Justin -

As I got closer and closer to the location on the search tool I started to hear a buzzing sound. It wasn't loud but it wasn't silent as well. The buzz sounded melodious.

This buzz reminded me of the war I had experienced recently.

The moment I lost the most important thing in my life. The moment I felt there wasn't much of a reason for me to live.

My heartbeat became faster and my breath started to become erratic.

Was it because of running? Or my fear? I didn't know. But all I knew was that I had to stop unwanted emotions returning back to me to make me feel miserable time and time again.

After running for a while I finally got closer to the location. I kept the search tool inside my pocket and dashed towards where Theodore was.

Those minutes I spent running towards Theodore were like hours to me. I ran as fast as I could but I still could not shake off that emotion no matter how hard I ran.

The buzzing sound had increased by now and all I wanted now was to reach to Theodore’s side while hoping for the best.

As I ran I slowed down near the exact location and tried to conceal myself as hard as possible, I slowly walked towards the location.

As I got closer I realised that something was amiss. I had to take a right turn to see Theodore but there was light coming from there. The sun was just about to set and the golden rays of the sun looked beautiful. The lights coming out from the street was green in colour.

Compared to the beautiful rays of sunset the green light looked ominous. It looked evil and goosebumps would arise just by looking at it.

'Ponera’ was the last word that came to my mind before I slipped into a comfortable dream.

My body ached with sweet pain and I felt it relax on its own. What was going on all of a sudden. Why does it feel blank?

Shit!!

“No! The Ponera! I can't let it mess with my brain again!”

I shouted at the top of my lungs before trying to figure out where I was.

“Justin?”

I heard a voice in my ears as I was startled awake, the sweet pain in my body went away as I relaxed. The noises of people chattering about deciding what to buy entered my ears.

I was at a clothing shop, sitting on the sofa in front of a dressing room.

“How do I look Justin?”

I heard an excited and melodious voice in my ears again. My body relaxed even further. I looked up towards the dressing room.

The curtain was slid aside and there stood a beautifully women in a beautiful dark blue dress. It came up to knee length as it showed off the women’s beautifully long and slender legs.

I looked at her hair, tied simply around her neck. Her beautifully blonde hair looked like it was made out of gold. It adorned her neck as if it were jewellery.

I looked into her eyes as I fell into a trance, her beautiful blue eyes were like glistening pearls picked out of the ocean.

Her lips looked like red cherry. How I wish I could run up to her and eat them up.

The only woman that I would think was beautiful beyond compare, the woman of my dreams- Jessica.

“Justin? Are you alright?”

She looked at me with a slight worry on her face as she asked concern.

I woke up for the second time after falling into a trance. I guess I was acting weird.

“I'm alright. There is nothing to worry about. Rather than me I think we should be talking about you….” I looked at her while feeling amazed and gave a bright smile. “You look beautiful!”

She looked happy as she was being complimented but she also felt a little shy.

“Thanks!”

“Hahaha! You're blushing!”

“Oh! Justin!”

She pouted at me angrily as she walked away to the counter to bill for the dress.

After billing was finished we walked out of the shop and headed towards a smoothie shop.

“We had a lot of fun today didn't we?”

“Yeah, we couldn't shop for you in the morning. You were busy trying to get me clothes, that you forgot about yourself.”

“It isn't that I forgot…. It's just that you don't have a lot of clothes.”

“ Yeah I know.”

It was dark at this moment as we sat down and drank a glass of smoothie without speaking to each other. We just looked at each other from time to time.

After finishing it, I held her hand. My hand was cold because of touching the cold glass of the smoothie. She didn't mind it though.

“Come with me I'll show take you to a fun place!”

“Huh?.. wait! Don't just grab me and start running!”

We ran around for quite a long time. Since we were demigods, we didn't need a car.

I brought her to a tower on a hill near the city.

“Wow!”

“Amazing right?”

This place wasn’t that popular. Fortunately for us no one was there here to disturb us.

I looked at the view I could see from the tower. It looked magnificent. The lights of all the buildings far away looked like stars all cluttered up. The different colours of light made it even more appealing.

Actually this had already happened, I knew it. I knew this is an illusion, but I still wanted to go out on a date with her one last time. Just one last time. Was it too much to ask for? I just wanted to see her. Her face…. Her smile…..

I remember walking up to her as I declared my love and asked if we could date each other.

Yes, that's right. Just ‘ date’. We were not officially going out together but still visit places together. The demigods paradise allows one person to take holidays for two days in a month, moreover you need to have a certain amount of skill to go roam outside freely.

If possible I did want to marry her. I loved her.

This is the moment where I confessed to her on the tower and we shared a kiss. But everything after that just went wrong. The tower started shaking, people were screaming. There were sudden thunderstorms. This was where the war had began, the war against the evil dragon.

Coming back to the present I was in a illusion in which I had yet to walk up to her and confess to her.

I looked at her as she watched the city with amazement in her eyes. My heart shook, I wanted to stay with her but I knew she was just an illusion. I had something more important to do right now I couldn't waste anymore time here.

I walked up to her again just like in my memories.

“Jessica…”

“Thank you Justin…. It's so beautiful up here!”

“Yeah…”

I took out something from my sleeve. It was Jessica's necklace. A simple string on which layed five pieces of amber. Currently there were only four ambers on it. I had already used one of them.

This simple looking necklace is actually a god artifact gifted to her by her father. She gave it to me when she passed passes away to take care of it.

Each piece of amber had the property to nullify all and any illusions for 1 minute.

It's only restriction was it could only be used by mortals.

“I'm sorry Jessica……. I am such an irresponsible man but I will try my best from next on. I know I'm a fool but I'll try to be better in the future.”

“What are you talking about Justin?”

Suddenly her voice turned eerie and her arms changed into claws. He hair turned into spike as they charged towards me.

“Let's die? Heheehohohaha, let's die together.”

I held on to the amber as the amber shone brightly with golden light it completely overshadowed the illusion and everything around it.

I felt the sweet pain in my body again as I came back to the real world.

My eyes were wet, two tears fell down.

“Wh-what, it cannot be! You have the Antithisi! How can you have such a rare item! That wretched item was how those puny half gods had defeated my ancestors.”

I looked at the doll in front of me, it looked terrified and stupid.

“You don't have to know where I got it from. You won't be alive after sometime anyway.”

The Ponera looked like it was about to wet his pants. I walked up to it while it was shivering. I took out the sword from my scabbard in the back. It was a sword of top quality, a quasi- god artifact.

“You wicked Ponerians know nothing but spoiling people's lives, DIEEEEE!!!”

I was angry, because it had made me see her again, it had made me feel guilty again. It had showed her in such an ugly form.

I swung my sword so I could sever its head from its body.

Let me remind you that Ponerons have an ability to create illusion but their own attack and defence is almost zero. They also had another advantage- speed.

I swung the sword and the doll bent down. I swiped to the side but it dodged again. I threw a feint at it as kicked it in its stomach to launch it into midair.

The ponera’s body is made up of a special substance, it felt like my leg had just kicked a small cushion cotton.

While I was hoping for it to be off guard in the air.

It took advantage of the kick to make some distance between us.

His eyes shone as he looked at me.

He looked at my amber necklace and decided to cancel his illusion on Theodore and the god of light. It turned around and started running into an alley.

Thud- Thud-

Both of them were flying in the air with green light all around them but they fell down as soon as the spell was cancelled

“Hmph, I am not known as the fastest sword for no reason”

I quickly caught up with the Ponera and slashed at it's head.