My fingers wrapped themselves upon the thin parchment paper of the book that I was reading as I flipped it over and over. “This is useless,” I muttered.
“What’s useless, sis?” Byron plopped himself down on the ground with me.
“This book that Trei gave us yesterday,” I told him and showed him the hardcover of the book.
“Do you think he got scared? I mean, even he did not escort us today.” He laid his back on the cold metal wall behind us.
Yesterday night Trei stopped by in front of my room to apologize before handing me this book. He said that it was the only book that their private library has about demigods.
“Do you want to read it?” I asked him as
I thanked my survival instinct that prodded me to leap to the side as soon as the bear swiped its claws in my direction. I heard a loud crash of claw on metal and looked up as I finally stopped rolling.The already dented control panel now lay on the snowy ground in chunks and pieces. Are bears supposed to be this powerful?!The cub in Byron’s arms started to cry for its mother. The mother bear looked in their direction and started to climb over the satellite platform.This is not good. If this keeps up, there won’t be a satellite to fix, which means that we could potentially lose one of our sources of communication.I ran towards my brother and grabbed the cub from his hands that made the cub cry. Byron looked at me in surprise but it did not fight me
“Ow!” My whole body jerked in pain as I felt the needle piercing through my skin. “Is there really no anesthesia that we can use?” I gritted my teeth at the pain as the needle once again pierced my skin. I don’t want to sound like a baby, but here I am grumbling like one.“I’m sorry, but as of the moment, we are all out.” The doctor who was stitching my arm said.I heard a chuckle beside me and glared at Bryon. He was biting the inside of his cheeks to fight the grin on his face. “Sorry, but maybe you should not run off on your own next time.”“If it wasn’t for me, you two wouldn’t have finished repairing the satellite peacefully,” I told him. “Right, general?” I asked while looking at Skyr.
The moment I got out of the water after my talk with Grukren, I got dressed and started to rush to the training room. Skyr had already warned me not to show up since it was his order. But I wasn’t going there to train. I was there to talk.As I reached the hallway that was headed for the training room, I paused and immediately hid around a corner when I saw something. Or someone.My heart somehow pounded slowly in my chest as I moved my head to the corner to take another look to make sure that I wasn’t seeing things. Just outside of the training room, I saw Skyr standing outside of the door while talking to another Atlantean girl. She was tall and looked really well built judging from her skin-tight attire that somehow reminded me of our old Atlantean uniforms.I couldn’t clearly see he
Trei drove us back towards the same area where he once took us to ice skate. But as soon as he dropped us off, he immediately took off along with the jeep saying something about calling a friend despite my protest. I wanted to ask him which friend because as much as possible, I would rather have only the four of us to be a part of this plan.On the bright side, he did leave us with some skating gears to kill time if we ever wait for him longer than we anticipated. Only Byron seemed to take to offer and left Skyr and I to go and skate on the frozen ocean water. Skyr got a log for the both of us to sit on while we wait and watch over Byron.“I am getting really good at this!” Byron lets out a yell of glee when as he twirled and slides over the ice. Skyr and I both laughed as we watched him acting childishly and chasing some penguins that decided to jo
The three of us followed Trei. As we were walking, I noticed how Byron and Skyr were casting me glances - asking me with their eyes where we were headed. As much I wanted to give them an answer, I shook my head and shrugged my shoulder to silently inform them that I was clueless as they are.As usual, the feeling wasn’t new to me and I never liked it.By the looks of it, we were headed to the other side of the slope that separated the lake into two. A sort of tall divider that we ourselves have to climb to get there.“It’s not that far. I dropped him off on the way here because he needed some water. He can’t go out of the water for much longer.” Trei suddenly reassured us. He must have noticed all the brewing tension and anxiety in the air. Although it was not his intention, the confusi
With his new look, you couldn’t recognize the late general at all because all of his features when he was a human were now gone and replaced with this newer and unrecognizable form.I looked at Trei. “How were you able to tell that he’s Skyr’s father?” I asked him.Now, the three of us were looking at Trei expectantly. My best friend placed both hands on his hips. “We pretty much found a cuff on his wrist. The same cuff that we removed from you three because you entered our hideout. We checked his information on the cuff and IDed him.” He explained. “Unfortunately, that is all the proof that I can give you because we threw away the cuff after we deactivated it for safety precautions. Plus, I have a bit of help dragging your father here with me.”“Help
Hazhar’s thoughts slipped through my mind. And I could only guess that the pill that Skyr and Byron took must have worked because they were both awfully surprised. Skyr has tears in his eyes the moment that he heard his father speaking.But pushing back the mind of a wild creature wasn’t easy because the moment that the whale notice that I was pushing him back, he began to retaliate and started fighting against me despite my constant command. It feels like something was constantly colliding with my head.Byron turned to me with a bright smile on his face. “Sis, you did it!”“Not sure about that,” I told him. My right hand flew to the side of my head and applied some pressure to distract myself from the growing headache. “I don’t think that I could keep doing this
Three days passed since that incident with Skyr’s father. We never talked about it again nor did we get a chance to. He was just his usual self like nothing ever happened. In fact, I feel like he has gotten a little too talkative lately that it worries me.As for the planning of our escape, Trei says that he’ll be the one to make the plans. He gave us each a gym bag one day and told us to fill it up with the gears and materials that we wish to pack and he’ll come and pick it up in two days.He never told us the plan. He says that the fewer people to know about the plan, the better. I think that he was referring to the time when we were in Atlantis. He just wanted to be cautious in order for our plan to be successful.But to be honest, I have this inkling feeling that he doesn’t want bot