((This one's another long 'un... twice as long. Woop... Quick summary: George's harem never married him, he saw them marry their loves as he married Ella. George knows as much as we do on the Layars. We then delve into Matt's past with his parents, why they never came back. They're both magical, the dad an energy user, his mom a healer of the same vain as Ella. We discover Matt's mom saved Selina 6 years ago when she transferred Selina's dad's soul energies into Selina, fulfilling the dad's wish.))
Matt walked down slowly, yawning as he did, to the sight of George sighing at the picture of Ella. Apparently, he hadn't noticed Matt's presence yet. Matt noted the sadness and longing that was evident. <Did he wait for 100 years just for 4 days with her?>
Matt decided to make his presence known by making a louder noise as he took the last step, but pretended to not have noticed what he saw. George gave a start.
''Woah, ahem! Matt, my son! You're up! How great to see! You have questions, nyes! Well then, let's get it out, wot wot!'' He smiled as he pulled a chair for Matt to sit on a table which had a small service of food. Even though he ate before doing to bed and had only been asleep a couple of hours (there's a clock here!), he was hungry, and took to it with gratification.
Matt eventually got around to talking. ''Is... is there anyway to letting my friends know I'm still alive?''
''Afraid not!'' George shook his head. ''Time-space irregularity means we can't get back into reality yet and I can only do portals of seeing. It can't communicate, and nor can it even be sensed.'' Matt took this revelation with a bite of a lobster.
''That's... unfortunate...'' Matt hid his disappointment. ''So, uhh... 6 wives huh?'' George gave a look before laughing.
''What? Oh, HAHAHA! No no, my boy! I only married Ella. My 6 girls of my harem meant a lot to me, but we never married. We fooled around, and I mostly gave them trouble. When I met Ella, things changed, and I wanted to do them right.'' He smiled, but it had a hint of sadness in it. ''I helped them all find their true loves, and looked over their families for as long as I could. Bit different to you who has two gorgeous girlfriend, eh!'' Matt blushed at the thought.
It took a while before he refocused. ''Ok... another question. Do you know anything about these Layars?''
''Nothing more than you I'm afraid. They've been nearly impossible for me to get a good portal to.'' Not news Matt wanted to hear. He wanted to have some form of edge over these foes, but was getting none. So, instead, he decided to ask a question he'd always wanted to know.
''Alright. Mom and dad. Why are they never around.'' Matt asked, almost bitterly. ''They're never around, not even for graduation ceremonies.''
''Ah...'' George looked away a little. ''Bad family trait and a direct result of our magical forms. Sorry.''
''Don't apologise!'' Matt raised his voice. ''Just tell me why they left their only son to fend for himself. Tell me why I was left alone, where I had no friends and no family! Tell me what they damn well did that made them forget about me!'' Matt's anger was tempered with being upset over suddenly bringing up an issue he'd thought he'd buried. George twiddled with his mustache, calmly taking a sip from a cup of tea before he settled and gave his answer:
''You need to know a few things. First off, me and my wife, Ella, were amongst the first to actually be two people with super forms who had a child together. There's a catch, though. Our family seems to only be able to bear one child. We think it is because that both parents are magical, but we don't know, nor have any basis on it. It means that we're destined to only ever have one child as far as we know, but it allows the Robson family to be the oldest family that is in the business of magical form protection. You're dad works at a power station, yes?''
''Yeah, it constantly underperforms from the levels it should be producing...'' Matt recalled.
''Your dad is an energy user. He absorbs from most sources of energy to use at a later date, whether it be heat, lightning, air pressures or even kinetic energy. By day, he absorbs some of the power of the plant and by night, he fights anything from hooligans, crime lords to inter-planar invaders. He's a one man army. Your mom, though has the rarest form.''
George stopped a second, looked at the picture of Ella. ''Only the second person to have the power. Your mother can transfer soul energy between people aswell as herself, heal others and fight with beams of light that hurts the evil in people. She also has a knack of resting the body as if it had already slept. It allows your dad to do what he needs to 24/7.''
''And my mom works as a nurse in two different hospitals...'' Matt recalled.
''Yes.'' George brought up a portal of fight centred on Selina. ''Your mom saved her.''
Matt's eyes lit up in surprise. ''Huh?''
''This is what your mom does. She uses her gift to heal people, including those with magical forms that fight with your dad. Your girls, Selina, was on her death bed when she was 10 years old.'' Matt looked like he couldn't believe it. So, George brought up another portal of sight, but this one felt different. Where the one on the current Selina looked crisp and clear, this had a vague tinge of brown to it. ''This is a portal of sight into the past, a recorded one, much easier for me to bring up.'' Matt could see a 10 year old Selina looking deathly and a man holding her hand and... it looked like he was praying. One moment, he prayed fervently to a God to take his life and give it to her. Another prayer than went to Buddha. And it just went on like that. He looked inconsolable as the heart meter kept giving its beep. Matt couldn't tear his eyes away; He just wanted to hug the girl and tell both of them it would be alright, even though he could sense it wouldn't. Georges next words felt so distant.
''It was a disease never seen before. No amount of medicine nor even your mom's direct healing worked. She was quite distraught. She could sense the soul was damaged more than the body.'' Matt saw his mom from 6 years ago in the backround overhearing the father. The portal then shifted to a time where the father seemed asleep and Selina the most awake she had been, but only just by normal standard. His mom entered the room, wings 3 metres from tip to tip, an angel like the one that saved him. A bright light shone around the empty room, and Matt could see a faint transfer of energy from the dad to Selina, his wish was granted by a magical girl in angel form. As it ended, the light was dimming as she leant to the father's ear, and whispered.
''What did she say?'' Matt asked George, who himself was smiling at Matt's complete absorption, which changed to a more sober note when he noted Matt had tears down his cheeks.
''I'll... amp it up.''
The portal got closer, and they could hear the soft voice.
''Sorry I couldn't give you more time with her.'' Even still, the father smiled as Matt's mom retreated from the room, Selina's face warming up and looking healthier by the second, the father looking worse each second, as the portal faded.
''They made a hard choice, effectively giving up on their own happiness with each other and you to us their powers to the fullest. But, as a result, you have your girlfriend alive and well, not to mention other people who got to live with their families and friends. Your mom cries every week and your dad often goes into depression or simply causes a storm to vent. They miss you, the one they've not seen the longest.'' George looked sad himself. ''No other parent have ever taken such a tough decision simply because they've never had the powers that those two do.''
Matt was flushed red, sniffling both from Selina's dad and his own parents. He wasn't the only one that was suffering in this arrangement and he felt foolish. Almost sensing as such, George put a hand on Matt before putting another portal out showing a hard working, studious young man that helped a snob like girl when her foot was stuck and she was in pain.
''That's the kind of portals I show your parents when they inevitably come here, of you. A young man who gets on with his life and shows kindness to those who hate him. They're incredibly proud of you.'' George sensed that Matt's emotions were now going to force a break, he gave a gulp, trying to stop from actually crying as he put his head in his folded arms. George left him, as Matt started to cry out his loneliness.
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