Thank you guys for the support and being understanding about Cel. A lot of copying and pasting in this chapter, not FanficManic's fault.
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I will be writing a one shot for each year of their lives. One or maybe two chapters from now, we will start getting into the actual plot.
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~When the children are four~
"Amy! Max! Kiera! Ollie! Paul!" Percy called to his siblings as he slid in his socks down the corridor. "Wake up guys! Alabaster! Holly! Imogene!"
The said girl poked her head out of her bedroom door. "What's going on Percy?" Imogene asked. She had just gotten up and put on her clothes, a t-shirt and shorts, for the day before Percy had ran by, calling them.
"Dad said we need to come to the arena as soon as possible. We get to try out weapons today!"
Imogene's eyes widened happily. "Really?"
"Yes!" The green eyed boy smiles happily at his sister. "Uncle Thanatos and Uncle Hypnos are there too!"
"I'll go tell the others too!" The two raced off down the hallway, sliding and calling their siblings names as they ran. Soon all the children were congregated at the end of the hall, by their miniature kitchen. A container of healthy multi grain muffins with fruit sat on the counter, courtesy of the ever healthy Thesis.
Reluctantly, the siblings were about to grab muffins. They all loved Auntie Thesis but her obsession with healthy foods was sometimes over the top. Why couldn't they ever have cupcakes or candy?
"Ah ha!" Mia says, spotting a black container with a red lid. "Uncle Tartarus strikes again!" She pulled the lid off to reveal chocolate donuts with red icing and black sprinkles. Their eyes widen to the size of saucers plates.
"SUGAR!" Hayden says excitedly, as thirteen pairs of hands grabbed for the yummy treats. Within minutes, the baker's dozen of doughnuts was in the children's stomachs. Ethan grabbed several small cartons of milk and tossed them around. Wiping their milk mustaches away, they sprinted towards the arena.
As they fling open the doors to the arena and run in, afraid of being late, Percy and Ollie, who were at the front of the group, slam into something half hard half soft as they were looking over their shoulders as they ran.
Fortunately, the other last managed to stop before having the same fate as their brothers.
"Watch where you are going, little one," A deep voice says from high above them.
Percy's head snapped up to look at the speaker. "Uncle Thanatos!" He cried with pure joy.
Thanatos laughed as he picked up the little boy and spun him around in the air. The other children happily converged on the twin sons of Nyx and Erebus.
Thanatos was forced to put Percy down as some of the children tackled him to the ground and begin their favorite game, wrestling. After they had heard that he had wrestled with Heracles, they wrestled every time they were together.
Hypnos, a normally sleepy god, was wide awake and laughing as he played with his nieces and nephews. They weren't really his nieces and nephews, but it felt like it. If you got technical, they were his aunts through their relation to Chaos and his cousins through their moms. It got confusing.
Chaos smiled as he watched his grandchildren and children in the shadows. The kids really brought out the best side in the twins. Thanatos was normally a cruel, hard man with a sarcastic and sick humor. Around the children, he was a kind and caring almost childlike person. Thanatos was not the only one had changed. Hypnos was irresponsible, immature, lazy, and cowardly at most times. Ever since his older twin brother had dragged him to see the children, he was that irresponsible, he had actually kept track of the things he needed to do and regularly came to see the children.
What the brothers' wear also changed drastically from three years ago. Thanatos stopped wearing his black and tan robes with his stygian iron scythe on his back when he wasn't at work. Instead, he wore a tan t-shirt and black jeans. Hypnos stopped wearing his pajamas everywhere and actually started getting dressed in the mornings on the days when they were going to see the children. Maybe they would even get him to make his bed next.
After a few minutes of watching them wrestle, Chaos stepped into the light. When Thanatos, Hypnos, and the last children saw him, they sheepishly got up from their wrestling matches. Chaos pretended to look stern, messing with them.
"Sorry, Gramps," Hypnos says.
"Yeah, we're sorry, gwamps," The other children echoes at cracked a smile. The power of echoing.
"Relax, it's good to have fun at times."
Thanatos' gold eyes widened. "No, gramps, it's never good to have fun."
The other children shook their heads vigorously. Chaos had to keep in his laughter. "All right, fine. No fun. The others are waiting in the arena when you are ready to come in."
Walking away, Chaos turned around at just the right time to see Thanatos and Hypnos high five the kids. Scooping up two of their nieces each, the twins put a girl on each of their shoulders. Leveling out their wings, another two kids fit in each. Paul and Ollie, Max and Alabaster each wrapped their arms around the gods' legs. Percy grabbed their hands. The two struggled to walk without tripping.
-ONE HOUR LATER-
As a way to find which weapons best suited the children, Chaos had planned a day for when they had turned four to try out weapons. He had gathered a list of weapons from their power and who could teach them. After today, he would begin analyzing the data and designing personalized weapons for them. When they turned five, they would start training with them.
Currently, the children were broken into groups of one to three, rotating around to the different stations. Another plus of this testing was their experiment with the metals. As children of Chaos, they could easily use Chaotic Steele, a black metal with silver swirls, but there may be a better metal for them to use.
At a station with Ourea, primordial of the mountains, Percy was alone at the station. Ourea was an expert with axes, especially mountain silver axes. Percy hefted a heavy axe made of stygian iron.
"Whoa, little buddy, why don't you try this one?" Ourea suggested, handing him an Oceanic Steele axe that was just his size. The axe had an Oceanic Steele double edged blade and a long black handle with a smooth grip.
The son of Thalassa swung a few times with the axe before grinning widely. "It works!"
Chaos made a note on his iPad. Out of all the metals, stygian iron, stygian ice, celestial bronze, imperial gold(Chaos was Chaos in both Greek and roman), Mortal Steele, mountain silver, wind silver, mountain steel, sand bronze, hell firesh (hell fire solidified), and Oceanic Steele, Percy was best with Oceanic Steele.
At another station, Hemera, goddess of daylight, was showing Alabaster and Max how to use knives. In general, all of the children were doing marginal with this skill along will swords.
Hypnos was teaching his cousins, Holly and Imogene how to use chains in combat. Imogene was struggling with her mountain steel chains, while Holly was excelling with her compulsion steel chains. Chains were good close range weapons as they usually had a longer reach than your opponent's weapon.
Willow, nearby at Thanatos' station, was faring well with the scythe, her best weapon so far. She was good with Mountain Steele and proficient with wind silver and hell firesh. Chaos suspected she would also be advanced with a staff like her siblings were. Willow's knee brace clicked softly as she tried out the weapon. When Willow was three, they had discovered a curse disease in her leg. Chaos wasn't quite sure who had laid the curse, but the disease hurt the little girl's knee a lot. Some of the best doctors looked at the knee, the only that they could do was put a knee brace. This allowed her to be able to do everything else with her siblings.
Keira was doing all right with the scythe, but it wasn't as good as a spear for her. The stygian metals, stygian ice and stygian iron worked well for her.
At the whips station with Tartarus, Amy and Mia whirled the leather and steel whip combinations around them. Amy had swiftly gotten the hang of it but Mia was still struggling.
At Erebus' station, Ethan and Hayden sparred with spears. Ethan seemed to do best with the stygian metals, stygian iron and stygian ice. He had performed excellently with spears. Hayden had always been good with bow and arrows than spears, but using wind silver and compulsion steel made it easier.
Paul and Ollie dueled with long staffs at Gaia's station. Ollie's brown with a green twist at the top, Paul's dark blue with a black twist at the top. Both boys were doing well, though Ollie was doing better.
Terra, who was training with the last children, had already received her weapons from her father, two curved swords called. Because she was young and not very skilled yet, she only used one sword for the time being. Though Terra was the daughter of a powerful primordial, she was nowhere near the last children.
Eros was relaxing as no one was currently at his archery station.
As they continued the weapon testing, Chaos made a chart on each of his children.
Hayden:
Preferred metals- Compulsion Steele, wind silver
Preferred weapons- bow and arrows, whip
His siblings, the other children of Ananke shared the same taste of weapons.
Ethan:
Preferred metals- stygian ice, stygian iron
Preferred weapons- spear, chains
Max:
Preferred metals- Mountain Steele, wind silver, hell firesh
Preferred weapons- staff, scythe
Chaos considered the day a success.
-When the children are five-
After careful planning, Chaos had spent almost a whole year (the children's aging had slowed down to almost normal) making their weapons. He carefully evaluated their height, stance, and hand grip to design their weapons. After finding the best forgers in the galaxy to make the weapons, Chaos enchanted the weapons so that they would always be the perfect size for them. The makers and he all wore gloves when handling the weapons so that the children could activate the first touch bound, where the blade connects with the first person to touch it.
Anyways it was the day for the children to be given their weapons. Chaos had decided to give them their swords and knives first. Once they had mastered that, he would present their unique weapons to the children to the arena armory, there they would have room to test their weapons. He summoned the different colored padded bundles with their names on them. Soon the children rushed in.
"What did you need Father?" Holly asked.
"Today, you will be receiving your weapons," Chaos paused to begin passing out the packages. "Hayden, Alabaster, Amy, Holly," The four siblings stepped forward to grab their two purple attached packages. "Ethan, Paul, Mia, Keira," They stepped forward to grab their respective dark blue packages. "Max, Ollie, Imogene, Willow," Grabbing their hazel packages, they waited excitedly to open them. "And Percy." The green eyed boy snatched his matching green packages. "You may open them."
With that, the air was filled with the sound of ripping cloth and gasped in awe as they pulled the cloth away from the padding and pulled the weapons out.
Each one of them had a normal length sword for their age. The hilt was a soft black leather grip that was modeled exactly to each of their hands. The majority of the blade's metal was made from chaotic steel, giving the blade a black/dark grey look.
But each children with different parents had a different metal swirled in. Ananke's children had compulsion steel mixed in, giving it a purplish tint. Ethan, Paul, Mia, and Keira had stygian iron in theirs that gave off a dark blue light. Mountain Steele was mixed into Gaia's children's blades, giving it a green/hazel mixture along with the black. Percy's blade was black and silver like his siblings but he had blue and green swirls throughout.
Alabaster, who had been the first to finish gawking at the sword, opened the second package. Pulling away the purple cloth, he slid two long daggers, slightly longer than their forearm, out of the packaging.
The daggers were made of the same material as the swords, slightly altered for better use but made with the same metals.
As each child picked up their weapons by the hilt, they felt a tingle go up their spine the minute their fingertips touched the grip. The tingling was warm, like meeting a person you know with be your very best friend. They felt the weapon's power that they could unleash.
Chaos walked around, handing out the specially tailored sheathes, as the children examined their newest possessions with amazement.
There were different types of sheathes. One, used by sliding your sword through the sheath on your back, was good for putting your sword somewhere accessible when you would be walking great distances or needed no hindrance in your activity. The second was a sword sheath at your side, if you ever needed to quickly draw your weapon but didn't want to carry it.
For the knives, there were two sheathes also. One had two sheathes on a belt that could be removed to put on the same belt as sword sheath. The other was used for strapping knives to your legs. All the belts were made of black leather with silver buckles.
~When the children were six~
A little less than a year of hard training later, Chaos decided it was time for his children to receive their unique weapons. They had pretty much mastered fighting with their swords and knives, so he knew they were ready.
Right now, Chaos was sitting in the observation area above their sword fighting arena. They were all dueling their best friend so to speak, and Percy fought Terra.
The proud father had been watching for the last fifteen minutes and in that time, nobody, except for Percy, had broken the stalemate they were locked. Given he did have the easiest opponent, but that meant all the rest were very well matched.
Finally, after watching for another five or so minutes, Chaos had to interrupt. He teleported down to the arena.
The children all looked up and sheathed their swords when they felt his presence enter. A chorus of "hey dad", "what's up pops", "hi", and "good morning's" echoed around. Terra walked off into the shadows as when Chaos usually appeared, she was not needed.
Chaos mocked glared at Percy who had said what's up pops. "Good morning to you all. I need you to come with me. It's very important."
Confused, they followed their father through the maze of corridors they called home. He led them through doorways, up long staircases, and down long passageways. Finally, they reached a door that was completely black. Chaos placed his hand on it and muttered a few ancient words. The door swung open to reveal a room that the children thought they had never been in before.
The room was large with four white hospital beds lined up along one wall. The sheets were made and they could tell no one had used this place in a very long time.
On the other side of the room, there were thirteen dark brown wood cribs, a different color blanket on some. Four had midnight blue, another had purple, and hazel green was the color of the next four. Directly in the middle, there was a single crib with a sea green blanket on it.
"What is this place?" Percy asked, running his hand over one dusty crib frame.
"This is the place where your mothers gave birth to you. This is where, after we had left the room, you all managed to open the door and crawled to your meeting room," Chaos explained.
"Why are we here?" Mia asked.
"To receive your weapons," their father replied simply.
Paul looked around confused. "This is our childhood room. Where would you get the weapons?"
"Each of you have your name carved on the foot of your old bed," Chaos instructed. "Touch the wood and watch."
Hesitantly, they step forward in perfect synch and place their hands on their respective bed frames. Instantly a deep rumbling emits from deep in the crib and up their arms. The rumbling grew to a normal talking level sound. Slowly, thirteen glass cases came up from the walls, their weapons visible inside. Chaos looked at his children and sees their eyes open wide.
"Go ahead. Open them up," Chaos urges.
Almost as if in a trance, the children all step to the left of the cribs. Swinging open the glass cases, they draw their weapons out. Ananke's children received black bows made of springy strong wood with silver streaks wrapping delicately around the wood. A quiver of purple arrows that can explode, shoot out ropes, blare music, be used as fart arrows, trip wires, and so much more. The arrow points are made of a mixture of Chaotic Steele and Compulsion Steele. A long black leather whip mixed with the same mixture is curled. The grip is made of black leather and has a strong handle.
Nyx's children received black spears. The long black wood with the silver streaks is the same as the wood for the bows, Chaos Poplar, but only a little bit stronger for better use. The point of the spear is Chaotic Steele, stygian ice, and stygian iron. Also in the case is a small metal black box. Ethan opens the latch with a snap. Inside were several miniature black, blue, and silver chains. As Ethan lifts one from the box, it expands it a medium sized chains. In all, there are six medium chains, eight short chains, and four long chains, all shrunken in the little box.
Max, Ollie, Imogene, and Willow, Gaia's children, received a black staff made of an even stronger version of the same wood. To strengthen the Chaos Poplar, Chaotic Steele, Mountain Steele, and wind silver threaded around the strands of wood. The staff twisted off at the top. Also in their cases was a long scythe made of the same metal combination used to strengthen their staffs. The scythes were black like the rest of the equipment and the handle was wrapped with a black leather like the others.
Percy's box only had one weapon. The wood of the handle was made of the strongest Chaos Poplar, reinforced with Oceanic Steele and of course Chaotic Steele. The axe was twin bladed and double edge made from the strong mixture also used to reinforce the handle. The bottom or butt of the handle was wrapped in black leather grip so that Percy's hands wouldn't blister when he was whirling the axe above his head. A black strap was also connected to the grip.
As the children grabbed their weapons for the first time, they felt the same humming power that they had felt when they touched their swords for the first time, only stronger. The weapons felt perfect in their hands and they were itching to try them out.
"This is so cool! Can we go try them out?" Keira asked, very excited.
"Of course you may. Have fun!" Chaos added.
The children all left the room in different ways. Nyx's children dove into the shadows. Gaia's children opened up holes in the ground and fell through to their destination. Percy disappeared in a sea breeze while his purple eyed cousins faded out.
Chaos smiled to himself as he locked up the room. They would be strong enough for their task ahead...
He hoped.
~When the children were seven~
"Guess what?" Willow ran in excitedly and began jumping up and down on her brother, Ollie's, bed.
"What Little Tree?" Ollie asked as he looked up from his game of Egyptian rat trap with Paul, Ethan, Hayden, and Percy.
"Auntie Thesis and Uncle Ourea are taking us on a hike up Cloudy Mountain today! I just heard mom and dad talking about it!" The little girl exclaimed as she jumped up and down happily. They called all of the primordial Auntie and Uncle, regardless if they were actually that relation.
"Are you sure?" Hayden leapt to his feet.
"Yes!" Willow bolted out of the room. The boys raced after her.
They caught up to Willow, their sisters, and other brothers when the others waited anxiously outside their parents meeting room. The status said IN SESSION. Max paced impatiently in front of the door before hitting the pager button.
"We heard about the hike. Can we PLEASE come in?" He asked.
They heard their dad sigh loudly at the other end of the pager. "Fine."
The children screamed excitedly as Max forgot he was holding the pager button still that magnified their voices by a tenfold. All the primordial's covered their ears as the children came running in. They took their smaller respective seats at the large table, looking impatiently at their father, Chaos.
"All right, who let the cat out of the bag?" Chaos asked, pretending to be stern.
All of the last children's eyes turned accusingly to Willow. Little Tree slumped in her seat, desperately trying to disappear.
"It's okay, Little Tree, I was just kidding," Chaos reassured her by using her nickname. The girl nodded and smiled.
"Yes, you are going on a hike up Cloudy Mountain," The children looked at each other excitedly. In their land studies with Thesis, they had learned the geography of the Void. Cloudy Mountain was a much smaller mountain near the base of the Stormy Mountain. "We decided as a council that it would be a good application of your land studies with Thesis, your weather studies with Pontus, your sky studies with Ouranos, and many good survival skills. It's not a super long hike, six or so miles up and down the peak."
They nodded excitedly. "What do we need to bring?" Mia asks.
"I'm getting to that. Thesis and Ourea will be taking you on the hike. You will need to wear comfortable hiking clothes like shorts, T-shirts, hiking sneakers, etc. We will provide you with a small pack containing food and water, but you need to bring your knives in leg sheathes. That's all. You may leave to get packed," Chaos concludes.
The last children race out of the room. They hurriedly put on proper hiking clothes and ran to Auntie Thesis' room, where they had been told to go after being ready.
Terra was already sitting outside the room one of the brown wooden benches, eating some dark chocolate. She loved chocolate in general and combined with her dark personality and her love for chocolate, dark chocolate had become her favorite food. A few weeks ago, her father Tartarus had taken her to Hershey's chocolate world, famous for its yummy candy, for her seventh birthday.
Still munching on her chocolate, Terra handed them the bags Thesis had left with her. The bags were small black drawstring bag that were incredibly light.
Even though they could use their unique weapons very well, the knives were the best thing to bring. Terra had strapped one of her swords to her back already.
"Yeah, come on kids, we're taking the van," Ourea jangled the keys, his green eyes with black, white, and brown streaked gleamed mischievously.
A few minutes later, all sixteen of them were piled into the large van. Thesis and Ourea sat in the front, Amy, Mia, Terra, Max, and Alabaster were all squished in the seat behind them. To the back of them, Percy, Willow, Keira, Paul, and Ollie laughed and joke. In the way back, Imogene, Holly, Hayden, and Ethan sat with their bags at their feet.
"Hold on kids!" Ourea exclaimed.
"Ourea," Thesis warned. "There aren't en-"
The primordial of the mountains slams his foot down on the gas pedal. The car rockets forward.
Thesis grips her seat tightly. "Ourea," She tries to scold, but she ends up laughing along with the children.
The van disappears from the road near the castle and reappears in the Cloudy Mountain parking lot. They pile out of the car and Ourea locks it.
"Remind me again," Thesis rolls her multicolored eyes. "Why did we take the van?"
"Come on, Sis. The kids want to get hiking," Ourea takes Terra and Holly's hands.
Willow and Keira run over to Thesis and pull her along with them to the start of the path.
The goddess of creation can't help but laugh. The two girls release her hands and run after their older brothers.
They leapt over streams, jumped from rock to rock, and generally had a great time.
"Let's sing!" Holly suggested.
"What song?" Ethan asked as he scrambled up a large rock.
"How about time ago?" Willow suggests.
"Perfect!" Percy claps his hands and starts singing.
"100000000 eons ago,
The galaxy was nothing.
Then some changes for go
And it turned into something," Percy paused and Mia jumped in.
"A golden light filled the air
And helix did appear.
The first being to be there
Oh yes, my little dear."
As Mia finished her verse, Imogene and Holly sang together.
"Next three beings were born
Order, Chaos, and Void
They lived with their father and did learn
One girl and two boys."
"Oh, time again
Time ago
Walking through history train
Time ago," Everyone, even Thesis and Ourea, sang.
"Chaos creates Gaia, Ouranos, Tartarus, Nyx, and Erebus
Earth, sky, fiery pit, night, and shadows
Ananke, Chronos, Thalassa, Pontus,
Compulsion, time, sea, water," Terra sang.
"Gaia and Ouranos made some rhyme
Lots and lots of titans
Nyx and Erebus took their time
Thanatos, Hypnos, Aether, and Hemera," Ethan and Willow harmonized.
"Oh, time again
Time ago
Walking through history train
Time ago," Once again, everyone sang the chorus.
"Titan kings name was Kronos
He took Rhea as his queen
Cut up his father Ouranos
Ruled the whole world very mean," Hayden and Alabaster took up the tune.
"Rhea had her some children too
Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus
Kronos ate them up with a snap
But Rhea hid baby Zeus," Max, Ollie, and Paul made a trio.
"Zeus became strong he did
His mother and he created a plan
They tricked Kronos into barfing up his kids
A battle was fought, hand to hand," Keira and Amy sang.
"Oh, time again
Time ago
Walking through history train
Time ago!"
"The gods of Olympus ruled the world
Greek worshipped them
They made their culture and folklore
Here we go again," Thesis' beautiful voice carried out over the air.
"History is made everyday
People, places and heroes
Maybe you'll be a myth one day
Sitting on your throne," Ourea belted out the last verse.
"Oh, time again
Time ago
Walking through history train
Time ago," They finished.
They all laughed as they continued along their hike.
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