You're going to kill him." She said choked by her tears.

"Hec-"

"SPEAK AND DIE!" Her eyes stopped glowing and she cast a heinous stare in their directions. Every single thing in the room that could be broken shattered at the raise of her voice. The entire castle quaked in agony at her demonic rage.

"I care not for whatever title he bears in your family, nor what he means to you. I will allow no one." She paused amidst a silence that permeated the already tense atmosphere. "No one." She paused again. "To hurt my children. If I find out that he was a willing participant in my brother's lies... I will kill him." She stopped, removed her hands and returned to her seat. His comatose body fell to the ground and a loud thud emitted amidst the silence. They had nothing more to say, nor could they do anything; they just stood their lifeless and stunned.

"Leave him!" She said in a low, deep threatening undertone, discerning Alexis's deep desire to help him. She placed her arms on the desk and just glared at them with homicidal intent.

"He's coming ..."