"Can someone tell me what happened, and how long was I out for?"
I asked both of them in confusion as I tried to remember what happened to me at the very last minute when Kthilla sacrifice her life to revive me.
The last thing I could recall was dissolving into a pile of goo and gunk, only to be rebirthed into a sea of insects that proceeds to seep through the pores and holes of my own body.
At this question, Alexander was the one to speak, as he explained the situation.
"After you went to take a piss, you suddenly fell into a giant hole, I tried to grab you but it was too late, and by the time I notice, and reach out to you, you already fell into the hole, I wanted to jump down to get you, but the hole was too deep, it took a good ten seconds before I could hear the sound of the pebble I toss inside to hear and see how deep it was, to make a sound."
"When I figured out that the hole you fell in was deep as fuck, I fear the worse, instantly, I rushed to get help, it didn't matter who it was thankfully I met Denzel and mother; of course, I filled them in on the situation on what happened."
From there, mother continued with the story.
"Immediately after I heard what transpired Denzel, myself, and Alexander all rush to the place where you are, however...
"Yeah, however, that's when it happened."
Both of them said with confused expressions on their face as if pondering to themselves how they can explain the unexplainable, mother herself seem to be having a hard time, it was she was holding back greatly.
Of course, I said to them.
"Just say it...
"We wish we could but even we are having a hard time trying to understand what the hell happen to you while you were stuck in that pit, to miraculously come out unscathed, and different."
"Different?!"
I said confused about what he meant by that.
"Yes, different."
Alexander commented with an odd expression as he tries to make sense of the situation while giving me a rather confused look, however, his eyes averted mines, as if he was terrified about something.
But mother soon step in, as she began to explain, but the look on her face seems to be that of an obsessed and crazed person, there was a gleeful but mad expression plastered on her face, it was that of false hope, but I don't know what was going on, so I just hear her out.
"By the time we reach there, you were already out of the hole."
"Ha, how, I don't remember anything after I went unconscious."
I said to both of them in shock, after all, I was in complete shock seeing that the last thing I remember was being converted into goo and insects, not escaping the hole.
Mother of course sigh as she said.
"How do you feel?"
"I feel good, better than ever to be honest!"
But when I said this both of them made a rather confused and worried expression.
"Are you sure brother?"
"Ok guys please stop this, I want to know why you are acting so weird with me."
Mother then sighed with pain as literal tears flow from her eyes, as she hug me tightly not wanting to let me go by any means necessary, and said.
"My precious son mommy loves you, you know this right?"
"...eh... Yeah, but you are acting kind of weird why are hugging me as if I'm the most precious thing in the world?"
"Because you are, maybe you can, yeah your my favorite son after all, I love you, mommy loves you, mommy cherishes, adore, loves, idolized, admire, and obsess over you... This is a lie, but a lie I need, I lie I can accept."
Mother said holding me tighter.
"You're acting funny Mother Deliah?"
But when I said that, she began to be enraged as she said.
"Don't call me that, I'm not Deliah, I'm... I'm... Lo...
But before she could finish her words, Alexander suddenly slapped her which snap her out of her trance, which confused me.
I instantly barked at Alexander as I said.
"What the hell brother, why the hell did you slap her?"
"Because she tripping again Sherlock, our mother is blinded, by your new power, she sees you not as Sherlock Prelati, but as someone else, someone she calls, Rirnef Ilkitos."
"Rirnef Ilkitos, who the fuck is that?"
Alexander then began to explain once more.
"That's what I'm trying to say, you see when all of us rushed to save you, you were already out of the hole, and the hole itself seems to have collapsed on itself closing the entrance, we then found you lying near the cart unconscious, but we have no clue how you got out of that deep place.
"But that is the least of our concerns, what was shocking to us, was the fact that each of us saw you as someone else, except me of course.
When I heard this, my eyes opened in shock as I said.
"Someone... Else?!"
I said in disbelief.
"Yeah, mother saw you as Rirnef Ilkitos, Denzel saw you as a girl name Giana Moor, meanwhile I saw you as just Sherlock... You are Sherlock right?"
Alexander asks as he is not fully sure if I am Sherlock as well.
Upon hearing this I close my eyes as I remember words from Kthilla, recalling what she said about her power, as it all came rushing back to the back of my mind.
'๐ ๐ช๐ถ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฌ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ผ .'
'๐๐ ๐น๐ธ๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ป๐ฎ๐ช๐ถ, ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐ผ, ๐ช๐ท๐ญ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฌ๐.'
'I see so that what it means to be the witch of secrets, or in my case the Warlock of Secrets since I inherit Kthilla powers and title, no one is allowed to look upon, gaze as a whole, or merely even dare to perceive my true form, no one is allowed to witness me as me, no one should have that right but me and me alone, this form is mine and mines alone, to perceive it would be a sin.'
"ยกBrother!"
But I was soon knocked out of my thoughts when Alexander gave me a serious expression which was followed by a loud shout, as he said shortly after.
"Please... Tell me your Sherlock right, give me a sign that you are alive, I don't know what I would do without you brother, I love you like a son, you're the only family I have that feels real to me, many days when I feel down I could always talk to you about my problems, don't leave me with Denzel, please don't be an illusion, just give me a sign that it is you, I'm begging... Y-you."
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you, if I was only faster then, I could have saved you, that's why I am so...
However, before he could finish speaking I sigh as I walked toward him and gave him a fist bump to the chest right to his heart which was beating with vigors of life, and said to him.
"Honestly stop whining like a little bitch, I'm alive ok, who was the one that ask me to dispose of their body when they die?... who is the one that taught me how to hunt when I was twelve-year-old?... who was the one that wants me to get an education?... you already know it, Alexander, I am Sherlock Prelati, and that's all I will ever be, I don't know what happen to me when I fell into that hole, but I want you all to know that I love you, cherish you, and idolize all of you, we are family, I love this life, I love my time with all of you, so please stop over-complicating things."
When everyone heard this, their eyes opened in realization, Deliah being the one the perceived me in a different light than before, originally what she saw was a cute little ten-year-old boy, with blond hair, and red eyes, his skin so soft and tender, it was easily lily white.
His smile was so joyful that it put even the noblest oblige to shame, he had a lean build and was 4"4 in height, and always had positive and loving energy to him, and being an awakening like her, he had cute little wolf ears that heard all, and paws that cut through steel with ease.
But that image soon turns to that of an expressionless boy with long dark purple hair that reaches his back, his skin as pale as an undead, and his eyes were a beautiful purple void with zero emotion.
It was not Rirnef Ilkitos but Sherlock Prelati, it hurt her dearly to see the boy who she wanted to see the most right now disappear before her eyes again.
But it also made her happy knowing that Sherlock was alright, but still, she was in a lot of emotional pain, she bent her head down in regret and defeat as she said to herself.
'That's right Rirnef died in the great fire, I couldn't save him, I watch my son perish before my eyes on that unforgettable Christmas Eve, that night I lost everything to the man in red, when he turn my village into burning coal, I alone survive the terror of that night, my husband not so much, my daughter was kidnap, and my son burnt to death right before my very eyes.'
'Yeah, he is dead...and that's how it has always been.'
At that same time, however, mother emerges before me as she smiles bitterly and hugged me while whispering in my ears.
"I'm glad your ok Sherlock."
I responded to this with.
"Yeah. I'm happy you are back to your senses mother Deliah."