[Promise]
[Oasis]
[V]
The loud whistle of birds cut through the forest. The colorful autumn leaves gently blew off trees. Nothing but nature could be heard for miles. No citizens, no machines, no workers. It's beautiful. That's the only thought I can conjure. Taking it all in is hard, considering most planets are packed to the brim with cities and towns, leaving forests to be harvested for wood or cut down the acquire more building space. Still, the beauty of nature isn't enough for me to lose my taskful thinking.
"Why are we here," I asked Chaos calmly, who was standing across from me stiff as a board. Chaos offering to teleport my team back from a mission was incredibly rare, but him teleporting me into a forest without giving me a reason why was just suspicious. Not that I thought anything bad would happen, but something was off. You know he'll always be there for you, I mean come on he's your dad! I bit my tongue remembering the conversation I had five years ago upon joining the army. Depends on the dad, I thought bitterly.
"Like I was starting to say on Ulkreia, we have a problem. There is a new enemy force rising for you to go fight." I smiled faintly.
"That's no problem for us. I mean assuming it's not a solo mission or anything. Either way, I'm fine," I responded happily. I didn't think of myself as bloodthirsty or war hungry. I actually hated having to fight and risk friends of mine dieing, but in the end, it's what I'm trained and basically paid to do.
"It's on Earth," he said averting his eyes from my direction. My smile diminished upon hearing that. I wasn't mad, just mildly upset. The only place I have never offered to go to is Earth. My homeland, the place I'm never returning to. That's what I thought anyway. Counting my five years of partial immortality I'm an adult and have no reason to pout about something like returning to a planet I don't really like.
"I know you Oasis, you won't refuse to take this offer, but you won't like one bit of what you're doing. Just let me explain everything and that we know so far about this mission. If all goes as planned you might be able to pull it in only a week."
"I full week~, that's too~ much," I groaned collapsing dramatically. Chaos just ignored me and went on with what he was saying.
"So basically something went down on Earth and some gods pissed off Tartarus which is somehow causing Kronos to rise. I realize Kronos practically disintegrated into the air after Luke made his sacrifice, but he's rising and I don't even know how. Kronos shouldn't be much problem for you in your current state, so I haven't even bothered to research anything." He paused and took a deep breath.
"You will be staying at the new and improved Camp Half-Blood or Camp Demigod." He looked at me expecting me to be mad but caught his breath when he saw my calm look. "I'll tell you the rest when you gather the other in the meeting room.
So I've finally decided on an update day which will be Friday (not counting the one in a few days. This was a short chapter, but they will be longer in the future. So this was around 550 words, and I plan to write that many a day so at weeks end the chapter is around 3500 words. The reason I rushed this chapter a bit and made it short was that I wanted to change the overall plot and add character arcs so that the story isn't just some generic 'heroes fight some bad guys and win,' story. Anyway yeah, I like the plot of this story, it'll probably be pretty long lol. Hope you are ok with all thing.
-Frost
