Chapter 131 - Dark#2

AETHER SOMNUS RODRIGUEZ'S POV:-

"Layla?" I speak as I look around the hideout. If everything was normal, I would have looked for her outside the hideout, but it wasn't.

Because...it was empty...the hideout was empty.

It looked as if it was made yesterday, and things were about to be bought into the hideout. This...before I could feel anything, my emotions turned off.

'Another odd phenomenon.' I think as my expression turns blank. I move outside the hideout and shout, 

"LAAAAYYYLLLLAAAAAAA!!!!!!!" as loudly as I can but the only thing I heard was my echo among the mountains. I then ran around the forest but still could not find anything around.

My emotions were set at zero, but my heart was aching, and my eyes were filled with tears. I run around in hope of finding her, in hope of seeing her...where was she?...I ran and ran and ran…

After running for hours, I grew tired and took a breather…

Slight emotions started coming back into my brain...my eyes were getting teary and my body started growing numb.

'She must be at the resort,' I reassured myself as I once again looked in the direction of the present and began running again in desperation. 

First it was Clay's memories, then it was Layla's memories...my mind was hoping for the best and my heart kept filling with all the negative thoughts.

I kept running….walking….crawling...before I finally lost consciousness. 

Next day…

I woke up. In a room familiar to me. It was my own room. My father and mother are sitting beside me with slightly worried faces as they observe me.

"Sweety, what happened? Are you okay?" Mother asked me with a worried voice as her eyes turned slightly tired.

I look at her expectant expression as she looked at me for answers, but I ask her, 

"Layla...where is Layla?" 

And the answer that I got sent a chill down in every inch of my body as they spoke, 

"Who is Layla, son?"

Their eyes looked confused yet curious as they observed and analysed me.

Recalling back what happened in the hideout as I looked at them before confirming one more thing…

"Do you...know who Clay is?" 

And the answer that they gave me was something that confirmed my worst fears as I observed them shaking their head into a 'No'.

Then my eyes get slightly teary as I almost fail to control my emotions...before I brace myself and ask again. 

"What's my name, mother?"

And she checked my head for a fever before asking me with a shaken tone,"Aether...you are Aether Somnus Rodriguez. Did you forget your name? Son, are you okay? Answer me…"

My mother broke down as my father hurriedly called the doctors and I was there…

Watching it all happen there...my mother was crying as she was asking for answers, but I could not...I didn't have the right mind to answer any of that.

My mind was filled with only one question:

'Am I next? After Layla and Clay...am I going to be their next victim?' 

I was scared, afraid, and terrified. I kept my mouth shut for a few moments before a small childish idea came to my mind. An Idea which I would have never thought of even under my best conditions. An idea I will always regret until a certain day.

I knew. I knew it, but I did it. 

'Dark.. Erase the memories of Layla and Clay from my brain.'

If there is nothing that remembers about them, maybe they will leave me alone..maybe I'll live...maybe...I'll live.

'As you say,' spoke Dark as he erased my memories slowly as it all passed my mind. All the happy moments I spent with them, all the memories I made with them...gone, all gone. I observed them all vanishing right in front of my eyes.

I slowly lost consciousness...and then I woke up as multiple doctors were present in front of me. I looked at them for a few moments before asking with a slightly confused face, 

"What happened?"

…

BACK TO THE WARTIME WHERE AETHER LOST HIS CONSCIOUSNESS:

[Author's Note:

Currently Morpehus (overtaken by Dark) is standing in front of the God as the God is still bowing to him. All the members of Grim Verdicts are present along with other important Elves like Zwain and the King observing them. Sin of Pride is observing them from a distance and a few other unknowns are also observing the battle.]

DARK'S POV:-

I watch that 'child' God as I send back Light's consciousness into Morpheus' body. I observe the 'child ' God as I recall back what he did to Clay, what he did to Aether. Memories Of the past come to my brain.

Aether might have forgotten about him, but not me. I can't...this is the last thing I could ever forget about.

I look at him with rage surging in my mind as I observe him kneeling to me and trying his best to look up to me with a glare in his expression.

I raise my hand and slowly take off my mask and then take out my cloak and then show him my true face.

I want him to remember the one who killed him and also make him understand with whom he shouldn't have messed with.

"Who are you?" He asks me to try his best to keep his head up. I see him slowly vanishing from his original place, but I speak, 

"STAY RIGHT HERE!" 

And his vanishing stops. A part of my soul vanished, but I couldn't care less at this moment. He needs to die the most brutal death he can.

I observe him with a glare, and everyone takes a few steps back away from us.

"Remember the one who is going to kill you.  A human, Aether Rodriguez...Aether Somnus Rodriguez.." I declare his death in front of everyone present around us.