Descendants of Magic

CHAPTER XIII. - THE HUNT: FIGHT OF CRIMSON AND SAPPHIRE

Even though I tried to not alarm the person inside my new dorm room, somehow they noticed me as I was hiding behind the corner, trying to peek and see who it is. I could only see the fire colored hair lifted in a ponytail swaying in the air as the person is running around the room and unpacking their things. Then the person stopped and turned around, their mouth shaped in the biggest grin, radiating happiness from their face.

Me: REILLY?!

Reilly: Hello, roommie. You happy to see me?

Me: Of course I am but what are you even doing here?

Reilly: Oh you know, the usual. Used my charm on the Principal to allow me to move in with you.

Me: Uhuh.

Reilly: No but for real. After I heard you are moving to Umbras, I had to ask them to let me stay in with you. I was ready to fight for it even but then this hot dude said it's a good idea and then grumper Haydos allowed it. But girl, a Zeus descendant? They are rare. I knew I picked a good friend.

Me: Oh now, so you picked me just because of my power huh?!

I cross my arms in front of my chest and raise my left eyebrow looking at Reilly with a stern expression, but then we both burst out laughing and she walkes up to me, then punches my shoulder slightly. I gave her a soft punch back which she took as a challenge and she squared up. She started to pretend-box fight me in which I joined her. After we have a small playfull fight, Reilly walks away and she goes back to decorating the room. In which her case decorating meant placing dumbbells and stuff for working out all around the room's floor. I stand still on the same spot as the smile leaves from my face and it turns into a serious expression. My brain is still a mess from trying to comprehend all the stuff that has been revealed in these past months of my life. From being an unknown orphan, I suddenly found who my father is. As crazy as it might seem, it filled the hole in my heart a little bit. Even if all of this was just a dream and I would wake up in my orphanage room right now, somehow I felt that I have found a piece of myself. I am pulled back out of my head into the room by Reilly's voice humming a song while she changed her attention to putting on fairy lights around the windows. For a gym rat and a work out junkie she sure has a cute side to her. I chuckle and then finally move from the spot and go help her.

Me: It is weird, isn't it?

Reilly: What do you mean?

Me: That Zeus is my father. Like how would that even happen? How could no one notice a damn ass god coming down to Earth? Down? Or up? Do gods live in heaven or how does it even work?

Reilly: Oh, wait. Not actually. He is not...I mean, yes, they've noticed. That's why humans have all the mythology books and movies and stuff. But what I wanted to say is that doesn't mean he is your father. I mean he could be, based on how powerful you are, but doesn't have to be.

Me: I thought...they said-

Reilly: Honey. They said descendant. A Zeus descendant.

Me: Yes. That sounds about right.

Reilly: It means the bloodline.

I look at Reilly all bamboozled not knowing what is she talking about but then she sighs and lets he arms down, making the lights fall down and hold only on the few nails she already finished up hammering into the wall. Jumping down from the chair she used to get higher, Reilly walks up to me, grabs my hand and then pulls me to sit on her bed. She takes a deep breath and then starts explaining.

Reilly: They can't really pinpoint who your father is. If the case is like yours that you don't know your parents. The only thing they can track is the power you have and assign it to a god it comes from. It doesn't mean necessarily you are a direct descendant.