Things had just happened, one after another. There hadn't even been any time to interrogate the two strangers. What were they doing in the castle, uninvited and most certainly not familiar with the elders nor the hydra. Where could they have come from? What did they want? But for the time being, they were the same as everyone else. Regnum cooling off in a corner, Beelzebub sobered by the explosion. Skylark unable to comfort his brother, though he felt sore all over. It hurt to move.
It hurt the others as well, but they were used to pain. December panted, wanting to retort, but decided to just answer. Ferrum's tone wasn't cutting, wasn't particularly cruel. It was a simple exclamation, a confirmation. But he was wrong. "Noire... was able to manipulate a few of them... after heavy dosage of toxins, but... it's not certain... something went... wrong..." Sila grunted, trying to speak. "And what of you? Keh... you are the hydra of manipulation...." December closed her eyes, it didn't matter anyways because all she could see were blurry colors.
"I can manipulate others, by showing... them their future... when someone knows the truth, they'll act differently... Human, dragon... when you tell them their future, they'll always try to either change or secure it." Noire, finally catching her breath, muttered, "Some of us had to fight them, you know. We weren't going to all abide by a treaty while our kind died," By 'our kind' she could have meant dragons. "We are not dragons." Forte quickly quipped. And why weren't the hydra dragons, anyways? Biologically and for the most part, appearance wise, not many could tell the two groups from one another. It was only the Hydra's ability to keep coming back... but wasn't that simply an amplified version of any dragon's hyper healing?
"And you never will be..." Terra added, which elicited several rumbles of approval from both groups, and the two strangers. "What does it matter? The humans will regard us as one of the same." December hissed, adding to the heavy feeling of helplessness that was currently wafting around in the air along with the heat. Skylark looked around with only his eyes, as they were he only part he could move. However, they still stung.
"What the fuck do they want from us?!?" The cyan haired male demanded, mustering enough energy to lift up his tail, spiked ball and all, and drape it over his own body. Focusing, he twisted his two tails together until there was only one normal dragon tail with a few spikes at the end. "There are children present!" Noire interrupted irately, fingering the quickly closing wounds where Ferrum had anchored himself to her. "So? They'll grow up soon." Forte murmured pessimistically, earning him a smack from three people Noire and Terra from maternal instinct, and December for fun. She tried to giggle, but only coughed brokenly.
"Don't say that," Noire whispered, though Skylark and Sleipnir had already heard. "Wh... do.. me.. n ... yo?" He tried to asked what the other meant, but found much of his body refused to move, trying to repair itself. He was tucked under Forte's head, like a pillow, a position he had been in ever since Leo forked him over to his friend, though the two tall hydras were pretty much resting on him. He found it amazing some of the others could still talk.
"I... I am not sure..." December admitted, scrunching her face in concentration. "I... I see some of us on big tables, I see the pink dragon being restrained, with blank expressions... I see you," She rasped, gazing to Ferrum, "And Charon, looking at some human with goo-goo eyes, and you let him observe an touch you, and then he pats you on the head and you hug him like some kind of pet..." Terra growled, not wanting to hear this. "You could be lying!" And Noire, with one simple word, silenced everybody else. "Why?"
After a period of silence, December continued, "The young... one is in a playroom, trying to solve a puzzle. The red... dragon.. he's in the corner... there are all sorts of clothes his size around him and he doesn't look like he's alive but his eyes are open and he's breathing... The other is on a table, screaming for his Daddy while they...." She trailed off. It was unusual for her to describe things in such detail, because most of her visions were blurry. They were hard to decipher. But when something was set in concrete, or almost certainly likely to happen, everything was crystal clear.
"The earth dragon and the water dragon are screaming, and they're tied to a cot... Beelzebub, he's tied to a table, struggling to get free. Forte and Leo are dressed in doctor's gear and then they cut him... open... Noire, she's tied to a table too, and she's screaming..." The pink dragon, hyperventilating, demanded, "And what about you, huh?!? What the hell happens to you?!?" Noire shot him a dirty look.
"I... There's a room, and we have headphones on, some of us try to scream but... I'm there... the wind dragon's there, Blizzard's there... No, we're tied down to something... you," She murmured, staring deadpan at the cyan dragon, "You're there... and we... No, I see.. all of us, falling asleep... slowly..." In a panic, Forte screamed, "No, you're wrong! Charon isn't even here right now!" Noire nodded, fear in her violet eyes, "Yeah, you can't be serious!" Skylark cried out, "What about my Daddy? Or my Father?!" Pursing her lips, the oracle whispered, "I... don't know..."
"Where is Charon?!" More demanded, but December just shook her head frantically, tears streaming from her face. "I... I can't! I can't think right now!" Sila swallowed deeply, then turned to Sanare. "Is she... can she be telling the truth?"