Reunion V: Battle

By Anya

Chapter 1: Oath

A/N: Yes, it took me a while. But I had to introduce people in Is It Worth It first! So here it is, the second last installment of Reunion.

xxx…It's The End Of The World As We Know It. Can't I Have Some Time Alone? …xxx

The man threw down the chemistry vial and smiled in a satisfied way when he heard it smash into a thousand little glass pieces. Let the stupid disease ridden rats deal with that! He sighed and flopped into a chair and smacked his head into the desk. Why couldn't he find out why!?

He shifted his glasses and straightened his coat. He would discover why emotions existed, and in doing so, he would find out the meaning of lonely.

Even if it killed him.

"Mr. Scott? The president is on the phone, he needs to talk to you."

The man cursed. The stupid idiot couldn't leave him alone. He had already made himself quite clear that he wanted nothing to do with being the President's personal advisor. He only wanted to suffer in silence, alone, lonely, and discovering things the world had no business in knowing…

Odie James Scott walked up the stairs, back into the sunlight, leaving behind the dark that had always welcomed him with soothing shadows and safety. The darkness that had always been more of a home than anything else he had ever known.

The only place he was not lonely, and yet the loneliest place to be.

xxx…When You Think You Are Alone, No, No, No, You Are Not Alone …xxx

Hera finally let her huge breath out. Neil had definitely shocked them all in that one. She smiled, thinking of the way he had so gently and sweetly kissed Danaya's scars. Well that had been the easiest get together in the history of the earth. But now it was Odie… how could Hera even attempt to organize this reunion?

She hated dealing with dangerous people, especially when they threatened her power. Or her children. Giving Odie back his love could not only destroy her pantheon, but destroy Odie himself.

No one could to forgive them this betrayal. Hera knew that, and she expected nothing less than total hatred. The team reunited could even take down Gods, as they had proved…

But Hera prayed that her students would have the decency to let them live.

They were kind enough, surely. They had loved the Gods in their past lives, and the Gods still loved them, favored them. Hera had even tried to reunite them, despite this constant danger. But there were some evils in the world that didn't deserve happiness. Hera would just have to bring Odie to New Olympia and reunite him with his friends.

Never her. Never the darkness.

She was too dangerous. Too deadly. Too powerful.

Hera didn't like the dark.

xxx…I Wait In Shadows And Watch, Vampire, Wraith, Ghost of Dark …xxx

Odie used the patience that he thought had long ago disappeared in him.

"No, Mr. President, I will not be your personal advisor, I thought I made that quite clear." Odie said, his voice hard and his knuckles white in the death grip on his little yellow phone.

"Mr. Scott, to refuse the president is-" A deep voice came from the other end.

"Deport me! I don't give a damn! I refuse to do that. Now if you will excuse me, I have friends to meet." Odie interrupter, his patience long forgotten once again.

"You won't have any friends left after I get through with them." The president threatened in a slick voice. Odie smiled grimly.

And slammed the phone onto the receiver.

"I was lying earlier, I have no friends." He growled, retuning to the comforting darkness of his lab.

He threw himself in front of his huge computer screen and typed furiously, gaining access to NASA's satellite camera in seconds. He swiveled the view, going first to a well known apartment in Paris where a blonde haired man was packing. He smiled while he worked and Odie thought it remarkable that he would do so.

In all the time Odie had studied Paris' number one model, he had never smiled while at home.

So why would he start now?

And then it became quite clear as a beautiful woman bounded into the room. She had raven black hair and ebony eyes to match. Her skin was a flawless cream, and she wore black tights with tall boots and a fitted dress with a red belt to match. She was sinister, melancholy almost, but gorgeous. And for the instant Odie watched her, he knew that he had met her before. Just as he had known with Neil.

Danaya.

Her name resonated with his being and Odie smiled, for the first time in happiness.

Neil had finally met a woman who he knew, a woman who made him smile. And he had finally been reunited with someone from what Odie liked to call pre-modern life. As in: a past life that Odie had also known Neil.

Where he had known Danaya.

Odie left the apartment, first hearing where they were headed. New Olympia. He would continue watching them, as he did with all of the people he considered 'unknown friends'.

But New Olympia… strange coincidence. He moved to the area and zoomed into a brownstone, unremarkable except for the extraordinary amount of street kids in it. Upon reaching the living room he discovered a familiar red headed woman holding a small boy who Odie knew was called Thomas.

Archie stood beside her.

Odie gave another happy grin. Also united. The advantages to controlling the world's most powerful satellite and sound wave transmitter were limitless.

Feeling a sneaking suspicion hit him, Odie quickly swiveled the picture to a huge mansion, only to find it empty of its longtime resident. He grimaced, moving fast to New Olympia, knowing without a doubt that something was going on.

And in one hotel in New Olympia, not only did Odie discover the man Jay Cameron, but he discovered him in an embarrassing situation with the red headed woman Theresa Davis. Odie quickly moved to another hotel room, hoping the same thing would not happen. A flush graced his dark cheeks.

But when he reached that random hotel room he found a couple playing cards on a bed. And the worst part was, he felt the flare of recognition in his chest.

He had thought he had found all of them! Apparently he had missed three…

The new 'unknown friend' had brown hair and was hugely buff. He looked sweet, and Odie immediately liked him. The woman was earthy and gorgeous, with long copper curls and an easy grin. She was also the smallest woman Odie had ever seen in his life. She must have been barely over five foot.

But more than their looks, their conversation interested him.

"Calli, we have to find the others, I can't keep staying in this hotel. I have been here for two weeks, just waiting to see if I could run into Archie."

Odie felt his jaw drop. This Herry person knew Archie! They actually knew each other. He quickly adjusted his sound control and listened harder.

"Well I want to meet him, but what if he doesn't remember us? That will only hurt him, and not to mention us…" The copper haired woman named Calli said.

Ode shut off his satellite monitor and sound connection.

Some of them knew about the past life.

"I will discover who did this to us 'unknown friends' and I will make them pay." He swore out loud, snatching his laptop and basically sprinting upstairs, leaving behind his haven, his safety, and everything that even felt remotely like home. He shut the basement door, leaving behind the darkness, but keeping it locked inside his heart, keeping it there to make him strong enough to go through with his oath.

xxx… So Long My Memories, Daydream Of Shadow And Light…xxx

Evil laughter followed in the wake of the door slamming. The home of darkness would be moving again, forever carried in the man's heart. She smiled evilly, her blood red eyes letting one crystalline blue tear fall, only to shatter on Odie's floor, merging with the shattered chemistry vial.

"Hera shall pay. Taking the one bright thing that had belonged to the darkness. Taking him from me, when he was the only thing I wanted in the betrayal, not only to my friends, but Persephone's betrayal to me."

The eyes flashed a clear sweet blue for only an instant, long enough for a melodic voice unlike any other to whisper, "We shall be together again."

And then the crimson eyes returned, the two toned evil voice finishing the sentence the beautiful eyes had started.

"That is my oath to you... Dark Prince." Sinister laughter followed the shadowy form into a dissapating mist.

As abruptly as this creature had come, it had dissapeared, leaving only broken remnants of a crystal tear and a black rose on the floor. But anyone who looked close enough would realize that this rose was not dead, but fully alive. And as the rose opened, it's very center was the purest ivory.

xxx… And All I Ask Is That You Never Let Me Go …xxx

A/N: Well there you go. And the whole betrayal thing, rose thing and such shall come into play, not only in the next reunion installment, but in Is It Worth It. Review! Love Anya.