HIDDEN

Chapter 24

"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Roxanne asked concerned.

"Yeah, don't worry about it", Nathan reassured.

She looked at Dale and he nodded in agreement as if he heard their conversation.

Nathan then made an illusion to make Roxanne look invisible to everyone except Dale and himself, and made a visible illusion of her standing behind him so that she could sneak up on the teras without it noticing her.

As the real Roxanne ran towards it, she summoned a spear but couldn't summon a shield also for she was at her limit.

She, now invisible to the teras and the two girls sight, ran diagonally towards the teras. Dale ran horizontally in such a way that he'll cover her from getting hit by the balls of acid with the shield he held, but not getting to close to the teras as to arouse suspicion.

Nathan aimed his staff and made a blast towards the teras right side so it could move to its left where Roxanne was heading.

Nathan was reaching his limit also, so immediately Roxanne was in front of the teras, he heaved a sigh and called off all his illusions making the illusion of Roxanne standing behind him disappear and the real Roxanne look as if she just appeared in front of the teras.

Before the teras could comprehend what had just happened and make a move, Roxanne used the spear to stab its weak spot, the eye, thus killing it, making it turn to ash and disappear into the wind.

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Back to the present.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!" Chimamanda exclaimed completely confused on what she had seen, "What was that slime monster thing?! Mia came in and started summoning shields! Next thing I know, The Three pop in dressed like anime characters and stuff start appearing and disappearing— like seriously, Dale, what's up with the tails? And most importantly... WHY WAS I THE ONE THAT WAS KIDNAPPED?!"

"Ummm", Mia hummed unsure of what to say as she looked at The Three.

"Why are you looking at us?" Nathan asked, "You can tell her if you want."

"Wait seriously?" Mia asked surprised, "I thought you guys were sworn to secrecy or something?"

"Secrecy? Nah, that sounds stressful. Whether you tell her or not, it won't stop me from erasing her memory", Nathan added looking unphased in the slightest.

"Erase my what now?" Chimamanda rhetorically asked as she took two steps backwards.

"Are you gonna tell her or not?" Nathan asked.

"Y-yeah seriously, what's going on?" Chimamanda asked Mia majorly trying to by some time for herself.

"Well, it's a long story", Mia said as she thought, "But umm... do you know about the gods?"

Chimamanda froze then backed up as she said in a low tone, "I'm a Christian. I can't believe my friend's in a cult. So what they've been doing is juju, fighting devil and his agents."

"We're not in a cult!" Mia exclaimed trying to get Chimamanda to stop which was surprisingly successful.
"(Sigh) Remember what our history teacher taught us about the gods of Greece?"

"Yeah?" Chimamanda asked trying to see where this was going.

"Weeeeell... The Three here are descendants of the gods that helped Zeus to fight against his father, the father of main of the greek gods we know, Cronus, which was sealed off with a special gate in a place called Tartarus. So basically now, Cronus is trying to escape from there because the seal is growing weak, henceforth the gods were reborn, I think, to seal off the gate once again. But the gate can't be opened unless the gods that sealed him off unseal it. So because the gate is weak now, Cronus can send monsters called teras to kidnap them and bring them back to Tartarus to unseal the gate. And I just found out that I have the power of a descendant— although it isn't clear yet.... Oh yeah, the teras can use people they think the descendants are close to to make them vulnerable and kidnap them easily... and that's why you were taken– I think", Mia said this really quickly but after talking she began to think, "If the teras kidnapped Amanda, does that mean it came for me after all?"