Judge sat down for a moment, the hatred he could have easily controlled was stirring up inside him. He did not know the reason, but he knew something was abnormal.
He felt as if he was swimming in a raging sea with uncontrollable waves, he had no way of getting out of the large waves that reached almost fifty meters in height.
As Judge was trying his hardest to get out of the predicament, he was hit with another wave and was sent underwater, having lost his strength to fight back against the waves, he slowly fell deeper into the deep ocean's depth, with darkness swallowing him.
Judge tried to stay awake, but he slowly lost consciousness. He fell to the floor, gasping for breath and clutching his chest tightly. He could feel his heart beating heavily and rapidly, he heard someone, a female voice, shouting before he lost consciousness. Was it his mother? He had no way to know.
Alex was lying on his wife's lap, she slowly caressed his head, firmly pulling back strands of his red hair which definitely had seen better days. "Why don't you ever wash your hair properly?"
Eleyn did not care a thing about his hair, but she still felt uncomfortable to see strands of uncombed hair sticking out. Alex used to be a classic playboy when he was young, he rows of women standing behind him, but Eleyn had already been betrothed to him as his fiancé when she was eighteen and he was twenty.
thinking back, there were many instances of her beating the living daylight out of him because he decided to go around and first with other girls since their engagement was a secret.
She started to reminisce about their old time at the Royal School of ethercraft and the Eldris University for the Study of Principles.
But her reminiscing could not last long as her spirit quickly came to her and materialized into a small, winged globe of orange-yellow light. "Judge's seal became undone!" the spirit shouted in Eleyn's voice, but it was less mature and more childish.
Eleyn and Alex were alarmed, she immediately got up— knocking Alex, who was on her lap, down to the floor. He got up just as quickly as he kissed the floor.
Without wasting any more time, both rushed towards Judge's room, they had no time waste whatsoever.
Eleyn and Alex ran quite fast as the only thing visible about themselves were two blurry figures and a few afterimages, with the air around them moving away from their path. The hall was large, but there were many twists and turns, but did not seem to mind the turns as they never slowed down at a turn. There were blue and yellow electric currents behind them as they ran
Finally, when they reached in front of Judge's room, they stopped their sprint abruptly without even slowing down before. The sudden stop made the wind around them flutter in a storm of fury. But both of them did not mind it as Eleyn opened the door to Judge's room.
She saw the scene of Judge clutching his heart and falling to the gold and white marble floor. His face turned to look at them, the eerie purple glow in his eyes made him look menacing.
She shouted in an unknown tongue as she hurried towards him, she knew that the situation would only worsen as time passed.
Alex just stood at the door, he had no other job to do. Runes were in the domain of his wife's expertise, without much to do, he closed the door and took out a few black darts— they were so dark that they did not even reflect light.
With a swift, smooth motion, Alex sent the darts flying— one towards each surface of the room. Judge's room was immediately enclosed in a barrier, from the outside, it looked as if nobody was there.
Eleyn took out her pouch from behind a flower embroidery on her dress and her eyes scanned the tiny opening. After a brief second, she quickly pulled out a card that was squirming with black and golden colors.
"I will seal his intense emotions, are you sure it is the best thing?" Eleyn turned to her husband and asked in a hurry.
Judge started to move a little, there was a creepy, ethereal voice coming from him. "Deus... Meminisse... Destructio..." His parents did not have the luxury to listen to what he was saying, they absolutely would have if the situation was more in their favor, but a single word caught their ears— "...Abyssus".
The word spread deep chills down their bones, as if it was the most dangerous thing on the planet, even more than the gods.
"It could be for the best, we will soon find a way to remove it," Alex answered calmly, as if to ease her tension, he would bear any problems that arise.
His mother grew a blade from her thump that glowed with a silver luster, she used it to cut her index finger, but there was no blood from the cut.
A golden colored liquid started to appear on where she had cut herself. Looking back at her husband and getting his approval again via a nod, she put the golden and black card on the floor and wrote another sealing rune, she was chanting something in an unknown language the whole time she was drawing the rune.
She only drew the rune on the far edge of the card, and in the center, she drew another rune— it was of two circles intertwined with each other. After finishing it, she tore the card in half, splitting the intertwined circles right in the middle.
Keeping the half with the sealing rune on her son's chest, right above his beating heart, and keeping the other half above her heart, she shouted, "SEAL!" Her voice boomed through the entire room, but no sound escaped the barrier put up by Alex.
The ethereal murmurs quieted down, and so did any sound in the room. Eleyn panted and fell, and Alex swiftly caught her and helped her to lie on the floor. He then scooped up his youngest son and laid him on his bed.
Making sure Judge was comfortable, Alex raised his hand and all the darts flew back to his palm, he stored them inside his dark navy blazer. He then turned his attention toward Eleyn who was lying on the floor.
He took her up in his arms and teleported back into his quarters, the only reason he did not teleport before was because he was in a state of panic.
He sighed, it was not the first time he had panicked, but it had been a long time since he had panicked to this extent, maybe it was a panic stemming from the worry for his child. For the first time in a while, he experienced what it was like to be more emotional than rational.
"Don't worry, everything will be alright in due course," He whispered in Eleyn's ears after he had laid her down on their bed.
Alex's gaze shifted to the pocket where he usually kept his cigar box, but his wife had already snatched them. What a pity, He thought, I really wanted a puff.