"Yes Master." They answered in unison. They were his trusted aides and he knew what he was doing.
Using the power of his consciousness he tried to call, "Demi, I need your help."
"Help? What happened Aiden? Is everything alright?" She asked him back spontaneously. Demi covered Olympia with a red-feather quilt and then tried to
"No. This will be a test for Olympia as well as us." Aiden muttered so slowly that it didn't reach Olympia's ears, but it did.
"Are they going to leave me again? The last time it happened, I was asleep. Now, I won't let them go away from me. After all this time, I got them. Is it only for them to leave again? No… Absolutely not." Olympia made a vow in her heart, not to lose them at all. Not this time, not ever. Never.
"Demi, they are coming!" Aiden whispered to his wife and held her hands tightly, as she slowly made her way to the doorway.
"How did they get to know about her, Aiden? How? She can��t be exposed to the world, unless her power awakens. They want to kill her for God's sake. Aiden, for the first time in my life, I am afraid - afraid that something terrible will happen to my child. I won't be able to bear that." Demi silently sobbed in her husband's arms.
Aiden stroked her back trying to console her but he, himself, was nervous. It was a gamble — to lose her forever or to awaken her powers to the full potential. Not that he didn't have a choice, but he would rather let her fully awaken her powers than hiding in the dark.
"Life brings us in the same situation twice, and each time we make a different choice." Aiden thought and sighed. The previous time he chose to hide her but this time, his heart told him that he wouldn't need to hide her even though he already made arrangements. In his heart, he knew that this time, Olympia would fight for herself, for her powers, for her dignity, for them, and above all for her own satisfaction of making a choice.
Taking a deep breath, Aiden gripped Demetria's hand tightly trying to ease all his nervousness in that grip as they stood at the huge doorway.
Aiden was thinking of all these things when he heard the thudding of hooves. Millions of Einhorns were galloping past the pastures and climbing the mountains speedily.
Although those were some puny creatures, along with them were all the dragons and phoenixes. He wasn't sure whether all those ancient people were coming or not. Aiden hoped that they wouldn't come at all. But he couldn't be too sure. If those monsters came, then that would be absolutely bad news.
On one side was his clan members, on the other side was his own child. He could harm neither of them, but if worst comes to the worst, he would always choose his child over his clan. This was his choice and will always be.
Olympia buried her head into the pillow and listened to his father silently. Being half-dragon-half-phoenix, her hearing senses were more heightened than that of her parents.
She could clearly feel that millions of tiny creatures were coming their way. She wasn't sure who they were and what they wanted, but she knew that they weren't good, since her parents were so worried.
After a long time passed, the thudding came to a stop and an eerie silence followed. She had her senses maxed out, which was nowhere near what she used to have before. She found out that everyone was standing in some sort of a formation. She had a bad premonition.
Before she could get up from the bed, four blinding flashes of green blue, red and white lights covered the entire mountains. It flashed brilliantly and then exploded like fireworks.
Olympia tightly shut her eyes and something flashed in her brain and before she could grasp anything, she felt a sharp pain and she clutched her forehead with her palms, but the pain went away as fast as it came.
She tried to expand her senses to the max again and found that the situation was a stalemate. Both the parties were staring at each other and no one wanted to back off.
Olympia slowly got up from the bed and wanted to sneak outside when out of nowhere came a person and stood in her way, "You can't go anywhere, Princess."
"Why can't I?"
"Because we are ordered to protect you. We can't let you go there." He said without any ripple of emotions in his voice.
"Why do I need to be protected?" Olympia asked him.
"Because they are here for you~~" As soon as he said that, he bit his tongue in regret for letting that slip. He scolded himself for being so loose-lipped.
He looked at Olympia hoping to see a scared face of a little girl, but was faced with the tranquil face of the same little girl. He did not know why, he felt that he could see the shadow of her parents within her.
Olympia lifted her head and a pair of calm decisive eyes met his. He said, "Your father tasked me to protect you, and I can't let you do anything while I am alive."
"Didn't my father ask you to follow me and heed all my commands?" She asked back.
"How do you know?" He looked at her in disbelief.
"So he did." A smug smile appeared on her face.
"Since he kindly allowed you to follow me and heed my commands, I hereby order you to stay here and make sure that no one enters this room until I say so." The man was entirely sure that she would leave and join the fight, but never did he think that she would task him with this. He wasn't sure what she was gonna attempt, but whatever it was, it was surely dangerous.
He stood guard by the door and watched the situation outside. Aiden and Demi were still standing there alone, and it was not known for whom they were waiting. An old voice got transmitted through the entire mountains and reverberated in everyone's ears.
"Hand her over and we shall leave you untouched, else, we massacre everything."
Demetria was going to say something when Aiden held her hands and stopped her. He turned towards the source of voice and said, "We don't understand what you are trying to say."