Chapter 51 - Level 27 [p7]. Control? (1/2)
Dark shadow was crawling out of the hole in the tree. However, after the creature finally crawled out, it appeared to be a cute fluffy gray eagle. It was neither too big or too small, similar in size to a big raven. The eagle has cutely flown on top of the branch and looked around. Then it jumped to the ground, but as soon as he reached it, shadows that were stretching under his body sprang to life and entangled him. This clump of shadows started rapidly growing until it reached the size of the grown man, after which they started receding leaving young man in its stead.
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'Well, sleeping in Animagus form was actually nice.'
Looking at the sun's position in the sky, I would ȧssume it is somewhere closer to noon.
I continued moving towards Greece. Only two apparitions left.
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A lonely man was sitting on the porch of some old house. His back was hunched as if something was pressing his down, while his face was held no emotions, all except for his eyes. These eyes held untold sadness. He was looking at the picture in his hands, reminiscing about something.
The door behind the man was slowly opened, but he didn't pay any attention to it. He only asked:
”So?”
”Progeny had an argument with the girl called Hermione. Although, there were a few strange things in this situation. Apparently, the boy, Magnus, got really angry, which is uncharacteristic of him based on their understanding. They had a little fight and he stormed out, while all of them were left stunned.”
”You think, Athena has predicted this and he played the whole scene to escape?”
”No. Believe it or not, but the progeny throughout the whole dispute was actually thinking about something else, even concerned. But others didn't pay enough attention to it to notice this small thing. Then the girl said something that annoyed already agitated by something boy and he got mad.”
”So, it was basically just a lucky coincidence.”
”That's the problem. With Athena, we can't know. She might have manipulated the whole situation to make progeny do what he did.”
”Wait a second...”
”What?”
”Based on your words, the boy is not under complete control of the Athena?”
”No idea. And does it matter?” Dark looked gloomily at the lightening sky.
”Of course it matters. If Athena is not in control...” Markus was unable to finish because Dark raised his hand in quiet motion.
”Can you hear it?”
”Hear what?”
”Hear how the world enforces the destiny upon its netizens.”
Markus could only frown at his words. He was confused, where did that come from and how was it connected to the topic.
”...?”
Dark sighed and continued:
”Athena doesn't need to control somebody to be in control. After all, when you are capable of controlling the kingdom, you don't need to control the king.”
”...”
”Anyway, I found out something interesting.”
”What is it?”
”The progeny considers the girl a friend and even left a contacting device for her, which can be used to contact him at any time from any place.”
”We can use that!”
”Indeed. The question is how we should approach this situation.”
”Strange to hear that from you, after all, you were the one who said that you won't stop at nothing to destroy Athena. Just subdue girl with your power and make her contact him. Then we track him down and kill him. What's there to think about?”
”You misunderstood me.”
”Doing it this way will antagonize them against us. Having destiny against us in the world where we are locked with possibly the smartest creature in the Creation. No thank you.”
”Just erase the memory. Done deal.”
”Well, that's one option. But I was thinking if we can use this destiny and crap to our advantage.”
”How? I mean when Universe have an Author and he has a script for it, even if Universe wants to do something, it can't go against the script. That is like stopping breathing. Not something you can control. You can try, yes. But that's it.”
”Exactly, so what if we use this to our advantage. We convince main actors of the scripts that progeny is the main villain of the script.”
”I doubt they will believe he is Voldemort. Plus, you know how hard it is to mess with ”The Script”. Many tried. And the only end awaiting them was erasion for their impudence.”
”True, but what we need is for them to 'see' how bad the progeny is.”
”Interesting. But, you do know that we are not the first ones who came up with this idea.”