Harmonizer's Evolution (Balancer's Soul cycle) (2 page)

The min
d felt so eerily familiar and Sorono’s
eyes narrowed as the large metal door began to squeak open. The hallway
looked
a
s bright as the room that held him
. Then walked in a male Keeper
,
wearing a blood red robe and a large leather belt
secured around
h
is
waist.
But that leather’s pigmentation either came from a pig or a human. The male
walked upright and he was
big
. He
easily stood
larg
er than most of the males of their
species…
“It cannot be…”
Sorono hissed
as his impotent rage rose to new heights
.

“Yes it can, big brother.”
It truly
i
s. It was his
younger brother.

He shut the large door behind himself and then started walking towards
the imprisoned
older
sibling
. His wide barreled chest was heavily mus
cled as were his sleeved arms. H
e walked proudly with his
thick
tail swaying
from
side to side
. He walk
ed
triumphantly
closer
while
Sorono
remained
a prisoner
.  His scales glistened under the lighting and his claws were all well kept
and sharp
. He looked good after
the last time the
last seen each o
ther twenty millions years ago.

Then
there were the
eyes.

He had the same color
eyes, but never
held
Sorono’s
casual and inquisitive
personality. Around his slit pupil was brown and around the middle and edges they mixed with
striking
blue. It is the hazel eyes of a
nother
Harmonizer. He
still had to make sure it was really him.

Sorono focused what little energy he
could spare into
his
eyes. The Keeper’s aura that stood before
him
appeared
blood red
and it saturated the entire room in his
immense
color
. It truly was
his
brother.

“Ranvan! It really is you! I’ve been searching for…”

The
younger brother raised his ri
ght clawed hand and it forced him
to quit talking.
“It really has been a
very
long time since we’ve seen each other, but
that doesn’t matter. As you can see, you are a prisoner
or should I say,
my
prisoner
?
”

“A Prisoner! What for!?”
Sorono
couldn’t hold back a snarl from struggling again.
“Why are you holding me like this!?
Any why have you disrupted the bond without my expressed permission? That is the cruelest law that can ever be implemented. Why have you broken so many laws?”
He growled.

“Release me now!
”

Ranvan
twisted his head and
revealed
a mocking
, evil
grin. Then he did
the unbelievable.
The younger sibling
smacked Sorono
across
his
face with his tail. It wasn’t too painful, but it
i
s the ultimate insult
of
their
kind
and
would
usually settled in blood
. Then
Ranvan
snarled
menacingly and hissed
“A prisoner is to be quiet unless given permission to speak!”

At this point Sorono
wanted to rip his heart out, but wasn’t in any position to do so.
After the pain on the side of his
face dulled
he
sat
a
hateful glare on
his
brother and he looked
back
evenly
,
obviously
unimpressed
.

“That’s a good start, Sorono. Now I am completely tired
of you always chasing
after
me
,
all over the planet. This is your punishment for interfering with me
for the last time
.
” Something about his words didn’t seem right and a tingling
sensation
on the nape of
Sorono’s
neck agreed. There was more to his words than he let on. Not even another Harmonizer can lie to
a
brother.

Ranvan is up to something.

Sorono
quickly pushed deeper into his mind
like a bullet
and
Ranvan
felt
the
intrusion. He slammed his mind closed and
halted
the
infringement
.
Sorono’s
instinct told
him
that
what
he
just
did
was a big mistake.
His younger
brother snarled
, barred his teeth
and punched the side of Sorono’s
face
,
after he
tightly
curled his claws into a
three knuckled fist
larger than a human’s head
. The pain
became
excruciating and a
cool
metallic taste filled
his
mouth
,
tasting
like iron
. It was difficult not to scream out in pain, but
he
somehow suppressed the urge.

As
Sorono spa
t out a mouthful of blood
,
he
aimed it at Ranvan. H
is punch
had a
disorienting
effect as
the globule of bloody
spit
veered
off by several feet.
T
wo
images
of
Ranvan stood before him
and they were both furious.
“For that little transgression, yo
u will not be given any food
for the next tw
o weeks. Enjoy your stay,
Big Brother
.”

Ranvan spun around and whipped Sorono’s
face with his tail again and it didn’t h
urt half as bad as the punch. H
e
confidently
strolled away without another glance. He opened the door and stepped through.
Then
slammed it shut.

Sorono
grinned
,
knowing that
he
got under his
brother’s
scaly
skin
.

What Sorono
hoped he didn’t know
i
s
of
what
he
learned
and pushed it deep into his mind where only he could find the information
.
Sorono
had
only
entered
his mind for a moment, but
he
learned more in that
brief
time than searching for
Ranvan
for all those millions of years.
Sorono
thought he
might have become
feral, but
he
wasn’t
going to be
that lucky.
Ranvan
knew
exactly
what he was doing and what Sorono
learned sent a chill up
his
spine.

What he’s planning
now
is
nothing
compared to what he’s done in the past.

Being held like this and with his
body’s energy’s so limited
,
he
began fearing what
i
s to come and
have no way to warn everyone. Sorono
managed to look at the ceiling and sighed.

Without sending out any power
,
he
thought
“Connor, I need your help. Please little brother, I need you
or all will be lost
.”

***

(Thirteen months before)

It
was
the very first morning after explaining to
his mom about what he
actually
i
s and
learning
about almost everything
she did for
him
. It
remained
dark outside when
Connor
looked out the window from
his
bed.
He
looked down when
he
heard Sarah snoring again. Her snoring hasn’t changed since
the day he
first met her. It is still a soft tempo that isn’t disruptive, in fact it’s pleasantly cute. She laid cuddled next to
him
while wearing
one of
his
shirts as a
comfortable
nightgown
. Her head rested over his
heart
like a pillow
and her long brown hair
had
spread everywhere
as if it had a life of its own
. Her firm breasts pressed to
his
side and her
silky
leg
was thrown over
his
. The only thing that wasn’t pressed
tightly
against him
was her belly. She is ins
tinctively trying to protect their
unborn child
, though she wanted to be completely against him
. Every oth
er part of her
clutch
ed
him
for dear life
though
.

Her head
rose and fell with each breath he
took and it didn’t bother her.

Connor
looked up at the ceiling fan as it spun and recounted what happened yesterday.

It
had been
difficult
,
getting the truth out of
his
mom and grandparents, but everyone felt
better once the legitimacy of his
life
story
had a voice
. It was ha
rd for them to comprehend that he
was
actually
born of the earth and it still sounds weird knowing that the Hallowed Mother
i
s the one who had
g
iven
him
life and that
i
s where
his
true
origin started. Despite how it sounds, it feels right. It explains all the strange things that
he did before meeting his
mate and the stranger things
he’s
capable of
doing
after being with Sarah.

His
mom
, Jenny,
found
him
in the woods and raised
him
with the aid of
his loving grandparents
. They taught
him
how to be a good man and one who protects. When they heard
of his honest origins
,
they didn’t care what
he’s
become because
he
was still family
no matter what
. They even accepted how
his
sister had become a Changer. It was like everything seemed
to work out
, like Sarah usually says
. His
family didn’t flee like most people would when they were confronted to a new view of the world.