Untold Truth

#5 Frozen Heart (Part 1)

Tyler brought Alison to the couch to lay down because she was obviously distressed which wasn’t good for her especially with her werewolf side eagerly wanting to come out and attack anyone at sight. That was when the door burst open, and Elyssa hurriedly came in, not realizing that Alison was not quite herself. “Hey. So how are you feeling? - Feeling any better?”

“Who is she?” Alison looked over at Tyler for an answer because her mind was totally blank about everyone’s identity.

He was reluctant to tell her everything about how she was his ex whom he had much history with and the fact that he had somehow done some things that was more of an abuse, he refrained from adding oil to the fire so that he could keep Alison calm. So he cut the story short. “She’s an old friend who is staying over for a bit with her boyfriend. The two of them are helping us to find a cure for your best friend’s case. She is currently stuck as a mermaid forever until our brothers and her boyfriend get the cure from her brother.”

“Wait... So you're telling me that my best friend’s a mermaid?” Alison sounded so surprised. 

“You really can’t remember anything can you?” Elyssa handed her a cup of herbal tea that should be able to help her remember. “You’ve been through a lot with your boyfriend and yet you can’t even remember a single thing - that must be rather depressing because the two of you were literally inseparable.” She continued to stand up to go to the other room. “I’ll give you guys some space.”

Tyler was going through the news when he realized that there was a recent accident that occured. He screenshotted the picture of the car that was found in the ravine to take a better look. He zoomed in and realized whose car it was. “We gotta go right now.”, he said to Elyssa who was almost out of the room. “Cody and Zac are in trouble.”

“What sort of trouble?” Elyssa continued to check the weather and get the most suitable car to get to wherever they were as soon as possible.

“Apparently the people reported a car that had driven off the edge of a ravine and that’s one of dad’s cars but they couldn’t find the body of the two of them. We would need you to perform a tracking spell. We find your brother, we find them too. I think that Damon must have placed a tracking spell on the ingredients required so if anything were to happen, he could save his deliverers before anything were to happen.” Tyler grabbed the key from the tube that keeps all the rest of Carlos’ cars. 

“How sure are you that Damon has them?”

“Call it a hunch. But I never trusted Damon from the beginning so yeah forgive me for not being on his side. However, we also have no choice in the matter as Damon’s the only one with the possible cure. The ingredients he had used in the elixir are hard to find and there is no way we can find it all in such short notice. And in addition we also need to neutralize the effects of the Nightshade.” He gave Elyssa the keys and turned to Alison. “Are you coming with us? If not, you can just stay here.”

“No, I wanna come. If there is any chance of me getting my memories back, I’m taking it. I just need something to jog my memory. I also wanna help just in case this demon-warlock doesn’t cooperate, I could probably scare him to cooperate.” 

“Yeah, good luck trying.”, Elyssa laughed. She continued to find the car already parked outside by the robot system from Tyler’s room. She got in the driver’s seat before Tyler got there. 

As she was about to start the engine, Tyler said, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. Plus I thought you lost your chance of driving after speeding down a highway without using demon glamour.” Elyssa was outraged by the fact that Tyler still kept tabs on her life but she reluctantly got out of the car. “Alec, you drive. I’ll deal with the GPS. The journey would take approximately 42 minutes but I think we can get there faster if we used a portal to the border of Georgia.” He looked over at Elyssa who had already read his mind and was already brewing a potion to portal all of them including the car to the border.

Nick got to Damon’s apartment to settle this problem on his own. To his surprise, he found both Zac and Cody already there and they were only partially hurt from the accident. But other than that they were fine and apparently not really that hurt. “You can thank me later for saving your cousins.”, came a voice from the dark corners of the room. 

“How did you even know where they were? - And please don’t tell me that you were always watching their every move from the moment they were at the trench retrieving some illegal stuff from a drug dealing merman.”

“FYI, Dylon is not a drug dealer and they made a deal for the right reasons so as promised, I hold on to my end of the bargain. So here’s the required elixir so that Skylar can transform with more ease.” He passed the vile of blue solution that appeared to have smoke coming out of it. He continued to turn to Nick, “As for you, I know the real reason why you came and sorry to burst your bubble but I am not working with Angelica and therefore I cannot help you in any way. Gracie is going to forever be under Angelica’s possession until Angelica gets whatever she wants.”

“Which is?” Nick raised an eyebrow.

“Spending time with her two sons. Though the two of you barely know each other she wants this little unfinished business settled before she crosses over. But there is also a catch. She may or may not want the two of you to avenge her in the long run. It is an assumption.”

“So you are assuming that I would just happily go and find my brother who I don’t even know I had and tell him. ‘Hey. So I’m your long lost brother and hey - I have a proposition to make; our long deceased mother has risen from the dead and is possessing my girlfriend’s body and I need your help to avenge her by making your ex-girlfriend feel bad for all that she’s taken from mom. So are you up to the task.  - Oh yeah, and there’s also something else that I must say that DEMONS exist and I am one too.’ This is just crazy talk and would he even believe a word that I say.”

“Why not, you just invite Noah out for a drink. I mean like Cody already knows him rather well and even if you and Cody are similar in many ways you can just be yourself. Slowly talk him into understanding your situation. Don’t just dump all this demon crap on him or you’ll send him into shock.” He took a sip from his glass of Dirty Martini. “And then you continue by making the proposition to get him on your side.”

“How can you drink in a time like this?” came a voice from the door. It was Tyler 

“What are you doing here?”, said Cody, astonished to see his brother. He continued to take a sip out of the cup of tea that Damon had given them.

Tyler realized the familiar green solution in the cup and it was obviously not green tea. “Stop drinking that!” He snatched the cup from Cody. He knew Damon was up to his old ways but this was really too much, “Are you out of your mind, Damon? Roofieing demons is against the rules of Hell. I know that you’ve been a rogue demon for quite a while now but this is really getting out of hand. Do you want this to be a trait that your sister can learn from? So put people under your control just for personal gain.”

“Stop telling me things that I already know. If you are so attached to the rules of Hell, why don’t you just go back there?” There was nothing but silence that flooded the room. “That’s what I thought. You can’t even admit to the fact that you yourself had also broken many of the rules. You make yourself sound so big and mighty when the truth is that you can’t even admit-”

“Enough!” Tyler exclaimed. “We aren’t here to argue. Where are Skylar and Carson?” He realized that they were nowhere to be seen. 

“Wait, they were with them?” Damon looked at Tyler in shock. “Well it’s either they are still in the car in the ravine or-”

Before he could finish, Cody cut in, “We left them in the ocean. Skylar said that she would be dead weight if she followed us. I guess it was true after all.”

“What exactly did Dylon ask in return for all that stuff?” Damon intervened. He knew that Dylon would ask for something in return, especially in the presence of a demi- goddess. 

“He asked for powers from Skylar.”, said Cody with his drowsy voice before falling back to sleep. 

Tyler felt so fed up with Cody especially for falling for the trick again. He was even more pissed off with Damon. He wouldn’t forgive himself if something were to happen to Cody, though he doesn’t quite care but no one can choose their siblings. “Alright, I’ll take Cody and Zac and we’ll be on our way.”

“We?” Tyler threw a smoke bomb and before Damon knew it, the three of them were gone and he was left coughing in the room with Nick. “Where did they go?”

Nick recognized the familiar scent in the smoke that could only be one demon who had that perfume. But he also knew that he couldn’t tell Damon or he would find a way to take revenge on his sister for going behind his back. Though she’s never gotten the experience of having an older brother but it was still going behind his back. He just shrugged and continued off where he had stopped to stall so that they could get as far away as possible from Georgia.

“Drive!”, Tyler exclaimed. The thought of Nick being involved in all this was enough to throw him off. He knew that the demon prince had a vendetta against his family for Cody leaving all the works of Hell to him but he couldn’t have stooped so low to join forces with one person whom they all despised. 

“What happened? Where’s Skylar?”, said Alison. She had some memories returned the moment she thought of Skylar. 

Tyler ignored her question. “We should have never trusted Nick. He had been working with that mind controlling freak all along. Why did you tell him about Angelica working with Damon? It was just a theory. You know how he feels especially when his mother is involved in the equation and yet it never crossed your mind to tell me before you even called Nick to get him involved.” Tyler shouted at Elyssa.

“How am I any way at fault here? He has the right to know. It is his mother’s fault that we are in this situation.” That was when she realized that the only reason why they were even arguing is because Angelica is pulling the strings in the situation. “Did you happen to hear what they were talking about before you even burst into the apartment uninvited?”

“What are you up to this time, Elyssa Cruise?” Tyler raised an eyebrow. 

“Maybe something you’ve heard is a clue to whatever we have to expect next. Unless you didn’t hear a thing which isn’t like you.” Elyssa gave him a puzzled look. 

“You really have your way of changing the topic don’t you?” Tyler couldn’t say no to her puppy eyes so he just said, “Alright. I heard them talking about how Angelica wants something from her two sons which sounds ridiculous because we all know Nick is the only child, making him the only heir to the throne of Hell after Cody forfeited. And there is also something about avenging Angelica for someone killing her - I think it was her son’s ex-girlfriend.”

“Did you happen to hear the name of his brother by any chance?”, Elyssa said out of curiosity. 

“I think it was Noah if I’m not mistaken.”

“Noah...Noah?” Elyssa paced about. “Where had I heard that name before?”

“There’s only one Noah that I know of but it is unlikely that it could be him because the odds are slim.”, commented Cody. “He’s the older brother of this one guy who has a crush on Skylar. Based on all background checks, he’s the legitimate and biological brother of Jackson.” Cody was a little drunk from the roofie but he was still at least slightly conscious enough to talk. “We went to a party at his house, remember?”

Realizing which Noah he was talking about, Tyler knew that even if Nick was to reunite with his long lost brother, he would have to go to New York and apparently there is no other way to get there other than a 3 hours flight. “He wouldn’t be that obsessed with trying to solve his mom’s problems to go to New York, would he?” He asked himself. 

“It is unlikely but we better put a tracking device on him just in case. You know how he so badly wants Gracie back in his arms again. Though it would not be that great to have the power couple back but it is still really something I wouldn’t want to go through because Nick is usually really cringy once he’s gotten someone back from a near death experience.”, said Elyssa. Just then the GPS said, ‘Approaching destination.’ which meant that they were already close to home. It was indeed a long day but they had to hurry back to Skylar and Carson, to get Skylar back on land where she belongs.