as we travelling to the nearest airport Nicholas asked Celine to book us a flight to Manila cross to Maldives he has the hunch that the Goddess of Beauty and Love will stay on something trendy and of course beautiful, Cause technically she is the personification of everything beautiful.
I've been meaning to ask nicholas about more things but the things that I've just learned up until now is hard to process, I don't even know what to believed in, Yesterday I only went to church to praise for a single God but now I found out that there are more than 100 of them, and hearing those would be definitely crazy but witnessing everything myself the truth, the Truth that I can move and sprout fully Grown trees - though I may not be able to do that again, The Truth I may be the one in the prophecy and I'm destined to fail by all cause, The truth that We are on the hot list, The truth that all my life I thought my father will have a chanced to find my mother and the truth that I have a possibility to die and it will be the most painful death possible.
Celine Tapped my back and said "Hey! Genius Finally caught up?"
"Trying really hard here if you didn't disturb me" I said
"Little Grumpy huh? Nicholas I've booked our flight it will be the next 2 hours to manila and we will have to wait another 2 hours for the maldives flight" Celine added
"Its ok Celine lets just hope we see the last of those makhais or anything else threatening for now" Nicholas said
"Wait nicholas where did you get the money to pay for all that? you know we're running short on funds right?" I asked
"Don't you worry a bit Mike, if you're as old as me you have lots of things to sell, plus the bag that you've just carried is as magical as the satchel" he smiled at me "Go look for yourself" he insisted
I opened the bag and in my amazement this small bag is as big as the shoreline inside and its filled with things, things that aren't looked any familiar on me, the only things I know here was the shining gold coins silver coins some golden jars, Gems and a lot of things that has value - The bag even have a refrigerator that I don't even know if its working or how it is working.
"See we have all we need, we can stack our supplies later when we reach a store or something" nicholas said.
"its many yes, but how can we reach it?" I said
"Just think of the thing you need and presto if its available the bag will let you reach it like a normal bag" Nicholas said.
I'm amazed and confuse again at the same time, I'm trying to cope on the previous things and here they are again giving me yet another surprise, and I bet this day will get even weirder I know
"Nicholas you're giving genius here a hard time he obviously scared!" Celine said
I don't know why but i can feel that this girl hates me or something, she keeps on calling me genius when all she does is mocking me specially when I'm thinking, I'm guilty that I'm not smart but didn't she know its all new for me.
"What are you looking genius?" I didn't notice I was starting at her "You wanna fight?" she added.
"Woah woah woah, are you really now? of course not can you be nice for a second there? sheez" I said
"You want me to be nice, then stop looking at me!" She angrily said "You two cut it save your energy" nicholas said
before I shift my eyes away to Celine I cant help but notice how beautiful she is I hate to admit it but her stormy gray eyes,her long straight brown hair and that little scar below her chin, its make her look a lot more beautiful and the sunrise made her looked perfect, Wait what am I saying right now.
few minutes pass neither one of us talked, I usually drowsy in drives like this, near or far im always drowsy, but who can snooze if you experienced things like this, I wonder how can Nicholas sleep soundly everyday? knowing that there are daemons lurking to kill him anytime anywhere - I looked at him in the mirror, I'm Amazed and Scared of this guy, he won't be that calm if he's not as dangerous as those daemons plus before we got to him before he was holding his own to that many he even beaten 15,20 of them tops.
nicholas noticed I was looking at him "so Mike I know you want to know more, right?" I nodded unconsciously "so what do you want to know?" he said.
"why did you lie?" I unconsciously said it and I wished I didn't because nicholas turned all serious.
he sighs "you know mike, I know its my choice, and I know you will have trust issues now, I know what and where you've been how hard your life was and how important is honesty to you, but believe me or not I always wanted to tell you the way I did to Celine back then, But I can't because I didn't know you were one of us, I didn't sense a thing I only knew that you are when you saw the makhai and believe me I'm more surprise that you are seeing them rather than they found me and trust me I'm just protecting you" Nicholas explained.
he lets out a deep sigh "Sorry" Hearing him say those words, I felt a surge of guilt I know he didn't mean a thing, I'm being so sensitive on things that i should've and I can't help but to put my head down and say "No Kuya Nick I'm sorry - I Know you didn't mean it but I pushed you so much , I'm .. I'm really sorry" when I was about to look at him he brushed my hair and say "It's alright Little Apple, I promise you I won't be lying anymore" I smiled at him.
Almost an Hour we arrived to the airport and we roughly have 1:15 minutes to stack up our supplies we agreed to separate to get things fast Celine on Clothes, I'm in charge for Food and Water and Nicholas for some medicines, nearly 30 minutes has elapsed we all meet in the lobby cause we need to check are things in, and before we could even go inside I panicked cause I remembered Celine here is carrying a sick looking dagger, Nicholas has some deadly spear and I have a dim glowing satchel that a guy shouldn't be carrying, so I grabbed them.
I whispered "How can we go with all this weapons? this things are illegal and I'm a walking emergency lights" Celine rolled her eyes "isn't it obvious genius? we are magic we are the only ones who can clearly see magic, Nicholas can't explain how things works but mortal eyes and brains are hard wired to ignore magic and Unlike us we can't help but see magic" celine said
"That's why im shocked before when you see the makhai, Usually mortals see daemons or monsters as normal human being with an abnormal size, weapons as harmless things like my spear they see it as a simple maybe a cloth hanger and my shield as a vest or something, things that doesn't concerns mortals are somehow cloaked for us to live normal lives together" Nicholas said and Celine Nodded.
even though nicholas and celine told me those stuffs I'm still scared that the guard might not let me pass, and my fears turns into reality.
"Wait!?" the security personnel said and I felt my heart pounding like crazy "your shoes kid, bag and anything metal to the X-ray machine" I felt relief I thought I'm in trouble.
as I pass the security Nicholas whispered in my ear "I forgot its your first time sorry but that's the protocol just follow me okay?" he assures me like as always my big brother.
we showed our tickets to the attendant and they assist us to our sits, I just remembered something and ask nicholas "You've mentioned before this way of traveling is safest for us right and you promise to tell me why" I said.
"What are you 12 asking for stories sheez" Celine said
"Can't I know why?" I said
"Okay Okay stop you too Celine, when you were little you're like him too" nicholas lets a small laugh and I smiled.
"yah when I was a literal 12 you left me a year after that" She said.
so she is only 19 now she's almost my age, she is living on her own at that age. "What are you looking at again genius?" she said and I didn't noticed that I'm staring at her again I let out a cough and said "I just thought I saw someone I know, so what's the reason?"
"our Friend here, Celine's Mother the Goddess Athena is not Friends with the God Poseidon, so its a risk if you're a daughter of the wisdom and war goddess to travel by sea" nicholas said.
"Why they're not friends" I asked
"Read a book Genius" Celine said "do you have one?" I teased her "Very funny genius" she replied
"Hush now you two, okay I'll tell you why since we have lots of time to talk might as well introduced you to some things, why do they hate each other? you know the story of why Athena is the patron God of The City of Athens?" I Shake my head "Okay so I'll tell you why, Long ago the City of Athens, a city that's very prosperous and vibrant and ruled by a king named King Cecrops decided that its about time for Athens to have their very own patron God, he called upon Athena and Poseidon the both battled it out to have the city the battle was so intense that they almost get into war just to be the city's patron God, the king of athens then decided that it must come to an end he asked both gods to go to the acropolis to present gifts for athens, First came the God of the Sea he raises his trident and strike the earth so mighty that the earth crack and then a large fountain of water came out, a Well at the top of the acropolis the people of athens are amazed by the doing of the God but when they tasted the water it was very salty and everybody is dismay, Then the Goddess of Wisdom and War raises her spear and strikes the earth to create a hole then goddess knelt and plant an olive branch, the king sees the beauty and usefulness of the tree in many way and that's what made him decide to choose athena instead of poseidon" Nicholas said.
"So the god simply accept that and decided I'll be hating the demigods of athena instead?" I said
"Of course not Gods and Goddesses have Egos as big as the universe, poseidon send a wave of water and cursed athens to experience drought and up until now they suffer to water shortage because they angered the God of the Seas and as a gift he also managed to get mad at the sons and daughters of athena" he said.
"do my mother have enemies of her own?" I asked.
"Well she's kinda friendly though she does have one God on her list that she hates so much and that's the God of the Underworld ruler of the dead Hades" Nicholas said.
"That's sounds bad, why?" I asked
"I Think that's a story for another day?!" Nicholas said "We should rest now aren't you tired?" He added.
he's kinda right so I nod in agreement, I decided to snooze for a bit.
"Nicholas you cant hide from us anymore! that scent from the scions of athena and demeter are strong you may run but you cant definitely hide from us!" the makhai said.
an unknown voice suddenly speaks "Brothers and Sisters! let no time be waste our great mother needs the Apple for her revival!" I tried to tilt my head to see the woman whose voice echoed to my ears "are you trying to spy on us little demigod!" the moment she seems to see me woken me up, panting.
what?! how can she do that and who is she? she seems powerful enough to lead the makhai, are we having some new enemies?
Nicholas seems to notice my weariness.
"Mike what happened?" He asked, I simply replied "Nightmare" his face darkens "what did you see?" he asked
"I don't know if my mind is playing tricks on me because of all the things I seen this morning, but I seen the makhai's they seems to follow us in my dream and..-" Nicholas interrupted me "That's no ordinary dream mike, sometime demigods like us happens to have this ability called Vision but for mortals they called it dejavu, this ability helps us prepare for what will happen and..-" I interrupted "You mean all that was real?!".
"Yes mike, all of those are real, this vision is been helping demigods for eons, that's why there are so many Heroes who turned out to be demigods" he added "so you mean that woman's voice is real too?" I said, nicholas looked at me "Woman? who the makhai is being leaded by a Male one what do you mean woman?" he asked "I heard a woman's voice nicholas, she called the makhais brothers and sisters and they seems to follow her orders and.. and".
"And what mike?" he asked "And she sees me".
his face now darkens "She sees you?" Celine seems to look at nicholas like they were mentality talking and she suddenly speaks "That's no makhai nicholas, We might bite more than we can chew now" she said.
"what do you mean she's not a makhai she said brothers and sisters, and she speaks of something about revival and using the apple for that" nicholas gazed at me "We need to hurry then" he suddenly said.
"why? what's happening again? can you guys explain?" I asked "We will explain later, right now we need to gather all our strength and prepare for whatever may happen if your vision is accurate then we need to train you up A.S.A.P" He added "I'm willing to train genius here, we do have 1 hour and 30 minutes to spare before our next flight anyways" Celine said.
"You Train me? really?" I didn't intentionally wanted to mock her, "Got any problems Gardener?" she said "You two stop, we are fighting those who follows us not each other and just so you know mike, Celine is a good fighter I know that because I trained her, and shes been fending for herself ever since I left her" Nicholas said
"Okay Okay if you say so, So when do we start?" I said with full of enthusiasm.