War for the Skies (completed) (Book 1 of the Heroes of the Realms series)

Chapter 24

The Hall of Pandora wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It looked like a giant mansion/hotel, with cream colored walls and red carpets everywhere, decorated with windows the size of two humans.

A woman walked toward us, with dark brown hair in a bun, black glasses, pale skin, and blue eyes. She was wearing a red sleeveless shirt, with blue jeans. She looked about twenty, but with her outfit she looked like ten.

"Hello, my guests, I am Pandora, the messenger of the Realms. How may I help you?" she smiled at us.

"Uh... We're looking for the problem that's going on with the Cursed Lands?" I said.

"Oh I can't help you with that, that's for you to find on your own, but I can offer you tea-"

"No thanks. No tea please," I quickly said.

"How about some food?" she asked.

I was going to object, but my stomach said otherwise. I looked at the others, and they all nodded.

"Splendid! Then come over, we'll have dinner!"

She walked us over to a kitchen with white tiles and mint green walls. The windows were smaller here, but paintings fashioned almost every inch of the walls.

Pandora quickly whipped up ten sandwiches, two for each of us. She handed each of us iced teas, and then left the kitchen, leaving silence around the room.

"What did you do to Death?" Lukas asked.

I pulled out the white crystal that were present on the dragon of my katana before. "The power of the storm resides in the crystal, not on the sword. So before I gave the sword to death, I pulled out the big white crystal on the beady eye of the dragon. After that I didn't need the sword."

"Wow. How did you know that?" Aurora asked.

"I could just feel the power in just that crystal. So I took it out. And apparently I was correct," I explained.

Theo bit his sandwich. "You do realize you're weaponless now, right?"

"I can created an ice weapon for you if you want-"

"I have a weapon guys," I cut her off.

"What?" everyone said.

On our final night in the hotel, I was randomly woken up, and found a huge katana, with a hilt of iron- colored blue- and a blade of steel, standing next to my bed. Without thinking, I tried shoving it into my backpack, and surprisingly enough, it fit. It had a small slot for the crystal to go in, so I was expecting it was from my dad.

I pulled out the sword from my backpack, and then pushed the crystal into the slot. Near the edge of the blade, was a see-through blank part, which lit up and solidified into a kind of teal color, except more blue than green.

The sword lit up with a whit aura, making it even cooler.

"What. Is. That?" Lukas asked in surprise.

"I don't know. It just appeared on my bed the day before we left the hotel," I took a bite from my sandwich.

"That's even cooler than the last one," Theo muttered, finishing both of his sandwiches.

The girls didn't even take bites of their sandwiches, they just stared at each other intently as if trying to kill each other with deadly blinking.

Once Lukas and I had finished, we heard commotion from the hall.

"Where is he?!" I heard a man's voice yell. He was familiar, but that didn't make me feel any more comfortable.