Chapter 4: I Call For Her
I was woke up by someone shaking me violently. It was Lilly. "I have an idea how to tell if you're my brother." a huge smile went up to her eyes.
"Now?" I asked rubbing my eyes.
"If we find out you're not my brother then we can kiss all day long." with her saying that I teleported to the front of the cave. Then shouted over my shoulder "Come on then." she ran after me. She overtook me and pulled me to a lake on the opposite side of the cave to the forges.
"Can I cut your hand for this experiment?" Lilly asked
"Yes." I replied wryly. She took out a knife and scraped it across my hand and blood trickled out. "Couldn't you off just used the cut on my arm?" I pointed to the bandage.
"Oh yea sorry." and she dipped my hand in the water, nothing happened. "Yes!" she shouted so loud it hurt more than the cut. Then she did the unexpected and jumped on me and started kissing me all over. "Umm Lilly what time is it?" I said between kissing. She stopped and looked at her watch. "5:10 Am. Why?"
"Because I want to practises sword fighting with you before I have my lesson."
"Ok but this will be tough, just because I like you it doesn't mean I'm going easy." she smiled and started teaching me lots of technics. Jab, thrust slash block and lounge. By the time we finished it was 7am.
"Why do you have grey eyes?" I asked after we stopped for a rest.
I took her by surprise "What?"
"Athena sons and daughter would have grey eyes just like her. Well wouldn't you get the eyes of Poseidon?"
"Yes that is true. But a prophecy once told the Olympians that if Athena, who vowed never to marry but still love, accepted a proposal of marriage then one child of each of the big three will be born with Athena's eyes. I was Poseidon's grey eyed child, Zeus's grey eyed child is Laurence Lemint and hades' hasn't be born or just not been here. Does that answer your question?"
"Yes but who did Athena accept the proposal from?"
"Only she knows. But she is still engaged and never takes the ring of. Oh and the man mysteriously disappeared."
"That's disappointing but one more thing." I jumped on her and rolled us both to the river and fell in. We started kissing under the water but her lips were dry just like always. I had to go up for air but Lilly didn't. After several minutes of kissing thunder started booming and the water started heating up. Lilly pushed me to the edge of the water and I got out with Lilly behind me.
"I think we should stop for a bit." I said, out of breath
"Yea I think we should." Lilly was also panting. The rest of the day was boring. I ran into Amber a few times but she kept saying "New campers are always the cutest"(I didn't know what she meant by that), "Who are you?" and "Where you come from?" I didn't like her not knowing me. I took a class to find out who my parents are but no luck. I was good at the rock climbing, sword fighting, art and basketball. When I got back to my room I noticed a staircase winding up to a bright light. I started climbing and it took a minute getting to the top. At the top was a field in the open space. Amber was there and so was Lilly. But behind them were 7 Minotaur's which they hadn't noticed yet.
"Amber, Lilly watch out." I shouted at the top of my lungs. Amber just had time to say
"What the h…" before Lilly tackled her to the ground. The Minotaur's ran over them but they didn't get hurt, they just carried on for me. I wished my sword was here as I jumped to the side; all seven missing. I found myself holding my sword and all I could say was "Wow" how did it appear in my hands? However it got there I need to use it. I slashed the first one's head and it exploded in a cloud of smoke. After the fog cleared I saw a pair of Minotaur horns on the ground. They dissolved and the small parts of dust went into the sword; this happened all in a blink of an eye. I sliced two more and the same thing happened. I stabbed one more in the chest but I hadn't noticed that another on was behind it. Two left. Before I could attack they charged and rammed me into a tree. They both pulled out a knife when two swords poked out of there chest's. With dumbstruck expressions on their face they said "Ooops" and they disappeared into smoke just like the last five; with the horns going into my sword.
"What the Hades are you doing her? And how did you get that sword? And how did you defeat a Minotaur let alone seven?" Amber starting asking me more questions but I didn't pay attention I was staring at my sword.
"Phoenix!" Lilly shouted; running at me making me drop my sword. She pulled me into a quick kiss and I heard Amber stop talking. Lilly started pulling me towards the stairs and said "Come on don't just stand there let's inform Demeter. Come on you two." Amber got up and walked down the stairs with us, not saying a word. We went to the Demeter's cave and, just as we thought, she was there.
"Hello what do you want?" she didn't sound mad.
"Minotaur" I stammered "upstairs, gone, turn to fog, left horns, sucked into my blade."
"Wait, slow down" she said putting her flower she was holding down. So we explained it to her after I recovered my wits.
"So the Minotaur's came after one of you three. Hmmm. I guess that means the Egyptian gods want to kill one of you." they all looked at me.
"Wait a sec, so you're saying the Minotaur was Egyptian not Greek and how did the horns go into my sword? As were on the note of my sword, how did it get to me?"
"Of course not. The Minotaur was originally Greek but the Egyptians learnt how to breed them. As for the horns into the sword thing, well, the sword is made out of Osmium, a metal for the gods. It absorbs a special material from a monster you fighting." as Demeter said the last word a blast of lightning came from the ceiling and landed next to me, when it cleared a girl was standing there. Artemis. The whole time we were talking we walked to the centre of the main cave.
"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO HER AGAIN!" she roared making the whole cave shake violently "AFTER MY WARNING! I will make her never love you again." she loved me I thought to myself.
"Mother, but... How...why. I don't like him."
"He will die anyway!"
Then a bow and arrow appeared in her hands and she fired. It hit me dead in-between my eyes and shattered on impact.
Everyone around us where making stuttered comments. I could barely hear and said, without thinking, "I banish you to Olympus by the powers given to me to my father" thunder boomed and Artemis vanished with Amber saying "Mom where did you go?" I fell to the ground but didn't faint. About 5 campers carried me to the infirmary and laid me on a bed. "We need Apollo kids now!" someone shouted to my right.
"But they're all in shock." another person replied
"Why don't you just use me then" after the man said that there were a lot of gasps "I need everyone to leave I need to take of all his clothes."
"Ewe" said a lot of girls.
"Except underwear. He's in shock. It's a delicate process" I heard a lot of movement but the person holding my hand didn't move. I opened my eyes to see Lilly, crying her eyes out. I pulled my legs out of bed and rubbed her back. "What's wrong"
"You just got hit by one of my big sis' arrows." the man (obviously Apollo) said with a confused expression "They might be painless but they kill instantly. And then there's the whole banishing her to Olympus, she doesn't like that" Apollo waved his hand and an image of Artemis appeared. "You!" she yelled "how dare you break my arrow, fall in love with my daughter then banish me here!" she pointed to a massive room full of thrones. Lilly started crying more and I rubbed her back more intensely. Artemis then carried on "Leave now both of you I need to talk to Apollo privately." I couldn't help myself so I said "Oooo"
"Shut up were brother and sister and she is a maiden!" Apollo stated
"Zeus and Hera were brother and sister. Hera was a maiden before she got together with Zeus, to be fair she was in a stomach but none the less a maiden." I countered
"But…I...umm. Good point but that's not the case. Now leave!" Apollo looked nervous so we left. That was one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
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