"Here we are", Aaliyah said. This building was strange, there was a field that was broadcasting some weird energy.
"Welcome to the Home of the Wanting"
It was interfering with my curse making me more feral to the point that I could no longer hide the truth.
My vision was more focused which meant that my eyes were probably glowing super red right now.
She looked at me in confusion probably having suspicions about who I was, if she did she never let me know.
Who the hell was this girl and how the hell was she able to get into my mind I needed to get out of this place before I lost my mind.
*Crack*
My femur bone broke.
If it was just bones breaking it would have been so easy, but it was the fact that every single bone in my body was subjected to be broken and healed by my incredible healing essence just to be broken over and over again.
The first of my curses was starting to take place.
The first of the beasts I shifted into when I landed on Hilderia was my permanent state. My true form was abandoned a few million years ago.
My greatest power turned into the most pestering thing to ever happen to me.
"Nelson you're ok. Focus on me, let me in. I can help you".
How could this infantile brat help me?
She was messing with my mind slowly making the effect of the curse less effective.
Interesting.
Very interesting.
She put a hand on my shoulders and said "It's gone. You don't have to talk about it."
How?
How was this brat able to stop this curse that has afflicted me for billions of years?
"Nelson let's go in, they are waiting for you inside."
We walked in for me to be 'surprised' by a bunch of other children of varying ages.
As we walked in a bunch of kids about three hundred in number started to rumble nonsense greetings to me.
Accompanying them were adult nuns like those found on Earth.
These kids were just as special as Aaliyah.
"Welcome to Talen"
*Noices*
Everyone seemed to be excited by my presence.
It felt good to be at peace for once.
"Young boy, what may we call you.", a strange woman asked.
This woman was the only grown-up in this establishment who had life essence all of them were walking corpses but no one else seemed to notice.
"Nelson... Nelson Vigor"
"Nice to meet you, Nelson. I am Mrs. Everpeach, and I am in charge of this Home, I will be your new mother come to me if you have any problems."
She stood there for a second before turning away leaving me with my thoughts.
I turned to see Aaliyah in a corner reading a book she felt my eyes on her prompting her to close the book and look up.
"Can we talk?" I asked her.
"About?"
"Who you are."
"I'm Aaliyah Walters"
"Don't toy with me. Who are you?!"
"Nelson, I suggest that you be quiet you do not want to be discovered by these people they will take you away. I will explain this all in due time."
"So why did you bring me here so I could die at their mercy?"
"Not death. They will manipulate you and turn you into a weapon for their games, but the king will help us when he finds out."
Such blind devotion, if my deduction were correct, I'd say that this so-called king is the one with the heart of my brother, the same man I felt when I entered this continent. No matter his time will come to die.
Absolutely stupid trust in a person who is using burrowed power, what a joke.
Aaliyah and I spoke at length.
She had made the whole point of my coming to the human continent easier, cutting the whole process by months.
My mission had been accomplished there wasn't anybody worth taking but Aaliyah.
She was indeed special, but I couldn't just kidnap a child. My disappearance would cause a mass hunt to the 'King of the Night', now I couldn't have that.
They were bound to find me soon and I was bound to exterminate the entirety of the human race sooner or later it was just a matter of time.
I will just clone myself and leave this place.
I sat down trying to gather strings of my energy in bits while still masking my presence.
This ritual was one of our base abilities that us Origins had access to. Faux Omnipresence, the power to be in many places at once but it has some downsides. These so-called clones were me in theory, but they could be corrupted and once they left me, I wasn't connected to them until we became once again.
"Whatever you are trying it won't work. Many have tried and failed"
Aaliyah was looking at me like she knew who I was and what I was capable of accomplishing.
I am the King of the Night for god sake, I was the epidemy of power and control, and Intelligence came to me like vast amounts of ocean water. What more was I to say about myself?
"What do you mean that it won't work?"
"Aren't you trying to escape using magic arts weaving threads of power so small that the veil outside does not detect it?"
Exactly what I was doing except for the magic part.
How did this girl know what I was doing? I practiced power incomprehensive to humans there was a clear difference in our magical essence.
"Nelson be patient, King Andrea will be back to Talen soon we could go meet him for assistance. Trust me the King is merciful and benevolent to all in his territory."
Sorry to disappoint you little girl but 'Andrea' was the bad guy. It was obvious that the veil on this structure was put on by the king himself and if I so wanted it would be down by now.
I put away my power.
I have decided to stay in Talen a little longer.
This naive little girl would get killed if she was not careful.
Stroking her hair like a mortal father would do as I smiled at her lovingly, I have decided that this girl is under my direct protection as the King of the Night