Past Cries [2]

"~Laaaaaaa Laaaa ~Laaaaa ~Laaaaa."

A song…?

Just as I regained my composure, I heard someone singing a song. It's echoing from all the directions.

I can't pin point where the song's exactly is coming from.

I looked around, the place is… strange.

Really strange.

Waves of various vibrant colorful water, flowing all around me.

A beach…?

The color grew brighter and brighter each second, it finally engulfed me in its warmth.

Due to the intense light, I closed my eyes.

"…"

And when I opened it again…

"!"

I found myself staring at a white round table, at a distance.

The sky above me was colorful, griming with vibrant colors like red, blue, yellow, white, pink…

'What is this?'

I was standing here.

No, the word 'here' didn't actually fit, I wasn't 'here', but my conscious was.

"Where am I?" Those words left my mouth.

I can speak.

Why is the sky so colorful?

"…"

The last thing I remembered was me being hit by the Fallen.

'Envy's still fighting that thing, all alone.'

I looked at my ribs, it was all healed. And then I noticed, I was holding my Doombringer in my right hand.

None of this made any sense.

What's happening?

Where am I?

This doesn't happened before.

Envy…

No. I need to hurry.

I took a step further. With each step I took, I grew closer and closer to the round table.

Step. Step. Step. Step. Step.

"~Laaaaaaa… ~Laaaa…."

'Again with this song.'

Where is it coming from.

"~Laaaaaaa Laaaa ~Laaaaa ~Laaaaa."

As I grew closer, I saw someone sitting on the round table, a little girl and in her hand, there's a… crayon?

I halted on my step.

I was just a meters away from the table.

On the table various crayons and papers lay scattered all around.

'What's a child doing here?'

"W-Won't you Save me, k-kind sir?"

"!"

Then, I heard a voice. It's coming from the little girl's mouth, she has beautiful glossy silver hair. She looks like a princess from a children fairy tail. But her facial feature is oddly similar.

I knew her from somewhere.

But from where exactly? I can't remember.

At first, I thought she was talking to me, but she pleaded to someone else, glancing to the other side of the table.

There was no one there.

"~Laaaaaaa Laaaa ~Laaaaa ~Laaaaa."

The song continued to play in the background.

My hands and face were all sweaty. I was literally drenched in my own sweat.

"I am hungry… give something to eat… k-kind sir? Will you let me eat now?"

The young girl pleaded again. But this time the answer came.

"Endure it, you have to endure it. Just few more weeks, and you will be ready."

A man wearing a white coat suddenly appeared on the other side of the table.

'What the— when did he!?'

He wasn't there before.

The man smiled, it was a generous smile. He was some how able to smile at the skinny girl who's ribcage could be seen.

"But… But it's hurt… my stomach… it's hur— Aaaaak!"

"If I said you to endure! Then you endure!"

The man kicked the girl, making her fall from her chair.

The girl's pleading didn't stop.

"I'm hun..gry…."

Starvation.

"P-Please.. forgive .. m-me.. I won't ask agai— Aaaak!!"

Kick! Kick! Kick!

Torture.

"Here's the food as promised. Now eat like a good girl." The man throws a half eaten sandwich towards the girl.

"Thank you! Thank you! Kind sir!"

Brainwashing.

'Fucking Bastard…!'

I can't do a thing, I'm not in a physical state, it's all a vision.

The scene shifted.

The sky above me was still colorful, but the round table vanished and instead I find myself standing in a middle of a giant room.

There were children in the same state as the silver hair girl.

One, tens, hundreds, thousands of children were around me. Some starving, some chained, lifeless eyes, some beaten, some… dead.

"…"

I just blankly stared at the sight in front of me.

'Just what is happening.'

I have no idea.

"~Laaaaaaa Laaaa ~Laaaaa ~Laaaaa."

That song played again.

One by one the children around me vanished.

No, they were taken by a group of white coat men.

I followed them.

I knew exactly what they will do next.

But still, I followed them.

Those children were going to experience their worst nightmare, I knew it.

But still, I followed them.

The things which were happening here was worst than the things happening all around the world right now. But imagining it and seeing it with my own eyes are different.

I feel like shit.

They were being carried to the basement, still tied with the chain, still hungry and all brushed up. The cuffs around there hands were so tight, that it was almost digging in their flesh.

Few minutes passed.

What I witnessed there… sent a chill down my very soul.

'Ah… How cruel…'

I found myself crying. Tears dripping from both my eyes.

I just, couldn't describe the scene before me.

All the children have their skull open. They all blinked their eyes, staring at each other, their eyes went in a deep state of horror.

Extreme horror.

The children tried opening their mouth.

But each one of them now turned their head and looked at me, and said the exact same thing.

"Kind sir… Will you save me… I'm hungry."

"…"

Anger.

Hate.

Revenge.

Of course I will.

"~Laaaaaaa Laaaa ~Laaaaa ~Laaaaa."

The world shattered.

All the color vanished.

I regained my consciousness.

I returned to my world.

Opening my eyes, I noticed the time before me was frozen.

The Mutated Fallen and Envy, both stayed still at their place.

No kind of movement can be seen.

'What happened here?'

Long black threads like strings were emerged from both their body, stretched endlessly towards the sky above, and finally landed into my hand.

I stared at those strings. It was resonating with the Essence of a living being.

It carried all their memories. Good, bad, every thing.

I don't know how? But, I understood everything.

What's in my hand, this threads, it was their Free Will.

I can control their Free Will.

Concentrating my thoughts towards the Fallen's thread-It's Free Will. I let go of Envy's.

My eyes suddenly landed on the Fallen's distorted head.

I felt anger.

My heart ached.

It's head was similar to that of the silver haired young girl.

Grudge.

Revenge.

"Unacceptable."

Various emotions clashed inside my head.

I stood up.

I didn't felt any pain. My injuries were all healed. My broken ribs, now has a new flesh and skin covering it.

Immortality.

'Yeah, that's right.'

I can't die.

Holding the Free Will of the fallen, I analyzed the situation.

I don't want those children to suffer more.

I will free them from this nightmare.

And before I knew it I found myself standing in between Envy and the Fallen.

I resonated the 'Free Will Thread' in my hand to my own thoughts.

All the memories connected to the brains on the Fallen's body flowed inside me.

Each brain was in a state of superposition, containing multiple impulses and decisions.

I forced each of the brain to act according to me.

The time resumed.

"Huh!?... Hope? How did you?" From behind Envy sounded surprised.

I wanted to look at her, to say to her, that I'm fine.

But I can't.

I had lost control of my body.

My skill, Quantum Manipulation granted me the authority to control the Quantum Outcomes.

As my thought raced, I find myself witnessing each and every neurons of the brain on the Fallen's body.

I calculated it's quantum state.

Out of my will a forceful smile spread over my face.

"Your outcome has been decided."

Those are the last word escaped my mouth, before I lost all my senses.

End of Chapter.

[A/N]: Aria's character has been added. Give her some love!! And also I added Q&A at my review box, ask anything!!