Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters.
Please note that you have to read books 1-5 in Pegasus before you read this (although it would be better if you read the whole series).
In Olympus battle raged. One second it was peaceful. Then all of a sudden the Olympians were fighting for their very existence. The Nirads, awful gray creatures seemed to be made of stone. The only thing that seemed to harm them were Pegasus's golden hooves. While Paelen was trying to steal the golden bridle, Jupiter was firing bolt after bolt unsuccessfully at the Nirads.
Jupiter saw the Nirads advancing.
"Attack!" he shouted and charged forward into battle.
Jupiter started firing deadly lightning bolts the Nirads that would normally kill a human in an instant. But they just kept advancing, unharmed. Slowly, the Olympians retreated as the Nirads overpowered them. Soon they were fighting in the Temple of the Flame, which gave them their powers and immortality. Jupiter was fighting on the steps of the temple slowly stepping backward to avoid deadly blows. Soon he was surrounded fighting on his own. He started flying away from the temple and started to fire the last bolt until something stopped him. For ten whole seconds, he flew there, confused. He started building up charge and snapped back into focus and fired the last bolt of lightning as hard as he could, and succeeded in dazing the Nirads for a millisecond.
Jupiter didn't know that the last bolt of lightning would change the whole course of the story.
Emily looked out her window, watching the storm rage on. It showed no sign of stopping and it was at its worst. She watched the lightning light up the sky like the sun for a millisecond before it became dark again. The lightning struck the Empire state building over and over again, and Emily thought, How much more could it take? Her father told her not to sit by the window, but it had been her mom's favorite place to sit. Emily felt a hole of emptiness as she thought about her dead mom.
Suddenly, the lightning stopped. Emily pressed her face to the window and only heard the wind beating against it. For ten whole seconds, it stopped. Then it came. The thunder was so loud it pierced her ears. Emily stumbled back from the window and fell into the chair. The lightning reached down and struck the Empire State building so hard that it exploded. She watched as if in slow motion, the debris scatter across the sky. Some hit nearby buildings and she watched in horror as a piece of debris come hurtling toward her. She tried to get up, but the debris was too fast. It struck her window and shattered.
And then it struck her.
Phoebe listened to the storm rage on in her jail cell in Tartarus. She never heard the storm this bad before, except for the Battle of the Titans. She looked sadly at Lorin, thinking about the possibilities of how to wake her up. Suddenly, the storm stopped. Phoebe finally heard the pitter patter of the rain from above the underground jail.
Then BOOM! Lightning hit so hard that she saw it flash in her part of the cell. It vibrated through her feet. Electricity coursed through her bones and chattered her teeth. She tried to get away but the manacles held her back. Please let this moment be o-o-o-over... Phoebe thought.
Then it was. Phoebe fell to the ground, teeth still chattering. She looked up and saw an amazing sight. She saw Lorin awake, rising from the floor, steadily getting up.
"Where am I?" Lorin asked, stumbling.
Phoebe smiled as if her purpose in the jail had been fulfilled, and became unconscious.
Lorin was awake.
Pegasus watched Olympus fall in heartbreaking horror. The Nirads started to put out the Flame. Soon it was almost out.
"Go Pegasus," Vesta gasped. "Go and find the Flame. It's our only hope."
So Pegasus set off on a dangerous journey to find the Flame.
"Emily?" Emily's father spoke desperately into the phone. "EMILY?"
She didn't answer.
"Cheif," her father begged. "I need to get back to my daughter! She is not answering and I think she got hit by some debris from the explosion. It's not like her not to answer!"
"Okay. But just check if anyone else got harmed."
"Thank you!" thanked Emily's father.
He arrived at his apartment. It looked perfectly fine until he saw the window. Something huge broke the window into shards and a huge metal slab lay across the floor. Emily was nowhere to be seen.
"Em?" he called. "Emily?"
He looked everywhere in the apartment, but she was nowhere. He finally went back to the metal slab. He lifted it enough to see under it.
And there she was, unconscious.
Pegasus exited the Solar Stream to Earth. The worst of the storm was over. He felt the connection to the Flame getting stronger now. Yes, he thought, I am near. He flew over the city and then suddenly, the connection broke. Pegasus stopped hovering in midair. He felt the connection restore, but it was farther now. Like, on the other side of the Solar Stream far. Pegasus was confuzzled (confused). What happened? he wondered.
But Pegasus couldn't stop and think. Olympus was in danger. So he flew off through the Solar Stream toward the Flame.
Emily's father stood worried at the side of his daughter's bed. They were in the emergency room, and he was anxious to see if Emily would live or not.
A nurse came through the door and told him the results: "Your daughter is definitely living. That's a fact. She got a serious concussion, though. She will wake up in 4-7 days and three more days to recover."
"Thank you so much!" Emily's father thanked.
He was relieved. Emily was fine. But something was still nagging at his heart.
Pegasus exited the Solar Stream for the second time and found himself in Tartarus. Pegasus instantly had the urge to turn back. Why would the Flame be in Tartarus? he thought. But he flew down into the jail cells. The blood-thirsty monsters sent shivers down his bones. But he kept going, reminding himself that the fate of Olympus rests in his hooves. The more levels he flew down, the more uneasy he felt. Soon he was at the bottom level where only the Titans lived.
His heart raced as he came to a stop at the last cell. He looked through and found a crippled old woman and a beautiful young girl. How could a Titan be the Flame? Pegasus thought.
And then he came to a frightening conclusion. Olympus's fate rests in the hands of our worst enemy.
