The Angel of Darkness - Chapter 12

Victoria's P.O.V

(one hour before getting to the garden of the Hesperides)

We landed smoothly in San Francisco. James looked as exhausted as I was.

"Let's take a taxi." I suggested. Everyone nodded in agreement. I managed to call a taxi (thank gods those mortals can't see my wings) and stepped inside with my friends. We were stopped in a traffic jam.

"Shoot!" Alex cursed.

"Hey hey, what's that?" James said, pointing towards the end of the traffic jam.

"Empousai." Sarah gasped.

Outside, people were frantically screaming and running away from those hideous beasts.

"Out?" I suggested

"Out." James nodded.

We opened the door and manipulated the mist to get a free ride. We ran outside. There were about a hundred of them. Right then I realized what was happening.

"Guys, anyone realize that they're probably here to destroy us?" I whispered.

"We can't let them kill everyone." James said.

I opened my bag and found my sword, the claw of the Nemean Lion.

I closed my eyes and sighed as I flew towards those hideous creatures.

Alexandra's P.O.V

I clenched my fist, and screamed. 30 skeleton guards came out, and I ordered them to kill the empousa. I ran in front of them, and pointed my hands at them. The whole front row evaporated in no time, but there were about 90 more still alive. Vic was killing the empousai in the back row one by one. My skeleton guards were busy fighting them one by one, and James was directing the lightning towards them. Sarah screamed and pulled the water from the beach nearby, and sweeped 2 rows of empousai.

There was none of them left. We all sat down, exhausted. I stood up.

"Come on, I'll shadow travel you there. Hang on." I said. They held onto my hand, and we went into a dark tunnel with a bright light in the end. Sarah and Vic were screaming, which was pretty normal considering that we were traveling 100 mph.

We arrived in the garden. It was beautiful. In the middle was a tree of golden apples, guarded by a large, creepy dragon. Standing there was Mystica.

Victoria's P.O.V

I saw Mystica, who was standing up, looking exhausted. I ran towards her.

"Oh Mystica! I'm so glad you're okay!" I hugged her.

"Oh my gods, you guys survived!" She smiled.