Chapter 9: Probably
"What do you mean Dad?"
He sighs, before looking at the time on his wristwatch
"I guess we both will be late today.."
"Not like it's the first time"
"Anyway, It's a pretty long story, so here goes… In the 1st century.
"Like BC or AC?"
"Ever... and can you shut up ?"
Miming the action of zipping his mouth shut, Mason let's his father continue.
"So where was I, there was a powerful witch by the name Qetsiyah who was engaged to Sylvanus or Silas as he is better known.
Seeking immortality, he manipulated her into creating the spell, only to be betrayed. Thinking she was going to be with him for eternity, he gives the elixir to his true love Amara, thereby becoming the world's first and only true immortals.
Qetsiyah a women scorned sought revenge for hundreds of years before finally killing Amara and forcing Silas to entomb himself for all eternity.
Qetsiyahs descendants had the family name of Bennet, Amara sired the Petrova family and Silas, the Salvatore's.
Mystic Hills was originally the forest where the spell was cast. And if you check the name's of the founding families. Bennet, Petrova and Salvatore…. are all there"
'I know about the whole Silas thing but were do we the Clarke's fit in.'
"And us? How do we fit in"
My Dad composes himself as the pancakes and coffee have all but cooled at this point
"I was getting to it. Have you heard of the Story of Ibong Adarna?"
"The golden bird?"
"She's more than just a bird.
The tale goes that three Princes, the children of King Fernando and Queen Valeriana in the Kingdom of Berbania. In order to save their parents from their upcoming death, go on a mystical journey to find the mystical bird. The creature which was said to house incredible powers, one of them being the ability to restore peoples health by song.
As with all history however, it is susceptible to an unreliable narrator.
The true tale is not some grand tale of princes gallantly going on an adventure fighting mythical beasts.
It's something much darker. Much darker.
Like many before the King was power hungry and towards the end of his life he felt dissatisfied with being a mortal.
He had in fact met Silas when he was a child and then once more in his old age, he knew there was something unnatural out there.
He tried to plea for Silas to save him and grant him immortality.
But what he didn't know is that Silas never did anything he didn't want to do.
Boredom can be a dangerous vice.
Hence he instructed the king's family to sacrifice ten thousand peasants, to summon the creature Adarna from her slumber.
Only it wasn't a golden beast. It was darkness.
The Darkness personified.
And she as the first primordial being was even crazier.
Falsely she gave the King hope, prophesying of a newborn whose blood was the key to immense power.
The King, then ordered the futher killing of all children drinking the blood of thousands. But when nothing happened, after years of searching.
He cursed at Adarna for lying. Lying about the power he still did not possess.
Only Adarna laughed in his face. "When did I ever say the power was for you?" She heckled.
As she drew from all the negative energy the King and his family had created. Feasting on them like it was candy enjoying the meal which was the destruction of the kingdom.
Finally filled with enough power Adarna did one more thing before returning to her resting.
She turned to the handmaiden whose eyes were smiling at the King's mind breaking at the betrayal.
Asked, "Why are you smiling ? When you know you are about to die young one"
The girl laughed, and answered "Because death is my salvation from this hell on earth"
One of the children the King had killed was her child. As soon as she gave birth, he was ripped from her.
"Death is too soon for you my dear" Adarna replied, conjuring a magic spell which blessed the girl with great might but also created life a child, a successor.
"Now get your revenge against those who took your light away and plunge them into darkness" She commanded before she disappeared, watching the beautiful maiden rip the
heart out of the king and slowly burning the empire."
"So Adarna blessed a maiden, magically raped and impregnated her? Let me guess the kid started the Clarke bloodline?"
Noah laughs at the idiotic comment I made, mentally giving me a thumbs up for my wit,
"Technically, our bloodline that has been passed down for centuries are known as the envoy's of darkness, in the East we are known as Shinigami or Inzigami while in the west we are commonly referred to as a Reaper."
Taking a moment, I respond, "COOL! Do I get a scythe?"
"No dumb-ass. We don't walk around in black garbs. We are peacekeepers. When the supernatural creatures are throwing tantrums… We spank them" Dad looks so smug, it's like his gained all the confidence he used to have when mum was around.
"So what's the thing about me being special?"
He purses his lips, and stops himself from choking up "Your mother's last name is Bennet and her Father, your grandpa was... a Salvator... She was the only hybrid witch immortal that existed.
Which means ..... "
"That I have to go to Hogwarts?"
"Do you really think its time to be cracking jokes?.
Shrugging, "Just asking"
"Moving on... you have the bloodline of the greatest deity of chaos, the bloodline of the first immortal and the bloodline of the greatest witch heritage.
You just never showed any signs of well crazy beyond being the energetic ADHD hyped kid.
You were a handful especially with your mom's sickness. But we were thankful for that.
Your mother was a prime example of the dangers…. The Salvatore and the Bennet bloodlines, it can be both a major blessing and curse.
The Salvatore bloodline gave her a magic pool greater than any witch while the Bennet bloodline gave her control which was unaccustomed with such might. But… it came at the cost of immense strain on her body…. Immense strain"
Taking a breath, I'm now finally able to understand why Dad was never the same after mom passed on.
Not only did he lose his soulmate, he also lost a part of himself. He had to hide anything magical from his 'ordinary' son.
"So dad, In summary I'm a witch, immortal, reaper. Tribrid?"
He looks at me his son with worry "Pretty much but I need to check something."
"What?"
Without notice he grabs his gun from his holster firing at his son.
Instantly the world slows down as the bullet flies towards my shoulder.
Shifting my feet and body I dodge the bullet as it implants itself into the wall behind me.
"Dad? What was"
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Three more shots are fired, all which are successfully avoided with relative ease.
"Incredible" Noah comments making his way over as he inspects my body,
"Dad!? You shot at me"
"And you are fine"
"What if I wasn't able to? I would have died"
"These are blanks kiddo."
"Fine, so what did that prove?"
"Nothing, just thought it would be cool. To have a NEO moment"
"DAD!"
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