The Missing Part

Chapter 9

'Hachem!" Copter who was taking a walk around the garden just outside the castle was sneezing suddenly, which kind of weird. He didn't feel cold, the smoke surrounding him was making sure the temperature was right for him all the time. At the same time, he was taking the attention of all the soulless being around, which was turning at him at the same time, which he felt creepy somehow, but to just give them apologetic smile.

"I'm fine! I'm okay!" Copter was screaming to no one, letting whatever around him knew that he was okay and that he wasn't having any fever, but that was odd somehow. Though briefly, after the sneezing, he could feel something warm in his heart, something he couldn't feel since he was waking up been in here.

Maybe he was started going crazy, living in here, all alone and with no real life. He missed his parents, but whenever he thought about them, the day that lead him here was coming to him that he will feel a lot worse than the longing feelings he had initially.

So, he was trying to avoid thinking about them as much as he could, but still, sitting without doing anything, it was hard to not think.

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Kimmon, Tae and Tee had arrived at the area that Squ had to lead them to. It was deep in the woods, different characteristics of a forest. The trees around here are short, stunted, and scattered, with thorns and prickle which protrude from the stems and that they are leafless. So, it was warmer, or more precisely, hotter here compared to the rest of the forest, that they had to walk ever slowly and carefully to not let themselves hurt by the prickly thorns from all the trees surrounding the area.

They could see from afar, ahead of them was a foggy area, make them wonder what awaits them beyond it. However, after walking, since they couldn't be running in this thorn side of the forest, Squ had stopped right in front of the fog. Looking up at it ever closely, they could see nothing beyond it, which was very weird, and it was thick that covered the whole thing, that they even thought that it was actually a cloud surrounding the area, instead of fog.

Curiously, Kimmon was trying touching it, but it was just like fog, or smoke, that his hand can pull through. Squ just watched Kimmon while just standing beside him, not walking through it. Kimmon, Tae, and Tee was turning to Squ, curiously.

Tae was coming closer, stretching his hand, inviting Squ to come to him, and Squ just did that and was sitting on Tae's shoulder, while whispering to Tae. Being appointed as the leader, the ability to understand the black creature's language come naturally to him.

"It wasn't fog, but smoke of black creatures. It had been bewitched and was still had served its purpose. I guess we are in the right place. He's here, Tee." Tae was talking and then look straight at Tee. Tee then touching the smoke and was closing his eyes and was trying to mind-link with the person he was been looking for years.

But he couldn't get anything, no signal of him at all. He then opened his eyes and turn to look at Tae, while shaking his head. Tae then turns to oblivious Kimmon who couldn't really understand, but the truth is, he was still waiting.

"Did you get anything, Kimmon?" Kimmon was heaving a deep sigh. "I don't hear anything today that I started to get worried. It was already evening, yet I couldn't hear anything." Tae was nodding his head hearing Kimmon.

Tae then taking Squ and let him on his palm, giving him his order and Squ then leave them three and was heading back to the forest direction. "I think, we need to base here for a while. It almost dark, but we still have time to make someplace to rest around here. Let's start working on it."

Tee and Kimmon was nodding their head, agreed with Tae and started cutting the small tree around them to clear someplace for them to rest, or to make a base, according to Tae. They were just started when suddenly all the black creatures come and helping them to clear the area, which Kimmon and Tee would look at Tae while Tae was just giving his tooth smile while raising his eyebrows double or triple times, making Kimmon and Tee shaking their head, but they were smiling. They were all happy with all the help those creatures could give them.

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"I was waiting, but I think, it's a good time to ask you both right now." Kimmon was asking Tae and Tee while they, Kimmon, Tae, and Tee were having dinner in front of the fire, while the other creatures had all fall back to their hiding, wherever that is, except for Squ who was resting on the fallen tree, beside Tae.

"What are we looking for? Who was behind the smoke? And why I even here in the first place?" Kimmon was asking out all the curiosity he keeps inside since the moment they were dragging him into the conversation in the bubble.

Tae and Tee were looking at each other and Tae was nodding his head to Tee. "I thought you'd never asked." Kimmon was scowling to the smirking Tee.

"Okay, I'll tell you everything. I'm sure even the dark creatures would be interested in my story." Tae was frowning to that. "Wait, Tee." Tae was closing his eyes, might be trying to detect who was listening, and he was glad, almost all of the creatures were actually listening to them.

"You might hear stories from Pibul about the new family ruled the world right? But if you asked Pibul back at the time, who was the previous family that ruled the world, he was for sure couldn't answer you. That's all how it started for us, but we guess for our friend aka my cousin, it was started long before us."

Kimmon was frowning again. "You mean, their memories had been erased only on that particular part?" Tee was smiling a little and was nodding his head. "At least you are smart, it makes my job easier. Yes, you are right, the whole people's memories had been wiped out on that particular area."

"Why don't you and Tae?" Kimmon was asking earning a deep sigh from both of them. But Tee just continued. "It was something we weren't sure until now, but we were pretending the whole time that we were affected too. The black creatures wouldn't know anything since black magic was forbidden before, so that's why I hope they were listening to us right now so that they would know they weren't the only who affected by black magic."

"So, you remember the original ruler of the world?" Kimmon's question just like dropping the sudden bomb, even though they both, Tee and Tae were pretty sure the question would be popped up sooner or later. It was such a big question and it was like a forbidden word to utter, or something might befall them without they realize.

"No, I don't know how to say I know or maybe I just know that I shouldn't know." Kimmon makes the scrunched up face to that answer. He was trying to retort back, but Tae had a signal for him to just listen to what Tee had to say.

"Black creatures are very straight forward and they would do or hear things straightly according to what they need to hear, and they don't have to understand everything for that, that's how they live their purpose. My answer just now, to evade those black creatures that had the purpose to listen to anything regarding the matter, so you have to understand I couldn't be so straightforward."

Kimmon was blinking his eyes to that. Life was more complicated here than in his school. All of a sudden he missed school, and Bas, and Itthipat. They might have been looking for him right now, didn't they?

"So, the one we are looking for was the important person regarding the matter. He was my cousin, and the three of us were best friends, and Tae would suppose to be his beta instead of my beta."

"Instead of you, he was the real one? Supposedly?" Kimmon was trying not to be straightforward, but he still needs the answer. Tae and Tee were nodding their head. "You just have to understand to that point for now."

"What about me and all this?" There was still one question Tee didn't answer him, and he was still demanded it.

"You were his destined mate."

End of Chapter 9