Chapter Two

Present

Athena's pov

"I knew you would come here today." my aunt's sound echoed from behind me.

I left my mother's arms and turned back to face her

"Aunt? You can see her too?" I asked shocked, because she was staring and smiling at my mother, or should I say mother's spirit.

"Of Course I can see her baby." she came closer to us and hugged my mother, suddenly a bright white spark was seen between them. I was confused, confused af.

"It's time for you to go Beth." my aunt said with tears in her eyes to my mum.

My mother nodded and looked towards me.

"What do you mean it's time to go aunt? Mum? What is she saying." my mum just looked at me smiling the sweetest smile of all the time.

"I can't stay any longer here, my time is over. I stayed here till now so that I can bid you a proper goodbye my child." my mum said, her figure getting lighter and lighter with every passing second.

" Why!? Please stay mumma, I can't bear to lose you once more." I said with tears filled in my eyes.

" I'm not your mumma, in fact I never was. I hope you'll forgive me for lying to you the whole time, pretending to be your mum. But never I loved you less than my own child Athena, I love you my cupcake. Your second mumma loves you very much."

And that's when she completely faded. Leaving me dumbfounded.

I couldn't process what she said, I fell on my knees hiding my face in my palms.

" Let's go home sweetie, it's getting late. We'll clear everything out there." My eemo tapped on my shoulder lightly.

I nodded in response and got up.

As soon as we got out of the gate, it shut close on its own.

"Wha- how?!" I asked, terrified.

"Well, I don't think I'll have to hide the powers anymore from you."

My aunt said walking forward.

"Wait what!? What was that supposed to mean?"

"Let's get home first and BTW happy birthday my baby, you've grown up so much, and your powers too." she said, leaving a deep sigh

"Powers?! Ahh what is happening!?"

She just chuckled and opened the door of her car for me.

"Get in." she said and I obeyed.

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At home

"What was all that aunt. Please explain me I'm dying of all these suspence." I exclaimed.

"Come, sit here." She said tapping the empty space besides her on the couch. I sat beside her.

"You know about Satan and angels right?" She asked with a serious face.

"Yes, but why are you telling me this no-"

"Shh, just listen to me for now."

I hummed in response.

"The accident of your mum was partially because of m-me."

" You??" I yelped " how? W-why? "

" The attackers thought of her as me, like they thought that she was me."

" Hold up, didn't she die in a car accident? Where did these attackers come from? And why di-"

" I can't answer all of your questions at once, Athena."

" I'm sorry, but-"

" I know, don't apologise for that. And no, it wasn't a car accident. She was attacked by the demons."

" WHA-" I almost jumped on my seat not at all expecting 'demons' as my mother's murderers.

" Lemme explain first, calm down your ass." She exclaimed and gently took my hands in hers, patting it softly. " Their main motive was to attack me, so that they could suck out the 'potus' crystal from my chest. But unfortunately as they mistook her for me, there wasn't any potus crystal in there 'cause she was a normal human."

(Incase you're confused with this 'potus' word , the author combined two words to form this one which are

Pious, that means holy, and potent, which means powerful. So combining them we get our 'potus'.)

"What's a potus crystal, and why is it in your chest? Are you injured or something?! And what do you mean she was a human?"

" No, I'm not injured, potuses are very precious crystals to us as they are the main source of our incomparable powers which the demons crave, and you're going to develop a potus in your chest too. Very soon. Bethany was a normal human but you aren't." My eyes widened at her statement. My body was still, still as a cold corpse. " That's why I'm telling you all these. What do you think, how could you see Bethany? Don't you think witnessing a dead person with naked eyes is something impossible for a normal human being. It wasn't your hallucination baby, now that you're 23 already your powers are fully in your control, you could see her because you just turned 23."

"You mean I have powers? I? I? Have 'powers' I'm not a human!?" I said, not believing what she said.

Suddenly she went to the table kept near our T.V and grabbed a vase.

"What are you doing aunt?"

I asked, confused at her weird action out of the blue.

" You'll see." she said, and immediately threw that vase in my direction with all her force.

I screamed really hard, that fragile vase could leave countless cuts and bruises on my face, why did she do that?! My reflexes took my hands in front of my face trying to block that vase coming towards me and I was ready for that impactful hit on me but instead of pain I saw too many blinding bright lights flashing just for a second through the corner of my almost closed eyes and heard a loud thud, basically something scattering.

The vase. The vase broke and scattered.

"Holy crap!! What was that aunt?!!" I yelled at her, my heart beating so fast that it would pop out any moment.

"You saw?" She asked, chuckling.

"What sa- WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS THAT?!!!! HOW?!"

"I told ya, you'll develop a potus soon. You could have it since birth only if you weren't a halfling. There are many more powers in you which you have to explore yet, that was not even a bit of your powers." She said, looking at me with unreadable emotional eyes." You're a satangel's daughter Athena, your mother's a complete satangel unlike your second mum, Bethany. And I'm a complete satangel"

"Wait what? What's a satangel and if you're a satangel and I'm a halfling of a satangel mother doesn't it mean t-" I was trying to connect all the points while fiddling with my fingers but as soon as I realised what the case was, I looked at her with my eyes flooding with aghast. Words weren't escaping my mouth. "Wasn't Bethany my real m-mother?" At this point I couldn't hold back my tears anymore.

"Aunt, a-are you my-" she immediately hugged me, I could feel her warm tears in my hair.

"Yes baby, I'm your real mumma" she said, holding onto me tighter than before if it was possible.

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