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Jake the Sage

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For those who really don't know I have been running an rp that was originally called "Greek Mythology RP" and has only recently been renamed just plainly "Mythology".

 

Well we had a good 500 pages of posts from a bunch of great people and I didn't want all of it to go to waist. So I decided to change ALL (yes I said all) 500 pages into a type of fan-fic. Or is it the rp in book form? Hmmm . . . *shakes head* Either way here it is if you wanna read it ^^

 

[spoiler=Prologue-Chapter 4 (Teaser of Ch. 5)]

Prologue-

The world is full of wonders and mysteries. Civilizations come and goes, each leaving something behind for future generations. The gods of ancient Greece, like many old gods, have left behind mortal beings for which their pure blood still courses through their veins.

However, in a time long forgotten, something is amiss as evil spreads like a plague. Now the descendants must aid their parents or calamity and strife will become the norm.

 

Chapter 1-

 

The sun rises as yet another day begins in the modern world. The sunlight breaks through the curtains and a single beam of light lands on a sleeping girl’s face. The warmth of the sun makes her stir and she gets up stretching, her mouth open wide in a gaping yawn.

Cali nervously walks towards “Burking Academy for the Gifted Youth.” Her foster parents had fought long and hard to get her into this boarding school, so like it or not Cali would have to make the best of it. Cali had been orphaned when she was just a baby, both her parent’s dying in a freak car accident. She was eventually adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham and moved to Greece about a year ago. Now being an orphan isn’t what makes Cali noticeable, it is her appearance that draws the eyes of anybody passing her. She has incredibly fair skin, almost to the point that she looks like a living porcelain doll. Her hair was also an odd color, as she dyed it in a light silver tone which caused her brown eyes to stand out greatly.

As she walked through the masses of students and other pedestrians her cold feet began to get worse with each progressing step. While attempting to get the courage up to finally head into the main building a voice calls out from the crowd. Shaken out of her nervousness Cali looks around and spots the one who had called her name. Even though Cali was new to the area doesn’t mean she didn’t have time to meet a few people. And it was one of those new friends that had called her name.

“Hey Cody, do you go to the same school?” Cody had bright reddish orange hair and a light tan, making his hair look even brighter than it naturally does. He smiled when he finally wedged his way through the onslaught of campus goers.

“Yup, but I’m not sure if I’m going to be in any of your classes so you might have to live without me,” Cali lowered her face and gave a playful smile as if she was saddened by the news. Cody was one of those few people that no matter who he met they seemed to warm up to him quickly, “Oh! Did you hear the latest news going around!? It seems that you aren’t the newest kid in school anymore.”

Cali’s eyes widened with the prospect of not being known as the new person on campus anymore. To be honest the idea of being the new person always bugged her for some reason, although she could never explain it. “So what’s his name?”

“His name is,” Cody scratched the back of his head as he pitifully tried to remember what the new persons name was. Unfortunately the biggest flaw Cody had was he had a terrible memory and it took him awhile to retain some things, “Well I can't remember. You know how I am with those kinds of things Cal.”

“Its okay Cody, after all it did take you four weeks to remember my first name.” Cali and Cody both smiled at the joke as they walked through the giant glass front doors to the boarding school.

 

Chapter 2-

 

The morning mass was all but over when the final bus had pulled up to its routine stop. The late comers and over sleepers rushed out in hopes of getting to class before the final bell rang. The bus driver looked into her rearview mirror and noticed that one of her teenage passengers hadn’t left yet.

“Hey son, you going to be late if yew don’ hurry now.” The boy got out of his seat and pulled the hood of his jacket over his head as he reached for his things. He quietly walked off the bus and then toward the school. The driver shook her head while the doors closed, thinking to herself how strange that boy had always been since he first got here.

And that was the way most people viewed Cain Abel. The morbid silent kid who hardly spoke and seemed to enjoy being all by himself; it didn’t help that his habits seemed to confirm the others suspicions. He always stood on the side wall during lunch, and didn’t have a lot of friends you would consider “close”. Even if Cain tried to make friends with people the reality was most wouldn’t. When he was still the new kid there had been a whole lot of rumors that his old man abandoned him and his mother had committed suicide because she was so depressed. Although no one knew much about Cain, the stories stuck.

Cain walked into the boarding school he has been attending. He heard rumors on the bus ride that some new person was going to arrive; people never seemed to think he was listening in on their conversations. The thought of someone new, someone who hadn’t yet heard the rumors about him caused him to grin.

 

Chapter 3-

 

The second hand ticked closer and closer and then with a loud buzz shook and rang. A hand jutted out from under the comforter and patted around the desktop in an attempt to shut the annoying thing off. Soon a head peaked out of the sheets and lazily glared at the alarm clock. In a few minutes the clock was off and Tarr hopped out of bed.

She set the clock down and went to make her bed. “What on earth? How’d so many feathers get in my bed?”

Tarr quickly scooped handful after handful of feathers from her bed into the trash bin as she made sure every single piece was gone. “One of my pillows must have ripped open when I was asleep.”

Tarr then shook her head as the idea of having to rummage through the house to find the old sewing kit her grandma had to fix the pillow. Pushing the thought out of her mind for the time Tarr dressed herself for school and dashed out the door, while simultaneously grabbing a piece of toast from the kitchen table.

 

After a good sprint Tarr made it to the boarding school as the first few buses arrived; one of the few benefits of living so close to the school you attend. Not even a few minutes after arriving Tarr was ready to turn around and head back home. School was mediocre to her and she hardly felt like she got challenged by the lessons given to her. Passing by a group of football stars her mind wandered to a fast approaching event she was completely unprepared for, the school dance.

“Man, it sucks that everyone has a date but me. If I had the chance I could blackmail one of the football players into taking me.” While her mind raced with wicked thoughts of blackmail she found herself trying to hide a grin. Deeply in thought Tarr didn’t or couldn’t see where she was headed and walked right into Cali.

 

Chapter 4-

 

Cali and Cody’s laughter is put to an end when Tarr unknowingly walks straight into Cali, “Hey!? Who pushed me?”

“Oh! Sorry Cali, I wasn’t looking where I was going.”

Cody watched as the two friends awkwardly apologized to each other. Soon all three were smiling and just enjoying themselves before the teachers ruined it. “Hey Tarr, thought you’d already be in class”

“Well . . . ummm . . . I was on my way.” She said with a small tint of red rushing into her face. While the group talked amongst each other the hairs on the back of Cali’s neck stood on end. She looked towards the door and spotted Cain walking to them.

“Hi Cain,” Cody walked over to Cain and offered a high-five. Cain looked at Cody’s hand. Cody slowly put it down in embarrassment and then walked off.

Finally the bell for call rings and students all around rush into their classes. Cali and her friends go into their class- Mythology. As each person takes their seat the teacher walks in front of her students and begins to write on the blackboard, letting out an ear shattering screech with each downward stroke. When we finished writing the letters everyone sighed in relief and then cringed as she made a long line underneath the words. It read ‘The Odyssey.’

“Class, for the next few weeks we will be reading and studying this classic Greek story. Now students take out your text books and turn to the opening page,” The teacher watched as her pupils took out the humongous school issued books and turning to the appropriate page. She then left the class to enter her little “cubicle” she had in the far corner.

Knowing the teacher couldn’t hear them unless they yelled out loud; the students looked up from the pages and began to quietly talk amongst each other.

“You got to be kidding me!” Christina shook her head when she heard that neither Cali nor Tarr had a date for the dance yet. She shook her head in disbelief, even though she herself didn’t have a date.

 

Chapter 5-

 

The buses finally arrive at their destination and the students run off to find and meet their friends so they can catch up on everything they did over the three day weekend. One of the first to get off the bus was a boy everyone knew as Grim. He is known as grim because of his unusual red eyes and his jet black hair. He also carried around a small wooden stick as if it was his very own scythe; which he had been sent to detention on numerous occasions because he refused to part with it.

He walked into the school fairly easily, since most of the others do all they can to avoid him. Grim looks around and the crowd of brightly colored shirts and shook his head, wondering how people could stand such bright colors and making others cringe as his red eyes stare at them. The time passes as he observes people, only stopping when the bell loudly echoes through the hallways.

 

 

 

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Ever heard of "show, don't tell?"

 

It doesn't seem to have sunken in here enough. Try to use more descriptive pieces, and scatter them throughout your writing. For example, instead of saying what a character looks like all at once, try interspersing little details of them as part of their reactions to certain events. Here, I'll show you:

 

It was him' date=' probably the last person the girl wanted to see reflected in her brown eyes.[/quote']

(This is an excerpt from the chapter of my story I'm working on.)

 

If you had read the rest of the section in which the girl was introduced, you'd realize that I don't say anything about her eyes until this part, only saying so when necessary. Get it?

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I know its been awhile but here is some more

 

[spoiler=Chapter 5-Teaser of Chapter 9]

Chapter 5-

 

The buses finally arrive at their destination and the students run off to find and meet their friends so they can catch up on everything they did over the three day weekend. One of the first to get off the bus was a boy everyone knew as Grim. He is known as grim because of his unusual red eyes and his jet black hair. He also carried around a small wooden stick as if it was his very own scythe; which he had been sent to detention on numerous occasions because he refused to part with it.

He walked into the school fairly easily, since most of the others do all they can to avoid him. Grim looks around and the crowd of brightly colored shirts and shook his head, wondering how people could stand such bright colors and making others cringe as his red eyes stare at them. The time passes as he observes people, only stopping when the bell loudly echoes through the hallways.

Grim grabs for his black bag and trots his way down the hall to his first period class. As he walks he gets a whiff of something odd. Looking around Grim notices that he is the only one in the hallway and the smell getting stronger as he points his head to the right.

“Wonder what that is?” With that he decides to see what it is instead of going to class. While Grim walked the halls trying to find the origin of the scent, another scene was about to unfold in a certain classroom.

As the group of friends discuss about the dance and who they’d be going with or what they’d be wearing one of the popular girls walks up behind Cali. Clarisse is known as the top cheerleader in the county, and has the ego to go with it. When she isn’t dating multiple guys at once she seems to enjoy torturing Cali and all of her friends.

Clarisse sharply whacks Cali in the back of the head. Cali immediately turns around to see Clarisse waving her hand in front of her face with a very fake embarrassed smile.

“Clarisse! What was that for!?”

“Oops! Sorry, that was an ‘accident’,” Cali and everyone else could hear Clarisse’s friends laugh from their seats as she walks back to them. As Clarisse seemingly gets away with her latest “attack” on Cali, a strange sensation begins to boil up from within Cali. Trying to put it out of her mind, she just thinks about the recent event and how cruel Clarisse was. Oh how she’d like to get her hands on her and make her pay. As those thoughts continue Cali’s face contorts as the sensation begins to feel like it’s getting tighter.

The second Cali believes she can’t take it anymore and would have to go to the nurse’s office it disappears. You can call what happened next just a coincidence, but others say differently. Because when the Cali’s pain disappeared the classroom sink turned on full blast and burst wide open, getting everyone in the room, except for Cali herself, soaked to the bone. Cali blinked twice, “Did I just do that?”

 

Chapter 6-

 

While Cali was confronting Clarisse, Cody had walked over to an old friend of his, Jack. They had been best friends since they were little, but when they got into the boarding school they went their separate ways, Cody became the prankster and Jack the all star football players.

“Hi Jack. I haven’t seen you around lately.”

Cody’s face grew red with a mixture of embarrassment and rage. A long time ago Jack placed whoopee cushion under his seat at an important event, leading to the name sticking to him for what seemed like an eternity.

“Why do you always bring that up!?”

“Because it’s a classic,” Jack went to get up and jumped as he was shocked by the chair, “Darn static electricity!”

Cody gets an idea and begins to run his feet over the carpet to build up some static electricity. When he was done Cody could actually see the current leaving his fingers. He tapped Jack on the shoulder lightly. Now Cody had thought Jack would only be given a little jolt, instead he was given a huge shock and was thrown off his feet.

“That . . . was cool.” Thankfully before Jack could get to his feet the sink busted open and drenched everyone in the room.

The water spouted everywhere finally getting the teachers attention. She ran out of her cubicle and yelled at everyone to exit the classroom, while trying not to get wet herself; she did not succeed. After a few yells and screams the students heard their teacher and exited the room, the sound of squishing shoes was enough to attract the attention of any other person, student or faculty, who happened to be in the hallway.

While the class was being filed out Grim had followed the smell right to then. Grim looked back and forth between everyone, trying to see if the scent was coming from them. But to his agony the water had washed away the scent and he was at a lost.

“Only one thing to do now- follow.”

The students had been walked to the gymnasium and told that they would each dry off and change into gym uniform, which was the only ting the school could provide, one by one. Each student shivered and talked to each other about the strange event as they eagerly waited to change into dry cloths. Cali didn’t have to change since she never got wet, so she stood away from the cold and shivering group and watched as the line slowly shrunk.

“Well at least they won’t have to take a bath today” Cali’s heart jumped when she heard Grim behind her. She looked back at him, trying not to be seen doing so, and gave him a shy smile. Then she went back to watching everyone dry off.

Finally the weird school day is over and the incident in Cali’s class was all anyone could talk about. Cali, Cody, Cristina and Cain all walked together to the buses before they had to go either separate ways home. However before they got even remotely close to their destination a senior student stopped them.

“So you really did make the sink explode didn’t you Cali” Cali looked up at the senior and noticed that it was not just any senior, but the Valedictorian herself- Jackie.

“M-Me!? N-No I couldn’t have done that” Cali hesitates and tries to make up good enough excuses, but with no avail. Jackie eyes Cali and she lowers her head, knowing the truth was out, “I’m not even sure how I did it myself.”

“Well I think it’s about time you found out,” Jackie looks at the other three, “You two can come along, this includes you guys. I’ll get us a taxi.”

While Jackie waved her hand for a taxi to pick them up, the group of four discussed if they should go along with Jackie or not. Cain didn’t like the idea of going off to unknown place with a senior they had never talked to before. However Cali and Cody were so adamant about finding out what exactly was going on with them that they eventually won.

A taxi at last stopped for Jackie and she opened the door to let everyone in. Grim, who was still trailing Cali and Cody, decided to make his move. He calmly walked up to Cali and took her hand and took in a deep breath. This naturally caused Cali to turn bright red.

“So the smell is coming from you and him” Grim looked at Cody and then back at Cali, a million questions in his eyes.

“What are you talking about? What smell?” Cali’s blush quickly goes away, being replaced by a disgusted look. She then wrenches her hand free from Grim’s hold. Jackie, looking back to see the commotion noticed something about him.

“The smell all demi-gods give off. Since you can smell that I would guess your not a normal mortal either, Hu Grim?

“Well I’ve known something was different about me, but what are you going on about a demi-god?” Cali took a step back and put her hands out in front of her, as if to make sure that neither Jackie or Grim could get to close to her.

“‘Okay . . . things are getting way too freaky.” Jackie explains that she’d explain everything when they got to someplace more private. Cali’s face showed she wasn’t very sure about going now, but when Jackie said she’d learn about what happened today she was won over. Everyone pilled in the taxi and it soon drove off.

 

Chapter 7-

 

It’s been at least ten minutes since the group left the school with Jackie, a senior at the boarding school everyone attends. The taxi is cramped due to the number of people inside.

“Okay Jackie, tell us what you know,” Cody leaned forward to try and make himself look serious but having to shove past someone’s elbow kind of put an end to that, “I want to know why these things happened to us.”

Jackie takes a deep sign and agrees to tell everyone a portion of the story to keep them occupied, “You, Cali and Grim are what are known as half-bloods

“Half-bloods?” Everyone eyed Cody has he interrupted.

“Half-bloods are more commonly known as demi-gods. To put it simple you are half mortal human and half god/goddess.”

“There is no such thing as Greek Gods; their only legends.” Cali interrupted.

“The Greek Pantheon is real all right.”

“Where to ma’am?” The taxi driver shouts from the front seat as the taxi slows to a crawl.

“1256 Pantheon Drive, if you would” Jackie answered and placed the fair into the driver’s open palm.

“1256 Pantheon Drive? Alright then,” the driver puts the taxi in drive and speeds out onto the open road. While the driver speeds between the slower moving vehicles everyone in the back seats bounce and shift their positions.

“How do you know all this Jackie?”

“Well Grim, that is my little secret. But let me assure you I’m not against you,” The taxi slams to a halt and everyone is thrown to the front, “Why in the name of Hades did you stop!?”

The taxi driver pointed to someone standing in front of him, arms spread out to stop the car. Cali quickly recognizes its Tarr and rolls down the window.

“Uh . . . hey Tarr. What’s up? Why’d you jump in front of us like that?”

“I saw you and the other three getting in a taxi with Jackie at the school. I tried to stop you but you left before I could get to you. I’m coming with you.”

Cali looked surprised when Tarr demanded to be brought along. She looked behind her at Jackie and then at her friend, “I don’t think you can come along this time Tarr. I don’t think you’ll be missing out on much.”

“I think it’s a great idea that she comes along. In fact I think it would be splendid if Tarr joined us.” Cali looked back at Jackie and then nodded her head, a look of disappointment on her face. She opened the door and Tarr crawled into the already cramped taxi. With the door completely shut the taxi took off again.

While the taxi continues its long drive Grim takes out a small set of hunting knives and begins to sharpen one of them. She scrapping sound continues every few seconds and immediately gets on everyone’s nerves.

“Do you mind!?” Cali glares at Grim as he finished sharpening the knife for the umpteenth time. Grim looks up at Cali and scrapes the knife one more time, causing Cali to flinch. Grim continues without noticing the water in the bottle next to him rising up and swirling over his head.

“I need to keep my knives sharp and I haven’t sharpened this one in a while. And anyways, you can’t,” Before he could finish the last few words Cali dumped the water over Grim’s head, “Fine then. Guess I can do it later.”

Grim quietly dries his knifes off and puts them away, much to everyone’s relief. The drive is silent for a while before Jackie breaks the silence, “So Tarr . . . what’s wrong with your arm, hmmm?”

Tarr covers her arms in her jacket and looks away from Jackie’s gaze. This annoys Jackie and she grabs Tarr’s arms and makes her lift them up. Now fully exposed everyone can see that the entire lower part of Tarr’s arms are covered with feathers. Cain looked at the feathers with worry and decided to say something

“What on Earth is happening to you Tarr?”

“I don’t know . . . it just started happening.”

“You are becoming a harpy like your mother” Jackie coolly explained as if it was no big deal. Tarr and the rest questioningly glanced back at each other and let the subject drop.

 

Chapter 8-

 

The drive to the destination was an awkward one. Not a single person spoke nor did they look at each other in the eyes. It seemed every time someone tried to start a conversation it would end before it began. Luckily the trip was ending as everyone could see a tiny house coming into view.

“I suppose that’s it?” Cain inquisitively asked. Jackie nodded her head and opened the door when the driver pulled up in front of the house. Everyone got out and eyed the old rundown structure. The lawn was a dead mangled heap, with broken glass and rusted lawn ornaments scattered randomly across it. The house’s white paint job had peeled almost all the way off and three of the four shutters had already fallen off or was unhinging.

“Its kind of . . . creepy,” Cali shivered and tried to get rid of the goose-bumps that the place was giving her, “We’re not really going to go in there are we?”

“You don’t have too Cali,” Jackie opened the creaky door and it nearly fell off its handle. She took a step inside and turned back to the others, “but then you’ll never find out what is happening to you.”

Each person thinks it over quickly and shrugs their shoulder. One by one they file into the rundown old building and once the final person enters Jackie has to slam the door shut. While walking through the seemingly deserted house Cody decides to call his parents and yanks his I-Phone out of his pocket.

“You brought your phone with you?”

“Of course I did! Don’t tell me you didn’t bring yours Christina.” Cody shakes his head and begins to dial his home number. But a tap on his shoulder makes him stop has Cali points off in the distance.

‘Ummm’ was the only thing that Cali or anyone else could say when they saw the owner. He was a shriveled old man with a walking cane with a golden bird at the top. The man was in a torn outfit and the hat that rested on his weary head was tattered and floppy.

“Welcome young demi-gods! I am gracious and honored to meet each and every one of you. A friend of mine has made a feast for you, so tonight eat as much as you please.” Cameron bowed in respect to everybody and walked off. Jackie moves in front of the rest before they could peruse him, “Everybody will be placed in a room, but you may have to share it with someone else so I do apologize.”

Jackie turned to walk off when she was stopped by Cali’s yell, “Jackie! What on Earth is going on!? When are you going to tell us something?”

“All in good time Cali. If I told you know you might not be able to handle it.” Cali frowned and tromped off to the room she was assigned to blow off some steam. As she passed the banquet room she saw a group of other teenagers she hadn’t seen anywhere. She found an empty space and began to quietly get her fill.

 

Chapter 9-

 

Each person goes their separate ways as the evening drawls on. Most go of to eat, but a few decide to go off and explore the place by themselves. One of them was Grim . . .

 

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I know I hav been putting this off but, well I got up to Chapter 13 done for ya'll

 

[spoiler=Chapter 9 To Teaser of Chapter 13]

Chapter 9-

 

Each person goes their separate ways as the evening drawls on. Most go of to eat, but a few decide to go off and explore the place by themselves. One of them was Grim, who went out the back door and found that, although being in a city, it lead to a medium size meadow and a forest past that. After a few minutes Grim returns with a rabbit in hand.

“This looks like it’d taste good.” Grim yanks a single knife out from his back pocket and raises it above his head.

“Don’t kill the rabbit!” Grim was caught off guard and looked up to see Christina on the lowest branch in the tree near him. Christina’s red hair was in two pigtails and she had a couple birds perched on her shoulder. Cody joined the group and saw Grim holding the defenseless hare.

“Treat all animals nicely, man. Don’t cook her.”

“Fine . . . I won’t kill the rabbit,” Grim lets the rabbit go. The hare quietly looks at Christina and Cody as if to thank them and then dashes off, “Now I got to find something else to eat.”

Cali had finished her meal by now and had gone outside to see the night sky. She lied on the ground and watched the stars sparkle in the clear night air. She took a deep breath and sighed as the cool breeze blew her hair to the side. A rabbit hopped out of the bush and stopped in front of her. Cali got up and saw Christina, Cody and Grim standing in the middle of a meadow.

Cali over hears the last part of the conversation, shrugs her shoulder and walks over to the small group, “There is a river over there if you want to go fishing.”

Cali points to the distance in the direction she came from. The rest looked in that direction and Grim got a smile on his face; he enjoyed fishing and wouldn’t mind doing some before Jackie finally told them what they were doing here.

“Works for me, anyone else want some fish?”

“I can cook pretty well. If you want I’ll cook them.”

“Ok Cody, I catch and you cook. Sounds like a good deal.”

“I’ll get the things read while you catch the fish.” Grim nods his head and heads off to the river. In a few minutes he returns with a bag full of fish, all squirming and wiggling to get out of the bag. He looks around and doesn’t see Cody, “Where is Cody? He was going to cook these.”

“I don’t really know he was there a minute ago.” Cali and Christina looks around to try and spot Cody. Deciding Cody must have went off to gather fire wood so he decided to continue his job and clean the fish. He finds a secluded spot and begins stripping the scales off. He soon stops and hears Cody shouting and finds where Cody had gone to.

“Hey Cody, what are you yelling for?”

“Oh, I’m sorry Grim. I was just getting frustrated trying to star the fire with my powers.”

“Ah, what are your powers?” Cody smiles and rubs his hands together, making sparks fly as he increases the speed.

“I can control electricity; maybe even lightning!”

“Is that it?”

“I think so. Wait! If I can control weather . . . then my father has to be Zeus!”

“I wouldn’t be too sure about it.” Cody never heard Grim warn him about the possibility of not being Zeus’ son.

“Hey! Didn’t you say you got the fish for me?” Grim nods his head and leads Cody back to the little gathering spot everyone had chosen. Cody puts enough fish on over the fire to feed everyone and then wrapped the rest so they could use them later.

The fishes cook slowly as the smell becomes intoxicating. Everyone’s mouths water as the thought of getting to eat becomes ever greater. Finally dinner is finished and Cody passes the meal out.

“Delicious! You are an excellent cook.” Cody thanks Cali and gets up to take the fish inside.

“The fish are gone!” Everyone starts searching for the fish and some think of where it could have gone, “Who should we investigate first? I say we start with Tarr, she is becoming part bird and after all some birds like fish.”

Cody nods his head and asks Cali is she thought Tarr had done it. “If she did I’m not sure how she did it.”

The group’s discussion is interrupted when an older boy walks towards then with his knuckles being popped.

“Which one here is called Cody?”

“I-I am, sir . . .”

“Good. Now get ready to fight!” The man positioned himself in a fighting stance and began to bob up and down, waiting for Cody to do the same. Grim got in between the two and glared at the newcomer.

“Who are you!?”

“Ah . . . how rude of me,” the name stops moving and stands upright and looks at Grim, “My name is Aashar.”

“Ok. Now I have one more question for you Aashar. Why do you want to fight Cody?”

“I want to see who the better son is.”

Grim put his hand to his chin and thought about what was going on. He really didn’t know either of them and had nothing to lose. And it wasn’t like they were going to kill each other- was it? “Ok. Commence beating the crap out of Cody.”

“It’d be my honor.” Aashar popped his neck and knuckles as he slowly edged towards Cody, who was beginning to get weak in the knees. As Cody flinched before the first punch landed Cain appeared and stopped Aashar from landing the blow.

“Never thought that one of Zeus’ kids would be so violent”

“So you finally show up Cain. So how do you know these two’s parent is Zeus?” Grim eyes Cain carefully. To be honest he was impressed that Cain was able to catch Aashar’s punch from such a long distance away.

“Well to put it simple, Cody can use lightning and that only leaves Zeus as his potential father. Aashar said he wanted to prove he was the better son, meaning his father must also be Zeus.” Cody and Grim nodded as they listened to Cain explain his findings. It was plain and simple, yet for some reason they couldn’t see it.

“Hey Aashar! Instead of fight Cody first why don’t you fight me instead? Call it a ‘warm- up’,” Grim got ready and waited for Aashar to respond, “Well? How about it.”

 

Chapter 10-

 

Tarr opened the door to her room and walked inside and looked around. She was almost in a daze the room was so big, as if it was made for a giant instead of little old her.

“Wow! Nice and . . . ummm . . . roomy,” Tarr looked on the bed and noticed a bunch of what looked like gifts. She picked one up and read the tag ‘To; Tarr’, “I wonder why their being so nice?”

A yawn breaks free from Tarr as she stretches out and looks at the feathery bed. A sleepy smile spreads itself across her while she climbs into it, “Mhmmm . . . this bed feels good.”

The time slips by slowly as Tarr drifts in and out of consciousness. Her dreams are plagued by birds of all kinds as the swarm around her and peck at her face. Finally she stands up in bed with a scream. She is in a cold sweat, as she examines herself she notices more feathers have begun to form on her and even more had fallen off.

“Ah! Not again. I have to find someway to stop these things from growing,” Tarr examines the large feathers under her arms and notices it tickles when she runs her finger down it, “well . . . at least I know I’m in the right place, I guess.”

Tarr left the house and walked into the garden with the rest of the people who came from her school. They were in a circle around Cody and a new boy she had never seen before, “What is going on here?”

“So “brother” lets get this fight going,” Cody had not noticed Tarr yet and was still focused on fighting the new person claiming to be his step brother.

“Yes Cody, we shall.” Aashar thrusts his right arm forward and raised his other hand to his face. He moved his feet apart so he could get a better footing.

“So will we use our powers?”

“Naturally,” Aashar flashed away with lightning speed and punched Cody right in the stomach, “Come on Cody! Have you quite already!?”

“No! I haven’t!” Cody kicked Aashar in the chin and made him fly a few feet back before landing on the ground. Cody got up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, “How do you like that? I call it my lightning kick.”

As the battle between the two step brothers where just getting on their way Tarr finally got amongst the crowd and was able to be heard, “Hey! Is this really such a good idea? Do we really have to fight each other?”

“Enough Harpy!” Aashar appeared next to Tarr and kicked her violently in the stomach, using his electrical powers to shock her as he did so, “This is between me and him. Stay out of this!”

Tarr topples to the ground and gasps as all of the air escapes her lungs. Grim and Cali quickly drop to their knees and make sure Tarr isn’t to seriously injure. Once they have they help her back to her feet.

“Cody! Now you are dead, Lightning Strike!” Aashar leaps high into the air and lifts his hands above him. On his way down Aashar thrusts then down towards Cody. Lightning shoot from his hands at Cody and begins to blast all around him, thrusting rocks and dirt into the air. Cody shields his eyes with his arms and peers through them at Aashar, who is going to land close to him.

“That only strengthens my attack! Lightning Uppercut!” Aashar landed on the ground right as Cody launched his attack. In the split second it took Cody to close the gap Aashar was able to dodge it and kicked Cody square in the face.

“More power can kill you!”

“I will use all the strength I have gained in this attack. And I’ll finish you now- Lightning Storm!” Cody thrusts his arms at Aashar and a ball of static electricity begins to form in his hands. Finally he throws it in the air and lightning bolts begin to shoot out in random directions from it. Aashar gets hit with three bolts of pure electricity, but continues to walk forward.

“Ha! You think that hurts me?” Aashar continued to walk to Cody in the lightning storm and finally grabbed Cody by the throat, “Doesn’t work on me Cody.”

Cody, seeing most of his attacks do nothing to Aashar, decided to make a cheap shot. He kicked him in the lower regions hoping it will knock him back. Aasahra’s eyes grew wide with pain and he threw Cody to the floor. In a rage Aashar formed a fist and hit Cody in the face with all of his strength.

“Brother, its over. I must admit, it was nice testing my strength against yours.”

“Yeah, you won this round. But I’ll beat you next time.”

Cody got off the ground and both brothers shook hands to show there were no hard feelings.

“So Aasahr, you want to fight me?” Grim steps out of the group and looks boldly at Aashar.

“You want to fight me? Have you ever faced Cody before?”

“No I haven’t fought Cody. To be honest I just met him a while ago. But I think I can beat you Aasahr!”

“Okay. If you want to fight me Grim then let’s go!” Both got into their fighting stances and waited as the other made the first move. The intensity is so thick you could choke on it. Cody is the firs to break the silence, “This’ll be good.”

“Hey Grim, heads up!” Grim looks above him as Aasahr appears with lightning coursing through his hands and feet. Aasahr thrusts each fist and foot towards Grim with all high might, “This is going to hurt.”

Grim manages to dodge the most lethal of the strikes, before getting out of the attacks effective range. Once out of range Grim unbuttons his bag and throws knife after knife at Aasahr. As knifes flew at his face Aasahr dodged some, but was able to catch others. Infusing them lightning and sent them whistling back at Grim.

“Here! Catch!”

Knifes flew by Grim and stabbed him in the arms, shoulders, legs and chest. He wobbled as the pain seeped deep into his body. Aasahr landed on the ground and punched Grim in the head, sending him toppling to the floor.

“Wow that was fast!” Cali said in awe along with everyone else’s gasps of amazement.

Aasahr never missed a beat as he was soon on top of Grim and pounding his face with punch after brutal punch. After a bit of this Aasahr got up and did a back flip away from Grim. A ‘wow’ came from Christina as everyone continued to watch mesmerized by the fight. While in midair Aasahr called out his next move, the Lightning Strike. Before anyone realized what happened Aasahr was standing on top of Grim with one foot on his chest.

“What just happened?” Cali looks back and forth between everyone who was watching to see if they knew. However it was too fast for everyone else’s eyes too and no one had an answer. Aashar walks over to Grim and gives him some of his energy, which of course makes grim wake up and get up off the ground.

“Well you were good to fight. I’ll just leave it at that.”

“Whoa bro, that was just awesome. I didn’t even know people could move that fast!”

“That was quick. I never expected one of Zeus’ kids to be so ruthless in battle” Cain popped his head out of the tree he had been hiding in and looked down at everyone. He was honestly surprised at how quick Aashar had beaten Grim.

The group rushed Aasahr as he and Grim began to walk back towards them. Each one seemed to have a million questions of their own and couldn’t wait to spring them on him. Christina was the first to speak, “That was so cool!”

“Well thank you.”

 

Chapter 11-

 

As Cali watched the group bombard Aashar and Grim with questions she thought how nice it would be to test her own powers against someone. But against everyone else she felt as if she’d surely loose. Cali began to leave the group, but was stopped by Cameron, who had witnessed both fights.

“OK everybody! I see that you have been having a lot of fun as of lately. However we need to get you all to bed, because tomorrow comes the real deal.”

With that ominous bit of speech Cameron left the group to wonder and think about what he had said. Once out of sight everyone discussed amongst each other about what he had meant. Finally all the kids decided that they will confront Cameron about the meaning of what he said and head off to their rooms.

 

Aashar was the first to enter his room. He looked about at the decorations and found that it was nothing more than a run down hotel, why he had his hopes up he had no clue. As he walked around examining everything he saw that there was something shiny on his bed. Walking over towards it he saw that it was a pair of iron gauntlets with a yellow lightning bolt imprinted on it. Putting them on he found that they fit him perfectly, a sly smile on his face as he smashes them together.

The door opens up as Christina peers into the dim light room. After seeing that no one is inside she flicks on the light and walks into the room. The room is a beautiful room with pink walls and flowers all around. Looking on the bed she finds a small bracelet with four beads spaced evenly apart from one another. She picks it up and begins to examine the bracelet. It is made out of gold and has the design of a vine with leaves all around it. The gems are ruby, sapphire, emerald and a diamond. The gems sparkle in the light and Christina can’t help but run her finger over the smooth stones. As she presses down on the sapphire it sinks down into the gauntlet and the entire bracelet begins to glow in a silver whitish light. Finally a shield appears floating in midair before her, “Oh wow . . .”

Cali enters her new room and finds that is almost like a nature garden. In the very middle of her room is a salt water fountain and all of the walls are painted sea blue with white foaming waves. Along the way Jackie had given Cali a sword. Now she can finally examine the weapon. She takes out the sword and looks it over. The swords hilt is in the shape of a rolling wave and the handle is wrapped with green seaweed like cloth. She finally puts the sword on her nightstand and crawls into bed. A few moments later she is fast asleep.

Seth watched from a distance as the group discussed amongst each other. Soon after they left he came out of the shadows, “The real deal, Hu? It seems there is more going on than I thought.”

The light flicks on as Grim enters his dreary room. It is almost like an indoor forest with a glass ceiling so he could see the fool moon. He spots a note on the end of his bed. Being curious Grim picks the letter up:

To My Son,

 

What you hold in your hand is my gift to you. The bow was created out of sacred wood and the arrows blessed. This weapon will not fail you.

 

Artmeis

Grim rereads the note and lifts up the weapon his father had sent him. Examining the bow he could see Greek symbols etched into it with gold ink, making the dark red wood stand out nicely. He set it down and decided to get something to eat before bed. While walking he slams his door, waking Cali up in the room next to him. She stirs and then finally gets out of bed. Poking her head outside Cali looks around for someone and when she doesn’t spot anyone leaves the room. Not one step outside and she bumps into Cain.

“Hey! Watch where you’re going girl!” Cali gives him a glare that sends a chill down his spin. Before she can yell at him however her phone rings and she answers it, giving Cain enough time to make his escape.

“Hello? Ya, I’m fine- Yes . . . Don’t worry about me. It’s only for tonight . . . Yeah, ok- Bye.”

Cali hangs up her phone and finds that she accidentally walked into Grim’s room instead of her own. She motions to leave, but something on his bed stands out to her. She decides as long as she doesn’t break it she can at least look at whatever the object is. Standing over his bed she recognizes the distinct shape of a finely made bow and its quiver of arrows. Her mind then wanders to where grim could be.

“I think I’d rather sleep in a tree tonight.”

A puzzled look crosses Christina’s face as she looks over to Grim, “A tree? Why do you want to sleep in a tree?”

“Sleeping outside is more comfortable to me.”

“Ah, ok. I guess if it’s comfy to you-“

“I wouldn’t sleep outside tonight if I where you.” Aashar walked from behind the tree and smirked at Grim and Christina.

“And why not!?” Christina put her hands on her hips and scowled at Aashar waiting for an answer.

“It’s going to rain and reports are that it is going to be a bad thunder storm. But then again if you want to be outside then go ahead is what I say.”

“Well a little rain never hurt anyone. But then again the part about thunder and lightning might be bad,” Tarr walked out from the house and towards the group.

“Hey Tarr . . . does your parents know where you are?”

“Ah! Oh no! Cali mind if I use your phone?”

“Of course, sure, no problem.” Cali digs in her pockets and retrieves her mobile cell phone. She switches it on and tosses it too Tarr, who is barely able to catch it. The rain begins to sprinkle and Tarr looks up with an almost disgusted look.

“Oh man! I hate the rain. I’ll bring it right back!” Tarr waves as she heads back into the house. As Tarr walked down the hallways and to her room she saw Seth in the most irate temper. She closed the phone and walked into his room, “Hey Seth. You ok?”

“Yeah . . . fine.” She closed the door behind her and walked over to the bed and waited a moment to see if Seth would protest. When he made no motion she sat down next to him and looked over at him.

“Let me guess. Hmmm . . . you don’t fit in either, do you?”

“What do you mean by that? “

“What I mean is you aren’t the one who has wings growing out of your arms. Now do you? So what’s wrong?”

Seth looked to the right, making sure that Tarr couldn’t see his face and then didn’t answer. Tarr sternly looked at him and then said she wouldn’t leave until he got an answer from him. Seth lowered his head and gave her what she wanted, almost, “It’s complicated . . .”

“Oh come on! That’s not an answer! At least you don’t have a demon daddy or a demon mommy! Now it can’t be that bad, so spill it.”

“Well . . . you see . . .”

 

Chapter 12

 

As the storm rolls in closer Cali stumbles into Grim’s room by accident and flops on the bed. She then got up quickly and rubbed her nose. Something had poked it and a small drop of blood formed on the end, picking it up she saw it was a bow and a quiver of arrows.

Cali looked around and then saw that the window lead out to where Grim and the rest were. With a hop she got out off the bed and walked over to the closed window. When it finally opened up she looked down at Grim, “Hey Grim! I think you need to find a better place for this!”

Without thinking Cali tosses the bow and arrows out of the window to the oblivious people below. She then realizes her mistake and attempts to grabs them out of the air, causing her to loose her footing. Down below Aashar and the rest hadn’t noticed Cali or the sharp pointy objects headed their way via airmail.

“Yeah my dad raised me himself. Mom had run away when I was a baby and then Hera I guess kind of took up the position.”

“Wow,” was the only response from the crowd, mainly from Christina. As the group talked amongst themselves an arrow hits Grim dead in the shoulder.

“Ah! What the-!? Who throws an arrow!?” As Grim questioned everyone around him Cali lost the last bit of traction that was keeping her from falling off the edge. She fell off and landed on Grim, popping the arrow in his shoulder clear out with little blood being drawn.

“Hu . . . that’s pretty impressive. She got it out and you didn’t feel a thing,” Aashar noted when Grim pushed Cali off of him. Grim looks at his shoulder and sees that the arrow was removed cleanly and the barbs in it did little damage, he was fortunate this time around.

“Why’d you throw these out of the window Cali?”

“I’m sorry . . . I wasn’t thinking.” Cali looked down in embarrassment. As the awkward silence continued it was interrupted by the sound of an intercom’s Bing.

“Attention! Grim, Aashar, Tarr, Cali, Christina, Cody and Cain report to the front door immediately.”

Tarr had been in her room when the announcement went off. She thought to herself, “Ok . . . I guess this place doesn’t have a front office,” as she got off the bed and waved good-bye to Seth before closing the door.

“Hey Tarr,” Christina yelled as soon as she saw the feathered harpy walk out of the room. Tarr shrugged her shoulder and headed over to the group. Once the entire group had arrived at the front door they saw no one was there to greet them.

“So does anyone know why we’re here?” Tarr questioned out of curiosity.

“No. Do you?”

“I’m the one who asked. If I knew I wouldn’t be asking.” Tarr retorted, much to Christina’s saddened expression.

“Yeah true . . . what about you Cali?”

“I don’t know either.” As they waited at the front door the thought became they were called to discuss why and how being a demi-gods works. While everyone was waiting on the person who called them Cain spotted the group and walked towards them right as Jackie and Cameron came out of the front doors.

“Thank you all for coming,” Cameron thanks the group as he turns to Jackie, picking up from where he left off.

“You all have been gathered here to aid in something of monumental importance. You’ll be leaving tonight.”

Uneasy glances sweep across the gang as those words sink in. Something important, how where they supposed to help?

“Well . . . thank you for telling us, now what happens?”

The ground beneath them begins to shake and rumble with mysterious tremors. The ceiling above them crumbles and breaks away, revealing a clear open sky. The walls fall apart and reveal a meadow and river in the distance. Finally in a flash of blinding light everything disappears. Once the temporary blindness disperses the group finds they are alone in a field.

 

Chapter 13

 

As everyone lays on the ground with their eyes closed Cameron and Jackie’s voice calls out to them, “From here on everything is up to you. If you feel trapped remember, follow your heart.”

The sun light hitting his eyes causes Grim to sit upright on the ground and peer around at everyone else. Those who had been at the front door were present, but something was amiss. He couldn’t put his hand on it until he set his hand on the ground. Instead of a hard wood floor like he’d expected he felt the soft plush of grass. Looking down he then realized what was so out of place- where they where!

 

“What on Earth! Where are we?”

 

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