While Dilara and her family journeyed towards the Castorian gates with the guards, her eyes examined their surroundings. With people's screams and footsteps echoing all around us, she saw people running for their lives in opposite directions.

The silent night frowned upon Castoria alongside the silver moon and stars. A few thin clouds floated across the sky.

Numerous fires were burning the majority of buildings. Monsters ravaged the area and soldiers both fought them off and rescued anyone that they could find.

Dilara and her family's hearts beated a bit faster out of fear striking out their eyes. She couldn't wait to get the hell out of this hellhole. She was halfway there to the Castoria gates, and she hoped she would make it there alive, alongside the gods on their side.

The three monsters-two skinny ones and one fat one-exited one of the burning buildings and searched around until they took an interest in Dilara and her family. Once they spotted their targets, they flew their way towards Dilara and her family.

Roaring at their targets, they pulled out their claws and were getting ready to strike Dilara and her family. "Huh?!" The soldiers noticed this and aimed their guns at them, pulling the triggers. "Enemy incoming!"

Dilara and her family turned to those monsters and her family screamed in horror. Their fear struck their eyes when they turned to those monsters while Dilara gazed at her enemies in her calm manner, running their way forward.

"Now the monsters are coming after us!" Ingrid cried when she and the rest of the family's eyes stared at the enemies.

"Never fear, Ingrid. Never fear," Mother reassured. "These soldiers are trying to save us."

"I hope so, Mother," Shakila also cried.

The monsters managed to dodge the soldiers' bullets and the fat one slashed its claws at their abdomen, making blood splatter on the ground. The soldiers cried and collapsed to the ground, with their blood spreading out from their wounds.

Then that same monster roared and grinned at us while still flying up in the air. The two other ones flew their way towards Dilara and her family, getting ready to slash their targets.

Dilara turned to her family and the monsters back and forth. Remembering the magical chants from that woman's voice, Dilara turned around and aimed her palm at them, holding her shaky arm tight to aim it straight.

Shakila noticed this and stopped moving. She pulled Mother and Ingrid's dresses. "Look, Mother! Dilara's trying to fight off these monsters on her own again!"

Mother and Ingrid turned back to her and Mother scoffed at her, shouting her name. "What do you think you're doing?! Putting yourself in danger like that?!" Mother added.

Dilara slightly turned to Mother. "I'm tryin' to protect you from these monsters. I can prove it to you that I used a different magic spell against the monster from earlier. Jus' watch!" She shouted back.

Mother gasped in terror. "Have you gone mad, child?! I shall not have my servant fight against those monsters! Not on my watch!"

"Go, little girl! Go!" Dilara roared as the monsters got closer to us.

"I beg your pardon?! How dare you call me, 'little girl' after I existed on this planet much longer than you and my daughters combined. How dare you?!" Mother roared until she stopped moving forward and screamed when looking up at the monsters.

Dilara put her hand down and ran away from her enemies, pushing Mother forward; Shakila and Ingrid led the way. Luckily, the two monsters only sliced the air with their claws.

The fat monster roared at Dilara and her family and flew after their targets past the two thin ones, getting its claws ready. The thin ones followed after it.

Looking back at those demons, Dilara stopped pushing Mother forward and quickly turned around, pointing her palm at her nemeses. "Go!" Dilara roared at my family.

Mother glared at Dilara and was about to put her hand on Dilara's shoulder. "Absolutely-"

Shakila and Ingrid also quickly turned around and grabbed hold of Mother. "C'mon, Mother. Let's go get the guards after her stubborn ass!" Shakila said, pulling Mother away from Dilara with Ingrid.

Mother immediately turned her shocked eyes at Shakila. "Shakila, why would you-"

"Yeah, Shakila's right, Mother," Ingrid agreed. "It's pointless to snap her out of it! Let's just get out of here now! Hurry!"

Mother quickly turned to Ingrid. "Ingrid! Why that's-" She turned to the fat monster in a shiver the moment it roared; it was getting close to them again. "Oh, my goodness gracious!"

"Let's go, Mother!" Shakila cried as she and Ingrid continued to pull her away from Dilara.

"Yeah, Mother. C'mon!" Ingrid also cried.

Dilara tried to chant a spell that woman taught her a while ago, even with holding her palm out hard enough for it to hold still, yet all that yelling behind her just became impatient and annoyed with her family's presence, particularly Mother-the worst of them all. She couldn't even believe they even remained here that long just to bother her. How pathetic…

And thanks to them, she wasn't able to cast a spell on her enemies. Her enemies were so close to her and her family that she and her family had to run away from them again.

They were lucky that their enemy missed its target and its two other demons flew past it, towards us. Those monsters roared at Dilara and her family and also got their claws ready for action.

After a while, Dilara looked back at them and turned around one last time. She stopped running with them and quickly turned around to put her palm out forward, trying to get it to hold still from her hand.

She quickly turned her head to her family and saw Mother stopped moving with her sisters, turning towards her. She sighed deeply the moment Mother tried to walk towards her one last time.

Again, what a stubborn ass woman she is!

"Would you get the hell out of here already?!" Dilara roared with a glare. "I'm tryin' to cast a spell here to protect you, and yet your dumbass want to prevent me from doin' so. That's not happenin', little girl!"

Mother growled at Dilara and raised her hand up in the air, getting ready to slap Dilara in the face. "Why you, insolent-"

Yet Shakila and Ingrid went after and grabbed hold of Mother, pulling her away from Dilara. "C'mon, Mother! Let's get out of here already!"

Mother turned to her daughters and Dilara back and forth; she didn't even bother resisting this time, sighing. "I suppose you're right, ladies. Let's get out of here while we can."

Dilara was relieved to hear that. Her sisters gasped out of joy and smiled at Mother, shaking their heads before they ran for their lives. Once they left, Dilara turned back to her enemies and her enemies were halfway towards her-all three of them, roaring at her.

Even though her mind was struck from fear, she didn't allow fear to haunt it, not now, not ever. After aiming her palm straight at her enemies, she closed she eyes and took a deep breath. Her mind boosted her confidence and took that lady's advice from earlier: just stay calm, and she should be fine