A Tale After Four Lives 39 Chapter 39: Apathy Of Time

Alex slowly opened his eyes and scanned the room. Aura and Tosca were still sleeping on him, curled up on his lap and leaning against his chest.

'They look so peaceful, are they having beautiful dreams? It does not seem as if Tosca is experiencing any nightmares, she usually has a few during the night, that's good. Aura also seems to be relaxing more as she sleeps. sigh.'

Alex slowly starts transforming as his body bulks up with dragon-like veins moving under the skin, scars start to cover his now muscular frame while light silver line-like tattoos spread over it. His face becoming more rugged as a majestic beard appears and his hair grows till it reaches his shoulders, they slowly turn silver-white. Alex closes his purple eyes and when he opens them again they turned sky blue and shine as if they were stars. He also grew a bit taller becoming precisely two meters long.

Alex or the now Lambert stared down at the two girls still sleeping in his lap while being none the wiser to his drastic transformation. With his increased size and the warm aura, he gave off made the two girls even more comfortable as they slept on him.

"Aura", a gruff and deep voice quietly made it's way to Aura's ears one that made her even while fast asleep shiver, she slowly raised her head and opened her eyes which sprung wide open when she saw his appearance, her mouth hung agape as she just couldn't form any words.

The figure was so familiar to her yet felt so... different, it wasn't just the many additions to his body's scar collection but he also didn't have those lines on his body before the two of them parted.

'Even if I said I like the Master's new appearance more, I would never be able to not miss this one. He changed so much since we parted, is that still the kind old paladin I knew, most of those new wounds should have killed any human no matter how powerful and those silver tattoos, just what are they, I feel a dreadful power hidden inside of them, but how did they appear on his body?'

"Is there something wrong?", Lambert asked

"Oh, no nothing, it's just this form of Master has changed much since I last saw it", Aura said as she forced a smile.

"Sigh, some things happened and I became like this don't threaten yourself over the past, look towards the future and live in the present. Now let's wake the little one without scaring her to death"

Lambert gently caressed the sleeping Tosca's head in an attempt to wake her up. The girl groaned cutely then opened her eyes sleepily as she looked around in confusion, she saw Aura next to her then she looked in Lambert's direction when she saw his face she froze.

'Wh-what happened? Where's the Master? Who's this?'

Questions kept piling upon her head and she wanted nothing more than to jump off this strange man's lap and make a run for it...but something stopped her. It was the eyes, thought the color was different the way this man looked at her was precisely how her Master did, it was a strange look one that had kindness yet apathy. A strange look that came from the strangest man she had ever met.

"I-is that you... Master...Alex?", She questioned unsurely.

Lambert smiled brightly at her showing her two rows of gleaming white teeth, "To think you would recognize me even in this form, what gave me away?"

"...Master's way of looking at me and the world... it's strange like Master is interested yet feels nothing or that Master cares yet at the same time feels indifferent?" In the end, Tosca even questioned herself since she didn't know how to explain it, Alex showed emotions even in his eyes yet there was always something that made one think he was unfeeling at the same time.

Aura looked at Tosca in a bit of shock, "Tosca, you actually saw the Apathy of time!"

Tosca looked at Aura in confusion, "The what of what?"

"The apathy of time is something most beings will go through when they have lived long enough, their emotions become duller and it becomes harder for them to show them, even though Master still smiles and one can see him show emotions they are all disturbed by time, no matter how kinda person or how wrathful, time will wear at anything."

"Then...then what about you? You are almost as old as Master why is it that you're always so emotional?"

"Oh, well that's easy. Because I'm a Light elemental, we are a race born with a nearly unlimited lifespan so we are used to living long lives and do not get affected by this. Master on the other hand was... I think he was a Human in the very beginning..." Aura gave Lambert a suspicious gaze to which he could only smile wryly in return,"... and humans usually live no longer than a hundred years yet Master has lived much time more than that, in fact he is older than this very planet on which we stand..."

"What?!", Tosca screamed as she stared at Lambert in disbelieve, "But this planet is millions of years old if you take in all the religions and their dates! How?"

"I think that's for another time little one", Lambert said soothingly as he caressed her hair with his ma.s.sive hand causing her to calm down.

"...Uhm, As I was saying, this will of coa.r.s.e cause him to become apathetic to things. It's not Masters fault really it's just that the human soul was never meant to live that long and thus it will stop caring about many things in life, there are some cases where Humans that have lived so long that they even stopped caring about life itself or anything for that matter. That is when it gets dangerous since that is when they will start killing others just on a whim"

Aura breathed out after finishing that lengthy explanation. She then looked towards Lambert then started with another sentence.

"Well, that's how its suppose to go, but for some reason Master can still show feelings even if you detect the Apathy that comes with it, you should just know that those feelings are real and not some made-up things"

Tosca nodded with a serious expression than looked at Lambert, "Master... why do you look different?"

"Well let's start with the fact that I have lived four times before this so I have in fact three other forms that you haven't seen before, don't ask why I can change into these forms, just know that it can happen", Lambert said giving a quick summary that only left the poor girl even more confused.

"Erm, Aske Aura to explain later on, ok?", Lambert added seeing how confused the girl looked.

Tosca nodded.

"Ok, now that that is taken care of let's discuss what will be happening now, there are two people that I will be protected from a group of devils from the Beal family and maybe a few Exorcists from the churches, the plan is to use this endeavor to showcase our Order and to make others aware of our existence while not divulging too much information. We will be known as the Order Of Samsara, my four past life bodies will be used as the leaders of the Organisation while Aura will be this one a.s.sistant and you Tosca will be Aura's pupil, that's all. Now I will call you girls when its time to leave."

Lambert finished and the girls unwillingly climbed of him as he took his leave from Aura's room, just before leaving Lambert through two robes at the girls, the robes were pure white, one of them had Sky blue stripes at its edges and the other one had Purple stripes at the edges. "This will be your uniform, the blue one is for Tosca and the Purple one for Aura, don't worry about the fit they are enchanted to match the wearer's size.

With that Lambert left walking down the stairs and heading towards the front door preparing to leave.

"Everything will fall into place with the first move"