Being gifted...[ON HOLD]

True gems...

Hello earthlings!

This chapter is there to finish up what was going on in the past few chapters and to introduce new events.

Now they are finally going to get to look for Quinn and work on their quest. So i am going to try and notch up the speed of events in the next couple of chapters. You guys are going to love it!

Also, I am thinking about ending this book soon. In a couple of chapters.

-cookiedoughmonster <3

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Recap:

Suddenly I feel the exhaustion hit me and I start feeling dizzy…I am suddenly facing the ceiling and then… everything goes black.

Place: Styx Base Camp (SBC),

Styx Institute, the Moon

Time: October 4th, 2011------- 4:02 pm

Andria’s POV

My head. Argh.I am so dizzy.

My body… the pain… its less. Much less. But my whole body is bruised up… Argh. It even hurts to breath…

I barely have to energy to open my eyes. Where am I? This doesn’t feel like the cold hard floor I passed out on after healing my team… wait… my team?!

I open my eyes to take in the surroundings. My eyes have to adjust to the lack of light. The room has a chill to it… and not just in the temperature. I am sitting on a big, black leather armchair. However, the chair is so soft I feel I am sinking into it. Beside me the others are passed out on similar looking chairs.

Suddenly a dim light fill the room. Along with a voice so cold and hard that I will get chills up my spine thinking about it for years to come.

“Good evening, Heroes. Slept well?” he asks. I squint to find the face of this man.

We are in a large room, quiet similar to the size of the room that we were brought to on the first day at Zion. The room is completely black. There is no other furniture in the room except for a throne at the other end of the room. The chandelier on the ceiling of the room seems to be made of the most beautiful crystals, however, like the throne, even it, manages to give off a dangerous aura.

Every cell on my body is telling me to get out of this place as fast as I can. And this man… let’s just say it is taking everything I have got to stop myself from attacking him.

I feel the boys beside me stir away due to the man’s loud and harsh voice. “Who are you?!” I ask, barely being able to keep the hatred from my voice. The man hasn’t even done anything to me so far, yet I am already starting to despise him.

“That is not important right now. What is important is what importance you have of to me.” He replies. From the man’s voice it is impossible to make out his age, race or expression. This only makes me want to trust him less. “You see, I have come to know that the four of you have done what was known to be impossible for the past millennium. You have defeated the Mortui Nonagintas, and that too, four of them. The last and only time this was done, was by me. Thus, you have proved yourself to be of some value to me.”

I feel Zak who is sitting beside me get ready to say something. I put a hand on him, to stop him. This is not the time to make enemies. This man seems to be of a lot of power. If anything, we have to take advantage of this moment. Zak exchanges glances with me and nods to show that he understands. “Where are we?” he asks instead.

“You are in my house. Completely safe. There is nothing to be worried about. After all, you are my gems from now on. I will preserve you with my life.” He replies with an eerie smile. The thought of being his gen doesn’t really seem to please me he slightest bit. “You see, after your remarkable battle at the Lacerta Stadium, I had you shipped to a medical station immediately. It took two and a half days of full magical recuperation to be the state you are in now. However, I must say much of the credit goes to your… um… leader. Is it?” he asks. How does he know that I am the leader?!

“If it weren’t for her, Xavier wouldn’t be alive right now, and Nick and Zak would be paralyzed. I love it really. The passion you have for each other. Extremely… touching! I must say, when I came to know that a lady was leading a pack of strong men like you, I was shocked. I mean, watching the battle, one would think Xavier would be the leader. Am I right?”He asks with a smile in his voice. He knows this too?? How?!

“You are wrong. Andria did a great job. She saved all of us. If it weren’t for her, we would have all died.” Nick defends me. The man chuckles.

“This is what amazes me the most about you children. Always together till the end. Hah. You almost remind of another team I met years ago. But never mind that. I have called you here to give you a proposal. I have heard that you have just come here from our Recruiting Camp in USA, am I right?... Raven has told me that you are here to become soldiers…for training. Well, I feel you are too valuable to be grouped with all my other ordinary soldiers. No, I am going to put my gems in the case they belong in. With me. I want you to become my right- hand men. My bodyguards. In exchange I will give you the lives of Gods… and if I am pleased enough, I will give you the life time of Gods as well… I. Will. Make. You. IMMORTAL!! He blares, making his voice echo through the room.

“Who are you? Why would we want to become YOUR body guards?” Xavier asks.

“We accept.” I ignore him and make a decision that I know I will regret.

“Excellent.” He responds with victory in his voice. He claps his hands and a woman forms beside him. The woman is dressed in a black robe that covers the top half of our face. However, the bottom half of her face shows complete beauty. Cold and hard beauty. Under the robe, she is wearing pitch black armour that seems to be sucking in the little light that is in this room. I shiver.

“Yes, Master?” she asks. Her voice has the same harshness and beauty as her face. She seems to be about 4-5 years older than us, yet her voice says that she has seen too much in her short life.

“Take them to their dorms. Explain to them what they need to know…We will meet very soon, my gems. Veerry sooon.” And with that, he disappears. With him gone, it seems the pressure in the room caused by the power he had is gone. My body starts to relax.

“Follow me.” The lady orders.

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