Legacy

06 // THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONS

"YOU KNOW, I COULD really do without you muttering in my ear every five seconds," I told Atlas as I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Shut up," he ordered me and nodded towards the arm that was touching me. I sighed and smacked it away so that he could change arms. Every now and again he would insist on me changing his arms because, unfortunately, they still got tired.

"Don't you have any ideas?" Spencer asked Apollo.

"I don't want his help," I spat at her and I saw Apollo roll his eyes.

"I'm going to kill him," Atlas muttered.

"You still haven't told us your name," Spencer told him.

"His name is none of your business," I narrowed my eyes at her.

"Be nice," he warned me.

"Why should I be nice?" I questioned and started to pace. As I paced, Atlas had to follow me. "I mean, it's not like they've lied to me my whole life."

"We never lied to you!" Apollo snapped. "You never asked us if we were of Supernatural descent, so we never lied."

"Do you hear a weird buzzing noise?" I asked Atlas.

"Wow, how mature," he scoffed and then started muttering something. After he was done, I noticed that he stopped following me as I paced.

"It worked!" I gasped and turned. Only, it didn't work because now Atlas' arm looked as though it was made of rubber as he was on one end of the room, I was on the other and yet he still had a hand on his shoulder. "Hmm, maybe not."

I saw Atlas' mouth move, then I went flinging back to Atlas' side.

"That was fun," I told him, "let's never do that again."

"Agreed," he muttered.

"Any news on that asshole?" I checked.

"He's gone," Atlas sighed. "He's been gone for the past hour."

"Why didn't you tell me?!" I cried and started dragging him with me towards the door of the hotel room.

"Where do you think you're going?" Apollo demanded.

"None of you business," I assured him and stomped out of the hotel room.

"We can't go without them," Atlas told me. "What if we run into any Aisling along the way? I can't fight them like this and you... I don't know what you are and to be honest I don't really want to mess around with anything Anchor related."

"It's not your decision," I told him and continued on towards the house in the slums. Atlas stopped arguing and it wasn't until we got to the house that I realised why he had given up. Apollo and Spencer had followed us here. "Go home."

"We can't just leave you on your own Val," Spencer frowned. "Our parents would kill us."

"I can protect myself," I told them angrily.

"We don't even know what you can do," she huffed. "Just let us come, we'll stay out of your way and you can silently resent us until you feel better."

I rolled my eyes and the tried the door of the house. When I came to the conclusion that it was locked, I took a step back and kicked the door open.

"Valkyrie!" Atlas cried. I ignored him and continued into the house. Immediately, we were in a small hallway. There were no doors on the wall in front of us, just two on either end.

"Left or right?" I asked Atlas. He sighed before dragging me to the left. This took us into another hallway with the same options. "Left... Or right?"