Last Ones

Chapter 10

“Hmpth, and what was the so called cruel play of life?”

“My, no our family was burnt alive by a bunch of sadistic pricks and I was kept as their toy for 3 years. From the day I regained my consciousness and was actually aware what in the hell was going on, what year it was and in which country I ended up in, I started searching for him and uncle.

Seems uncle was not able to survive after dad's death in the end…”

“...even if those circumstances are indeed true, I can't disclose information that his parents wanted to be hidden, you can rest assured his new family is a good one, they are loving religious couple, so…”

“Strictly religious?” Alain interrupted the woman. She nodded confidently.

“You allowed a strictly religious couple adopt albino boy even when they requested to seal all information about him?” Alain asked incredulously.

Mrs. Redwood failed to notice the underlined meaning of Alain’s words and confirmed his words with a nod.

“You do know that overly religious people can regard albino as a devil's spawn?” Alain added through gritted teeth.

Mrs. Redwood froze as her expression stiffened completely. Her face paled as the realization struck her. If the boy's words were true then she made a big mistake years ago by allowing that couple take away the boy.

She told them whatever she knew. She had a gut feeling that Alain’s fear was very likely to become reality.

Alain along with Josh and Alex sped all the way to the a dress that miss Redwood gave them. They arrived at a rather remoted and quiet place with only several tens of houses.

The house which they were looking for was a pretty 2 story building. It was creamy colour with a red roof.

Alain knocked on the door. The lady in her thirties opened the door. The warm smile that she had on her face froze stiff. She gasped and crossed herself.

When Alain saw her behaviour his mood got even worse than it already was. He was very familiar with such antics. It was precisely this type of people who regarded him as a devil's spawn. The woman quickly hid her dislike and put up her sickly warm smile on her wrinkled face.

“Who are you, and how can I help you?” She asked.

Alain raised an eyebrow at the question. However, dumb that woman was she should have been able to see that her own son was a carbon copy of himself.

“The foster house informed us that my long lost elder brother was adopted by you” He said emotionally “So I would really love to reunite with my twin ma'am”

“Oh, you are talking about Michael!”

“Michael? Ma'am my brother's name is Blaze”

“Oh, now his name is Michael and unfortunately he is not at home.”

Alain frowned, it was quite a while since he had to resort to using this. He strained his hearing and paid attention to all the sounds in the house. Sure enough he heard the sound unique to their kind only, their heartbeat was slightly different from humans'.

It was not something humans could perceive or distinguish, but he did and this woman was lying shamelessly. Noticing that his brother's heartbeat was irregular, Alain could not control himself anymore and rushed up past the irritating woman all the way towards the room where his elder brother's heartbeat was heard.

He pushed open the door and froze. Rage and pain rushed up into his heart as he ran over to his side. His back was bleeding from the fresh brand of the cross. Alain could not help the tears that escaped his eyes. Blaze’s hair was cut short and dyed dark brown. His skin was coloured “normal” he guessed with some sort of spray, and he was unconscious.

Alain was puzzled. Bullying them was not easy, he was rendered useless for 3 years due to drugs and extreme fatigue that his captors made sure to monitor. Blaze, however, did not seem to be restricted by such means, how…

As he was pondering over this he heard someone enter the room. He was alerted and was ready to attack but it was a 5 year old child that entered. The little girl looked at him amazed, yet worried. She kept looking over at Blaze then back to Alain. It was then that Alain realized how exactly they controlled his elder brother.

All of this happened in a mere moments. So when that woman rushed up into the room with the expression of boundless rage Alain was not surprised at all. He quickly pulled the little girl over and did not even pay attention to the rubbish that the woman was spewing from her mouth. He dialed police, social care, and several of his advocates. He looked at the woman and said:

“Ma'am I vow that I'll take away those two from you and will make sure that you will never be able to lay your hands on a child any more!”

“It was necessary, we were cleansing his soul and chasing away the devil!” The woman shrieked in French.

“Next time when you want to chase away the devil look into the mirror, even the devil himself will be terrified by the ugliness of your soul” Alain said with a scowl.

“How dare you!” She raised her hand and was about to slap him when Josh caught her hand and scowled at her.

“No one can touch our son” Alex piped in. She looked at them incredulously, letting their words sink in.

“Disgusting, immoral, both of you are males how could you, ptui, you will burn in hell! Let me go, you are dirtying my soul by simply touching me, oh christ!”

After several minutes of her cursing all of them to death and hell, the police, ambulance and social care finally showed up.