It was a very long and hard day for them. It's been three days for straight physical training. And every afternoon had a little study group at three in the Academy's café.

But this time, she was surprised to see her mother and father coming out from the kitchen wearing an apron. She laughed and shook her head.

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"What are you guys doing here?" Athena asked.

"What? It's your birthday." Gabriel approached her and kissed her forehead. And then, the triplets also entered the café and Christian put the whole café is reserved so no one else would enter.

Since the café is made of glass and build up an LCD screen, he turned on the whole café into a forest-like hut, so no one would see them from inside.

"Mom!" The triplets approached Sabrina and hugged her.

Gabriel frowned. These rascals are grown up and yet they still cling to their mother. Athena snickered from her father's frown. Those triplets are mama's boys and that's one thing that Gabriel couldn't change.

"So, what did you got me for my birthday?" Athena asked as her cousins entered the café.

"We didn't get you anything," Gabriel told.

"Oh." She was surprised that they didn't get her anything. Well, it's not like she didn't own something that she didn't like. Besides, she wasn't a materialist person.

"Instead, we are cooking for dinner." Sabrina winked at her.

"Well, we are super hungry," Athena told.

The kids cheered and Dmitri came to help.

Athena checked her phone and received a chat from Xavier. She smiled when she received a sticker of a happy birthday.

Dear Goddess Athena,

I hope that you'll always have a great day. I'll give you my gift when I saw you. *emoji kisses with hearts*

-X

Athena tapped to reply.

Thanks, Xavier. I'll see you when I see you.

She turned to see Bea, leaning her cheeks on her hand as she watched her.

"What?" Athena chuckled.

"Who is that?" Bea grinned at her. Athena showed him the photo of Xavier with her at the beach. "Holy cow! This is hot." She exclaimed and everyone looked at them.

"What's hot?" Laurence asked and stared at them.

Bea gave it back to Athena and she wondered something. Athena punched Bea's arm.

"So, how's your bodyguard?" Athena whispered to her ear. Bea's playful grin faded, and she shook her head. She looked away and it's like she's going to cry. Athena put her arm around her to comfort her and Bea just leaned on her. "I wouldn't ask again."

Their party started at dinner and they eat a lot and had a drink. Dmitri let them have a drink. Some of their parents didn't make it because of work and missions that they need to do without wasting any time.

They also prepared a strawberry ice cream cake. It's lots of celebration and the babies, Elizabeth and Zavannah who only watched the cake from the live footage are frowning. But then, their mothers had prepared a small strawberry ice cream cake for them and they clapped their hands.

"Ellen, Love, and Ash, make the cake for you," Sabrina told.

"Wow, I have been wanting to taste it. Even though it wasn't the Mango Bravo cake. But still," She took a slice. "I don't care about eating more sugar today."

"We don't care!" They all said at the same time.

The cake is big enough for all of them. Timothy arrived late with Jaxon. Jaxon is part of the Empire Café a business together with Christian and then other boys who were Christian's roommate and now they are one as a team during their missions.

Bea seemed to be sad and yet relieved at the same time. Athena read all of Bea's body language and expression. She might've seen something that would keep her away from her soulmate.

The first that Timothy did is hug Zendaya and kissed her passionately. It's only been three days and the two couldn't just get enough of each other. She looked at Zachary who is frowning but his wife covered his eyes and pulled him. They are just fun to watch.

Athena sat down sighing, watching all who have fun. But some people wanted to isolate themselves and then Bea is eating a lot of cake. She doesn't care about her sugar and she asked her mother to wrapped her up some cake. She approached her.

"Where are you going? Are you stealing my cake?" Athena asked her teasingly. Bea laughed.

"Let me be, Athena. Can I have all of those cake?" She asked.

"No." Athena shook her head. "You didn't even give me a tiny piece of your cake from your birthday now you are stealing mine?"

Bea laughed.

"I'll give you the whole cake for my next birthday."

"So, I have to wait for a year for that?" Athena creased her brows.

"Yeah," She nodded. Athena scratched her brows.

"Bea, you need to cut off your sugar."

"No!" She took the container from her mother and hugged. "I'll treat you tomorrow. Okay?"

Athena looked at Bea's mother who only shrugged.

"Don't leave yet. We are going to drink together." She said.

"Okay."

Bea stayed for a while although she wanted to leave. So, since they are roommates, Athena followed her and Bea entered her room, with the cake. She heard the television. Athena doesn't have the heart to comfort her at the moment. She doesn't want to cry with Bea's heartbreaking visions.

So, she took a long shower letting Bea cry until her heart is contented.

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Demi and Christian helped out in cleaning up and that's when Noah arrived with Mason to report to Fin. Fin told them to eat first and they settled on a table as the kids left the Café. Christian stayed with Demetria.

So, Noah gathered all of the information that he gets about any ninja assassin clan. Mason also gave information from the things that he had gathered.

Andromeda frowned. It's not good that they are researching about ninja assassin clans around the world.

"Fin, I think we should stop."

"Why?" Fin asked.

"They wouldn't attack us if we didn't provoke them," Andy explained.

"What if one will attack us?"

"They wouldn't attack Bea directly, but if De la Fontaine is part of it, they will attack my daughter first or me or my family."

Sabrina thought about it and Andy is correct.

"So, if it's not De la Fontaine, then, their first target is either Timothy, Zendaya, or the triplets or the Dragon Company that also includes the Pattinson Company," Sabrina said. "I think, we need to make a list of people who would want to attack us."

Gabriel approached Sabrina and put his arm around her shoulder.

"So, from Bea's vision, she was attacked by a ninja." Andy murmured.

Noah creased his brows when he heard Bea's name.

"Okay." Fin nodded and agreed with the girls. "We'll stop this, but I'll deploy more guards for the kids." He told Andromeda as Andy nodded.

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She was done from crying and she finished the cake. She couldn't sleep and she's still full so after she take a half bath and walked around the field and there is a roving guard and approached her. He recognized her immediately.

"Miss Bea,"

"Hi," She waved at him. "Is it alright that I'll walk around for a moment?" She asked.

The guard checked his wrist watched and nodded. The guard murmured on his earpiece and let her go. She walked to the soccer field and finally found a bench to sat on. She sighed and looked up the sky full of stars. There's no moon at this moment.

She frowned looking at two male walking and the other figure is familiar. When they walked past by the light post, her eyes widen, and she stood and walked off. Why is that guy here? She went in the other direction. She walked fast to her dorm, but she stopped when she suddenly felt shadows around.

Before she knows it, she was pulled into a scenario. There's Christian, Noah, Jaxon, Asher, and Mason. But they were surrounded by men hiding in the shadows.

There are more. A person stepped forward and looked at Christian's eyes. The man is tall and he's wearing the emblem of an Eagle Empire. Then in a snapped, the boys where an attack by Shuriken and they blocked it one by one. They were outnumbered and although Christian wasn't their direct attack, Christian did everything to protect them.

They were killed one by one and Noah is lying on the floor in his blood and they took Christian that received deep cuts from them.

"Now, are you willing to be with us? Christian?"

"No. I will protect my family no matter what." Christian gritted his teeth. Blood gushes down from his head as he glared at the man.

"Your family has been tortured by the family that you are protecting. Can't you see it Christian? You were controlled by Dmitri. And that girl that you were with? She's controlling you. Oh, I should kill her first, that would make you break and crawl to me."

"I rather die than crawl to you." He gritted his teeth.

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Author's Note:

Hi Guys! Update time will be moved around 1300H or 01:00 PM. I usually sleep at 4:00 AM and wake up in the afternoon.

Enjoy the chapters!

--The Illusionist