155 Where there is light, the night shall fall (2/2)

”Duck!!!” she yelled as she threw her sword like an arrow to stab the spirit just as it was about to reach for Daren, empaling the being against the school's wall.

He felt relieved but then realized that Lilith had given up her only weapon. The ghosts around her saw the opportunity and tried to enter her body.

Sensing he had no other choice, Daren copied Lilith's gesture and threw her his fragment, ”Lilith!! Grab it!!”

The woman did as told and managed to catch the piece of crystal in midair, right before the beings tried to take over her, but failing in the process as she managed to refill her energy.

Daren noticed that she was safe as well, and realized that now he was the only one who still didn't have a way to defend against their attack. He tried to find anything to repel their power, but the spirits seemed to have realized it as well the situation he was in, and began to rush after him.

”Daren!! Grab my sword!!” Lilith screamed.

The lad turned towards the weapon that Lilith threw to save him moments ago and began to make a mad dash towards it.

He ran as fast as he could and spotted the blade thrusted against a wall. Daren jumped to try and grab it but he wasn't fast enough. One of the creatures managed to successfully enter his body, and taking complete control over him.

”Daren!!!” Lilith and Marcus cried as they witnessed her lover and his friend being lost as well.

Chloe, Daren, and many of Leona's followers then began to stand with a red glow showing up in their eyes, all staring at the direction of the amusement park, and proceeding to march towards it.

Lilith and Marcus tried to run after Daren, but a huge creature landed in between them. A massive winged lizard-like being who had marks of burns all over its body, one of the dragons from before.

The creature glared at the school and began to charge its fire breath.

”Look out!!!” Marcus shouted as he grabbed the kids.

Leona realized what was about to happen and took her friend out of the way as they saw the creature completely blowing up the entire school building into pieces.

The display of power was so huge that even the spirits were scared off and began to run away.

From the sky, the second dragon showed up, also bearing many injuries from Leon's attack, and landed on top of the rubble that used to be the school to finally encounter its missing eggs.

The two dragons, satisfied with finally getting their babies back, started to fly off towards the portal in the sky and return to their homes in the other world.

”They're finally gone...” Marcus said in relief, glad that this problem was finally over with. He released the two children in his arms who ended up passing out from the shock and looked at Lilith who appeared to be extremely afflicted.

Lilith and Marcus were so distracted by the appearance of the dragons that they completely lost sight of Daren and the others.

”Where is him?? Where is Daren??” Lilith asked as she searched everywhere for him.

Leona approached the two and gestured with her hand in one specific direction, ”They all marched that way! They must be returning to their leader!”

”Their leader...?” Lilith looked at the point she was aiming at and understood what she needed to do.

Marcus looked at her expression and realized that they were thinking the same thing. If they followed Daren, they would finally find Mia.

Part 2

Detra carefully approached Mia while trying to make sure not to anger her by accident.

The current situation was very delicate and she needed to think about what her following steps were going to be if she hoped to still find a solution for this predicament.

”Mia... What are you going to do now...?” she asked.

”...” Mia looked at Detra. Her eyes were acting like the former goddess was barely worth noticing right now, almost as if her entire existence was completely insignificant to her by this point.

Detra became worried that Mia was going to blast her away with her terminal energy, but instead, the girl, or rather, the woman, just sighted.

”Now that Evlin also failed to end me... I need to look for my next target...”

”And who would be... this new target...? Could it be the demons...?” Detra asked, worried that Mia's original goal was still standing firm.

”No... I doubt that the demons can pose much of a threat to me... They are merely preparation for my next mission...”

”Your next mission?”

”Yeah... My ancestor... The one who gave birth to my bloodline and granted me the power to rule over cursed beings...”

Detra became frozen with fear, ”Your... Ancestor...?”

”My great, great, great, great...” Mia stopped for a second to count with her fingers before continuing, ”...and many more greats, grandma... Hana... The first woman to use cursed energy...”