Chapter Five

Nike

She almost laughed at how shamelessly Infinitus supported his Golden daughters, what a father, unrelenting and unwilling to accept the fact that his daughters had well passed their glory days, even in his slumber, his fingers toyed with very looms of fate', manipulating destiny so that they found themselves at the same place and at the same time.

It simply was nothing short of being pathetic, all he was simply achieving was leading the lambs to her slaughterhouse, what a destiny!, to lose and to be conquered in every single lifetime, it was almost sad and pitiful to kill them. Almost being the key word.

She'd need help though, Them being there was sure to be his new form of protection for them, she'd simply had to break it and she had just the scorned brother in mind.

"You called Nike!" His voice boomed across the clearing "What is so urgent, it couldn't wait until morning!"

Well speak of the damned!

"Forgive me" She said in a silky voice "You know how winners are, we like to be prepared and all, wouldn't you say so Poseidon."

"Do not call me that" he growled " I do not answer to that name any longer, not for centuries now and you know it!" He growled his eyes sparking with a cold sort of power

"Simmer Down!" She said her voice eerily calm "we both know you live on borrowed power, your claim over water is nothing more than a repulsive sham Venenum or was it Ven you go by now?!"

"You call me to mock my predicament!" He growled the poison seeping from the earth to him leaving an acrid scent behind "Have the mortals lost your interest so?!, or do you simply wish to die!"

"Temper, Temper" She gushed out, clearly enjoying her little game " you'll miss out on the good stuff, with anger issues like this"

"I'm leaving" He said barely controlling his anger

"I haven't even gotten to the best part yet!" she said finally turning towards him "what if I could help you get your powers back, along with a side helping of revenge and pleasing the mistress?"

"I'm listening" came his frigid reply

"of course you're listening" she said her smile growing manaical "It would seem your brother has been more than fraternizing with Ananke's enemy, what say we kill them and then him, I believe a rumor says that your powers will return once he's dead!"

"Where are they?!" He asked his voice taking on it's animalistic tone "tell me so that I'll crush them!"

"Hasty and temperamental" she moaned out " not quite a good combination for a winner, if we do this at all, we do this my way, only then do I share my spoils, are we in agreement?"

Her eyes glinted evilly as she stretched forth, her perfect hand to be engulfed by Poseidon's rather Ven's dry ones

"You have my allegiance!" He said

"perfect" she said gleefully " now come darling, there's much work to be done in preparation for victory!"

A small smile played upon her lips, another fool had just found it's way into her net. What a delicious treat.

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Dalia Grey

"You'd be reminded that this is a school with a zero tolerance for youngsters with filthy language" She growled out "Do well to remember that, I will not be lenient again!"

Her glasses flashed with intense dislike and Dalia wondered just what she'd gotten into

"I'm sorry mrs....." she began, trying desperately to affix a name

"it's principal Ellen to you young lady" she said scowling "If you're done making a fool out of yourself come in and let's get you fixed for classes!"

Seeing no other choice, She trailed behind the bulky woman, who seemed to occasionally stop to bark at a student or a fellow teacher or even her for her "slow" walking, she was nothing short of a monstrosity, just when she thought, no one could top Micheal.

The name left a bitter taste in her mouth, causing her stomach to churn lightly. Fortunately for her, they'd arrived at their destination, not that she needed anyone to tell her that, the big shiny plaque on the front door spelling out principal did all the talking.

"Wait here!" She barked before slamming the door shut on her face

A little while later her beastly voice blasted through the intercom

"Moira Turner!" She called "There's a new one at my door come take her and show her to the wonderful world of McKade's High!" she said raw sarcasm dripping from each word

There was a rumble and the sound of a hard fall, followed by hearty guffaws as a girl no older than her stumbled out of a nearby class, the girl which she presumed to be Moira fought to gain her balance and it didn't quite help matters that there were pieces of paper and some other stuff stuck to hair

"Bloody fucking bastards!" She cursed out loud

Guess the damn rules didn't apply to her. She stood trying to tidy herself as best as she could but to ko avail, sighing in pure defeat

"Hi I'm Moi-"

The words caught deep within her throat as their eyes connected, fuck!, Dalia wanted to scream, it felt like the oxygen had been sucked out of the entire world something within them had recongized each other and it was pulling them, drawing them into the darkness, taking away their will to stay conscious and no matter how she fought, Dalia could feel herself ebbing away, until the numbness completely crept over her and her counterpart, who laid crumpled on the floor.

Just before she followed suit and lost consciousness she heard the door open, and a curse from the principal nearly brought a smile to her lips

"Fuck!" She said under her breath " I don't get paid enough for this!, Miss Smith!"

The other words that came after seemed to float away as she was slowly pulled into a world of dreams.

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Shay Morrigan

She should have known the Lupine magic would have been as the stories said, botched up and friggin inaccurate, not only had that been the most uncomfortable portalling experience ever, they were no where close New York.

The dusty sign read New Fall, she didn't even know such a dingy place existed on earth, reminded her of the deep trenches of Kaer Morte

"Great!" She growled to a bemused Luciano "Another thing your kind has fucked up, just fricking great, remind me to leave your pack decimated for leaving us stranded in this Godforsaken hellhole!"

"Is that racism I detect in you?!" He asked clearly in a choked voice "I bet your Conjugate will not be pleased!, and I'll have you know our magic was perfectly fine until you came along mutant!"

Steam rolled off her and right there and then she wished she could throttle him and leave his body in the dust.

"I don't know what you're fucking playing at" she said angrily "but fix this mess now!, New Fall is not part of the town we were supposed to friggin visit!, not to mention it is odd enough that we stand here looking like crap from a non-existent century, but can you get your damn Golems to act normal!"

"Normal!" He growled all semblance of laughter totally gone leaving him looking frigid "You insult my people's hospitality, you insult me, you insult our magic and now you'd insult my subservients!, You are undignified, and the Conjugate will be seeing to your manners!"

"Dignity ran out the closet when I learnt your hospitality included assassination"She retorted "Fuck you and the damned Conjugate, there's nothing else they can take!"

An uncomfortable silence ensued, a nerve had been struck and he knew it

"I'm so--"

He was cut off by a powerful blast of magic that just narrowly missed his head

"You must die" Came a harsh raspy voice from the Humanoid Golem "The Mistress requires it!"

She sprung into action before it could fire another shot, her twin blades whizzing like bugs through the air and rending off it's arms leaving clay where blood should have been, the clay simply began forming new arms, eight arms laid around her, making a total count of four reanimating monsters

"You really have to bring so much!" She yelled at him "Help me, Shift!"

"The humans!" He retorted in an alarmed tone, their hands were reanimating into weapons "it'll freak them out!"

"Just do it!" She yelled as she lopped off one of it's head "Find the nejetri crystal in them and crush it!"

"What the hell is that?!" He yelled back his hands enveloped in hardening clay

"This!" She grunted, pulling out a crystal no bigger than a pinky from where the Golem's eyes should have been and promptly crushed it, causing the Golem to dissolve into dust

"Fuck!" He groaned

His eye color became the darkest of night, spreading from his pupils until all of it was covered in pitch black inkiness, he growled low as he half shifted into Night beast, one of the forms he'd been gifted with, howling and swiping with blackened claws and spiky potrusions he made quick work of the remaining three beasts, leaving him a panting mess.

"The humans" He said in a voice much too outwordly "what the fuck are we going to do about them!"

"The Memory Wraithes will take care of it, come on we need to fucking move" She said "shove it back in for now, we can't be out here like this seeing that someone wants you dead!"

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Luciano Montel

He wasn't proud of what happened next, crumpling like a baby, who ever heard of an Alpha wolf fainting

When he came to He was on a rather plush bed, his body weakened, drawing magic from this plane seemed to rather strenuous for wolves

"You're awake" came her cold voice beside him "Good then cause we need to talk!"

"About what?" He asked, grunting as he struggled to get onto his feet

"Are you kidding me!" She asked "This was supposed to be a simple escort job, you want to tour the human plane, have some fun like the spoilt royal brat that you are, fine I'd have no problem with that, you never told me that there were people out for your blood!"

"I am king" He replied simply " they would always be people out for my blood!"

"Not like this!" She growled so low, he might have consider her a wolf " Golems are created with blood magic which can only be overridden by powerful, I mean very powerful dark magic, someone really wants you dead, so if I were you I'd start talking!"

"Spoilt brat!" He scoffed "You wouldn't know anything, because you're so upturned all of the time, there have been multiple disappearances from shifters who have ventured here, I'm here to find them, the tour was a guise, a ruse to get the people off my fucking back, I would have involved you if you'd stayed long enough!"

"And what get poisoned to death?!" it was her turn to scoff " Besides you don't get to make decisions like this, your people need you!, it'd be a shame if Adam were to be in charge, you don't get to endanger yourself!"

"I am not weak!" He growled out low "I won't let them take another, look, you either help me or not, either ways I'm seeing this through but I'd really love for you to be on my side here!"

Her face scrunched up in deep thought, her head seemed to race for a moment before she spoke

"A hundred thousand Ankhas" She said lowly "when the job is done and you will leave me a lovely review for the Conjugate"

"What?!" He said "That's not-"

"Deal or no Deal?!" She asked sternly, cutting him off "Cause I could sure has hell beat you up and haul back to Pythas even if I have to squeeze the magic out of you, so consider carefully!"

it was his turn to decide

"Deal" he replied "you have a deal"

"I'll hold you to your words!" She said smiling " Now out your squiggly self in done clothes and prepare to act like royalty, it's the least you can do for our hosts"

"Just where the fuck are we exactly?!" he asked

"Just get dressed, Knight in Claws" She said walking away from him "Dinner's in five minutes!"

Fuck!, she was going to be the damned death of him.

Glossary

Ankhas- Currency used in Pythas

Pythas- One of the numerous planes of existence, Populated by Magical Beings