ORION'S ROOM
Immediately Orion arrived, he walked to the middle of the room and looked at the wound again.
It got bigger again, and before daybreak, he's sure it'd spread to every part of the hand.
"Come out" he said authoritatively, and instantly, a clone came out of him. A clone of himself with same face, but the only difference is their personalities.
While Orion is grim, the clone seems cheerful, smiling as he sat on the bed.
Orion calls out his clones anytime he's extra bored or needs answers to questions just like now.
At once, he has the ability to call out seven, but for now, he needs just one.
"Why did you call out just me today? It won't be fun without the others. You're too boring" the clone said, crossing his legs with a loud grin.
"Stop grinning" Orion glared, and he stood.
"How many times do you want me to tell you that you don't get to control me anytime you call me out?"
"What's her sword all about?" Orion replied, raising the wounded palm.
"Oh I see you got wounded by the golden emotionless sword of the whitehead witch" the clone smiled.
"Emotionless?" Orion frowned.
"It's a sword passed down to the women in the Hercules family. It hasn't been used since her mother was born though" the clone replied.
"Why?" Orion asked.
"Her mother isn't a whitehead, and it's a rule that if the sword is passed down to any female in the family who isn't a whitehead, the the female has to keep it throughout her existence without using it. The sword is soaked in the menstrual blood of the witch for all the years it's left unused till another whitehead would be born into the family. Her mum lived 20 years before giving birth to her, so that sword spent twenty years in her menstrual blood before Samara got it. You can imagine how powerful the sword is gonna be right now" the clone explained.
"It's powerful than my red sword?" Orion asked, and the clone laughed.
"Of course not! Your red sword was born together with you Orion. The sword came out of your mother on the night you were born, and it killed your mother. You got your sword immediately you were born so there's no way that emotionless sword is more powerful" the clone replied.
"Then why did it hurt me?" Orion asked, staring at the palm again.
"It didn't hurt you cos it's more powerful, it's the rule. The emotionless sword only welcomes touches from it's owner. You had no right to touch it, and that's why you got hurt" the clone replied.
"How do I get healed?" Orion questioned again.
"Dip the hand in her menstrual blood"
"You've gotta be fucking kidding me" Orion said with a disgusting look on his face.
"Then leave your hand to rot. It's the only way unless you wanna...
Orion returned him before he could finish speaking, and he went back inside him.
"There has to be another way" he muttered.
INSTITUTE LIBRARY
Krishna met emptiness when he entered the building stuffed with legendary books, and he smiled with a nod. Just how he likes it.
He should be at the cafeteria, eating with the others right now, but he's just not feeling the need to satisfy his hunger, and that's why he came here, his place of peace.
Cat jumped out of his pocket immediately.
"I'm gonna go eat at the cafeteria. I'm not sitting here to read boring books with you" she said.
"I know you can even trade me for food, so just go already. Raven will feed you" Krishna smiled.
"Happy reading!" Cat squealed, rushing out of the library.
Krishna raised his hand up, and a book from the shelf flew into it. He grabbed it and didn't bother to walk to the tables. He sat on the ground and rested his back on the shelf, opening the book to start reading peacefully.
It's about the origin of supernatural beings, including demons and dark forces.
According to the book, the demons on the surface of the earth right now are just descendants of the ones that are yet to be released.
The higher demons are trapped in a tomb somewhere in the middle of heaven and Earth, and no one knows how to release them, but it's written in a book, called THE FORBIDDEN MANUAL.
The forbidden manual hasn't been seen by anyone, and many people believe it doesn't even exist, but according to few ancestors, the book exists and is kept safe in an unknown place because the moment anyone finds it and releases the higher demons, then havoc will happen on Earth.
"I wish I can get the forbidden manual though" Ceres's voice said beside him suddenly, and he looked up.
"Ceres? When did you get here?"
She smiled and squatted in front of him.
"When you were so focused on reading, I sneaked in" she bit her lip seductively.
"And why do you wanna get the forbidden manual?" He asked.
"It doesn't contain how to release the higher demons alone, it also contains powerful spells, and like I heard, if anyone learns the spells, all the powers in the intermediary between heaven and Earth would be sealed in the body of the person, isn't that awesome?" She smiled, biting her lip again.
"Your seduction won't work on me, Ceres. Stop biting your lip, you'd wound yourself" Krishna replied, and she scoffed.
"Why are you always like this? Cos I'm your best friend's sister?"
"Even if Raven wasn't involved, I can never like you Ceres" he replied bluntly, and she stood.
"Boring! You're so boring!!" She grunted, stumping her foot as she walked out of the library.
She suddenly stopped when she got out the door, and she smiled diabolically when she remembered something.
She stood still, and slowly, she transformed to Ruthie, even her clothes changed.
She smiled before going back into the library.
"Hey bookworm!" She waved, and Krishna stood immediately.
"Hey! Ruthie... you visit the library too?" He smiled, and instead of answering, she grabbed his face, kissing his mouth damn hard.
Krishna pushed her away immediately, and she smiled, licking her lips.
"Ruthie are you crazy? What the fuck did you just try!" He panted.
"What? You didn't enjoy it? I've always wanted to kiss you and finally I got a chance, why don't we go to the party together tommorow?" She winked.
"Thought you were a different girl, but I guess I was wrong" he muttered and walked out
Ceres laughed out loud before transforming back to herself, and she smirked evilly.
"We're just getting started, Ruthie"
•••••••
Samara was panting and sweating as she ran through the dark valley, but it doesn't look like anything is chasing her. She's the one chasing something.
Stunts kept pulling her legs, but she stands immediately she falls, and the race continues afterwards.
She was still on it when someone suddenly blocked her way, and she stopped running.
"Granny Elsa" she muttered, swallowing hard as she stared at the old woman.
"You're chasing after a dangerous beast, it'd kill you" Granny Elsa said calmly, her white hair flowing with the air just like Samara's.
"No... Granny I really need to....to get to him. He's my only salvation, he's....
"He's your doom" Granny Elsa said, and Samara shook her head.
"Granny you...
And that was it, a red sword was shoved into Granny Elsa's stomach from behind, and Samara's eyes widened.
Granny fell immediately the sword was removed from her stomach, and Orion's bloody face came to view.
"Arggggghhh!!!!!!!!!" Samara screamed back to life. It's actually a nightmare.
She was sweating so much as her breathing went high and low, and she held her chest.
"Granny is dead, why am I dreaming about her? Why was I chasing Orion? And why did she call him my doom?" She muttered, looking at the necklace on her neck.
The pendant is a cross, sitting on her chest.
She took the pendant to her lips and kissed it. She got the necklace as a gift from her granny before her death actually.
"Granny, are you trying to tell me something?" She whispered.
NEXT MORNING
Samara's skin was greeted with a strong breeze, and it made her wonder weather she's in her room or not.
She was lucky to get a cozy room, so it's always warm, but why the sudden coldness this morning?
"If you sleep one more minute, then you're gonna have to run hundred laps round the assembly" Orion's voice said, and her eyes flew open.