"I will go look for them, now," Ethan said the earlier he did it the earlier he would find out the truth about his memory loss and about who freed the snakes.

"Be careful, please," John whispered to him while William's face went paler, clearly concerned about his son's health.

Ethan smiled at the three of them before disappearing in a fraction of a second, he was so fast that John wondered what supernatural creature he truly was but at the same time he didn't want to ask him because he didn't know how he could react.

Ethan reached the wood where the first time he met the snake he smelled the soil and the surrounding trying to smell some traces of where the snakes may be.

When he finally got a hint of where they went he groaned and rushed toward the next city, the more he got closer to the city's wood the more their scent intensified. He could feel they were more, maybe a pack or maybe only a few strong ones despite that Ethan wasn't scared at all, he had spent all his life alone fighting against some of the strongest packs yet he survived.

All of a sudden he halted, his abrupt stop raised the dust, he froze slowing gazing around the wood. He could hear voices calling him, even her mother's voice and his father's voice. All those voices weren't clear but they were fading and sounding like a lullaby. The more he listened to those voices the more he was feeling tired and sleepy.

Ethan didn't know what to do, whatever those voices were he had one only certainty: they weren't real. He covered his ears with his hands as if that gesture would help him not to listen to the voices but the gesture turned out in vain since the voices he heard were in his mind and he couldn't escape from his mind.

Ethan charged to start running but as soon as he took few steps a huge shadow impeded him from the passage so he turned around to change his direction but another shadow appeared. In few seconds he was surrounded by shadows. Ethan groaned as his eyes flashed of an intense red, he bent his head slightly and kicked against the ground so that he would raise a fog of dust, he became invisible and speeded in the opposite direction. The shadows were unable to see him for the raise of dust and his extreme speediness, he rushed toward the wood from where the voices and the snake's smell seemed to come from.

Ethan hid behind a tree as he saw about ten snakes, some of them were small others were big. They were all gathered around a huge statue, they seemed in trance listening to the melody that came from the statue, hypnotized them.

Until all of a sudden, the sweet music stopped. The snakes woke up from their traces and their eyes from black turned off their usual yellow color.

They turned around to check who dared to wake them up from that heavenly melody, when they smelled Ethan they crawled toward his direction all in a row.

Ethan took few steps toward them and all the snakes in sync frowned at them moving their long tongues twirling in a threatening way.

"You!!" One of the bigger snakes hissed. The snakes surrounded Ethan scrutinizing him and paying attention to every moment he took.

"It had been a long time," Ethan said trying to sound more sure and pretending he remembered his past.

"Indeed, but you sided with the wrong people now. The same people who hurt you and who abandoned you. We would have never left you." Another snake added.

Ethan managed to control her facial muscles not to grimace in shock as he heard their statement.

"That's why I am here now. I understood my mistakes." Ethan stated forcing a pretended sorry gaze but the snakes didn't seem to trust nor to believe his apologies.

"He's lying." A suave feminine disembodied voice echoed from the statue, Ethan couldn't recognize it, the sound was honeyed and Ethan unconsciously frowned gazing at the statue lightening up.

"How dare you to come here after killing our friends and lie in front of us!" The snake who talked first yelled at Ethan who didn't move an inch of his face.

"We can kill you in few minutes! Do you know who are you up against?" the same snake whispered in a threatening voice crawling closer to him, the rest of the snakes walked closer to Ethan to leaving him no escapement from that scary situation.

"I will kill the first snake, the one I have on my left and then I will use the liquid of his body to kill the rest of you pointless weak demons. You will be the last one, I will spare you the most painful death if you dare to call me a liar once again." Ethan replied as his eyes flashed and the ground trembled at the sound of his threat.

The snake who Ethan referred to tilted his head to the side to look down on him, "this is why you had all my esteem." The snake hissed taking a step closer to Ethan. Ethan grunted at him, the huge snake was getting too close and the situation wasn't boded well.

"Because you're brave and you never give up. I can see the fire in your soul, I can see you're bursting in anger and resentment. I remember how you used your anger, you could have become one of the strongest demons who ever existed if only you didn't side with the ones who hurt you. So much power went to waste." The snake said shaking his head, the other snakes took one step closer to Ethan too.

The bigger snake continued, the sky around them turned of an intense blue and all the stars winked out their lights. The snake's eyes sparkled in the darkness and he charged.

"Please understand my reasons, I can't let your powers and your strength go to waste. I really can't do that. For that reason I will steal your powers, I promise I will try to be delicate and try not to hurt you." He murmured. Ethan's claws grow longer and he groaned aloud as he predicted his attack, he turned invisible and tried to speed in the middle of two snakes but the snake reached him and crashed him to the ground.

Ethan narrowed his eyes for the pain while a groan of pain and anger escaped from his lips, all the other snakes soon jumped on him biting him all over his body.