Chapter Twenty-Three
Four
"I am just dying to know about one thing," Four stated. They had been talking for a few hours now. ETKOL had provided them with a magical mini fridge that restocked itself. It currently had a multitude of sandwiches. "Who here has seen the coolest thing?"
"This is not a question that was proposed at my sleepover," Lix remarked.
"I know," Four admitted, "but we can't make everything normal here. Anyways the coolest thing I ever saw was the flaming arrow that Mila shot. How did you do it?"
"My bow," Mila stated flatly. "I don't know anything about it except that it is not a normal bow." This caused everyone to turn and look at Newt and Heb.
"Just because we are the paranormal investigators doesn't mean we know everything," Newt protested.
"Hmph," Heb agreed, her mouth full of food.
"Based on the craftsmanship, I would say that the bow used to belong to Apollo," Megan stated. Everyone turned and looked at her in surprise. "You spend a few hundred years looking for a way to stop your own death you pick up a few bits of mythical information."
"How about your wands?" Four asked Coral and Rose.
"Elm, dragon heartstring, 11 inches," Coral stated.
"Ash, unicorn hair, 12 and a half inches," Rose remarked.
"Favorite spells?" Lix asked.
"Petrificus Totalus," Rose stated.
"Aguamenti," Coral admitted. "And what about you Lix, with your all-powerful red and green aura?"
"Well I have managed to make myself an armor made out of electricity," Lix responded.
"This is a question for everyone but you three," Newt stated, pointing at Megan, Rose, and Coral. "How were you stopped from becoming apart of the Sixteen."
"Well I was one of the members of the sixteen that was clouded," Tac stated. "No one knew that Net and I were going to join you guys."
"I mean a murderer was in my house at one point in time," Two stated.
"I think I heard about that on the news once," Four admitted.
"Yeah, it was the story of the century because he got tripped up by a vine," Two muttered.
"That was probably your powers kicking in," Lix stated. "Anyways I think that the only attempt on my life was when the xenos attacked my parents."
"That was a sad moment," Four agreed. "Anyways I am pretty sure that I was face to face with Bonnie and Clyde."
"Anything is a possibility," Newt agreed.
"At one point in time, I lived in Maine," Mila started. "This group of tormentors were chasing me through the woods. My geokinetic powers kicked in, and I dropped into the sewers. Onto a clown. It started to chase me, yelling things like, 'You'll float too.'"
"Pennywise the Dancing Clown," Heb stated. "Newt once this is over we should continue our paranormal investigations there."
"As long as Eight and Five are there with us," Newt agreed.
They all rattled on, telling stories about each other, until one by one they all fell asleep.
Later
Four woke up with a bag over her head, and she was gagged. She could hear voices nearby.
"I wish that we could have gotten the boysssss," one voice was hissing.
"I was pressed for time," another voice responded.
Coral, Four thought, that lying, conniving bitch.
"I did what you asked, where is my mother?" Coral asked.
"Oh, Cho is right over there," a third voice responded. In response to hearing this voice, a body next to Four started to thrash.
"Be quiet fool," a fourth voice barked. Four heard a loud smack, and the thrashing stopped. "Let's ectually see who we have here." Four's bag was the first removed. She looked around and saw three others with bags over their heads.
"Father will be disappointed that we only got five of them," the third person said. It was Hel. Fenris and Jörmungandr were next to her.
"But we got some of the most powerful," Fenris boomed. "Four, Two, Lix, Newt, and Megan. Congratulations Chang. You may have won both your's and your mother's freedom."
Newt's gag fell away from her mouth. "Where are the Horsemen?" she asked.
"We left them behind," Jörmungandr hissed.
"Where is Loki himself?" Four asked, having managed to remove her gag.
"He is on his way here," Hel stated.
"Way here," a voice spoke.
"Echo?" Newt asked.
"We intercepted Davante's transportation of her," Fenris explained. "We found her useful."
"Useful," Echo echoed sadly.
"Now enough chat," Hel interrupted.
