The truth

Mary had been busy working in the office of the World Government for the last few days after the breaking news announcement from the World United Governments' president Marlin Auther Williams.

After the announcement was issued she who had been busy shopping at the mall at that time had suddenly received a letter from the ruling organization, requesting her to come back to work.

Mary officially had retired from her position in the government, a long time ago, two years ago after she had a fall out with her husband.

Even so despite retiring about two years ago, the World United Government could not find a suitable candidate to replace her position, which was quite high in the power hierarchy of the organization's structure, so when the issue of the Anomaly and the fall of the Union army happened, the government reached out to her to once again serve them.

If it were another circumstance, Mary would have outrightly refused their offer due to various problematic reasons, but due to the fact that the world was in chaos and the fact that the World United Governments needed all the help of its leaders to overcome this hurdle, she knew that she didn't have a choice in the matter.

Although the organization was requesting for her service, in the true sense of things it wasn't a request but an order for her to return to work and they were definitely not going to take no for an answer.

After days of meticulous procedure of paperwork and strategic meetings, Mary was finally given a chance to go back home to her family, alas for a short minimum period of a day.

This was issued in consideration of her family status by the World United Government since they had urgently called for her without giving her time to sort out things at home.

After the off day was finalized, Mary wasted no time and headed home to see her young boy.

She was already well aware that Jake and Kale would not be available, and were busy at their respective jobs which demanded their attention.

The only one who would be at home would be her youngest child Zack, who she thought by now would be so terrified by her absense.

Once she arrived at home, Mary was expecting to see her son, busy in his lab, working on his experiments, which was a hobby that he usually practiced whenever he wanted to distract himself.

Alas once she was home, she was surprised to see no one inside.

This came as a shock to her since she knew that Zack, rarely went outside and the only times he left the house was when he was going to school.

Without any luck in figuring out where the young dark haired boy could have possibly went, the middle aged woman decided to go and prepare a meal for both herself and Zack.

After eight minutes of cooking in the kitchen, Mary soon heard the door opening and a few moments later her son emerged before her a vigilant expression visible on his face.

Looking at his mother Zack was really surprised, he never thought that his mother would come back so early, considering how time consuming and important her job was to the Word United Governments.

"What are you doing here, l thought you were going to be busy with work?

Mary feigned a hurtful expression and replied dejectedly,

"What is this and here l thought l would be missed and you would be running towards me with a hug"

Zack at this moment, released a cold scoff and said,

"Why would l do that, its not like l am a little boy"

After contemplating for a while, Zack's voice gradually turned a bit softer,

"And its not like l didn't miss you,l just don't like showing it"

Mary suddenly released a warm smile, and said jokingly,

"Oh I see so what now, you trying to act tough before me?

Zack at this moment, released another scoff and did not reply, instead he shifted the topic to a more concerning matter,

"Mom, about the falls are we-"

Before he could ask his question, Zack was suddenly interrupted by his mother.

Mary would had not stopped cutting the vegetables ever since their conversation began, suddenly halted her actions.

She turned to face her son and released a resigned sigh, leaning on the kitchen unit she then said,

"About that, there is something that l had been wanting to tell you for a long time"

Zack frowned his brows and remained silent, he had a feeling that what his mother wanted to tell him was possibly the reason why Leon was so interested in him so much.

"Firstly before I explain that, let me first tell you about the history of our family's side.

As you know those who possess the blood of the Grayson family have a risk of attaining the arsonic curse once they reached sixteen"

Zack at this moment nodded and replied,

"Yes that's what you have always told me"

Mary released another resigned sigh, and continued,

"Well l didn't tell you everything. You see the Arsonic curse is quite unique and is unlike the other curses of corruption. This is so because it has a close connection with the Anomaly.

This curse has the ability to create a rift portal in space that will lead to the other side of the dimension border .Due to the connection of the curse's properties, this portal would easily bypass the Anomaly's restrictions safely connecting our worlds with the other side of the dimensional border. This space portal is essential to the World United Governments to obtain since it will grant them access to safely transimigrate from this world to the other side of the Anomaly safely, which has been a feet that they had been trying to produce but have kept on failing.

You will also cause a rift to open up on the world, this will cause a small interaction between our world and the other dimensions, this will cause people from other worlds to be transimigrated into our world and cause the spirit realm to distort into our world"

Mary suddenly turned quiet and stared at Zack, searching for any sign of an emotion on his face, in which she found a trace of disbelief, fear and surprise.

After confirming these emotions she then continued,

" Its not just the World United Governments that wants to utilize your curse but there other influential organizations in the world that are planning on utilizing this curse of yours.

And after they are done with you they plan on getting rid of you to prevent further problematic issues occurring with the Anomaly and exposing the other negative effect of your curse to other people"

After finishing her explanation, Mary sighed dispiritedly, and turned silent as she waited for Zack to speak.

Zack stood frozen for a while, seemingly trying to digest this piece of news that clearly had left him rattled.

After a few moments of silence, Zack eventually said,

"So is there a way to prevent me from experiencing this curse, and also how did you and these people figure out that l contracted the curse, l clearly hadn't talk to anyone about it?

Mary at this moment smiled and responded ,

"Jake is an awakened, who can distinguish when a person is lying and as for the World United Governments and the other organizations discovering it, l am not sure how but its to be expected for them to possess certain means of obtaining the truth.

Then about the issue of preventing you from experiencing the curse, the issue is quite complicated and is theoretically said to be an inconciviable task that even your father is failing to solve to this day"

Zack who had been feeling dejectedly at this moment suddenly caught an intriguing sentence from his mother's words. Furrowing his brows he then inquired,

"What do you mean by failing to solve to this day"

Mary, seemed to suddenly remembered something, as she spoke,

"Oh Yeah, l guess l forgot to mention about that.

You see ever since you were a little child, your father had made it his life mission to find a cure for this curse of yours, that's why he sometimes performed weird experiments on you ever since you were a child, it was all in hopes of discovering a solution"

Zack at this moment, didn't know how to feel, he had always despised his father for always performing his experiments on him like he was some lab rat. Who knew that those experiments that he despised so much was performed in order to help him.

At this moment the, Zack properly fixed his golden rimmed glasses which had shifted slightly below his nose bridge. After that he tried to display an indifferent expression on his face, which he miserably failed in. His voice contained a hint of despair as he asked,

"Why did you not tell me about this before?

Mary seemed to be expecting such a question and it did not take her long to reply,

"Your father didn't want you to trouble yourself with these matters so he made sure you never knew. He knew that, if we tried to lie to you, given your keen intuition and progressed mind you would later figure out the truth by yourself, so he decided to divert your attention to other matters by making himself appear like a villain before you"

After hearing her explanation, Zack took another deep breath of air and ask one last pressing question,

"So if a solution is not discovered before my sixteenth birthday what will happen to me?