Chapter Eight

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The others run in after me, slowing down and stopping, exactly as I just did. Athena stares at us.

'GUARDS!!' She suddenly yells. I quickly remember that we aren't supposed to be here, and block the doorway with another wall. Instead of panicking, Athena reaches behind her and taps something on the wall. A secret door opens right behind her and she quickly backs up into her secret tunnel. I create a wall in the tunnel and block off her escape. Roshni and Cole run over and pull her out, while Lila and I sit down on some large, flat rocks.

I look around Athena's office. It has bare, rocky walls and floor, with a roughly carved chair and table opposite the wall that used to be a door. I am sitting on one of the two rocks that are obviously visitors chairs. Athena takes a seat in her carved chair while Cole and Roshni sit down on the floor.

'So what do you want?' Athena asks impatiently, which I think is a bit insulting, really, seeing as we have her trapped and outnumbered.

'What makes you think we want something? We could just be here to kill you.' Cole points out.

'You could, but I imagine that if you were going to kill me, then I would already be dead. Now what do you want?' Athena asks with a touch more impatience.

'What we want,' I interrupt, 'is to join your army.' Athena laughs.

'Girl, if you wanted to join my army, you haven't exactly gone about it the correct way. now what makes you think that I'll let you join?'

'This' I focus and make the cave larger, then smaller, and then just to top it off, I recreate the room entirely. The floor and walls now have carved murals on them, the ceiling is domed, there is a bench for visitors instead of a couple of rocks, and Athena is now sitting in a carved throne behind an exquisite table. All made out of stone of course, but lovely none the less. Athena looks amazed and shocked, like she thinks that this is some weird and crazy hallucination. she snaps out of it and faces us.

'Which one of you did this?' she demands.

'Umm, I did.' i say nervously, not sure what she'll do.

'Congradulations, you're in  my army.'

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