Chapter Three

Athena's pov

Two months have passed since I came to know about my powers, it indeed was a very hard pill to digest but finally I'm getting used to it. Wait, I'm not getting used to my powers, I'm just getting used to the fact that I've powers lol, slow progress I know.

Now when I look back I understand why those weird things used to happen with me when I was little, but as per eem- I mean mum, I got my powers after 23. So what were they?

Flashback

Six year old Athena's pov

"Yayy! It's my favorite class! Music!" I mumbled to myself while proceeding towards our music class with my other fellow classmates.

Until last year we didn't have music classes but I loved to sing, so today's my first class I'm so happy uwu.

As soon as I entered the class I saw my new music sir, he was tall and had black hair covering up his forehead. I don't know why but he was staring at me in a weird manner, I felt a sudden chill in my body and a sudden headache for a second but I shrugged it off "it might be due to my excitement."

"So children my name is Mike, and as of today is our first music class, I won't bother you all for today. You can sing whatever you like, don't fight for it and form a line for your turn. Here's the mic."

The sir said, handing the mic to a girl.

Everyone was singing, actually trying their best to sing lol all were so hilarious to listen to. I was standing after Mina, after she finished singing everyone clapped, she sang the best till now indeed. She turned to handover me the mic, the mic slipped from my hand but confusingly didn't hit the ground, unexpectedly it blasted.

I felt many cuts and pieces of the mic burying in my tiny legs.

Everyone were in shock. The pune immediately ran to us, apologized for the poor quality equipments and picked up the blasted mic with a thick cloth.

It was weird, what type of mic blasts?

Everyone in the class were stunned including our sir, he bent down to check the bruises on my legs but to his surprise found nothing.

Just some dried blood stains were found as if the wounds healed by themselves immediately and the shedded blood was left behind.

The class was dismissed.

I told everything to mumma and she changed my school, maybe because their equipments were poor?

Eight year old Athena's pov

I was returning to my home after long tiring day of school, I was about to turn to my usual path but I heard faint noises from the opposite route of a granny screaming and struggling?!

I immediately ran in the opposite direction to see what was happening, after 5-7 minutes of running finally the granny came into picture.

She was struggling to snatch back her purse from the two road side robbers who were troubling her.

"Yah!! What are you doing to her?"

I yelled at them. They turned their heads towards me chuckling

"Aww what are you gonna do baby bitch?" One of them said smirking and again turning towards the granny troubling her.

"Mind your language. " I said and immediately grabbed a handful of his hairs in my fist and dragged him back. I thought he would at least back off a little bit, but to my surprise he fell on his back, hard, very hard.

The second robber's gaze shifted towards me, he removed a dagger from his coat and ran towards me leaving the granny alone.

I closed my eyes in terror.

Before the dagger could propel in my abdomen, a sudden invisible force threw him back. I opened my eyes as I heard a loud thud of the second robber's back hitting the wall with immense pressure and him collapsing immediately.

I was about to drag the granny out of there when the first one got up while rubbing the back of his head where he got hit.

"Rot in hell you wench!!" He yelled

And pointed a gun towards me.

"That's your end Athena, I love you mumma." I mumbled and closed my eyes shut again.

Suddenly a tall male figure was standing in between of me and the robber, his back facing me.

I don't remember any other person nearby us?

Because of his huge back I wasn't able to see the robber properly.

after a few seconds I heard screams of the robber, out of my curiosity I peeked from behind that man's back only to witness that robber's all of the fingers broken and bended towards his direction.

That man didn't even touched him?!!! Or just I wasn't focused enough to see. I don't know! But whoever that man is, he's my life saviour.

I could feel abnormal heat radiating from that man, like if you're standing in front of a fire place. I saw a bright red tattoo immerging on his nape out of nowhere.

(The tattoo can be seen on the start of this chapter, btw that tattoo was my sketched by me uwu)

"Get out of here, now!" The man yelled, I immediately dragged that granny out of there carefully.

I didn't saw that man ever again.

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Present

Athena's pov

I was on my way to the hospital.

Aun- aargghh mumma, mumma gave me an old shabby book on my 23rd bday and told me to go through it. Its pages weren't milky white like any other books, instead it was coffee stained type pages. A little thicker and rougher than the other ones.

Due to my busy schedule I wasn't able to read it before. As today I wasn't in a hurry, I took out that book carefully from my bag, and initiated to read it.

It was a very bulky and thick book, not just because of the thick pages. The number of pages were vast as well. Plus there wasn't any index, which made it harder to find any specific topic you're looking for.

The cover of the book was made of the same material as it's pages.

and if we give it a close look we can see the sketch is about a fallen angel, our ancestors. The angel's wings are detached from her back, same as the fallen angels who were punished by chopping off their wings.

I randomly opened a page, the language wasn't english, it had some weird hand written notes. I don't remember knowing any such language. Its alphabets were more like a design than any normal letter.

But surprisingly I could read them! Like how tf?! I know, I don't know these letters but somehow I could understand them. Weird affff.

It might be because of my powers I guess.

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Halflings:- They are complete humans till they turn 23. No powers, just complete human except for the times when their body senses any demon nearby them. Their bodies gives them sufficient amount of power to defend themselves against the demons for the time being.

The halflings don't have enough powers until 23, but when they get full control of their powers after their potus is fully developed chances are, they can be more powerful than an actual complete satangel.

But great powers come with great feebleness too.

Their weaknesses are-

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"Why the heck is the next page missing?! The page is torn, it's obvious with this little line of the page in the binding. "

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Potus in a halfling starts developing after 23. It takes about 6 months to fully complete it's developing process. That's when the halfling receives each and every supernatural power a complete satangel has.

During the process of developing the potus, the host can suffer from severe chest pain and purple blood vomits, which are completely normal.

Once a potus is extracted from a satangel's body, they lose all their powers and may even get weak till that extent where they'll lose their life. But that ain't the case for a halfling. They'll become weak for some time but won't lose their life as they're more powerful than an actual complete satangel after their potus is fully developed. They (halfling) can still have some powers left in them but not as before. Their situation will become the same as when it was before they turned 23.

There are no chances a potus can be retrieved or come back in use after it's extracted.

If a demon obtains a potus, it will make him immortal, and give him unimaginable power. Only way to kill that demon is if, the satangel from which he extracted the potus kills him. But the chances of his death by a satangel without potus is negligible because after a satangel loses it's potus, they become extremely weak, they won't even have enough power to stand, and after a few minutes they die leaving no one else in this universe who could kill that demon.

Halflings even can't kill them after their potus is removed from their chest because, as they are not complete satangels, 99% of their powers rest in the potus.

A satangel or a satangel halfling can't kill, or even harm the one who is of the same species as them. Even if they try to harm or kill eachother it will have no affects.

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"This shit is more complicated than my whole medical syllabus for real." I said, kicking irritatedly the stone on my path.

Holy crap! I almost forgot about my powers! Shitt eottokeee.(what should I do?!)

The stone went flying with speed of a bullet and crashed onto one of the parked bike's gas tank part infront of me. It DID a lot of damage. The stone was still stuck in it's fresh dent.

The bike didn't seem any normal bike but a luxurious sports bike from the famous bike brand speed satan. If the owner of this bike caught me, I'll have to pay him my salary of atleast 1-2 years for the bike's repair.

I was about to escape when a person held my wrist in which I was holding the book, I immediately turned around.

You're a dead meat now bish

The person had a black helmet on. His attire was a perfect bikers look, jet black jacket, black gloves but ngl his body was better than the other ones out there.

"Are you the owner of that stone miss?" He said with his helmet still on, and yeah, he was still holding onto my wrist.

"I-I umm maybe" I said laughing nervously, and scratching my nape with my other free hand.

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