Chapter 2: Expectant Or Dreadful?

" I believe you all saw what happened yesterday afternoon, I mean the weird scene that has become the latest news everywhere? Have you guys questioned yourselves what that was, and what it insinuates?" He paused to accept suggestions, everyone threw curious glances around, hoping to find some lead from their peers, but everyone they turned to shrugged, the instructors included. This was the Avengers Academy, the leading academy specialized in nurturing children born psychics, and the man talking earlier was Godfather Zayn the head of the academy. Seeing their ignorant faces, Godfather Zayn cleared his throat, readying himself to continue when something among the assemblage caught his eye, a tiny hand had shot up, "okay young miss, go on." He beckoned the ten or so year old girl to speak what's on her mind. With a deep breath, she started in a sing-song voice, " I quite remember my grandmother told me sometime back, about the death of Zeus. According to her narration, there was a great war about two hundred years ago between the Doomsday Party and the whole world, plunging so many lives into misery, many heroes from academies all over the universe joined forces to confront the impending danger but alas, they couldn't keep up, the war raged on for weeks without reprieve, at first, the numerous heroes were able to hold their ground through the help of Asclepius, god of medicine and health. He healed all those who incurred injuries, as it stood, he had no direct battle experience and therefore a sneak attack on him was all it took to turn the tide of battle, with no healer to heal their grievous injuries, the heroes fell one after another, the thunder and lightning god, Zeus realized this and as visionary as he was, knew this was a battle in which victory was far beyond reach so he decided to prevent more casualties as he chose to play his last trump card, igniting his life essence to provide him the temporary burst of power needed to suppress the enemy. It worked perfectly well, the enemy suffered after that final outburst and the very few left retreated into hiding for so long, but sadly, the price for this was too exorbitant, Zeus lost his life alongside the numerous heroes that stood tall to protect humanity from total wipeout, it was said that after Zeus died, the sky went completely dark, there wasno sunlight for three straight days, during that time, the sky just kept crackling with lightning and roaring with thunder. No one told me anything, but my wild guess is that someway somehow, the incident of yesterday is related to Zeus, either he is reincarnated or the other deities are mourning him." She ended her speech with a low bow to Godfather Zayn. Everybody looked at the little girl in a daze, she had deep blue dreamy eyes, long eyelashes,caramel skin tone and rosy red lips, housing two rows of gleaming, pearly whites,she was quite skinny too, Amy is the name. Godfather Zayn looked at her for a while before saying, "yes indeed, the little girl has said it all. There is actually nothing else I can say that she hasn't mentioned, I'll like to bring this gathering to a close by saying, 'make up your mind, are you expecting the rebirth of the deity or dreading it, if the latter, then think it over' you may all get back to your day's agenda, all of you except you, young lady." Everyone looked at the girl strangely before they left, murmuring among themselves as they went. The beautiful young lady, followed Godfather Zayn around the assembly hall towards the instructors' bungalow, at the tail end was some heavy doors leading into nothingness, they doors open with loud eerie creaks on their own volition, Amy saw that beyond the door was- nothing, just blinding lights, she had to cover her eyes to shield them from those ruthless illuminations. The feeling only lasted for a split second before she lost track of the sensation she then opened her eyes to the most beautiful scenery she had ever seen in her six years of existence. Birds chirping loudly and flying merrily around, a mirror-clear river whose bottom could be seen despite its depth, some lush undergrowth, housing so many kinds of wildlife, so many ecosystems, it was just breathtaking. They kept walking towards the river, as it miraculously parted to make way for them to walk on dry ground, they walked for five hundred metres before seeing a small wooden structure in the middle of the river, Amy looked at it in genuine awe, forgetting to shut her mouth that had been hanging agape since setting eyes on this surreal fairytale world. Just when they were about to enter, Amy heard a low chirp and felt something on her shoulder, she turned but found nothing, however she still felt an additional weight upon her shoulder. "Godfather Zayn, I feel something's on my shoulder." She complained. "Yes actually there's something on your shoulder, it's the ghost raven, a creature that has almost reached deity rank. It's pretty much impressive that you could feel it's presence. You keep surprising me, I'm impressed." She reached out to touch her shoulder when she felt the weight had left her shoulder to her head. "Godfather Zayn laughed." Amy was not surprised, anything that had the ability to conceal its presence definitely should be mischievous, "okay, come out now and let me see you." Amy whispered softly. The ghost raven left the top of her head and landed in her outstretched palm, revealing its small body, white and blue in color and it was roughly the size of a baseball, what was most eye-catching about it was it's unusually big eyes, overall though, it was beautiful. "Seems to me like it likes you, young lady. You can keep it." At those words, Amy stuttered, "no Godfather, this is too precious to you so I can't take it." "There are a lot more, and besides, this place is now as good as yours, I'm taking you as my personal disciple." Those words struck Amy like lightning, after overcoming her stupor, she bowed deeply to show her appreciation.