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''She's wrong if she think that'll stop them.'' Theresa said, sat on one bed. The heroes were getting ready to sleep. They were all in pyjamas and sitting on their bed.
''Vision?'' Neil asked as he lay under the sheets.
''No, intuition. If these zombies attacked us at the dorm, who say they won't attack us here?'' Theresa asked and Jay sighed.
''You're maybe right, but we'll need to sleep first. We'll be better if we rest.'' Jay said as he lay on the bed.
''You'll be able to sleep with these things around?'' Herry asked, gripping his blanket like a kid afraid of any monster in his room. Jay smiled.
''I won't be worry. The gods are around if something going wrong. Good night guys!'' Jay said.
''Good night.'' Everyone said back before Archie used his whip to close the light.
Everyone was sleeping. Archie was the only one awake. This new kind of monsters really made him nervous. More, his mind was running full of thought about who did that and why. He jumped when he heard an unfamiliar sound, quickly sitting on his bed.
''Who's there?'' He whispered, trying to don't wake his friends. He got out of his bed and got his whip ready. He walked slowly around. He jumped, trying to hold back a shriek as he heard some moans. He turned faster to a bed and saw Theresa, maybe fighting in her sleep.
'God damn it! She almost gave me a heart attack.' Archie thought as he placed a hand on his heart to calm it.
''Atlanta...'' Archie looked Theresa with a surprise look. He knew she was probably having a vision. He came closer to her, wanting to hear what she was going to say. ''Atlanta... zombies... Archie... danger... must warn... Archie...''
Archie turned white as he understood what she meant: he's going to be attacked. He went to the door, wanted to warn a god. As he was closer to the door, he felt something behind him, making him stop faster in fear. He trembled as he turned around.
The other heroes were all awake by a high and loud scream. Theresa screamed in surprise as she sat faster and Herry fell off his bed, fighting his blanket. It was still dark, so Atlanta ran to open the light. They gasped in surprise when they saw Archie, lying on the floor, not moving at all, looking hurt.
''Archie!'' Atlanta yelled in panic as they ran to him. The door opened faster and Athena jumped in the room, ready to attack.
''What's going on here?'' She saw Archie on the floor and she ran to him. ''What happened?''
''We wanted to know too. We woke up and he was already unconscious.'' Jay explained to the goddess as Herry sighed in relief, finally free of his blanket.
''Oh Zeus, I really can't explain... did Archie use hair dye recently?'' Athena asked as she noticed something wrong about the young warrior. The heroes looked at her, trying to understand what she meant. Athena pointed at Archie's head and they saw he had a lock of white hair.
''Oh my! I don't know what he saw, but that quite scared him.'' Odie said, looking closely at Archie's hair.
''Maybe he saw a man full of water.'' Neil proposed with a smile, trying to calm the atmosphere. By the glare from the others, it didn't work.
''Neil! That's not funny!'' Atlanta said back. Athena shook Archie's shoulder to wake him up and he groaned in intense pain.
''Archie? Are you alright?'' Jay asked as he went on his knees. Archie was shaking.
''No... my shoulder... painful!'' Archie answered, holding his shoulder. Atlanta looked faster his shoulder and saw it was out of the join.
''Ow, that must be very painful. Hang on, I'll replace it.'' Atlanta helped him to sit before she placed her arm around him, to keep him immobile, and she used her other hand to place back his shoulder. They heard a big crack before Archie screamed in pain.
''Ow! Go easy next time!'' Archie said to Atlanta. Herry took his blanket and ripped it. He gave one part to Atlanta and she placed it on Archie to hold his arm.
''There. Your shoulder will be better after we saw Chiron.'' Atlanta told him.
''Hey, Arch? I'm curious. What did you saw to have white hair?'' Odie asked and Archie jumped.
''What? I don't have any white hair.'' Archie quickly told him. Neil came closer and passed his mirror to Archie.
''Don't break it.'' Neil warned him and Archie nodded. He looked carefully at his hair. He gasped when he saw the white lock. It was quite visible and it wasn't a small lock. He also notice the long scratch on his right cheek, still bleeding.
''God damn it! I know I was afraid, but to that point?'' Archie told them and all of them were worry for Archie.
''Are you sure you're alright?'' Jay asked, sounded very worry. Archie gave back the mirror to Neil and sighed.
''Yeah, will you calm a little?'' Archie asked and Jay glared him.
''Me? Need to calm? You're the one shaking like a leaf!'' Jay said back, his voice sounded worry mixed with anger and surprise.
''You saw a water monster?'' Neil asked as a joke and Atlanta groaned in rage.
''Neil! Enough of-'' Atlanta started to yelled at Neil, but they all jumped when Archie screamed in fear, protecting his head with his good arm.
''I think you scare him with your yelling.'' Theresa said. Atlanta looked faster at Archie and she saw he was curling himself, shaking in fear.
''Oh shoot... Archie I'm sorry.'' She was to place her hand on his shoulder, but he shook her off, really afraid.
''Come on buddy. It's not like she beat you up.'' Herry said with a smile. He dropped his smile as a thought came in his mind. ''She didn't, did she?''
''I didn-''
''She did! She's the one who attacked me!'' Archie said as he cut Atlanta's speech. They gasped in surprise, looking at Atlanta with a surprise gaze. Athena quickly glared the young huntress.
''I didn't! I was asleep. Archie, you're wrong.'' Atlanta said with scare and Theresa discretely bit her lip as she looked away, thing Archie saw. He glared at Atlanta.
''Oh yeah, so why even Theresa think you're lying?'' Archie told her and Atlanta gasped. She quickly looked at her friend, felling betrayed. Theresa jumped when she heard Archie and quickly looked at Atlanta.
''I didn't say I didn't believe you! Listen, I had a vision when I was sleeping. You were attacking Archie... almost to death.'' Theresa confessed.
Atlanta couldn't hear more. She ran away, trying to hold back her tears the longer she could. The others tried to stop her, telling her to stay, but she ignored them. She didn't want to believe she almost killed Archie. She was sleeping in the bed, she didn't sleepwalk and tried to kill him, no she didn't. She stopped at the park inside the school. She sat next to a wall and cried, letting her fear going away. She stayed in her position, her knees against her chest, for some minutes, letting the sound of the night calming her.
''Are you that afraid?'' Atlanta jumped as she gasped in surprise when she heard a woman voice. She rose her head faster and saw a woman sitting on the roof, looking at her. The woman had short curly black hair. She had blue eyes, a grey dress with a long blue shawl on one of her shoulders. She was smirking and Atlanta saw sharp teeth. Atlanta quickly whipped her tears away, looking away.
''I don't know who you are, but leave me alone!'' Atlanta yelled. The woman jumped off the roof and walked to Atlanta. ''I said-''
''I know, I'm not deaf. I just wanted to know something: are you afraid that you, maybe, hurt your boyfriend?'' The woman asked and Atlanta lightly blushed.
''He's just a friend.'' Atlanta muted. The woman placed a hand on the huntress' head and smirked. Atlanta pushed the hand away of her.
''Just a friend... yeah, nice one. Let's see if your 'just a friend' will panic to that.'' The woman told her and Atlanta raised an eyebrow.
''To what?'' Atlanta didn't have to wait for the answer; a pair of hands went on her neck, behind her, trying to strangle her. She gasped in surprise before she hit with her elbow what was strangling her. She got free and she screamed in surprise and pure fear. Neil was there, he was the one trying to kill her. He was bloody, his nose missing and his skin was a little paler than usual. He had a large wound on his stomach. ''That's not Neil!''
''Oh, you think? Tell me, why did you leave them alone? They're all dead because of you, because you left them all alone.'' The woman tell her with an evil smile.
Atlanta's eyes widened in panic when she saw her friends like zombies coming closer to her. They weren't like Theresa and Herry described before. They looked like someone just massacred them. She wanted to scream in panic, but her voice was stuck in her throat. She noticed some of them were missing a part of their body. Theresa's hair was cut and she got two major cut on her body; one on her face, cutting her right eye. The second started on her chest and stopped to her neck. Jay was missing an entire arm. Odie's head was in his arms and Herry didn't have any hands. They looked at her with an angry look with their eyes completely white.
''Not even 3 minutes and they were all killed by my hand.'' The woman said with a wide smile, quite happy of herself.
''NO! That's a lie! Athena was there!'' Atlanta told her as she tried to calm herself. The woman laughed diabolically, sending more panic in Atlanta's blood.
''I'm a goddess, you know. I can easily fight gods. She's K.O., around a mare of blood of them. I wonder how she'll react when she'll wake up. Cronus will be happy, you're the last... The last hero, the murderer.'' The goddess accused her. Atlanta went on her knee, shaking as she placed her hands on her ears, crying in fear.
''Not true! NOT TRUE!'' Atlanta yelled. She felt a hand on her shoulder. She jumped and she quickly looked behind her. It was Archie. He was bloody, the part of his leg with his brace was completely off. Atlanta felt her heart broking at the image. She was kinda glad he wasn't glaring at her. She was breathing faster and her heart was beating at 200 at hour. ''I'm sorry Arch. I really am.''
He showed her a knife and she understood what he meant. She took it with her a shaking hand.
''Your fault if we are dead!'' Odie yelled, making fling like he hit her.
''You attacked Archie and now we're dead because of you!'' Theresa yelled too, making Atlanta shaking more at each yelling for her friends.
''How could you do that to us! To your team! Your friends!'' Jay yelled.
''My beauty! You stole my beauty forever!'' Neil yelled.
''I couldn't even defend myself! How could you be still alive as we are dead?'' Herry yelled with a different voice. His throat was all sallow and blue, like he was choking to death.
''Only your blood will free us! Do it!'' Archie yelled. She closed her eyes and she prepared to stab herself. After all, they were right. How can a murderer like her could still be alive? She took a breath, letting one last tear to fall down and decided to do it.
''ATLANTA! DON'T!'' She heard Jay yelled before she felt something holding her wrist, the knife only a millimetre to her chest. She heard Greek swearing before the knife was thrown away. Someone hugged her quite tight and she cried, totally panicking.
''I killed them! Let me kill myself!'' She yelled, fighting the hug to be free.
''Are you nuts?! I will never let you do it! Atlanta, look at me.'' She felt the hug broke, but hands still holding her by the shoulders. She opened her eyes and saw Jay, the face white, completely dead worry, but alive. She looked around them and she didn't see the woman or her dead friends. In fact, she didn't see any trace they were here. ''Who did you kill to want to kill yourself?''
''All... all of you. You yelled... to me to do it, to... kill... myself. You die because of me.'' She tried to explain between her cries. Jay hugged her, lulled her gently, letting her cry. She was crying quite hard. Jay had the impression he kept Atlanta in his arms during hours. She slowly calmed as he rubbed her back.
''Calm down, Atlanta, calm down. We're all alive. No one die.'' He whispered in her ear. She shook her head, her hands gripping Jay's shirt.
''Not true, I saw you. You were... zombies. You want my blood. I must free you.'' She told him. Jay was speechless. He understood faster whatever Atlanta saw traumatise her to a point she maybe lost her sanity. He slowly broke the hug, taking slowly her hands off of him.
''It's alright. Come with me. Someone I need to show you something, okay.'' He asked, but she kept looking quite scare. ''Atlanta? Do you trust me?''
''I... I do.'' She answered weakly. Jay helped her to rise and guide her to the others.