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Chapter six.
Hermes nodded and poofed in a flash of yellow light.
"Chiron! Explain what's going on!" I demanded.
"Patience child."
"No." I said. "I won't wait. Tell me now."
He looked at me with sad, brown eyes.
"I can't. It's not my position."
"Chiron, I-I-I-" Seri stuttered. Seri? Let me tell you a fact about her. Walk on a runway in front of thousands of people in more ridiculous outfits then Lady Gaga's worst would be her dream, but stand on Mount Olympus? She's terrified. And not because of the Gods and Goddesses, no she loves that part. Nope. It was the heights. Standing 6000 feet above ground isn't exactly her favorite thing to do.
"Chiron, I want to know-"
A flash of light, a yelp interuppted me.
"Ugh, I HATE transporting." Zeus grumbled. Then, he stood up straight, and looked at me.
"Are you Abigail Veene?" He asked.
"Yes." I replied.
He turned to Chiron, his eyes questioning.
"My lord, I know I'm not supposed to be here, but this is important. The lives of EVERYONE depend on it." Chiron said urgently.
"I'm aware. Does she know who she is?"
"No."
"I'm Abigail-"
"Shush."
"You know what? No. I won't shut up! SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!" I shouted, exasperated.
"Child. You must go-"
"I'm. Not. Going. Anywhere. Until. Someone. Explains. What's. Going. On." I said, deathly quiet, my nostrils flaring.
"This child has some fight in her. That's good. It will help when she goes over." Zeus commented.
"Goes. WHERE?" I screamed, losing it. "TELL ME WHATS GOING ON?!"
"Child, you are powerful. More powerful then even my dreams. And since you are so powerful, you can also be used as a weapon. A deadly weapon. You are to be protected here at all costs."
"What?"
"Well, um, sir? My lord? What am I doing here then?" Seri asked.
"You are important as well."
"I am?"
"Yes."
"Um, okay...."
"Indeed. Now, Child, we must get you to-"
I never did find out where they must get me, because all of a sudden, all the torches that lit the throne room went out. And to my surprise, so did the fire of Hestia.
"Hey? What's going on!?" I shouted.
"No no no no, not good." Zeus murmured. A pair of hands grabbed my shoulders.
"HE-" I screamed. The hands were put over my mouth, and I bit them as hard as I could. For a moment, They were released.
"HELP!" I screamed again. "THEY'RE TAKING-" And they were back. I felt them knee my back, and slam something into my head. Everything was fuzzy.
"Abigail? Where are you?" Chiron shouted. I screamed through the hands. They clamped down harder. I heard hoofbeats, and cursing.
"Do not follow us." A strong voice said calmly. "There is no way to find her." And they slammed something incredibly hard on my head, releasing their grip on my mouth for a second. I cried out softly before everything went out of focus and fell apart. The last thing I heard before I blacked out was,
"Survive at all costs Abby." It was spoken by Chiron. "All. Costs."
And I was out.
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When I woke up, I was in a cold, airy room. With no roof. The walls were falling apart. Wait, no. There was a roof. It was made of black rock with shining gems on it. It looked like the night sky. Everything was still fuzzy. I tried to sit up, and moaned with the dizziness. And the pain. My back and head felt like they were going to break open.
"Abby?" A heard a voice ask.
"Seri? They took you too?"
"Yeah. I guess. I mean, I'm here right?"
"What did they do? Where are you?"
"I do not know. Oh, and in the day, there's a little light, and um, I don't think they treated you too well."
"What do I look like?"
"Welllllll, your eye is black, and you're bruised all over, for one thing."
"That's two."
"Sorry. Oh, and you have a giant bump on your temple, and your bleeding in a bunch of places."
"Great. Well, at least I'm alive huh?"
"Yeah."
"Ladies. Get up. Prometheus wants you." A large man boomed. He was speaking from a small door, and he had to bend down to speak to us. He reached inside, and grabbed us with his hands.
"Get your paws off me!" Seri shrieked. "This dress is a Coco Chanel original!"
"Shuttup." He growled. He carried us to a large, spacious room. On a golden throne sat Prometheus.
"Sit. Now." He demanded.
We sat on the cold floor.
"I'm not wasting precious time with pleasantries," He started. "I know who you are, you know who I am. You have what I want, understand?"
"What are you talking about?" I ask, angry.
"You have the Gift." He said, looking at me. "And you have the spirit." He said, looking at Seri. She turned white.
"What?" I said. "What gift? And what spirit? The only 'spirit' I know of is the spirit of the..."
Oh.
No way.
Seri's the spirit of the Oracle?!?!?
"You're the spirit of the oracle?" I demand.
Seri nods weakly.
"Why?"
"Well, after you died so courageously-"
"I saved my father! I did what was right!"
"Still, you died a hero. Anyway, I felt like a dumb old piece of crap. Worthless. Alone." She said quietly. "So I like, I don't know how to say it.... Applied? Signed up? For the spirit. I wanted to be something!" She said.
"I guess Aphrodite wasn't too happy about that." I say. "I mean, the Goddess of love's daughter is giving it up all together?"
"I know. She was furious at me. She, she cursed me with an outbreak of zits."
"Horrible."
"I know!"
"GIRLS!" Prometheus shouted. "Not the time. Now, tell me what I want to know."
"Never." I snapped. Really only because I had know idea what he was talking about.
"Okay, if you'll be that way, you must be punished."
"Try me." I sneered. Not the best thing to do in front of a Titan, Yeah, yeah, I've heard this all before.
"Okay. I will." He said simply. "Nemisis, Come here."
Nemisis? I thought. "Who's that?"
"I am the God of Punishment. Nemisis said.
"Great. Just what I need." I grumbled. Nemisis glared at me, then turned to Prometheus.
"What level of punishment?" She asked.
"Start low, end High. Stop when I say." He replied.
"Fine." She looked at me. I felt a shock of pain go through my body. It wasn't very strong, but it still hurt. It ached all over.
"Ow."
"Oh, it gets worse." She laughed.
"I have one request." Prometheus said.
"What?"
"Win the war for us."
"No." Meanwhile I was thinking, what war?
The pain got worse. I couldn't move, I felt like I got too close to a fire, really close, but wasn't yet in it.
"Win the war."
"NO!"
The pain intensified. I felt like I was in the fire now.
"Win the war for us, and the pain will stop."
"NO! I HATE YOU! I WON'T! I REFUSE!" I shouted.
"Nemisis, turn it up."
I felt like I was being electrocuted. My head was about to explode. She was talking in my head, telling me horrible things. She showed me pictures of horrible things. I gasped.
"Will you win the war for us?"
"No."
The pain got thirty times worse. I felt like I couldn't breathe, pressure was building up in my lungs, I needed air, I couldn't breathe.
"Stop!" Seri wailed.
"No. She needs to give in." Prometheus told her.
I gasped for air, couldn't breathe, my eyes bulged. I felt like I was on fire and being shocked at the same time. I need air. Help.
"NO!" I shouted. "I WON'T!"
You will eventually. A little voice in my head told me. You won't be able to take the pain.
I will. I told myself. I will. I won't give them what they want.
"Nemisis? As high as you can go, but don't kill her."
My head was exploding. I wanted to die. My ribs were collapsing. My lungs were deflating. I was going to lose. I needed to die.
"Kill me." I begged. "It'll go away, just kill me!"
"Tell me you will be on our side for the war, and follow through with your promise, and the pain will go away."
"I'll... I'll be-"
"NO! ABBY! NO!" Seri shouted, she was back against the wall, behind me. "NO!"
Her voice brought me back to reality.
"A little more..." Prometheus said. He sounded almost happy.
He got off his throne and walked toward me, almost as if to watch me suffer. Instinctively, I threw my hands out in front of me, and the scariest thing happened.
A bright flash of red light, so bright I had to close my eyes, shot out from my hands. It was so powerful, it threw me back because of the sheer force of it. I hit my head on the wall of the room, and the light stopped. When my eyes adjusted, everything in front of me was on fire. Prometheus and Nemisis included.
"CHILD! YOU WILL PAY!" Prometheus boomed.
I glanced behind me and saw Seri looking up at me, her eyes full of awe and fear. Then, I took her hand and did the only logical thing that came to mind.
I ran.
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