A/N: Sorry for not uploading for a couple of days! Here's a new chapter!
January 26th, 2005
Phoenix, Arizona
United States
NOB: 82,970
Phoenix was seeing a bright morning today, there were many cars on the street and many people were walking on sidewalks, going to work or home, going to the store, or doing something else.
In a district that was right next to Route 60, Two CIA Agents were walking down the sidewalk, They were towards their car while chatting about the footage.
"Eh Charlie, Do you really think that Sphinx from Missouri is dangerous?"
"I hope not Mark, I heard it kills people who don't answer it's riddled, I can't imagine somebody dying because of that"
Unknown to them they had just attracted the attention of a man, this man was wearing a blue cap with a white Superman logo, a white jacket, black jeans, grey sandals, spec glasses and a worried expression, he had blondish-brown curly hair, white skin, blue-greenish eyes and a round nose. This man wasn't any ordinary man, however.
The Two Men continued to walk down the sidewalk, with the man they had just got the attention of following behind, after 2 minutes of walking down the street, they all then turned and walked into an alleyway, the man then saw the two men enter their car, a W220.
He was shocked when he saw CIA on the rear of the car, this then got him very uneasy, this man knew he had to act quickly, so he rushed over to the car at lightning speed.
That's when he then noticed the front-left window open, so he quickly dashed to that side and pointed inside, before any of the two agents could respond..a green magical flame hit both men, both knocking them unconscious.
The Worried Sorcerer soon rummaged through everything in the car, Getting more terrified by the second, documents, images, video, they were all about one thing; A Sphinx that had been spotted in Missouri.
"Oh My God…" He muttered under his breath.
He quickly took as much stuff as he could, zapped the agents with another blue magical flame, and rushed out of the alleyway as fast as possible, he ran along the pavements and across streets and zebra crossings.
He eventually started to run down a road, this road led out of the Phoenix metropolitan area, and into the small, but expansive forest, after 5 minutes of non-stop jogging he had reached the abandoned mall, that had been there since 1994.
Joseph busted through the front doors, he heard the swinging doors swing behind him as he rushed throughout the mall, trying to find his way as he avoided the debris and the few homeless people and street animals that called the mall home, he then ran across a walkway, where he could see the illumination of street lamps in the darkness, he then entered a town centre with shops, apartments, restaurants, clubs, foliage, and statues. Joseph made sure that he didn't drop anything, a few residents that were walking around noticed and looked at him, with confusion and concern, he didn't have time to talk to them as he ran inside his house.
The sorcerer ran up the brown wooden stairs with the shiny railing, his home was quiet, with the grandfather clock ticking, and dust collecting on the old portraits that hung against the Turtle Green and Buff patterned walls, he then ran across the second floor's hallway, where then burst into his office, he took a minute to catch his breath before he continued on.
His office had oak wood flooring, brown wallpapered walls, two fluorescent lights on the ceiling, there were two windows at the back, a large bookcase to the right, a coffee table and set of chairs to the left, and a brown, wooden desk in the middle, with a Mac Computer and a blue, cotton chair.
He placed everything onto his desk, he ran over to his chair and sat on it, he turned on his computer and looked into the briefcase, he found a CD inside, taking it out, and placed it into the disk tray, playing the video on it, he watched with disbelief as he watched the video.
Not only that there was a Sphinx was in the video, a being thought to be extinct during the Great War, it was also the fact that Humanity was about to discover that Mythical Beasts, beings they had thought as fiction, we're going to be revealed to be real. The Mythical Community thought that Humans were too oblivious to ever find out, But here he was, looking through the begging of something, something huge.
Knock Knock
The human looked up at his door, he replied by saying "Come in?", the man who entered had brown hair, a small beard on his chin, and green goat eyes, with goat legs, he was a satyr, and he was his friend, Tony. The man had had a look of concern on his face as he entered.
"What the heck was it back there with you back there Joseph?" He asked, "You were running down the Avalon like crazy!".
"I'm sorry Tony, But I'm really busy, in fact, I have to make some calls" Joseph answered.
"Why are you busy?" His friend asked, raising an eyebrow "You walked out of the Avalon not an hour ago saying that you were going to go to the local Starbucks".
"Things changed Tony!" Joseph retorted and answered "I'm very busy at the moment.
His friend sighed "Well okay, But try please not to do something like that again" He said, leaving the room.
Joseph sighed, He held his head in his hand, He didn't know what he was going to do, if the Mythicals ever found out that they might be exposed to the Human World, They'd have a panic attack, they might even go crazy or something like that! But, he also felt wrong not to tell them, this was a very big and important situation.
Joseph always had a problem with the notion of "Humans are Oblivious" and "People will just try to forget what they had seen", he didn't care how much he was comforted by confident Mythicals that it wasn't a problem, he had always thought that this was a dangerous way of thinking that would get the Mythical Community into trouble sooner or later, especially in the day and age of the Internet and Television.
"So this is happening…" He thought "It really has happened..".
Joseph sat in his room in dead silence for about a minute before reminding himself that there was now no time to waste, He picked up his phone and started to make some calls, these would be the most important phone calls of his entire life.
A/N: The Phoenix Avalon is based on another Skin Deep Fanfiction, named "The Story of Amy Reeker" by PeniclWolf15, check it out, it is pretty good at story-telling!
Terrywood Household
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
NOB: 82, 990
"Bye Dad!"
"Bye Melissa!"
The 29-year-old father smiled as he waved to his 10-year-old daughter, who was running to the school bus, from his kitchen counter as he drank his coffee.
He then heard his phone ringing from his trouser pocket, he stopped drinking and reached down and grabbed the cellular device out of his pocket, he flipped it open and saw that it was his friend/co-worker in Arizona, Joseph Kondraki, Perry wondered why he was calling him, he pressed accept and placed the phone right next to his ear.
"Hello, This is Perry!"
"Perry, Listen to me," Joseph said on the other end of the line.
"Joseph? What's wrong, You sound scared" Perry asked, concerned about his friend.
Joseph sighed "Terrywood are you sitting down for this? Because I don't know how you are going to take this" he answered.
"I am, Don't worry Kondraki" Perry reassured "What's wrong?".
Joseph paused before continuing "Perry, I don't know how, but the CIA has gotten information about the Mythical Community!"
Perry froze in fear and surprise "What?!"
Joseph began to rant "Somehow they managed to get a video of a mythical in their fullform. I don't know how long they had this video for, I don't know if they are planning on releasing it to the public, I just don't know!".
"..How did you find out? Does Peter know?" Perry asked.
"I was walking down the street to get a coffee when I heard some men talking about a Sphinx, I followed them and realized that they were CIA! I knocked them unconscious and stole as much evidence as I could, I then wiped their memories and ran back to the P.A as fast as I could" Joseph answered.
"...You knocked the CIA agents unconscious!?" His friend exclaimed in shock.
"WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO!?" He retorted.
The two calmed down and continued with Perry stating:
"We need to inform Wonderland!".
Joseph was concerned "They'll have our heads!".
"The CIA will have their heads on operating tables if we don't do something, Joseph!" Perry retaliated.
"...Oh, fuck!"
"What?"
"I'm looking through the documents, They have also informed the fucking FBI!"
Perry panicked with denial "Oh no no no! Please tell me you're telling me a very bad joke!"
"No Perry! No!" Joseph said.
Perry felt like he was going to start to hyperventilate any second now "Now we definitely need to inform the Community! Next, they will inform the president!" He ranted.
"Okay, Okay…" Joseph said, with worry in his voice.
Perry heard his phone disconnect, he sighed deeply and stood up, he grabbed his car keys and his jacket. His morning was ruined within the span of 2 minutes.
"I'm going out Linda! Something has happened at work!" He called out to his wife.
"OK Honey!" Linda answered from upstairs.
Perry rushed out of his house and over to his car, He opened the door and started the ignition, He drove out the driveway and away on the streets.
CIA Headquarters
Fairfax, Virginia
United States
NOB: 82,993
Goss looked out of his window, he had been thinking about the recent developments in the case, the Agency had hired many Mythologists, Anthropologists, and Zoologists to study the footage and to provide any necessary information.
He's looking out of the window was interrupted when his assistant busted through the door "Sir! We have got a problem down at Arizona!".
Goss looked at him "What!? What do you mean Carroll?".
"We received messages from our sector in Phoenix" His assistant described. They claim that two of their agents had no recollection of the Missourian Sphinx and that most of all their papers and other information was stolen!".
Goss got a bad feeling about this, he knew that it could be all coincidence, but ever since he was sent that video, and was shown proof of its authenticity, he believed anything was possible, and he suspected that this could be related to the Sphinx in some way.
Goss turned to look at his assistant Carroll "Carroll, Order the agency to increase security in all of our facilities in the country, also! Inform all other agencies across the world!" he ordered.
His assistant looked at him "Sir?".
"Do it now!" Goss demanded.
"Yes, sir!" Carroll saluted in fear as he ran to tell the orders to the rest of the Agency.
Luxembourg Palace
Paris, France
NOB: 89,999
"What the hell is a Sphinx?"
The man stared at his friend as they walked down the hallway, they had just been informed by the president of his recent trip to the United Nations, where there had apparently been a new species discovered in the southern U.S, more specifically Missouri, However, this species was very unusual, in a very different way.
The President had a hard time telling his Senate that, according to the U.S President, who was holding the meeting, that this animal was what appeared to be a being that had previously been associated with fiction, the Senate was of-coursed stunned by what they heard, What did he mean by this? Was it something like a strange-looking animal that was real but somehow managed to evade human sightings for a long period of time, with people later imagining it as a fictional being?
But the president and some scientists who came in went into detail of the creature's description, Apparently it had what appeared to have a lion's body, large white wings, and a humanoid/human head, according to them, what they appeared to have discovered was a Sphinx, an Egyptian and Greek mythical creature.
The Senate, of course, was sceptical and in denial, but that's when the President told them that several organisations and multiple people who had also denied the existence of Sphinxes, tried to process a piece of footage that was the footage that originally brought the attention of the U.S Government through any and all video processing software and programmes, it didn't matter if it was cheap or expensive and new or old, it all came out the same; No edits detected.
The Senate went silent after that, if the President, World Leaders, and Science itself was convinced, why shouldn't they? The President ordered all state-owned science facilities to be informed about the video, the military was also told to be informed and to start training, with further information to be released in the following days.
The French President decided to own his own to inform his government, he had a deep feeling that something was in France, just as mythical as what his fellow world leaders were calling 'The Sphinx of Missouri', Then the French President and the group of scientists left the room, excusing the Senate.
The man's friend looked at him, with a book on mythological creatures in his hands "Well according to this book, it was a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. In Greek tradition, it had the head of a human, the haunches of a lion, and sometimes the wings of a bird. It was portrayed as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythical stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.".
The First Man cringed "That sounds horrible! I hope that's the part they got wrong!".
The Second Man frowned "I really hope so".
Boston Avalon
Calf Pasture Pumping Station
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
NOB: 90,002
Perry drove fast down the empty road, he soo parked and rushed out of his vehicle, he looked ahead and saw the Calf Pasture Pumping Station, a large run-down sewer station, the front yard filled with rubble, garbage and broken materials like glass, he soon ran straight ahead, with him spotting Ordin sitting in his chair by the entrance.
Ordin was a weird fellow to many of the Boston Avalon, he was a buggane, he wore a brown flat cap, he had messy brown hair, crooked but white teeth, white skin, yellowish brown eyes, and a large set of green clothes.
Ordin read the paper while smoking his pipe, he wore a grin when he saw Perry running up to the Avalon's doors.
"You look like you've seen a ghost, Perry!" Ordin chuckled.
"I have no time for you Ordin!" Perry sputtered out as he ran into the Avalon.
Perry looked around the abandoned area, then he ran to the hallway to the top-left, then he took a right, then another left, and then finally, he opened a closet door, and ran down the staircase that was inside it.
Perry reached the bottom of the staircase, there was about around twenty people in the room, there were five people sitting on couches at the south-left, ten were at the small, four tented market at the south-right, six were at the small cafe at the north-right, and the rest were at home, which was down the hall at the north-left of the room.
Perry turned to the nearest mythical to him "Where Mayor Thames?".
The Mythical looked at him "He's at his home, I wouldn't disturb him.".
Perry didn't care if he was sleeping or cooking or reading an embarrassing novel! This was very VERY important matter, he rushed down the hallway, he looked at the door numbers until he reached "no 15", He knocked like crazy at the door until Mayor Thames opened it.
The Nemean Lion looked at Perry with tired eyes "Perry? What's going on? Why were you knocking on my door so quickly?".
"Sir! You need to listen to me!" Perry started "I just got a call from the sorcerer from the P.A, they claim that the CIA and FBI have got information on a mythical creature, they also claim that-".
Suddenly Thames grabbed Perry by his collar and pulled him up close to his face "What!?".
"M-Mr Thames, The CIA, and FBI have somehow collected information on a mythical creature" Perry mumbled.
The Nemean Lion let him go and wandered into his home, with Perry following behind.
"Bloody Hell!..." He said "How did they find out? Do they know about us!?".
"No sir." The Sorcerer said sitting down in one of the Mayor's chairs "They only know of one species, and from what Kondraki could gather, they have no idea about neither the Avalons or Medallions".
"What species? Was it the Satyrs? Or the Gryphons? It must have been the Gryphons! They are-!" The Mayor rambled before his personal bodyguard interrupted him.
"I don't know sir. Joseph never elaborated on the species sir" Perry informed the Mayor.
Thames looked at his sorcerer with worry, he never believed Humans were ever going to find out, Everybody in the Community never thought they would even notice the littlest of things. "What do you think we should do Terrywood?".
Perry looked up at his boss "We need to inform every the community, I think we should inform all the major ones, Wonderland, the L.A, The Four Towns, Tokyo, Berlin, Rome, New York, everybody!".
"Are you sure we should inform them all?".
"Well, We need all the sorcerers and agents we can! Sir! Joseph is already planning to tell Peter!".
The Mayor looked down at the floor "Give me a minute Terrywood, Go relax at the cafe or something" He mumbled as he thought.
Perry stood up and bowed his head "Yes sir.".
Perry left the room, both men thinking deeply about what they were going to do.
Kelpie's Office
Loch Ness Shore
Scottish Highlands
Great Britain
NOB: 82,996
Rudolf Kelpie sat in his small hut, he could hear the storm outside, while using his magic to stir his tea, while reading his book, his office was mostly dark, with only his desk lamp illuminating the one-room building, his floor was made out of dark oak wood, the walls and ceiling were painted blue, and all of his walls had bookshelves, with his door being light oak wooden.
Rudolf was the leader of a small chapter of an organization, he was well known across the Sorcerers for his master-level sorcerer, with him being generally excellent at everything, Teleportation, Memory Wipes, Levitation, Transformation etc.
Knock Knock
Rudolf looked up at his door "Come in!".
As soon as he said that, two men entered his hut. One was a man of average height, he was Caucasian with brown, combed hair and a grey Corduroy suit and pants. The other was also a Caucasian man, but he was taller by a few inches, had black, curly hair and was wearing a black and white suit.
"Hello Patrick, Greetings Samuel" The man addressed his fellow sorcerers respectfully.
Patrick replied "Greetings Sir"
Samuel replied "Hello Kelpie".
"You gentlemen came here to inform me about something?" Kelpie questioned his fellow gentlemen as they sat down on the two chairs in front of his desk.
"Yes, sir." Samuel confirmed.
"We have got a situation in Merseyside, A girl had recently come into contact with a medallion and turned into a Quetzalcoatl an area not too far away from Liverpo-".
RIIIING! RIIIIING! RIIIING!
Rudolf's black phone went off.
"Ack! Damm Phone! Sorry gentlemen! I'll be just a moment!" Rudolf said in an annoyed tone.
"It's alright sir." Patrick reassured his boss.
Rudolf picked up his phone "Yes?".
"Mr. Rudolf Kelpie?".
"Yes? Who is this? I'm in a very important meeting!".
"I'm sorry to interrupt you, sir, I'm Perry Terrywood, Sorcerer of the Boston Avalon, and we have an urgent situation".
Rudolf raised his eyebrow "What do you mean? What do you mean by 'situation'?" he asked.
"Rudolf, I don't know how, But there has been a squeal".
"A Squeal? You mean someone spotted the Mythicals?".
"Not exactly Kelpie, You see it isn't a single individual, It's an organization".
Rudolf nearly had a heart attack, What!? "What do you mean!?".
Patrick and Samuel got uncomfortable when they heard this, Seeing Rudolf's face go from calm confidence to scared straight.
"Actually, make that two organizations sir." Perry added "The CIA and FBI-".
"How!? How did they find out!?" Rudolf shouted, sitting up and looking out of the window.
Perry paused but continued in greater detail, he had received another call from Joseph earlier, who gave him some more information "They received a piece of footage from a resident of south-west Missouri who was recording a home video for somebody else in the Ozarks. The camera picked up footage of a Mythical Being in their fullform. The Mythical never saw the person in question, so they did nothing, This allowed the Human to leave the area and spread his encounter to other individuals, sir."
Rudolf was dumbfounded "Perry, I want you to immediately inform the M.C.A, they need to know about this!".
Perry replied "Will do sir, You'll need to inform the C.M.B also, by the way, sir!".
Perry then hung up, with Rudolf putting the phone back down onto the receiver, Patrick and Samuel looked at Rudolf with concern.
"...Sir?".
"Boys! There is no time for that girl, There has been a massive breach in America! We must inform the council immediately!".
Patrick and Samuel's mouths gaped "What!?" They both yelled in unison.
"No time to explain!" He sputtered out as he, followed by his two colleagues, ran over to Rudolf's Mirror.
"Sir! What happened!?" Samuel asked his boss.
"Somehow two big intelligence agencies in America found out about Mythicals, it is very big possibility they will soon release this information to the public.".
The two agents looked at their leader, shocked still, how did this happen? This was so sudden and big!
"Well let's go!" Samuel exclaimed.
"Indeed!" Rudolf replied, his hand glowing blue.
He blasted his mirror with his blue magic, activating the portal that was a part of the mirror, they jumped through the mirror soon afterward.
Mythical Congress of America Meeting Room
D.C Avalon
Washington D.C
United States
NOB: 90,207
The Congress had been informed about an incident by both the Phoenix and Boston Avalons, the Mayors, Peter Quinn and Robert Thames, sounded worried about the situation, claiming that the situation was 'critical' and 'dangerous to the whole world' respectively, The Congress was intrigued by this and called a meeting later that day.
The Mythical Congress of America (MCA) was an organization known across America, it was set up due to an increase of magical and supernatural activity across America, it includes 23 members of 23 Avalons that had met two requirements;
A. They have a population of over 25.
B. They are a permanent population Avalon.
The Congress had been started back in the 1950's, with the document that would found the organization being made in 1949, and officially signed in 1952.
The Mayors had all been summoned by the MCA, where they had all since gathered in the meeting room in the middle of the D.C Avalon, where the four towns leaders would sit at the upper part of the room, at desks similar to where the judges sit at courtrooms, while the rest sat in rows of benches like the ones in the House of Representatives Chamber.
The Four Towns are the most populated and influential Avalons, Atlanta, Phoenix, Portland, and Boston.
Peter and Robert looked into the room from the back, frightened to break the news.
"I can't believe we're doing this" Peter muttered under his breath.
His Sorcerer looked at him "We have to do this, sir" Joseph reassured his boss, getting just as anxious as his boss.
"We'll be with you sirs" Terrywood reassured the two, they just both looked down and proceeded to walk up to their podiums, while the Sorcerers walked up to the middle of the room, where there was a podium.
The two other people at the top where as follows, Atlanta was Ted, he was an inverted Gryphon, with brown fur and feathers, his bird legs color were the common yellow, and Portland was Helen, a Simagrl with cream fur, and white wings.
"Mr. Quinn and Mr. Thames, You called an emergency meeting about an incident?" Helen started as she spoke into the microphone.
"Yes." The two awkwardly said in unison.
"Are your sorcerers going to explain it to us?" Ted asked his two colleagues.
"Yes." They repeated.
Ted looked at the two Humans "Well then gentlemen, Please explain the situation".
The Sorcerer on the left, Joseph began "Well, Earlier this day, I was walking down the street when I caught a conversation by two men, They were talking about a mythical creature, I followed them and I found out that they were CIA".
Everybody went silent when they heard this, they had a bad feeling about this.
"I removed their memories and got all the information I could, I then ran back to the P.A and informed Thames sorcerer Perry"
Perry continued his friend's speech "Sir, We have reason to believe that a squeal has occurred without the knowledge of the Mythical World-" He spoke as the room fell into a more fearful atmosphere "-as we also found a piece of video footage containing the sighting of a mythical creature by a human, there was also evidence to suggest that the FBI also knows about this footage ".
Nobody in the entire room spoke, the blank and curious expressions to those of worry and fear.
"And we have also suspected that, even though we wish we could deny it, believe that it is highly possible that...The U.S President himself knows." The Sorcerer said, looking down in embarrassment.
That was the final straw for everybody in the room.
The sounds of Congress's panicked chatter and screams came right after he finished his sentence, the Two Sorcerers looked down in fear and shame. How could this happen? Why? Not now! Please have mercy on us god...
"Oh my god…" Ted whispered under his breath.
Thames then remembered something and quickly turned to Perry "Perry! Did you say anything about calling other sorcerers!?" he asked.
Perry looked up "Yes, Sir." Perry replied.
"Please tell me you told them not to inform the residents!" He begged "PLEASE SAY NO!".
Perry was struck by fear "Oh no…".
The MCA was in chaos, and it didn't look like there wasn't an end in sight.
Council of Mythological Britain Building
Rural North England
NOB: 95,000
James Finn and Dr. Hobbes walked out the mirror portal calmly, this was one of the few times they had to deal with the Council of Mythological Britain.
"What do you think they want from us?" James asked his friend as they faced the two, large wooden doors to the left of them, down the cherry red-carpeted hallway.
"Who knows" His friend answered bluntly "They were very vague about it".
They up to the entrance and calmly opened them, only to be met with the highest voices imaginable.
"Jesus!" Finn shouted in surprise.
They looked inside to see various other representatives of Avalons and members of important families from across Great Britain arguing at a long wooden table. Cardiff, Bristol, London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Douglass, etc. etc.
James and Hobbles were, to say the least, were scarred, What happened?
"Umm...Excuse me?" Hobbles sputtered out, everybody in the room turning to his and James's direction.
"Ah! James Finn and Dr. Hobbles I presume?" Rudolf greeted the two standing from his seat.
Finn and Hobbles nodded their heads.
"Please come join us gentlemen. We have alot to explain…".