The dark cloud zoomed towards me at full speed, growing thinner as if it was to enter my heart. It stopped a foot away from me as if it had hit a wall and turned in another direction to try again.
I watched the dark cloud, my heart pounding in my chest. My whole body was tense and I focused on that instead of the others, calling my name, telling me to run and to leave this clouds view. However, I stayed put, needing to know what this was and having a feeling that I was going to face this soon.
The urge to grab my dagger, the one that I didn't have on me, filled my body, but I couldn't because it wasn't there. Instead, I gripped my hands into fists while I waited for the cloud to do something, to break through the wall that seemed to surround me.
The cloud stopped in front of me again and grew larger until it looked like the size of a thunder cloud, and in a way it did. The cloud was a very dark gray while it grew and grew, and flashes of red were seen through some of the clouds as if it was lightning.
Dark magic and power filled space around me, but I didn't care while I waited for this cloud to do something, not knowing what. The sky grew darker and darker while the cloud grew as if it was taking the light away from us and not only the light but the hope that we had.
My family and the others that were gathered around us grew silent and looked grief stricken while they stared at the cloud. Their faces were grave, and I had no idea what they were thinking, but I had a feeling that it wasn't good.
However, I didn't feel like that while I stared at the cloud before me, studying it and trying to find a way to save the hope that my family was slowly losing. I raised an eyebrow and cocked my head while I studied the cloud, having a feeling that it would answer if I asked, so I asked: "what the hell are you supposed to be?"
The cloud chuckled and shifted to the side, and I followed it, waiting for it to do something. "Your worst nightmare," it said.
I cocked my head and furrowed my brows. "Voldemort?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. "Or something like him?" I shrugged. "If not, then no, you aren't my worst nightmare." I stuffed my hands into my pockets. "Try again."
"I am something more powerful than this... Voldemort," it replied. "No matter how much your puny mortal brain can comprehend?"
I raised my eyebrow higher and scowled while I placed my hands on my hips and jutted my hip. "Puny?" I asked, and if the thing had a head, then it would've nodded. "Do you seriously think that my brain is puny?"
"Compared to mine, yes," it replied.
"If your brain is so big, then you would've figured a way to make it inside this bubble that seems to surround me," I said. "However, you are still out of it, and you can't do anything to me."
"But, I know what you are."
I raised an eyebrow. "And that is..? What?" I took a step forward, and the cloud hissed and moved back. "What am I?" I asked.
"The Siran," it replied. "However, you don't seem to have your dagger on you. Didn't they tell you that it was important to keep it on you?" It gestured to my grandfather and his half brother, and I glanced at them before I looked at this cloud.
"Are you this Grand person?" I asked, raising an eyebrow, not answering its "question" about me having my other dagger on me or not. I gestured to the cloud before me. "Or a part of him?"
The cloud chuckled and formed itself into a man. The male was a shadowy figure of his former self, hidden view. There were no human characteristics that I could see, the eye and hair color a dark gray because that was the color of the cloud. It, well he, stood at six foot five and was slim. He didn't look to have a muscle on him, but I knew that looks could be deceiving, especially since he was only a shadowy figure of his former self.
The male clapped his hands and shook his head. "Well done," he said, and I rolled my eyes. "You proved to me that you have a brain."
"But let me guess, it isn't as superior as yours. Is that what you are going to say?" I raised an eyebrow and cocked my head. "Or was it going to be something else?"
Grand shook his head and smirked. "It's what I was going to say," he said. He turned to gaze towards the group that was on the other side of the border that protected them. A scowl appeared on his face when he looked at Cromwell, and the other Demon looked down, not meeting his gaze. "You know that you have a traitor in your midst, correct?" He turned his gaze to look at me.
"A part of him, I am sure," I replied, not knowing how I knew that. "However, right now, at this second, he is under my care and protection."
Grand chuckled. "He could be easily swayed," he said, "to against you." He gestured to the two passed out men, and I glanced at them before I looked at him. "So can they. You have no idea how powerful my magic is."
"And you have no idea how powerful I am." I shrugged. "I mean, I don't even know, but I know that I am powerful."
"You are nothing," Grand spat. He narrowed his eyes and bared his teeth. "You are a nobody, and deep down, you know that."
I didn't reply and didn't move my gaze away from him, and I had a feeling that he hoped I would. There was this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach as if he had confirmed a long held insecurity of mine. I wasn't a somebody; I was a nobody, or at least that was what I was to myself. I wasn't someone important, someone able to do something that others could do.
However, to others, I was somebody. I was someone important, able to fight and protect those that I cared about. I had a family that would catch me if I fall and be there through thick and thin. They were the ones that made me feel like somebody, even if I couldn't do it for myself.
I smiled and shook my head, slowly clapping my hands together. "You're right," I said, my voice leveled and hard. "I might be nothing and a nobody to myself, but I know that I am somebody and something to them." I gestured to the group that was gathered, and he looked before he looked. "And do you want to know what I have to say to you?"
He stayed silent and raised an eyebrow in question. His face was expressionless, and I had no idea if it was because he was a cloud form or if he did not want me to see what he was feeling. His whole body was tense, and I had no idea if he understood the importance of me yet or not.
"Fuck you," I said. "Fuck you for trying to make me feel like an inferior when in reality we both know that I am far superior than you. I am far superior than even you could imagine, and that scares the living shit out of you." I took a threatening step forward, and he took a step back.
The air around us became filled with magic, my magic that I had no idea I had possessed. The world grew lighter and lighter, chasing away the darkness that Grand and placed over us. My family stood a little taller, and the grief leaving them just as quickly as it came, and I had a feeling that I gave them hope.
I reached for the necklace around my neck, the one that Andrei had given me for my birthday and pulled it out of my shirt. The sudden urge to open it filled me, and I had a feeling that the only way to get rid of him was to open it, even though I had no idea how or why.
"Oh, and one more thing," I said, not opening it yet.
Grand raised an eyebrow and stayed silent.
I smirked. "I'll see you in hell." And with that, I opened the necklace and a blinding light appeared from the inside and grabbed the shadowy figure of Grand. As soon as it did that, it pulled a screaming Grand into the necklace without Grand even fighting to get released from it.
After Grand went into the necklace, I closed the necklace, and the blinding light stopped. There was only silence as soon as that necklace became closed, and everything became still.
I fell to my hands and knees and panted, feeling exhausted. My whole body was sore and tense, and I had no idea why because I hadn't done anything strenuous. Sweat dripped down my nose and landed on the ground before me, and I watched it, not paying any attention to the others that were still gathered.
They were safe. My family was safe. They didn't have to deal with the lack of hope that Grand had given them any longer, at least for now. They were safe and sound, protected by the box that hid them from the view of him once again.
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A/N: Can we just snap for Ky, please? At least just for a second? xD