Valentine Rillem-

'Where's Skysin? It's past dark and he's still not here yet. Did something happen to him...? I knew Rellgis should've went to meet him,' I was fretfully walking in the living room, from one side of the white couch to the other. While the wood engulfed in orange flames faintly crackled, oddly enough… it only constituted to increasing my anxiety, worried about my baby.

'All the kids so far returned home now. I swear, if anything happened to my son, I'm gonna kill Rellgis and that lazy ass Alzar...' I thought to myself, only to feel like the density of oxygen in my chest had drastically accumulated. With haste, I made way around the white couch and approached the back door, to see if Rellgis was training.

I peered out the glass door, viewing the luminescent moon in the darkened sky, barely enfolded by hazy greyish clouds, that looked like giant puffs of smoke from a cigar. Then, my eyes met Rellgis, a few feet away on the yard. He was shirtless, wearing black harem pants, swinging his saber like usual. As I opened the door, "Rellgis, it's past dark, where's Skysin? He should've been here by now..." I asked as my voice began to fall apart scarcely.

Rellgis ceased his swings and turned to my direction, "yeah, you're right. If he's not here by dawn, I'll get a search party ready."

I crossed my arms, impatiently patting my foot on the darkly shaded grass, "I think it's best if you look now. I'm worried… what if something happened to him?"

Rellgis walked over to me and wrapped his lengthy arms around my waist, his burly palms slowly caressing my back, "honey, relax. I'm sure the boy's fine, he is our kid after all." He said with a relaxed tone, gazing down at me with a composed smile.

I firmly embraced my husband, placing my forehead right under his chest, "but you know how he is, it's as if a situation is the one finding him."

Rellgis chuckled cradling me, "well…you're not wrong about that. I promise, as soon as dawn comes, I'll search for him immediately. Let's just give him time for now, ok?" My tall husband reassured me, pressing his lips against my forehead and went inside.

I trailed behind him, all while having a bitter taste in my mouth, 'it just feels like somethings wrong. Especially with how fast that boy can run. Being able to move faster than sound without kinetics alone, he definitely should've been here.' I contemplated to myself, heading up the white spiral-like staircase.

As I came along the second floor in the blue hallway, flourished in dim lights made from amber gems moderately poking out the ceiling. I made my way through the hall, entering our daughter Melluna's room.

Melluna was sleep in her pink bassinet in the left side of the room. It's quite spacious for a baby; the walls are royal blue, and there's a substantial quantity of stuffed animals in the corner next to her closet door, sinistral to the entrance. Plus, a window in the right corner, allowing the bright moon to gleam through, encasing the room with a celestial light.

It's funny how similar her looks are to Rellgis. Howbeit, Skysin's basically identical to me in facial features… complete opposites.

Melluna has sky-blue hair and pudgy beige cheeks, wearing a little red onesie. "Just wait till you meet your brother Skysin, I bet he'll be so excited to play with you..." I quietly whispered, rubbing her soft, silky hair.

I walked out the room, searching for Rellgis. After failing to espy him upstairs, I headed down, coming to find a note on the granite counter to my left.

P.S. Lock the doors.>

I released a sigh, knowing that he was trying to endure his own unsettling mind. I took myself into the living room and sat on the couch, "please, be safe Skysin." I muttered feebly as cold sweat began to surface on my forehead. Only to once again, hear the faint crackles of flames scorching the wood in this niggling silence.

Skysin Rillem-

I was shrouded in tenebrous darkness, the pitch black, once again for the second time. The only entity in this immeasurable void of indistinct shade was me, just myself. Although, I noticed I'm able to move… but to where? Was it up or down, could it be left, or right? I couldn't perceive the own sound of my footsteps. This vacuum of blackened space seemed like an ocean, filled with nothing… just capable of feeling a palpable atmosphere of regret, shame, weakness, and incapability.

'Just where am I?' I thought to myself, or that's what it seemed to be. Only to discern the sound waves of my voice propelling aloud into various amounts of echoes in this null expanse of black sea.

Despite this unnatural occurrence, a vivid, balmy, tender light, was shown directly above me. I had no idea what this was, but it felt benevolent. I lifted my hand towards this familiar source and as I did, its luminosity enhanced the more I shifted myself to it. Thus, when this illumination became too much for me, I closed my eyelids.

When I expected to have another odd dream, or Deja Vu like the past instances before. I only felt myself regaining consciousness, and at that time… I made out something soft, warmly wrapped around my small body like a blanket. My head laid against a velvety exterior, like a woman's smooth skin. I finally opened my eyes to see a grand view, an array of stars phosphorescing greatly across the vast extraterrestrial. "So, it seems you're finally awake," a gentle, delicate and calm voice stated.

I glanced down to see myself wrapped in a bundle of five silky canary-colored tails, which altered to snow-white at the tips of it. I looked over the right of my shoulder, staring a woman seated under me as my head laid on her round peach thighs.

The woman is truly elegant, her curly hair is the same hue as her tails that went over her small shoulders and draped to her slim waist. Including, a pair of huge fluffy fox ears attached to the top of her head. She has long bangs that hung over her short eyebrows and long lashes. Her angelic, yet penetrating eyes are a color of pearly blue, along with a tinge of pink in her iris. I happened to see another five tails behind herself, moving stilly like elongated grass in a calm breeze.

As for her attire: a white kimono over her well-developed body, with a navy-blue sash tied into a bow behind her back. She really seems like an angel, and I'm starting to question if this is a dream or not...

But there was this domineering force that encased the atmosphere. Her demeaner, how she sat, the way she stared at me. It's easy to tell that this woman isn't to be taken lightly; at all. She's strong, much more powerful than dad, mom, aunt Savitra, and master Alzar. I didn't have to witness her in battle to justify this. Her very presence alone could simply strangulate me without lifting a finger if she desired to.

Although, that's when it hit me as I continued to study this alluring woman. I recalled what dad informed me about Kitsunes. Fluffy ten-tails and huge ears, a cold, yet angelic demeanor, this unsettling frigid presence that flowed horridly, but profoundly in the air. "Are you ok?" She vocalized calmly; her pearly blue eyes continued to feel like a sharpened knife, studying my wellbeing.

This was disrespectful to a degree; I just couldn't stop staring at her though. I've never encountered a clan member. Since dad apprised me that we're the last of our clan, if you include Grandpa Jagan, but he supposedly passed away.

As she continued to observe my perplexed complexion. "Hahaha, I didn't mean to frighten you. My name is Taekhyu… I promise, I mean you no harm," Taekhyu chuckled in a relaxed manner.

'Ok Sin, she seems like a nice lady, just greet her,' I coaxed myself nervously. "I-Are yo- Skysin?"

Taekhyu simply tilted her head, puzzled by my stupidly vague communication.

'SHIT!' I cursed in my conscious, embarrassed for what I said. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, trying to gather my thoughts. 'Ok, let's try this again,' I chimed in my head once more.

I opened my eyes, gazing at her dagger-like eyes, "I-I'm sorry, I'm Skysin… Skysin Rillem." I introduced myself as anxiety slowly crept through my vocal cords.

Taekhyu made a sweet smile as her eyes seemed to have gleamed. "It's nice to meet you Skysin. I'm happy that you seem fine."

"Thank you for saving me, Taekhyu. If I may ask, are you apart of the Kitsune clan?"

"Hahaha, why yes I am. Did my appearance give it away?"

"In a way... yes, heheh."

I gently unwrapped myself from her tails to stand, and Taekhyu slightly poked her nose near me, "hm… I smell a similar presence in you Skysin. Something very close and dear to me." Taekhyu uttered, sitting a finger under her small chin as she surveyed me head-to-toe.

"Well, I'm actually a descendent of the Kitsune's," I stated with a smile scratching my head.

"Are you related to Jagan?" She asked with haste as her tails began to wag in sync, like waves of the ocean.

"Yes, he's my grandfather!" I acknowledged happily.

Taekhyu became astounded as her tails began to rapidly waggle. Faster than I could react, she wrapped her arms around my back and head clutching me tightly to her chest. I could feel her slim body tremble as she held me.

"Jagan is my older brother… so, I'm your great aunt. It's nice to finally meet other kin after so many years… Skysin," Taekhyu wholeheartedly stated as her voice faintly broke down.

As I embraced my aunt, 'it must really mean grandpa died... But still, we have family who's living and breathing! Dad would be more than happy to meet her.' I thought lividly to myself.

After she had unwrapped her arms from me, I took in the translucent room. It was astonishing, Taekhyu was seated on an overly sized, peach-colored pillow. All the corners in this room are that of a giant cube, capable of viewing the astronomical vacuum that surrounded this space. I turned around to catch sight of a singular, glowing lavender doorway, around the height of seven feet in the rear.

"What exactly is this place auntie? It's amazing in here," I asked in awe, observing the outside natures of the crystalline cube.

"As amazing this place is, it's only but a mere prison that I'm to be held in," Taekhyu woefully replied lowering her head. I was utterly confused by the fact that she was imprisoned. Just who would be powerful enough to keep her here against her wishes?

"How did you find this place Skysin?" Taekhyu pondered.

"I was chased down by a horde of beasts, and I ran to a waterfall which led into a cave. But I fell into a hole, then I so happened to come across a rift that brought me here by chance," I explained, trying my best to recall what occurred.

"A horde? Beasts usually just stick to their own pack of the same species," Taekhyu reviewed, making a questionable expression.

"That's the thing, I followed a group of beats that took me to a field filled with them. Then a man in a robe was in the very center with three challengers he had caught...but killed them. He had some emblem of a cross and sent the beasts after me."

Taekhyu's peach face had become pale after I explained the peculiar emblem. "So, it's her..." Taekhyu muttered as dismay prowled through her voice.

"Wait, who exactly?" I asked, unsettled by what she stated.

"The very woman who imprisoned me here, her name is...Nitanz… she's as powerful just as she's insane," Taekhyu worded her name steadily, almost like she was nearly afraid to even pronounce this unfamiliar woman.

"Is she that dangerous?" I asked.

Taekhyu closed her eyes slowly nodding, having her head it remain lowered. She lifted it, gravely staring at me with nothing but seriousness. "Nitanz is more than perilous, that child is the very embodiment of a calamity. As far as insanity goes, she is the utter definition of that. A sadistic, malicious being, who couldn't have a care in the cosmos for whoever she murders," Taekhyu explained as a sense of unnerve ascended into her eyes.

I occupied myself, sitting beside her on the huge cotton filled cushion. "How did you meet her?" I anxiously questioned.

Taekhyu paused, only to stare through the pellucid glass-like floor, looking at the heavenly bodies below. She raised her head, making eye contact with me, her eyes filled with tons of lament. Solemn hovered around the whites of her sclera, like an individual who's been anguished by a melancholic phantom for decades.

Her short eyebrows furrowed, and the corner of her lips dropped, Taekhyu tried to figure out what she was attempting to say. As she did so, every single word entered my ears.

"She was my student, as well as someone who I had used to love dearly, like my own daughter. I created not just a monster, but the devil..."