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Chapter 2
Bartholomew was not alone anymore. He had searched Britain for years and had come up with many demigods angry at their parents. Bartholomew was a gifted speaker even amongst the children of Apollo. He became their moral and spiritual leader while they were led in state manners by a Roman demigod of Jupiter named Regalio Caius Petillius. Gathering the demigods they left to find the one demigod who could help them.
Daedalus.
The child of Athena greeted them warmly and upon hearing of their plan agreed quickly. He too had lost family and sympathized with them. Likewise he had no love for the gods after Athena's branding of him. He led them though the labyrinth below the city that would one day be called New York. A great cavern system lay there and there was some magic, an ancient magic that would not be remembered for some time guarded it from the eyes of the Olympians.
That was not to say there were not troubles there. Giant animals lived there and did not like these strange beings from the Overland. However the demigods found a fertile piece of land and managed to defeat the original inhabitants, giant moles. They were known throughout the Underland as it would be known as killers for what was assumed genocide but the demigods survived and founded a city. The Roman demigods under Julius used the land to found a city which would be their new Roma, and they called it Regalia.
The Greek demigods for the most part founded smaller colonies, Greeks as a rule are less centralized and these small colonies resembled the original Greek city-states. The most successful was founded by a son of Poseidon and was known as the Fount.
The Demigods flourished and prospered allying with natives, especially the giant bats known as fliers. They taught the language of English to the natives rather than Greek or Latin both to further distance them from their parents but also because they were British and thus all knew English.
Bartholomew was happy, for a time. But one day he went mad as Daedalus had done. The Greeks in his colony sent him to Regalia for treatment. They seemed to purge him of it however a week later they found him writing on the walls in a playroom for children. His writing, which intrigued the children, was turned into a nursery rhyme. Worried about the fate of one of their leaders the Regalians put him in a blank room while various doctors tried to find the problem. But he continued and wrote everywhere he could. His visions, his mad visions, because of his heritage would all come true. The Regalians begged him to eat and drink but he could not, the important prophecies came near the end, he saw a warrior, a human thing of mad rage⦠no a boy. From the Overland. He desperately wrote down the poems and visions in his head of the warrior from above, the son of the sun. Bartholomew felt some connection to this boy, not just from both beings sons of the sun. But rather knowing the rage against the world that he would face, he knew he would one day this boy would hate him, he cared not if it meant he would save all that he had created.
The Regalians knew none of this. All they knew was that after three days he died of dehydration after completely filling the blank rooms with visions and prophecies.
So what do you think? I'm probably going to modern times next chapter.
