Life Can Turn You Upside Down

He had finally managed to track him down. He hadn't seen Enki for a while, not since he had last found him near Ashen. Though Akuma hadn't the mind to find refuge within Ashen's walls, nor did he care to stick around the Pirates. Their mother had all but abandoned them. Ran to hide them in the safety of the Pirates, but for what? Akuma had hardly seen hide nor hair Recluse since she had lost her pack, and instead of taking the loss with dignity, she had gone and let herself get killed all for the sake of what? Looking for one child when the rest of them needed her? He scoffed at the thoughts. The memories he had of her were...not wholesome nor happy. Far and few in between. Granted, he had been absorbed in his own world doing his own things, he couldn't say he was ever close to his mother or even really cared about what had happened to her. She had chosen to be weak. Chose her fate. Chose to give up and chose to abandon them.

But he wouldn't abandon Enki. Now that he knew where he was...

He stepped up to Medusa's borders. The woman who had taken everything. From his understanding, his family had all been claimed as...what had she called them? Curses or something? A sort of...prisoner? Whatever the case, she had released them from their positions. But what he found strange and was curious about...was the fact that what his mother claimed to be such a horrible woman, had never once tried to hunt them down to bring them to her pack. Still, he knew little about this woman other than what he'd heard through the grapevine.

The crimson-striped youth took a deep breath and decided to hell with it. He stepped past the borders, hunting down Enki's scent and didn't give a damn who caught him.