Chapter 197: Split – Answering The Doctor's Questions
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(THE TRUE ORIGIN OF OCEAN AS ONLY HE KNOWS IT PART ONE)
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Ocean
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"You want to know about when I was found? B..but wouldn't that be better to ask my parents? I mean, I was a baby. How am I supposed to know what happened that day? It was literally the day that I was born, right? I couldn't possibly tell you what happened that day."
"Couldn't you?" Dr. Malachi looked at me with eyes that almost seemed to be hidden in shadows. Which was strange. He wasn't sitting in the darker part of the living room. Instead, he was sitting with the window facing him, the light streaming in. He should be nothing but visible. Still, his eyes were hidden in shadows and I couldn't quite see what they looked like at the moment.
His eyes themselves were dark, so with the shadow over them I could barely see them at all. I was trying to focus on them, trying to see the color that I remembered was in them as I thought about his words.
His eyes were blue, but dark blue. They were actually a true midnight blue. But I couldn't see them right now at all. Not to mention, my eyes were playing tricks on me right now. Dr. Malachi's usual brown hair was starting to change colors. It looked like his short brown hair was now longer and flowing behind him in a wavy white and dark blue. It was hypnotic, but I was still only able to see it out of the corner of my eyes.
I tried to see everything that was happening to him, it wasn't just his hair that was changing, but I couldn't look away from his eyes. I could see his skin was now mostly white, like pure white, but that wasn't all it was. It seemed to be covered in scales and there were glowing blue swirls inside of his scales.
Why did he have scales right now? Why did he look so odd right now? Was this his true form? I really wanted to ask him. I wanted to look at the rest of him. I wanted to see all of his true form. I had never even known that there were sea dragons, this was such a great opportunity for me.
"Ocean." Dr. Malachi called out to me in a deep, yet soft voice. "Listen to me, Ocean."
"I'm listening to you." My voice came out of my mouth, but I wasn't the one making it do that. Or was I? What was going on here?
(A BRIEF HISTORY OF DR. ABRAHAM MALACHI AS WELL AS OCEAN'S EXPLANATIONS)
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Abraham Malachi
~~
I called out to Ocean with my dragon. I had partially shifted and was using the innate ability that all dragons have, whether they were sea dragons, wind dragons, fire dragons, or earth dragons. I hadn't explained who and what I was to Ocean completely. I had told him that I was a sea dragon, and I let him think that meant that I was just another sea creature like him.
While in truth, I am a creature of the sea and that is how I came to know his future in-laws, that is not the only place that I belong. I, like all the others of my kind, am one of the rarest and most mythological creatures that there are on this planet. And because of that, I have learned a lot about hiding things and learning things.
Unlike the fire dragons that are my kin, I don't horde gold and money. No, I horde knowledge. All of the previous sea dragons had done the same. They were the type to seek information, often at great personal risk and hefty prices.
Times have changed though, and that information is easier to come by, but no less desired. My kin and I have spread through the various bodies of waters that cover the world, seas and oceans mostly.
In all of my time in this world, which has been longer than most but less than quite a few, I have learned a lot about the other inhabitants of the water. The merfolk are a great friend to the sea dragons, having so much in common with each other, they are our natural allies. Merfolk and the other shifters of the sea, aside from the Sirens, have always worked with us.
The Sirens, of which I know plenty about, have never been accepting of anyone except for themselves. That is part of the reason why I was intrigued by this case. Even more so the other day when I learned that the instigator in this whole situation was another Siren, a female one of course.
Sirens hate the outside world. They don't want to let outsiders in, and they don't share their secrets easily. The fact that there managed to be not one, but two Sirens, living in this smallish town was quite surprising.
The girl, Brittney, was not much different than the other Sirens that I had come to know. She was selfish, self-centered, egotistical and a fucking bitch. Ocean, on the other hand, was different. He cared for others, he loved others, he thought of them when making decisions, and he was a man.
How could a researcher such as me not be excited when they find out about a MALE SIREN?! When Analise called to tell me about Ocean back in November I initially didn't believe her. I actually told her that she had to be mistaken and that Ocean couldn't possibly be a Siren. Also, I scolded her for her bad joke with the boy's name. I mean, come on, who in the world would name their child Ocean Shores, and for that child to also be a creature of the sea. That was way too coincidental.
Still, here we were. Me sitting here hypnotizing the world's only known male Siren so that I could ask him questions about things that he couldn't remember on his own. I was bringing out some of my true looks and pouring magic into my eyes. It was what I needed to do to put him under my spell.
"Ocean." I called out to him in a soft, powerful voice. I had poured so much magic into my voice that it was also helping to pull him under. "Listen to me, Ocean."
"I'm listening to you." He answered me immediately, but I could still tell that he wasn't fully under yet. He was still partially conscious.
"Close your eyes, Ocean. Close your eyes and remember everything. Close your eyes and answer my questions. Let us work together." That did it. That finished him off. His eyes finally slid shut and his voice stopped speaking in the back of his mind.
Unlike most people tend to think, thanks to the movies, Ocean's head did not slump forward or fall to the side. He didn't hunch over, and he didn't look like he had fallen asleep in the chair.
The truth is, when someone is hypnotized, they are not actually asleep. We may tell them that they are asleep because that is the easier way to describe it to the person being hypnotized. In all actuality, sleeping had almost nothing to do with enchanting someone into a fugue state. The only thing at all that might be considered asleep is the consciousness. Other than that, the person is physically awake.
I was sitting across from Ocean as he just sat there peacefully. His eyes were closed. His face was relaxed. And he was ready for me to delve deeper into his mind.
I could have made Ocean do whatever it is that I wanted him to. I could have made him say or do anything and he couldn't stop me. However, I wasn't an evil man and all I wanted was knowledge. And this was something that I had already talked about with Reef and Analise. This was necessary for finding out where Ocean really came from.
With Ocean in this state, I could access his memories that are either locked away from trauma or blocked by age. I needed Ocean to remember a time before he was ever truly conscious of being a person. He needed to remember the first few hours and days of his life. He needed to go back farther than any other person that I had ever hypnotized before.
"Ocean, can you still hear me?" I needed to make sure that our connection was still there and still strong enough to do what we needed to.
"Y..yes. I can still hear you, Dr. Malachi." His voice was void of any and all emotions. He literally sounded like a flat, monotoned robot. That meant that his mind was in the In Between. This In Between was where I needed to go as well. I needed to follow him and make sure that I didn't just hear the memories that he was telling me about, I needed to see them for myself.
"That is good, very good. Wait for me where you are. Look around you and tell me what you see. Where have you gone?" I was guiding him so that I could guide myself.
This next part was something that went beyond hypnotism. I was going to leave Ocean in this safety net that his mind created so that I could see his memories without him. I didn't want him to learn anything that might be potentially damaging to his psyche but I needed to see where he came from.
"I..I'm standing on a beach. Staring at the ocean. I am at my favorite spot, the place I go when I need to think and work out my problems." Good, that meant that he was in a safe place.
"That's good, Ocean. Keep describing it to me but do not move. Stay right where you are on the beach.. I will be there soon."
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(THE TRUE ORIGIN OF OCEAN AS ONLY HE KNOWS IT PART ONE)
~~
Ocean
~~
"You want to know about when I was found? B..but wouldn't that be better to ask my parents? I mean, I was a baby. How am I supposed to know what happened that day? It was literally the day that I was born, right? I couldn't possibly tell you what happened that day."
"Couldn't you?" Dr. Malachi looked at me with eyes that almost seemed to be hidden in shadows. Which was strange. He wasn't sitting in the darker part of the living room. Instead, he was sitting with the window facing him, the light streaming in. He should be nothing but visible. Still, his eyes were hidden in shadows and I couldn't quite see what they looked like at the moment.
His eyes themselves were dark, so with the shadow over them I could barely see them at all. I was trying to focus on them, trying to see the color that I remembered was in them as I thought about his words.
His eyes were blue, but dark blue. They were actually a true midnight blue. But I couldn't see them right now at all. Not to mention, my eyes were playing tricks on me right now. Dr. Malachi's usual brown hair was starting to change colors. It looked like his short brown hair was now longer and flowing behind him in a wavy white and dark blue. It was hypnotic, but I was still only able to see it out of the corner of my eyes.
I tried to see everything that was happening to him, it wasn't just his hair that was changing, but I couldn't look away from his eyes. I could see his skin was now mostly white, like pure white, but that wasn't all it was. It seemed to be covered in scales and there were glowing blue swirls inside of his scales.
Why did he have scales right now? Why did he look so odd right now? Was this his true form? I really wanted to ask him. I wanted to look at the rest of him. I wanted to see all of his true form. I had never even known that there were sea dragons, this was such a great opportunity for me.
"Ocean." Dr. Malachi called out to me in a deep, yet soft voice. "Listen to me, Ocean."
"I'm listening to you." My voice came out of my mouth, but I wasn't the one making it do that. Or was I? What was going on here?
(A BRIEF HISTORY OF DR. ABRAHAM MALACHI AS WELL AS OCEAN'S EXPLANATIONS)
~~
Abraham Malachi
~~
I called out to Ocean with my dragon. I had partially shifted and was using the innate ability that all dragons have, whether they were sea dragons, wind dragons, fire dragons, or earth dragons. I hadn't explained who and what I was to Ocean completely. I had told him that I was a sea dragon, and I let him think that meant that I was just another sea creature like him.
While in truth, I am a creature of the sea and that is how I came to know his future in-laws, that is not the only place that I belong. I, like all the others of my kind, am one of the rarest and most mythological creatures that there are on this planet. And because of that, I have learned a lot about hiding things and learning things.
Unlike the fire dragons that are my kin, I don't horde gold and money. No, I horde knowledge. All of the previous sea dragons had done the same. They were the type to seek information, often at great personal risk and hefty prices.
Times have changed though, and that information is easier to come by, but no less desired. My kin and I have spread through the various bodies of waters that cover the world, seas and oceans mostly.
In all of my time in this world, which has been longer than most but less than quite a few, I have learned a lot about the other inhabitants of the water. The merfolk are a great friend to the sea dragons, having so much in common with each other, they are our natural allies. Merfolk and the other shifters of the sea, aside from the Sirens, have always worked with us.
The Sirens, of which I know plenty about, have never been accepting of anyone except for themselves. That is part of the reason why I was intrigued by this case. Even more so the other day when I learned that the instigator in this whole situation was another Siren, a female one of course.
Sirens hate the outside world. They don't want to let outsiders in, and they don't share their secrets easily. The fact that there managed to be not one, but two Sirens, living in this smallish town was quite surprising.
The girl, Brittney, was not much different than the other Sirens that I had come to know. She was selfish, self-centered, egotistical and a fucking bitch. Ocean, on the other hand, was different. He cared for others, he loved others, he thought of them when making decisions, and he was a man.
How could a researcher such as me not be excited when they find out about a MALE SIREN?! When Analise called to tell me about Ocean back in November I initially didn't believe her. I actually told her that she had to be mistaken and that Ocean couldn't possibly be a Siren. Also, I scolded her for her bad joke with the boy's name. I mean, come on, who in the world would name their child Ocean Shores, and for that child to also be a creature of the sea. That was way too coincidental.
Still, here we were. Me sitting here hypnotizing the world's only known male Siren so that I could ask him questions about things that he couldn't remember on his own. I was bringing out some of my true looks and pouring magic into my eyes. It was what I needed to do to put him under my spell.
"Ocean." I called out to him in a soft, powerful voice. I had poured so much magic into my voice that it was also helping to pull him under. "Listen to me, Ocean."
"I'm listening to you." He answered me immediately, but I could still tell that he wasn't fully under yet. He was still partially conscious.
"Close your eyes, Ocean. Close your eyes and remember everything. Close your eyes and answer my questions. Let us work together." That did it. That finished him off. His eyes finally slid shut and his voice stopped speaking in the back of his mind.
Unlike most people tend to think, thanks to the movies, Ocean's head did not slump forward or fall to the side. He didn't hunch over, and he didn't look like he had fallen asleep in the chair.
The truth is, when someone is hypnotized, they are not actually asleep. We may tell them that they are asleep because that is the easier way to describe it to the person being hypnotized. In all actuality, sleeping had almost nothing to do with enchanting someone into a fugue state. The only thing at all that might be considered asleep is the consciousness. Other than that, the person is physically awake.
I was sitting across from Ocean as he just sat there peacefully. His eyes were closed. His face was relaxed. And he was ready for me to delve deeper into his mind.
I could have made Ocean do whatever it is that I wanted him to. I could have made him say or do anything and he couldn't stop me. However, I wasn't an evil man and all I wanted was knowledge. And this was something that I had already talked about with Reef and Analise. This was necessary for finding out where Ocean really came from.
With Ocean in this state, I could access his memories that are either locked away from trauma or blocked by age. I needed Ocean to remember a time before he was ever truly conscious of being a person. He needed to remember the first few hours and days of his life. He needed to go back farther than any other person that I had ever hypnotized before.
"Ocean, can you still hear me?" I needed to make sure that our connection was still there and still strong enough to do what we needed to.
"Y..yes. I can still hear you, Dr. Malachi." His voice was void of any and all emotions. He literally sounded like a flat, monotoned robot. That meant that his mind was in the In Between. This In Between was where I needed to go as well. I needed to follow him and make sure that I didn't just hear the memories that he was telling me about, I needed to see them for myself.
"That is good, very good. Wait for me where you are. Look around you and tell me what you see. Where have you gone?" I was guiding him so that I could guide myself.
This next part was something that went beyond hypnotism. I was going to leave Ocean in this safety net that his mind created so that I could see his memories without him. I didn't want him to learn anything that might be potentially damaging to his psyche but I needed to see where he came from.
"I..I'm standing on a beach. Staring at the ocean. I am at my favorite spot, the place I go when I need to think and work out my problems." Good, that meant that he was in a safe place.
"That's good, Ocean. Keep describing it to me but do not move. Stay right where you are on the beach.. I will be there soon."
THE TRUE ORIGIN OF OCEAN AS ONLY HE KNOWS IT PART ONE~~Ocean~~"You want to know about when I was found? B..but wouldn't that be better to ask my parents? I mean, I was a baby. How am I supposed to know what happened that day? It was literally the day that I was born, right? I couldn't possibly tell you what happened that day.""Couldn't you?" Dr. Malachi looked at me with eyes that almost seemed to be hidden in shadows. Which was strange. He wasn't sitting in the darker part of the living room. Instead, he was sitting with the window facing him, the light streaming in. He should be nothing but visible. Still, his eyes were hidden in shadows and I couldn't quite see what they looked like at the moment.His eyes themselves were dark, so with the shadow over them I could barely see them at all. I was trying to focus on them, trying to see the color that I remembered was in them as I thought about his words.His eyes were blue, but dark blue. They were actually a true midnight blue. But I couldn't see them right now at all. Not to mention, my eyes were playing tricks on me right now. Dr. Malachi's usual brown hair was starting to change colors. It looked like his short brown hair was now longer and flowing behind him in a wavy white and dark blue. It was hypnotic, but I was still only able to see it out of the corner of my eyes.I tried to see everything that was happening to him, it wasn't just his hair that was changing, but I couldn't look away from his eyes. I could see his skin was now mostly white, like pure white, but that wasn't all it was. It seemed to be covered in scales and there were glowing blue swirls inside of his scales.Why did he have scales right now? Why did he look so odd right now? Was this his true form? I really wanted to ask him. I wanted to look at the rest of him. I wanted to see all of his true form. I had never even known that there were sea dragons, this was such a great opportunity for me."Ocean." Dr. Malachi called out to me in a deep, yet soft voice. "Listen to me, Ocean.""I'm listening to you." My voice came out of my mouth, but I wasn't the one making it do that. Or was I? What was going on here?A BRIEF HISTORY OF DR. ABRAHAM MALACHI AS WELL AS OCEAN'S EXPLANATIONS~~Abraham Malachi~~I called out to Ocean with my dragon. I had partially shifted and was using the innate ability that all dragons have, whether they were sea dragons, wind dragons, fire dragons, or earth dragons. I hadn't explained who and what I was to Ocean completely. I had told him that I was a sea dragon, and I let him think that meant that I was just another sea creature like him.While in truth, I am a creature of the sea and that is how I came to know his future in-laws, that is not the only place that I belong. I, like all the others of my kind, am one of the rarest and most mythological creatures that there are on this planet. And because of that, I have learned a lot about hiding things and learning things.Unlike the fire dragons that are my kin, I don't horde gold and money. No, I horde knowledge. All of the previous sea dragons had done the same. They were the type to seek information, often at great personal risk and hefty prices.Times have changed though, and that information is easier to come by, but no less desired. My kin and I have spread through the various bodies of waters that cover the world, seas and oceans mostly.In all of my time in this world, which has been longer than most but less than quite a few, I have learned a lot about the other inhabitants of the water. The merfolk are a great friend to the sea dragons, having so much in common with each other, they are our natural allies. Merfolk and the other shifters of the sea, aside from the Sirens, have always worked with us.The Sirens, of which I know plenty about, have never been accepting of anyone except for themselves. That is part of the reason why I was intrigued by this case. Even more so the other day when I learned that the instigator in this whole situation was another Siren, a female one of course.Sirens hate the outside world. They don't want to let outsiders in, and they don't share their secrets easily. The fact that there managed to be not one, but two Sirens, living in this smallish town was quite surprising.The girl, Brittney, was not much different than the other Sirens that I had come to know. She was selfish, self-centered, egotistical and a fucking bitch. Ocean, on the other hand, was different. He cared for others, he loved others, he thought of them when making decisions, and he was a man.How could a researcher such as me not be excited when they find out about a MALE SIREN?! When Analise called to tell me about Ocean back in November I initially didn't believe her. I actually told her that she had to be mistaken and that Ocean couldn't possibly be a Siren. Also, I scolded her for her bad joke with the boy's name. I mean, come on, who in the world would name their child Ocean Shores, and for that child to also be a creature of the sea. That was way too coincidental.Still, here we were. Me sitting here hypnotizing the world's only known male Siren so that I could ask him questions about things that he couldn't remember on his own. I was bringing out some of my true looks and pouring magic into my eyes. It was what I needed to do to put him under my spell."Ocean." I called out to him in a soft, powerful voice. I had poured so much magic into my voice that it was also helping to pull him under. "Listen to me, Ocean.""I'm listening to you." He answered me immediately, but I could still tell that he wasn't fully under yet. He was still partially conscious."Close your eyes, Ocean. Close your eyes and remember everything. Close your eyes and answer my questions. Let us work together." That did it. That finished him off. His eyes finally slid shut and his voice stopped speaking in the back of his mind.Unlike most people tend to think, thanks to the movies, Ocean's head did not slump forward or fall to the side. He didn't hunch over, and he didn't look like he had fallen asleep in the chair.The truth is, when someone is hypnotized, they are not actually asleep. We may tell them that they are asleep because that is the easier way to describe it to the person being hypnotized. In all actuality, sleeping had almost nothing to do with enchanting someone into a fugue state. The only thing at all that might be considered asleep is the consciousness. Other than that, the person is physically awake.I was sitting across from Ocean as he just sat there peacefully. His eyes were closed. His face was relaxed. And he was ready for me to delve deeper into his mind.I could have made Ocean do whatever it is that I wanted him to. I could have made him say or do anything and he couldn't stop me. However, I wasn't an evil man and all I wanted was knowledge. And this was something that I had already talked about with Reef and Analise. This was necessary for finding out where Ocean really came from.With Ocean in this state, I could access his memories that are either locked away from trauma or blocked by age. I needed Ocean to remember a time before he was ever truly conscious of being a person. He needed to remember the first few hours and days of his life. He needed to go back farther than any other person that I had ever hypnotized before."Ocean, can you still hear me?" I needed to make sure that our connection was still there and still strong enough to do what we needed to."Y..yes. I can still hear you, Dr. Malachi." His voice was void of any and all emotions. He literally sounded like a flat, monotoned robot. That meant that his mind was in the In Between. This In Between was where I needed to go as well. I needed to follow him and make sure that I didn't just hear the memories that he was telling me about, I needed to see them for myself."That is good, very good. Wait for me where you are. Look around you and tell me what you see. Where have you gone?" I was guiding him so that I could guide myself.This next part was something that went beyond hypnotism. I was going to leave Ocean in this safety net that his mind created so that I could see his memories without him. I didn't want him to learn anything that might be potentially damaging to his psyche but I needed to see where he came from."I..I'm standing on a beach. Staring at the ocean. I am at my favorite spot, the place I go when I need to think and work out my problems." Good, that meant that he was in a safe place."That's good, Ocean. Keep describing it to me but do not move. Stay right where you are on the beach.. I will be there soon."
