Chapter 2: Tangled Fates
"what is that?." Crystal asked, she was terrible at math but she was willing to help Athens out this time, Diamond had just buried his wife quietly, but he would surely avenge her death.
He went to his lab but saw shadows, immediately he opened the door, he saw no one.
Athens covered crystals mouth with his hands.
He gestured telling her to be quiet. Diamond walked in, his flashlight, moving around with him. Suddenly Athens felt something yank his legs.
"I'm not a thief!" Athens screamed, Diamond stared at the chemical in his hands and raised a brow. "I think you are!"
Crystal came out of hiding her eyes glowing, she warned Diamond to let him go.
But he knew that was an impossibility. "If you think I am a coward, you must be out of your minds."
Crystal aimed her rays at Diamonds foot.
Athens managed to calm her down, while trying to convince Diamond of the reason why they were here.
"So this means you both are the reason why that alien thing is here?." They both nodded.
Diamond cried even more, "my wife died because of you, I promise you, once I get rid of that monster, you both are next."
Athens fell to the ground he was not having a good day.
In the celestial city of the gods, Athens father mourned his failures, it was time for someone to be crowned, in Athens absence his sister Claire had to be queen.
This was an abomination, but he had no choice, although Claire was his daughter, she was diabolical.
Claire smiled at him, her eyes reflecting her evil intentions, she wore the crown, it was time for her to show the world what she was truly made of.
Athens on earth, felt a tingling behind his ear, it was a sign that something was wrong.
Crystal walked up to him, she knew what that face meant. Then without warning, a scream was heard from behind making Diamond stand up forcefully, it was his beloved wife ,she had awoken, no more human, now a mindless zombie.
He stood there frozen by the memories of there past but Crystal pushed him to the ground.
"What is wrong with you, are you blind?."
Athens led the battle with his gun in his hand and fired eagerly at the beast.
Diamond shivered, as he watched his beloved being destroyed, melting into liquid.
"It worked!, the chemical." Athens rejoiced with Crystal but Diamond was left alone to suffer in silence.
Athens father tried to teach her the rules of the kingdom, for her to be a new queen she has to be dedicated, compassionate, but his words fell to the ground, when he looked up, the throne was empty.
He wondered where she had gone to, who gave her the audacity to work out of his presence.
"I am so tired of being told what to do, this is my time to rule, deal with it." She looked down and saw her kind hearted brother Athens struggling with his fate, and although she hated him, she also wanted him to die a painful death.
She called out to zing, Zing heard a voice but saw no one.
"If you destroy Athens, I will make you a prince in his stead!" Zing looked around and saw no one.
"What are you doing Claire?" Claire's maid called out to her.
"He is a demon, you can't make a demon a prince?" Claire smirked and looked at her maid, if anyone found out about what happened here today , that would be the last thing she ever said.
There was a thin line between being a maid and being a spy, and Claire's maid was the thin line, in the celestial palace Claires maid was Zings spy.
She was to look for a way to get Scera in and destroy the castle.
And she just found it, she was to us Claire's pride against her, but how?.
She went to the witches den.
"Hello, Priya, what's going on?."
Priya knew Flora, Claire's maid was evil, she was scared, even without magic Flora was pretty dangerous.
"What do you want from me?." Priya said moving backwards preparing herself for battle.
"Oh calm down, old lady." Flora said, "I'm here for your help, in fact, we should help one another."
Flora clapped her hands, and her goons brought in Priya daughter who she captured with ease, and she was supposed to be a witch.
"Here we go, help me, take your disgrace of your daughter back."
Priya stood up shivering "I'll do whatever you want, what do you want me to do?."
Flora smiled. "Give me a potion that will make me look exactly like queen Claire."
Priya daughter shook her head, never she was willing to sacrifice her life for the kingdom.
And so should her mother. Priya heard her daughters thoughts and nodded.
"I won't surrender to you and neither would you kill my daughter, you're clearly outnumbered."
Flora frowned, her brow stiffened, and Flora was not willing to let go of Priyas daughter.
She spoke into her watch. "It's go time people." All of a sudden men surrounded the den, with freeze rays.
These freeze rays, defy magic, and Priya knew that she was not willing to go down without a fight.
Athens felt a tingle at the back of his neck, it happens when someone is in trouble, he stared at Crystal and then diamond but they appeared to be fine.
"Someone is in trouble, I can feel it, let's go."
Crystal laughed "Uhm, not so fast champ, do you know where you're going?."
Athens stared at her "It doesn't matter, someone needs our help, this can wait."
Crystal followed him, unaware of where they went, until they arrived at the witches den.
But they hid, Athens unlike the others had no special powers so he had to devise a plan, to do no one would be in danger.
All of a sudden they heard a familiar voice.