Darya:"Da– .. Dad?"
She was shocked because... This man was non other than daryan verzetse.
Daryan looked at her with a calculating eye, he took of his goggles and looked at her with his narrowed blue eyes.
Darya:"DAD!... Y... You're alive!"
Daryan:"dad?.. Nikolai... Who's she?"
Nikolai looked from daryan to Darya and then back at daryan. And the responded while bowing slightly.
Niko:"we found her in the alley... Sitting on our 'material'."
Daryan stayed silent for a few seconds, before responding with.
Daryan:"she doesn't know what was it... Did she?"
Niko:"no, she doesn't... Not yet."
Daryan nodded and walked close to Darya... His eyes clearly saying... "He didn't recognize her".
Daryan:" Listen here, kid... I don't want any trouble... So it's better if you forget everything you saw here... Or your parents might never find you again."
Darya:"wh–.. What?... Dad?... Y. You are my dad. W.. Why'd you... Say that?"
Daryan shrugged and looked down, staying like that for a second and then looked back at her.
Daryan:"... I don't know what you're talking about.... I don't have a child."
Darya stood stunned, silent and not knowing what to make of his words.
The person for whom she climbed the whole mountain... The person for whom she walked the whole day, looking around... He just said.. She's not his child.
Daryan looked at darya with a cold eye and turns to nikolai.
Daryan:"nikolai .... Are you sure she didn't see the red box?"
Nikolai looks at darya , then back at daryan and says.
Niko:"I am sure she didn't... But... I think she heard about it. Given that she pretended pretty good about being unconscious."
Daryan sighs and says in a steady, even voice.
Daryan:"dispose her."
Everyone froze, maids, crew men, nikolai, darya... For the men and maids, this was the first time they had ever heard there boss telling to dispose a kid... A kid!... And fir darya, she couldn't believe her own father was asking his men to kill her.... She was broken.. Tears threatening to come out of her eyes. But she held it in.. Expecting it to be a joke.. No... She was praying for it to be a joke.. It should be a joke.
Daryan sighs again and widens his eyes a little and saying with a cold, steady... And spine freezing tone.
Daryan:"I don't have whole day to wait."
Nikolai and other men after hearing that trembled and quickly grabbed darya and took her behind the mension, inside a wooden cabin.. Not bigger than a place for 10 people to fit, filled with various torture equipments like, cutter stained with blood, rusted nail picker, vegetable peeler stained with blood.
The men tied darya to the chair which was hinged on the floor in front of a table. All while being silent and stunned... She couldn't think straight and was numb to her surrounding from the shock.
Nikolai stood in front of the table ,with his hands in pocket and looked at her. He waved the other men to go out for a moment and sat in the chair on the other side to her. He took a deep breath before talking.
Niko:"you.. Really are his daughter?"
Darya kept silence. She wasn't in the state to talk right now... She kept hearing the words of her father "dispose her", all around her head.
Nikolai sighed and and said.
Niko:"He knows you're his daughter... He just don't want to have anyone around anymore."
Darya took a moment before taking that in and responded with a question.
Darya:"why?"
He tone straight and condescending... She wasn't feeling anything other than sadness.
Nikolai looked at her face and for the first time in a while.. He smirked at her.
"He was amused.. The daughter of his boss.. Had the same eyes like him when hurt... And Nikolai was not a kind man as he looks. He was hinged, heartless and psychotic.... And some might actually say... That he's the one making daryan do what he's been doing all this time."
He composed himself and said.
Niko:"because he hates you... He never wanted a family... That mountain... He found a secret treasure.. And realized that there's a treasure beyond the family bonds."
Darya listened.. And listened..... She didn't respond.... But her eyes did.... She was getting angered.. After his every word.
Nikolai smirked after seeing her expression and started putting more harsh words about her father.
Niko:"you were dead the day he found that treasure... The power... The reality."
"You want to know?... What did he find?"
Darya stayed still for few seconds before saying... "Tell. Me." It was a straight word... Not request... But a order.. Her crystal blue eyes glowing like diamond, and an ominous aura radiating off her.
Meanwhile in the mension, daryan was sitting with his other advisors, who were all in red, gray, tuxedo, and blue suit respectively. The room was at the second story and the window was showing the cabin in which Darya was kept in... Daryan ignored and looked at the advisors who were talking about the "treasure". .. There was a red box in the center table.
The man in the red suit.. Not taller than 5'5 and a big mustache over his lip, and with a fat belly started to talk with a ciggarette in his mouth.
Fat man:"boss... You've kept this box with you for as long as we know you... You've never opened it, why?.... And why did you suddenly called us here to talk about this box?... You always used to push the topic away or shut us up. So what came today?"
He said with a shaky and breathless voice. Likely because he's exhausted from having to suddenly being called out of nowhere, But trying to keep his composer.
Daryan looked at him and sighed.
Daryan:"well... I can tell that if you stop asking those stupid question."
His tone even and straightforward.
The fat man went silent and waited for daryan to explain the call reason.
Before saying anything. Daryan opens the red box, inside which... There was a feather... Not just any bird's feather.. But a glowing crystal like feather. That was glowing like rainbow. Changing color each and every blink a man could take.
Daryan:"this.. As you can see... Is the treasure I had been holding onto."
The four advisors looks at the feather with a lust filled gaze. They couldn't seem to sense the aura that was coming out of it.
The advisors were thinking about how much would it be worth for, by the way it was glowing and the crystal structure it was in... It looked like a kohinoor in the dimonds.
The man in the gray suit looked at the feather and then at daryan who was sitting silently, waitingfor them to get out of daze.
Gray suit man:"boss... Where did you even find this?... It might be as expensive as a kohinoor if not more... Why are you even doing illegal work when you could've just sell this and get the wealth a 100 times more than what you have today."
Daryan gave a light "hah" And looked at them.
Daryan:"gentlemen... This isn't just a diamond or crystal as you think. It's far more than just a diamond or kohinoor."
The men looked skeptical. Then scoffed slightly but immediately realized who they are sitting with and composed themselves. Then the man in the tuxedo with leaf grooving says in a fox submission and smile.
Man in tux:"sir... Don't get us wrong... But... If it was so expensive... Then why are you doing all this work and not just sell it and live peacefully?"
Daryan sighed and explained.
Daryan:"because it's not a thing to sell... It's not just a showpiece... But a treasure that hold ominous powers.... Enough to destroy a country in a snap."
The men gasped in skepticism and slight.... Fear... How was it possible.
The man in blue suit asks.
Blue suit man:"boss.... No offense... But.... That's... Not possible... Even hypothetically."
From the cabin, that was visible from the window. Nikolai came out with a smirk and walked away with his hands stuffed in pockets.
Daryan was about to explain about the feather when suddenly... The cabin exploded... Not just small base... But along with half the mension and forest, making a big crater in it. Daryan and and the men were caught in the explosion, but only the advisors were the one's who turned to a roastes corpse, while daryan .... He blocked it with some invisible shield, From his forearms... He had saved the red box and the feather... Or... The feather saved him?
Daryan was still cool and calm, even though what he saw was something that would make a person die.
Darya, with half of her left body covered in black goo and vines whipping around mindlessly. He eyes devoid of fear and sadness ... Filled only with rage.
Yet, daryan stood unbothered... Even though there was pressure that would crush even though hardest elements.
Then after a few seconds.. Darya took a step forward.. And said.
Darya:"give me ... That feather."
He voice distorted and glitchy. Eyes glowing blue as the the goo covered the field. Making the surrounding pitch black.
It was her domain... When they pitch black darkness went away. There were crystal pillars and spikes everywhere. Glowing like a diamond land. with Rainbow alteration colors.
This.. Made daryan's eyes wide... This ... Was the same crystal as the feather in his hand... He looked around and saw.. His men, dogs and birds... Everything around them were turned into crystal.
Darya repeated her words again... With a single phrase.
Darya:"hand it over."
It was not a request. It was not a advice. It was not a order.... It was a fact... That he can't deny, he had to to give it.... Or he'll pay with something more.
But daryan didn't get scared.... He smirked and puts the red box in his coat's inside pocket.
Daryan looks at her and notices her aura, which was similar to the energy on the feather. He analysis her with a critric eye and responds.
Daryan:"what if I don't?.... Gonna kill me? ... And, who even are you?"
Darya looked at him silently before saying.
Darya:"enyo... Enyo thiera"
Daryan gave a skeptical look, that ... Was a weird name, even for a Russian from 90s.
He quickly shrugged it off and looked at her again.
Darya stayed silent, and then suddenly... She lunged with a blurring speed and came in front of him. She uses of the tentacles and attacks him, but then again, there was a barrier protecting him.
Daryan noticed the barrier and thought for a moment, before pulling the red box out again. Which made darya slide back as she was still trying to pierce the barrier. Daryan sees that and thought "is this... Feather blocking her?"
As he was thinking, darya suddenly unleashed a flurry of attacks with her goo tentacle, which keeps hardening up like metal every time it made contact with the surface of the barrier.
Daryan could see that darya's attack weren't touching her at all, he thought "what would happen if I used the feather directly?".and just as the thought... Daryan opens the box... For a moment, everything went white.... And when it came back. The goo from darya's body was getting absorbed in the feather.
Daryan and darya stood speechless... The feather was draining the goo and darya was shocked, because cartherina kept screaming in her head, he voice fading and as the goo disappeared... Cartherina too disappeared from her head.
Darya stood shocked.. But instead of going stunned and frozen.. She snatched the red box from him and ran off, in a blurring speed.
Daryan took a second to realize what happened and then yelled, but it took about a minute before the crystallized creatures and area got normal.. And darya was already gone. Daryan was furious when he saw her disappear.... He stood there.. His aura radiating in a burst, Breaking every tree and rubble in the way with the impact.
He stays silent for few seconds before saying in a cold and even tone.
Daryan:"Find. Her."
It was a clear order.