Chapter 136 - Black Son

*Sounds of Chains* 

They turned correspondingly at the sound, as a figure emerge from the darkness, each footstep made a sound of chains shaking.

A boy around the age of 13 emerge out, he had dark red hair, and paled skin, he wore a white cloth stained with blood, his feet and hands had chains on it like he broke free of them.

He halts his steps raising his head as his brown eyes land on them.

"I'm told both of you are my parents," he said in a lifeless voice.

"What a joke..." he adds in an inhuman double voice as just his right eyes changed to that of a ghoul, black veins clustered around.

Liam paled as he stares at the strange boy with shaky eyes, he called them, parents, what the fuck, parents? He had a son?

He felt Riley's hand tighten on his shirt, he slowly turned his head to face her, her eyes were still fixed on the boy, her eyes shaking tremendously as well as her body.

"Our son," she said faintly, Liam's eyes widen at her words.

"He's our son Liam" She faced him as the tears fell.

Liam felt like a bucket of cold water dropped on his body, his mind unable to wrap what she just said, Our son? But how? he never knew Riley was pregnant, What the fuck was going on?

"The strange man on glasses told me both of you are my parents," he said with a thoughtful face, placing a finger against his chin.

"My dad," Liam said with shaky eyes.

"Ha, but I don't get it," he said tilting his head to the side.

"I thought I had no parents" he shrugs.

"Only Barbra"

Riley's teeth clenched as her body boiled in rage. Liam needed some kind of explanation of what was unfolding before them, and why was just one of his eyes that of a ghoul, was that even possible.

Riley pulled away from Liam's arms as she took a step forward.

"Yes, we're your parents" Riley began as the tears fell on their own accord.

"They said you died, that you didn't survive, I thought I lost you but now here you are," she said in tears

"You should be 2 years and a few months old, but you look like you're in your teens, what did they do to you".

"They made me better," he said plainly, he raised his hand assessing it.

"They made me stronger"

"For what" Liam managed to form the words, still relieving from shock, was this what his dad told him about? About what he did against his will? What they had to stop? His own son? A son he knew nothing about.

A dark smirk forms on his lips.

"I am Genesis and I shall be your destruction," he said in amusement as his ghoul's eye beamed dangerously.

"Listen to me, whatever they told you all these years, the lie that woman told you is not true, if I have known you were alive I wo-"

"Would have what" he cut her off in a dark expression.

"As I said," he said as a wide range of killing intent filled the air.

"I only have one family and that is Barbra," he said in an inhuman voice as his body shifts to something.

Liam and Riley watch in widen eyes as their son increased in height about ten feet, transforming into a beast with extended arms and legs, shadow black in color, sharp claws, sharp canines, the jaw pointy, with only one ghoul eye at the center.

Riley covered her mouth in horror watching what her son has become, what they have turned him into, and what he was set to do.

"I'm your doom," he said in a loud double voice that shook the earth, and then something like sharp blackthorns emerges out of his body charging towards them, Liam quickly grabs Riley as his body coats in black shadow, black wings spreading out as they zap out in speed.

Genesis growled deeply.

***

They land on the top out of plain sight a large broken building covered them, the shadow lessens revealing Liam holding Riley on both arms, his unreadable eyes fixed on her.

"Riley" he began as calmly as he could, their gaze locked on each other, he needed answers.

"What was that thing?" he said through gritted teeth, he wasn't about to call that thing his son, it wasn't possible.

"Thing?" Riley said pissed as she broke from his grip.

"That thing is our son" she snaps.

"You never told me you were pregnant!" he snaps back.

She bit her lip.

"You never told me anything, why" he demands with shaky eyes.

"We were preparing to storm the agency, everything was unstable, you were so focused, I didn't wanna burden you because I knew what you were going through, I wanted to tell me but I knew if I did it will change everything, I just had to wait after the mission," she said as the tears threaten to fall once more.

"You were pregnant then," Liam said in realization

"You should have told me, Riley, I would have protected you, keep you away from all this, what were you thinking... that I won't accept the baby?"

He couldn't believe this, it was all too much, he wished he knew, he would have avoided all this, he would have told her to stay put from the mission, he would have protected her and their unborn child, it wouldn't have led to this chaos, their son wouldn't have fallen right in the hands of Barbra.

"I'm so sorry," Riley said in tears.

"I regret not telling you, I'm so sorry, I thought I was doing the right thing, I was scared, Liam".

Liam ran his fingers in her hair like he was losing it, he growled, he didn't know if it was pain or anger but he felt all that moment.

"Even when you were in my arms, even when you were dying, you couldn't even tell me?" he said with wistful eyes.

"I just couldn't, I knew you wouldn't be able to bear the thought of losing both of us," she said.

"Well I did Riley" he faced her with hurtful eyes.

"I did lose the both of you".

Riley's eyes shake at his words, the tears falling, and then she saw it in his eyes, the pain, the confusion, the anger, and the sadness all evident in his eyes, and she knew, what she did broke Liam into a million pieces. Will he be able to forgive her?