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Casting Shadows: Chapter 3

  Umbra opens the door to the supposed abode of Kutakahra, seeing what looks like another abandoned home, on the floor is an unfinished magical symbol

  Umbra: Wait…I know this symbol

  Umbra remembers where she knows it from and moves to complete the circle, when she completes it, it creates a familiar aura, pulling her back into memories and moments that had faded away but now have come back in full force.

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Hello Umbra, welcome back to your family

  Umbra: You…you…show yourself…you OWE ME answers!!

  Kutakahra (Gastly): In due time Umbra, but first, what do you think of your brother, I worked so hard to craft him…

  Umbra: Dye…that’s his name right?

  Kutakahra (Gastly): You get it, you get the picture

  Umbra: SHOW ME, SHOW ME WHY YOU MADE ANOTHER ONE, ANOTHER ONE LIKE ME!!

  Kutakahra (Gastly): If that’s your wish

  The room around Umbra morphed, and as it did, Dye began to wake up from unconsciousness, in the memory circle Umbra was in, seeing those memories as Dye was in her shadow.

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Here we are, the day I decided I needed to create Dye

  The room was full of torn up notebooks, knocked over constructs and the Kutakahra in this memory looked miserable

  Dye: What the?

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Hello my son, sorry about lying to you earlier, I wanted it to be a surprise, when we were all happily reunited as a family

  Umbra: Cut your crap and get right to the fucking point

  Dye: What is-

  Kutakahra (Gastly): I was thinking about you Umbra, how I had to leave you behind

  Umbra: What….

  Kutakahra (Gastly): If Vaniel found you in my lab, he would have ripped you apart with his sword into a million pieces

  Dye: What are you talking about

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Want me to to show you Dye

  The room changed again, to the night Umbra roasted in her casket, and Dye saw everything, and Umbra began to cry as she watched those events unfold again

  Umbra (Memory): Dad, you’ll come back for me right…

  Dye: What…what the fuck is this…

  Kutakahra (Gastly): This was the tragic night we lost contact

  Umbra now saw the events with new clarity, she saw how her father just destroyed his lab to save himself, and that she was just another piece of evidence he destroyed…

  Umbra: What…the…hell IS WRONG WITH YOU

  Dye: You just…lit her on fire…and ran away

  Kutakahra (Gastly): You don’t understand, it was mercy

  Umbra: Mercy…YOU LEFT IN A CASKET, YOU LOCKED IT SO I WOULD SUFFOCATE ON SMOKE

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Would you have rather lived a life locked behind a cell you could never escape or be no longer breathing to experience it, it was an act of love, my final goodbye

  Umbra: HOW WAS THAT LOVE, YOU PUT ME IN A PRISON I COULDN’T BREAK FREE FROM AND RAN AWAY AS I WAS BURNING ALIVE

  Dye: Father…why…WHY…would you treat my sister this way

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Oh Dye, don’t you want me to finish the story of your birth?

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  Dye: I…

  Umbra: No, let’s see your twisted mind

  The room began to change back, Kutakahra was now sitting in his lab, making plans for something…

  Kutakahra (Memory): Don’t worry, Dye

  Kutakahra is looking at a test tube child, growing in the tube, head filled with false memories

  Kutakahra (Memory): With the fake memories I’ve implanted, the motor functions I imbued with, and the love for me I’ve programmed into you, all I need is the fragments of Iris to make you my ultimate child..

  Kutakahra hesitates for a momment

  Kutakahra (Memory): I messed up with Umbra, hopefully I get a better start this time

  Umbra: What the actual hell is wrong with you!

  Dye: You…just…see me as…

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Call it whatever you want, but we’re a family, you, me and Umbra, we’re just twisted bells, playing along in a chorus of tortured souls

  Umbra: You…

  Umbra finally begins to completely breakdown

  Umbra: YOU MONSTER…I had been searching for you for SEVEN YEARS, wondering why you just left me to die in a coffin, I thought you had a good reason, thought since you we’re my dad you must have cared about you, but all I know now about you now, is that, you’re a MONSTER, a complete and utter MONSTER is what you are, you didn’t care if I lived or died, you didn’t care about what happened to me, you only cared about if you could use me as a tool, you only cared about how I could be useful to you, you NEVER CARED AT ALL.

  Umbra’s breakdown continues as Dye begins to look on

  Dye: Why was all I meant to be…just your sick weapon…a tool, you’d throw away after I showed any sign of wavering or breaking.

  Finally, Umbra came to her senses

  Umbra: Wait…where are the Century Corps?

  Kutakahra (Gastly): Hehehe

  Umbra: Where are they!

  Kutakahra (Gastly): BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  Umbra: WHERE ARE THEY YOU SICK TWISTED MONSTER

  Kutakhara (Gastly:: You are under my memory spell, remember, you completed the circle and now…they can’t hear you…

  Umbra: NO…how could I be so stupid

  Kutakhara finally shows his true form in front of Umbra

  Kutakahra: Consider this time out, and I’ll let you and Dye out as soon as you promise to be an obedient little family

  Umbra begins loudly banging against the world she’s in

  Umbra: NO NO NO NO

  Kutakahra: Goodbye…I’ll see you soon

  Dye: Sis…

  As Umbra’s screams reach a fever pitch, the memory world fades into a void

  Outside The House

  Our Party has been waiting outside for Umbra and Dye to come out

  Vaniel: How long have they been in there?

  Olivia: No clue, but we can’t rush their confrontation, we just have to wait for Kutakahra to leave the house to seize him

  Euke: Man, all this waiting sucks

  Qiinu: Tell us all about it kid

  Kutok: Wait guys…I sense someone approaching

  The Party gets ready to fight off a powerful and strong opponent potentially nearby

  Olivia: I see them

  Over the ridge, The Party sees “Mosshead” rallying what’s left of The Army of K to the shack

  “Mosshead”: And once again, The Century Corps are in my way

  Vaniel: “Mosshead”, you will not obstruct our efforts once again, we WILL defeat you here, we WILL defeat you now

  Euke: I agree sir, no more of your obtrusions from this point onward…

  “Mosshead”: Fine, I’ll fight till I’m no longer alive

  Fight against “Mosshead” for the final time

  When “Mosshead” is at 75%

  Kutok: Why do you continue to defend that man, after all he has done?

  “Mosshead”: It’s simple, sometimes great men, need great soldiers, willing to live and die on the frontlines for them

  Vaniel: Kutakahra ain’t a saint

  “Mosshead”: Who my glorious leader is does not matter, as long as I give them glory on the battlefield and do what I must always do.

  Resume

  When “Mosshead” is at 50%

  Qiinu: We do not see the logic in continuing this fight even though you know you will die?

  Vaniel: Give up the fight and surrender “Mosshead”, we don’t want to kill you

  “Mosshead”: I wouldn’t wanna kill me either

  “Mosshead” unleashes a powerful energy wave but it is blocked by Olivia’s mirror

  Resume

  When “Mosshead” is at 25%

  Euke: Listen Mossy, I respect that you’re making us work hard for this victory, but why so stubborn, why so loyal, what did he do to deserve that…

  “Mosshead”: It’s something…you will never know…

  Qiinu: Well…we have no choice but to delay no longer, let’s end this once and for all

  Olivia: “Mosshead”, just remember that these were the choices you made, not me nor anyone else.

  “Mosshead”: I wouldn’t have it any other way?

  When “Mosshead” is at 5%

  “Mosshead”: It’s over…I lost

  Vaniel: Alright now we can back to gu-

  The door of the house suddenly throws itself open…

  Kutakahra: Hello Gentlemen

  “Mosshead”: Kutakahra…

  Kutakhara: Hello commander, thank you for your valuable service

  “Mosshead”: Thank you your excellency

  Vaniel: Kutakahra, how dare you show your face 7 years later, how dare you still cause suffering and misery, and how DARE you still even exist in this world

  Olivia: And where are Umbra and Dye

  Kutakahra cackles deeply to himself

  Kutakahra: I’ve put those spoiled brats in a nightmare world of their own memories, until they’re ready to talk to papa as the little obedient children he wanted…

  “Mosshead”: Huh, what do you mean by that chief?

  Kutakahra: It is none of your concern

  Euke: No…you wouldn’t?

  Kutakahra: I would, child

  Vaniel: I’ve HAD ENOUGH OF YOU

  Vaniel leaps through the air to slice at Kutakahra but he deflects his sword, Kutakahra then responds with a powerful voidfire attack

  Olivia: Everybody get down!!

  Olivia deflects most of the fire with her mirror, but “Mosshead’ is caught in the voidfire and instantly dies

  Kutakahra: Oh and what a shame, she was such a skilled commander

  Qiinu: She was willing to die for you, you ungrateful bastard

  Qiinu unleashes a powerful soul beam and Kutakahra but he defects it with his ring hand before grabbing Qiinu by the neck and chokeslamming them

  Kutakahra: I am Kutakahra, I am above that which is moral and just

  Vaniel: I’m going to kill you

  Olivia: And I will assist

  Kutakahra: Bring it on

  As the three of them begin to fight and Kutok and Euke defend the injured Qiinu from the remnants of the Army of K as they begin to fight a losing battle

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