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Chapter 4
Legends and Gods
PACIFICA'S POV
"You have to decide, either we stay and tell them only what we have to, or we go, and start again." Cal almost couldn't finish his statement. He didn't want to leave; I could basically read his mind. We were both tired from running. I was fighting with myself mentally, when Cal noticed and said "Go ahead; insult the Gods if you want. I've done it; they haven't done anything to me. It's probably their fault anyway. It's just all so lame."
I sighed, he was right. "Even the story of how our race started is lame." I chuckled a little. "Nisei, the God of Islands, made our Island as a whole nation because she believed that her people should live a separate, more her way of life." Our Islands' history was known by everyone who lived on the Island.
Cal picked up next. "Then Poseidon got jealous, and decided that he should have his own island, and when she refused to make him one, he split the island into five separate, smaller islands. A little over the top don't you think?"
I laughed. "Then other Gods got a hold of the idea of teaching the First Humans how they control some of this Worlds' elements. Helios taught humans how to harvest power from the Sun, and use its rage to make fire. Selene used the Moon's gravity to push and pull the tides, and taught the humans to do that to. She even taught them to manipulate the atoms in water, so they could freeze and evaporate it. Aura and her humans moved wind currents…" I didn't really want to finish. I couldn't talk about Zeus' lightning assassins, or Demeter's evil earth manipulators. Neither did, so I radioed Zatanna.
I pressed the radio in my ear "Zatanna, I need to show you something." I waited for a while but there was no answer.
After I radioed Zatanna four more times, and no answer, I decided that Cal and I would go after her. She went to investigate the Northern Mountains. Maybe Cal wasn't that strong, and someone is really using the avalanches to cover up some kind of experiment. I had fought Lex Luthor's body guard, Mercy, once. I temporarily short-circuited her arm, and was able to get away. I didn't know who the Light was, though. Probably just like the Injustice League I heard about when we were young. Although many people had simply over looked our small civilization, we knew a lot about the World. We heard about Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman forming the Justice League. I was taught to know all the leaguers strengths and weaknesses if I was to ever go up against them. I let Cal put the fire out, and we headed out of the small mountain cavern.
I waved my hands, brought water up from the ground and made a bigger disc. I quickly made a fist and the water froze. Cal was watching me intently, he's a good student. But he's not ready for this yet. I gestured for him to stand on it with me. He smiled, and he hung on to my arm just in case. We were moving slowly, but I didn't want to accidently lose focus, and break the disc. This was still a new trick; I hadn't mastered it just quite yet.
Cal spoke to me about twenty seconds after we got in the air. "Something's still bothering you, what is it?"
I sighed. He knew me too well. Cal knew I was thinking about how the team would react to him.
"You know I would never leave you, right?" I was regretting what I said right as it left my mouth. It sounded like I was going to push him off this disc at this moment.
Cal was caught off guard. "Of course, but…" He caught on in a second. He realized that I didn't mean what I had said. "Just because you left the island," He emphasized his next point "because you where forced too, it doesn't mean you'll leave me."
Angry rushed through me all of a sudden. "Who cares if I was forced too?" I screamed. "It's my job to stay and fight for my Island. That's what Legends do! The others told me to leave, and I did tail between my legs. It's my fault everyone's gone. There's no God to blame, it's my fault!" As I spoke the ice started to break, and Cal tried to repair it but my anger was breaking it too fast. "We were at war, Cal! You may not remember it, but I do! I was there when the other Legends representing Helios and Aura planned that day step by step when we supposed to defeat Demeter and Lightning. And now, because I was a coward, our people paid the price of death." I talked so fast with rage that I didn't notice the disc breaking in half.
We plummeted to the ground.
It won't be my fault…It WON'T be my fault. We were so high that I had about half a second to think about what I was going to do. I looked at the snow, and lifted my hands to the air with extreme speed. The water rose fifty meters above the ground and Cal fell right into it. The water broke his fall, and he was able to spin the water around him to make the impact less harsh for him. I did the same thing, and the water sank to the ground as it followed my hands pushing it back into snow.
I didn't make eye connect with him for about the two minutes during our journey on foot. He broke the silence first, but I didn't want to talk.
"Hal, Legends are appointed by their God to protect the citizens of their Island, not take the blame for every mistake. It wasn't fair for you to take such an unfair burden on your shoulders at such a young age. I wouldn't be able to handle it now." Cal stopped, and looked down at the snow. "Not everyone has the pure heart that you do. You are so powerful, and so was the Legend before you. She didn't have the pure heart you did though, and the power went to her head."
I shook my head and kept walking. A blizzard was starting to pick up to I raised my voice. "I know what had happened with the Legend before me; she got power hungry and tried to over throw to Lightning's Island. After that happened, she was executed by the other Legends. When they needed a new Legend, Selene picked me when I was six. I don't know need a History lesson."
Cal ran after me and turned me around. "Maybe you do! Because last time I checked Genera was a good person, and then she got confused, and without people to help her out she went insane. You can't shut people out, and you can't keep harboring the past, Hal. You're still the best Legend of this Generation."
"I'm no legend anymore, there's no one left of our race to be a Legend for." I cried out. I couldn't see Cal anymore, the Blizzard was too strong. I placed the back of hands together out in front of me, and quickly pulled them back. The blizzard snow moved out enough so I could see Cal. I ran other to him.
He sighed of relief. "Thank Poseidon! I didn't know where you were. But, I found this." He gestured to a small metal door half covered in snow on the ground. This was definitely out of place.
It was made of extremely tough Titanium, I couldn't break through it. Three layers of it, actually. But who would be able to afford such large amounts of this kind of metal?
…
Lex Luthor.
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