The Voyage: Chapter 6

Josh's P.O.V

I had been observing my friend's progress the whole time. I saw that my children (and my sister) and our new friend, Stephanie had made a new friend, although he had double crossed them one time.

Anyways, I woke up from my coma early, probably because Bella's purpose is to only keep me safe. Besides, my barrier stage has just reached 4/5 now, which means that I could go 4 years without going into a coma.

I removed the transfusion of nutrients carefully from my vein, and once I did that, I quickly seal my open vein with bandage, in order to not lose too much blood.

Stella's P.O.V

I began to get bored. We have been walking for almost a day, and the Colloseum hasn't come into view yet.

Just then, there's a sound behind us. I looked behind, and saw people screaming, as the black dogs came out of nowhere and ran through the streets of Rome. I wondered if they are a part of Nightraiders, the group that we were briefed by Chiron that they took slaves.

What I wonder turned out to be true. Nightraiders do claim victims by kidnapping them, and sending them into slavery camps, which I believe is somewhere here. The dogs ran around and they came to a nearby house, and as the dog came near the house, the dog howled so loud that people from 4 blocks of houses were forced to cover their ears or else their eardrums will pop. After the target is incapacitated, as fast as a viper, the dog started biting the residents of the house, with multiple dogs approaching the house to grab more people if there is any, and they move to the next house to claim their next victim in Rome and so on.

Sometimes, the residents of the house is well-trained, and they defend their house well from the dogs, and these houses are generally that the Nightraiders won't barging into, since they don't want slaves that are powerful and rebellious.

PING!

I quickly drew my 3 feet sword and braced myself for trouble. My other friends did so too. I searched for any possible trouble.

"Umm... sorry." Lara said, holding a rock.

"What???" I asked. "Lara, this is not the time to play games, and please, don't muck around."