“Leah!!” “Darius!!” The little girl held out her hand, trying to grab her brother's. Darius tried to make sure that he would save her. But then the house exploded, and Leah was gone. The whole space went dark, and Darius stood there, seeing nothing to guide him. In the dark, he tried not to lose himself. “Da-rius?” He paused, turning to look right behind him, and he saw her. Leah stood there, looking at him. “Why didn't you save me?” “I tried. I was trying to get to you, but I was taken away…” “You left me there!” “No, no, no!” Darius clenched his chest, knowing nothing could have saved him. “I was taken away; I did everything to help you. But there wasn't a chance for me; they took me from the house and–” “You left me there, my own brother left me to die in that safe!!” Darius stood there as Leah slowly turned into the woman he had seen at that place; he couldnt bring himself to understand what was going on and how he was going to be dealing with what was going to

Back at the Scythe headquarters, Leah was still having an internal crisis. Visions of a white-haired man and a smiling family still flashed through her mind, and she couldn't stop them. “Who are these people?!” She cried, trying to pull herself together, knowing nothing could help her unless she found out who they were. Nothing helped her find the answer; everything she was seeing was clearly connected to her and her past. But nothing helped her get close to understanding what it was or who they were. Leah lunged for the table and tossed it across the room. She rushed for the utensils and didn't hold back, tearing everything apart to find what was going on in her head. “Why am I seeing these images? Who are you, and why am I seeing all of you?!” Her voice was filled with pain, trying to get herself to be calm, but there wasn't anything that could bring it all down to a clear point that she was dealing with something hidden. It felt like she was seeing things that didn’t add u

“Scepter’s division failed?” Tiron asked, his eyes darting around, knowing that there wasn't anything to save them from Akayaza’s wrath. They couldn't afford to let anything disrupt their plans. “It isn't going to be nice facing them, and with us also losing Aaron and Kaden Sio at the same time, this isn't something I can even think of handling.” David spoke up; all the scythes were there. Including the hot-headed Liam, who had firsthand seen what the man they were facing could do and how far he could push, he made sure everyone understood what was about to come. ‘That monster isn't something that would be taken lightly, and there isn't going to be any chance for us to take down that beast if we don't have a good enough plan.’ He knew what was waiting for them, and how it looked like they were not going to be ready for anything he would throw their way. Darius was a monster that would eat them whole, and he wouldn't do it slowly. It would be done once and fast… Vance looked

Alan had done everything in his power to make sure Leah didn't try to get her memories back, knowing it would be a catastrophe if she did. ‘That lie isn't going to hold it down, and I can't use that technique on her without the risk of her going berserk.’ Alan didn't want to risk it; she might be a weaker part of the warrior team, but she was still a Winters, and they were not normal. Having done everything he wanted to do with the scythes, he was heading to the deeper districts of the Northern Skull Island. A place where no one would dare venture; it was almost void of life. Except for the ones who breathed the air; they weren't hailed as warriors or anything special, but they were called monsters. This was the resting ground and base of the Obsidian Lotus… Alan had reached a huge mansion; it looked like it was made right out of marbles and wonders. No one could imagine that within the bowels of this horrid place was hidden a mansion that looked like it was drawn right out of

Darius was looking at Sable and his men, knowing that there was something that made them try to come for him, but then he wanted to make sure that he would cause a scene and there would be something that no one would be able to stop. "Now tell me, what are you planning to do? I don't know what it is you think you are going to achieve if I am removed here?!" Darius was looking at the men in front of him. It was going to be an unnecessary back-and-forth, but he wasn't going to stand there and let Sable make him leave the school like that. "You will have to tell me why you want to remove me from this school!" Darius looked at Sable; he had already caused trouble by making it hard for him to even think of a way to beat him down and remove him from the school. Sable was looking at the boy, and all he could see was someone who didn't want to leave the school, not even in a body bag. 'You're acting like there is something you did that would even make it impossible for me to remove you e