I ran after the cyclops but dang he was fast, I figured if I couldn't catch up to him then I might as well draw him back to me "Hey ugly!" I yelled loudly. The cyclops stopped running and turned back to look at me "Yeah I'm talking to you! Or is your name Stinky? Maybe it's dumbass? It's dumb something I'm sure of it!" I shouted.

Well my plan worked perfectly. That cyclops charged towards me like his goal in life was to kill me. I cursed under my breath realizing that I didn't think past this, I fired a few shots but they either missed or just grazed the monster. People screamed and ran away at the sound of the gunfire and not from the fifteen foot tall monster barreling towards me. He brought his free hand down in an attempt to squish me but I jumped out of the way and ran behind a car.

I felt my guns reload just as the car was lifted into the air, I turned and the cyclops had a look of murder "Puny half-blood! I smell your parent, not even a major god! Such insignificance is not even worth my time." he said and lifted the car higher.

I aimed my guns at his knees and fired, he howled in pain as he dropped Hedge and fell on his back, the car landing on his stomach and pinning him to the ground. I walked over and stared at him, my red eyes staring him down with a glare "You know what's funny? This puny half-blood just kicked your ass." I said and shoved Justice into his mouth. The cyclops looked at me pleadingly as if begging for mercy but sorry to say mercy really isn't in my vocabulary.

When I pulled the trigger it was muffled and he crumbled to dust, I wiped some of it off my jacket and then holstered my guns before helping Hedge up. He groaned as he looked at the pile of dust and then back at me "Impressive kid. Not many fourteen year olds are that brave, most would have left me to be eaten by that cyclops." he said as he picked up his club.

I shrugged "Gonna be honest I thought about it and I wanted to but I don't know I just couldn't. I think I just couldn't stand not fighting, like I tried to run away but the thought of being in that conflict just overpowered my thoughts and told me to fight. I really can't explain it."

Hedge stared at me "He said you were a child of a minor deity, interesting." he said as he looked me up and down and then stared into my eyes as if calculating what I was thinking. Eventually he just grumbled under his breath and I caught the word mother.

"Do you know who my mother is?" I asked curiously and Hedge just shrugged.

"I have some ideas but nothing definite. Come on cupcake let's grab a taxi and get to camp. We're almost there." he said and I followed him as he whistled for a taxi and one stopped right in front of us. We climbed in and that's when I realized how tired I was. It was so weird every time I got in a fight I felt invincible but then as soon as it was done I felt dead.

I barely recalled the drive but when I focused back to reality I was staring at a tall pine tree at the top of a large hill. I followed Hedge as we walked past the tree and before opened up a large camp with a lava climbing wall, a stables, and a canoe dock.

I didn't get to marvel at the sight because I heard footsteps and I turned to see a centaur walking towards me "You must be Chiron?" I asked and he nodded before giving me a kind smile. I introduced myself and Chiron took me into the Big House to have a one on one talk without Hedge who ran off somewhere.

"Please make yourself comfortable Samuel." he said and I plopped down on a sofa in the rec room and propped my feet on the table. Chiron examined me like he was trying to psycho-analyze me or something eventually I got annoyed and slammed my boot into the table making a very loud sound.

"Look can you explain to me exactly what I'll be doing here?" I asked impatiently, I had zero tolerance for silence it made my skin crawl.

Chiron nodded "Here you shall train to hone your abilities, whatever they may be, and learn to fight with your weapons." he explained and I frowned in confusion.

"You guys have gun practice here?" I asked and Chiron was now the confused one, I rolled my eyes and drew my guns and placed them on the table. Chiron stared at them with wonder "Vengeance and Justice, I was hoping maybe you might know what they mean. Do you?" I asked hopefully.

Chiron stroked his beard "It's possible, I mean Vengeance or revenge and Justice. They are the two reasons of conflict, you fight either for revenge or for justice and now you wield them both. I...Oh." he stopped talking and looked above me.

I frowned and looked above my head and for some reason a golden apple was floating above my head. I stared at it for a few seconds before casually looking back at the trainer "That normal?" I asked pointing to the image above me.

"The Golden Apple of Discord. You are a child of conflict itself Samuel. Your mother is Eris, goddess of conflict and discord.

I was speechless as I looked at the apple floating around my head and it slowly faded away, finally I looked back at the Trainer of Heroes.

"Yeah that makes a LOT of sense."

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