Chapter 9


Vincent, Barbara, and Cislco never seen their leader broke down. It was something so unfamiliar to them, yet it was a shock to say the least. 

All they could do was watch her, as that she continues to sob into Norman's shoulders. 

Cislco was the only person who knew all along that Emma was enduring their sadness from the very moment they met in Lambda, and he alone couldn't do anything to let her feel better about it. 

He step forward and helped Emma up to her feet. "Boss, I knew that you were lying this whole time. 

It's so like you, you would do anything to keep the plan intact, even though you were suffering a lot. " 

Emma couldn't believe that he knew that she was suffering in the inside of her, all the pain she had hiding from him. 

"You really knew that I was lying, from the very beginning? Cislco.. I .." She begins to say, but he held his hand up to prevent her from speaking. 

"Of course I knew, I do care about you, Emma, so does the others. Norman and Ray really went all this way to stop the annihilation, and you really want to stop the plan, right?

That's fine with me. I had enough violence. Barbara, Vincent, let's stop. Emma has suffered enough, we used her as a tool to get our revenge on the demons, and with that, she really is someone who wouldn't confess her own feelings." 

Vincent said, "Why?!? Annihilation is what we needed to order to survive! Those demons are nothing but trouble for us since the beginning and you know it!" 

"That's not true! Mujika and Sonju are here with us in the capital to stop the drug from spreading." Norman explains to the group. 

Ray nodding, concurring with his brother, "That's not all, Don and Gilda is here too. We asked them to stop the degeneration from spreading ." 

Emma and her group were stunned by their revelation, as that Cisclo said, "You guys actually found the Evil-Blooded Girl, seriously?"

Norman nods, "Of course we did, how you think we came so suddenly?"

The group went back into the forest where Don and Gilda were waiting for them to arrive. 

Emma held her hands, trembling, fearing that her siblings wouldn't forgive her for what she has done to them for treating them horribly. 

But to her sudden surprise, Gilda rushes over to her, and embraces her. 

"Emma! Thank god!" She exclaims, as Emma was silent over her sister's reaction of seeing her again.

"Glida, Don... " Emma said, looking at her siblings. Norman looked around, "Did Oliver receive our message?"

"He did, he's heading back to Paradise Hideout as we speak. " Don reassures him, as to their surprise of seeing the two demons that Emma tried to kill. 

The young demon walked towards Emma, and without hesitation, he embraces her in a hug, which shook everyone. 

"A demon hugging a human? That's amazing!" Vincent said, in disbelief of what just happened. 

The young demon said, "I heard about the farm, the experimental farm, Lambda 7214 . That my kind did awful experiments on all of you. 

I didn't know that my kind would do something that terrible. Please don't be so hard on them. They were so desperate, and that thinking that the humans don't have will, but now I know. 

We're the same, and that your siblings truly care about you, and I should be thanking them. Thanks to them, I see how the farm systems isn't right to you. " 

Emma was amazed. She never imagined in her wildest dreams that her enemy would be so polite and felt guilty about what his kind had done. 

His companion said, "We will help you in anyway we can. Just send Mujika , we'll handle things from there. We should be going. Norman, you ready?"

Norman was surprised of hearing the demon's name, "What a conidence. That's my name too. 

Norman, take care of yourself, ok? We'll meet again." He said to the young demon. The young demon smiled happily, as they leave. 

That night, everyone was asleep except for Emma. She thought about how confident her siblings had become, and here she was, being different because of the decision to leave two years ago. 

"Emma, I thought you were asleep. " She heard someone said, to be Norman. "I thought you were asleep, Norman. 

It's a long way to head back to the Paradise Hideout, you know?"

"I've been a lookout for almost two years. This is nothing that I couldn't handle. Do you need a breath of fresh air?

We can talk together, since we're finally alone." 

Emma was shocked by his suggestion, but she knew that Norman wouldn't take no for an answer. 

"Fine, you win." She said. 

Both of them walked from the group, as the two were in total silence, unsure of what to say to one another after whole annihilation plan. 

That was when Norman finally spoke up. "I never stop thinking about you, Emma. In every danger I had face, I always thought to myself, "What would Emma do?" It's a bit embarrassing." 

"No, no! It's not. As for me, too, like I said, I thought about you a lot when I was in my Lambda cage. I really wanted to see you so badly. " She said. 

Norman asked, "I have a question Why didn't you admit that you were indeed experimented and go the side effects earlier and didn't tell our siblings back then? " Emma surprised at his guess. "H-How did you..." 

"Gilda told us before we confronted you though. " 

"What? Are you saying that Emma really have the Lambda side effects? " 

"Yes, I mean, that's the logical explantation, and there's something else that mades me wonder. Doesn't Adam have any seizures since he was originally from Lambda?"

Don thought for a moment, "Yeah,  now I think about it, Adam never had seizures or show signs of the Lambda effects, is it possible that he might be the cure for Emma and her group?"

Ray said, "If that's true, Anna and the others should investigate immediately. Oliver might be the only one who could be fast enough to deliver this message." 

Emma was amazed of how Norman can be so calm about her situation, even though that she was trying to hide it from their family. 

All of a sudden, her seizure came out, as she coughs out blood into Norman's shoulder, as he was holding her. 

"It's ok, I'm here." He said, comforting her during her outburst. When she finally let it out, she seems totally embarrassed that her own brother had to seen how horrible the seizure was. 

She said, "I'm sorry that you had to see that, Norman." 

Norman just couldn't help it. He was still irate that he wasn't there for her when she needed him, and that during the past two years, all he felt was guilt. 

"Norman?" Emma asked him, seeing his emotions. 

"I don't want to loose you for real, Emma. Ever since that night you were sent away, the memories still there, I couldn't handle it. " He said, as he couldn't look at her directly as he could had.

Emma thought for a long moment. How could she reassure her brother that she wouldn't lie to him again and make him feel miserable?

She touches his shoulder, "Norman, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make you worry like this. Remember what you told me?  "You don't have to protect me, I want to walk alongside you." 

Your words inspired me, Norman, and that means that I wouldn't hide my true feelings anymore. 

Norman, I am really happy that we found each other, and you gotten stronger than ever." 

Norman was amazed by her speech, it never occur to him that he can inspire her even though she had been in Lambda for two years. 

"Emma -" He begins to say to her, when suddenly, they heard horse galloping towards them, with an unconious Gillian and Oliver was holding her!

"Oh man, Gillian!" Norman said, looking at his sister's wounds. 

Ray and the others were awoken by Norman's scream. "What happened?"


Oliver explained to the group what he has seen. "Everyone was taken. They were gone when I arrived. It appeared that a attack must've happened while you guys went in search for Mujika and Sonju." 

"You can't be serious." Ray said, being shocked by this revelation. Vincent asked, "But if that's true, who would attack them?"

Emma knew. There was one possibility of who would do such a horrible deed. "It's Peter Ratri. It has to be him. There is no doubt about it.

He had some desire of continue the Lambda experimental process, just like we did. Everyone was taken under his custody." 

Norman said, "So, if Peter is behind this, where would he took them, they could be anywhere by now." 

Gillian asked, waking up from her attack, "Why you use the Pen, it might have some clue to where everyone is ." 

Norman opens up the Pen, as the group gasps of what they had seen, just seeing it makes Emma more surprised but her siblings seems so calm and collected than she was.

"Gracefield House. Geez, what a surprise." Norman said, sarcastically.  He was planning to return to Gracefield House eventually, to keep the promise to Phil that they would return to rescue him. 

That instant , Norman couldn't help it but laugh. "Well, it seem like we have to make a breakout again, Ray. We can keep the promise to Phil now." 

"Do you have some sort of plan, Norman?" Vincent asked. 

Norman chuckled, "Not at all. Besides, we always had a surprising turns of events. We naturally go with the flow. It's just how it is for us anyway." 

Ray nods, concurring with his brother, "That's true, but we had some mishaps along the way, though. But we always pull through. We're always done the impossible." 

Suddenly, Emma couldn't help but laugh at the way her siblings seem to be calm about the whole situation. 

Vincent and her comrades were in total shock of seeing her laughing. They never heard her laughter before, mostly because of she was keeping distance to herself. 

"Well, if you put it that way, Norman and Ray does have the qualities of being the leaders of this crazy scheme. " 

Vincent said, trying to persuade the group, "This is absolutely insane! Gracefield House has a high-top security, with all those demon soldiers guarding, there's no way we can make an infiltration there! " 

"Vincent, we made a promise to one of our siblings there. He's waiting for us to come for him, he's been suffering of keeping the farm secret for two years. He couldn't say a thing to his new siblings about this, and knowing him, he intends to keep his grades up until we came back. 

Besides, it would be a great revelation to him that Emma is alive. " Norman said, felt determined to keep the promise he had made to Phil on the night before they escaped the farm. 

He remembered the conversation he had with Phil on the night before the escape to hear his suggestions.

"Phil, since you know the whole truth, what you think? Do you think we should bring the kids five and under or leave them here?" Norman asked. 

"If you asking for my option, you should not take us. Let me take care of things here. I will wait for you for two years." 

Don said, shocked of Phil's decision to stay behind. "A-Are you sure about this, Phil? It would make things hard for you. " 

"I'll be fine, just take care of our family until you guys get back, ok?"

Norman and the others agreed to go to Gracefield House at sunrise. Emma was wearing the blue cloak she had worn when Ray and Norman confronted her. 

Emma took a deep breath. It's the first time in two years that she has returned to her childhood home. 

"You nervous to see Phil and the rest of our family, Emma?" Norman asked her. 

"A little. After all, I think Phil would be mad at me like you guys were when I decided to kill the demons." She said. 

Norman touches his sister's shoulder, "Emma, it's going to be fine. All of this will be fine, we'll find out how to cure you and the others from the Lambda seizures. " 

She smiled, but Vincent asked, "Wait, I thought you weren't affected. You don't have the same illness as us. 

You're a special test subject that was sent from Gracefield. " 

"No, I was affected by the drugs. I'm sorry. I lied to all of you. My seizures are highly advanced. It's at Level 4. " She admitted the truth to them which startled the group. 

Barbara said, "Boss, you shouldn't lie to us. We all cared about you. Remember what Norman said?

Your siblings care about you. We all do. Don't push yourself too hard, k?"

Emma was really amazed of how they really trust her, even though she lied to them. 

"All right. Let's save our family!" She declared.

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