5 New World

Long hours have passed since I got here, I lay on the extremely comfortable bed in the guest room and put my feet on the wall, until I started to feel uncomfortable again.

A loud knock on the door made me turn my head quickly, startled. I calmed down when I saw Cupid's blue eyes that were already becoming familiar to me, my breathing calmed and I smiled without realizing that it was just Ryan with a tray of various types of food.

I found it very funny how he was always clumsy, Alex didn't know what to do and in fact who did. How anyone in this situation would know how to behave, after all, a simple and ordinary human being like me, was trapped in another world and what could happen if it were not something abnormal and simply irrational.

He looked at me trying to figure out what was going on in my mind, I saw a look of compassion in his eyes for a few seconds.

"Sorry I had no idea what you liked" points to a tray filled with various types of delicacies "So I brought a little bit of everything I had in the kitchen" says entering the room.

"It's always like that?" I ask suddenly.

"Always what?"

"I don't know ... scary?" I spoke looking at the window "I thought the world of cupids was perfect, full of love and glitter" I speak mocking the last word.

"I wish ..." replied the cupid "Here it is always crazy when it comes to people and their hearts" he says sitting on my side of the bed looking at the same point as me "My father was always strict with the our Work Ethics"

"It must be hard to be a cupid," I say, turning to him and keeping the remains of my thoughts to myself.

"It's a lot of responsibility" he says, immersed in some thought "I always have to be very careful if I can very little hurt or hurt a person forever" he says counting on his fingers

"So ... are you the kind of cupid who makes people fall in love?" I ask "Do I say with arrows and everything?"

"It may be saying yes and it may be that it is not," he says, nodding his head.

"Is that a yes or no?" I ask the question to see if he has anything to do with Billy.

"Sometimes I have missions like that," he says reluctantly.

"Are you curious about something else?" question changed the subject to not answer me "You can talk without excitement" speaks to me totally distracted from what I really wanted to know.

"What's going on? Why was the portal closed? When can I leave?" I ask everything that went on in my mind all day.

"Wow! Were you keeping this all day?" says cupid a little dizzy "First of all I have no idea what's going on" speaks earnestly "My father has been locked up in his office for half an hour with his most loyal guards and has yet to speak."

"More changing the subject I came here to pick you up" says he stood up holding my hand and taking me out of the room in which I spent the whole day "We don't know how long you will be staying" he talks while he runs "So I want you to meet the others."

followed him through the wide corridors and went down the wooden spiral staircase in that fortress and every moment I admire how big that place can be.

When the stairs ran out, a light breeze hit my face outside, making me alert and I realized that a little further ahead there was a group of people who seemed to be my age. Everyone was wearing the same warrior-like clothes that Ryan and I did, the group that consisted of two girls and two boys and a very handsome boy.

The girl with completely blue hair and a pale face with features almost exactly identical to Ryan's aroused my curiosity. What set them apart was that hers had more feminine lines. Ryan was greeted with a handshake by a brunette with green eyes. This gesture usually only best friends do, the two clapped and created a slightly unusual sequence; they spun and kicked together.

The other boy in the group, a brown-eyed blond who looked like a soldier, stood without showing any enthusiasm for Cupid's return, certainly Ryan and that blond shared a mutual feeling of contempt and the two did not insist on trying to hide him.

The girl who had the same eyes as Cupid, seemed happy with my presence since she was looking at me as if I were the most sensational thing in the world. He noticed my gaze on her and greeted me with his gaze and I returned it gently.

But the one who didn't seem happy to see me was a slender girl with wavy black hair that went up to her waist. She seemed to be the blonde's sister and I realized that the snobbish air was a family thing. A totally scary wildcard smile formed on her face, I looked away from her and concentrated on thinking about how I was going home.

I worried a lot about Mary alone in the store, and also about the size of the mess she would make in my absence. My grandmother was a very messy old lady who would not care if she put grape juice in the toaster and short-circuited the entire neighborhood in pitch black. She was very unpredictable when she wanted to, she was never without news from me for more than a day and deep down she was more afraid that she would set the store on fire than anything else.

My parents certainly wouldn't notice my absence, I hardly spoke to them at all more than three times a year and it didn't bother them. They had adopted me more out of appearance than out of love. My childhood where I kept many pleasant and fun memories was thanks to my grandparents. I had my great liberation when I turned eighteen, it was a great relief to be able to live alone and paint my pictures in peace, without interruptions.

As I watched the group again, I could see that everyone turned to me when Alex introduced me.

"Guys, this is Alice and she will definitely be at camp with an agent for a while," said Alex.

"How amazing!" Said the brown-eyed guy "How is that possible?" says analyzing me closely.

"So you're going to scare her, Kian" said the cotton-haired girl in a low voice now.

"Don't mind him, he's an idiot by nature" the boy with clear blue eyes as the sky says to me.

He smiled and I saw dimples in the corners of his cheeks, which made him as angelic as possible. There were certainly no children like that on earth, he exuded peace, love and tranquility and a little sarcasm, which made me like him right away.

"Jay!" Scolds Alex" Look how you talk "says Cupid.

"You don't order me, Alex!" he says, giving him tongue.

"Anna this little pest here is my baby brother Jay" Alex says squeezing like the boy's cheeks and he bites him in the hand making Cupid scream in pain, but even so he continues with the introductions.

"This is kian's best friend" points to the brunette.

"At your service, miss" he says elegantly and bows quickly.

"These are ..."

"Tyle, the captain of the new guard and this is my beautiful sister" The blonde interrupts him leaving Alex red with anger, a brunette gives me a snobbish look.

"More than witchcraft is that? No human being can take that long" Bella expresses her eminent fury against me. I already saw that it must be part of the fan club of Alex.

"It's not witchcraft or sorcery I feel, she must be special" the cupid's twin speaks for the first time after long minutes

"We know that here in Venus we have different laws of physics" continues the girl with unusual hair defending me "Humans age 100 times faster than us and she seems to be immune to it" explains in an intelligent and rational way.

"Last but not least" explains Cupid approaching his sister "Sky this is my twin sister, Angel" says Alex and angel greeted me timidly.

"Nice to meet you."

silent for a few minutes to digest the amount of information I received in less than 5 minutes.

"Pleasure is for me."

I was interrupted by a new guard officer who came to pick up Alex, claiming that eros was summoning his son. After his departure, the two brothers who did not hide the displeasure of my company, also left. I ended up alone with only the three angels who at least had some sympathy for me.

"If you want, I can show you around the camp" kian offering himself as a guide.

I didn't have much to do, so gladly accept the invitation.

"Why not" "There is not much to do." I say.

(...)

In another part of the walls of that fort. Eros was sitting in his office with his back to a door waiting for his son to arrive, after hours of fighting in which he lasted all night because the portal had just stopped working.

Since there was never any problem with a big tree that was the source of life for Venus in his entire existence. Worried about his hands on his temples, he thought of a solution and wondered if it was too much of a coincidence or really had something to do with that simple human who defeated him in the challenge.

The God of love adored his world and remembered how it all started, when he was a simple angel and his main function was to bring people together through his magic arrows in the human world. Love was strong enough to give life to that big tree, which at the time was just a small seed.

And how power can fully embrace people's hearts.

These memories were very precious and while this was the main thought among his various reflections during the day, he could seem cold and hard at times, but deep down that same young man in love still existed inside him.

"Did you ask to see me?" I asked as I approached his desk and my father turned to me.

"Alex" said my name with a certain regret in his voice and pointed me to a totally serious chair "Please have a seat."

I sat obeying his command, watching my father keep silent for a few seconds, which made me more curious. Eros always knew what to say, he never lost a confrontation. I knew that something very strange and bad had happened, otherwise your father would not have called me. He sighed heavily before he started

"Called you here to tell you what's going on, as I will need your help" Eros calmly gets up and goes to the front of the fireplace.

I agreed in silence. I could tell he had a lot to say, and he was worried about it. My father never showed what he felt, it was just a look to know what was going on, words were never his forte.

"The tree of passion the same that flows life to Venus and also the same that serves as the portal of this world to the earth" said Eros now facing his son "It has been poisoned and every minute the vital energy of Venus is being sucked by a person and I know very well what to be and this."

"Who is it?"

"Love day" speaks in a tone of voice lower and lower than normal.

"who is she?" I ask, confused.

"An old acquaintance from the past" eros continues

"She and I and two other friends were here while this world was still being created, the four of us were on the same team as the guardians guarding Venus and when the chosen ones were announced and she was not the chosen one it has completely changed."

"More what does it have to do with the love tree?"

"When the seed was planted by the first guardians, my best friends at the time, because of the envy and ambition that love day secretly felt, she revolted against the guardians and wanted to have all the power of the tree of love just for her" says thoughtful as if reliving the past.

" I know I could have done something and I regret not doing anything - he says bitterly.

"While I hid the guardians in order to protect the tree, they expelled love day from Venus" But this had a very terrible consequence they were trapped in the human and I never saw them again.

"Love day is back," he says, turning to his son.

"She wants revenge."

(...)

After Kian showed me every corner of that fortress he seemed to be too married to continue and went for what he claims to be his refuge. there seemed to be many secrets to be revealed.

Deciding to explore the fortress alone without any guide, I walked on the first floor trying to find something to entertain myself, as I thought that night would be very long. But as I didn't find anything new that I hadn't seen with the kian, I decided to explore the second floor. I went up slowly with my comfortable hunting boots through the hadrail, running my fingers over the gilded designs carved in wood.

When I reached the end I came across an area that I had not seen with Kian before, a vast corridor that had a balcony giving a view of the moon that shone like never before. I noticed the presence of the same blue-haired girl from before, no doubt she was cupid's twin, as there were many similarities. She seems lost in her own world, she was sitting on the balcony of the window watching the landscape, singing the chorus of any song. I wanted to interact with her but I don't know if she liked me, so I decided not to disturb her and continued if she noticed she noticed me.

I tried to open several doors but they were all locked until I found one ajar. I went in and discovered that it was a giant library, in fact everything in that place was big, it had several shelves with various types of books.

There was an entire book lobby separate from the others. A force especially attracted me to that place, because I saw a bookcase that had the word Love written in large letters, which sparked my interest and it was in that part that I went looking for something to read.

This hunt to satisfy my curiosity started to get a little more interesting.

I was trying to tiptoe a book when a golden box with many miracles drawn on it fell at my feet. I bend over to pick it up. It had a name engraved on it.

"Cupid's Secrets"

Seriously, who ordered a super curious to be released in a place full of mysteries? Don't blame me later.

I don't know about you anymore, the title seemed very inviting to me, I took a candlestick to see the box and be able to read in the dark, I sat on the chairs of that huge place. The box was all written in an old language and, amazingly enough, I was able to overcome reading without difficulty when executing it, I managed to read a sentence that I didn't quite understand at first, but then it made sense.

"Only the true chosen by fate will be able to do what was once a seed to be born again"

A mini lock prevented me from discovering this secret and I really wanted to know. More how to open it? That's what I wondered for a while, until I was surprised by a person who snuck up on me.

"You shouldn't be here"