Continuation of COG (aru shah)

The Truth

(A.N this chapter is really..um...eventful? So brace yourself)

Aru

The large entrance rumbled loudly, thundering the ground with noise. It flashed white, the combination of colors pure in nature then stopped to reveal an entry to the Amrita.

Hopefully, at least.

"So much for being quiet," Nikita murmured, smoothing out her dress.

Aru winced. She was right. There was no way the Sleeper didn't hear all that commotion.

"We have to go in quickly, they must have heard that," Urvashi's words mirrored Aru's thoughts, and the devas ran inside as quickly as they could.

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The room looked as if it was made thousands of years ago (which it probably did). Rocks were slowly peeling off the walls, eaten off in time.

In the front, a large pot was glowing brightly. It looked as if it had life.

It was life.

As they walked closer, cautious for any traps, it blazed brighter and brighter until it looked like the sun itself.

Her heart burned looking at it. It was so beautiful, but without it, greed for cutting off the end of life wouldn't be a possibility.

Still staring in awe, a dark shadow abruptly was cast over the room, and the Potatoes all gasped, pushing each other back.

They couldn't get caught in a trap now.

But it wasn't a trap. It was the Sleeper.

His shadow form wrapped around it, laughing evilly. "Being too cautious never gets you anything," he snarled gleefully, smirking at the nectar of immortality.

"DAD NO!," Kara's familiar voice echoed through the room. "You- you promised to give it to everyone, not keep it for yourself," she gasped out.

Aru had a strong urge to slap her sister across the face. She believed in him? To do the right thing? But that wasn't where her focus was. It was on her traitorous dad, and the glowing aura next to him.

She walked forward, carefully, and tried grabbing it from him. But when she whirled around, she saw something.

In his eyes.

Something so lost that she could fall in. A dark hole of hurt, worry, and feelings that had been imprisoned inside. With a pang in her heart, she realized something. And she knew she was right.

When her dad got trapped in the lamp, it trapped him. Everything about him. His personality, who he was, what he was fighting for. It buried that version of him deep down, almost forever gone.

What he did wasn't him.

She fell down in shock. "SHAH!" she heard her friends scream. Aru shook herself, and looked up at her dad. He was pointing his finger to her, and a green streak of light erupted out of it and to her.

This was how she was going to die.

"ARU NO!," Kara, Mini, Brynne,Nikita, and Sheela screamed in unison, trying to get in front of their sister.

But someone got there first:

Aiden.