In the dim light after darkness, the vampire opened his eyes. a new day.
Zach didn't hear the voice of old Hank, who was always the first to get up to start the day at Grande, and there was no movement in Derek's room. The vampire raised his head slightly, looked at Louise who was breathing steadily with her eyes closed, and got out of bed without disturbing her. Sibella is here.
In the dim light, Zach opened the curtains of the bedroom. His field of vision was limited. He could not see the sun rising on the eastern horizon, but the faint red gold color had begun to shine from the east, pushing things outside the window. A dark shadow was drawn out, conforming to the gravel road in front of the Grand House.
An Indian woman wearing a shawl stood next to a car, looked up at the second-floor window, then opened the door and sat back down.
Zach adjusted his collar and walked out of the door with a smile.
To see Sibella, there are still some things that need to be prepared. For example, an empty pickle jar in Danny the Phantom's room.
Zach stood in front of Alice's room, thought for a moment, and decided not to wake up the banshee in his dream yet. He tapped the empty can with his fingers and walked down the stairs.
Alpha's body was trapped between his bed and the warehouse wall. I don’t know what Benjamin dreamed about last night, but only one plush leg was left on the bed. The vampire grabbed Benjamin's ankle not very gently and pulled Alpha out completely, "Sibella is here."
Alpha squinted one eye and was confused for three seconds. He did not resist the vampire's lifting of his leg, and then began to search for his clothes like a dementia patient.
When the two aliens finally sat in the back seat of the windmill, the eastern sun had completely appeared above the sea level. Sibella said coldly, "It's so slow."
The man in the driver's seat, Corden, this old Indian man started the car and was going west.
Zach doesn't mind either. He smiled and handed over the empty can. Oh, it’s no longer an empty jar. A black and red ribbon-like line stands up in the jar, and the tentacles swinging back and forth push against the inside of the bottle cap. The same black and red tentacles poked out from the roof, backrest, and door of the car, pointing at the handed out can.
Wander is back.
When Zach learned from Steve Walker that the Windrush couple would be back. He notified Wander, who was still wandering outside. Then she couldn't wait to return and waited at Hayate's house.
"You can't blame me." Zach glanced at Benjamin, who had bird's nest hair next to him, "He's too slow."
Sibella took the jar, opened it, and the wave of tentacles hanging from the roof of the car penetrated in without haste, and merged, making Wander whole again. In the not-so-spacious carriage, some strangely dense tentacles swayed happily a few times before retracting. The shadow that returned to the carriage disappeared.
"So, it worked." Sibera's face in the rearview mirror curled up and looked at Alpha, who was not very smart because he was still a little hypoglycemic.
"Get up." Alpha rubbed his eyes and yawned.
Zach pursed his lips and shook his head, with a helpless smile on his face. So Sibera's plan was to make Alpha stronger from the beginning. The vampire's hand rested on the backrest of the previous game, "You should have told us first, the process of discovering the real effects of spices is not very..." It didn't seem to have many twists and turns. Shamelessly continued, "Delightful."
Sibella smiled and shook her head. "What are you talking about? I have a way to make your 'brother' stronger, will you believe me?"
Zach raised his eyebrows and thought for a moment, "In every sense, I don't believe it."
Sibella shook her hand, proving that her point of view was correct.
"But I have to ask." Zach glanced at Benjamin. "Why."
Sibera was silent for a while, "Because you are too weak, Toledo."
Zach frowned, but Sibella did not stop and continued to attack Zach's self-esteem. "And you have too many enemies."
Needless to say, there is a secret alliance offering a reward for the last Toledo. Recently, we also learned that the guys from the Sabbat are also coveting the surname of Toledo. I am afraid that Sibella has already known this information through the wandering soul, but she is not selective. Just tell Zach.
With the Sabbat, you also have to bring along demons who have an agreement with the Sabbat. There is no need to involve Crowley, the fallen angel, and just focus on our vampire Zach himself. You know, these demons reported Toledo's location to the Sabbat in the blink of an eye.
There are also the aliens who were suppressed by the Secret Alliance in the middle for centuries. Judging from the news brought by the hunters in the central region, we can know how violent the backlash of these alien races was after the Secret Alliance withdrew. The days of vampires are over, at least in the middle.
As well as enemies whose racial attributes are defaulted, hunters, demon hunters, please don't go to cherubim, saints, those guys on the other side of the Holy Lord's faith...
Thinking about it carefully, although Zach seems to be living very comfortably in Barton now, with various agreements and interactions, he is like a social butterfly who has good luck everywhere. They are not very friendly to each other, but at least they are not hostile. Outside of Patton, it seemed like there were enemies everywhere.
Zach curled his lips, acquiescing. Zach smiled and looked out the car window. It was not bright yet, but the day had begun, the temperature had begun to rise, and the light had begun to awaken everything on this continent, "I'm glad you're back. Welcome. Go home, Hayate.”
Sibella's chuckle came out, and she also looked out the window. The car had already arrived at Grande's cemetery and slowed down along the border of the North Park. "No, we are not that familiar yet, Grande." She pointed in a direction, and Corden, who was holding the steering wheel, turned the car and drove somewhere, "I'm very disappointed that you left my son in a place like this."
Ryan, of course Ryan!
This Earthbinder was left behind in Grande, and finally waited until his parents came to pick him up.
Sibella walked in front, being supported by Corden, towards a flat land surrounded by stones. After all, Ryan couldn't really be buried here, so Matthew thoughtfully marked him so that he wouldn't forget the place when he wanted to dig it out later.
At this time, Ryan was floating above the stone, looking at the four people approaching. He was still the image of Connor, with his quarterback jacket covering his body. The translucent body faces the eastern sunlight, giving it a faded feeling.
When Sibella came closer and stretched out her hand, the earthbinder shuddered and retracted.
Sibella lowered her head and helped her husband Corden beside her. She couldn't tell what her emotion was, "dig."
Zach and Benjamin, who was slightly more awake, looked at each other, unable to stay out of the situation. They took the shovel that Sibella had prepared long ago and started moving together.
As if to ease the slightly weird atmosphere at this moment, the vampire rolled up his sleeves and looked at Benjamin who was already digging with Corden, but he leaned closer to Sibella who was also watching, "You know what? He has always wanted to get rid of the shackles of the Earthbinder and come to find you."
Sibella looked at Zach with a cold face and did not respond.
Zach pursed his lips and shoveled the soil without any reason to linger.
"Why did you come back?!" Ryan's figure did not appear, but his voice obviously reached everyone's ears.
Zach looked at the depression where the three shovels were pointing, pursed his lips, looked up at Corden, who was frowning, and then looked at Sibella, who had her hands curled under her cloak. They seemed to have no intention of answering.
"Why are you leaving!" The second question appeared.
Perhaps the real meaning of these two questions should be merged together, 'Why am I left here alone in the first place? '
"Stop!"
Zach had stopped, squinting, looking at the eastern sunshine, leaning on the shovel, and reaching for his pocket, where there was Zach's snack bottle.
"I said stop!" Ryan's voice shouted in the early morning cemetery, with only a few people in the audience. Alpha frowned and stopped shoveling.
"Stop! Stop! Stop!"
Corden pressed the shovel inserted into the soil and continued to turn up the soil. With his head lowered, his expression could not be seen, only the frown between his forehead and his forehead.
"Zach! Benjamin!" Ryan's cry continued, "Stop him! Let them go! I don't want to be dug out! I don't want to go with them!"
Zach raised his head and lowered his head. He put his arm on the top of the shovel and re-tightened the lid of the wine bottle. He glanced at the Gale couple who seemed to never intend to speak, "It's not 'them', these are your parents..."
"What kind of parents would abandon their son!" A faint transparent light seeped out from the sunken soil layer, and Corden's downward-moving shovel hovered above it, unable to go down.
"What kind of parents would drop a box and leave without saying a word!"
Remember the iron box left by the Gale and his wife to Grande, which contains Sibella's diary, her witchcraft notes, and a letter left for Ryan.
"What kind of parents would say, 'Read my diary and you will understand'? I don't understand! I just don't understand! They are not 'parents'! They are not even as good as Herman!"
Zach frowned, as if it was a bit much.
"Herman also knew that for his son..."
"That's enough Ryan." The shovel in Zach's hand was inserted into the translucent object and sunk deep into the soil. The fragmented light and shadow dispersed in the early morning sunlight and disappeared into the earth.
There is a default rule in this world, don't compare things that you have no choice in. Such as parents, such as offspring... This will only make people feel lost. Now Ryan made this mistake because of his naive mind.
But can you blame him? He was just a teenage Earthbinder. Even though it was short-lived, he had two different lives, Ryan Hayate and Connor Herman. He does have options to compare with.
The vampire frowned, and he remembered that one night, in a certain driveway, Ethela quickly made arrangements, turning a man-made accident into a complete accident.
When the vampire and Alpha dealt with everything according to Aisela's arrangements with expressionless faces.
"My father." Caesar said his first words in Antony's arms, looking at the charred things that had been dragged out by vampires in the smoking carriage that the flames had disappeared, "What happened to him?"
Anthony pressed Caesar's head and said, "There's nothing wrong with him, don't worry about him. From now on, I am your father." (..)