Lillian rushed to her room immediately after everything started, she locked her door behind her. She knew this had to do with the orb, but there was something else there; she could feel it, but she couldn't focus on where it was coming from. It had something to do with her father, she thought. She looked outside her window again, staring at the portal to a different realm in the sky. The whole school was deathly silent; she looked around but couldn't find anyone.Shutting her window, she moved to sit on her bed, ready to summon her father. She knew her father didn't like it when she summoned him, but she needed to know what was going to happen.“What do you want?” her father asked immediately when he was summoned. He looked at her like she was filth. Lillian didn't have time to care about how he felt about her; they'd never had a good father-daughter relationship; they were like strangers.“Are you the reason why this is happening?” she asked. Her father raised a brow at her before la
Lillian shook her head, her expression grim and resolute. “The solution, Storm, is none other than for you to clean up the mess you caused yourself,” she answered.Storm's heart sank at her words. He had hoped there might be another way, some easier path to fix this. But deep down, he knew she was right. He had created this chaos, and it was his responsibility to set things right. Shocked and overwhelmed, he asked, “But how am I going to do it?”Lillian's eyes met his, and he saw a mixture of concern and pity. “You will need to travel to the other realm to retrieve the Orb from the Magebreaker,” she explained. “It's the only way to close the gate and restore balance. Besides, now that the location of the Orb is known to all, everyone will want to obtain it. The truly strong ones don't really care about the chaos; they are only interested in the power the Orb holds.”The image of the Magebreaker loomed large in his mind. “How can I possibly defeat him?” he wondered, fear gnawing at the
Storm stood at the center of the office, his friends gathered around him in a tense semi-circle. The weight of the truth he had just revealed hung in the air like a storm cloud, dense and foreboding. His voice broke the silence after a while. He couldn't read any of the emotions on his friends' faces. Soon, he saw the shock written all over their faces as they understood everything he said.Chuckling softly , Storm broke the silence, “I can see the shock and bewilderment on your faces. I am sorry I didn't tell you all the truth. The guilt had killed me for a while but I had to keep it a secret. Revealing the truth to you all only meant your deaths. Now you know why I asked you not to seek the Orb and why I kept you in the dark. It was not out of mistrust, but because I didn't want to put your lives in danger because of me.I needed the Orb to save myself, to cling to the fragile thread that binds me to this world. And in doing so, I deceived you all.” Storm took a deep breath before sp
Storm didn't move and just let Lucy do what she wanted, but Lillian stopped her in time. Lucy raged, her eyes blazing with a fury that seemed to scorch the very air between them. "Storm, you're a murderer! Coming from the family with that cursed surname," she spat, each word dripping with venom. "It was your family who killed mine, and I've been looking for revenge ever since. I will definitely have it. I've waited too long for this moment! I'll kill you myself for what your family did to me. They ruined my life! They killed my parents and my siblings and left me to suffer. You are the reason I can't sleep at night, the reason why I still have nightmares from that night. Was that why you hid your surname? Did you think you could hide it forever? I knew it, you are just like them, Oaken's never change. You are all evil monsters who take joy in seeing people suffer. You are probably enjoying what is going on right now in the school but only pretending." She turned to the others, eyes te
Lillian then rebuked Lucy, her voice no longer compassionate "Lucy, Storm is just a descendant. He didn't know of his family's sins. Even if he knew, there is no need for revenge. And even if you still want to pursue it, you should wait until everything is settled. Like I said before, he is the only one who would be able to defeat my father and get the orb back." Storm glanced at Lillian, she had so much faith in him but he didn't.Lucy clenched her fists, her face a storm of conflicting emotions. "But you don't understand, Lillian. How can you stand there and defend him? His family... they took everything from me." Lucy's fingers trembled as she spoke remembering everything, "I was just a kid," she whispered to the quiet room, her voice barely louder than a breath. "Seven years old, we weren't rich but we were happy.We were playing hide and seek, me and my brothers. It was supposed to be fun." She paused, her eyes going far away as the past came into the present,tears fell from her e
After the hug, Storm then told Lillian that he was ready to go.“We will try our best to fight off the creatures in the school.” Keith assured as he patted Storm's shoulders. Storm looked back at him ready to argue but he stopped him, “and no you can't stop us. It's our duty to protect the school and nothing is going to change that. We are not doing this only because of you but because of everyone in this school. So try not to get killed so this can end quickly.”Storm stared at his friends as they promised to fight off the creatures that would swarm into the school and protect it. “But the destruction has already started, it will only become worse by the time I leave.” Storm warned.“We know.” Ella answered.“And you wouldn't be getting any help from the strongest in the school. You know they also want the orb so they wouldn't help in fighting which would only make things worse for you.”“We know,” Ella replied again, “Have faith in us.”Storm nodded as he hugged his friends again,
Storm was shocked when he heard this, he couldn't believe that Lillian could see through him at all. Cause of the System, his powers grew rapidly, but at the same time, he hid it. The System had been both a gift and a curse. It endowed him with extraordinary abilities, but it also demanded secrecy and caution. He often found himself pondering the balance between power and discretion. He would sometimes wonder if he should show his true powers or not. In a world where power often corrupts, he found himself hiding it from everyone. The world saw only a fraction of him, a mere facade, while the true strength within him remained hidden. He didn't hide his true powers out of shame or fear of rejection. No, it was the dread of exploitation, the worry that his abilities would be taken advantage of and used for purposes he could not accept. In a world where power corrupts, and those who seek it are often the least deserving, he had chosen to keep his powers a secret.He had to keep his p
Storm looked around the realm again before asking, “What kind of powers does he have?”Lillian stared at him surprised he had asked,the memories haunted her, even till now. She could still see his hulking figure towering over those helpless people, his face twisted into a cruel sneer as he killed them without mercy. The sheer power he possessed was both amazing and utterly terrifying to behold. He was no ordinary man, her father was a being of primal, supernatural force. Gifted, or perhaps cursed, with abilities that surpassed the limits of anyone she had ever seen. It sometimes seemed like he had every creatures power, he had magic, had the abilities of werewolves and vampires. He was super strong, fast and very smart, her father was a cunning man who liked to play with his preys. And an unrelenting brutality that spared no one who crossed his path.She trembled as she remembered cowering in the corner, trembling as she watched him effortlessly toss strong creatures aside like ragdo