Artemis glanced at BlackJack. "Hey, do you have anything that belongs to Maks?" Harley paled. She got his shirt and Artemis shook her head. She approached Blackjack slowly. He sniffed his shirt."Fetch."His ears perked and Sam screamed when he vanished. Darragh gasped when he reappeared with Maks holding on to Metallie by the neck.Metallie tried to fight BlackJack crying.Darragh paled. "Oh god no."Metallie glanced at Darragh and Artemis. She cleared her throat."Hi, I'm Natalie and this is my best friend Helen." She pointed brushing her eyes."Are you crying?" Sam said."No, there's dog spit on my face.""Haiiiiii." Elektra smiled waving. "What a sweet puppy! I wanna squeeze him so bad." She scratched his ears. "Made some friends?""For now." He flicked slobber out of his face."You broke them out of prison?" Artemis said to him. "It was necessary.""I'm gonna have to contact Chande." She said.Elektra drained the electricity out of her phone. "Excuse me? We had a deal and we c
The whole thing blew up in my face. My brother died of a strange illness and I hated myself. I vowed never to live in poverty anyway. Besides honest work never got me anywhere. Always got in trouble, didn't have a problem with duping anyone. Until I met your sister Rosie, she was the most beautiful thing I ever seen. I loved her more than life itself. She taught me about charity and such, almost forgot I was supposed to be selling her eye out of her head to her."He pulled out a black fang necklace on his neck. "I joined the assassins. She said I could make good use of my powers fighting. First I thought it was a load of bull. Never worked so hard for so much sterling in my entire life. I still wanted more though, lost money as soon as I gained it. Ghost came in and things were starting to take an ugly turn. Roseline asked me to terminate him whilst I received the biggest news of me life. He asked me to kill her for a whopping sum of money. The most fish I caught in me entire life. I
"Listen, we need to keep our head in the game. Forget everything else and let's just keep moving.""I have a question for you, how come you know so much about the prophecy even though you haven't read the book before, hmm?"Metallie said.Maks feigned a smile. "Pandora recited it to me. Everytime I fought escape animals and took out their energy, she became clearer, more lucid to me, even my AI was corrupted. She would read it to me every night. I had to do it to fight Ares but now we're dealing with her.""She's still talking to you, isn't she? How are we supposed to trust you as our leader? For all we know, she might still be using either you or Harley like puppets to lure us into a trap." Metallie said folding her arms by the corner.He softened afraid again, it only took the mask to cover it up. He supposed his time was up."How do we know she's using us?" Harley said unsure about moving forward now."She wants us to come forward. But we need to be super aware of our weaknesses and
"I do but it's not my destiny to defeat Pandora. Sadly.""You're not the greatest?""Nope." He shrugged indifferently. "You are."He paled. He wasn't even an A-level awakener. "How so? I can't be the greatest."Ares wrote in mid air using light on his finger. "Maks. The Greatest. Anderson. Son of Andrew or Man. Whatever. It's you. He said....They gazed at him like he had just lost touch with reality. He hoped so too but the answer was clear. Maybe Ares was just playing with his mind."No, that's not possible.""I thought Ares was only trying to kill you because he disapproved of us." Harley said.He smiled sadly at her. "Me too, but like he said. Nothing personal_" He muffled when Harley cried holding on to him as tightly as possible. He couldn't even give her an assurance as much as he wanted to."I'm sorry, Jack." Darragh said sadly."It has to be this way." He said."You're insane!" Sam roared."No, I'm not, it's not really a coincidence either. I have to accept my fate. I have t
"I do but it's not my destiny to defeat Pandora. Sadly.""You're not the greatest?""Nope." He shrugged indifferently. "You are."He paled. He wasn't even an A-level awakener. "How so? I can't be the greatest."Ares wrote in mid air using light on his finger. "Maks. The Greatest. Anderson. Son of Andrew or Man. Whatever. It's you. He said....They gazed at him like he had just lost touch with reality. He hoped so too but the answer was clear. Maybe Ares was just playing with his mind."No, that's not possible.""I thought Ares was only trying to kill you because he disapproved of us." Harley said.He smiled sadly at her. "Me too, but like he said. Nothing personal_" He muffled when Harley cried holding on to him as tightly as possible. He couldn't even give her an assurance as much as he wanted to."I'm sorry, Jack." Darragh said sadly."It has to be this way." He said."You're insane!" Sam roared."No, I'm not, it's not really a coincidence either. I have to accept my fate. I have t
"I deserved it. There were already regrets.""Nat!" She pulled her away. Metallie jammed two scraps of metal on Twig hesitantly. They carried on with Nat crying and they were faced by Maks taking on a girl with blonde hair. An old friend and an old enemy."It's Piper." Maks said strained now. He was aggressive and restrained trying to decide whether to attack or not."Long have I waited for this moment." She approached them."We can take her.""No, that's Irma.""Maybe I will tell you what I was doing those two days before you sent me packing to the null void. I was preparing my other ghouls for the day that Pandora would rise again and be reborn into this world.""Why Irma?""I am a different kind of Banshee, I admire talent. I met Pascal Barnsley and took advantage of his prowess as a musician. Then I possessed him, I was very attached to his family. I tortured him for years and made Gabrielle believe that he couldn't he helped, no matter how hard she tried, he always doused himsel
"Maks, I leave two choices. You bow before me, serve me, rule by my side as a minor god. Or fall by my hand and suffer with your friends."She landed on the black and white checkered floor like a chessboard.His corneas were purple at her hypnotic voice. He didn't want Harley to die in vain. All the Awakeners fought for them. Of course he would make it count. But if he was a god, they could live too. She mentioned that. He couldn't defeat her because he wasn't strong enough.Maks made a motion to bow, Artemis was watching, she realised that he was preparing to lung, he lunged at her and she whacked him with her staff. She kneed him in the gut and tossed him over a bridge. "How predictable."She whacked Maks to the side. "I should have known you would reject me like this! I wanted nothing more to do with Long, she only used me as a tool to bring Ares to godhood."He stepped up and drew power from her. She grabbed his head tossing him down. Maks mustered more power and he grabbed h
They fought and a beast landed spitting fire over the assassins and tearing them apart. Metallie shucked a metal plate over its mouth and it inflated. Steaming up. Another came with water and Elektra conducted electricity through it. They stiffened shrieking and under the lights, she smiled stunning Maks. "Harley!" Maks said and his eyes paled when she flew towards the enemy camp terrified but desperate. Maks hurried after her."Wait!" He said flying with hawk wings. "Stop!"He caught her and she yelped. "Are you trying to get yourself killed?""I'm the reason why they attacked in the first place. I'm just trying to keep everyone safe."He softened. "We promised to protect you." "There's no point trying to." She said. "They were killed because of me.""What happened to us sticking together? That's all that counts isn't it?""Yes but they just killed a part of our army.""I'm not letting you go." He said. "We just need more time.""You have to, I can't let you sacrifice yourself f