“Joshua!”“Joshua!”“Joshua, wake up!”A loud gasp filled the air, and immediately he saw a glimpse of light, Joshua sat up, taking in deep breaths and letting it out. It was as though he was trying to do both simultaneously.“Where am I…” he winced when he felt a sharp pain by the side of his stomach, forcing him to tilt his head in that direction. “Tough luck.”He let out a sigh when the memories came flooding in, and he laid back on the couch, staring at Xavier who towered above him with a smile on his face.“You think you can leave this place before me?” Xavier chuckled softly. “You brought me here under false pretense, so you're going to have to stay with all of us until the end.”Kelvin walked into the room, and when his eyes met that of Joshua he let out a sigh of relief. “I need to inform Gina,”he nodded. “I'll be back.”With both of them left in the sitting room, Xavier tapped Joshua on the shoulder lightly. “You were on the verge of leaving for good, I'm not going to lie.”

A piercing cry filled the air when Freya's spear found its way into the bird's neck, and of course, sending it to its death. Freya wanted to scream so bad when she saw William retreating, panting heavily, and just when she was about to ask him what happened the floor beneath them shook.They were yet to see what was coming their way but they could feel the tension already. Each step the creature took sent shivers down their spine. “Why did they stop attacking us?” Amidst the fear building within him, he tilted his head towards Freya's direction.Freya shrugged, clearly in the same state as him. “I don't know, maybe they know we won't survive whatever is—” her eyes flared when she saw the head of the creature. It was a beastly creature, with three heads sprouting from its shoulders. In the center, it took the head of a lion. Maned and snarling, and on the right it took that of a bird, its beak, convincingly strong and tenacious, even without having to touch it. Then a snake-like he

As instructed by Ashford, Brandon and Lauren walked back into the throne room, wearing their robes too, even when they had no idea why it was happening.“He doesn't kill people when they're dressed in a robe like that,” Lauren tried to ease the pressure that built within her. She could also feel the tension running through Brandon's body too.The loudness of Brandon's gulp only confirmed what she had been thinking all along. “Lauren,” he called out, just before he shut the huge doors behind him.“Yes?”“Ashford started hunting people one day,” he ran a hand through his hair. “No one knows how long he has had that in mind.”From the way Lauren looked at him, he knew his point was valid. “If I'm right, and we come out alive, then there's something I'd tell you,” she pressed her lips into a thin line. “Just remind me.”Brandon walked further until he got to the front of the stairs again, and Ashford smiled, shortly before he shifted his gaze to Lauren who lowered her head slightly.“S

Theodore bent his head as he sat on the bed with his hands clasped at his front.He had just woken up from a month-long coma.One after the other, he removed the needles that were inserted into veins around his body.“Fucking hell,” he muttered weakly, and as he tried to get to his feet he staggered back to the bed.“Shit!”The door swung open, forcing him to clutch his chest. Although it was replaced with a sigh a second later. “Oh my gosh, you're awake!” Catherine edged closer, surveying his body, then she stopped at his forehead. “They should remove the bandage the following week.”“Or maybe five days' time,” she added in a soft tone.He ran a hand across the bandage. “It still feels like my head is getting hit against a shitty rock.”“It's a good thing he pitied me,” the pain in Catherine's voice was impossible to miss.For someone who had always wanted to become a stronger version of who she was, she couldn't believe she actually hoped to be spared. “Do you think he was the lea

“Move! Move! Move!” Jasper yelled from the corner of the room as Kelvin and Matthias circled themselves on the sparring mat.Kelvin drew closer with his hands placed at the front of his face, he left his right leg at the back, while moving closer to Matthias with the left. “Duck!” Kelvin swung his right hand towards Matthias, and just as the latter bent down to evade the incoming hand, Kelvin swung the left from below, catching his jaw in the attack.“Clever,” Matthias scoffed while rubbing his chin. “Fucking clever.”He spat the blood out of his mouth, running his tongue over his teeth, luckily for him, they were still intact.Kelvin had moved backward, changing his stance, but he seemed more like one who was seriously going for the attack, rather than defense.‘Watch as I counter your attack with a surprise attack of my own,’ Matthias flashed a grin at Kelvin, and he maintained his position on the mat as he watched Kelvin move forward, every step, deadlier than the previous. The