As Damien laid on the couch in the jet, He studied the File on number 5 and his Cepan Rey. Sure he had written most of it but the notes from the agents were very informative. From the report you could guess that Rey was already showing signs of being sick, He had visted a dozen doctors at different hospitals in the last two months.
As we headed to the apartment that five and his cepan are renting in Canada Damien couldn't help but hope it was because of his sickness then Rey would be the easiest of the Loric to accept his help. That sounded a bit horrible to hope his sickness had reached a certain point but if he was sick to a certain point helping him out would build a strong bridge of trust.
A little bit of meat make him feel a bit better a little talk no jutsu and save Five from his original fate, But From the reports other then Rey's doctors and getting groceries Rey barely every, Damien thought it was mostly because of his disease but it could also be because this was Rey's strategy of survival isolation. If that were true then there would be problems if Rey refused to believe him or if he insisted on isolating him and five still.
Even though Rey only comes out very little Cody(5) sneaks out quite often during the past few months Not anywhere far just goes over to a park a few streets over Plays in the playground, feeds the ducks, lays under this one tree. Just a regular 7 year old. It's hard to imagine the picture of the boy holding a baby bird that fell out of a tree to the monster that he would become in the books.
When the two go out together Rey keeps a very short leash on Cody. Even inside their apartment he was very strict an agent that was listening in on their training sessions. The agent even recommended calling social services for the kid but he was just a level 5 agent not knowing about the loric or mogs or why Rey would go so far in training a 7 year old, Damien could understand the impulse the man was dying he wanted to teach as much as he could when he could but It was no wonder that Cody completely lost interest in his training when he went to the island. Its also why Five in the books was able to accept mogodorian lifestyle so easily it was in a way similar to how he had trained at young age.
It made Damien think of a scene in the show How I met your mother when Marshall is trying to coach a kids basketball team, "My father gave me no Quarter and I asked for no Quarter." but there was no Lily to balance out Rey not to say he was a bad guy just Harsh, At least the other cepans gave their kids have a little leeway. Honestly didn't know how the old man is a Cepan he seemed to just be bad with kids. As Damien studied a picture of Cody talking to another kid in the one time Rey had gone to the park with him you could see a look of mild disgust at the kids. Hopefully it was just the kids if he was deep seeded racist of humanity that would be pretty bad.
Maybe its because he's sick or maybe because he lost his family on Lorien but he's almost taking it out on Cody through training. Damien doubted Cody even knows that his training is brutal compared to others because of his limited interaction with any one that isn't Rey.
Honestly after reviewing the information over and over he's Contemplating even giving Rey the Amphisbaena. Sure it'll help build a relationship with Cody but he Doesn't really see a logistical advantage of a bitter old man added to the Loric crew especially with Hilde already building a faction built to oppose every word out of his mouth, his aversion to humanity is not a good sign even if it could be explained by his sickness, but still he hasn't built any relationship outside of professional and transactional. Being the oldest Loric alive he might be able to convince the Loric to follow misinformation if given the chance don't want to give him the ability of being Loric Dumbledore. Damien pushes tries to push those thoughts past it wouldn't be good to meet the man with preconceived notions though the more he thought about it the more plausible it sounded.
For example John thought that he would have to go off planet to restore Lorien because Henri Misrepresented the information that Loridas the Loric Elder that performed the Charm on the nine Garde told him by telling john he would rebuild Lorien. The goal was always to restart Lorien here on earth, What if Rey somehow convinces them they need to go back to Lorien instead of fighting the mogodorians here. Damien will have to meet the main to make a final decision but this observations of the agents don't do him any favors. Damien looks up and notices Janus Staring at him.
Damien give him a nod tentatively. It breaks Janus from the stare and he looks away. Damien noticed of late the Loric have been a little distanced from him. Damien think it's because of Incident during training. He had been caught using training in the morning to train my somnokinesis. He was pretty sure that they hadn't caught on the whole 6 months.
He usually didn't knock anyone out in sparing training unless he covers it with an attack. If he can't he tries to refrain from using his demigod abilities. There was this one match of kind of free for all battle. and he'd used a full sleep touch to Crayton's back Ina moment of desperation not wanting to lose against him especially since Crayton was trash talking a bit sure it was to motivate him but at the time all he wanted to do was defeat him, He thought no one was looking but Zophia was behind him sparing with Uncle Simon. When Damien caught her eye she acted like she hadn't seen anything and He hoped she hadn't but the way Janus was acting it was doubtful she hadn't.
"Janus is there something wrong?" Damien Asks raising the little kid innocence a little kid angle trying to pull down his walls. Janus looked at Damien with a look of mixed feelings before deciding to answer.
"N-nothing just bored at how slow this earthly hunk of junk is." Janus responded mocking the plane to escape from my question.
"Are you Sure? If you tell me maybe I can help if there is something wrong." Damien tells him Uncle Simon Looks up from his book when Janus Stuttered it was obvious that something was wrong and this was this would probably be the only time he could grill Janus on what the Loric know since Crayton was sleeping soundly in the back of the plane. Janus seems to think for a moment.
"We know you awakened a Legacy which is great it means you are truly Garde and it will be a pleasure to fight the Mogs along side you, But they are a bit upset that you tried to hide it and also It's just on Lorien The earliest ever awakened Legacy except for aeternus which people are born with was a little under ten years old and it usually takes years to master but You are not even 8 and already in control of your legacy. It brings up many questions." Janus says. Damien feels relief that Janus chose to trust him guess being the savior of his sister does have some benefits.
Damien nods along as he confirms his suspicions that he'd been caught red handed. Though now Damien is a bit confused if Zophie had spilled the beans shouldn't they be celebrating when One acquired her Earth Quake Manipulation and generation and Telekinesis The Loric took the day off to celebrate but Damien guessed for him to further developing legacies in the eyes of the loric it means that He might be right about their potential futures.
"What questions Would That bring up?," Damien asks choosing not to deny that He had legacies He can't tell them where his abilities came from maybe one day if he can figure out how to let some one permanently see past the mist but telling them about Gods and the real sources of my abilities because that would just create problems right now.
"Well... Since you Awakened it so Young is it because your Human? Or is Because you were chosen by Lorien? Or is because we are on earth and Lorien reacts differently on Earth? If it is the last one it all raises several more question's Since you got your abilities so early why aren't the rest of the Garde should we expect the usual Patterns When an Outlier like you exists and there so few of The Garde left its hard to leave anything up to chance. Also your ability is a completely unknown the closest thing we have ever seen is the Electric touch but it's different then the way Zophie described seeing no electric shock from you." He spits the whole statement out so quickly like his brain was going to explode keeping it in.
"Well One thing I know for Sure the garde will get their powers just as usual Just as one is getting them Right now. I don't know why I've unlocked a legacy so early maybe it's to help protect the garde before they get their legacies I have no Idea. The ability has something to do with sleep it's not completely mastered but I'm getting pretty good using it in close combat one touch and your seeing stars." Damien tells him starting off serious but boasting in a jovial tone talking about his ability trying to distract a bit from those other unanswered qeastions.
"sleep? Is it just putting people to sleep and making them drowsy," Janus asks suspiciously. Damien had trained his abilities in passing on the loric everyonce in awhile Janus had obviously connected ability to the random drowsiness he and the Loric had experienced over the last few months but Damien smiles not backing down.
"Yeah sorry about that I couldn't really control my ability yet I can cause someone to sleep but I can also see dreams a bit and ever so kind of manipulate them though I have to touching someone." Damien tells Janus. If this is supposed to be a legacy might as well get as much bang for his buck if Damien could get away with it he'd try to play off his shadows and ice as legacies too but He didn't know where the line of where things would be to far looks extremely surprised but also very excited.
"what's Crayton dreaming right now?" Janus asks almost yelling at him. Damien sigh and stand up and touch craytons leg.
Entering his dreams its like stepping through a fog you can't really see the ground but you can kind of feel the ground it front of your foot. He takes a few awkward steps and He sees Crayton is chasing a tiger/panther animal that Damien don't recognize must be a Chimera form from lorien behind Crayton is a woman he doesn't recognize after a second the animal turns and lunges at Crayton.
At first Damien thinks it's trying to attack him but as it reaches him it turns into an animal with long arms and that's sorta cute kind of like a very fast sloth. he moves the sloth like creature to his back holding on to his shoulders as if it's a back pack and turns to the woman She just waits for him running slower so he can catch up the distance between them getting shorter and shorter when she reaches an arm length away, The woman turns she is just a little kid and she is holding a child.
Damien realizes who this is. It's Ella's mom maybe even the moment she trusted Ella to him. It feels personal and Damien knows he shouldn't be here, but it's such a heart whelping sight he can't but help watch the scene. After a few more seconds he gets then pulled back to reality. Janus is waiting watching Damien in awe as if seeing a zoo animal doing a back flip. Damien doesn't mind it's pretty cool to have powers even if it isn't a legacy.
"he's dreaming about a Chimera and running through a field" He says simply not giving much detail. Damien want to prove my ability but I don't want to obliterate Crayton's privacy.
"Cool, your ability is pretty Versatile it has combat capabilities and maybe it could be used for interrogation or information gathering?" Janus wonders aloud.
"maybe, Hey shouldn't you be in the cockpit aren't we close to or landing coordinates in canada?" Damien ask him. Trying to change the change the subject. He gets up as if hit by lightning rubbing his head as if embarrassed.
"I don't know if that was the best decision." Uncle Simon says as soon as Janus closed the door to the cockpit. Damien knew he was right he had taken a big risk now giving more details then necessary to Janus about his somnonkinesis.
"They already sort of knew plus telling them some of my capabilities will let them see me as an asset, especially since they have been pulling away these last few months" Damien tells him. He grunts back and Damien can't tell if it's in approval or disapproval. Damien thinks back to Crayton. His dreams show how much he loves ella, he may not have been chosen to be here cepan or her father figure but he still loves her like daughter and Damien respects him for that. Even if he did try to manipulate Damien to see her as a little sister.
Damien wonders which of the Chimera that was in the dream it didn't seem to be Olivia she prefers a different form than panther type features.
He noticed the plane was starting it's decent. Damien looked out the window to see the plane going beneath the cloud line. 'See you soon five.' He thought silently.
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