Andrew Bailey & The Eternal Maze

Chapter - 10 v2.1

As the boulder was about to crush every single one of us. Once again, my body stood up. What seemed impossible to escaped came easily as my body pushed both Michelle and Emma far out of the way, with what was usually impossible to do with my normal strength, it was done and with that the boulder finally landed. 

As the boulder crashed, the wind from the impact blew strong and hard, it was intensely difficult to see what had happened. As the girls were dragged back, their shocked kicked in once again.

"Is Andrew... Under that?" Emma pointed.

"Yes....." Michelle replied.

"Is that the second time a life threatening event happened in a period of less than twenty minutes..."

"Mhmmm.." said Michelle.

"Is he alright?...." Emma asked.

"Just fine." A voice replied Emma from behind.

"Wait, what?" As the girls both turned behind, they were startled.

They saw me yet they did not see me. What did I mean? It was simple, what stood in front of them was my body but not my soul. The other "me" was the one who was in control.

"Who are you? You aren't Andrew, are you?" asked Emma.

The girls instinctively knew something was different. The first "me" that fought off the tree had a similar feel to the original me. This one that stood in front of them was like the third 'personality'.

"Yes, I am a different entity from the one you call Andrew. If you had to call me something, you may call me Ethena. I just borrowed Andrew's body for a bit, since he clearly doesn't know how to use this body efficiently after all." Ethena sneered.

"Did you just say Athena? The Greek goddess of war?"

"Not Athena fools, I said Ethena, it starts with the letter E! Why do people like to compare me with the likes of her." Ethena snarled.

"Anyways why did you possess his body? Could you return us back Andrew?" said Michelle.

"Maybe I will, maybe I won't. This is such a nice body to possess after all. I do have good tastes."

"What? No! What right do you have to do this to Andrew!"

"Little girl, I don't need to tell you a thing. This isn't even a discussion. In fact, you both seemed like dead weight to my king the entire time. Do you think it's time for you to exit the stage? The weak wouldn't survive here. I would be doing my king a favour." said Ethena.

The speed of Ethena in my body was unbelievable. The fact that by blinking once, Ethena was right in front of both of them. It far exceeded human reactions, my hand was about to strike them both down, that was exactly the case till I regained control...

"What are you doing Ethena? I didn't give you the right to try something like this."

"Good morning my king, what right do I have? You are mine now. I have every right."

"I am your king. You will not touch my friends. Understood?"

"So you do realise your position now. If you remain my ideal king, I shall indeed heed your words, the moment you slip back into weakness, then I shall take over again my king, and who knows what may happen during the time." Chuckled Ethena.

As I had this conversation inside myself, my body was doing all sorts of funny movements because of having two beings in control. Emma and Michelle both stared at me. Not being entirely sure of whether I was going to be in control or was I going to be in danger again, since they could not hear the discussion at all.

As I regained full control of my own body, I convinced the both of them that I was still myself. Also the addition of a new... let's call it a partner, Ethena. Even I had no idea where Ethena came from nor what actually happened during the past few hours.

"Are you telling us that you somehow made a contract with a supernatural being to save us and you have no idea what happened from when you got stabbed and when you saved us from the rocks."

"That does summarize it, yes that was exactly what had happened."

"Are you certain that you are alright Andrew? Does your family have any history of personality disorders?" Asked Emma.

"Are you calling me crazy?"

"No, no certainly not crazy, but if you were in anyway, would you be able to tell us?" Asked Michelle.

"Let's get this clear, I am not crazy! In fact I can prove to both of you right now, that I do not have a split personality or any mental disorders whatsoever."

"How exactly are you going to do that Andrew?"

"By bringing out the one who caused so much trouble, Ethena."

"Wait your bringing her out? Said Emma.

"Isn't it rather dangerous? Since well I don't know, she just tried to kill us?" said Michelle.

"It's going to be just fine. Come here Ethena."

The girls were expecting Ethena to take over my body. They slowly backed away, just in case Ethena tried to pull something. Little to their surprise, Ethena appeared beside me. Putting her hands over my chest.

"You called?" Ethena grinned.

"Woah! Where did this Goth girl come from?" Said Emma.

"This girl, is Ethena."

"That's the girl who tried to kill us?" Emma pointed at her.

"It wasn't personal, I just wanted to get rid of dead weight after all. But for now, looks like we are going to be together for a while. You have my regards."

"Did you hear that Andrew! She just said for now. You both heard that right! She's obviously too dangerous!"

"Like I said human, Andrew's mine. Both body and soul. You won't be able to separate us."

"Ethena, just what exactly are you? We've been seeing a lot of strange stuff the past few days but this is just..." Michelle asked.

"Well that's rather complicated... Do you remember what you dropped?"

"What we dropped?" The three of us looked at each other, thinking of what it could have been.

"The book! Why can't you remember something so simple!"

"Oh! What about it?"

"You could say that book was me."

"What? The book turned into a girl?"

"More specifically, the book was a grimoire. If you really want to know about me, perhaps I could share a little of my past with you. Though it isn't a heart-warming story."

With a snap of her fingers, dark particles were surrounding us, it was joining together, almost like a dark cloud.

"What's going on Ethena! What are you doing!" I yelled.

"A picture's worth a thousand words my king. I am just showing you what had happened to me. Don't worry, it's just my personal history."

As our conscious slowly faded. We were swallowed up by the so called dark cloud... What happened next? We were about to see the past of Ethena.