Kiryuu looked deeply into Alek's eyes when she looked up. She wanted to tell her but, she also didn't want to tell her.
"Am I going to get an answer?" Alek asked silently, now stroking the dragon's face slowly and gently.
"I don't know whether you will like to hear what I'm going to say." Kiryuu answered her. All the fun is gone and, it was serious.
"I want still want to know." Alek told her. Kiryuu's figure reflected beautifully in Alek's pure eyes.
"I think you already know that we share memories, right? And that you have two ancient forms like me in you. It's a little complicated. I can't tell you everything because it's not something that I should say. Anyway, do you remember that time in the cafe with your friends?" Kiryuu began to talk. Alek nodded her head. "Your friends told you that you were deep in a daydream. You don't remember what you dreamed about. Well, you were in my memory. Not exactly mine, though. It was someone's and, they share it with me. Let me show you what you had."
Kiryuu told the human and closed her eyes. In an instant, she brought both her and Alek into the memory she had in the cafe.
"Is that mum and dad?" Alek asked and closed her mouth in an instant.
"Don't worry, they can't hear or see us. And yes, that is your parents." Kiryuu answered in a bit angry tone.
"Who is that baby?" Alek asked again when she saw her mother leaning into a baby crib. She could hear the baby speaking incoherently in her sleep.
"That's... you." Kiryuu wanted to say that was 'us' but, at that time, she was only a baby and, it was weird to say that was 'us'.
"What are they saying? They look angry." Alek whispered. She knew they couldn't hear her but, she still didn't feel comfortable talking out loud in front of them like the dragon next to her did.
Soon, Alek heard her parents raising their voices.
"What are they talking about? Why's grandma in the conversation?" She heard her mother talking about her mother, meaning her grandmother. They were talking about grandma predicting or seeing something. "Die?! Son?!" Alek gasped at their words.
Kiryuu just looked at the girl next to her but didn't say anything and focused back on the past memory in front of them.
"NO. No! No! No!" Alek reached out her hands to her parents when she saw the memory in front of her was fading away. But it disappeared before Alek could touch her parents.
The dragon slowly approached her human and stood behind her. Alek was currently on the ground, on her knees.
"Bring it back. You can do that, right?" Alek asked while on the ground. She wanted to see more of it. The information she received was too little. There were many unsolved questions that she wanted answers to.
Kiryuu refused to answer.
"They were talking about Aether." Alek said. It was a statement rather than a question. "...Did they know?"
"...Yes." Kiryuu answered in her firm, animalistic voice.
"This memory..., it's not fake, right?" Alek needed to confirm but, deep down, she knew it wasn't.
"It's real. This really did happen."
"Is this the reason why you have been acting like this?"
"Yes." Kiryuu took a step closer to Alek.
"Whose is this? They are not clearly ours." Alek meant about the memory she saw. In there, she was a baby. Meaning, her sister wasn't born because she was born almost three years after her and the baby wasn't two. Kai also didn't exist at the time, concluding it was only Aether who could have this kind of memory.
The animal kept quiet behind her.
Alek knew what the silence meant. She was right.
"Why do we have this memory?" Another question popped up in her mind.
"I can't answer that." Kiryuu came in front of the kneeling Alek and lowered her big head to her level. "I'm sorry."
Alek didn't feel angry at the beast in front of her anymore. Her anger was now directed to her parents, who knew Aether was going to die and didn't do anything.
"Alek, calm down." Kiryuu looked at her surrounding. The place they were in was now shaking. And there were only three creatures in this realm who could do that. Since one has not made the connection with Alek, it couldn't have been him. There were two left and, if she wasn't the cause of this, it would only have to be Alek.
However, Alek didn't hear what the dragon said. Her head was occupied with her thoughts about her dead brother. Her parents knew about his death. They knew how Alek loved her brother dearly. They knew. They knew from the beginning. But didn't do anything. Why? Did they want him dead?
The question kept on rolling in her head and, she lost all her focus. Her senses weren't working.
"Alek? Alek?!" Kiryuu started shouting at the girl. The ground was shaking violently like an earthquake was happening and also, there was a powerful wind blowing everywhere as if they were middle in a tornado.
Still, Alek was in a trance and, she couldn't hear or feel anything. Her parents knew about his death long ago.
"Alek! Alek!" Kiryuu became alert and tried to come close to the human in the middle of everything but, she couldn't. If she lifted her foot, she would be blown by the wind.
"ALE-." Before Kiryuu could finish calling her, Alek went back to the physical world and cut the connection between her and the beast.
Alek woke up in the physical world. She was no longer in her mind with the beast.
She saw red. Her mind was occupied with anger.
She looked up to find everyone apart from her parents. This somehow fueled more anger in her parents.
"Alek..." Bia was the first to notice her sister waking up from a three-hour communication with her animal.
Before anyone else could sigh in relief, Alek ripped her cuffs and chains without shifting. She then charged forward the door of the room without hesitation. Nothing was able to stop her, even the steel bars of the cell. Thankfully, no one was standing in front of the door, so they weren't killed by Alek's rampage.
She busted through the door with pure force and followed her parents' whereabouts with Kiryuu's power. In a flash, she stood in front of them with rage in her eyes. Even though she used Kiryuu's powers, her physical features didn't change.
"Alek?" Panacea and Robin snapped their head towards the door where her daughter stood. Alek was still had cuffs on her legs but not on her wrists.
Alek found her parents and held their necks as her beast did before in a second.
"Al..." Robin couldn't continue. His throat was being crashed, and also, he was shocked.
"Alek!" People who were in the cell caught up to Alek and burst into the room.
"ALEK!" Kai shouted towards his sister, who was holding his parents' necks in both hands.
Alek did not even flinch when they came to the room. It didn't matter anyway.
Her parents saw her daughter wasn't shifted. If shifters used their animal power, no matter what, their eyes changed. But Alek's eyes weren't. It was her normal eye colour, brown, filled with hatred.
[Don't.] Robin mind linked everyone who rushed to the room.
Ale tightened her grip on her father when she saw his eyes shift, indicating he just used his mind to communicate with someone. Robin instantly groaned and shut his mind.
"Talk." Alek ordered her parents. She really needed to know what they were thinking and feeling when Aether died in front of her.
"Talk... wha...tt?" Panacea managed to make out the words.
"You know what I am talking about, mum." Alek glared. Her voice wasn't as deep as her beast, but it was still unusual to hear her talking like that. She again tightened the grip. This time, only to her mother. "Are you not talking because you are suffocating?" Alek asked with a fake worry on her face and let them go violently on the floor by throwing them.
"What are you doing, you beast?!" Bia immediately rushed to her parents, who were thrown in the direction of the door. She thought her beast took control of her sister's body and caused this.
Alek turned to her sister with her eyes slowly moving to the door. She then moved her face sideways to face everyone. She looked like a psychopath. "What am I doing? I'm merely asking a question., sister." Alek smiled creepily and turned her body to walk to her parents.
"Alek..." Bia was speechless. She realised it wasn't Alek's beast in control. Her sister was. Her sister was in full control of her body and mind and attacked her parents just like the beast.
"Now, now. Will you tell me why you decided to him die?" Alek asked her father first. He was violently coughing.
"I don't know... what... you are talking... about." Robin answered between coughs.
"Dad, I don't want to kill you, so just answer my question." Alek told him.
"Alek, stop it!" Astraea spoke but didn't move from her position.
"Stop what?" Alek looked up from her father and looked at her aunt. Her eyes were lifeless like a glass ball and, it scared everyone who saw it. "Stop what?" She asked again.
"All of this." Astraea whispered. This was her first time being scared of her own niece.
"Can't do." Alek replied and turned her attention back at her father. "Dad, I told you I don't want to kill you. Now I want an answer. You knew Aether was going to die but didn't do anything to prevent it. I want an explanation for it." Alek bent down to look at her father straight into his eyes.