ERICA
Something seems off. The fox inside of me is acting anxious and is on high alert. I got off from my office chair and went to the back of my chair to look outside. It's a cloudy day. There are dark skies that are taking over the white ones. It looks like there's going to be heavy rain.
I sighed. I winced and gasp at the sudden pain in my eyes. I blink a couple of times before sitting down on my chair. I groaned. They were getting irritating. Something is wrong. If it's dust it should have been rubbed off by now, but now it feels even more irritating. I let out of a couple of more groans and stopped rubbing my eyes. It seems like they were getting worse.
The sound of my door opened. I tried to open my eyes to see who it was. It was Kieran. I blink several times and saw that he has red eyes. It's Hades.
He rushed up to me. "Breathe, Erica. Try to control your fox." I grimaced. I was clenching onto my teeth. It's not my fox that was trying to control me. Something else was trying to control the fox.
"Call Jamison," I demanded. "Now."
Hades swore beneath his breath and disappeared from the room and reappeared into the room.
"What the-," Jamison said but when he saw me he immediately ran into my aid. He held his hand close to my chest but I back away. I didn't want him to do that. I called him to help me and not to do that.
"Nora!" Jamison yelled. "I have to. It's the only way."
"I'll fall into a coma right afterwards," I complained.
"Someone is trying to control you," he stated. "I have to take it out."
"Fine," I surrender. I closed my eyes and sat on my chair. I felt Jamison hand on my chest and then there is the pain that can't ever be ignored the pain of him claws pierced into my chest like he was about to rip out my heart to get that fox bead out of me. I let out a big scream and once when he pulled out the bead I fell into a deep slumber.
JAMISON
I have done it again. I have taken out my sister fox bead, and the images of my past haunt me as I watched my sister in horror with a hole in her chest. This was all my doing. I never wanted to do this again, but now I did it again. While I held the bead in my hand the other went up to Erica.
I held her and watched to see if any healing abilities would kick in. After all, she is a hybrid god. She can heal on her own now. My bloodied went up to my mouth shaking when I didn't see any self-regeneration ability coming in. I clutched onto her bead and send my powers onto her body hoping to heal her, but when I see it that it didn't even have healed her one bit. I pour every ounce of my ability to heal her, but soon to be stopped by Hades.
She used to be able to heal on her own the last time. Why?
"Stop!" Hades said.
I can't lose her.
I can't lose my sister, Nora.
"Stop!" Hades intervened slapping me off the ground.
"What happened?" Samuel, my roommate came up and gasp.
I looked down onto the floor. I couldn't look up to face Erica. I couldn't face the fact that I have killed her again like the last time. Immediately Hades stood in front of Erica his palm held out facing towards Erica. He sends a wave of strange black magic onto her body then his magic was sent back to him. He let out an annoyed groan.
Poseidon presence came out of nowhere and stood beside Hades. I looked up it was Mr Lorenzo but his body was taken over by Poseidon. Both of them held out both of their hands and send a wave of power into Erica body both dark and blue. I looked up at Erica and her wound was slowly healing but Hades and Poseidon did not seem to be fine sweat were breaking out of their temples.
It definitely took a while but when Hades and Poseidon pulled their hand to their side to rest. Both of them did take a deep breath. "Brother," Poseidon puts his hand over Hade's shoulder, but Hades seem reluctant to reply. "Are you giving me the cold shoulder now, Hades? Have you forgotten it was me that helped you get dragged out of the Olympus party?"
"Yea, it was you who forced me into Olympus saying you spotted some undead near your coast and wanted to talk about it there."
"Aw, c'mon it was just one little small party it can't hurt," Poseidon eased. "You're such a party pooper."
Hades just rolled his eyes. "I'm not great at parties."
"Learn to live a little," Poseidon complained.
I know why they were called The Big Three now. They were powerful alright even though they have kept quarrelling their powers are beyond measure, but not even they were enough to defeat The Ancient Ones and that is why we needed Erica to fight for us. They are coming for Erica for the fox in order to start a ritual to get rid of mother earth which is why I need to protect her.
I placed a hand over my sister's cheeks and down to her neck to feel her heartbeat. I quickly let out a breath of relief and opened up the fox bead. It was still but tainted with darkness.
Samuel walked up to Hades as he held out the palm of the hand to face the bead. Hades concentrated hard and pulled all the dark energy into himself once it was done. Hades expression regains its colours. He sighed and stretched himself. " That's better," Hades said to himself.
"Did you just absorbed that?" Samuel asked.
"Darkness gives me strength. It's my source of energy," he replied.
He was talking awfully much to Samuel. The last time we met was when I travelled down to underworld he gave me a cold shoulder and hardly talk, but now seeing talking this much to Samuel. It's been a long while since I last saw Hades I nearly forgot his face, but now somehow I regained the imagery of him after looking at Kieran. They look quite alike.
Poseidon walked up to the bead putting a finger out a small little water formed out of it and drops down to the bead immediately the energy of that came out of regaining its usual colour. A smile was brought to my lips. "It's a purification. It was tainted with dark magic so I had to purify it."
"Thank you," I said. I opened Erica's mouth and let her swallow the bead once did in a few minutes Erica woke up with a groaned.
"It's the Ancient Ones, isn't?" Erica said getting immediately to the point looking up at Poseidon and was not surprised to see him there. The brothers nod their head. Erica gets up from the chair looking out the window. There was a slight rain coming down from the sky with a few thunderous lights flashing ferociously in the sky. "A storm is brewing. Zeus is in trouble."