War of Phantoms.

Chapter 21

At least it happened as we aimed exactly, that huge army of phantoms from both new and old generation with their creator moved behind us. they were like angry bees attacking. I also noticed that there were few creatures like the giant one we saw earlier.

I had never seen a scene like this during my whole time in Infenya and I'm sure that the warriers didn't either, their features held a mix of scared and excited expressions.

We split up to confuse the enemy but eventually we met at the starting point in the forest. I guess Tsillah didn't know where we were heading because she took a while to reach us. Meanwhile, I checked that everyone was okay then said, "ready?"

"Ready." they shouted in one voice.

"Good, Jed now you take the horses back to Infenya and ask for help, the rest of you need to hide well in trees, right now!!"

They all nodded and started climbing while Jed approached. "how am I going to convince them?"

I knew that was hard, so I put my hand on his shoulder and looked right in his eyes. "listen, Jed. this whole thing relates on you, now you got to be so fast in that."

"Will they believe me!?" he seemed a bit hesitant.

"A great attack in the forest, phantoms are approaching to the kingdom! Of course they will, now hurry."

"Both of you are right," Enus climbed down. "It is hard yet so simple, so I'll go with Jed and bring as much warriors as possible."

I looked at him in confusion then replied. "well it's not like we're going to face them after you leave, we've just to keep them here, so yes, you can go."

He nodded and got on his horse with Jed who said. "We won't let you down, Athena."

"I know you won't." I grinned saluting them proudly. Okay that was silly, but I wanted to do it anyway.

They moved with the horses behind them, before I climbed a tree with Xeno and Judith. We had to stay on the top of the trees since they were really high and the floating phantoms would take a while to spot us.

These were the hardest moments. All my battles in Infenya never were this stressing and this frightening, maybe because we all were aware of the fact that the six of us had no chance against three kinds of phantoms and their creator.

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Some strolling phantoms got closer. There was no sight for the others, all I could notice was the bunch of those strollers approaching.

"Do we attack them now ?" Xeno whispered to me.

"No," I replied after deep thought. "let's just see what they'll do."

He just nodded and kept looking down with a weird pose, like he was ready to throw himself down at any moment and start kicking their asses.

Could this be a trick by Tsillah; sending some strollers to get our attention then attack us? It was more logical, because where was she and her army !?

They were fifteen, I counted fifteen phantoms walking around, six of them were from the old generation which means that the rest could catch us easily.

"Be ready," I whispered to my team. "they might spot us soon."

That was when Chan made a some move and dropped a stick from the tree she was on. Then abruptly, few phantoms looked at her and as a sudden reaction, she hit them with her arrows.

Xeno looked at me in frustration."There's no hope coming from this girl."

I grinned and told her that it was okay. It was our moment to come down anyways, I gave them the order to attack since Jed and Enus could be here at any moment with help_ hope so.