The Moon Has Awakened

Chapter 17

BEFORE HUGO FOUND VARIAN ENCASED IN BLACK ROCKS..

Varian took his final gasp of air as the black rock consumed him, crying out into the void, "Hugo!" before everything went dark, the light escaping from his vision. He opened his eyes, only to wake up in an abyss of black and nothingness, with Ulla floating before him. "You.. I-I, What do you want from me?!" Varian demanded. "Oh Child.. I want to return into the world, but I need the Moonstone Vessel in order to escape, that's where you come in, since you are the personification of the Moonstone, so all I would have to do, is take over your body and mind and leave the library, then I leave you with the Moonstone's power and strike for my revenge against the Dark Kingdom." Ulla explained. "Wait what?! You're going to.. use my body to leave then steal my magic?! No, I won't let you!!" Varian protested. Ulla ignored his defiance but then had an idea, "Well well well Moonlight, I sense that your friend has found you in the condition you're in, he seems devastated.. but he's in my way.." She taunted as she showed her son a glimpse what was happening outside of his subconscious. Varian saw Hugo desperately trying to snap him out of his statue-like form, and a heartbroken Quirin in the distance as well. "You will never hurt them!" Varian retorted. "Why Varian, it won't be up to you I'm afraid, at least, once I'm in control." Ulla baited. "No" Varian whispered. "But Moonlight, why do you even care if you hurt your father, after all, he kept you from the truth about you since the beginning.." Ulla told him. "That is true.. But I still care about him no matter what!" Varian argued. Ulla continued to manipulate Varian, "And the boy Hugo, he hurt you so bad, he used you Varian, how could you still love him after what he did, I bet you resent him now, don't you." Varian could feel his grief over Hugo's betrayal shift into rage once again, but instead, he yearned for vengeance just as he did when he lost his father due to the amber. "Yes, I despise him, he was someone I thought I could trust, I thought I could love, thought I could befriend, I always believed I would hurt him, but he hurt me instead." Varian realized. "If they think you are the bad guy, prove them right, be the bad guy." Ulla persuaded as she entered inside Varian. His hair turned blue with the black strand, his eyes completely black when he opened them, enunciating, "I guess I'm now the villain of this story..." TO BE CONTINUED..