Chapter three
Anastasia
When morning came I stretch like a cat. As I start to wake up a bit. I pull the blankets off me so I can get ready. Then I completely wake up and I remember that today is the day I go down to the mortals. I start to pack and was done when I almost forgot the locket on my bedside table. I walk over to it, grab it, and gently place it in my bag. I zip it up and walk to the kitchen where my mom is cooking and my dad looks like he is teaching my brother about war. He glances up at me and makes a motion for me to follow him. He leads me to a closet were he keeps all his stuff for war. He starts to rummage through his stuff until he finds a small dagger. He hands me it, I take it and just stare at it. The dagger has black, red, and white gems making a design. When I look closer I see the gems actually make a spear. "Dad, why are you giving me this? I don't think I'll need it."
"You may be right about not needing it but I think it's better to be safe than sorry." Then he walks back to the kitchen while I follow. I sit at the table while my mom pours orange juice into my cup with the gods drink on the side and serves eggs and waffles on my plate. After I finish eating I look at the clock, it says 5am.
I gulp down the gods drink and yell "Troy get ready. Zeus told me to bring you with me." I rush to my room, and change my clothes. I dress in a short black dress that fits me like a second skin, my purple fishnets, and dark red converse. I put on bright red lipstick. When I finish getting ready I looked at the clock it says 5:15. We have to meet Zeus on the other side of the mountain in 30 minutes. I know that if we don't hurry we are going to be late, so I run with Troy to the other side as fast as we can. When we get there it is a minute past 5:45 and Zeus is starting to get inpatient.
"Sorry we're late. We left the house later than I expected." He turns around and takes about a second to look at us before he starts to shove us into the same portal. He types in the address where we need to go, steps back and waves good bye.
"OW! Troy you're stepping on my foot! Get off of me you big headed monkey face!"
"I would but you just called me a big headed monkey faces so I'm gonna have to say no!"
"Ahh!" I scream in frustration and shove him to the other corner. I push him so hard that he slams into the glass wall.
"Ow" he responds sarcastically. Our appearances change as we go down to the mortal world. I'm wearing a short black dress and dark red converse with black lipstick. My hair changes too. Now it's black with green and purple highlights and blood red tips. My brother looks normal except for his clothes. Now he has a black shirt that shows off his muscle and jeans with black converse. After a few minutes I lose track of time and before I know it we are on earth in front of Soppria's school. I glance up at the clock; it says 5:55am.
"Wow this really sucks, why do you always end up with me? I feel like your damn babysitter Troy." I wait five minutes before I see Sophira. I walk straight up to her (with my brother right behind me) and say "Sophira Ionia please come with me. I have something to tell you as well as show you." I don't care if I just interrupted their conversation I just want to get this over with. She stops talking the moment I start talking and just stares at me, and then she made a little scuff at me. I look at her facial expression and all I can read is the "you must be kidding" look.
Then as sweetly as she can manage she says "I think you should go back to Reilly before she finds out that you have been talking to us." By this time I am getting annoyed.
"Umm… Excuse me but I don't know any Reilly." I respond just as sweetly.
"Oh… You must be new then. Huh?" When she says it to me she sounds… amused like the girl Reilly is someone nobody likes. Then she looks at Troy and says "Are you with her?"
"Unfortunately yes I am with her." He responds. I glare at him.
I turn back and say "Yes we are new, but now that we have that established get this through your head Sophira, I. Need. To. Talk. To. You. Did you understand or should I go slower?" I say sounding very irritated. Sophira acted as if I didn't just talk, turns her back to me so that she can talk to her friends.
I get very angry and the weather changes and starts to lightning. "Calm down sister we don't need the trouble." Troy whispers in my ear.
I clam down gradually and the weather returns to normal. I am about to tap her and say something when she turns back around to face me and asks "Do you want to join the group?"
"Sure, but after we talk. As in you and me and no one else." I answer trying hard not to let my anger control me.
"Ok, but you can talk in front of them, I don't keep anything from them. 'Kay?" she answers.
"Only if you want to talk about your father in front of them!" I shoot back. She just stays there looking at me eyes wide with surprise.
I am taking a deep breath to start talking, when she finally speaks up and says "Okay, I'm coming." But she makes no effort to follow me, so I have to grab her by the wrist and basically drag her with me. She is quite easy to pull actually even though she's struggling trying to get free. She's getting on my nerves with her struggling she's making everything more complicated than it needs to be, so I pull her over my shoulder so she can't do much. And I keep walking.
"Careful sister you are bringing attention to yourself." Troy whispered to me.
"Maybe you should go get Gardenia and tell her what you can here for. Just like I am."
"I don't know what she looks like." He answers
I stop dead in my tracks and look at him. "Are you serious? Were you NOT paying any attention when mom and dad were explaining things to us last night?" He shakes his head. "She is the girl with the black hair." I walk a little bit more and then stop. I put her down, not letting go of her wrist, and then I look around us and see everyone stop what they are doing and look at us, but more specifically they are staring at me. Or were they staring at Troy?
"Why do these people look at me so oddly?" I ask very annoyed.
"Ok, I will answer your question once you let go of me." I drop her wrist and wait for her to finish explaining. "Those guys over there" she points at the door were there was a pack of guys looking at me "are looking at you because they think you're hot. The girls are just jealous they don't have your looks. And most of all they are staring at you because they can't believe that you just dragged me then picked me up like a rag doll all the way over here. You're really strong." She says. I notice the whole time she was saying this she didn't once lift her head. I could see my brother talking to Gardenia from here. Then they start walking to us.
"Why are you not looking at them? And why are some of the girls coming this way?" I ask now really pissed.
Her eyes widen just a little bit and she says "What you mean like they are walking over here? Like right now?" She is trying to sound calm, but I can hear the panic in her voice. Now my brother and Gardenia reach us. I nod and point behind her where the girls have just stopped. She turns to face the group of girls. "Hi Reilly." Sophira says coldly. So this is the Reilly that she was talking about. Who knew? She's uglier than I thought. I mean if I were to be compared to someone compare me to someone better looking than Reilly. I saw Troy trying to not smile when he realized that this is the girl they thought I was with. I shoot him a warning glance that shuts him up.
"Umm. Excuse me Sophira, but I wasn't talking to you. Now move so I can see the new girl!" To my amazement Sophira moves out of the way. Reilly approaches me "Ugh. What's your name?" she asks
I stand there thinking of what to say this without being really mean. "What did you say 'Ugh' for?"
"I said that because I mean look at you. You look awful!"
"No you did not just say I look awful!" I say very angry. It starts to lightning again. "At least I look better than you." I do look a lot better than her. My brother is laughing silently. I have to remind myself to beat him up after this is done. Reilly follows my eyes and rest on my brother.
"Look what we got here. Pretty boy and his girlfriend."
"We are brother and sister. Twins." I practically yell.
Troy puts his hand on my shoulder and whispers in my ear "Calm down sister. Control your anger, don't let it control you."
"Yeah, punk girl calm down." Reilly sneers. "That's going to be your new name for me. Unless you would like 'Useless little punk girl' 'cuz personally I think you're just looking for attention."
"That's it!" I scream. I lunge forward but Troy jumps on me and brings me to the ground he keeps me on the ground by lying on top of me. When he gets off I punch him in the gut. He didn't see it coming so he didn't have time to block it. Then he kicks me in the stomach. It hurt so badly but I sucked it up. We went on fighting for a little bit until Sophira and Gardenia pull us apart. "We will finish that one day Troy." I say through gritted teeth. And since Sophira didn't have my feet held I suddenly had an idea. Troy sees that idea in my eyes and is telling Sophira to hold my legs when I kick Troy under the chin and he passes out. I then turn on Sophira and kick her behind the knees. Her knees buckle and she falls to the ground. I hear people in the background all gasp at the blows I landed with them. I straighten my dress then I turn to Reilly and there she is still standing in the way (God is stupid or something? Doesn't she know when to stop? Can't she take defeat? She is PATHETIC!) I smile a ruthless smile that still looks flattering on me and say "Move Bitch!"
"Punk girl no one talks to me like that, but I can see your going to learn that pretty soon!" she snaps.
"Apparently people should talk to you like that. And I can speak to you like that because you are nothing more than a selfish little brat who can't make herself feel good so she goes and takes it out on other people. AND you can't take defeat when it hits to in the face." I comment laughing. The whole time walking up to closer to her.
"Ohhhh." I hear people exclaim from behind her.
I get the feeling that people don't stick up to her that much. She makes a face at me that shows pure hatred. "Well, Punk girl you just made your stay here a lot like hell."