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"When'd Quetzal say she'd be here?" Izan hissed, head whipping to Yunen.

"She's due here in five minutes-" Yunen's eyes widened when he heard footsteps move toward the main room "Eli- what do we do?!"

Eligo tapped the pad of his fingers together like the first time Marino and Dezi had seen him, light starting to come from his palms.

"We hide, of course." Waving his hands in the air, Dezi found himself unable to see anyone in the room. It startled him, causing his hands to latch onto the closest person "Shit- what do we say to the deaf person?!"

"You forgot about Dezi?" Yunen's exasperated voice came from Eligo's left "Just keep touching him??? Marino what do we do?!"

"Dezi's okay as long as you have him!" Marino was somewhere near the wall of the room, which was a good idea when the group thought about it.

Latching onto Dezi as the male did to the other, Eligo carefully led the younger to the wall where he'd heard Marino come from. He guessed the others shuffled to where the arching windows were, at least he had to hope for it when the door was flung open.

"I thought you said you saw sun from here!" Obsidian voices never got easier to listen too in Eligo's opinion "Do you think the Totem Holder would really be here?"

"It's what Suerte said." Replied the second "A shame he didn't kill the boy right then and there, we would have taken all hope from them."

"Especially since he's stolen the skull from that wretched child." Chimed in the third, disgust curling from their tone. "Just when I thought he couldn't get anymore useless." A sigh. "No matter, once we have the Totem Holder we'll be able to bend the Dioses to our will just as we should have been able to long ago."

Dezi's fingers dug into the same arm his mother's totem sat at, almost as if he understood what the Obsidians were saying. Eligo could only offer the younger a reassuring squeeze, but he wasn't sure that the message got across when the Obsidians left the room.

Once the door closed, Eligo dropped control on his power. Marino appeared from his right, with Izan and the Twins having taken their places exactly where Eligo thought they would.

"Eli." Yunen rushed over, voice hushed as Dezi stilled kept a vicelike grip on the Totem Holder "A skull?"

"Sol stone- probably the one from Sol's temple." the news came as a sure surprise to his friends, but to Marino?

"You had it the whole time?!" Marino's whisper-shout echoed for a moment, the group of teens cringing as the noise faded. "And you didn't tell us?"

"It wasn't necessary." Eligo replied "The less amount of people who knew the better, and I gave it to someone before Quetzal left. It's back in Dios hands now."

"What if it broke?" Omar hissed, the most serious Dezi and Marino had ever seen. "What if someone ran into you and broke it?"

"Elixir can fix anything." Marino noticed how Eligo's gaze jumped to him for a moment "Besides, we can't focus on what could have happened if we're dead. So let's just shut it until Quetzal is here, okay?"

Omar opened his mouth to argue, but he was interrupted when a whoosh signaled Quetzal's arrival into the room. The winged Diosa raised an eyebrow at the teens huddled together, but motioned them to her nonetheless.

"We don't have much time." Quetzal spoke in normal tone "The Obsidian will know I'm near so-"

"About that." The Diosa went rigid, watching as Eligo's head snapped to the entrance of her room "We'll be taking one of them off of your hands."

Dezi expected Eligo to be ripped from his grasp, but instead he watched as Izan was yanked into the grasp of the Obsidian. His mouth opened in a presumed cry of pain, but Dezi didn't see any wounds appear just yet. He did however watched as Eligo yanked himself from his grasp and lung forward.

"Eli- you dumb fuck- !" Yunen shouted, lurching forward as Eligo swung his arm up and created jade spikes from the floor to catch the Obsidians in a trap.

The only thing that succeeded in doing was distressing the Dioses enough for them to drop Izan, but that was all Eligo needed. Grabbing the other, Eligo put himself in front of Izan as a dark vortex opened up. It sucked the Obsidian Dioses in, and they clearly expected it to do the same for Eligo and Izan.

"NO!" But they didn't account for the fact that Yunen and Omar had Primavera's power. "QUETZAL, A PORTAL WOULD BE NICE ABOUT NOW!"

"On it!" The winged Diosa turned, waving her hands in the air as she felt only a slight pull toward the Obsidian vortex. Within moments a portal was open, and she was grabbing the nearest teen and thrusting them through.

"WoAh- !" Unfortunately, It was Omar.

With one half of the harness that kept Izan and Eligo from slipping into the Obsidian said, the duo were quickly pulled closer to the dark side. Though they both caught onto the vine Yunen was still holding, one was sure to slip at the slightest shift of the other.

Marino and Dezi could only watch in horror as Eligo said something to Izan, fingers slipping. Though when Izan turned to reply they all had to watch as the Totem Holder lost hold of the vine and fell back, tumbling into the vortex that closed only moments later.

Izan stumbled away from where Eligo had disappeared at, eyes wide. They didn't have time to talk about it yet, and they were reminded when Quetzal grabbed them and shoved them through her portal as she had with Omar.

Ale was waiting for them on the other side, their foot tapping on golden tile impatiently. The group was surprised to see eleven different totems dangling from their clenched first, all clearly Eligo's.

"Where is he?" Ale demanded, knuckles whitening "He's behind you, right?"

The teens looked over to a still pale Izan, who's eyes were watching the stone figures in Ale's grasp with a surprising hardness.

"Follow the totems' glow." Izan's murmur was only picked up by Marino, who was right beside the male. "That's what he said..."

"What?" Marino frowned "Eligo left totems behind?"

"Behind?" Ale growled "What do you mean behind-"

"Obsidians got him." Yunen snapped "Izan, did he say anything else?"

"Los Restos."