Chapter 13

I open my eyes, the gloom does not prevent me from seeing the faces of the twins sleeping next to me. It seems to be a habit, at first I was quite upset, but now It feels normal. There is something about them that allows me to indulge them.

- What happen? -Diana is still sleepy, I see in her eyes that she doubts whether to continue dreaming or to be awake. I caress her golden hair like the sun.

<< Nothing, go back to sleep, I have to go to the bathroom. >>

I get up, I hear them snuggle, they look for warmth, my body. I smile and walk to the reddish-stained wooden door, the communal bathroom.

I go inside, turn on the lights, and go to the sink. I let the water flow through the tap while I wet my face with an annoying question wandering my sleepy head. What is happening? Without really knowing what is going on, I close the water, the lights and the door to the community bathrooms. I walk toward the office of the only being who has answers.

I enter the main building, knock on Principal Eleanor's door and enter under the gaze of her tired and surprised head, buried between paperwork.

<< Something is wrong. >>

Her looks don't change, she frowns.

- What?

<< Where is Céline? >> She watches my fists closely, I don't like being locked in the same place as Eleanor, but I have to know. Seeing the great effort I'm putting into keeping myself calm, she puts the papers on the table.

-She's on a mission. - It was no secret that teachers, and some brilliant students, were sent on missions to combat the advance of our enemy, to rescue our own before they fell into its clutches.

<< They are in danger. >>

- Going to missions is always dangerous,- Her tired voice sighs again. - They will come back, don't worry.

<< Where is she? >>

- I can't give you that information. - She continues ignoring me, with her eyes fixed on the incomprehensible words on those papers.

<< Even at the cost of her life? >>

-I do it for yours, -I see how she takes the glass with ice almost about to disappear and a yellowish liquid that seems to be watery. - you are a first generation, you don't know how to behave on missions. You don't know how to fight.

<< Tell me where they are. >> This time I don't ask, I make a demand. I can't allow her to die, Céline is important. Yet, the others don't matter to me.

- Are you willing to risk your life for us? - I look up, aware that I would only risk my life for the Children of Dionysus and Céline. Oh, and Will maybe ... - If so, go, they're in Sydney, Australia.

<< What are they doing there? >>

- They have discovered before us a Son of Hephaestus, it's an extraction operation. - I prepare to say the words, but the look of the Director does not give me much hope to get out of there alive. - It should have been something simple, pick him up and leave, but it gives me that there have been complications,- I follow her gaze at the cuckoo clock hanging on the wall. - they should have arrived with him more than thirty-seven minutes ago.

I nod firmly, I ask her to give me the exact address.

- I want to be next to Céline. - Instantly the cold collides with my teddy bear pajamas, a chill runs through my body when I see the scene. Both sides are in full fight, they are just as Sam has described them to me. Their faces are bathed in pleasure and power, their skin is paler than mine, their features are dark, their eyes are hollow.

I turn to meet Céline's surprised gaze.

- What are you doing here?! -I observe her calmly, she has a couple of wounds, that makes me angry. I ignore the boy who does not seem to want to come out of the shock state, I take a quick look at him and verify that his age must not exceed five years.

<< I need you not to tell anyone what I'm going to do. >> I read disbelief in her eyes.

- You're crazy ... - I shrug, maybe.

So I let a rumble shake the Earth.

The battle stops as my steps advance to their leader, in their terrified looks I see my reflection, a soft light illuminates me, my hair flutters around me as if a soft and non-existent fiery breeze was rocking them, entangling them in two reddish horns that have appeared above my ears, somewhat more elongated and fairy like. My eyes are no longer seventeen. I walk a few inches from the ground, I am levitating, but I feel each firm footfall, filled with power.

The two leaders of their groups are unaware of my presence. I raise a hand, a wave of vibrations stops them. Their eyes pop out of their sockets.

- Stop it, kids. - I recognize Gabriel, so he is the one who leads us. With a calm step, I read the anger and helplessness in the other's eyes. - What is your name?

-Kelara ...- I hear his whisper reluctantly spat out.

- Okay, Kelara, look at me. -He obeys me, although you can tell by the trembling of his body that he tries to resist with all his willpower. Our gazes meet. He knows that he cannot escape. -Who was he?

He is confused, I see it inside of him, he cannot lie. I decide to sneak with his memories of the battle, I search until I find the scene. I had never felt blood pump so fast, so hot.

I separate our gazes, his is no longer confused, he is heartbroken.

I'm sure he never imagined meeting someone like me on a simple extraction mission. Well then, if you play with the dice of fate, then you can't be surprised if it explodes in your face.

Step by step I approach the person in charge, she is a girl with a watery look, full of tears, I see how she wants to retreat as she closes the distance. It is impossible, no one can resist my power. And so I decided not to use it again a long time ago.

I raise my arm again, the reflection in her gaze showing me an impassive angel.

She let a flare slowly consume her, her screams of agony echoing through the alleys. Even in Gabriel I find a hint of fear, horror.

I walk again until I am face to face with Kelara. I know if I released them, they would put on an incredibly pathetic show to get out of my reach.

- Be gone, forget what happened tonight. -He nods, his gaze stops being dark and plunges into his own depths.

All men and women in charge of him turn around. They disappear into the gloom. I face Gabriel.

- Céline will be the only one who remembers tonight, the rest of you will forget, you will never remember that I saved your pathetic ass.

I watch as he takes the phone out of his pocket, dials a number at once, is answered at the first beep. I recognize the voice of the Principal on the other end of the line, I listen and wait attentively, when she asks if they have completed the operation.

- Yes, without complications.

I go back to the bedroom with a couple of words, I lie down next to Diana and Alesha, my heart on an ice floe.