Previously:
"Well," Raul coughs from inside the crater. "That should make it harder for them to get in."
The dust cloud that wafts out suddenly takes them all by surprise. The air clears instantly in a highly unnatural way. In the doorway, The South and the East float forwards.
Raul swallows. "Or I could be mistaken."
Jilan and Ashlee move between the Ancient Ones and the ones they seek. "Stay down," Jilan says. "We'll take care of this."
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Josh sighs in defeat and prepares to get in the back seat next to Amanda when something inside him tells him that he shouldn't. Not yet.
Instead he backs away from the car, his sister's confused expression looking back at him. He can feel it. Something dark. Something very wrong and very close and also very far and he really doesn't like it. He looks up at the morning sky above them. What was once blue is becoming dark and foreboding and the feeling shivering up his spine becomes too much for him.
Marissa watches in utter confusion as her brother turns and runs. She hardly even notices that Amanda screams when the lightning strikes.
Episode Ninety-Nine
"Accidents Will Happen"
The dust wafts and evaporates into the air around it as if it never existed in the first place. The unnatural way that it clears is easily and instantly explained to the six inhabitants of the crumbling room in the ruins of Heliopolis.
Two figures glow from the widened entry way. The female figure of the Representative of the South and the male figure of the Representative of the East. "Hallowed is the Great One."
"Sorry," Jilan says and holds her staff at the ready between herself and the Ancient Ones. "We aren't really interested in converting."
"Do you have a pamphlet though?" Ashlee asks sounding intrigued. "Cuz that would be kinda neat." Pizoku tries not to feel nervous in regards to their attitude towards the glowing beings, but he shuffles his mother as quietly as possible closer to the crater.
The South seems shocked. "Who are you to speak in such a manner about those whose power is greater than your own?"
"Oh just little ol' subversive me," Ashlee replies with a wave of her hand. "Damn the Man and all that."
Jilan turns and looks down at the red haired girl beside her. "Does "Man" really apply in this situation?"
Ashlee nods. "Yeah, no kidding." She puts her hands on her hips and looks at the glowing beings. "What are you?"
"I am the Representative of the South." The female form on the right wafts inwards a bit more.
Her male glowing counterpart does the same. "I am the Representative of the East."
"Or maybe," Jilan says, "Just possibly, you're alien entities from the future who somehow got sent back in time and once there, took on the identities of the local deities to gain a foothold of power here on Earth." She smiles as she finishes her theory. She ignores the sound of Raul's nervous laugh.
The South looks disturbed. "Why would you say this?"
"Well it's not completely out of the realm of possibility," Jilan replies with a shrug. "I did it, why not you?"
Ashlee scoffs. "You were an accident."
"Funny, my mother said the same thing once." Jilan smirks at Ashlee who shares her smile.
"Enough of this!" The booming anger of the East shakes the room. Izanami clings onto Pizoku's arm. "We come for that which is rightfully ours." Pizoku hears Ma'at and Raul make noises when the East seems to indicate towards the Takenouchis.
"Nothing here is yours." Jilan steps forward and seems to press a button on her staff. Suddenly, a large silver axe flares outward from the top end. "Go back to the shadows and tell your Great One, no deal!"
The swirling bolt of green crackling energy shoots out from the East's non-corporeal hand towards the cowering Izanami. A flash of metal glints in the green light. Pizoku jumps in front of his mother.
Meanwhile, in Duluth
Nothing like that could be defined as natural. Sudden occurrences of storm clouds with lightning did not just form and dissipate from nowhere. Nor did lightning usually strike with such targeted malice.
But as Josh looks up at the fastly building fire that quickly engulfs the birch tree in front of him, he knows that their presence in Duluth has been noticed.
Then he hears it. The sound of running. Or to be more precise, the sound of running Away. He whirls around to find the source and catches the figure of some one or thing escaping up the hill away from the school.
He doesn't stop to think. He barely registers the sound of tires squealing from the parking lot behind him. He just runs. Joshua Addams takes off in pursuit. Because he has to. He can feel it. He knows who the Runner is and they really need to be caught.
Lucky for Josh he's one of the Football and Track stars at school, otherwise he might never have caught the Other.
To Be Continued...
