10. Friend or Foe?

Joe POV

No way was this Sydney. She looked so different, and evil. I looked at her. Something else seemed different too. I squinted, then I saw it. There was a dark shadow slowly growing darker and larger around her. Her eyes seemed to be slowly filling with a fiery shadow too.

I looked at Kairi. She looked worried, really worried. "Um," She kept her voice low. "We should probably leave. Now."

Sydney glared. "No, no." She snapped her fingers, and the same cell we were in earlier appeared around us. What was up with her? She smirked. "Now, you stay here while I get some, things." She left.

I looked at Kairi. "What's wrong with her? She's not this mean, ever."

"Well, things have changed."

"Like?"

"She's not the Sydney you remember."

"Really? I couldn't tell."

"Look. I'm not exactly what you would call 'living'." I looked at her. Huh? "I'm dead, and Sydney's been kissed by darkness."

Kairi POV

"What do you mean, kissed by darkness? And how are you dead? You look alive to me," Joe looked so confused.

"It's complicated, but when I say kissed by darkness, I mean Sydney is gonna keep getting eviler and eviler."

"Why?"

"Because she died and came back."

"What?"

I sighed. This was going to take longer than I thought. "When you and Sydney were in Greece doing the whole prophecy thing, that wasn't exactly the prophecy, but she did end up dieing, and so did Mad Jack. However, since it wasn't the actual prophecy I had to bring Sydney back using some of the abilities I have because I'm dead, but because Mad Jack died as well he had to come back too. It's this annoying rule involved. So, I brought them back, but they had to pay dues. Which is yet another annoying rule. So, when Sydney and the other gods and goddesses figured out that the prophecy wasn't exactly the prophecy, Sydney came back to New York to find you. She still had dues to pay though. So, I had to make her pay. Not in the painful way, but still. I had to do this thing which Shadowed her, which she will need to pay, but it also makes her… evil. So, she's gonna get worse and worse, until we can do something to knock her out so I can take her to get unShadowed. It's complicated how to do it, but it has to be done. And the whole payment thing is more complicated than that too, but I don't have much time to explain. And we have to knock her out. Either that, or she'll kill us."

"I have so many questions."

"I know, and I'll tell you later, but right now we need to get out of here."

"Fine. How do we do that exactly?"

I sighed again. Sydney marched back in and walked right up to us. Joe looked at her with sad eyes. I could tell he was upset that his friend was turning evil. He did seem to really care about her.

"Well, well, well, how the tables have turned." She smirked at Joe.

"Syd-"

She glared at him. "Shut up." She slapped him. Then Syd turned around and stalked off.

Joe rubbed his cheek. "I don't like the new Syd."