LIAM'S POV
My world crumbles before my eyes.
Everything around me feels like it's being torn apart.
Here is Eddie, twitching and contorting in the grass, Cassidy screaming and crying, many of my friends - Fabian, Alfie, Patricia - lying lifeless on the ground, bleeding through their clothes. Everyone at the school is lifeless, stuck in an eternal limbo as Set tries to take over them.
And that surge of anger I felt at my last three schools takes over me again. But this time, I know it's there. And I''m going to control it. I'm going to kill Set.
"Hey!" I shout to the other descendants. Nina, Esmay, and Cassidy wipe their eyes and turn to face me.
"Crying won't solve anything. Cassidy taught me that." She looks at me and wipes her tears again, realizing that she's the one who made me strong. "What we need to do is muster our strength and take down Set! If we sit here and mourn, they're never going to heal. They won't live. The only way to stop this is to kill Set."
"Liam's right," Cassidy says. "If we don't stop Set, everyone will die, and the world will be overrun by Chaos. We need to stop him from regaining his physical form and return all the mortal souls back to their bodies. We are the only people in the world who can stop this. And who knows; everyone in the world might be asleep, dying even, right now."
I squeeze Cassidy's hand. The four of us look at each other, take a deep breath.
It's time to kill Set.
Esmay opens her mouth to speak when a whirlwind of green and orange smoke billows around us. It swirls and thrashes, enclosing us in a tight circle. My eyes begin to burn as the wind whips around me, and I can barely breathe.
"Cass…" I mumble, but the words escape raspy, faintly. I can barely hear them myself. I latch my hands onto my throat, gasping for air. I'm choking. My breath comes in short pulses, lessening in quantity by the second.
A disembodied voice bellows through the smoky twister.
"You will never defeat me, you poor, hopeless children! You have the powers of gods, yet not even a god could ever vanquish me. I killed Osiris, and now I have just maimed his descendant! What will a poor son of Isis do? Or a daughter of Horus, Osiris? There is nothing you can do to defeat me. Just minutes longer, just a few more moments, and Ra will be at his peak. All the mortal souls I have collected will create a physical form more powerful than anything in history!"
Set laughs, his voice booming chaotically. As he laughs, the sky turns darker, darker, into a deep red. The color of Chaos.
"Son of Isis, daughter of Osiris, you see, I have not much use for you. Isis was always succumbing to my power, and I've already killed Osiris. He - and his descendants - should know to never toy with the power of Set. It is Horus who has humiliated me for eons. Horus had me resign, becoming god of storms, no longer the spirit of Chaos. It is the daughters of Horus who will pay for their ancestor's wrongdoings."
I panicked. I must be the son of Isis, since I am the only person able to be considered "son," and Cassidy, being and Osirian, must be descended from Osiris. That means… that Set wanted to kill Nina and Esmay.
The swirling winds stopped. Cassidy, Esmay, Nina and I fell onto the ground, heaving, panting heavily. I crawled to Cassidy, unable to summon the strength to stand, and wrapped my arms weakly around her.
"What do we do?" She spoke lightly, for she lacked the ability to speak any louder.
"Look, I think Set has it out for Esmay and Nina since they're descendants of Horus. Together the two of them probably would be defeated by us. But the you and I are here because, like you've said, the descendants needed extra help to take down Set."
"No no no no…" Cassidy kept repeating, her head melting down into her knees.
"Cassy, what is it?"
"There have only always been four descendants on earth at a time, remember? Two of Horus, one of Isis, one of Osiris. I was born because it was foretold that at this time on earth, there would need to be extra power to take down a great evil. But with Eddie like that…"
I followed her gaze to Eddie, still lying on the ground, his eyes open, rolling back into his head. We needed Eddie to defeat Set.
I guess one of us would have to summon enough power for two descendants.
I jumped up, waving my arms.
"Hey, Set! Come and get me! It's time you learned a lesson."