I dedicate this chapter to ViolinRocker12 because it's her birthday and I'm awesome to my reviewers like that. Enjoy :)

Chapter 19

House of Hell

"Where's Colton?"

The ferocity in my voice shocked even me, probably because I don't even remember speaking. Anubis took a step back, but kept his voice level as he replied, "Eve, just listen to me."

But I wasn't ready to 'just listen'. I'd been sure Colton was safe because Anubis said they'd grabbed the Osirian, but Colton's not the Osirian. I am and now Colton's probably with Raet because she thinks he is me. "I don't care if you're god I will find a way to make you regret you were ever born if you don't tell me where Colton is this very instant."

I'll admit that Anubis seemed very worried at this point, possibly because I'd pinned him in a corner with my body despite him almost being a foot taller than me. If I was just Colton's Osirian I'd be going mad right now, but I was so much more. I was his girlfriend, and I loved him. I loved him enough to do anything to save him, even if it meant fighting a god and dying in the process. (Not that I could really save him if I was dead, but you catch my drift.)

Unfortunately, Anubis was still a god, so I couldn't keep him pinned for long because he just teleported behind me. Strong muscles pinned my arms to my sides, so I just did the first thing every girl learns. (Even when their mom is an evil goddess who's kidnapped their boyfriend). I kicked my knee right up and hit Anubis where it hurts.

He might be a god, but he's still a man.

Free, I took my moment of leave and dashed towards the door despite having no idea where I was going. Correction. I knew where I was going. I knew where Colton was. I just didn't know how to get there. A hundred winding corridors ended in locks, leaving me to just dash down the next while Anubis cried my name. Finally, I found myself in an open hall ordained only by three throne-like seats and a scale.

That, and a god.

"Oh not you too!" I cried plopping down on the floor in helplessness. What was the point in dashing around this mad mansion? Everywhere I went there was just another locked door and I had no way out. No way to get to Colton before it was too late.

"Did you two honestly think Raet would just let Colton live once she realized he held no power over you?"

Though not a hair had been moved, Anubis didn't look like a man anymore when he slouched to the floor beside me. If anything, he looked younger than I did with my white hair, stress wrinkles, and ancient eyes.

Wait. I don't have any of those features. I'm 16 not 87 so why could I picture myself with them so vividly?

"It's the hall, Osiris, who probably actually was reading my mind, answered smoothly. "The Hall of Judgment. These are the pearly gates, so when you're here you see yourself as you will be when you die."

Maybe I'd die a passive, feeble, better-off-dead woman, but I wasn't one now as I sprung to my feet. "And what would Colton see if he stood here? An old man or the teenage boy you sent off to be slaughtered?"

To be honest, I don't think Osiris liked me very much, "You're being ridiculous Eve. Raet raised Colton just as she did you; why would she kill him now after all this time?"

My hands were so intertwined with my hair that I almost pulled the locks out when I screamed in frustration, "BECAUSE IT WASN'T PART OF THE PLAN! BUT NOW YOU'VE GONE AND CHANGED HER PLAN AND COLTON WILL PAY THE PRICE."

"I will not be spoken to like that in my own palace, not even by you!" Osiris' grown would have been enough to make a brave man cower, but I'm not a brave man. I'm an Osirian and my Chosen One needed me.

"You forget Osiris," I told the god with a grin as my second spirit took over and I knew exactly what I had to do. "You forget that when you made the Osirian at Asim's request he wasn't only making a deal with you. He vowed that we'd all find love in some shape or form for our Chosen One, but you vowed to give a protector. A protector so powerful he, or now she, could protect the Chosen One even. From. You." A sly grin crept up my face as the flabbergasted gods realized just what stood before them-a girl with a golden spirit and matching eyes. "So this is me, saving my Chosen One from you."