“Tick tick tick,” a deep voice says with a chuckle. The man sits on his throne in a cloak made of feathers with his face unseen. The man was gigantic, somewhere around 15 feet tall. His hands were rotten and falling apart. Maggots were crawling all over his arms and hands. “The time is coming soon Akan,” says the man “I am your hand,” says the girl standing before the throne. She wears a cloak much like the giant figure, with feathers all over it. She wears bronze armor under the cloak and carries 2 macuahuitls infused with some type of powerful aura. She has long black hair on her back and a sling with a bow and bolas. She is armed for war. “I am Akna, your hand of the clock, the clock will strike 12.” She says with confidence and anger. “The mortals will die”

  “This is a grand city, I’ve never been to the States before,” Llywelyn says with his eyes full of wonder. “It’s not as bad as they make it seem,” he says while laughing. Lu stands there with disappointment in his eyes. “Have you forgotten why we’re here?” he says with anger “There’s something wrong in this city”. “Wait, I thought you guys came here to see me?” Kami says. “There are much more dire matters than you kid,” she says rudely.

  “There's rumors of people going out to a farm outside of New York City and disappearing for months, next thing ya know the person shows up again acting all weird” she exclaims. “So what do you think it is?” Kami asks. “HA, this guy a eejit” Llywelyn says while laughing. “Enough!!” Lu says. “We have to head there now” The 4 of them hop in a car and head toward the town’s border.

  *HONK* *HONK* “Get out of the way asshole!” a man screams at the car in front of him. “I hate America,” Lu says with anger in his eyes.

  They were stuck in traffic and weren’t gonna get out soon. An hour passed by, then another, then another, and the sun had fallen before they made it to the farm.

  It was 11 o'clock exactly.

  “You guys need a bigger car,” Llywelyn says jokingly. “Quiet,” Lu says as he walks to the door. The other 3 follow. As he approaches he sees a herd of goats in the field eating. He stares them down and ponders. He knocks on the door and while he waits Kami decides to go see the goats.

  “Where’re you going you idiot” Chima whispers to him. “Shhhh I just wanna pet one,” Kami says like a child. Chima quickly follows him to stop him. “No you idiot” she yells.

  While those 2 are away Lu and Llywelyn wait for the farmers to open the door. “Why hello,” says an old man as he opens the door slowly. “What're you doing out so late? You get a flat tire?”. Lu looks him up and down. The man was in a nightgown and had little to no hair on his head. His eyes were slightly yellow as if he were sickly, his teeth were rotting and falling out.

  But oddly enough, he stood tall as if he were perfectly fine. Lu kept glaring at him not saying a word, Llywelyn sat there confused wondering what was going on. The man began to speak. “Is there a problem-”. Before he could finish his sentence Lu blasted him away with an energy sphere. All that was left was his lower torso and legs. Llywelyn looked at Lu and saw he had no expression on his face. “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!!” he yells out. Lu continues walking in.

  Chima finally grabs hold of Kami and begins to punch him in the back of the head. “You goddamn idiot what’s wrong with you” “I don’t know I just like animals”

  He says with no expression on his face.

  “Hey, I have a question,” Kami says. “Aren’t you all children of gods?”. “Yes,” Chima states in a dry tone. “So why do you call yourselves “The Atheists?” Chima says “We believe in the gods Just not The God,” she says. “What?” Kami says with a confused expression on his face.

  Before she could answer they heard Llywelyn yell and the sound of the blast. “What the hell going on?!” She yells out.

  As they start to walk they hear a voice behind them. “The moon is so beautiful tonight,” says a woman. “Who the hell?” Kami asks and as they turn around they see the herd of goats standing on their hind legs. One giggles “I’m hungry”. “What the hell is that?” Kami asks. “A Púca” she states. “A what??” She sighs “A shapeshifting goblin”

  “Enough talk,” the goat says as it begins to transform, it grows a scorpion’s stinger on its tail, grows up to 20 feet tall, and has the body of a gorilla, its hind legs stayed nearly the same only they were larger.

  He grew 2 more heads, one a lion, and one a dragon. His hands were like lions but much sharper, capable of cutting steel. Dragon wings sprouted from his back and as they did he rose. The 3 other goats transformed. One a chimera, one a basilisk, one a banshee.

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  As Lu enters the house Llywelyn tries to ask more questions but Lu quickly tells him to be quiet. “Stay on guard, remember your training,” Lu says. Llewellyn stands guard and reaches towards the floor. As he does grass begins to form and rising out of it is a sword made from grass but sharp as steel. It retracts and wraps around his wrist.

  As Lu rushes up the stairs Llywelyn turns back to the old man’s body only, it wasn’t there anymore. “Wha-”. Before he could finish a creature drops on his head. “Ouch ouch,” he cries out while a baby-sized creature tears at his head.

  He backs up against a wall and prepares to run. He sprints as fast as he can at the brick fireplace and he clashes with it. As his gigantic body clashes with the fireplace, every brick comes falling. He flies through like wet paper.

  “Let’s go” Kami cries out ready for battle. He coats his body in lighting and prepares to fight. “Hey I wanna try something,” he says as he picks up 2 pieces of the broken fence. He begins to charge his energy into the stick making it glow a bright blue. He raises his arms and says “Alright let’s do this” and as his arms come down an axe head made of lightning forms on both of the sticks. “Badass” he exclaims

  Chima begins to transform into a cipactli. She grows slightly smaller than the first púca. Her head transforms into a fishlike crocodile. Her legs become toad-like and bouncy.

  Right before they leap into battle they hear the crash from Llywelyn.

  “That big idiot,” Chima says in a gnarly voice. As she’s distracted the amalgamation of animals rushes at her and punches her so hard her head should’ve come

  .

  As Kami’s distracted, the basilisk rushes at him and tries to wrap around him. *zzzzz*. His lighting shocked the basilisk and as it flew back he jumped at it ready to strike but before he could the chimera jumped at him and knocked him back. “Dammit, 3 on one,” he says in an annoyed tone.

  There he stood surrounded by 3 bloodthirsty creatures waiting to taste godly blood.

  Chima quickly recovered from the creature's attack. As she jumped back up she noticed Llywelyn getting back up. “He’s fine I need to worry about myself,” she says to herself while she stands before the creature.

  They both begin to rush at each other but chimas much quicker. The creature flies at Chima and as he does he shoots fire from the dragon's head. She blocks the flames but becomes blind and immobilized due to the smoke and fire around her. He circles her, incinerating every life form around her. But as the smoke clears, there she stands with her fireproof scales. She leaps from the smoke directly at the creature and smacks it with her tail. She bites its leg and slams it on the ground not once, not twice, but three times.

  She stands over the creature catching her breath but before she can it crabs her tail. It stands back up and begins to spin her around in a circle. It goes round and round and round and releases her slamming her into a tree. She then returns to her original form and sits against the tree with blood leaking from her head. “Tch dammit,” she says “I'm getting rusty”. She stands back up and transforms into the same creature as the púca. “Let’s box asshole,” she says as she wipes blood from her mouth.

  While this was happening Llywelyn was in a battle of his own. The small púca from before was no longer so small. It was the same height as Llywelyn and took the form of a frost giant. It stood there with its ice sword and shield grinning at Llywelyn. His grass sword came out again. He stared at it and then laughed. “This is pretty fun”. He rushes at the creature moving as fast as a cat. He swung his blade at the giant and before it could connect, the shield stopped it. “So you're fast too huh? This is so fun” he exclaims. The 2 start swinging their swords, they swing so fast no mortal can see their blades. As their blades clashed once more they both jumped back. Not a scratch on either of them. Llewellyn pulls out a flute and begins to play “This is taking too long” he says to himself. The giant begins to run at him again but before it gets close….

  An elk crashes right into the giant. The sound of the giant hitting the ground was so loud and hard that the people in the city could feel it.. the giant got back up and saw a group of animals swarming Llewellyn. “Let’s finish this you freak”.

  The banshee shrieks at Kami immobilizing him. “Holy shit!!! My ear” he cries out. His lighting begins to weaken because of the pain and as it does the basilisk gets ready to attack once more. Right as it rushes to attack, Chima and the creature step right in front of it in a power struggle causing the basilisk to crash into chimas leg. They both hold each other's arms and attempt to overpower one another. As the creatures are distracted Kami jumps at the banshee and punches it back. He begins to charge the lightning in his hands and around them gauntlets form. He then jumps at the banshee and begins to punch as hard as he can. He punches into the air, then jumps up and hits it right back into the ground. He lands on top of the banshee and just stares. There’s nothing behind his eyes, not a shred of emotion. He punches and punches and punches and punches until the banshee's entire upper body is gone. He stands over her with no expression on his face with blood leaking from his ears. He charges his energy into his hand and releases a beam of energy so powerful it burns a 20-foot hole in the ground. At this point he has stopped thinking, his body is moving on its own. His eyes start glowing blue and clouds start forming in the sky.

  Thunder strikes the ground around them. When a thunderbolt strikes Kami he starts to float. He dashes at the basilisk and stops right in front of it. It leaps at him trying to attack and before it can he grabs it by the neck. He shocks the basilisk with the power of a thousand thunderbolts. He shocks and shocks and shocks it till it turns to dust.

  Chima lets go of the creature and jumps back to dodge the lighting. “What is happening? Kami, are you okay?” She screamed out to him

  But he ignored her. The púca turns into a rat and scurries away. “Shit”

  She says to herself. She then rushes to Kami.

  The animals Llywelyn summoned run away in fear and as they do the púca transforms into an animal and runs like the last. Llywelyn stands there confused. While he stands there Lu comes out of the house. “What the hell is happening” he yells at Llywelyn. Llywelyn shrugged. A thunderbolt struck right where they stood but they quickly jumped away. “It’s Kami,” Lu says. They both then rush over to help him.

  Chima rushes to Kami and right as she arrives she watches him incinerate the basilisk. She transforms back to her original form and tries to touch him but she gets shocked. He doesn’t even look at her. He flies at the chimera grabs its tail and then flies into the sky. Lu and Llywelyn arrive just as he flies away. They asked Chima what happened and she explained.

  In the sky, the púca was getting the worst beating of its life. As Kami rose above the clouds he let go of the chimera tail and let it fly up; he then flew up at lightning speed and began bouncing it around like a pinball in a game. He keeps bouncing it around and with every hit, its body gets destroyed. More and more and more until there was nothing left.

  Kami passes out and falls from the sky. They see him fall and rush to help. Before he lands Llywelyn uses his powers to make a giant pillow made of plants to save him. They all run up to comfort him. They swarm him with countless questions. “What was that?”, “was that your full power?” and much more. But he was unconscious. Llywelyn laughed. “I have no idea what just

  happened,” he said as he continued laughing. He then picked up Kami and got ready to head back to the car and just then the clock struck 12