Chapter 2: I Met Me
Once i was in control over my fear of being on the sky, the trip to denver wasn´t that bad, up until i remembered where we were going. Thalia´s mon house. Anabeth´s House. The one person that my dad hates, the one person he gave me permission to kill. I won´t kill her, i wouldn´t do that, not to a person. If it was a monster, sure, no problem, but a person, a demigod no less, especially the mother of a friend of mine. But still, i don´t know what SHE will do, i don´t think my dad hates her only for being a athena´s daughter, she has plenty of other children and he only hates her. Thinking about it, maybe, if she doesn´t try to kill me, she can explain to us about this bad blood between she and my dad.
Thalia- What are you thinking about?- How does she always know when i´m thinking about something secret!
Me- Nothing, i was just praying for zeus not to kill us.- That was close, i had to use my ultimate card. As long as we are on the air, i will always have that excuse.
Thalia- Oh, stop it already! Hermes himself told us that he won´t, besides, if this guy that we will bring back is so important, why would he stop us from bringing him back?
Me- Well, if he is part of my family, why would he want him back? He hates all of his brothers sons/daughters.
Thalia- Doesn´t matter, remember the prophecy? The world will hang at his hands, which means that without him, the world will end, Zeus ain´t stupid, he wouldn´t kill his only chance to save the world.
And then thunder echoed through the sky, that means zeus is mad, that can´t be good
Me- SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ARE YOU CRAZY? INSULTING HIM WITH US ON THE SKY?
Thalia- DON´T YELL AT ME!
We argued for a while, okay, i will be honest, until we landed. We only stoped because one really tall guy came at us and said:
Stranger- Good morning thalia and friend. I know who you are.
Me- Who are you? What do you want?
Stranger- My name is Telémaco, my father told me to came here and bring you guys to him.
Thalia- Wait a minute! WHO is your father?
Telémaco- His name doesn´t matter, he just want to help you two.
Me- And why should we trust you?
Telémaco- Well, he said that you might say that, so to make sure that you two would come with me, he gave me this, look.
And we looked, he had a bomb underneath his coat, now we had to go with him, otherwise we would be killing not only us, but a bunch of other people that had nothing to do with it.
Thalia- Okay, okay, we will go with you, just don´t kill anyone.
Telémaco- Okay then, follow me. And just so you know, if you try to attack me, the bomb will be set off AUTOMATICAMENTE.
Me- Okay, we won´t, i promise
It was a long trip, and thalia said something about hearing his name before. I would tell you what happened on the way to this guy´s house, but nothing did, no one talked. When we got there, something was off... thalia kept saying how this house was familiar.
Stranger2- Finally! You two finally arrived! I´ve been waiting for you two for quite a while. Thank you my son, you can go know. And disarm that bomb, i don´t want this house to blow up
This guy was old, he looked like he was 40~50 years old. Who is he?
Telémaco- As you wish father, good bye thalia, friend.
Me- Hey, i´ve told you 3 times already, my name is ulixis.
But he didn´t even respond me. But the other guy, his father seemed surprised, which was wierd.
Stranger2- Excuse him, he has been away from the world for too long.
Me- What do you mean?- This is really wierd...
Stranger2 - What do you mean you don´t understand? We were dead, that´s what i mean.
Thalia- Then what brought you back? I know hades wouldn´t do that. And who are you?
Stranger2 - smart girl, i like that. It wasn´t a god that gave us life. My name is...irrelevant for now.
Me- Then who did it? And why is your name a secret?- I hate the misterious type of people.
Stranger2 - You will know my name soon, stop worrying about it. Who brought me back was Gaea, the primordial goddess
Thalia- What? She is sleeping, she couldn´t do that!
Stranger2- Oh, but she did. And she isn´t sleeping anymore, she is awakening and forming a group of loyal soldiers to help her defeat the gods.
I took my sword and pointed at him. Now that i knew that he was a enemy, i knew that i would have to kill him...Despite that being against my nature, kill demigods, or people, if he is helping gaea, i just can´t let him live.
Me- Then i´m afraid that i can´t let you live anymore.
Stranger2- Oh, don´t even try it, you two have no chance at all to even cut me, much less kill me. Put down that sword and let me finish talking.
Thalia- We won´t, if you are our enemy, than we can´t let you live, your life ends here!- She took a dagger and JOGOU at him. This guy was good, he stop the dagger withonly his fingers.
Stranger2- I told you, it is useless for you two to try to kill me. Hear me out first.
Me- Thalia, let him finish. Besides, we can´t surprise him, at least let us gain some knowlege on what gaea will do.
Thalia- Arh. Fine...
Stranger2- Hehe. Maybe i was wrong, maybe you ARE smart. As i was saying, she is forming a group of heroes help her defeat the gods. And she told me to ask you two if you would consider joinning our cause. If you two accept she would reward you after the war, you could gain what ever you want. You wish and she gives you. You know that she has the power to do it...So, what´s your answer?
Me- HELL NO! We won´t betray our family!- How the hell can he think that we would betray our parent, our friends for some gift.
Thalia- FAMILY! That´s my mother´s house. WHERE IS SHE? WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HER!
Crap, if this is really her mother´s house, than they have thalia´s mother, with can´t be good.
Stranger2- Calm down. We don´t have her, when we arrived here to talk with her, she was gone. Probably at that camp of yours. I promise on the river STIXIS.
And we heard the thunder.
Me- He is telling the truth thalia, did you hear the thunder?
Thalia- Yeah, at least she is safe. But what about us?
Stranger2- Well, let´s play a game, my brother wants to see how smart you are. I already gave you the clues about who i am, if you can figure it out, than you may go. You have 5 minutes to solve my "puzzle".
Thalia- Okay, i accept your puzzle. Ulixis, shut up, i need to think.
Okay, i might as well give it a try. His son name is Telémaco, he was dead, he was a hero. I need more...
Me- Could you give us another clue? What if we never heard your story before?
Stranger2- You did, it is impossible for a demigod to never have heard of my story. That´s your clue.
Me- Don´t you know alreay thalia?
Thalia- I don´t, i need to think, just because i´m a descendent of athena doesn´t mean that i read every thing in front of me, just that i´m smat.
Me- Okay, sorry.
Okay, let´s give it a try. Hercules, Theseus, Orion, Ulixis, Jason, Aquiles...ARH, there´s so many...think...think...There´s one more clue, when he heard my name he was surprised...
Me- You knew the original ulixis, didn´t you?
Stranger2- And how did you get to that?
Me- When i said my name to your son, you were surprised.
Stranger2- You are right, i didn´t tought that someone would be named after him. Specially a son of poseidon.
Me- That´s right, my dad didn´t like him, he did something bad to my dad, no, that´s no right, to a son of his...
And then i remembered, the story of ulixis, he, he wasn´t just ulixis, he was odisseu, he had two names...
Me- It´s you, you are the original ulixis.
Ulixis- Finally, i thought you guys couldn´t figure it out.
Thalia- Then can we go?- While she said that, her face got a little red, i don´t think that she liked me discovering his name before her...
Ulixis- Yes, you can, i won´t kill you. i promise on the STIXIS.
The thunder echoed on the sky.
Thalia- This isn´t right, if you really are working for gaea, then why don´t you want to kill us? It doesn´t make any sense.
Ulixis- Think about it. There´s only one reason for this.
Thalia is right, it doesn´t make sense for him to let us live, of the two of us, we have a son of the big three and a descendant of athena who has something special about her, we alone could be very helpfull against gaea. And if we also finish our mission, we will be bringing back another hero, who by what everyone says, is also powerfull.
Me- Still, if we finish our quest, we will bring back a very strong hero, how would that help gaea´s plan?
Thalia- That´s it. She WANT us to bring him back, she thinks that she can turn him to hers side. Isn´t it right?
Ulixis- exactly. She has no dout that he will help her. Do you even know who he is?
Me- No, no one will tell me who he is, zeus forbid then from talking about this guy.
Ulixis- That doesn´t surprise me. If every demigod knew who and where he is, you would all go there and try to bring him back a time or another, thus killing everyone to would try.
Thalia- What do you mean? Alaska is beyond the gods, i should be safe there, without monsters.
Ulixis - Why would it be without monster?, Alaska is the land where no gods can reach, that means that there should be no hero there. That´s the best place for monsters to go. No one to kill them.
Me- Then how is this guy alive? Shouldn´t the monsters be trying to kill him?
Ulixis- I think i told you guys enough to help you with your journey. It´s time for you two to go and complete your quest.
Thalia- Okay, we will be going, i don´t think you should be staying on my mother house for long, who knows what athena will do when she knows that you are in hers daughter house, and poseidon, what will he do when he knows that you are alive and where you are?
Ulixis- I already tought about that. Don´t worry, just because i´m working for her, that doesn´t mean that i don´t have a heart. I know that me being in you mothers house annoys you. I will move out.
Me- If you are helping her, why are you being so nice to us?
Ulixis- Did you know that i´m 100% mortal? I´m not a demigod. But i still helped the gods on the trojan war.
Me- Then if you like the gods, why are you betraying them? What did she offer you ?
Ulixis- My family, she only brought back my son, there´s still my wife. I love her.
Me- So that´s why you are betraying us.
I couldn´t understand how his wife would be okay with him trading the world for her life. I wouldn´t, killing millions of people just because you want to be with someone isn´t fair. But before i could tell him that, thalia interrupted me.
Thalia- Let´s go. I don´t want to hear this idiot talking anymore.
Me- Fine, we will be going, goodbye ulixis, it´s a shame that you would exchange the life of millions for your wife, how do you think she will feel about that?
Ulixis- That´s none of your business. Just go, you have a quest to finish.- I think i hit a nerve there...
Me- Fine, we are going.
Thalia- One more thing tough, how did you know that we would be going to denver, we didn´t tell anyone.
Ulixis- Can´t tell you either.
I thought that the old heroes would be awesome, instead i´m begining to think that they are just like us, nothing special about them. Meeting the original ulixis really disapointed me, i thought that he would be a good person, that fought for good, boy i was wrong...
We needed to get to alaska, when we got to the airport, our plane wasn´t there anymore, and since we didn´t know any other way, we went to the beach and borrowed a boat. We didn´t really borrowed, but there was no other way for us to go to alaska, so we took the boat and left a few drachmas there. After a while, i was getting kinda tired, i knew that taking us all the way to alaska would take a lot of juice out of me. But on the way there, we met a whale and i convinced her to take us the closest that she could to alaska, it wasn´t that hard, when you are a son of poseidon, pretty much every living soul on the sea will obey you, after all you are the prince of the seas.