Luna had fallen asleep, where she sat last night. When she woke up, a blanket she didn't have fell from her back. It is the early morning, there aren't even that many birds filling the air with their sound. The fire had died with only ashes and blanked logs. It seems like both Windy and Bas has not woken up yet.
She went in search of a stream or a lake to wash her face before they start their journey. Last night was crazy, how could her life change this drastically? Going from bad to worse, entangled with the gods that she doesn't even believe that exist. And she is not just entangled but she is part of them, a child of the long lost god. And the wings; she still can feel them heavy like bag of potatos around her back, the slash still raw sore whenever she moves her shoulder.
Luna a found a little pond a few miles away from their camp. She stood there for a few minutes, trying to look at her back, twisting this way and that way with the reflection of the water. The wings as much as they feel heavy they are not big. They are not made of feather like she expected. She tried to touch the bottom of her left wing, it felt as if it made of a fluid air, cold and silky under her fingers. The stars seems like they are dimmed by the first morning sun.
Her hands still tied to the golden chain, she washed up her face and tried to get the dried leafs from her hair. She needs to find a way to see her brother and keep him save in case things started to go south. It seems like this messed up history becomes her present and she has no intention of involving Adam in to all this.
Adam her sweet little brother is the most thoughtful and mature kid above his age. He is only 12 but he acts like a 26 year old man; always with some kind of book that he finds, calm and collected, he always keep their home neat and tidy. He always moves her heart when she is half sleeping and half writing her book in her day break, he go about cooking and cleaning the house with his small and fragile hands. He is always there when she needs him. When Luna comes home by dawn with her eyes filled with tears, having a bad night, he would tuck her in and he would hug her, no words are spoken, no questions asked, she would fall asleep while his little fingers running through her hair.
When Luna got back to the camp, a little refreshed than last night both of her captures were up and about their own chores and the vibe they give is thick with tension. It seemed like they quarreled. She sat near by the fire. And Windy with no greetings handed her bowl of wild berries and some water. She didn't see him around the firest, seems like he is just not a human sweating for little things as picking barriers, but still she is curious.
As she was eating her berries, Bas stomped past her, drowning the slow burning fire with a water out of her hands. A gallon of water out of her hands! In the process she drowned Luna till she gasped for air. Luna was dumb founded, stuck to where she sat. Bas glared at her and she snatched the bowl Luna was holding, scattering the remaining berries in to the forest and taking the bowl with her.
"Windy get the girl ready, hide those fucking wings and her face, and dry the damned wet earth!" she shouted as she rolled everything with her sleeping bag. She was covering their trace where they slept.
"Bas darling, why don't you relax, what is the rush? you missing your husband?" he watched her with a smug face clearly not sensing the danger Bastet the cat was getting of the air. But even Luna was thinking something is not defiantly right.
"Something is not right. Please Windy do as I say. It is not the time nor the place to pick a fight" her voice was cold but there was urgency to it.
"I am not sensing anything weird, at least let me have my coffee and we will be on our way, the palace is not that much far from here. And at least tell me first hand when burn out the fire as a mad aqua cat …."
Bas didn't let him finish his sentence when she was in front of him in the blink of an eye, warping her thin fingers and lifting him up in the air like he some little kitten.
"You listen to me carefully now, I don't care that you are the favorite pet to Toth with your wits and tricks. You are here under my command, and you will do as exactly as I told you to do." She dropped him back in the ground " now before I chop your head off, go on to what I told you and for fuck sake find a place we can use a worm hole for a short cut" she is not shouting as much as the fury she is radiating.
Windy didn't lose a breath when he got scurry around here and there to do all the things at once. Luna abruptly stood up walking towards Bas, a dark fear grabbing her stomach. "What is happening? What are not telling me?" she followed Bas like she is her tail.
"Apparently that man went back to where he left you last time and when he didn't find your corpse, he realized that he made a grave mistake. Now he scattered his pet monsters to hunt you down. And I bet my life that he works for Seth" she talked without even pausing to take a breath.
"And who is Seth! Another god who killed his parents and took over the world?" Luna raised her voice a notch her fear.
"Look child this not the place to talk about gods especially about Seth, the most important thing is that losing those monsters" Bas maneuvered her way around Luna and headed to Windy.
"Windy is everything ready?" Bas asked as she retrieved huge long scarfs from under her coat… getting ready to cover Luna's wings and assessing the work he had done. She nodded her head with satisfaction.
"What is that you all want from me!?" Luna half screamed. As if that is the solution to everything "Ancient gods, Seth, a woman with a cat's face, Amon Ra, these fucking wings… all of you leave me …."
The rumble that radiated under their foot didn't let her finish her sentence. Suddenly everything went silent and the time seemed to stop still. Each of them shocked, held their breath not sure to what danger came sniffing them here.
Bastet went in front of Luna covering her as a shield, Windy run to what seemed like the wormhole he was preparing. He grasped Luna from the back and continued to back away slowly.
"When I tell you to go, you'll fucking jump in that hole and wait for me there, whatever there is to come we cannot let it leave this place alive, and please knock this poor girl out,. The travel will make her puke guts out." She looked back to the source of a low groan.
The time seem to go in slow motion for Luna, before she blinked her eyes, she saw the most strangest creature in the world, Bas is normal compared to this awful monster.
He got a white skin, wrinkled like an old man's hand, he got four eyes that seem to look in different direction at the same time, below his head he is like a snake with lion like legs, a tail of scorpion and the hands of a sea crap. The ugliest thing was that, when he spotted them his mouth twisted in a cruel smile, sneering and a drool of saliva forming around his mouth. And with that he run towards them with speed of light emitting a ball of fire from his mouth.
Luna lost her vison gradually as her eyes closed. The darkness was engulfing her, which is when she register the pain at the back of her head. With her hope fading as the light, she gave into the darkness and she got pulled into something whirling.