Hey guys welcome to another one of my stories. To be honest I think this stories plot is better than the Forbidden Hunter, but that doesn't mean I stop writing it even though its close to two months with out being updated but we dont talk to that. A new chapter for the Forbidden Hunter is coming soon I do promise that. For now though I hope you enjoy this new story. Reviews are great and critisim is fine too. I didn't mention this on my other story, but I also accept PMs.
December 21, 1970 (Third Person)
All twelve Olympians sat in the throne room to have there annual Winter Solstice meeting. There sat Zeus complaining to Ares about being late, Poseidon and Athena arguing about some stupid past event which they always do, and every other god sitting in there thrones bored out of their minds. Except for Apollo who seemed to be the only god keeping up with the mortal world by disco roller blading around his throne will a disco ball over him.
"Ares, I know you're dealing with the Vietnam War right now, but when you are summoned for a meeting, you come no excuses. I don't care if your having fun with a flamethrower or naplam, it goes meetings then war not the other way around. Got it?" Zeus asked.
"Maybe if you were the one with the flamethrower you wouldn't be here right now." Ares mumbled.
"What was that?" Zeus asked.
"Nothing, meetings before war, I got it." Ares said out of fear of being hit by a bolt. Yes he was a god, but lighting can hurt anyone.
"Ya you better get it," Zeus bellowed to make Ares even more uncomfortable, "ok you all know what this meeting's topic is on. Apollo?"
While Apollo was still rollerblading listening to disco music he started to slouch over, not falling to the floor, with his eyes turning green with green mist coming out of his mouth going around his throne in circles.
"A Half-Blood of the eldest gods-" Apollo started to recite the Great Prophecy, but some gods couldn't hear him when he circle to the back of his throne, so they basically heard cut out bits of the prophecy.
"Yes we all know about the Great Prophecy with the war against the titans and how we are trying to delay it, but I know that most of you can sense that it's coming soon." Zeus said.
All the Olympians nervously shook their heads in agreement. No one wanted to admit it, but they could all sense war with the titans coming.
"I don't know about my brothers, but I do intend to keep my promise about not having demigod children." Zeus stated trying to act cocky earning glares from both Hades and Poseidon.
"But father," Athena broke the silence in the room, "we all know of this, is there something else we need to talk about?"
As usual Athena was right. Zeus was hiding something from them that could change everything that only Apollo and him knew. Even he, the King of the Gods, was a little scared of it.
"Yes there is something bigger than the Great Prophecy that me and Apollo find out only a couple of days ago. Apollo if you could please." Zeus gestured Apollo to move to the center to the room, so all could hear him.
Apollo rolled to the center of the throne room. Just incase he rolls when talking he decided to roll in a tiny circle. All the other gods glaring at him for acting stupid in a time to be serious, but all were shock when they saw Apollo eyes turn green and green mist coming out of his mouth.
This only meant one thing, there was another big prophecy.
"Seven Half-Bloods shall answer the call."
"To storm or fire, the world must fall."
"An oath to keep with a final breath,"
"And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death."
Apollo got out of the trance and rollerbladed back to his throne. All the gods' jaws were drop. This was another war right after the titans. A lot of energy would be used up in the first war and if the second one was right after the first one then there would be no time to recover.
"Ok, I know what you all are thinking. Yes, it's another war and Yes, it will be right after the first one." Zeus said trying to remain calm even though he was nervous like all of them.
"What now." Hermes stand up, "Most of our energy will be use to deal with the Titans, but if this is a tougher enemy we won't stand a chance."
This created multiple conversations between the gods, distracting them from discussing it.
Zeus started to get annoyed by this and let out a bolt of lighting to shut everyone up, "Now calm down, I'm still the goddamn king of the gods and I will have silence to discuss this issue."
Everyone became silent and waited for Zeus to continue, "Me and Apollo also talk about the prophecy and decided that not only us, but both gods and demigods will take put in this. The demigods would be more of an army to deal with the monsters while we would take care of the bigger issues."
Zeus waited to see if anyone needed to say something and when no one did he continue, "I have a plan to help out the demigods because the usual numbers won't cut it. So I'm going to be promoting to all the gods and goddess instead of us three, "Zeus pointed to him, Hades, and Poseidon, "to have more kids for the upcoming war, both Greek and Roman sides. I know it sounds like we are just producing children just to use them as foot soldiers, but if we don't act now we won't have a chance to withstand both wars or protect our future childern."
While everyone was thinking it over with some having nods of approval, Zeus started to go more into the plan, "We have over 300 hundred gods that can take part in this. No one will be force, but it's recommend. For those who participate, I will have Aphrodite enhance your love to not let you worry. I also suggest for when after a male god conceives a child, change to your other form and start over. Also one last thing before we take a vote, all of you who takes part in this will love of the children you birth, but still keep within the ancient laws. That is it now let's take a vote."
It took about a minute for all of them to vote yes and Zeus sent messages with the help of Hermes to all the major and minor gods to inform them. Everyone was on both sides about this plan, but the minor gods enjoy it more for the reason of their children having a big role in the upcoming wars.
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(Right after the vote)
In a random dark room where most gods don't know where was three old ladies sitting in chairs knitting. The one in the middle was Lachesis, to the left of her was Clotho, and the one to the way right was Atropos. These were the Three Fates.
Lachesis raised her head in enjoyment when hearing about Zeus' planned, "Oh how interesting is that, I can already see all those young heros that will be there during the wars to come especially that one seems like he will become a great leader. But the journey will be tough."
"Hmm," Clotho cut in, "he's an interesting one maybe another Alexander the Great or a Philip ii of Macedon."
"No you idiot," Atropos decided to take part in, "He's definitely a Julius Caesar or an Augustus."
After hearing Clotho and Atropos debate on this for ten minutes Lachesis decided to end it, "Can you both shut up? You both are wrong he won't be someone from the list he will add his name to the list. He might even be better than both the men you two een arguing about or I could be wrong. It's likely that us Fates could be wrong, but this boy might or might not do great things."
With that said the Fates laid back in their chairs, smiling, waiting for the events to unravel themselves.
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(1993, Olympus)
Just like any other friday nights, gods would be walking through Olympus with different purposes. Some gods like to see olympus like a tourist sight, some go for the delicious food Hestia makes at her restaurant, and most hang out with other gods just to have fun.
But Machitis, the god of hand to hand combat, roams around the streets near the Olympians' temples out of boredom. Being the god of hand to hand combat in a world where most people use weapons instead of fighting with their fist doesn't really keep you busy.
Matchitis was a demigod, having Ares as his godly father, being the greatest brawler/fist fighter in all of ancient Greece around the time of the Trojan war. Different fighters from all the corners of Greece would challenge him to a duel and never has he lost. Matchitis gained godhood from his part in the Trojan War being one of the soldiers in the Trojan Horse. From all the fights he won being undefeated and his major role in the war, Ares took it up to make him the god of hand to hand combat.
At first Matchitis loved the job. Many soldiers prayed to him before a big battle just like they would to Ares. Some even prayed to duel him, wanting to challenge a god to a fight. But when gunpowder and guns replace the close quarters combat, the prays decrease and he found himself having nothing to do.
Now Matchitis just roam the streets of Olympus, near the temple of the gods, thinking of all his fights when he was a demigod. Right now he was remembering the first uppercut to the jaw Matchitis got. He even twitch when remembering the pain he had from it.
"AAAAAAH!" Matchitis came out of his trance and looked around to see where all that rage came from. Following up by the sound of someone punching a wall.
Looking around to only see Ares, Hermes, and Apollo's temple around him. He took a guess and walk towards Ares' Temple.
More yelling and objects being smash by the rage and anger of Ares were heard walking through the temple. After a few minutes Matchitis finally found his dad in his destroyed living room.
"Are you alright dad? What happen to make you this angry?" Matchitis knew this was a stupid question to ask his dad because everything set him off on a tantrum. Usually he ignores his father's rage, but he had nothing better to do and wanted to kill some time.
Ares turned to face his son, heavy breathing from destroying all his furniture, looking at him with blood red eyes. "I was made a fool of Matchitis. A FUCKING FOOL!" Ares shouted causing Matchitis to back up a few feet.
"Ok ok, just calm down and just explain what happen." Matchitis tried to calm down Ares while summoning two chairs to sit down in because all the others were destroyed.
Ares took his seat saying random greek curses while Matchitis was hoping that he wouldn't end up like Ares' furniture. Matchitis slumped down into his seat and made a hand gesture to Ares to explain why he's so mad.
"I felt a little bit lonely because of Zues' stupid plan, Aphrodite is busy all the time. So I decided to go to a bar somewhere in Nevada to meet someone. I met this woman that was station at some military base in the state, I told her that I was a veteran coming out of service which wasn't really a lie, and then we started to hit it off. But it all went to Hades when she walk in," Ares was calm when telling the story, but bringing up the second woman started to boil up his anger, "she had an attitude that whatever she saw interesting was her's. Apparently I was interesting to her and she tried to make a move on me, shoving the woman I was talking to away and started talking in a sluty voice. At first glance I thought she was Aphrodite, but I didn't scent any godly power on her. She was just a small mortal TRYING TO MESS WITH A GOD!" Ares yelled at the top of his lungs, man did he hate this woman.
"I get it, you hate this woman with a passion. Please calm down and continue your story." Matchitis grabbed Ares by the shoulder and forced him to sit back in the chair.
"Get your hands off of me!" Ares shoved off his hands and slumped back into his chair mumbling curses, "The only reason I'm talking to you about this is because your my son, but you will treat me with respect."
"That's just your anger talking, just continue your story." Matchitis was now regretting walking into this temple.
"Fine, but where was I at again," it took Ares about two minutes to remember the second woman with some additional curses too, "ugh that women ruin everything. After she realize she had no chance, she tried to make a compromise with me. She ask if she could at least buy me a drink and if I said yes we wouldn't meet again unless I wanted to."
Matchitis face palmed knowing what was going to happen next, which made Ares paused his story confused for what his son just did, "Please continue your story, another thought came to my mind."
Ares didn't push more on it and was back to his story, "I accepted her deal, so she would be gone and I could go back to talking to the other women. But it turned out that she spike this drank and it had a weird effect on me. It made me change to my roman side Mars."
This made Matchitis interested in Ares' story again. Did the women know he was Ares? What was her plan?
"Matchitis? Hello, you there?" Ares was waving his hands in front of a day dreaming Matchitis' face.
"Ya, Ya, I'm listening," He broke out of his trance while Ares was glaring at him, "so I take it Mars went for the woman."
"Well not exactly," Ares said scratching his head, "Mars told me that he tried to resist, but failed. I couldn't do crack shit. That drug was something for sure and to answer your thought. Yes, Mars did do it with her."
"Then why are you mad then," Matchitis patted Ares on the shoulder. Making his way to the do thinking business here is done, "all you did, well what Mars did was just having sex. You could just punish her later."
"NO THAT'S NOT JUST IT," Ares punched the floor leaving a crater behind making Matchitis stop in his tracks, "just before everything was about to end, I gained back control. I was in such a daze that I wasn't focus and I accidently let go of my load into her if you know what I mean."
"Oh." Matchitis was clearly shocked with his father accidentally impregnating a women.
"That still not all, the reason I was in rage early was the fact that she gave birth today to a son." Ares said.
"Well congratulations father for giving me another brother that I hope brings glory to you." Matchitis still trying to make sense of what Ares just told him.
"I wouldn't think to much about it." Ares grumbled.
Matchitis was confused on what his father said, so when he was about to say something Ares interrupted him, "Because me and Mars both decided that we are just going to kill the mother and the baby."
Matchitis didn't know what to say. His father was going to kill his own son just because of what the mother did. That's fucking brutal.
"Please father for my sake, don't kill the boy. Let him prove himself to you when he comes of age." Matchitis always had a soft spot for family. Even though this kid was just his half brother, Matchitis would of raised him if he had the chance.
"NO MATCHITIS," Ares yelled, "I WAS MADE A FOOL BY THAT WOMEN, BUT I WON'T HAVE A BASTARD RUNNING AROUND MAKING A EVEN BIGGER FOOL OUT OF ME."
"This is my brother we are talking about. Half brother or not, he has the right to get a chance." Matchitis hissed back making Ares boil up with even more rage.
"You will listen to me boy," emphasizing on boy while Ares hit the ground again, causing an even bigger crater, "the only reason that you haven't faded yet for this back talk is because of you being my child. But if you can't stop pushing it, you can have the same fate as your newborn brother. My decision is final. NOW GO!."
Matchitis just smirked at Ares, which kind of put him in a daze of confusion. The only reason Matchitis was smiling instead of cowering in fear was because like any good fighter. He had a trick up his sleeve.
"Ares you remember what you owe me right?" Ares' eyes widen when he came to realization which lead to Matchitis thinking the tables have turned, "You do then, but if you don't let me remind you. I broke ancient laws for you, to help out your children. I could of gotten a lighting bolt to the ass if Zeus found out. In returned you said that you owed me a favor and you sweared on the styx too. So I'm claiming it now, Ares my favor is that you don't kill your son and let him prove himself."
It went silent for a couple of minutes, but it ended when Ares started to laugh maniacally which made Matchitis uneased.
"Ok son, I will do this favor for you and not kill the boy." But something was still off and Ares laughter wasn't making it better.
"Ares don't do what I think you will do." Matchitis said.
Ares looked up at Matchitis, no longer laughing, staring with bloodshot eyes. A look of a mad man, "Oh c'mon son, next time you should be more specific. I won't kill my son, but I'm definitely killing that bitch. Also who said I couldn't curse the boy."
Before Matchitis could react or even try to stop Ares. The god of war flashed out of the room leaving with a grim smile.
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After what just happen, Matchitis was back at his house watching Hephaestus Tv. It was something on Demeter making a new kind of cereal, he didn't really care because Matchitis was trying to figure out what Ares did to that child.
He tried to stop him, but Ares put up a shield that was strong enough to block any minor god. There was nothing Matchitis could do at this point to help the child because of the ancient laws. He was broken out of his trance when hearing a knock at his door.
Matchitis opened the door wondering who would visit him at this time during the night. He dropped to one knee, bowing to the old three women in front of him carrying something, "What an honor it is to be visited by the three fates, but may I asked why?"
The fate in the middle gestured for him to stand up, all of them glaring at him while doing so, "Matchitis, god of hand to hand combat, son of Ares, Greece's Brawler. We have come to make a deal with you." All of them saying that at the same time which made every god nervous.
This made Matchitis worried. Not only was making a deal with the Three Fates dangerous, but very weird too. Also why did they choose him of all gods to make a deal with.
He was broken out of his thoughts when another one spoke again, "Don't worry Matchitis, this won't harm you in any way if you accept. Now can we come inside, we are freezing out here."
Matchitis led them to his living room wondering what they were going to ask him. Matchitits took the only chair in the room while the Three Fates all sat on the same couch.
"So, how is your-"
"No small talk Matchitis," One of them cut him off, "we will just get to the point. This also has to deal with your father too."
Matchitis was clenching his fist. He didn't want to think of him at the moment. He hated the actions Ares took against a child, no his brother, that had nothing to do with this.
"You must be wondering what curse Ares brought onto your brother right?" Matchitis nodded, "well you must know that he used an unbreakable curse too."
This left Matchitis in a mixed of emotions shock, anger, sadness, and ect. He just couldn't believe a god would put an unbreakable curse on their children at least.
"What was the curse?" That was the only thing he could say.
"It was a curse that will never let him wield or touch a weapon, never be able to defend himself against monsters, so when the time comes it will be an easy meal for them." One of the Fates said.
Matchitis had an blank expression on his face. He felt responsible for this, giving Ares the idea for the child to survive on his own. Maybe it would of been better if his brother was kill, instead of waiting for his death.
"Don't think like that Matchitis," One of the Fates said, "we wouldn't be here if that was the case. Yes, the boy will never be able to hold a weapon to defend himself, but you of all people should know that weapons aren't just the only thing to defend yourself."
Matchitis eyes widen of what he heard. If what he was thinking that they were suggesting it would be impossible. Ancient laws prevented such an idea.
"Your right on the dot," All of them said, "we want you to train the boy in the ways of hand to hand combat."
Even though he knew they would ask it still left him in shook to be presented with such an idea from the fates themselves.
"Ok I know why you would come to me about it, but what is so important about breaking the ancient laws?" Matchitis asked still confused about what was happening.
The one in the middle spoke up, "Because Matchitis we see that this boy could be a great hero and leader. At first we didn't know why it was a possibility, but after we saw what Ares did. We figured out that their would be obstacles for this boy to reach his potential. You training him would put him more onto the path to his greatness, but it wouldn't set it in place."
"What do you mean by that?" Matchitis asked.
"What she means is that even though the disciplines you teach him, he is still a demigod. Meaning that greed or ambition could still affect him." The one on the right side said.
Matchitis didn't want to wait. If his brother was destined for greatness, he would help him lead to it, "All right I will accept, but what about the Ancient Laws?
All of the Fates were grinning, "Don't worried about the laws or the gods. Let us deal with them, but there is other stuff you have to do."
Matchitis nodded for them to continue. The Three Fates explain to him that he would teach the kid everything there's to know about fighting, leading, and ruling in both Greek and Roman ways. Then when the boy turns sixteen and a half, he will be directed to train with Lupa. This left Matchitis confused, because even though the boy was Greek they wanted him to be with the Romans.
"Yes he will be with the Romans," one of the fates said, "they will need more help than the Greeks. Don't worried about the feud too. They will settle it when the child enters the demigod world.
"Ok that seems easy enough, at least I will have something to do for the next sixteen and a half years." Matchitis said.
"Don't think it in that way. You should treat him like he's your own child. The boy will need a father figure." One Fate scowled him.
"Ok ok I get it. Now where's the kid?" Matchitis asked.
The Three Fates rolled their eyes at him, "Well because your father killed the mother we had to act fast."
The Fate in the middle who was holding something stood up walking over to Matchitis. She told him to reach out his arms and drop the object into his arms. Matchitis saw a baby born boy in his arms. He was the average size for baby with blood red color eyes and had a tiny amount of black hair. It kind of made Matchitis laugh, even though he is Ares child, his brother looked more like him than Ares.
When Matchitis held the baby higher in the air, his blanket unravel showing the kid's bare back. Matchitis eyes widened when he saw Ares' symbol all over his back. When he looked at the fates to get an explanation they were all frowning.
"Ah, so we arrived at the last topic that needs to be disgust. Apparently Ares and Mars combined their powers to not only leave an unbreakable curse, but also an mark. Teach him to hide it well, because when it's revealed to others everything could be ruined." The middle fate said and Matchitis nodded back.
Soon after, the fates lifted Matchitis' house. Leaving him with his newly adopted son sitting on the couch holding him. Huh, the thought of this kid being his son was weird to him. Matchitis always wanted a child to spend time with and teach them the ways of fighting, but after he became a god, he found out about the Ancient Laws and thought they was no point to have childern anymore. But now the laws didn't affect him and he could have a real father son relationship.
All Matchitis could do was smile until another thought entered his mind, "Now what do I name you?"
There was a silent pause like Matchitis was waiting for the baby to answer him. After naming off a couple of names, Matchitis notice that the baby was reacting to what names he was saying.
"Hmm, for an Ares child you are very smart, but let's see which names you like," Matchitis concentrated very hard on what name to offer, "what about Perseus, has good history to it and rolls off the tongue?"
The baby grunted and shooked his head, "Your right it does seem boring and not entertaining. Oh I got it, what about Alex?"
This got a better response off of the baby by him cheering and nodding his head, "Ok Alex it is, and I already know the other two. Your full name will Alex Ebrietas Kavgatzis. I know those names are a bit odd, but they have the same meaning that mine do too."
As Matchitis was done talking, with so much pride naming his son, he looked down to see a sleeping Alex. Matchitis summoned a crib for his son, kissed him on the forehead, and said goodnight to him.
Before Matchitis went to bed, he had to say one more thing to his son, "I don't care who you were or where you came from, but now you are my son and I will not fail you as a father."
Not a bad chapter if I do say so myself. I hope you guys enjoyed it and a couple of more things. This story will have lest questing and monster fights, but more demigods fighting each other and maybe some civil war here and there. You can never trust the senate after all. Last thing even though it's the first chapter, I wanted to do a little contest that will have two winners. One will be able to suggest a character that I will add into the story that will follow Alex around and stuff like that. The other one will be picking a weapon for another character too. How you win, I was just about to get to that. To win the character option, You must explain the meaning of Matchitis name and Alex middle and last name too.
The other one is to guess what Matchitis roman name would be. I will give you a hint (It has to do with the meaning of his Greek name). This is probably stupid to most of you, but why not have some fun.