Ok its chapter ten! Sorry about delay, wanted to make it a long story that goes a bit into Jay's story as well as Atlanta's. Anyway, plz read and review!
Disclaimers: I don't own class of the titans, or scouts (but I am a scout so yeay!)
Chapter Ten
"For the last time I'm not taking you hunting!"
Atlanta stared down her brothers as she tried to leave the house. Her two younger and extremely annoying brothers blocked the exit. They wanted to come with her for some Scout badge or whatever. As if she would let them. They were young, irresponsible, noisy and really really annoying. They were definitely staying at home.
"Tough 'Lanta, we're coming," said Kye, the middle child at 14 years old. "Dad said we could."
"Yeah," said the youngest of them, 12 year old Mitch. "Dad said that you had to take us with you 'cause he's going into the city with Mum for the day. So lets go already!"
Atlanta sighed in frustration. "There's no way you two are going to stay behind is there?" She said to them. They shook their heads, knowing they had won the argument. It was one of the first times; Atlanta was skilled at more than just hunting. She rolled her eyes at them. Little brothers!
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"Come on!" Atlanta yelled at her brothers. They had fallen behind yet again. They were hopeless hunters, to put it nicely. They had managed to snap every twig, step on every leaf and talk at the most annoying times. More than one deer had fled before they were close enough to shot it.
Atlanta silently forged ahead. Her brothers could get lost for all she cared. She was in her zone. It was silent, except for the usual forest sounds- birds chirping, leaves rustling and branches creaking softly in the breeze. Ah, the forest! No matter how annoying her brothers were, nothing could spoil this.
It's amazing how wrong one teen could be.
The craziest thing happened. A giant had crept up on them and tried to attack her. She of course had swung into action and hurled a log at it. And then another completely crazy thing had happen. A guy riding something that looked like a demented horse with wings like an eagle's had appeared, with a boy her age riding on another one. He had grabbed her and pulled her on, saving her from the giant. What on earth?
He introduced himself as Jay. The other guy was a god! Yup, that's right, a god! He was Hermes, the ancient Greek god of communication. They were riding on griffins, Hermes' favourite mode of transport. And he had absolutely no idea what was going on either.
"… and then Hermes appeared and the giant ran away!" Jay concluded. Atlanta stared at Jay in awe. He had just finished telling her about how he was saved from the giants. It wasn't that she didn't believe him, after all the same thing had just happened to her, but that it was totally weird.
"Ok, that's… normal," she said. "Yeah," Jay said. "But don't you think it's cool? I mean, I grew up thinking that Greek mythology was just that- mythology. And now a god himself has told us all the legends and stories are real. It's incredible!"
Atlanta raised her eyebrow. "Incredible?" She replied. " I think it's totally wacked out. I was attacked by a giant! We're riding griffins! I'm even talking to a five thousand year old god for heaven's sake! No offence Hermes," she apologised to the god. "None taken," he said in him hyper, excited voice. "But it's four thousand to you."
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Atlanta chatted to Jay for the rest of the journey. She wasn't even too sure if it was a journey, or where it was to if it was. Hermes hadn't said too much, but Atlanta could tell he desperately wanted to tell them something but wasn't allowed. Her suspicions had something to do with the fact that every time they mentioned that they didn't know where they were going Hermes would practically shove his hand down his throat to stop himself talking. Or that he kept muttering under his breath "remember what Hera said… remember what Hera said… go to town near river… go to village in forest… go to farm… remember what Hera said…"
She told this to Jay. "Hera?" He said questioningly. "The Queen of the Greek gods? Zeus' wife?" "Yeah, that's probably the one since we're with another Greek god." Atlanta replied sarcastically. Jay ignored her lack of interest. He swivelled around to face her again.
"So what did he mean by 'remember what Hera said'?" He said, puzzled.
Atlanta couldn't of been less interested. To tell the truth, she though history was boring. Who wanted to know about dead people when you could be outside in PE or dissecting something in science?
"I wonder," she replied sarcastically again. " Maybe he needs to remember what this Hera person told him?"
Jay gave her the evil eye. There was only so much sarcasm someone could take.
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"Ok, here we go. Hold on, and look out below!"
"What?"
"What's happening?"
Jay and Atlanta only had about two seconds to grab hold of their griffin's manes when they started plummeting towards the ground. Hermes rode up on the griffin beside them.
"We're going down to fetch another one of you guys!" He yelled over the sound of the air rushing past them. "And these griffins like their jobs to be over quickly, so hold on tight!"
"Another one of us?" Thought Atlanta. "How many are there? What do they want from us?"
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I'm really sorry about the delay. I've been meaning to type up more chapters, but I'm in the middle of half-yearlies at school. Not cool. But I will have more chapters up soon. I'm trying to have the story finished within the next few weeks or so. After that I'm going to be writing a sequel story to this one, called "The After Series". Basically it will be about their life after their time as heroes. But I won't be starting it until "Phantom Rising" is aired. I want to see how it ends before I write about it!!
Okay, thanks everyone! Don't forget to review, and thanks to everyone who did. I really appreciate the feedback!
Little Miss Illusional