"Sorry about that... I was... " Marlon remembering what happened earlier terrified him.
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When seven-year-old Marlon decided to keep the gem, it was normal like an opaque glass. Days then weeks passed, it eventually started to barely shine as if it was conserving its energy and recovering to its original state.
Little Marlon treated it as a toy. He talks to it like what kids do to their toys or dolls. Telling him how his day was, what he feels and many more things he wanted to share. Hence the gem develop senses that are quite similar to humans: language, matters, senses and intelligence. It sometimes replies to little Marlon's talk.
"You can talk?" eight-year-old Marlon cheerfully asked. Thinking that it was just his imagination talking to a "toy". But at those time the gem can barely speak words and incomplete sentences or phrases like: "Let... pl.. ay.", Mar... lon.. let.. talk. ". Like a baby practicing its first words.
Until he started entering middle school. He kept it always with him whenever or wherever he goes. And seldomly talked to it as Marlon had new friends from school to play and talk with. As it develops human emotions gradually returning to its original state, the gem finally stated a complete a phrase which changed Marlon's mindset after repeating its words.
«I am you»
"I am you? What do you me—" Repeating the gem's words, Marlon started to hear ravings. Words he could not understand, a non-earthly language. These unknown words made his mind crazy that it almost burst his brain yet he endured.
His cry in pain was heared all over their house that his parents worriedly and hurriedly knocked at his door.
"Aaaaahh!!! Ugh... "
"Lon! Marlon dear! Are you alright?!" his parents called worriedly while the servants hurriedly unlocking the door to Marlon's room. The door unlock but it didn't budge as there was a great pressure that kept the door from opening since the door of Marlon's room opens inside the room.
His parents and their servants were panicking giving their best to push the door, hearing Marlon's painful screams but nothing can be done.
Hearing Gaea's gem's ravings affected Marlon's physical and mental states. Pain coursed through his body. Feeling that his bones and muscles tearing apart. Blood flowing out from his ears, eyes, mouth and nose that he was not able to endure it until he was physically tired. Everything lasted in a minute. By the time Marlon fainted in his room the pressure coming out of the gem that kept the door closed was gone as if there was no pressure from the beginning.
The door swung open as they entered Marlon's room. His parents tend to him when they saw their son lying on the floor wearing a painful expression but was not covered in blood.
Marlon was then delivered to the hospital immediately. The doctors examined him but no disease nor illness was found. But to ensure that there really is nothing wrong, Marlon was admitted to the hospital.
Awake after a five-day sleep, He looked like there is a different person living in Marlon's body.
«Finally! A vessel to live. At last I—» the gem's mischievous voice spoke using Marlon's body was interrupted.
Fighting over Marlon's body, He himself is subconsciously taking over his own. Clutching his head.
«Nooo!! This vessel is going to be mine!!! Mine!»
The gem was still weak hence Marlon returned back to his own. He became mentally exhausted with a piercing headache. When his parents enter the room they found Marlon sitting up clunching his head in pain.
Calls the nurse for another check up. Finding out that is was mere headache caused by stress. Discharged from the hospital thing became normal again. Little did he know the gem became an accessory that was unnoticeable.
Times that the gem tried to take over piercing headache always occured but Marlon kept it secret for years of observing and experiments. Then it slowly corrupted Marlon's mind.
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A week ago, the gem's consciousness was returning to take over slowly. It strength returned when the gym incident happened using its own funtion which is, to alter the memories of the normal humans who saw or got involve in a magical situations that they were not suppose to witness.
But is not its only power, it creates a backlash to the affected human-majicai and Majicai. Those are affected by the gem's power related to a majicai being, their soul body will weakened that it takes a long time to recover. Yet their memories are not affected.
Fortunately, during the incident Yuna's and Rei's soul body were drawn out that they were not affected by its influence. Freya on the other hand, she went in her own shadow to avoid the gem's power.
Using its power it sensed a powerful aura nearby and that was Yuna's. ‹That aura... It's definitely her's! That rotten Witch! › the gem furiously thought. Someday soon I will find you and finally destroy you.
Regaining a bit of its strength. Its spirituality wandered invading dreams of others taking the form of the dreamers' present subconscious encounter. After so many tries the gem finally arrived in a misty unknown place, as a voice called out.
'Hecate?'
Recognizing the aura of the source of the voice. It became excited. Slowly turning around gathering its power. Finally seeing the aura in its front just a few feet away it got itself excited. It slowly walked near her and lastly saying the words it has been wanting to say.
«Found~ you~»
But before the gem (consciousness) consumes Yuna, she instantly vanished thus it was automatically returned to its accessory form. Furious of being just one step away from its goal, it was dragged out. And there it realized a thing,
‹Did she mention a name of a goddess? Hecate? the goddess of pathways. Then, that goddess must have been educating her. Now that she's in the hands of a goddess, my next choice it to destroy her physically by using this boy.›
After its thoughts, the gem gathers its power to slowly take over Marlon's mind. Since it failed controlling his body it chose to contral his mind.
When Marlon was tired from practice, he immediately went to his room then flop to his bed. Unknowingly the gem has taken over his mind.
Marlon's mind became blank that he does not know what is going on yet he felt terribly terrified. He can see what is happening from his eyes but his mind is blank that he cannot think that the gem has already controlled his mind so as his body.
Controlled Marlon wore a full black clothes and left the house. The gem that has taken control of Marlon use a bit of its aura to sense where Yuna is. While on the way to Aban Street, it sensed that he was being followed. It sped up its steps until he was not able to move.
Looking at his feet was a dark shadow that stop his on shadow to keep him from moving. Shadow-control. A Nightshade? The gem used a bit of power to get Marlon to move which is succeeded. Running around he then bump in someone.
It was Roanna accompanied by Rei and Yuna. Lucky that I bump into my target. Before getting pumped up he hurriedly begged them to hide him from someone.
Entering the Tailor shop and confirming its "safety", the gem then started to do its wish. Controlling Marlon to keep his other hand to hold the gem itself for more focus and for more power. Using the gem itself to influence her for additional chance of success.
It then began to act but then Rei was fast enough to interfere from its goal thus Marlon let go of the gem. The gem's consciousness then returned to its form as Freya's shadow "consumed" the gem itself. Leaving terrified Marlon returns to his right mind, back to normal but the experience of such things left a scar to Marlon's.
He only explained to Yuna and Rei the gem's mindset and goal to destroy Yuna by controlling him. Setting aside about its very origin, the auras, familia Nightshade and others that involved supernatural things.