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She sat at the end of the polished mahogany table. Her pale fingers rapping on the table. She played with a strand of her dark green hair with the other hand. She regarded the league with her purple eyes, waiting for their questions.
'Who are you?' asked Nemo.
'Adonia, Daughter of Pluto and Erato.'
'Your father is king of the underworld?' asked Jekyll
'Yes.' Her voice was tinged with a Greek accent and held no emotion.
'How did you get on my ship?' asked a rather confused Nemo.
'I was sent by the gods.'
'Sorry to break it to you princess but they don't exist.' Laughed Skinner.
Sawyer laughed along with him. Mina flashed them an exhausted look. Adonia stopped tapping her fingers and instead worked a thick gold bangle off from round her wrist. She placed it on the table. They all stopped bickering and looked at the strange girl and what she was doing.
'Ask the gods to turn this into anything you want.' She directed this at Skinner.
'I want a bottle of scotch.'
'You always want scotch.' Laughed Sawyer and Skinner nodded in agreement.
The bangle glowed and a bright light filled their vision. The girl backed away from the table. Suddenly the light dispersed and left a bottle of fine Scottish scotch.
'Do that again.' Said a shocked Skinner.
'So you really are from the gods,' concluded Mina, 'Why are you here?'
Adonia stood just in front of the door. In a long white dress that was held together at the shoulders by silver clasps. She looked at Mina.
'Well…….'
FLASHBACK
Adonia walked into the dark hall with the blazing fires of blue of each side casting everything into an other worldly light. She reached the end of the hall where there were two thrones both carved of onyx. Upon one throne there was a tall man with dark green hair that curled around his ears. He had very pale blue, almost white, eyes. He had a very bony face that was pale from years of no contact with sunlight. He wore a long black rode fastened with silver jewellery. On the other throne was a beautiful woman. She had flowing blonde hair that cascaded down her body. Her almond eyes were purple and glistened. She had a lightly tanned skin and wore a long pale purple robe. Adonia reached the foot of the thrones and the two stopped talking. She knelt down on the hard floor.
'Ah, Adonia, child, how are you?' said the man.
'I am fine thank you father.' She kept her eyes on the floor.
Pluto looked to his wife who nodded and said, 'Adonia there is something you must do for the gods. There are a unique group of people in England who need your assistance. Many of their hearts have been broken. They believe them never to heal. You must go and save them. Make them love again. They have earnt this. Go now and save them.'
Adonia stood and leapt forward into her mother's arms. She took in the smell of flowers, something very rare in the underworld. She then hugged her father. Adonia then retreated to the centre of the hall where a white light bathed the room and she could see no more.
END FLASHBACK
'…..I am here to save your hearts and to make you love again. I can bring back one who is dead if your love is strong.'
The League's minds were then solely on their past loved ones. Mina thought of her late husband and the man who had made her love again, Dorian. Tom thought of his best friend Huck and his mentor Allan. Nemo was reminded of his wife, Ramya and his two children, Kanya and Kedar. Jekyll thought of his young wife, Genevieve who Hyde had murdered out of jealous, this act plagued his nightmares. Skinner remembered his sister Lizzie who had died three years past of Cholera.
They would give anything for Adonia to give them back their loved ones. But would she?
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