~~~~ Another super short chapter~~~~

~~~~There will be action soon...I promise~

Chapter Fifty Five

Mia closed the book with a groan, her eyes hurt from her translations. None of them made any sense to her. It talked about a war over Fate. That the Elders and want to control humanity but the Old Ones wanted to use humans in a much more selfish way. It talked about Athena setting free Fenrir, and fighting against the Old Ones. It kept mentioning the war was over Fate. Whose Fate? She didn't know because it never said what Fate was. One image kept popping up of the wolf and the tiger fighting. She didn't know what it meant.

Lynn sat down in front of her, "any luck..."

"No," she said slamming her head against the table. "Is Kento okay?"

"He's fine," the girl said reluctantly. "He took Raleigh to Cye's since his home was close enough."

"Kento will take care of it, he's a good man and knows how to deal with emergencies as much as the others want to make him out to be a dummy..."

"...He does have a great heart."

Mia looked up and laid her head on her arms, "where's Stell?"

"Dealing with the administration at this school, they're evacuating the campus..."

Mia sighed, "what were you upset about earlier?"

Lynn paused, "Mia... I think somehow Ruby summoned Talpa..."

She almost choked at her words and slammed the manuscript shut, "WHAT?! Why didn't you tell me this sooner?"

"I wasn't sure," Lynn said as her eyes briefly glowed, "but I keep hearing his terrible laugh..."

Mia fumbled for her cell phone, "the boys have to know..."

"Wait," Lynn said grabbing her phone, and the woman gave her a dirty look. "I understand you want to warn them, but what if this is the reason they can't use their armors!"

"Wait...what?"

"I don't know what exactly, but I feel like they could be in trouble if they go to the nether realm now!"

"I'm not going to stop them..."

"But they have no way of fighting!"

Mia groaned and slammed her head on the table again, "I can't help that part, Rowen has his armor, and I guess Baroness, Raleigh, and Cerule do...but I can't help that they might need to go. I can only hope their virtues protect them, Lynn."

Lynn nodded, "my visions are so fuzzy... I can't tell you..."

"I worry about them, Lynn. I always feel like I'm sending them off for the last time... I mean I've gone with them before...but I don't think I can this time."

"Mia, you can be their help here! This book has to have some sort of help for them!"

She looked up at Lynn wearily and rubbed her eyes, "yeah..."

The young woman came over and hugged the professor, "do you want some coffee?"

"No, I think I'm going to head home," she said as she rubbed her face with hands. "I'm sure the guys are figuring this out better than I am."

She stood up and Lynn sighed her eyes were glowing, "I wish I could be more help, Mia, but my visions aren't clear one hundred percent of the time. I see too much...I don't want to lead you down the wrong path."

Mia looked at the young girl, "what do you see for us?"

"I don't know," Lynn said as she leaned over on her hand. She touched the book, "it changes...but I always see some blood."

"Whose?"

"I don't know," she said sadly. "Sometimes it's worse than others but I always see it."

Mia sighed, "what does Stell see?"

"She never tells me," Lynn answered. "My sister can only see her own near future. It really only came in handy when she worked for Scotland Yard. She could tell who was lying, or if they were guilty."

"Sounds like an abuse of power to me."

"That's what I thought," Lynn agreed with a chuckle. "But that's how we found or way into the Apostles of Nike."

"Who are they exactly," she asked of the young woman.

She paused to look at Mia, "we're just people who were never normal. Me and my sister are Seer's but there are kinetics, psychics, mancers... you name it, but we're only about fifty people."

"And none of them wanted to help you?"

"Well, when the first rift opened there was a coup," she paused as she thumbed the book. "We had to take off with the book before someone destroyed it."

"Why would they?"

"There was a smaller group of people who believed the book is evil," she said as she thumbed the stitching of the book. "We barely escaped with it..."

"Wait, I thought you were here to catch Cerule?"

She grinned back at the older woman, "we sort of let her go...on purpose..."

Mia laughed, "to cause a distraction?"

"Yup."

The woman smiled and grabbed her coat and purse, "they aren't going to try to get the book back?"

Silence was the only reply from Lynn as she walked off. She felt uneasy as she left. The night sky hung with a deep crimson moon, and she felt a shiver go through her.