“Mommy, Daddy, today is the day they attack.”

“Ok, Kan we are already ready to fight them back.”

“Yeah, don’t worry Kan, Daddy and Mommy will beat back all those bad men. We have already told the mayor and the men to be prepare at a notice moments to fight.”

Kan was once again in the memories and these were the 7th set of memories. He watched and was surprised at what was happening. “Kan” had asked Claire and Clive for help in fighting back the intruders. This “Kan” also had memories on the events that were about to happen but to what extent, Kan didn’t know.

“When the lighting strikes and the bells go off that is when the intruders will attack.”

“Ok.”

The Lock family waited and the lighting struck somewhere in the distance. After the lighting struck, the alarms went off and every person aware of the situation prepared to fight.

“GIVE US CLAIRE RENNER OR DIE!”

“GIVE US CLARE RENNER OR DIE!”

Both of Kan’s face paled. The situation was entirely different from the memories. In all the previous memories there was always only one group attacking the village. “Kan” had believed that the villagers would be able to prevail if they were only up against one of the groups but the situation had changed. Kan watched and saw how prepared “Kan” and his parents were and believed that they had a chance of overcoming this situation but not anymore.

The two groups that were attacking were the men in black clothing and the monster tamers. The monster tamers came from the forest and blocked it while the black clothed men were in the center of the village. It was like they all appeared out of nowhere since nobody had noticed them before.

“Kan what’s wrong?”

“It wasn’t supposed to be like this.”

Seeing the shock and horror in Kan’s face both Clive and Claire knew something was wrong. Knowing that something was wrong with the situation they still had to do whatever they could to salvage the situation. The both of them ran out of the house in a hurry.

“Mayor the situation has changed! Send most of the men to go fight those monsters and send some with me to fight those men in black!”

Clive yelled the situation out towards the mayor who was hiding in a nearby house with the other men. Hearing Clive’s roar the mayor immediately got to ordering the men where to go.

“Claire go support those fighting against those monster tamers and i’ll take Kan to Jane then i’ll go fight those other men..”

Claire did not question Clive and ran towards the forest. Kan watched as all of these events unfolded and was left even more confused than before. Seeing Clive run away with “Kan”, he decided to stop thinking for now and just see what happens.

……

“Jane open the door.”

“What is going on Clive.”

“I don’t have time to explain. Just take Kan and hide somewhere and if the situation gets any worse run away.”

Saying what he needed to say to Jane, Clive ran towards the plaza where the black clothed men were. Jane could only hold “Kan” in her embrace as he cried and muttered to himself. She could see that something was wrong with “Kan”, his eyes were lifeless like he had given up on everything.

“It wasn’t supposed to be like this...i’m so sorry… i’m so sorry...I couldn’t changed anything...i’m so sorry.”

“It’ll be fine Kan. Everyone will take care of the situation and tomorrow will be just like any other day.”

Jane had tried to cheer up “Kan” but it did not work as he kept on crying and muttering to himself.

As all of this was happening, Kan watched for a bit before deciding that he had to go follow his father and see what happens. Kan floating towards the plaza and saw that there were already some bodies all over the ground.

Clive himself had just arrived at the scene and what he saw enraged him. He was ready to unleash his limits but before that he looked at the black clothed men and who he saw surprised him.

“George Nice!?”

“Hahaha, nice to meet you Clive. What a lovely day we are having aren’t we. Hey Clive, you want to tell us where Claire is. Oh, wait. We already know.”

“You son of a bitch, you betrayed the village.”

“Well you can’t call it betraying since I have always been on this side. I’ve always been a spy keeping watch of the village.”

Clive no longer spoke and dashed towards George but he couldn’t reach him because he was protected by guards. Clive fought against the black clothed men protecting George and he was somewhat struggling. Although he could win it would take a while because he had to conserve his energy for the other men.

Kan watched and this scene was all too familiar to him. It was an exact repeat of the first memories he had been through but now he knew the leader of the black clothed men. Just like the first memories, Clive fought and fought until a sudden light covered the world, sending Kan back into the darkness.

……

Kan thought about the differences in these memories then all the other ones he had seen before. This time the village was attacked by two different groups and Jane had appeared.

While thinking about the differences in the memories, Kan had realized that this was the first time that Jane had appeared in all of the 7 memories. Kan had just assumed that Jane had ran away in the other memories but now that he thought about it, it was weird how his parents had never mentioned Jane at all in those other memories. Jane was a really close friend of theirs but they had not mention about saving her at all.

‘Is there something important about Aunty Jane appearing.’

Kan thought about Jane’s appearance but he couldn’t come up with anything so he decided to observe her the next time he went into those memories.

‘George Nice. That name, it sounds familiar.’

Kan thought about it for a while and finally remember who he was. It was the name of the person those voices had warned him of.

‘I have to stop him no matter what.’

Kan had determined that when he went back into his own world he would differently get his parents to capture George. If George was stopped then the attack wouldn’t happen at all. After finishing his review over the situation, Kan decided to once again enter the memories.

‘I guess there is only one thing I can do for now. Darkness, send me there again.’