Disclaimer: Not any character of class of the titans animated series belongs to me…
Things you have to know:
I am Dutch… I'm trying to write in reaal Queen's English (or something like that). If it goes wrong: please, don't be mad
--
Uh… Hi… name's Odie, and I'm gonna tell you something. Probably you won't believe me. And even more probable, you won't believe it's me… But then again it's a true story. And I'm gonna tell it to you, because unlike in the times of my ancestor Odysseus, there isn't any philosopher around to tell you my story. To tell you the story we will go 2 years back in time. It was a sunny Monday just after the summer breaks. And it was… Well it wasn't exactly a particularly interesting day. Just like any other day just after the summer breaks. A day of excitement because of the new school year. What would it bring. And in our case what monsters would it bring on our path. What would Cronus bring on our path. Would love arise. And then preferably not with a certain nymph on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Anyway excitement. But there was also a kind of dread. The dread of the end of summer breaks. School had begun. It was both boring and nice. Meeting people yet also learning under de guarding eyes of the teachers. Jummy and Jucky!
Hmm… Maybe you are starting to understand why Odysseus didn't write his story himself. Written by the philosopher the story was long. Written by Odysseus (if he would have written like me) it would have been much much longer. Iliad and Odyssey would have been so thick that the Mediterranean Sea would have been full of thrown away very thick books. Homerus, he made Iliad and Odyssey interesting books. I hope that once you have wrestled yourselves through this very boring introduction, you will still be interested in reading this story. I'll try to keep it shorter from now on. Anyway… We'll go two years back in time.
The night before I didn't sleep well. And I was deep in thought about it.
Suddenly I heard Jay say "Earth to Odie. Wake up."
"Wha...?!" I said flabbergasted and I stopped walking.
"We've been trying to talk to you for five minutes, you dork." Neil growled very Neilishly (whatever that means)
Indeed around me stood Neil, Jay, Theresa, Atlanta, Herry, Archie. They had weird smiles on their faces.
"Why do you look at me like that?" I asked.
"Heheh... I can't believe you let Neil call you a freakishly stupid dumber than dumb idiot. Even you should have been insulted by that." Herry laughed.
I glared at Herry and Neil and growled: "Hey what's that supposed to mean!"
Everyone started staring at me.
"What?!" I cried.
"You just growled at Herry because he made a stupid remark about you." Archie said in shock.
"So?!" I cried.
"You never get insulted by Herry's stupid remarks!" Theresa said worried. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah... And you never growl at anyone too." Herry said warily.
I thought a bit about that and mumbled: "Yeah, I suppose you're right. Sorry."
"Don't worry bats, it's okay!" Neil laughed.
"Neil, batman doesn't exist. And even if he did exist, I would be nothing like him." I pointed out.
I had started walking again and was again deep in thoughts. The others had been silent for a time. We reached the school.
"See you all at lunch!" Jay cried enthusiastically.
I just nodded. I don't remember the reaction of the other guys (and girls).
Lessons turned out to be very very boring. It was all about Greek mythology and computers and I know all about that. I heard nothing new. I only discovered that one of my classmates had a bad cold. And believe me. That isn't something you want to discover. Not in the way I did at least. He sneezed right into my face!!
When I finally could have lunch I was in a terrible mood. Bad night. Bad school. What more could go wrong? I bought lunch and sat down beside Jay promptly. I started eating my lunch aggressively.
"Are you suffering from love sorrow or so?" Neil laughed.
Why did I have to ask what more could go wrong? I groaned and growled: "That's it." I threw my milkshake over Neil's face and cloths and I stamped away and took a seat somewhere in the corner of the lunchroom. I ate my lunch and nothing interesting happened.
Midday went by quickly. We had maths. Nothing better than maths. When we left school I was in a much better mood.
Later on Jay told me Neil was about to attack me for ruining his cloths. But the other guys had decided to hold him off.
Jay explained: "In that terrible mood you were apparently in, you could have killed him. Or you could have ruined his face. If that would have happened you two would have started a two man war."
"Well, it's good you've prevented him from doing so." I said.
We had just arrived at the training field, when I got a very cold shower. Neil had thrown a bucket full of water with ice cubes over my head.
My eyes went wide. And my mood dropped lower then it was at lunch. I stamped away to dry up and get some clean cloths. After a good shower I decided I needed some sleep. At seven o'clock in the evening I went to eat dinner. The dining room was weirdly empty. Hesitantly and very warily Theresa walked to me.
"So what's the matter?" she mumbled. "Why are you so moody." she almost whispered.
"Well I had a rough night and morning lessons were very boring. That's why." I said. She was silent and before I knew it I was deep in thought again.
Theresa gave me a little push to get back my attention. She said: "This is the third time you do that you know. Something must be bothering you."
"Is it that bad? I just dreamt so weird last night..." I mumbled softly.
Theresa laughed. Apparently she was telepathically listening to something. She said smiling "Guys, you can stop trembling in fear and listening in on us now."
Slowly Jake, Herry, Neil, Atlanta and Archie pushed open the door. They all took a seat at the table.
"You were that afraid of me? I must have been irrationally moody then. Sorry guys."
"It's ok. So, why don't you tell us what the dream was about?" Atlanta asked warily.
So I told them about my dream: Theresa, Atlanta, Neil, Jay, Herry, Archie and me. We were fighting one of Cronus' monsters. It was a gigantic snake. Its breath was both cold as ice. The sound of its hissing was hot as fire. It was very powerful, thick and agile. We just couldn't beat it. Neil got turned in a block of ice, because he was too busy watching in his mirror. And from that moment on things only got worse. Herry cried in anger and ran at the serpent. The serpent simply turned its head very fast to Herry, opened its mouth and devoured Herry. Atlanta and Archie charged at the serpent and went into flames and disappeared into a cloud of ash. Then the serpent attacked Jay. It bit Jay. Theresa screamed and ran to Jakes side. She started crying. And became very angry at the snake. Hatred was shining from her eyes. She charged at the serpent. It took the serpent two second. And it devoured both Jay and Theresa. I was in shock and thinking frantically of a way to stop the serpent. But the serpent. It stared with cold eyes at me. Cronus said to the serpent stop. I can use this guy as a slave to be my strategist. Then the snake turned to Cronus. Cronus. He just disappeared in the mouth of the serpent. Now the serpent was looking at me again. Fast like a cheetah it turned may rounds around me till there were many circles of serpent around me. Then slowly the circles started to get very very tight around me. I was just busy trying to breath. I got choked. Almost. Then there was a white dove. He landed before the head of the serpent. The serpent. It let out a very very creepy laugh and devoured the dove. Then the tightly rings of serpent got very loose. The snake disappeared in a flash of light. The dove re-appeared shining clearly in full glory. Then there is a weird gap. I kind of darkness I think. And there is the dream again. We are all standing in a row. With three other persons. And then we disappear.
"Well that's it" I said after telling them about my dream.
A silence fell and seemed to last an hour.
"That really sounds unreal!" Jay exclaimed.
"Yeah… perhaps it is…" I said unconvinced.
After that I started doing my homework and one hour later Hermes told us Hera wanted to see us for a mission briefing.
--
As you probably noticed I polished this chapter a bit.
Next chapter is about the meeting with Hera, and Odie and the other guys will meet another hero...
Why that was it… feel free to read (Duh…) and review.
Jep I'm a Christian. So if you don't want to read about symbolical Christianity (or more) in stories about class of the titans. Then so it be. Stop reading from now on (if I even go on), or else… don't feel betrayed if suddenly a certain guy of Christianity enters the story.
