182 Hidden mistery (1/2)

”Later...” Detra responded to Marcus after listening to his demand.

She stood up and tried to reach for her bag to grab something to eat in order to prepare to face the ring of fear, but the lad just grabbed hold of her arm and stopped her.

”Now!” he demanded.

”...” she stared into his eyes. Up until now, Marcus was doing everything he could to avoid eye contact with her, but at this moment, he was acting like she was the only thing that mattered to him.

”I need to properly talk with you...” he explained.

”About what, exactly...? We have bigger problems to deal with right now... The girl is looking like she is about to lose her will to fight at any second, the lady with the power to predict any incoming danger has lost her ability and turned into dead weight, and now you come here to try and waste even more of my time... What could be so important that needs to be discussed right now while we are in the middle of a crisis??”

”...” Marcus continued to glare at her.

”Anything that could possibly need to be said between us has already been made very clear by this point... You want nothing to do with me, you hate me for the way I treated you, you wish I could just vanish from the face of the planet or hoped that I would at least rot in jail while paying for the crimes you think I committed against you... What else would you like to let me know?”

”Is that what you think...?” Marcus asked.

”...?”

”You think I wanted to just forget about you...? To get rid of you and act like you never existed...?”

”...”

”You were the only family I knew... The only thing I had... My whole life I just listened to you because I thought that deep inside you had the best intentions for the way you treated me... But you really didn't... At all... Everything you do, everything you did... You never cared about the way your actions could affect others... How could you live like that??”

”Is that what this is about? You want to know why I am the way I am?” Detra questioned while freeing her arm.

”I want to know the truth... I want to know if there was at least a small trace of a decent human being left inside of this rotten person you are today... I want to know if I spent so much of my life being attached to something that never existed in the first place...”

”Ah... I see... You wanna know if mommy ever really loved you...” Detra stated while resting her cheek on her fist.

Marcus just glared at her as always.

”Here is the truth... my champion... You existed for one goal, and one goal only... to be my weapon, and to bring me glory! And guess what? You failed at both of these roles... You couldn't do a thing against Mia when it mattered the most, and you couldn't do a thing for me when I needed you the most... To me, you're nothing but a failure. Happy?”

There were many things the lad wanted to say back to her, but he contented with just letting her know what he wanted her to know.

”Because now I know... That I really was holding out for someone that was really not worth my effort...” Marcus commented while dropping tears from his eyes, ”I deserve more than this... I deserve more than hating myself for what you did to me... I will not miss my chance at being happy for someone who gives no value to the happiness of others...”

Detra just rolled her eyes and walked away from him, ”good for you...”

Marcus while wiping his tears just whispered something before she could distance herself enough to not be able to hear him, ”You are not worth my sorrow...”

Detra halted for a moment and without turning around just gave her response, ”guess I'm not...”, and finally moved away from him.

She kept walking and spotted Ellie approaching Lilith who seemed to be waking up as well. The two began to hug each other trying to comfort their wounds. Detra saw that image and started to picture visions inside her head of a girl around Ellie's age cuddling herself on her arms. The girl had the same eye-color and hair-color as Detra's.

She was reminded of the time she talked with Evlin about whether or not she remembered about her time when she was a human and how Detra stated that she didn't remember anything about her old life.

[[”Really...? What about your family? Your mother? Your father? Maybe brothers and sisters...? Or even... A daughter...?”]]

Detra then dropped on her knees as she thought back to the word 'daughter' and the picture of the girl that she was hugging, except this time, the kid was holding a crying expression while looking at her. She felt like some kind of sleeping memory was starting to suddenly wake up. Something from a long, long time ago.

She tried to look away from Ellie and Lilith but ended up looking back to stare at Marcus instead, who was still wiping his face.

The two images started to constantly shift from one another. Detra hugging a girl that looked just like her, and Detra talking with that girl while she was on the verge of tears.

Ellie saw the woman on the ground shaking and sweating and came to see if she was ok.

”Detra...? Something wrong??” the girl asked.

Detra raised her head to stare at her, but instead of seeing Ellie's face, she was looking at the girl that kept appearing on her mind instead.

”Ma- Marcy...” Detra whispered.

”... Who...? Whoa!!!” Ellie was shocked for Detra just suddenly started to hug her out of nowhere like the two were close friends.

”Marcy!! I missed you so much... I... I...”

”Uuhhh...” Ellie didn't know what to say or do. She literally never saw Detra acting like that before.

The woman then finally came to her senses and realized that she was hugging Evlin's niece. She quickly released her and walked away while shaking.

”Sorry... I... I think I'm starting to get tired as well...”

”Oh... Ok...” Ellie responded while watching Detra leaving. She started to think to herself 'Who's Marcy...??' as she watched the woman walk away.

Part 2

After the rather out of the ordinary morning, the group finally decided to reunite again in order to have some breakfast before entering the ring of fear.