Shadan

by Beth Hoyer

gagging.

  He gagged "Barry, what did I do this time?"

  Trian got from Barry speaking gibberish he hearing involving dumping him into the ocean. He felt himself freed to find himself floating in the air with night vision in his eyesight. He looked around as he fell to see the ocean down below him heard him blare the Hyperon's death call to his shock. Trian stiffened as he fell onto a hard floor with thump to roll onto his back to find a foot pressing onto his front on his chest. He found the foot's owner was Mindbender who smirked making him annoyed.

  Trian spoke as Mindbender bent down "What Annoyov trick did you do onto me, Mindbender aka Creepy Eyes I should really call you that?"

  He felt Mindbender's foot pressing down onto his chest harder making him add "Your so Annoyov, Creepy Eyes."

  Trian glared at Mindbender who spoke still smirking "I see you're in no position to bargain, Trian. Considering I got you trapped by my foot onto you, and you haven't done anything to free yourself yet."

  He glared and without a word punched Mindbender's foot ignoring his ankle and leg as he kept on pounding it.

  He found his punching refused to get Mindbender to remove his foot who added "Pathetic, Trian. I ought to call you, hmm, something else than Trian since you keep on insulting me with that creepy eyed remark."

  Trian folded his arms right over Mindbender's foot and glared at Mindbender who straightened up his form folding his arms and looked away to form a grimace on his face.

  He found Mindbender removing his foot and heard "Screw it, Barry."

  Trian sat up in a fast move to find Barry in the vicinity giving him a golden eyed glare aimed at Mindbender which he got up in a fast move.

  He glared at Mindbender who he heard "You didn't tell Trian that no one sits in that stool but me."

  Trian eyed Mindbender with a glare to see the male look in his direction with a grimace before hearing Mindbender's rumbling growl sounded again. He saw Mindbender look at him with a glaring stare of accusation in his eyes and eyes narrowed aimed at him.

  Trian spoke firmly while noticing Barry giving him a glare with eyes golden "Alright! Creepy Eyes woke me up from a sleeping status. I saw his eyes were creepy hence I dubbing him that."

  He glared at Barry who spoke gibberish he hearing "Trian will speak what insult name he was insulted with and the reason for it now."

  He found himself blurting to his shock "Treehead, I was insulted by that word whenever I went around as a blind man. It was appearing to refer to my hair I wasn't taking a good care of it. I was just pulling my hair back into a messy tail. I kept that up till someone threw me into a school for blind Humans and taught me how to do it. I do know how to function blindly around here but seeing via my eyesight? I need work on that."

  Trian clamped his mouth shut in response feeling himself annoyed with what he said as he glared at Barry.

  He heard "Treehead? What kind of insulting word is that anyway? I don't see anything treed about you."

  Trian glared at Mindbender the speaker who added noticing his glare "Tom was my original name. I only let a female I valued call me by that name and no one else. She's disappeared as the High Council say for the dead at the moment. I'm still hurting from her passing away despite thinking she would live forever with me."

  He spoke "Well fine I'll call you Mindbender as you like, Tom."

  He got a roar from Tom he assumed he'll refer him who snarled "The name is Mindbender and don't forget it, Treehead!"

  Trian glared at Tom and spoke sarcasm "Whatever, Tom."

  He looked away to stare at Barry to hear Tom's rumbling growl become louder.

  He heard from Tom "Barry, you're going to let this fool call me by this inappropriate name of Tom? Ugh!"

  Trian eyed Barry to find the male was smirking making his senses blare warning unexpectedly. He shifted to eye Tom who had a hand covering his mouth with eyes glaring at the Builder.

  He eyed Tom who flared his creepy jaw and clawed hand look with golden eyes and saw the male raised a clawed hand towards Barry.

  He heard from Barry speaking in a fast rush in Builder chatter "Tom, you will, will aside that Berserker look you're displaying now."

  He eyed Tom who obeyed to find the male giving off another growling noise while rubbing his short hair running fingers through it miserably. He saw Tom's hair appeared to be bunched in small curls from the looks of it.

  Trian shifted to stare at Barry who kept that smirk to find the Builder speaking "Talk Tom on why you're more interested in the name of Mindbender, despite its not your original name."

  Trian exhaled a breath to frown while staring at Tom who he heard "I'm still hurting from the fact that my only purpose to live is destroyed. I was told repeatedly via sources that she wasn't going to live very long. It's despite I keep on saying she'll live forever like I would only to have that trashed repeatedly. Don't scold me on that use of Mindbender name. I only got the High Council to look forwards to having a purpose to live."

  Trian gave up an Hmph sound getting Tom looking at him with a glare.

  He willed forwards his Hyperon side to get from Barry "Interesting."

  Trian ignored Barry to wave his reed clawed hand towards Tom before willing aside the ability and spoke "I'm part Hyperon hence my hands' appendages."

  He shifted to look at Barry who gave him a glare with eyes golden making him gulp followed by speaking "My mother is a Drainer named Tia. My father is a part of some off planet species named Surrai. My father took my mother appearing to be insane off Shadan to some other planetary world where he's from. I highly doubt it that I would be hearing any communications from them. Besides the Drainers when my father expressed wishes to take my mother told him that they wanted me to stay with them. Some deal it turned out to be, because I'm back serving the High Council something I whined to the Drainers about in the first place. I didn't intend to serve the High Council at all."

  He gulped again to hear Tom's rumbling like growl sounded again to eye Tom in response. He found Tom had arms folded with his eyes narrowed in a glare aimed at him.

  Trian spoke "Spill it, Tom on what you're implying now!"

  He got from Tom "Screw you on not knowing how good it is to serve the High Council-"

  He interrupted "Good?! You got to be kidding me, Tom-"

  Trian was interrupted by Tom snarling "Serving the High Council is the best thing you'll find in your life-"

  He interrupted "You don't get it how manipulative the High Council is regarding you suffering bad things in your life just to serve that group in question-"

  Tom he glared at interrupted "Bad things? What bad things are you talking about? It's just for your own good to know what's it like to suffer-"

  Trian interrupted "Your own good?! Are you out of your freaking mind?!"

  He found himself into a verbal argument with Tom arguing on who the High Council were. He finding himself getting angrier hearing Tom make the High Council seem good people who helped people rebuttal his argument on seeing them as bad people.

  He found himself shouting "The High Council, don't care about you but themselves!"

  Trian found himself restrained by Anubis the gonoid head guard with a Human like male body having clawed hands onto his arms. He found himself in the High Council's throne room with the group seated in chairs finding their speakers gone from their positions. He glared at the High Council with a look of accusation in his eyes. Trian saw a masked Highlander standing in front of the group at the top of steps wearing clothes twin to Tom's and had a male form with long black hair.

  He kept the glare as the masked Highlander raised his head and spoke "Says what do you have to say about your insulting remark, Trian, about us not caring about anything but ourselves you insulted us with?"

  Trian found the Highlander lowered his head.

  He spoke while eyeing a High Council member in the facial area "Why do I have a memory of you ordering some female to play hurt in some eater trap to catch me?"

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bsp; He glared at the High Council member in response to hear "Says that doesn't answer our question. Answer it now or we'll have the Meritanians toss you into the ocean which we know can kill you."

  Trian formed a thin line with his mouth and shook his head in a Human no gesture keeping his mouth shut. He heard a familiar growling noise in response to find Tom standing next to him after a light show. He glared at Tom in response to find the male form some pleading expression on his face before looking at the High Council ignoring him staring.

  Trian glared at a High Council member in response to speak "You manipulated me too much to suffer pain hence I speaking my insulting words."

  He clamped his mouth shut in response to hear from the Highlander "Says see about contacting a Highlander based group on the State Territory Mainland and have Mindbender dumped onto them."

  Trian stiffened as he heard "I will serve you with undivided loyalties."

  He exhaled a breath hearing Tom's voice speaking the words and sounding of pleading to him. It made him disgusted to form that expression on his face while giving the High Council a narrowed eyed glare.

  He heard mentally blaring in his mind unexpectedly "Your job, Trian, is to get Mindbender to trash us, anyway you can. You heard and saw Mindbender. He's fueled by desperation towards us to do anything we say and including desperate to remain serving us. That's something we're not expecting from servants. We're expecting servants to have your attitude actually."

  Trian kept his mind blank in response hearing the familiar