89 Support group and aftermath? (2/2)

”At least they have a nice mom!” ”Yeah, the best and nicest mother....” ”.....and beautiful!”

”..... mom isn't like that! She is actually torturing us!” -Me

”Yes! She is a demon! Don't fall for those rumours!” -Aengus

”Poor kids.” ”He already beat them so much ….” ”.... they started to believe it themselves.”

”NOOO! Hear me out! I will tell you guys the whole story!” And so we start to tell them the story of our lifes so far. I tell them about Celes's whipping sessions. And Ireth's educational measures.

Aengus takes over from time to time to tell how Dad actually saved us from mom once. And various other stories of him being nice. Regularly teaching us magic and science. And various other useful skills like handling torture instruments and breaking peoples minds.

Five hours later we are done and everyone looks at us with pale faces and frightened expressions.

”Puh.... It was good to get that off of our minds and talk to someone about it. Right bro?” I look at Aengus with a relieved expression.

”Right, sis! I feel much better now. Especially to correct those rumours.” Aengus nods to me.

”It's worse than i thought.” ”They are in hell.” ”Why are they still alive?” ”They are monsters too?” ”Better don't get too close to them!” ”But we have to help them somehow.”

Samarin looks up from his notebook, which was actually filled to the last page during our story. ”You two... It seems like there is a lot of work before us.... your mother already informed us of you two to be notorious liars. But i never imagined that it would be that much work to help you.”

”I want to go home!”

****Former factory planet of the Council****

I kick a crystal shard on the ground. ”This is frustrating! A whole fucking planet of evidences and we can't find out where they took the Spheres!”

”We are as smart as before. But we got a few valuable informations about the production process of a Sphere.” Chiffre looks up into the sky with a pained expression.

The Arcane Community's moon is clearly visible. It's surrounded by debris, creating an interesting view. It could take a few years until some of the parts will drift out of sight or fall down onto the planet.

After the battle and securing Elohim's body/remains, we decided to hold an emergency meeting.

”I hope you don't plan to play around with a Sphere!” I hate to play the motherly character, but those things are just flat out creepy.

”Of course not! But just looking at the factories gives us all the information that's needed. Like building processes and blueprints. We don't have to risk our souls by playing around with the real thing!” Chiffre answers with a flat voice.

”And by analysing the data we already found out that the Spheres are all linked together and controlled by a hierarchical command structure. There is a central controlling device somewhere. Our people are currently working on a method to tab into this network to find the enemies command centre.” -Chiffre

”Wouldn't it be much easier to interrogate Elohim.” Carne asks an obvious question.

”He isn't in a good condition at the moment. And I doubt that we would get any useful information out of him. He is most likely mind wiped like the others.” Chiffre makes a dismissive gesture. It was the Arcane Community which captured Elohim after the fight. He was drifting in an orbit around their moon after the headbutt.

”That doesn't mean that he will get away lightly. To destroy my moon with a headbutt! Kukuku! I will take my time to dismantle him piece by piece. And after I am done with his body, I will work on his soul. There are quite a few experiments to be done. I always wanted to try to disassemble a soul. Kukuku. Looks like he ate the souls of a few of his followers to fuse with them. I will take my time to restore the natural order..... and maybe go a little further. Kkukukuku....” -Chiffre

”Ehm... Yeah, right. Do your thing.” Carne looks a little pale.

”So we will ready the fleet and wait for your guys to finish the device Chiffre.” I smile at the mad member of the Arcane Community. Hopefully for Carne the truth will never come out...