C269: Dumb, Deaf and Blind

After the bath Ain heared from Urchin the truth. Ain begged Urchin to take Sycamore and view Cherith's path but Sycamore scolded him.

"That's below the belt you know."

Ain and Urchin knocked on Cherith's room and almost bang it to their face but Ain sliced the space.

"So, i heared about it. Tell me where is your father?" Ain inquired.

"As of the moment, I don't know." Cherith pouted.

"Tell us the truth." Urchin urged.

"I am. He is searching for my mother." Cherith replied with an expression of gloominess.

"Sorry, but can you tell us more about them." Ain pleaded.

Cherith sighed.

"Nevi... my father was found by my mother floating on the sea. She saved him and they got married. But my mother fell ill and my father only come home when he wants. I hated him for always leaving us behind. When my mother suddenly got taken by unknown monsters he was not there to protect us. I have protect my mother that's when I started growing wings and easily destroying everything with my palm. When my father came home I fought him and blamed him for everything but he just said. It is to protect and that he was looking for his friends that were scattered like him. When he said that he was going to save my mother i trailed and trained with him. Until he pushed me on a void pipe and said.

Look for this people, that is why when I found Urchin for the first time I was secretly happy. My father sculpted your face in our walls."

Ain and Urchin grinned.

"Sorry for taking him from you even if he is physically with you." Kish butt in with Fur.

"No, it's because he never really spoke about himself before." Cherith reasoned out.

"So, what's your mother's name?" Ain voiced out which made Urchin chuckle.

"Myrtle." Cherith shortly answered.

"Describe her." Ain ordered.

"Father said that when you ask I should seal my lips." Cherith replied.

"That muscle head!" Ain complained

Nimrod woke up remembering how he got eaten by the toad. He started to vomit on bed after his mind refresh the smell and feeling of being eaten alive.

Fur help him took a bath as Torah called his people to clean the villa.

"What's wrong?" Fur asked in concern.

"I just had some yucky flashbacks. " Nimrod explained.

Sycamore and Kahieli came running as well.

"How are you feeling?" the two inquired in sync.

"Fine but sluggish. Where is Cherith?" Nimrod inquired.

"He is with Ole and Urchin." Sycamore replied.

Their view instantly got shaded. They looked up to see the beastly foe that was spied by Ain.

The monster was about to grapple them but the triplets take hold of Fur and avoided the

hand. Ain sliced the space and resize the enemy who became a tiny.

He started to roar and scratch Ain in the face. Torah confiscated him and scolded.

"How dare you take over my face?! I will sue you."

"What?" Ain asked.

Torah soon explained that he got carried away. The monster got sanctified by Nimrod but it was not added on the card.

The monster lamneted when his darkness turned into a smoke that even the sky rejected. Ain had prepared a training ground for each person and the whole family got back. Agsus heared from his parents that they got promoted after the incident. Yet Agsus cant help but sight tiredly when he saw the stock of summer assignment in his table.

Agsus was able to answer all that was in his subject except his journal. How is he supposed to write that instead of going to a summer camp it ended up a horror story? Agsus played with words and created a comic strips in his journal. When he phoned the boys they all brag that they finished it before going to the camp.

Cherith felt like he does not belong anymore. Ever since he acted like a wild animal. He got more scared of himself. What if , next time the foe is a human will he be able to control it? Will he rip out that person's flesh?

Even if Ain have advised and helped him. Cherith can't help but be worried.

Ain can sense Cherith's aloof behaviour and had him visit the green house with him.

"What is making you act that way?" Ain asked.

Cherith fidgets and would avoid his eyes.

"Come on, you can trust me." Ain assured.

"I am scared." Cherith admitted.

"About what?" Ain asked.

"Myself. What if I lose control again?" Cherith professed having his voice broken.

"You won't. How about a review?" Ain redirected.

"Review?" Cherith said in confusion.

"Look back to that fight and tell me how you felt." Ain gently commanded as they water the herbal plants.

"I felt the urge to save Nimrod. When the toad ate him, I thought that it was the end of the world and then my anger ignited. It took all my reason and I charged with instinct." Cherith enumerated.

"Which is natural. People react that way when someone precious to them is being taken away." Ain clarified.

"And the only reason you forgot to control your self is because you forgot to pray." Ain concluded.

Cherit felt like all his questions were shone to light. He forgot to pray. He honoured his anger.

"That's cleared!" Ain exclaimed.

"Now dear Cherith, tell me how your mother looks." Ain grilled.

Cherith had to run away from Ain. He can now understand why his father firmly told him not to speak about his mother to Ain. Cherith took out the mushroom sculpture done by his father during their search for his mother.

He stared at the charm that he wore around his neck and said.

"Father, I am with your friends and they are all kind to me as you have said."

Their school bell ring signifies that it's a new day at school. Ole kept banging her head as complain about sketching her summer vacation. Urchin tried to cheer her while Cherith show them his picture perfecy drawing of tearing out a toad.