***Rev November 7th
" Kendra, you come with me. Kaia and Laia you guys stick together and Joker you protect Reznakov while he is asleep. Don't look for me, I will look for you guys when necessary." I say.
"Try to avoid any altercations with NoTe. If you've seen Baek fight before, erase that image out of your head since NoTe is an entirely different person. His only objective is to kill you and if you let your guard down he won't fail." I say.
"What happened to the cardinal sin in his eyes?" Joker asks.
" It seems since Baek isn't awake right now his cardinal sin can't be used. Which is good for us but what's bad is that means we don't know any of NoTe's abilities." I say.
"Now everyone disperse." I say.
"What should we do about NoTe?" Kendra asks.
"Let's take him on a chase. Where did you come from though?" I ask.
"My father sent me to deliver Baek's weapon. However, when I saw that army outside I got worried." she says.
" How did you get through the barrier without a ship? Also what army?" I ask.
" What barrier? I just flew straight here. While I was flying I saw tons of Kendrath family ships and soldiers on the shore of this island. " She says.
What the hell? She just flew through the barrier. How strong is she?
"Wait, you said there were Kendrath ships?!" I say in disbelief.
"Yeah there was a lot. Is that bad?" She asks.
" Travis must be trying to eliminate us and Dr.Zikan at the same time. However if his soldiers find this laboratory
then NoTe is going to massacre them.
"Speaking of NoTe, he's catching up to us." Kendra says. NoTe comes from behind and tries slicing our heads off. We both duck then kick him in the stomach. Sending him in the air. Kendra then lifts her hammer and hits him.
"He blocked it." Kendra says.
"Yeah he's strong. Also what's that on your hammer?" I ask. She lifts her hammer up and shows me.
" When Baek wakes up I hope you have a good excuse on why his dreads are gone." I say.
*** Dr.Zikan
"Hmm I didn't expect the demigod to come here. It's okay though this is the perfect environment for you to show your strength. Hopefully that man comes soon. He's late" I say.
***Baek
What the hell happened? Where am I?
"It's good to see that you're awake now." NoTe says.
" What are you doing here?" I ask.
" I told you I would be taking your place very soon. You should've heeded my warning. Now we have to be someone's toy because of your carelessness." NoTe says.
" Where are we? Why am I locked in a cell?" I ask.
" You aren't locked in, you can leave the cell and right now we are in our mind. You won't be able to leave your mind until you understand yourself fully though." NoTe says.
"What about my brother?" I ask.
" Right now our body is trying to kill him. Neither of us are in control. Currently you're in the same predicament you forced me into." NoTe says with clear anger in his voice.
" I have to stop myself. I need to get out of here right now!" I say.
" Ah ah ah. You can't leave yet. We need to understand ourselves but to do that you need to know the past." NoTe says.
" What are you talking about?" I ask.
" Let's start with our name. The name NoTe isn't a name, it's an anagram. It means "Never oppress the enemy." NoTe says
"Never oppress the enemy was a program made by two men. Dr.Zikan the scientist and Kabat the director of the program. Now Kabat was from a tribe of ocean people. They were being oppressed by the Doom family." NoTe says.
"When is this story?" I ask.
" This was when the 6 families first became the 6 families. Anyways, this tribe was used as slaves. They were beaten and abused in all types of ways. They felt every form of oppression possible. The leader of the tribe was named Kabat." NoTe says.
"Kabat wanted to free his people from oppression but he couldn't do that because he was weak. He ended up meeting with Dr.Zikan and made him a proposition. That's when they start testing on animals." NoTe says.
"What was their goal?" I ask.
"They wanted to figure out how to remove emotions. See Kabat didn't want to oppress the Doom family the way they oppressed them. He just wanted to kill the people who harmed his tribe. That's why the program is called Never oppress The enemy. " NoTe says.
"So they needed to remove human emotions because he knew the other tribe members wouldn't have fulfilled their hate with just the Doom family's death. " I say.
" You're a quick learner, Baek. Now of course the first couple tests ended in failure. However, they didn't stop so eventually one of them succeeded. That didn't go well because that NoTe ended up attacking Reznakov Borolin. At that time Reznakov was in his prime capable of battling against multiple demigods at once. " NoTe says.
" He lost his strength because of his gaps in his memory but I guess he'll be gaining that strength back very soon because of you." NoTe says.
***Joker November 8th
Man why did they leave me with the sleep one. He's heavy. It's been a day and he still hasn't woken up. I've also lost my connection with the shadows.
It's been a day since we started hiding from NoTe. I've seen a couple Kendrath soldiers. I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to attack them so I'll leave them alone.
" Have you found any of them yet?" A soldier asks.
" No, I haven't seen that doctor yet either." The other soldier says.
" We were told to eliminate the white and red haired ones first. So let's focus on th-" The soldier is cut off.
" What were you sayi-" The other soldier says. Why the hell did they stop talking?
"Where are we?" Reznakov says.
" Wait, this isn't the time for you to wake up." I say back. I can't shake this eerie feeling. It's worse than when Baek tried killing me. It's not bloodlust though which is the problem. I can hear NoTe's footsteps.
I'm watching him take his first step through the door. What is he holding? It looks like hair. Oh that isn't hair. He's holding the heads of the soldiers he just killed.
How could he kill someone without radiating any bloodlust? Wait now that I think about it. When he tried killing Rev did he express any bloodlust?