Hey everybody I am so, so, sorry  about how long it has been since I posted. I hope this next chapter will make up for the wait. Anyways back to the story, in this chapter I have switched from the narrator's perspective to the character's perspective. In this chapter it is Nyla's perspective.

Chapter 3

 After that  I grabbed Kovull and we ran for our lives. It was actually very exciting when I think about it. The wind, even though it smelled like rotten eggs, was blowing in my face. Then is where it got bad, as soon as Kovull and I ran out of the bone palace every single skeleton guard, wraith, and spirit started chasing us.

 "Whoa, What did you just do?" Kovull yelled at me as we were running.

 "Just saved your life deal with it." I shouted back.

"Why are you crying?" Kovull asked more quiet.

I hadn't realized but as soon as we had started running big streams of hot tears were running down my face.

"Why do you think! I just lost my brother!" I stopped dead in my tracks and faced Kovull.

 "The whole reason I came here was to save him! I protected him my whole life and now he's gone. When we were transported to the underworld I promised that I would protect him or die."

   Kovull just stared at me with surprise then shook his head with a mysterious grin on his face. I didn't realize that we were still holding hands, but as soon as I saw that smile I ripped my grip from his and started running again. My strong legs and adrenaline pushed so much space between Kovull and I that I could barely hear him now. Run just run away, run away and don't think. That was what I was thinking. No thinking about Kovull, or Forest just keep running. And so I did, I ran and ran and ran. I barely looked at where I was going or heard what Kovull was yelling at me. A dark cloud of loss covered my face. It was like being under water and someone was trying to talk to me.

   I felt my body run into something big and furry, the animals paw lifted me up onto its back. I was still thinking of running and that's what the animal did it ran and ran. Faster than I ever could, and stronger than I ever could be. I felt safe with the animal, the untamed animal. So I gripped its fur and fell asleep.

   I woke up on the ground with a paw wrapped around me like a blanket. I heard a voice in my head.

"Good your awake."

"What, Where, Who?" I stammered. I couldn't move the paw on me was like a boulder.

"Be quite, everything is good, everything is safe."

The memories of what had happened raced through my mind and all of the emotions I felt. Tears started rolling down my face and the loss gripped me again. No I had to stay awake.

"Will you please lift your paw off of me?"

"Of course."

The creature's paw lifted up and I rolled out from underneath it. When I saw the creature to be completely honest I screamed. I was staring face to face with Cerberus, well actually face to three faces.


"Oh please don't be such a baby." somebody said. From behind Cerberus Kovull walked into view.

"You! Go away, leave me alone!" I turned around and started walking away.

"Wait, Nyla!"

"No I don't want to hear it you can just go back to where ever you came from!"  I shouted back. Kovull started walking after me and so did Cerberus. As soon as Cerberus caught up with me I climbed onto his back.

"Will you take me to the river Styx?"

"Of course." Cerberus started to run.

"Cerberus, STOP." Kovull yelled.
Cerberus stopped dead in his tracks. His eyes turned from gold to dead black. He turned around and faced Kovull. Horror spread through me.

"Kovull, what did you do to him?" I said while struggling to get off of Cerberus.

"You didn't think that I have powers too?"

"You? But how? "

"I have lived in the underworld for over 300 years. You didn't think I would acquire some sort of power."
Kovull was pointing at Cerberus he quickly jerked his hand to point at me. Cerberus's gaze fallowed and when we made eye contact he growled. Slowly I started backing away. That's when I noticed Kovull's eye's. The baby blue was gone and now replaced with dark deep red.

"Kovull, what did Hades do to you?"

"Hades? He didn't do anything to me. He helped me master my power."

"You aren't the Kovull that I saved from Hades castle before I blacked out."

"You are quick to catch on..."

"Who are what are you?"

"Its wonderful you would ask us."

"Us?"
Kovull's body started to morph and change. His lower torso morphed and stretched, his legs disappeared and stretched into wolf heads. Six wolf heads stretched out of his waist with fur as black as night. Kovull's grew fangs and his hair grew to become long jet black hair. As quite some shock to me his features became more feminine actually a lot more feminine.  His or her skin (I didn't know which) became pale blue. Like sea green. Her hair (I am just going to call it a her) writhed like thousands of little snacks in one big tangle upon her head. The red in her eyes started to glow and they swirled like a whirlpool in a storm.

"What are you?" I asked barely chocking the words out."

"We are Scylla." All of the heads answered, the women's head and the six wolf's heads. "We are the guarder of our rocks that lay right across from the rocks that belong to the whirlpool daemon Kharybdis. We would drown six sailors from each boat that came near me or my rocks."

"Why don't you still?" I asked slowly and cautiously moving back from Scylla. "Shouldn't you be protecting your rocks from sailors?"

"It is all your fault! All human kinds fault! They stopped believing in the Greek legends as soon as the roman civilization failed. Our ways were forgotten and nobody worshiped us or feared us. My powers started to fade. Everybody thought that when six sailors went missing from my rocks that it was all cause of a storm or sharks." She wailed, well they wailed. "I was cursed in a whole new way  I was forgotten and poor, poor Kharybdis went insane. He would try and kill me instead of the ships that came near him."

Here is something you need to know about me. When something shocking happens it usually takes me a while to process it and I probably shouldn't have said this but...

"Wait, wait, wait you are a girl?" I said in astonishment. Scylla chortled and it sounded like a dying duck in my opinion.

"You, poor ,poor little mortal it will be so easy to kill you but unfortunately Hades wants you alive." She said like she pitied me.
"I would prefer you to kill me instead."
"No I'm sorry that's not how it works." And with that Scylla lunged at me. I immediately reached for my bow but it wasn't there.
"Pickle Fifers!" I shouted and started running.
"Cerberus! Help me!"
"I can't move!" Cerberus wailed in my mined.
"Cerberus," I gathered up all my strength. "I command you to attack Scylla!"
   Cerberus turned around and looked at me. The pain in his eyes was unmistakable but slowly his gold eyes started to come back instead of jet black. When his eyes were completely back to their normal color he lunged at Scylla. I hadn't noticed something about Scylla. She had one big floppy fish tale instead of legs, that looked heavy and useless. But when she fought her tail would wind up and push her forward with such force that I could barely see her when she moved. Cerberus started snapping at her and blocking her from me with his big body. Scylla's moves were fast and agile and I knew within an amount of time Cerberus would lose. Scylla lunged at Cerberus deciding to attack him and kill him first. She would pivot and lunge then she would attack. Although she didn't count on Cerberus's three heads watching every blind spot. Scylla whipped up her tail and lashed it around Cerberus's front paw. She then flung her tale over her head therefore flinging Cerberus over her head. He landed right behind her and wined. Scylla's wolf heads snapped at Cerberus, she bend over him hissing her fangs bared.
"NO!"
   I screamed and ran right at Scylla. My vision started to change. instead of seeing in color everything was black and white. My legs gave out and I stumbled into the gravel. When I opened my eyes again I was seeing through three different sets of eyes. It was disorienting but somehow it worked. I could hear twice as well and I could smell everything. I could feel how powerful I was, my strong legs and jaws. I had three pairs of wicked sharp teeth. That's when I realized it I was inside the mind of Cerberus. Scylla was looking over me with her fangs ready to bight me but she had stopped. My instincts as a predator told me that she was confused because my scent had changed. Also my emotions had changed. I got up and took this chance to fight I backed away and started to charge and Scylla.

Mwahahahahaha I just made the most awesome cliff hanger. Please leave a comment on this chapter and don't worry the next chapter will be coming out shortly. I hope you enjoyed and also I hoped this made up for the wait.