Taste of Youth: Chapter 71

Chris P.O.V 

I remember the smell, that horrible rotting meat smell. Then I blacked out.

"What in the Zeus's beard?" I said looking around.

I was in a room, a pure black room. It wasn't darkness, if it was, I could see through it. It was a large empty room, with black walls.

In the middle of the room I saw the others. Lying on the floor, I ran towards them. When a voice called out to me.

"Wait spawn of Nyx!" I turned to face the source of the voice, it was another hooded figure. Another guardian, her hood and cloak were green. She had a face that was ageless and like the last guardian, her eyes were pure blue, no irises and no whites.

"What do you want?!" I shouted.

The guardian looked at me. "Do you really want to save your friends? In fact are you even that close? You had not known them a few weeks ago. Plus, would you choose them?" She waved her hand, revealing a chamber. In the chamber was a pedestal, where the last map piece was.

"Or would you rather take the last piece, and go find that fountain on your own, you could be powerful and if you sell the water from it, you would be rich. So make your decision. Your friends or power and riches.

I stood there for a while, in my head I couldn't believe I was even considering it. I knew what was right, but is what is right, what I really want? I mean riches and power, there were so many things I could do...

I shook my head to rid of those thoughts. I looked at the guardian.

"I choose them. Even if I have power and money, what good is it when I don't have any friends?" I said.

The guardian smiled. "That Child, is the right answer." Then the room disappeared before my eyes.

Then I woke up, I sat in that room with that horrible smell. I looked around, the others were still out and the guardian was standing in front of me.

"You passed the test, now you may continue when your friends wake up." She said, then her form morphed into a smaller form, till the person infront of me, was not the hooded guardian.

"Your the ghost that told us to catch you." I said.

"Yup. I lead you here so I could test you. And congrats, you did! Now I must be off goodbye son of Nyx!" She disappeared with a little poof.

Then the others were starting to wake up.

"What happened?" Cheyyenne asked.

"Something weird." I replied.