Chapter 14. Power Over Family

                                    

                                          

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 14. 𝕴𝖓 𝖂𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖊 𝕸𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖙𝡣𝖕𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝕬𝖓𝖉 𝕿𝖗𝖞 𝕿𝡣 𝕰𝖝𝖎𝖙 '𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖗𝖞'
                          
(𝚆𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 : 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚖𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚘. 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎, 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗'𝚝 𝚊𝚍𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚝.)
                          
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"What's the strategy then? With the entrance you had, I'm sure they already know you're here." Blaze asked Luna. 
                          
"Of course, they do. I, after all, used the front gate to come here." Luna replied casually. Everyone, except Sylvie was shocked. One could say, that, she got accustomed to Luna; even after meeting her for such a short period of time. The powers twin brings to brain, really, is awesome. 
                          
"And the chain girl didn't stop you...?" Blaze asked, astonished on how it happened.
                          
"I burnt her chains. It's really pretty easy. I just have to touch and focus... Everything burns when I touch it." Rhys could understand her hidden feelings behind that sentence. And so, he held her warm hand in his. His comfort was finally here... He didn't know how to face her yet, but, he a feeling they'll figure something out, if he lives, that is. Dying in 'The Sanctuary', knowing, that Luna would still be waiting for him to return, would have been a cowardly act. He understood it. Then, it hit him. How did Luna know he's here?
                          
"How did you know where we were?" Rhys questioned his mind.
                          
"Unlike you, Blaze believes in letting his 'other half' know his whereabouts. And, his 'other half' knows better than to keep as complex as these, to herself." Luna directly accused Rhys with her words. 
                          
"Okay... So, Mephistopheles is the one to get us out with Lorelei's soul. Right?" Sylvie, successfully, managed to drift the conversation. Suddenly, they heard a knock on their walls. 
                          
"I see. You broke the door and the seal." Mephistopheles's eyes scanned the burned ground and the doors. 
                          
"I didn't." Luna didn't even look in his direction to reply. She was too tired now. Thus, she was saving her energy for other important things. She had no idea whenever and wherever she'll need her flames. 
                          
"She burnt the ground and therefore, was able to sink the ground beneath the door. About the seal... It was probably the relic which served as a key." Sylvie explained whatever she understood from the situation. Who, better than her, knew that the door doesn't catch fire. 
                          
"Whatever... Now, how'll you repay my Master's debt. Lorelei already had enough of it." Mephistopheles joined them by sitting there.
                          
"Lorelei probably gave all the souls, our family had to offer, except for Algyva, to your master as the payment." Luna calmly replied. 
                          
"She didn't. She used all of it to cleanse herself." Mephistopheles replied, somewhat, disturbed with the course of action.
                          
"Cleanse herself... ? Of what?" Blaze asked, confused as to where the conversation was heading.