Helena’s POV:

An hour after Aragorn went up to his room; I went to check on him only to find him sleeping soundly. I started to wonder if that would happen again since he was sleeping right now, but there were no signs of that.

Just then my sister had entered the house and I received a notification and went downstairs. I had asked her to find details about Aragorn’s life hoping to find a solution to his problem.

“It’s not pretty, sis”

“Tell me, I need to know everything before trying anything.”

“Well first off, let’s go somewhere else where he can’t hear us.”

“Don’t worry, he sleeping right now”

“And what about Ellie”

“She’s probably in her room, let’s go to my room and then we can get started.”

We went up to my room and I shut the door and turned on the privacy settings so that nobody would hear us talking.

“Well first off, explain about why he was like that after he became unconscious”

“I don’t think I need to, he’s suffering from the same thing brother did.”

“I know that but I want to know why he became like that”

“Why do you think, sis. The main reason for that was probably loneliness; the other is associated with him bottling up all his unsaid feelings and all the resentment.”

“It started out when he was still at the orphanage, he was bullied a lot. Whenever he tried to fight back, it only got worse. So instead he passively took it and soon the bullies lost interest in him and left him alone. This played a real role in shaping him. Ever since then he has never taken control over his life and he only let it unfold like it did, almost never getting. That’s also the same reason he didn’t get angry at anybody today. If it was you or me, we would have at least cursed everyone and at least tried to fight back. He didn’t even try to do that.”

“Once more during middle school, when he was passive the bullying stopped and it further reinforced his passive personality. The anger, resentment he might have felt, he started suppressing it. On the outside he had a cheerful personality, but deep down his subconscious was absorbing all the negative emotions.”

“Once he reached high school, he got involved with an event which triggered his other personality. He involuntarily got involved with a gang robbing someone. He was completely beaten up. Do you know what happened to those guys later that week?”

“Our little Aragorn put them in the hospital with broken bones and with internal bleeding. After getting beat up so badly, he wanted to take revenge but his conscious was telling to let it go, thanks to his stupid passivity. He suppressed that urge but his subconscious did not. After his injuries had healed somewhat his aggressive personality took over while he was asleep. He went to the gangs hideout and he beat up over a dozen of them.”

“That is just one side of the coin. The other side is the important one, this happened when his energy core got activated that day when I stabbed him, his consciousness faded. The subconscious took over and you know just how well he fought.”

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“When his core became active all his internal emotions also got heightened, his outer self-became even more passive while his inner self became a raging storm. The same type of storm that affected brother. The only question is how to make sure that he doesn’t go out of control and how to cure his split personality.”

Hearing the explanation, I could only stand there completely bewildered, shocked and hurt. Bewildered and shocked at learning the truth; hurt because the only reason, why he had to go through all that was because of me. A tear had escaped from my eyes without even me noticing.

“I think that this is his greatest weakness as well as his greatest strength. This situation he is in may also turn out to be his boon. ”

At that I was startled, “What do you mean?”

“His weakness because his outer personality is too passive and weak while his inner one is too aggressive. If he ever manages to combine the two, he will have the best of both. That combined with his ground breaking instinct that he has, will become his strength. The tournament may be the best way to bring forth all of that. The only person who can cure this is himself. We will have to break the news soon and then take him to that place after ample training.”

“The tournament may not be a boon sis, he’s only has a white core. How will he fight someone with a blue or red one? They have a hundred times more astral that he does.”

“Helena, are you even listening to yourself. I am nearly a thousand years old and you are four hundred. Do you even remember how hard it was for me to capture him alive even with your help, after he lost consciousness? He’s just like Paul in that area, his instincts are that good.  How else do you think he beat up that gang with an untrained body? ”

"The only reason we had trouble was that he kept attacking without a regard for his own life, but I do agree that he's got his father's instincts."

“Helena, on top of that he perfectly copied my ability like it was something everyone could do with ease. Sis he is much stronger than you think at the same time he is also weak because he can’t control that power or his rage. If he manages that while keeping his heart clean, then he will probably overcome the limitation of having a white core. Don’t worry; I will train him starting tomorrow.”

"Make sure he wins the tourney and we will have more time to deal with his real problem. do you think mother will keep her word?"

"Come on Helena, mother might be cruel at times but she isn't a bitch. She knows the pain you would go through, if something happened to Aragorn."

"If you say so, but I really need to look out for him continuously from now on."

"Yeah, you do that. He will need all the help he can get."