章 21: Chapter21

#Chapter21

Ariel ran out of his house in the cold. It was snowing but his body was warm from all the running. He reached the funeral pyre.

/"Another demigod,/" Viktor said as he and Gregory stood at the top of the school tower, near the huge bell. All the demigod teachers stood around the pyre along with Melissa and Akagi and the demigod students from the dormitory behind the school. Everyone held a candle.

/"DIMITRI!/" Ariel ran towards the burning pyre but Akagi held him back, /"What are you doing to him?! He's not dead! Stop burning his body! DIMITRI! DIMITRI! YOU ASSHOLE, REPLY TO MY TEXTS!/" Ariel cried, /"DIMITRI!/"

The funeral pyre stopped burning as Ariel converted the oxygen around it to Nitrogen. Akagi left him and he ran straight to the pyre, scrunching the ashes left behind.

/"Dimitri.../" He fiddled around the ashes, /"...How could this happen?/"