The Two That Went Missing

The tunnel I walked through looked like the many alleys I had hid in as a child, the ones that I had fought for my life in. I thought about turning around because the changing scenes began to become too much, but I knew this wasn’t about me or my past, but about stopping new evils from entering our world and destroying everything we know and love. I took a deep breath and forged ahead.
The walls of the tunnel changed to the cave where I found the dragon egg, that soon hatched to be my Drakon. I was so worried about him and what might be happening to him. I pushed the idea to the back of my mind. I can’t be worrying about that now. I finally came into a room. Instead of changing scenes the rooms walls were set as flames. I turned my head toward the center of the room, before I could do anything someone placed their hand on my face. All of a sudden, I wasn’t in the fiery room anymore, I was or should I say my self conscious was traveling through events in my past.
I watched as my mother burned alive, as Leo and I were separated. I watched all the countless times that I was adopted and tried to fit in tried to have a family, but failed miserably each time. I watched as my supposed to be new parents returned me to an orphanage or just threw me back on the streets. I watched as my young self gave up trying to fit in and just shut everyone out. I watched as I ran countless times from orphanage to orphanage from house to house. I watched all the terrible things I had to overcome as a child. I acted brave on the outside, but on the inside I was just a scared kid, looking for the family that I had long forgotten because the memories became too much for me to bare. So, I acted as if it never happened, that none of it was true that I was alone from the beginning. And after telling myself this over and over again, I had finally truly believed it shredding the memories of Leo and my mother.
I took my a minute to focus wiping the stray tears that managed to come out for once. When my vision finally focus, I saw the thing standing in front of me. It was a pale green hag with bleeding cheeks and tear-stained eyes, overgrown fingernails and dusty hair.
“Your a Achlys.” I said in a small voice. Her eyes bore into mine
“Demon of misery, yes.” The hag replied. I violently shook my head
“No, no you only showed me only the bad thing, you left out the good things!” The demon grunted,
“ You mean the dragon of yours, the daughter of Apollo, your long lost brother, Hades boy. They will all perish … one already has.” Before I could say anything, the demon disappeared and my mother appeared instead of her loving caring face, she wore a scowl.
“Mom?” I asked wearily. She began to yell at me in spanish (translation)
“You let your poor brother take the blame, it was your flames too, you let me burn!”
“I’m sorry, I-” My mother disappeared, in her place stood countless orphanage owners that I had once known. Those that had hit me, those that had punished me, those that had called me terrible things that should have never been used to describe a child, those who had done all three. They all stood screaming at me.
“I-” Before I could finish, they disappeared and in their place stood the families I had ruined after being adopted by them. I sat in a corner watching the never ending cycle. I was only drawn out of my misery when I heard a scream. I looked up I knew the voice .. it was Julia’s. She was in trouble, the ongoing scenes in front of me dissipated. I remembered the family I had, found in Drakon and Julia. And I remembered the quest and my mission. The demon reapeared, I drew my katanas.
“ Keep your misery to yourself.” I said moving to attack the hag, I slashed the demons neck once with each katana and then pulled a sledge from my charm bracelet and smashed her head in until she was nothing but dust. I breathed heavily, all I wanted to do was lay down and die, but I made my way out of the tunnel and collapsed into the room, it opened into. I looked at the middle tunnel, the one that Julia had gone into, the same one that her scream came from. I sat up and hugged my knees into my chest and whispered,
“Scooby Doo, where are you?”

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