After I went to bed, I had a dream where I was back in the underground, I was cooking dinner for my family the knights came and I used the staff to make them go away, my family was chanting my name “Ozie… Ozwald… Ozwald!” I felt something heavy over me when I opened my eyes, I saw Higen over me he was griping my hands over my head with one hand, he had the same logo painted on his face and his eyes were all small and shifting “Higen what are you doing? You are scaring me let go!” he laughed a little “I… I´m sorry Ozwald but... but you know I think you just need to try and listen to the song again and then everything is going to be okay, please you must do this for me!” I tried to free my hands from his grasp, but it was too tight he was trying to put his headphones on my ears as the horrible scratching sound filled the room.

“Ozwald please, please just one more time I swear you will get this in no time then we can listen to it together oh we can even go to the concert and be best friends again” he pressed his body against mine trying to make me listen to the song he was all jittery and twitchy something obviously was wrong with him, that’s when amongst the scratching sounds of the song I heard screaming coming from the street “Higen… I forgot to thank you” I told him his eyes shined bright full of hope and happiness “You finally got the song? I’m so ha…” “for teaching me self-defense!” I knee him on the family jewels, and he fall off my bed giving me enough time to run somewhere safe.

I wanted to run through the front door but apparently, Higen invaded the other members of the football team to the apartment, so I locked myself in the bathroom, I moved a piece of furniture we keep there, to keep the door shut “okay let's be real I am been chased by a crazy Higen, and I hide in the shower!” I reprimanded myself, okey I need to think of a solution, I don’t have my powers, Higen is been controlled by something and there are at least five other people in my house, I looked at the mirror, I didn’t want to talk to him, but I don’t think I have a chose I have to talk to the allure.

I got close to the mirror, and my reflection was imitating me as normal, I tapped on it “Hey… me I know you are in there I need your help” but my reflection was the same, someone started to bang on the door “Ozwald… Ozwald please I understand you are scared but” Bang bang bang “I just want to help!” oh no Higen is back on his feet “Listen I forgive you for what you did so why don’t you come out, it’s me your old pal Higen don’t you want to hang out?” he keep banging on the door, “geez having trouble in paradise me?” my reflections eye turned dark and cracked and acted on its own, “been a while huh? me”

“I knew you would be coming crawling back to me the sorcerers always do” he laughed, “So Boy Scout went nuts?” he asked, I nodded “Figures, I´ve been hearing a noisy siren song for days, it drives us nuts” “a siren? like in the stories?” my reflection nodded, “yeah some legends are actually titans or other monsters, got to handle it to Higen, he held out for almost five days before giving in most people fall under the charm in a matter of minutes”

Higen kept banging on the door, I didn’t think it would hold up for much longer “okay I need the staff, but I can get it myself, but you can” my reflection picked at his teeth “And why should I help you? Last time I did you went “I didn’t want to do it my reflection forced me wahhhh” Remember?” he imitated my voice in a higher pitch to mock me “right look, ether you help me now or” Higen finally remembered he has weapons and started to hack at the door with a black axe, I started to scream “he is going to murder us… fine for this time I call a truce” my reflection reached within him and pulled the staff from my chest.

I opened the window and leaped out as the door was turned into timber “Levitate!!!” my nails turned black as I gently landed on the ground at the bottom of the building, I hid and waited for Higen and the rest of the team to leave, in a moment they ran past me and down the street, I saw more people been forced to hear the song, I returned home and changed my clothes and check my phone “the Titan is at in the concert hall” I twirled the staff in my hands “Jump!” and in a leap, I was on my way to fight the titan.

It took me a while to figure out my way to the Concert hall, where a line of people was entering through a door to the labyrinth, “and what exactly are you going to do when you find the titan?” my reflection asked from the gold disk of the staff “do you think I can break the charm on Higen with a divine word?” “Unlikely, if you were a more skilled melodist sure, but, you can’t even fly for more than a minute… although, if you manage to shock him in some way,  and say something like “countercharm” it might work” I´ll think of something right now I can’t let those innocent people be eaten by the titan, I press the barrier button and entered the labyrinth.

The inside looked like a shore covered in sand and rocks, there were some dead trees and poodles of murky water, “Hide” a circle formed in front of me and made me transparent, it wouldn’t last long but it would prevent any unwanted attacks for now, I walked, looking for the location of the titan, I noticed that the people were running in a straight line towards something, they were forming a circle in the sand, were the horrible singing was louder, there in the center I saw the titan, it had the general shape of malnourished bird with the head of a woman, her long hair was covering her face she moved one of her wings and a fanatic moved in front of her, her neck elongated and attempted to swallow the fanatic.

“Shell!” even if it’s risky I need to try to save that person, I managed to protect him from the head of the titan she looked at my direction and screeched “Oz… Ozwald!!!” Higen ran at me at full speed blade in hand I barely managed to dodge the cut as one of the petals of my barrier shattered, he was panting heavily and looking more unhinged “hahahe I… I knew you would come with me Ozwald” “Higen snap out of it, this isn’t like you!” he laughed and lunched again at me “Disarm!” his sword was pulled out of his hands and into the sand, and he laughed maniacally and lunched his fist jabbing me in the stomach and threw me to the ground, I spat some blood, the titan screeched again, Higen nodded widely. “hehehhe did you hear that Ozwald!” he kicked the staff of my hands and sat on my chest “Higen please… sto” his hands wrapped tightly around my neck “shhhhuuu shuuuuu she said “if you do this you two will be together forever” so I have to, that’s all I want!!!” he started to strangle me, a few more petals shattered as his grip grow tighter and tighter, I extended my hand if I could touch the staff I could try the only thing I can imagen now, “I want someone that would never leave me! Someone that will never use me! Hehehe!!!” as he continued with his rant, I felt the tip of the staff with my middle finger “co…countercharm! So…sorry”

I then grabbed his head with my two hands, conjured all the strength I had left, and pulled his face towards mine, our lips met it was a reach, but it was the only thing I could imagine that would shock him, his eyes returned to normal, the logo on his check broke and he released his grip on my neck “I… I wha… what just happened!?!” he screamed, his face was so red he looked like he was the one been strangle, he got all flustered that was the singe that he had gone back to normal, I rubbed my neck and look at my crest only one petal remained “wel…welcome back Higen, titan behind you, you cuff you got this one right?”

He didn’t waste any time, he activated his barriers and lunged himself into the fight “You foul beast!” he yelled as he clashed against the wings of the titan, “how dear you made me do such a thing to my best friend!!!” he pierced trough one of her wings with his sword, the titan try to shake him off but he was relentless on his onslaught “that was my first kiss!, how am I supposed to continue after that!!!” he pulled a black and blue bastard sword out of his gloves and beheaded the titan in a single slash, he grabbed the core as the labyrinth crumble.

The rest of the people just fainted “Cure!” I said my throat stopped aching and I was able to talk again, “well that was close, but we did it” Higen started to draw circles on the dust of the concert hall, “Ah… yeah I guess” he looked depressed “… look it was the only thing I could think of, I’m sorry” he sighed “no, its okay it was that or death I’m more bumped about the fact that I hurt you…” I patted him on the back “Hey is okey it wasn’t you, you were possessed I know you would never do something like that” he stood up and dusted his shorts, “were do you think the after team is?” he asked I was going to answer when a familiar voice interrupted us “they were also under the titan compulsion, they should be here shortly gentleman”

Lulu entered the building and looked at us I tried to hide the staff, but it was useless “I see you took care of the situation Mr. Voloro, I’m sorry if the punishment put you in danger” “Well I’m just happy it was resolved, am I in trouble for using the staff?” I asked concerned she shook her head “You were pretty amazing handling the situation by yourself, here” she offered me water in a tiny glass “That should nullify the ashes you consume” I quickly opened it and drank the water, “Miss Lulu, how did that titan get into this app?” Higen asked as he handed her the core, she looked at it against the light “She probably charmed someone who was able to make her more well known, recorded her song, and put it on the app, gradually infecting people” she put the core into a case “but thankfully you guys stopped her, did anything else happen?” she asked we looked at each other than away “wha… something else puff no way” I said “yeah we just took care of the fight nobody kiss anyone definitely not on the lips ha-ha”