Clarissa is over me kicking her ass for the 100th time this week. She decided she wasn't going to get out of bed to join us. Ezikel and I decide we can't have that. I grab her and Ezikel her ankles she tries to kick and jerk but we get her down the hall and to the mat. "what the fuck you guys. I said no. Nubia, I think you are strong enough to take down Damian and the devil and possibly go if you really want to." She is screaming lying on the mat. We bust up laughing because I mean I really can't do that. "Nubia, have you noticed how creepy this place is? the halls are backed but you open doors and each room is designed differently. You think the pyramids would be a little more, umm, upkeep." Clarissa says well looking into the hallway that holds no pictures their just brick. "Each room leads to a different location. I have almost opened every door and seen Brazil, Mexico, Antarctica, Africa, the middle of the ocean, and so many more. it's like the Pyrimad is a way of holding multiple portals without them collapsing on each other. Ezikel what did you read on that again." I look at him and he responds. "Well, we all know aliens built these pyramids. Just kidding but am I. Anyway, the sand from the ground has enough minerals to keep each portal blacked from the other. this is why they don't collapse in each other." He says laughing but trying to be serious. Clarissa starts to think about something but decides to keep it to herself. We get into training positions, but my mother decides today will be the day I go through my big test to see if I'm ready. "Nubia, it's time." Ezikel and Clarissa look at each other and stand up ready to go with me. "Sorry, kids this one is only for Nubia. You will have to wait till she returns." My mother says with her hand out to stop them.

My mother stands in front of a door. She stares at the knob and her hands lift to open but it hovers. "Nubia, my beautiful treasure. Whatever they say and do just be honest and most of all fight like hell with angel wings." My mother says as she hugs me tight, opens the door, and shoves me inside. I catch my feet well stumbling in and look up. the room is pitch black and in the distance, I see a bright light, but two other lights pop up. A blue off to the right of the bright light and a red light to the left. "Which is your choice, Nubia Di Rossi?" A loud voice booms over me, but I can't see anyone. I walk towards the light towards the bright light in the middle it's humming to me like a song my mother would sing to me when she would put me down to sleep. I walk towards the bright light. the voice booms over, "Nubia you must choose the blue or the red." I'm confused there are three lights why only one or the other? "But there is another light in the middle."

"No nubia, you lie, there is only two." Says the voice.

"No, there are three and I'm choosing what my soul and heart feel," I say right back.

"We don't see three, we see two." The voice is cut off as I enter the bright light. I know they are yelling but I have to trust myself and I have to see why this light is calling me. When the brightness starts to fade away, there are bushes with purple flowers on them. These flowers open and close as the wind moves across them. The grass is soft like blankets but smells sweatier than pumpkin pie. I also see in the distance people charging towards me. I have two choices run or face them. As the dust gets bigger I know I have to face them. They feel familiar to me like they have been here all along. As the men on the horse show in front of me one gets down and walks toward me. My eyes look at him and I don't run and I fight. it doesn't feel like they are threatening me."Who are you, and why do you come through light source?" okay these people definitely don't talk well or maybe this is how they talk. All I know is I must be true to myself and be myself around them. "I'm Nubia, I heard singing from your light and came through it. I am to be tested today." I say with no hesitation to tell them the truth. Then there is a high-pitched voice behind them. "Nubia, is that really you?" Feyas's voice comes through the crowd of whispers and I can't help but run towards her. The men try to grab me when she holds her hands up to stop them. I run into her arms and pick her off of her feet. "I thought you died." tears are streaming down my face as I look her over. "I almost did but I am the universe and it would have collapsed without me. My guardians came to protect me. "Their Guardians. this is why my soul is buzzing. you are like me." I say ecstatic. "They are guardians but they are not even close to what you are. You are flowing like a rainbow Nubia. Is that what you are a guardian? But a guardian for what?" She asks well looking deep into my soul. "I'm a guardian for all realms. I am the protector of all souls, heaven, hell, and the universe. I was made to protect you guys from." Feyes cuts me off and says what its name is. "Seelenfresser, also known as a soul eater."

As we come back to a tiny village she shows me the tiny huts her people live in. The trees here are making the song sound and I smile. The trees are what was calling make towards this place. "I need to show you someone. they accidently got sent here to die not realizing exactly where they were sending him." Feya says guiding me to a blue hut with silver sheets hanging over it. As we enter I see Damian lying on grass. his breathing is grasping and he is badged up. His face is bruised and cut up. His hands are brutally cut up from hitting whatever he was fitting. My soul rushes to his side and I'm over his ear. "Damian, let me save you. Just kiss me. Let me heal you." He doesn't move. not even a twitch. My heart sobs. "Feya we have to do something. Tell me what we are supposed to do?" Im crying and then there is a slight Whispear from his mouth. "Nubia" On intstict I place my lips on his again. There is a slight flicker from our mouths and then the Pink soul dust starts to flow. I close my eyes as I use all of my power to heal him and let him use as much energy as I can to help him heal. My soul feels a little tired but as always she pulls it together and through my closed eyes I see that I am glowing a bright pink color. His lips finally release and I can still feel my feet off the ground and my body Glowing. my eyes won't open but my soul is still glowing. I feel hands on my shoulders at first then they clasp my hands, and even little hands on my legs. I feel the wave of healing through their hands.

"Nubia, my beautiful baby girl. please come back to me." a voice whispers in my ear. My eyes open to people screaming for their lives. A black mist comes for me and I kick them. I grab a spear and slice right through it and it combusts in thin air. Another comes at me grabs the end of the spear and kicks me down. "Don't fucking do it. Nubia!" the voice yelled in the distance as I looked over to see Damian in an Egyptian skirt and gold around his neck. The spear cuts into my body and the mist leaves. He runs to my side and I can feel my light leaving. My soul is leaving my body. " Nubia, please don't die on me don't let them take you, don't let them take our unborn children. don't let them. Please hold on. Please just kiss me." His lips collide with mine but now I'm watching him kiss my lifeless body. I shot up out of the grass bed as if it was real. "Nubia, it's okay, you are safe. I got you." Damian says well wrapping his arms around me. I look at him then around me again I can see both a vision from the past and from the time right now. It's as if it split down the middle of a screen. I slowly get up and push Damian away with soft hands. He walks next to me and looks at my face and then looks at what I'm looking at. "Nubia, what do you see baby?" He is afraid and I grab his hand and my soul shows him what I am looking at. The spear I used to kill the mist and the blade that took my life. His eyes start to water and I look at him. "I know how we're going to kill the soul suckers and the soul eater." My voice is determined and I am officially aware of these things.

The door clicks and everyone is waiting around the door. My mother smiles. Clarissa and Ezikel come to hug me as I whisper in their ears. "I have a surprise for you." As Feya and Damian come in through the door right behind me. Clarissa runs into Damian's arms and starts to kiss him i look away this way it hurts less and I don't catch feelings because I promised I wouldn't hurt them. Feya runs into Ezikelt then they swap hugging. As they are wrapped in the arms of one another I look to my mom and grab her hands. I show her the image of the blade channeling it through our frequencies. "We need to find this blade and we need to find it before anyone gets their hands on it. We also need to find everything on Soul Eater also, known as Seelenfressers. We can find also this thing always has souls sucker around which I'm assuming is the purple Souls I'm seeing on the map." My mom shakes her head and guides me to the map room. "She can see other souls on the holy map." Damian says. "oh she can do so much more than that. Wait until you get her into battle with you. this is going to be fun to see your ass get beat for once." Ezikel says laughing down the hall. "What do you mean she is going to kick my ass?" Damian says acting like it is impossible. "Oh, sweetheart she can kick your ass. I tried taking her soul from her body and it locked down and kicked my as instead. She isn't the girl you met almost three months ago. She is all grown up now. She is a badass woman." Clarrisa says proudly behind me. "Oh my god, I can't wait to fight Nubia. how exciting. can we use weapons?" Feye says sounding like a little murder behind me. "Of course, we can Feya I don't know if I can beat you or Damian but I can try." I say humbly. "stop acting humble. you just kicked our ass three days ago and did it without breaking a sweat." Says Clarissa. Which I take that as a compliment from her. Damian says, "When can we get to this mat and start fighting? I wanna see what you got." Damian voice is silky and makes my stomach turn and burn all at the same time. "First map then you guys can go fight." My mother says. Then I hear her in my soul. "Are you sure you are okay to fight?" I smile and answer back, "I'm so ready to show them how badass I can be." My mother giggles out loud. "Hey, what are we keeping secrets up there?" Ezikel sounds hurt. "We're not keeping secrets Ezikel. Just making sure one another is good." I look back at him and catch Damian staring at me then he says, "Wait you can soul communicate. I hate else don't I know butterfly?" My mother swings around bald to his throat and he doesn't flick. He doesn't even show fear. "Don't call her that unless you want to lose your tongue." My mother says and I bust out laughing so hard tears are coming out of my eyes. "Mother like daughter," I say still laughing my mother looks at me like I lost my mind but everyone calms down and starts to laugh and remembers I told him that exact thing.

The jackets are puffy and have a heating pad in them. My body shakes a happy dance into it. My mother opens that map back up and I see the three purple souls, but they are closer to where we are and my eyes go wide. I decided to try my shield and see if everyone could see our guests moving in on us. "What the fuck is going on? What are you doing Nubia?" Damian sounds scared and I look at him with a smirk. "Aw come on Damian, trust my soul. It's the whole fuck around and find out." I say laughing and he straightens his shirt and slowly lets himself trust me. My shield then surrounds him. His cheeks go a little purplish pink as he moves closer to the table. My mother says out loud, "holy shit, there are a lot of colors on this map." I look back and see that I can now make out more colors than before there isn't only light blue, black, red, purple, silver, and gold. I can now make out angels, demons, vampires, reapers, and so many more creatures. "I get it. I need you guys to see all the creatures on the earth." As we are looking at the map there is royal blue and dark green color so bright coming off the map. Everyone glances at me and sees where I'm going. They all see the color I see. "What is that darling." My mother says. "I don't know but it's calling to me," I tell her as my hand touches it. "How the fuck do you know it's calling to you," Damian says in a snarky tone. Clarissa elbows him in the side. He gives her a what the fuck look. "Because I can hear it saying my name. My shield starts to come down. Feya looks at it one more time and then she talks to my soul. "It's your spirit guide or your spirit animal. Its beacon has Ben opened, which means it just reached the age to be by your side." I look at her and shake my head. I soul communicate with my mother. "I need to get to this location as close as possible Mom." She looks at me with wide eyes. And before she can shake her head no I tell her. "This is something I have to do and I have to do it alone." My mother takes a deep breath sees where I'm pointing at the map and walks out. "You're not fucking going alone to some place we don't Nubia. And stop fucking cutting us out of conversations. We're a team and we need to act like it." Damian was inches from my face. "Damian we are a team but this is something I have to do alone and you have to trust that I am not some weak girl. I'm not. I can do this." I say right back in his face. "Damian you're not going to win this one." I hear Candy coming into the room. I run to hug her because she has been gone for too long. "I have to agree with both of them Damian. "We have to trust that she can do it," Ezikel says. Damian looks at Clarissa and Feya to back them up but no one is. He slims his fist into the corner of the wall and walks out of the room.