“Er...sure, I'll catch the next one." Jamie was glad to hear his voice trembled only a Little.

The beast then lunged toward him but the goddess soon put herself between him and harm. A single swing of her shield bashed the dog across its jaws and it landed awkwardly before him. Yet before the thing could rise to rip Jamie Limb from Limb Athena's spear was plunged into its chest, piercing the thing's heart. The beast whined and then fell still before it evaporated into dust and black smoke.

Athena plucked her spear from the ground and nodded at her work as

Jamie slowly Lifted himself to his feet.

“Ok, I am now officially in love with you too." He said through a couple of heavy breaths.

“Thanks Athena.”

“I am..." She seemed rather sweetly flustered by his profession before she realised he wasn't entirely serious.

“You are welcome Jamie."

“Are you blushing?" He teased.

“No! Do not speak to me in such a way!"

“No ma'am." Jamie was pleasantly surprised to see the goddess quite so flustered. To save her from more embarrassment however he quickly changed the subject. "So could you do me a favour? Allison's castle in the sky? That's real isn't it. It's not just a dream?"

“It is real." She affirmed with a short nod as he saw her armour and her weapons slip away once more to be replaced by her beautiful white dress.

“Could you take her there?" Jamie cocked his thumb over his shoulder toward the unconscious succubus.

“Keep her safe and keep her from hurting anyone else?"

There was a Long pause before the goddess nodded in agreement.

“Thanks. Oh and do you know where Allison is? I would have thought she'd have shown up by now."

“Your new lover's masters cast a warding spell here to keep her away.

She has very little power in this place at the moment. Thankfully they did not anticipate you would awaken me, or if they did they did not think I would be quite so able to deal with their Lackeys."

Jamie was going to say something but became slightly distracted by the noise of a vehicle approaching. He recognised the familiar white van that Elisha and Gwen had left in and he lifted his arm to wave at them as they drove toward him.

“Athena?" He turned back to the goddess who was also looking at the approaching van.