Agartha - Quest for the Legacy

Overwhelmed with terrifying rage, Olympia let out a cry towards the sky which shook the mountains, "Let's see which array stops me from killing you puny little animals. How dare you try to enslave my father? How dare you conspire against my parents? Do you want my heart? Come here, let me give you my heart." A twisted smile rested on her lips towards the end.

No one ever saw Olympia's crazed look before. Demetria's mouth hung open as she saw her daughter laughing and taunting the opponents. This was not her daughter. Her gentle daughter now had such a crazed look, as if she crawled out of hell.

Demetria closed her eyes and was going to chant something with her mental powers, when she heard a voice which said, "It's futile. You can't get her back. There is only one option now, and it will depend on fate. Whether she can control her or not, you will know when the time comes."

"But she is just a child." Demetria whispered back.

"If you keep her under your wings, she will forever be under your wings. Let her fly. Let her fall. Let her face the highs and lows." The voice replied without haste.

Demetria opened and closed her mouth, unable to say anything. She was too lost in the crazed look of Olympia to say anything.

With a blank look in her eyes, she asked them, "What are you waiting there for? If you have the guts, let me see what you can do to him." She uttered the last part with gritted teeth.

The Phoenix Clan members looked at one another. They were worried that once her powers awakened, her heart couldn't be taken out. They were wondering whether their decision to threaten her with her father was right or not.

But things were already at this position. They couldn't go back. Making up their mind, they pulled Aiden's hair hard, who was still chanting something under his breath. He seemed not to notice the poor condition he was in.

The rage Olympia felt was beyond comprehension. She stood up, focussed on the array, closed her eyes and slowly uttered, "Break". The array shivered, as if it was afraid of her demonic voice.

She repeated again, "Break. Don't test my patience." As if the world responded to her, the array shattered.

Everyone was stunned as the array broke. They never thought that the array could be broken at her command. Their greed for her heart increased more. They were almost drooling at the thought of her heart.

Her heart, encased in something solid, once taken out, has to be purified in the fire of the Phoenix for three days and three nights before it can be taken out. That was the main reason they decided to form an alliance. Without the Phoenix fire, her heart can't melt. There is another way to melt her heart, but that is not too easy. Her mate can get her heart, but to find her mate is not easy.

No one could ever melt her heart until one day it vanished. No one knew where it went and how it got stolen from that place. They thought that Olympia herself stole her own heart back. But the thief left no traces whatsoever. Neither did they harm anyone nor did they break into anything.

They couldn't figure it out so they searched far and wide for her heart. One day, a man came and informed them about the revival of her heart. Both the Dragon and Phoenix clan formed an alliance. The Dragon Clan would fetch the heart, while the Phoenix clan would purify her heart with their fire to melt the casing outside.

After that, the Dragon Clan would preserve her heart and with those special herbs exclusive to the Dragon Clan, and would use the special technique called Inima Suflet Miaz — Heart Soul Core Binding — ancient ritual to make use of her heart to achieve immortality. The one who gets her heart shall rule the entire heaven and earth.

As the aray broke, Olympia let out a cry towards the heavens, and as she closed her eyes, frosty fire began to spread around the Phoenix clan members. The entire valley glowed purple from her fire. It had a golden tinge to it.

The Dragon Ancestor and the Phoenix Ancestor were scared. Olympia's powers far outweighed their own. They knew that her powers had awakened due to her rage. The craziness after seeing her father shackled made her lose control of her powers and it went berserk. There is no way that anyone can control her powers right now unless that person arrives to save her, but will that person save her? They weren't sure.

At a faraway distance, Brad stood all alone and saw a Phoenix-Dragon hybrid fighting for her father and mother. Her powers increased all of a sudden and he could feel the power emanating from her.

The entire land glowed purple under her fiery rage, and he felt a tug towards her. It felt as if he found something he lost for years — something too precious to him. He felt that he saw something like this before — the same fiery rage, the same burning down of entire mountains ages ago.

It felt so close yet so foreign. A smile of triumph surfaced on his face. He was confused with his emotions. He didn't know why he smiled. He understood that the person who was fighting needed him.

Olympia, on the other hand, burned down the shackles binding her father. She slowly got up and attacked her mother. Demetria was too shocked to even say anything. Everyone looked at her oddly. Demetria fell with a thud and Olympia ordered the person who was supposed to follow her unconditionally to pick her up and lay her on the bed of her own room.

He obeyed and held the body of Demetria and flew towards their mansion. He laid her on the bed and went to see Aiden. Olympia carried Aiden and injected her consciousness into his brain and slowly called him out of his trance.

Aiden woke up before passing out again. Olympia let him rest and went outside. Her whole body started burning from the intense pain of the power. As she stepped out, she used a bit of her powers to send the Dragon Clan to hell too. She stood there looking at the whole mountain range bathed in purple and a desolate feeling arose inside her heart. She felt too uncomfortable to even stand. Lightheadedness hit her and soon she found herself falling. She had no power whatsoever to make herself stand.

As she almost reached the ground, a pair of hands embraced her. As soon as he embraced her, the scenery changed and Brad found himself standing in the same attic. He felt as if everything was just a dream, but the unconscious Olympia was enough to prove that it had all been real.

He sat there waiting for Boyd, when Boyd said, "You have managed to obtain the legacy. But there is another test that you alone must give. Off I go now."

"Wait!" Brad shouted in panic.

"What happened?" Boyd turned around and asked.

"I wonder what happened to her. Why is she not awake yet?" Brad asked him anxiously.

"She will awake soon enough. Let her rest though. She must not partake or use her powers immediately."

"For how long?" Brad asked, worried. His father is already in grave danger. Deablo wasn't awake yet. He didn't want anything to happen to Olympia too.

"She will know when she completely wakes up." Boyd answered mysteriously.

Boyd vanished into nothingness as soon as his words fell. Brad sat there with Olympia. He noticed an additional eye on her forehead. He sat there for a while before Olympia opened her eyes groggily. She rubbed her eyes twice as she blinked at Brad in a cute and sweet way. Brad had an urge to laugh at her.

Remembering that she needed rest, he asked, "Can you return to that space?"

"Sure, Master."