Chapter10-Atlantis?
Previously
"Don't any of them know the laws of our mating?" Chris asked. I think that he finally understands that me and him cant be together. I have my mate now.
"No and he's never going to find out" I said mainly as a warning.
I heard a small thud behind me and turned around to see Jasper. He was crouched down under a tree as if he had just dropped out of it. I stepped back and so did the others. He looked feral. Angry. Ruthless.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him in barley a whisper, knowing he'd hear it. I wanted so badly to just run and hide. I couldn't look in his eyes.
"You've been gone for four hours. I came to see if you were okay, then I heard your conversation" He almost growled out. I flinched at his voice.
"What was I never supposed to find out" He asked me harshly, but I had to answer him.
"Demigods can only be mates with another demigod" I whispered. He looked shocked.
"So then I'm not your mate" He said in a much calmer tone, but filed with sorrow.
"You are her mate" Grey said, trying to help me out.
"But I'm not a demigod" Jasper said sadly, thinking that he might lose me.
Raven looked at him quickly "Yes, you are" she said and he looked at her in confusion and I decided that it was time to tell him. I stepped forward and looked him in the eyes for the first time since he got here.
"You're the son of Ares" I told him
Jasper Pov
I froze. She had to be lying. There's no way. So many things I could have said, but instead I said
"What?"
She took a deep breath before giving me a level gaze "You were never human. You were actually born hundreds of years before you were changed. I wasn't around back then so I don't know how long or any of the details, but it seems that all you remember is you're last adoptive family that you
had" She told me
"Why would I need an adoptive family?" I asked confused
Raven stepped forward "Its what we do when we get bored of the usual demigod life. We go off and live with a family after they 'adopt' us then one day we either run away or stage a death so they don't notice out not aging" She said
"No. This cant be true, there's no way that I'm Aries son" I said while taking steps backwards. Bella grabbed my arm trying to bring me back but I just threw her hand off of me
"Get away from me" I almost growled. She looked sad. Heartbroken even. Raven ran over to comfort her as she fell to the floor with sobs shaking her. Raven looked at the boys before whispering some kind of chant in a different language. They started to fade before just disappearing all together. Tthen they were gone. I heard the guys growl at me a split second before I was punched across the face.
"Do you have any fucking idea who that is? Izzy is the most feared and respected of all of us. She has been through so much through all her years, she's beautiful, and she's powerfull. She's your fucking mate and you may have just lost her." Chris yelled at me
"She's trying to make me believe a lie. There's no way I'm his son!" I yelled back. Gray came up to me and looked me in the eye with an angry glare.
"We all know your story God of War. We know what you've done and even that your father is amazingly proud, though I'm not sure how much he'll like you after he hears about this. You are the son of Aries. You live for war. You thrive in it. No one can defeat you. You are deadly and ruthless. It's been said that the only thing Aries sons love more than war is their mates, but you seem to have lost yours" Gray said in a slow deathly calm tone to me. I was shaking.
Without even thinking of my actions, I kicked him square in the chest throwing him 15 feet across the clearing. He only got up and laughed. I ran over and punched him, but he didn't do anything but continue to laugh.
"Fight back!" I yelled at Grey. Chris gave me a evil look and started laughing too.
"You see" Chris said "You love the fight, its as if you live for is. You can never back down from a battle and you can never lose" I stared at him for a few moments before kneeling on the ground.
"I'm the son of Aries" I whispered. It made sense now. Why I was always looking for a new fight. Why some of my memories from my human life never matched up with each other. They were different families and different times.
"There we go. Took you long enough" Chris said while shaking his head.
"Bella" I gasped looking around
"She's gone. Raven took her to Atlantis" Grey said
"I thought Atlantis wasn't real" I told them and they laughed
Gray gave me a sympathetic look. "Well you probably did in your post change life. Its hidden by a glamour so its invisible to all those who aren't part god or have permission to be in it. Each god built a house for his or her child to own. Its also where all demigods live, well our houses are there but we don't have to live there. Now I guess we know why the Aries house has been empty for so long. He just didn't remember who he was" he trailed off. I'm guessing he was talking to himself near the end.
"Its the one place Izzy feels safe so it makes sense that Raven would take her there" Chris told me.
"I need to see her. Please" I all but begged. They looked at me in shock.
"Dude, Aries son, the God of War, just said please. What has the world come to" Chris told Gray before they started laughing. "We'll take you there so chill out. You need to apologize to your mate and maybe being at your house will make you remember some of your lost memories"
Gray grabbed our hands "Everyone hold hands" he said in a childish manor. He whispered the same chant that Raven did, but it was different because it contained different words. I could understand it this time. He was asking Hades to help us get to Atlantis. Deep down, I knew the language was Greek. My head felt light as the world blurred around us. We were in the clearing one second and in a different place the next. I looked around.
We were in a small town that consisted of a courtyard and twelve houses surrounding it. The courtyard was beautiful with a fountain that consisted of who I'm guessing was Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades as statues in the middle. The whole courtyard was made of silver stones speckled with gold. There were benches scattered all around and multiple trees, each bearing its own fruit. the houses were spectacular.
One was collored many different shades of blue that mixed perfectly together. A small pond was in the front and behind it you could see stables where horses were being kept. The scent of salt seemed to come off of the house itself.
Poseidon.
Another was made of purely metal and had blacksmithing supplies scattered around it. The scent of hot metals was heavy in the air in that direction. There was no grass, only dirt surounding it.
Hephaestus,
I was brought out of my daze by Chris "That's her house over there" he said pointing to a very peaceful looking house. There was a tree on one corner and a small pond in front of it. It was a average sized cabin, not too large, but not small either. I wanted to continue to look at the different houses, but I needed to see Bella. We all walked over to her house and walked in without even knocking. I guess they just don't knock here.
"Jazz?" I heard a small voice ask as I looked over and saw her. She was sitting in the corner surrounded by maybe dozens small plants in pots and a dozen more empty pots. When our eyes made contact she just looked down at an empty pot and made some type of plant grow.
"She grows things when she's upset" Raves said from behind me.
I walked over to Bella and sat on the floor by her "I'm so sorry I didn't believe you" I told her. She looked up at me with tears in here eyes.
"Why are you here? You wanted me gone" she said in a small voice.
"I'm so sorry, I wasn't thinking straight. I never want you to leave" I said before kissing her. She kissed me back for a moment before pulling away. She looked at me sadly before looking away.
Why did you bring him here?" she asked both Gray and Chris
"He belongs here" Chris answered
"This is his home as much at it is ours" Gray told her
"That may be true, but I actually begged them to bring me to you" I admitted
She looked at me shocked "You begged?" she joked
"I'd fall to the ground and grovel if it got you to forgive me. You are worth more than my pride" I told her.
She smiled at me before giving me a light kiss. "You are worth more than the world to me" she said before giving me another small kiss.
"So how do you like Atlantis?" she asked with a smirk
"Its amazing though I didn't have time to look around because I was trying to find you. I have to say that your house is really cool" I told her. She looked at the others before giving me a excited smile before asking.
"You wana see your house?"