Chapter 52

  Welcome Home:

  Dianna:

  Only 5 minutes left until I send an army to go after my son and brother in laws. I have been pacing a hole in the floor.

  All at once I sense a portal. Ashura walks out first, followed by a young man I have never seen, then Wayne and finally, Thoran and Maurice who is carrying a medium size box. Sophie-Ann and the 3 kids come running from somewhere. Eric jumps in the young man's arms hugging him tightly. The young man put Eric down and reached out for Sophie-Ann for a hug. He tells her it has been a long time Mommy. She ran to him crying and hugging him like he would disappear if she let go of him. He sits Sophie-Ann on the floor with him and he lets her rock him in her arms. Wayne sat beside them rubbing Sophie-Ann's back to comfort her. After about 30 minutes Sophie-Ann composes herself and the young man asks everyone to please sit, so he can explain a few things. He introduces himself as Brenton Xan Blackwell.

  Brenton:

  I never thought I would get this type of reaction from this family. I have always known who my parents were but I never thought they would be this welcoming and overcome with emotions. I don't know how to really react to all of this. I just do what feels right for me to do. I have so much I want to tell these people but I can't just yet.

  I look over and see 4 other children looking at me with curious faces. I want to trust them but I also need them to trust me. I start by introducing myself and telling them there are important things I need to discuss with them, unbelievable things. First I would like to thank you all for saving me from that house of horrors. The things that go on there are worse than Final Destination and SAW movies combined. Not everyone is under hallucination spells like Mom and Dad were. Maurice I want to thank you for not revealing anything and Ashura for making the portal non traceable. I'm sure I have a tracker inserted in me and I'm wondering if there is a doctor who can examine me and remove it. I don't want them to find me again. This man steps up and introduces himself as my cousin Doctor Louis Dracul and asks me when I would like to do the exam? I tell him the sooner the better. He tells me to follow him. He is taking me to the hospital to remove the tracker. I tell him on the way to the hospital that Thoran cast a spell to deactivate the tracker for 2 hours in case I do have one implanted. He says that is just enough time to do what he has planned.

  The way he said it, I should have felt afraid, but I didn't. I felt a wave of love and freedom. I feel safe for the first time since the incident happened.

  We arrived at the hospital and Louis sneaked me in through a side door and had me lay on a gurney. He covers me with a sheet and wheels me into a room. He explained every detail he was doing. A full body X-Ray should show the foreign object. He said he found it. Tells me he is going to give me an injection to make me go to sleep. The surgery shouldn't take more than 30 minutes. I agree to the procedure and the next thing I know I'm awake with Mom holding my hand and the sun shining through the window blind. I'm sore but I'm alive. Louis comes in and tells me he didn't want to scare me at the time but the tracker was in an undesirable place. I asked where and he told me it must have been inserted when I was a baby when I was circumcised. I asked what he did with the tracker? He said it's in a fish belly. It hurt to laugh but I couldn't help not to. He said as soon as I can walk, I can go home. I asked if I could catch a ride with him. He said sure, he was off duty and going there to spend time with his mate Ann. I told mom it was nothing personal but I needed to ask Louis some questions that I was not comfortable talking about in front of her. She said she understood and would see us at the house.

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  When I finally got into Louis's car. I ask him if he can sense any darkness in me?

  He looked at me and asked me. “Should I”?

  I told him I was once covered in that dark sticky stuff and one day it started to fade. It started fading when I had to help in the lab because a baby had hatched. I had to hold the baby while kithe artificial uterus was being cleaned. The scent that came from that baby was very familiar and I felt a pull of a bond to that baby. I started spending more and more time with it. I told everyone I wanted to take him on as my minion. No one questioned me and allowed me more and more time with him. The more I spent with that baby the more the darkness faded. I invented a potion that imitated the smell of the darkness so no one could tell my scent was changing. Then another baby was hatched 2 years later. A girl. I felt the same type of bond with her that I felt with the boy. She had the same familiar scent also. 2 years later another girl was hatched. Same feeling, same scent. I snuck into the doctors office and found the reports for the children. I found out I was their brother. They may have been born in a test tube but they were my true siblings. I had to find a way to get them out. I'm scared the darkness is still in me waiting to come out and attack me, no matter how much I have changed because of the love I have for my brother and sisters. Louis stopped the car and looked me dead in my neyes and told me. First he does not detect any darkness on me at all. Second. If I'm worried I should ask to meet Ashura Thoran and Sven. They put an anti darkness spell on my mom and dad. Third, I should call a family meeting when I'm up to talking but he warned me that the whole family would be present including all the children because in our family we do not keep secrets. We don't question. We trust.

  I didn't know what or even how to feel about hearing those words. I never heard the word trust used in that way before. I was used to hearing just trust us, we know what is best. Those words were all lies. The words coming from Louis were pure and honest. I tell him that I will ask for a meeting soon. He nods his head and starts driving again.

  When we pulled in the drive, I thought we were going to stop at the pack house. Louis tells me that our family has houses that are all connected by closed-in pathways. Even though the pack members are family, private family time is very important and when you live in the pack house, you don't ever get private moments with a wink. He told me mostly singles and older people live in the pack house. It's like an assisted living home now. The young take care of the old and learn from them so it's a win win.

  We parked in front of a huge house but it was the wonderful smell that was drifting outside that got my attention. Mom came out on the porch to greet us. She asked if we were hungry. Louis said Ann probably has something cooked already and as soon as the words left his mouth, several people started walking up. One lady kissed him on his cheek and told him I did cook something. Peach cobbler. Everyone had a dish in their hands. Even the kids were carrying goodies. Dad comes and grasps my shoulder and says “Son welcome to your first Blackwell/Dracul family dinner”. Something about the words family dinner wakes another bond in my heart.