"Snow? Wake up. "

"Open your eyes, Snowflake. "

Breeze's child like voice and Ice's clear voice sound faint in her ears and echoing. She feels the warm palm gently slapping her right cheek. Her head sways a little before she forces her eyelids to slide open.

"Snowy! " Flame grabs Snow's palm in hers linking heat. Snow moves her orbs upward as they notice movements. Ice's eyes.

Snow hurriedly springs up to sit properly from laying on Ice's lap. Ice smirks. She cough out a little to fix her dry throat. "What happened? " she asks.

"Jacqualyn moved in front of us and you took the hit from the aura that was aimed at us. There was like a huge explosion and it happened to fast for us all to dodge. When we gain consciousness, we are already.. well.. here. "Flame explains as her fingers tapping on Blaze's cheek.

"That thing hit him after it hit you. "She explains again but in lower soft tone than before, before Snow can ask what has happened to Blaze. His head is laying on Flame's lap and Baezzy curls its big scaly body behind her to lean against.

Snow notices the Jacqualyn does the same to them. Its furry body warming up her back. Breeze hugging her knees close to her chest. Snow takes the silenced situation to observe the place they all arrived to. 'It is fortunate that we all sent to a same place. '

They are in a building. She assumes a big one. Like Elementria's castle. The torches on the pillars, burn brightly. Which was pretty odd to her because it is no longer time of torches. It is time of electric lamps and pendaflour. Moreover, the torches are burning bright yet the surrounding feels so cold. Blaze's coughing breaks her observation.

"Are you okay? "Flame helps Blaze to lean against Baezzy's body.

  Blaze nods, letting Flame watching him still with worries. His eyes flicker to their surrounding, his mind processing the situation. He sighs as his head concludes how they arrived here. "So what do we do now? "

Then others shrug. They can't just stay there and do nothing though.

The sounds of heels tapping onto the floor echoing on their way turn their heads in alarm. They wait, cautious.

The shadow approaches them first, getting shorter as the burning torch lit the perimeter. A little boy silhouette appears. He didn't seem to notice them.

"Around ten years old. " Ice utters out his thought.

"Prince Jatayu! " a rough voice calls from a distance, shocking both the boy and teens.

"Jatayu..?! "Breeze gulps as the name slides out of her mouth. "Were we sent into his childhood memories..? "

"His Highness demanded for your presence. " The guard in dark silver armour bows down to the boy. Little Jatayu blinks his eyes once. The guard bows again and walk away.

Little Jatayu start his pace again but slower that his steps when he first appeared.

"So my conscience says, follow that kid. "Blaze stands up and proceed to trail behind little Jatayu. He turns over his shoulder to ensure that his cousins are coming.

Flame throws her gaze outside the long window. The grey clouds seems as if invisible on the gloomy grey sky. Her eyes flicker to the tree. The leaves are barely green. The trunks, twits.. all in ash-grey colour. "It must be creepy at night."she comments.

"How can a kid at his age lives in a place where the sun rays and shine can't break in? "Snow frowns.

Breeze knits her finger together behind her, " he lived somehow." sympathy filling in her. She almost forgot that the little boy in front of them created chaos in on coming years.

The teens watch little Jatayu trails his left palm and fingers along the wall on the path that have pictures and portraits hanging on the wall. He halts in front of a portrait close to the entrance.

  A portrait of a gorgeous and majestic like woman wearing black crown filled with shiny grand black pearls, cuddling a baby. Just looking at her portrait gives you vibes that she wasn't someone evil.

Little Jatayu's nude coloured lips twitch into a sad longing smile. He straighten his back and exhale, the little smile died down into thin line. He releases the portrait and faced the mighty black doors. They swing open from inside.

The teens behind him strengthen their guards.

"Where have you been? "

Their presents are welcomed by scowling arrogant voice, thundering.

Little Jatayu steps forward, closer to the throne and kneels on one knee. "Sorry for being late, your Highness. " His voice slightly trembles with hint of mixed fear and hate.

The old man,  with the hairs on him all have turned white as age consume him, clasps his finger on his throne. He frowns, making his creased face crease much more. Hideous. His crooked nose point forward, he growls. "Where have you been?"

Little Jatayu didn't answer.

"He went to his mother's tomb."

The group flinch in unison. Flame intuitively steps in front of Breeze holding her hand tight inside of hers. The Demon God receives glares.

"Aww~Come on, give me a warm greeting or something..? Tiny Thing?"

"It's okay." Breeze states. Receiving looks. 'I guess..? '

"How can we be sure, he could just betray us like he have done to Jatayu."

"That won't be happening, pyro head." The Demon God sneers at Blaze. Quite irritated.

"The agreement between that boy and me never did said I can't make any other deal with anyone else." He grins wickedly

  "And the agreement between me and Tiny Thing are pretty simple, No matter what, I won't be making any other deal with none accept her herself, approves. Which, was quite odd don't you think?" He chuckles. "I am the one who owned her, yet I'm the one agreeing to her terms."

"Get him into the room." The old emperor hisses.

Their tense conversation cut out.

Little Jatayu flinches in horror yet, said nothing.

Flame frowns. "The room..?"

The Demon God crosses his arms together. " 'The room'… a term referring to a dark room where he kept 'soul eaters'. The 'nightmare' are adapted from them. The difference are, soul eaters accept no one as the master." He shrugs. "Can't be control yet by one;  Jatayu's mother. She was the only bearer. And he inherited them but he still didn't know."

"Still didn't know." utters Ice.

The Demon God nods.

"He was the darkness itself, so soul eaters can't feed from him. But it still severe."

Little Jatayu's father roars again as the guards hesitates to get hold of their little prince.

The little Jatayu's figure is dragged out of the situation.

Their surrounding spins in sudden, filled with grief screaming of a child. Their eardrums are as if exploding. 

The screaming turns from high pitched to hollow and rough. Old.

The spinning stop.

Their eyes pop with terror. The throne was flooded with shiny crimson liquid. Nauseas dig in them.

Teenage Jatayu is holding a pumping piece of meat. His father's eyes are ogling. Dead.

Jatayu's silhouette is drenched crimson from head to toe. He grins wide. His fingers then crush the bloody heart and claws out his eyes. Throwing them aside after he clawed out his fathers.

"You have to see how strong I am with your own eyes, right father? Aren't you proud of me?? " he laughs maniacally, blood trickling down his mad eyes.

He steps onto the throne.

"Prostrate to me, bloody creatures."
He claims.

Goosebumps hit them.

Jatayu's raging eyes flicker towards them.

The Demon God chuckles. "Ops. He sees us."

Harsh wind surrounds them in lightning speed that the speed hurt their eyes.

But once the spinning gone, they are all back to the present.

A black abstract shield protects them from Jatayu's aura.

Jatayu roars. The demonic voice up roaring behind it.

"We need the crystal." Ice states.

The crystal is in Jatayu's fist. It"s missing Breeze's colour.

He catches her eyes. Breeze flinches. Her arms onto Flame's body but it's too late. She emerged out of her will, Flame and Snowy scream from behind her.

Her body appears in front of the Darkness King. He held out his now black disgusting hand to reach her.

Then it happen.

The nightmares starts attacking each other in fibrousity. They can't obey two masters at the same time.

Her shoulder is wrapped by someone's arm. She turns her face. Hirome's pushes her backward.

Breeze twirls only to see Jatayu clenching through Hirome's chest.

Breeze stares blank. She didn't feel the Demon God aura catching her.

They witnesses the black like shadow flowing out of Hirome's dead body encircles Jatayu then join his black rampaging aura covering his body.

Hirome's lifeless body floats down from the air toward Breeze. Burdening his weight on Breeze in her tight embrace.

"No.. "

They turns speechless. Another death.
Jatayu chokes. He crouches, writhing.

"What is happening? " Snow gasps on her words.

"Darkness won't accept master." The Demon God answers her.

He proceeds in front of Jatayu.

The Darkness King's silhouette shivers terribly. His black eyeballs drip black liquid out. He screams in pain, the demonic laugh getting louder.

"Come back to me, pest." The Demon God summons. The laughing darkness swirls out of Jatayu and into the palm of the Demon God. Jatayu's body floats, soulless, his skin dried up, cracking.

Then the darkness army vanishes into thin air, the Elementria's soldier stopped in abrupt.

"Has it end already? "They questions each other.

But the teenagers can't accept it.

"You freaking filthy Demon! You could stop this all from the fucking start! But you didn't! "

Blaze yells in madness.

"I can't, pyro head." The Demon God said gravely . "I hold on to the deal. Not to stop him.  When darkness itself consumes him, he is no longer himself. Only then I can stopped his dead body."

Breeze's ears twitch slightly upon a slight sharp piercing sound from above her.

The beautiful, Element Crystal hovers on Breeze's opened palm while her arms still holding Hirome firm. Disastrous. She wants to destroy it.

As soon it cold glass like surface touched her blood-drenched palms, it shines more dazzlingly, different colours of aura spark out like shootings stars and head towards their rightful owners.

Ice, Flame, Snow and Blaze inhale in astonishments as the auras of wonders encircles them then faded.

The sky is brighter than before.

"Our elements are back!" Flame exhales out her exhaustion.

"Breeze.. " Snow dives down to Breeze, follow by others.

The Demon God gently land Breeze and Hirome's onto the ground.

Breeze rests his head onto her laps. His wide opened eyes stabbed her blank's. Her white night gown is stained with dirt and Hirome's black blood.

Her cousins surround them.

Snow removes Breeze palms from pressing on Hirome's heartless chest.

"Leave it to us, Breeze." She whispers slowly. Then both her and Ice places their palms hovering on top of the opened wound.

"Stop it. You two. Stop it."

Breeze pleading halts Snow but not Ice.

"Don't give up! "His voice shaking.

"Darkness can't be healed." Breeze swallows her tears away.

Snow touches Ice's hand and drops them away from Hirome's chest.

"He have no soul."

Blaze hands clenched into fists.

Their parents' spirits gather around them. Cyclone's kneels down with Breeze between them.

Silence.

Hirome's head goes burden less. Breeze clasps on his shoulder tighter but he keep starting to be intangible.

She speaks in her mind with  hope that his taunting yet gentle voice will reply her.

Don't leave me, Cycy.

She wraps her arms around him. She embraces nothing but herself. The scent of cold dead goes into her nostrils. He goes, like dust in the air.

Breeze inhales. She ignores the grief faces of her cousins. The read-less looks on the spirits. The expressionless Demon God.

Too painful but why?

Breeze closes her eyes and exhale. She allows the same music of nature from her childhood with Cyclone fills in her mind.

Her corneas sense dazzles from opposite of her closed eyelids. Cyclone's sparkling aura.

Breeze lap fells heavy and warm again.

Dream..?

No.

The gentle voice replies. Breeze eyes streamed with grateful tears.

Cyclone's fingers caress her hair gently. She chuckles in relief.

The others feel the same. Flame and Snow shares a relief look among themselves. The spirits wear smile on their faces.

The vibration of shattered glass hits their eardrums. The turns their attention to the source. Jatayu's dead floating body craches onto the cracked earth, dissipating into black sparkly dust. Into nothingness.

They pity him. A bit of regrets filled in the teenagers' hearts. They couldn't help him even after knowing his past.
Breeze sighs. She slides her arm behind Cyclone and help him pulls himself up to stand.

The spirits start to be fading away.
They embraces their child.

Breeze's jealousy extinguishes by itself as Cyclone's mother pulls her into her intangible embrace.

They backs away. Wave them goodbyes and change into rays of lights. They disappears.

"Your highnesses." The general of Elementria bows upon the royals.

The soldiers make ways for the ones carrying their grandpa's figure.

"Let's head back to Elementria first."

Blaze decides for them after a while kneeling beside their late grandfather's side.

The sky above them rolls with thunders, cracking. Blaze re-opens the portal to Elementria.

The last thing they sees before he closes the portal, is the colliding of Jatayu's kingdom.