The bird headed straight towards Titus and when it was above his head, it released its grip, making me fall in the process, Titus grabbed onto my legs as I was about to hit the ground. "Did you think that you could escape my wrath, escape fate, after I'm done with you, I'll take care of that traitor, Xanthe, I guess your meeting with Rhea will be faster than you expected", he said before cutting my head off as cleanly as possible. My head which had been now seperated from my body, could still see clearly, as Titus was heading towards Xanthe's direction. "XANTHE NO!", I yelled, only to realise that I had just escaped a nightmare, I was out of breath and drenched in sweat. "Where am I?", I said while looking around, I was inside a small cave, all alone and you could see the entrance from where I was laying, outside it was dark(night) and raining. Xanthe's bird was nowhere to be found and the battle axe was right beside me, it looked as if it had shrunk in size, it was now the perfect size to wield. "How is this possible? I thought while looking at the axe.
My entire body was covered in weave bandages, even in places that I wasn't injured, I looked like a mummy and it was clear that the person who did it was unskilful. I was also laying on grass and leaves, I had to leave before the Colossal who saved me came back. As I tried to stand, I couldn't move, my body was aching in pain, it was as if I was in a sleep paralysis and all I remember were my eyes shutting.
I could hear sizzling sounds, as if someone cooking, when I opened my eyes, it was morning already and to my surprise, standing by the sizzling pot, a little girl was behind a female phantom that was floating, the phantom was releasing fire from its hand, so was Xanthe's bird engulfed in flames, they were heating the fire under the pot. The bird that once standing at 9-ft had also shrunk in size, it now stood at 2-ft. I rubbed my eyes to make sure that I wasn't seeing things, as soon as I realised that my eyes weren't deceiving me. "WOAH...Who are you?!", I screamed while jumping in fear, as soon as the bird saw me the flames disappeared and it flied over while screeching in excitement, as if happy to see me.
The phantom also disappeared and the girl got closer. I picked the axe up, "stay back or I'll use it", I said. As soon as I said that the phantom appeared again, it manifested a ball of fire, which began to rotate around it, I knew that if I attacked the girl, the phantom would also attack. My wounds had opened up, "stop it, his not a threat and you, are you okay?", she said while getting closer and closer. I thought I was the smallest Colossal in existence but that didn't seem to be the case, "did she also have the same condition that I had?", I thought. I was 4-ft and the girl was around 3ft 6in, she had messy purple medium-length hair, tied to double ponytails, fair-skin and her eyes as green as spring. Her dress was worn out and when she gets older she could become a beauty that might surpass even Caitriona.
"Hello my name is Novalie Aragòn the IV, friends call me Novi, I'm kidding, I have no friends, only daddy calls me that, I'm 9 years old, turning 10 in a few months, we could be best of friends, I coul...", she said before I cut her short, she was talking non stop. "Okay, okay, I get it, so tell what is this place and where are the other Colossals?", I said. "Miss Phoenix led me to you, I followed her and I found you laying unconscious on the ground, all alone I had to drag you you to my secret base, so you have to keep this place a secret", she said with a serious face.
Apparently she comes to this place to play all alone and she treated my wounds after finding me, playing healer. She said that I had been unconscious for an entire week.