The Moon's Miracle

Chapter 5: Monsters?!?

Claire

My heart was pounding from all that running. The power that I saw in him was not any other type of supernatural, that I always had encountered in my life. He was different. it looks like I had found myself in some deep s**t in my vacation.

I was inside the bathroom: I stared at my reflection, I observed my appearance at my reflection upon the mirror: I was flushed from all that running, my hairstyle wasn't in a good form anymore, my baby hairs were sticking out again. And mostly my blouse wasn't exactly a fashion-go-to anymore.

I grabbed my purse, to which it contains all of my daily and necessary essentials that I always need in my travels. The hot leather of the purse was rubbing against my hand's skin as I rummaged through the essentials, so I can find my hairbrush. Alas! I managed to find it. I really need to arrange my things.

I brushed my hair, and I styled it like how it was before, when I ran away from that guy. When I was done, I observed my appearance once more, to check for any unpleasant style. My blouse was still all wrinkled and out-of-style, I straightened it out until the wrinkles, weren't visible anymore. When I was done I looked at myself at the mirror again, when I saw that my appearance had gone back to normal. I packed all the essentials that I used.

I heard a subtle alarm, which made me confused for a bit; It was my wristwatch's alarm, it was indicating that I got twenty minutes before the ship departs from the port.

"Luigi, let's go get ourselves a relaxing cruise vacation". I grabbed his leash and went outside the bathroom.

When I finally reached the port, my ticket was collected. I finally entered the ship.

This is one classy ship.

Apollo        

"Dad! Look at all these delicious pastries". I exclaimed happily. As I took one macaroon, and observed its glorious state, the macaroon was very elegant to look at, the moment I saw it I immediately want to taste it. I held up with amazement, the pale pink macaroon, and took one bite out of it. I love how the flavors came together, the sweetness of the vanilla frosting, along with the crispy edges of the macaroon. This is heaven!

"Apollo let's go check our rooms." Zeus, also known as my dad, had invited me.

Being the God of the sun, poetry, music, medicine, prophecy and the truth. Makes me curious if I can do things that are out of my field of  godliness, I mean it was fated that I get to be the God of this and that. However, I want to be good at something that is out of my fated-talents. Something that I chose to do and not the fates that had chosen for me. That is how I decided I want to be good at baking and cooking. I am still learning for now.

"This place is gorgeous." With my eyes filled with astonishment, I stared at the place.

When we had finally reached our rooms, I opened the door of our room, and was greeted by the view of the living room, the flooring was dressed down with a wooden-looking floor that was adorned with a small, round, soft and brown carpet. It had three couches that were placed together according to how it will create harmony along with the decorations of the room.

"It looks like those three doors will lead us to our rooms." Hades said, as he placed his bags beside the couch. I went towards one door, and opened it. This room had a medium-sized window, which showed off the view of the horizon and the oceans. It was not all that 'delicadeza' .

In someone else's eyes, this room would be rather too simple for them, for this room contains. A simple queen-sized bed, a soft, mahogany-colored carpet that had adorned the floors of the room.

The medium-sized window had light gray draperies, and in order to close the draperies I had to use a remote to control on how it will open and close. It might be too simple for them, but for me this is perfect.

"This room is mine!" I exclaimed, so that they would be able to hear me. I ran towards the bed and jumped on it.

"This is nice." I complimented the soft mattress, While I ran my hands over the silky covers.

The mattress was covered with a bedsheet that was thin and crisp, but there was another sheet over the bedsheet it was made out of silk. The pillows were neatly arranged and the blankets were placed in a clean manner over the mattress. When I was about to lay down, a knock against my door was heard by me. Before I could get up and open my door. Hades had already entered my room.

"Apollo, we will go out to explore the place a bit more. Will you join us?" Hades insisted. Should I go?

"I will rest for a bit, go on without me; I will just catch up with you when I am done resting." I told him as I laid down on my bed, signaling that I want to take a rest for a minute.

"Alright then." Hades agreed to my decision, I heard the sound of my bedroom door closing and the sound of footsteps fading away. The silence had overcome the room once more; My eyelids felt heavy, and I knew it.

I drifted off into a dreamless state again. Because, a vision was given to me.

Claire        

I was on the deck of the ship, while Luigi was at the dog nursery.

I was admiring the beautiful horizon that was displayed infront of me, the ship had already departed from the port. We were finally on our way to Europe! The ocean breeze was pleasant, my eyes were scanning the 

ocean, but I became very mesmerized by the waves until my thoughts went afar from reality.

I remembered my dream: I was drowning and was being pulled down, I was transferred to a different place, that is where I met the 'Muscle Man'. I wonder if he really exists. I snapped myself out from my thoughts.

"Claire you are here to enjoy your vacation, not worry about some non-existing man from your dreams." I lightly shook my face and with both hands, I slapped my left and right cheeks. I walked away from the deck, and decided to explore more, the places of the ship.

Until I reached the cabins. However I felt nervous something was not right, a dark miasma was surrounding the place I couldn't see it, but I could feel it.

And of course my curiosity had won me over, I ventured deeper to find were the source of the miasma was coming from.

It came inside from a room, the door was left ajar. My hand went towards the door knob, I slowly pushed the door open.

My eyes met a large figure, and it wasn't nice: its eyes were dark, its body has a serpent like figure, and its head was obviously serpent-like too, but it had horns. Let us not also forget that it is hissing angrily at me, and its fangs were dripping with venom.

"Shit." Was all I managed to say, and I made a run for it. I ran towards where there is some people, I reached the hallway and thank the gods that there were some people. However, they didn't seem to notice that there is a serpent crawling towards me.

As it crawled over towards me, its serpent body just past through the humans' and supernaturals' bodies like it was wind.

I realized, I was the only one who can see it, I was the only that will die here. I need to act normal while running away from the serpent, so people will not think that I am crazy.

I made a dash towards the hallway of rooms, my head was spinning already from fatigue and my legs were running out of energy to run.

I turned left, but of course the fates didn't want me alive.Because a door had opened and slammed right into my face.

My butt had face-planted against the floor, yep I am going to die. I braced myself for the impact of the pain and for my bloody death.

"You have no right to harm this woman, return to the depths Tartarus!" A shiver went down my spine, when I heard the voice. It was full of power and authority. My head turned to see what is happening with the serpent-monster.

It was hissing angrily at me, and yet it couldn't go near me.

"I said leave!" With a voice full of power and rage, the man had said once more. The serpent couldn't do anything, and it only cowered with fear. It hissed at me angrily one more time, and he suddenly dissolved into ashes.

I looked up to see who my savior was. My eyes had widened with shock when I recognized the man, it was the guy that I met back at the port. The same eyes that held insane power and energy, and those eyes were staring back at me.

"Thank Apollo that we managed to find you." With relief painted in his voice, he said.

"No, it's more likely she had run into us." The guy with a blond hair, had said.

"Hi I am Apollo! I am so sorry about the door" A guy with too much enthusiastic aura, had approached me, and he reached out his hand to grab my right hand.

"A pleasure to meet a wonderful lady like you." He said, as he planted a kiss on top of my hand.

"Hades, we can't just leave her alone, now that we know that she is not safe anymore." A man with blue eyes had said.

I was confused. My mind was still trying to process from all what had happened in yhis day. Knowing that I wasn't safe made me panic in fear: my heart started to beat faster, my head was spinning, and my vision was starting to get all fuzzy. Apollo's eyes had landed on me, his eyes were filled with worried as he was observing me. Later on his eyes had widened with realization.

"HOLY s**t! she's having a panic attack right now!" He rushed towards me, before I could hit my head on the floor.

"Peanuts." It was all I could try to say, before darkness had finally consumed me.