author's note: okay i don't know greek mean so i translate it, oh in this au Lori and lucy are the same age as Lincoln
(Early fall of 2017, 8:27 am. History classroom)
The classmates line up and stood in front of the door ready to leave for a field trip to the museum to study Greek mythology, or that's what Mrs. Johnson instructed. The whole school was even instructed to leave for the same reason but all the kids didn't argue due to desperation to leave and not attend any classes that were not eager to attend (gym, math, reading, etc). But in Lori's history class each student were instructed to bring a spiral notebook and pencil as there is a review quiz for tomorrow morning...not that the school board agreed but went along with it as it's something that Mrs. Johnson wanted for her class learn the value of history...well to learn her point of view of the value of history.
Each class had a look of irritation and boredom as they were aware of the assignment they were tasked to do, but why they felt irritated was they were the only class to take notes for a tomorrow quiz, but not the other class? That...was not fair for them, but if it means getting extra grades and credit...why not?
"Alright class, we will begin to leave shortly, but the instructors are checking for any students in other classes if they're present," said Mrs. Johnson as she holds a clipboard and started to check for any of her students are present as well.
"Ok, Alex?"
"Here"
"Artie?"
"Here"
"Andrew?"
"Here"
"Liam?"
"Here"
"Rusty?"
"Here"
"Clyde?"
"Here"
"Lincoln?"
"Here"
"Paige?"
"Here"
"Penelope?"
"Here"
"Zach?"
"Here"
"Kat?"
"Here"
"Lori?"
"Here"
"Lucy?"
"Here"
"Ok, I'm aware that there are a couple of students who are not coming with us but some of them will stay here to do any makeup work and will not attend quiz."
As she finished the announcement from the principle then gave further instructions.
~ "Alright, the buses are now ready to take the children to the museum and for the teachers who have taken attendees, I request that you safely take your student to the buses. We will leave as soon as all are ready"~ Huggins announced as he hangs up his microphone.
"Alright class it's time to get going," she said as she walks forward and opens the door for her class. As they all moved along and headed for the front door of the school, Clyde tapped lincoln's shoulder and Lincoln turns to see Clyde with a look of excitement.
"This is going to be great!"
"Great? Sure it's great to learn about the Greek gods, but not when we are taking note and doing a stupid quiz tomorrow." Lincoln said with disappointment.
"Come on buddy, I'm sure the quiz won't be that bad."
"Yeah, I guess you're right, but we still have to take notes which that's the down part."
"It's not that bad, besides, the museum wouldn't have a lot of artifacts for us to take notes for"
(Royalwoods museum the Greek mythology section located on the very far left of the building)
"Ok...I take that back."
"You don't say…" Lincoln said as he was amazed
As many classes stood in front of the Greek mythology section with their mouths open as they see the whole area filled with the variety of artifacts and portraits. The ceiling was extremely tall and the walls were filled with many portraits and artifacts that represent as shields and swords. Statues were seen everywhere on each side of the wall.
As the crowd of kids from each different classes parted ways, Mrs. Johnson took her's to see a portrait of what appears to be a portrait of an Image of a giant woman holding the Earth as she laid her head on top of the part Alaska.
This is Gaia and she is the ancestral mother of all life. The primal mother earth and a Titan. She is a patent to her son Uranus, and later they both became parents to twelve Titans. Don't forget to take notes.
As she walks to the next portrait where there's an image of twelve Titans but they looked like humans. All her class stood in confusion as they couldn't understand what's the difference.
These are the children of Gaia and Uranus. Their names Themis, Mnemosyne, Hyperion, Theia, Crius, Oceanus, Tethys, Iapentus, Coeus, Phoebe, Kronos, and Rhea. They were-
Before she could continue, another teacher with his own class crossed paths with Mrs. Johnson's. He doesn't appear to be a teacher but rather a coach… coach Pacowski. He looked to be blushing as well, considering his affection for her but later ruined by Lincoln and his…advice.
Oh uh... Mrs. Johnson, I did not notice you here...I mean to come across-
"You mean interrupting my class?" She said with annoyance as she remembered the day where he gave her flowers but shot out water afterward.
"Well i-i-i though if me and my students would listen to your lecture...if you're ok with it." Gave a nervous smile as he begins to sweat.
Mrs. Johnson wanted to decline but she liked to teach more kids the value of history...so she accepted. "Alright, now where did I leave off"
As Mrs. Johnson continued her lecture, Lincoln felt a small tap on his back. As he turned to see the source and knew who this person was.
"Hey I know you, you're Lynn's brother uh... Lincoln! Remember me from that dance!"
"Oh I do remember you, you're Polly, Polly pain and- why are you wearing your gear? "
Apparently, she looked to be wearing the same skating equipment from the last time they encounter but rather the difference is that her equipment was colored differently. Instead of pink, it's black with red horizontal lines.
"Yeah, I just wanted to wear this because...it looked quite nice."
"Do you really have to wear your helmet and skates?"
"Uh Yeah, I had arguments with the coach because of the stupid dress code and the strict policy of "no roller skates" in the museum, can you believe that."
"No, I don't believe, nor do I understand…" waves his hand in a circular motion, motioning Polly's skating gear. "any of this."
"Gotten a new girlfriend, Larry?"
Lincoln knew that voice, the voice he didn't want to see in any other place... Chandler. He stood behind Polly as he gave a small smile, Lincoln and Polly turned to face the red-haired boy. Even lori turned around as he too found the voice familiar as well.
"Too bad your class had to take notes." he taunted
"could you please not do this" Lincoln was not up to one of Chandler's loathing routine.
"What, you don't want me to embrace you in front of your new girlfriend?"
"We are not in a relationship here," Polly claimed
"And there's an anti-bullying system in our school, so knock it off." Lori included
Chandler gave a small smirk "But we're not in school, now are we?"
"Lincoln, Chandler, lori, pay attention!" Said Mrs Johnson as she pointed at the next painting that showed a man holding a scythe. They later put their attention to her lessons.
"They said that Kronos swallowed his children because of a prophecy that Gaia foretold that one of his children would overthrow him just like how he overthrow his father, Uranus. So he became mad and swallow all of his children to gain their powers but Rhea hid Zeus and gave him a rock that was covered in a blanket. Aft-"
Before Mrs. Johnson could complete her story, the whole class started to laugh as they found it funny to believe that if someone ate their own children and later eat a rock as well.
"Wait, hehehehe let me get this straight, so- heh so Kronos ate all of his children and also ate a rock? Hahaha." Chandler asked as he continued to laugh as the whole class started to laugh as well. This made Mrs. Johnson stood in confusion as she was not understanding why all her class and other classes were laughing but realized what she forgot to say that would make sense.
"Oh no no no, you see, Kronos was a Titan, remember, he was a giant that stood about fifteen or fifty feet tall!" And his children were normal size, so he couldn't tell from his point of view"
Then all of her students stopped laughing and then gave a loud woah, a titan that big with children so small like them… now that's amazing.
"But we do know is that they were the first generation of Titans. The second generation of Titans as we all know are Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, and the other Olympians, but later we call them gods and goddesses."
Lincoln raised his hand as he had one question to ask "Mrs. Johnson, how did Kronos's children lived if they were swallowed, I mean, how could they live for so long?"
"Excellent question, you see, these children were gods and goddesses, so they were immortal. They can survive without food, water, basically anything that we need to survive. Zeus freed his siblings by giving Kronos mustard and honey which cause them to throw up his children."
Then all the class and even other classes gave a look of disgust gag and even disturbed. They would find that hard to believe that Kronos puke his children out...gross.
(4 hours of nonstop teaching)
"Alright kids, this is something I want you to see!" She said with excitement as she leads two classes to the far end of the room where laid a huge portrait with four images organize in a horizontal line. As they reached their destination she then points to the first image that showed twelve Olympian gods are standing in front of a huge titan, but their reaction was not wise but rather in fear.
"This is the prophecy of eklektós paidiá!" said with excitement. Few children looked in amazement "It is said that the twelve Olympians will be devoured by Kronos, the king of titans."
She then points to the second image showing Kronos and the other titans walking amongst earth while people ran with fear. "He will try and destroy mount Olympus and rule the mortal world once again."
She then points to the third image that shows eight children in greek clothing, each holding unique weapons and holding them against kronos...but these children looked...very familiar. "He will be stopped and killed by the new Olympian children!
These children are offsprings of the few Olympians, plus hades since he prefers to stay in the underworld. Their names are Althea, daughter of Demeter, Geneva, daughter of Athena, Ignatia, daughter of Ares, Gerardo, son of Hephaestus, Ellen, daughter of Artemis, Loreley, daughter of Hades, Lippio, son of Poseidon, and ,Helen daughter of Zeus, These children will be destined to be the new ruler of Mount Olympus."
"What's so special about this prophecy?" Polly asked
"Well, I am glad you asked, this was destined to happen to happen this year or the next, how exciting!"
All raised a brow as indicating a sign of confusion. A mythical prophecy destined to happen in reality?
Lincoln then whispers to Lori and points to the same third image. "That kid looks like you, Lori "
"Same goes with you right next to him"
"Alright kids, we have about nine minutes until we all leave, so why don't you all look around and see anything that interest you. If you need anything I'll be at-"
"Wait, what about the fourth picture?" Kat asked as she pointed at the image that showed a child with blonde with white line hair dress in greek clothing who was standing in front of six colored portals. Each was blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and...purple.
"Oh how silly of to forget, this is Helen standing in front of the six portals, here the portals lead to different types of gods and its world, and each god is unique and special. The blue leads to the god of death, green leads to the god of wisdom, yellow leads to the god of time, orange leads to the god of talent, red leads to the god of life, and purple leads to the god of space."
"So where will she go?" asked lori
"Who knows...but that's her choice to make. Now if you all need anything I'll be at the Hephaestus's artifacts section, I'll see you all at the front entrance of greek in about seven minutes"
And with that, they all took their ways as Lincoln and Lori stayed to look at the huge portrait with many wonders and questions in their minds.
"Cool...six portals...what will you choose if you were to pick?" Lincoln said with an amazed look.
"I don't know...they sound so cool...I think time- no, life- no, I mean space!"
"Good choice...I would do the same"
"If you ask me, Helen looks quite like you in this part" he pointed at the last image.
"Hmmm...she kinda does look like me...and warrior woman tunic and a... blonde hair with that white line?" She raised a brow
"I think those are called tunic...i think that's what they're called" Lincoln said
"Nah, more like a loser wearing a skirt," said Chandler as he walks to where Lincoln is standing. Lori grew irritated to go over this all over again, even lincoln felt the same.
"What do you want?" Lincoln said as he crossed his arms with his spiral notebook on his left hand.
"Nothing much, just here to see if you had an excuse for losing your notes"
"What? I didn't lose my- HEY!" Lincoln and Lori yelled as Chandler snatch his notes and looked through the pages.
"Why do you need to take notes anyways? Looks to me that this is important, too bad if someone would have to rip-"
"What are you doing with our brother and sister's notes?"
Chandler looked behind to see Lola and Lana with crossed looks. Both also attended the trip since Lincoln and his younger siblings and lucy friend haiku are in the same school.
"give that back to him!" Lola said with a crossed look on her face.
Chandler was not convinced as he then gave a small gloat. "And if I don't, would you try to give me a pedicure, little princess?"
Lisa came to correct "actually, we will report you to the principal as you clearly have poor behavior attendance, if you were caught like this, you will be suspended and I can tell that your grades are very poor. You don't want to do any make-up work now do you?"
"But what proof?" Chandler countered back.
"How about six witnesses against you?" Lucy counters back as she scared Chandler from the left. "So what's it going to be?"
Chandler though for a moment and knew that he couldn't do anything as his hand was now tied up, so…
"Fine…" he said as he hands the notes to Lincoln, giving a grunge look to Lincoln as a sign of distasteful urge to commit payback. With that, he walked off elsewhere and leaving in defeat.
Lincoln smile as he was relieved to see his sisters having his back when the worst comes. "Thanks, guys"
"No prob," said Lana as she walks towards the Hephaestus's old hammer artifact.
"Your welcome, now if you don't mind, I have a see the statue of Pandora. They said that she is the prettiest woman at the time...not if I have to say anything" Lola left
"You will owe me for this current situation, brother. I say a surgical removal to the cerebrum cor- wha-HEY!" Haiku took Lisa's glass and threw them elsewhere. Lisa ran afterward
"Don't listen to her, you would do the same for us. I'll be at the portrait of Hades's Cerberus." Haiku left as Lincoln and lori turned to see the portrait again.
"Destined to happen this year...wow" said Lincoln
"Or the next, but I doubt that this is all true. I mean this is-"
Alright class! Its time leave...early! Mrs. Johnson said as she was heading towards the two way door where leads between the hallway and the Ancient Greek exhibit where they currently are leaving. But the reason she decided to leave was...eh...coach and his attempt of flattery.
As many came in a group to form a line, Lincoln was given a smack on the back of the head. But to Clyde's surprise...he's back.
"Not over yet, Larry"
"You're still mad? get over it!" Lincoln yelled as he holds his head in pain, but the pain fades away. As they head towards the front doors of the museum just only a few exhibits away, lori defended Lincoln as he placed his hand on chandler's chest and gave a small push.
"Just leave us alone, why do you only target us anyways?!" Lori asked
Just as they were about to leave they all heard a loud crash noise coming from the front door of the museum. Just before they were about to turn around, they can hear an old lady screaming saying.
"Horse!"
As they look to the source of the crash it wasn't a horse. Not a regular horse, but rather a horse with wings…a Pegasus. It then ran through the screaming crowd of children and towards the direction where Lori, Lincoln, and Lucy are. As soon as it got close enough to see clearly, they could see an armored Pegasus that has the symbol of a Triton on its helmet. They all turned around to run away from danger they were later stopped by a giant skeletal hand that pierced out of the ground in front of the screaming
"WHOA! WHAT THE HELL!" Chandler yelled he screamed and ran away Clyde did the same
The giant skeletal hand made the floor a huge crack and let out hellfires burst out and broke the glass ceiling above as glass shards begin to fall. The hand slammed on the floor and what came out next was a 9ft withered skeleton and its dressed as an armored warrior and what's makes this more similar to the Pegasus is that its swearing and helmet that has a symbol, but it's different...it has the symbol of a two-horn scepter. The creature then it looked at the children then face to Lucy and later spoke as he pointed at the trio.
Loreley must come with me! Your father requires your presence in Mount Olympus!"
what does it mean by that!?" Lori yelled
"I don't know but, ru- ahhh!" Lucy was then snatched by the wither skeletal warrior and he then took lucy and heads towards the hellfire hole. Lori and Lincoln tried to run to save lucy but the pegasus swopped in and snatched Lincoln
by the shirt collar with its teeth.
"LORI! HELP!" Lincoln yelled
The pegasus then took Lincoln and flew to the roof, and to the skies. Lori stood in fear as she watched her brother(or should i say) cousin get taken by a mythical creature, but later realize that the giant skeletal warrior just left with lucy into the pit of fire and vanished.
Of course, everyone ran in different directions in a state of panic and later see the front door was now clear. they were about to leave the museum where the front door was now clear to make a run for it...but right after they nearly got to an end the front door was blocked by tree branches that pierced out of the ground and later in front of them also pierced out a large tree on the floor that was made out of quarts. except this particular tree was not a regular tree but rather its slowly forming into a giant golem.
As every student and teacher stayed in place as they were frozen in fear as they saw the tree finally format to a golem. its eyes turn white as this golem was looking straight at the crowd looking for someone. How's it going saw something that caught up his eye you later looked at… then spoked
daughter of Demetra, they need!"
He later extended his arm towards the crowd of screaming children and grab one student from Mrs johnson's class...Penelope.
"HE-HELP! PLEASE!" Penelope yelled as the golem opened its chest where the vines came out and grabbed two more children. Christina, and Kat. Both were later dragged inside the golem and later the children were trapped inside as it closed its chest. But Penelope stayed on its hand, screaming for her life.
Hercules, grab the daughter of Ares and the son of Hephaestus!"The golem yelled as was facing up where the rest of the glass roof finally broke down as a certain person came down through. This person looked familiar...Hercules.
"Why can't I get Helen? She's my sister!" Hercules wined
your father sent a griffin to your sister, now you do as I say!
"Alright then" he said as he rolled his eyes, then looks around through the panicked crowd. "Eh...where is- found him" he said as he ran through the screaming children and later grabbed a kid by the back of his shirt...Artie.
HEY, LET GO OF ME! HELP!
"Alright, I got my nephew, now where's- AHH" Hercules was struck on the back of his head by a skating helmet.
"Hey put him down- HEY let go of me!" Polly yelled as she was too grabbed by the back of her shirt and hoisted up
"Geez, he wasn't kidding, you really do show skills like him." Said, Hercules, as he then runs towards the golem and jumps on his back "Alright, let's go!"
As the golem was about to leave, three security intervene as they pulled out their pistols and pointed at the golem. But they were blocked by Mrs. Johnson as she extended her arms. "DONT!
they're holding children!" she yelled as the golem opened its chest where Kat and Christina are currently tied up inside, screaming. He then puts Penelope in his chest while the vines wrapped her with the rest, and closed his chest plate.
Ok, we got what we came for, we need to leave! Hercules yelled as the golem climbed on the walls, breaking many displays of quartz and minerals.
"Father is not going to be happy about this, but he didn't say 'HOW' to retrieve them" said as he gave a small smile
" the incredible "
"Well, no one asked you" Hercules counter back as he held two kids on one hand and the other hand currently holding the roots of the golem's back. The walls begin to crack and drop pieces of broken wall, paintings, and a large marble pillar. Thankfully the pillar lands on another the golem successfully escapes through the roof, a large creature with wings barrel rolls its way through the broken roof and glides through the panicked crowd. This creature has the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet...a griffin.
Lori just stood in fear watching the same roof where her brother (or should i say cousin) was taken, she froze in fear. But that fear was interrupted by a loud high-pitch whistle. She then turns around to see a large griffin gliding towards Lori with a stern look on its face. This Griffin looked to be wearing armor as well, but it looked to be made out of gold and the helmet had a symbol...of a lightning bolt.
Lori tried to run from the griffin but it opened its talons and grabbed Lori by her arms and flew. But before it tried to leave through the open roof, the griffin was pulled down by the leg from an unknown force. The Griffin turns around to see Lana and the rest of the security holding an old rope from the wild west exhibit.
"Where do you think you're going with my sis!" Lana said as she and the officers pulled down the rope that is tied to the griffin's leg.
Lori screamed and panicked "HELP GET TH- WOAH!"
The griffin flapped it's wings, and launched itself on the marble pillar, and used its other leg to kick it down. The pillar falls and lands on the rope and snaps causing Lana and the officers to fall on their backs. The Griffin gave a loud shriek at the crowd and then flies to the broke roof while Lori took a good look at her sister as this could be the last thing he would remember.
"NONONONO, HELP!" Lori yelled as the griffin finally took her out of the building and flew out of sight.
"LORI!" Lana yelled as she watched in fear knowing that her sister taken to the skies. But now...she couldn't do anything but remember.
To be continued…