A/N: So I fell in love with Class of the Titans shortly after it came out on Teletoon and now I thought I should try my hand at writing a fanfic. I warn you it is Slash so if you really don't like it well then don't read it. Enjoy! PS. I don't own this, so don't sue!
Summery: Cronus has some sort of twisted game planned and decides to make an old European Fairy Tale come to life, but his intended target is saved at the last minute by a stroke of Luck, and gets a new target. Neil is under a spell of Sleeping Death and only his true love can wake him. But who is it? Will the others find the person in time to save the world? Or will Neil be asleep forever? R and R!
The shriek of the whistle was heard signaling to two young heroes to start their training. A tall young brunet lunged at the blond before him. The blond just stood there gazing at himself in a three panel gold monogrammed mirror. He stepped out of the way just in time to avoid a blow to the gut. The whistle sounded again as a balding male wearing black armor looked at the blond, as did six other pairs of eyes.
"Honestly Neil!" The male yelled at him. Neil looked up from his reflection not sure what he did wrong. "If you aren't going to make an effort then why are you still on this team?" His attacker, Jay, put his hands on his hips and sighed.
"Ares is right Neil," A purple haired boy said from behind Jay. "You never put in an effort. All you care about is yourself."
"What else is there to care about?" Neil said "A wonky ankle, Archie? Oh wait I don't have one," he started to laugh pretending like the glares he got from his teammates didn't phase him.
"Neil, if you plan to be apart of this team, then be apart of it, otherwise don't waste our time," Jay said getting really annoyed at Neil's antics as he flipped open his mirror again. The leader glared and stormed out of the training room and the others followed leaving Neil behind. Odie, the only black member of the team, looked behind his shoulder at Neil and shook his head. The blond, self-absorbed teen felt cold all of a sudden. He closed his mirror and headed out of a side door in the training room to get some fresh air.
"I just don't know what to do about him," Jay said to his mentor later on in the day. "He doesn't listen and all he does is rely on his luck to get him through battles. I'm afraid that his self-centeredness is really going to hurt the team one day." Hera stared at her pupil and stroked her pet peacock in thought. "What should I do Ms. Hera?"
"Give Neil another chance Jay, if he is still not a part of the team then perhaps you should find someone to take his place. After all you need seven to defeat Cronus." Jay nodded and left the great room to talk to the others while Neil was out for a photo shoot.
To Jay, the walk from the school to the dorms was the longest walk in his life. He was left with his own thoughts and for some reason couldn't help but notice Neil's billboards. It seemed to be a reminder of all the good times the team had had despite how involved Neil was with himself. Jay was starting to have mixed feelings about kicking Neil off the team. He would have to discuss this with the others.
Theresa was the first to stand when Jay walked into the dorms living room. He looked at his five other teammates and told them what Hera had just told him.
"Well if we do replace Neil I think we should replace him with another girl," Atlanta said after a moment. "Maybe we should start looking,"
"We aren't doing anything, there's still a chance Neil will turn his attitude around." Jay said stopping anymore talk of replacing Neil right away.
"Fat chance," Archie said crossing his arms "He'll never change, Jay, you know that. We all know that." Just then Neil walked into the room pretending that the others didn't exist. They all had a funny feeling that Neil heard every word that they said about him. Jay bit his lower lip and put on a friendly tone.
"Hey Neil, your back early," Neil just pulled out his mirror.
"Yeah, they had to cancel. Seems that my photographer went missing or something." He wasn't looking at any of them. "Though I did just get an offer at a huge agency and I think I'm going to accept it. I mean being a hero doesn't pay now does it." He closed his mirror and looked at the six teens in front of him.
"You're quitting the team Neil?" Herry asked furrowing his eyebrows. Neil thought about that for a moment.
"More like quitting school and moving out, if you guys really need my help you can call," he said and walked to his room to pack. The young heroes blinked and suddenly felt really guilty. Herry couldn't stand the silence. He stood up and walked down to the kitchen to talk to Athena and maybe get something to eat.
Athena was already busy cooking. Herry sat at the table and sighed. The Goddess of War and Wisdom turned to look at him.
"What's wrong Herry?" she asked setting a plate of food in front him.
"Neil said he got a job at a modeling agency and he's moving out of the dorms, dropping out of school, and maybe quitting the team." Herry stabbed at his food a little depressed. "I have a feeling we finally got him to realize that we find him annoying."
"That's funny, when Neil was here earlier he said he was going to stay with his family for a while because his aunt was sick. He said nothing about a modeling job." Athena said in a matter-of-fact tone, missing Herry's last sentence.
"So you mean, Neil lied to us?" Herry looked at the Goddess who was humming to herself. This made Herry feel worse. Neil came down stairs with his duffel bag on one shoulder. He was ignoring Herry completely. He was almost to the door when Jay came barreling down the stairs. Archie, Atlanta, Odie and Theresa followed close behind him
"I just got word that Cronus is in the park with his giants," Jay said. "Neil you can move out later, right now we need you." Neil sighed and set his bag down.
"All right, lets go fight Cronus," he said.
Herry got them to the park in no time at all. They all filed out just as Cronus finished the final touches on transforming the park.
"Ah young heroes, you finally decided to show up." He said with an evil grin. "Do you like what I've done with the place?" he motioned behind him at a thick forest of thorns. All seven heroes got ready to fight. Cronus motioned for his giants to attack. No one saw Cronus throw a dagger at Theresa. As luck would have it though, Neil was standing near Theresa and pushed her out of the way of the on coming dagger, but instead it plunged into him. Theresa was knocked out when Neil pushed her out of the way and no one noticed the two on the ground. Cronus growled that he missed his target, but he suddenly smiled. His twisted little game became more interesting. He walked over to the wounded blond and lifted him up and disappeared. It wasn't long after that the five remaining teens beat the giants. Jay rushed over to Theresa who was starting to come to.
"Are you ok?" Jay asked helping her up. She nodded holding her head. Archie picked up something gold from the ground and looked at it. "Where's Neil?" Jay asked suddenly noticing that he was missing.
"Gone," Archie said holding up Neil's mirror. Everyone looked at Archie like he was lying.
"Wait," Theresa said remembering what happened to her. "I remember turning around and seeing something flying towards me then Neil pushing me out of the way," she said. She looked at Jay, biting her lower lip. Jay grabbed the mirror from Archie and gave it to Theresa.
"Do you think you can find him?" Jay asked.
"Oh you don't need her to find him," a voice said from behind them. They all turned around. Cronus smiled evilly at the teenagers. "He's right through there," he motioned to the thick forest behind him and began to laugh. He opened a portal to reveal a glass casket. Inside the casket was Neil. He looked paler then normal; in fact he looked a little dead. He was wearing what looked to be a purple toga, and a crown and from what the teens could see he was holding a strange white flower and the same flower was all littered around him. Jay lunged at the image hoping he could get to Neil, but Cronus closed the portal and began to laugh. He opened up his escape portal and disappeared.
The six heroes took no time in rushing to the forest and began to hack their way through to get to their friend. Unfortunately, things looked to be like they weren't going to be that simple. Every time the heroes got through a little, the forest would grow back thicker. Odie looked at Jay and sighed noticing how tired everyone was getting.
"We'll have to come back for him, but right now we can't get to him." Odie said. Jay nodded and told everyone to get into Herry's truck. They all looked at the strange wall and sighed feeling sick to their stomachs that they lost Neil, just when he finally became a true hero.