Project Olympus was a school? As Alex and I strolled down the corridors In wonder. There was a boy with super long teeth, a girl that was super flexible, and I mean super flexible. A boy was playing with a ball of fire, rolling it allong his palm and spinning it on his fingure. One girl transformed into an eagle because she saw a mouse. A boy with an elephants trunk gave a boy that was half frog a high five. As we were walking a huge, probably 18 year old with muscles of literal steel, stepped in our way.
"Hey! New kids" the steel guy smiled and his teeth glinted. "I like new kids. Why? Because they hate me. I'll give you the correct enisiation." he threw a punch at Alex and it stopped in mid air. I held up my hand and he rose to the roof. I threw him down the corridor without even touching him and kept walking. We walked past a beautiful girl with long blond wavy hair with light brown streaks that shone in the sunlight. She was wearing a short grey skirt, a white colored shirt and a grey sweater. Even in school uniform she literally glowed in the morning light.
"Hi" she said. It was the girl from last night, the time stopper. "that was pretty cool, what you did to steel back there."
"Steel?"
"That's his code name, we all go by code names here. I'm stopwatch. But about steel"
"He was going to hurt Alex."
"Ok. Whatever. You should go to the principles office, I've been told to take you."
"Lead the way," Alex said. We found a door that looked like any ordinary door but it had three symbols on it, a trident, a lighting bolt and a scythe. We knocked and a voice replied,
"come in" we walked in behind stopwatch and saw a man in a wheel chair behind the desk. Next to him were two men. One had long blonde hair and wore borde shorts and a hawaiian t-shirt with blue flip flops. The other man wore a cloak that blew in the wind even though their wasn't even a breeze. The man in the chair was old and had short grey hair. He looked old and cranky but when he smiled it filled you with warmth.
"Hello boys how are you. I'm the principal. That's my code name and my position. Welcome to project olympus, school for the gifted. This school started with three boys I found on the streets. They were lab rats like you two boys, and like most of the people at this school. I took them in and helping them felt good. These three boys helped form a paradise. I call it, Project Olympus, like a city for the strong, the special and, the spectacular. This is Zeus." he motioned to the man in the cloak on his right. The man pushed his hands out and on his right a bolt of lighting formed and a miniature tornado spun on the other palm. "This is Poseidon," The old man motioned to his left and the smiling surfer pulled water from the moisture in the air and shaped it into a rippling trident. The water dissolved back into a ball and flew around the room, splitting into two. One splashed me and the other dropped on Alex's head. Zeus pointed at us and gale force wind dried us in seconds. "The third, Hades is in San Francisco at the moment trying to recruit another boy like you. Hades can read minds and teleport anywhere he has seen." The Principal continued. "You must chose your own code names, we do not go by fake names here."
"This is great and all but the Queen of England herself is about to be assassinated."
"What?" asked Poseidon.
"There's a... A wolf, boy, thing out to get the queen. Have to let us go back." I said
"We will keep an eye on the queen and when your ready we'll send you in with a good team. We want our students to be well equipped when they go on missions." The principal said.
"Missions?" Alex asked, his form flickering.
"Yes" said Zeus "here we believe that our students were given powers so we can help people, we're like an undercover police force. Alex disappeared and came back smiling like crazy.
"Like spies?" he asked.
"Yea like spies" Poseidon replied.
"I watched James Bond and it was the coolest thing ever." Alex said.
"Which one did you see," Poseidon asked with a gleam in his eyes.
"Quantom of Solice."
"I've got all of them. Wanna check out the private cinema, we'll chuck on a real James Bond movie." They walked out of the room, Alex's form flickering as he spoke. I was alone with Zeus and the principal.
"Your going to not going to like this James but..." The principals confident voice faulted.
"What wouldn't I like?" I asked.
"Well Alex can't come on any your missions. There is strict rules-"
"Without Alex we can't complete this mission. He can make force fields and turn invisible. He would be our defense he-"
"No!" Zeus' voice boomed like thunder. We must follow the rules.
"James, you'll need a code name." the principal changed the subject calmly. "we will deal with alex later."
"Well..." I thought for a moment "Force!" how's that, I like that. Agent Force."
The principal smiled. "Now force. It's time to train, we'll keep surveillance on London for you. Stopwatch."
"yes sir?" she asked
"Show force to the training room."
"Yes sir." we walked out and continued down the corridor in silence for a while then I asked "what do we do here?" I asked. She looked at me and kept walking.
"Um..."
"Shut up Jam... Force"
"What did I do"
"I don't like babysitting?"
"I'm not a kid" I stopped. Stopwatch turned around and snapped her fingers and disappeared. In a second I was nocked to the ground. She stood over me and smiled.
"You are definitely a kid here." I pushed my hand up and she went to click her fingers but couldn't move. I had grabbed her finger with the force so she couldn't click. I stood up.
"Let's go" I smiled.
After a while we came to some double doors. A sign on the wall read 'gym'. We walked inside. Now when I think of a school gym I don't usually think of a all black room with axes swinging from the roof and guns set up along the walls. One boy with a sniper was crouched on one of the four balconies firing at other kids. He didn't miss once. Teens playing paintball, also known as absolute chaos. I like absolute chaos. I smiled as a girl got smashed in the leg by a paintball and crumpled to the floor in agony. She placed a shaking hand over the wound and it healed instantly. Then she walked off. A teen through water at people and they fell to the ground only to get hit from a paintball from the same person. A girl wrapped her arm around a boy and pulled him to wear she was. She was at the other side of the room. She was the flexible girl i'd seen in the hallway. The whole room was filled with teens using their powers against each other. No one was looking at them strangely no one was running away. This was great. I saw the boy with the sniper aim at stopwatch who was watching the flexible girl flatten herself under one of the swinging axes. A paintball flew towards stopwatch strait towards her heart. If it wasn't a paintball it would've killed her. But it stopped just before it hit her. She looked down at the ball and then at me as I raised my hand. I hovered it above the boy with the snipers head and he laughed.
"I can dodge bullets." he said. I clenched my fist And held it there then I opened my palm and all the paint spread over him and he looked at me with hatred in his eyes. The sniper pulled out a new gun. I stepped
Back. The sniper opened fire send bullet after bullet flying towards me. I could tell that not one of those bullets were going to miss. I pushed out my hands and grabbed the bullets in the air. My powers weren't strong enough to stop so many things traveling at such a speed. I used all my willpower to push the small colored balls aside. Straight towards the door. That had just opened revealing my brother. Alex was now covered in head to toe in paint. Paint that I had deflected to him. He stormed off slamming the door behind him. I pushed the doors open without touching them and sprinted towards my brother.
"Alex I-"
"No I saw what you did. You and your new friend had decided to prank me hadn't you. He shot the paint balls and you threw them to me."
This was the stupidest thing i had heard all day but I tried to stay calm.
"Alex I he was shooting me I had to deflect the bullets."
"Thanks for nothing. The least you could do was admit to what you did and laugh along with it but no."
"No Alex you've got it all wrong."
"Have I? Have I? Ever since you saw stopwatch all you've done is talk to her. I'm your brother for goodness sake. As soon as you see a girl you like you just run off with her and leave me in the dust. You think I haven't seen the way you look at her. I'm just a thorn in your side and you want to pull me out. What better way than to cover me in paint in front of a bunch of strangers. If you want stopwatch more than your own brother than you can have her! Cause if you would chose popularity over me then so be it! I'm outta here." He stormed away before I could say a word. Before he turned the corner he turned and yelled. "Your the worst big brother in the world! I hate you!" then he disappeared from sight.
The doors to the gym flew off. I walked through the arch and punched the air sending the sniper flying into the wall. I lifted him again and slapped him in th face. I followed that with a punch in the gut and a knee in the face. I did all this with my powers. A stray paintball gun was lying on the ground and I made it fly up to the balcony and take aim. I fired bullet after bullet at the sniper making him yell in pain. Suddenly the gun was gone and the sniper was facing me. Stopwatch scowled at me, my gun in her hands. The sniper jumped down and I threw him at the wall. Then I lifted him like a puppet and put him under the axes.
"Dodge this!" I howled years forming in my eyes, rage burning in my stomach. I held him in place and just before axes made their way back down I realized what I was doing. I pushed him out of the way of the deadly blades and colapsed in a heap on the ground. The gym was quiet. The only sounds reverberating off the walls were my muffled sobs and the cruel laughter of the lone sniper.
A/N: Alex and Jame's relationship is crumbling before them and James needs to make things right again. But how. Tune in next chapter for some more Project Olympus.
