Krotos was standing by the window while Dallan was in the bathroom, staring out at the beautiful Rio de Janeiro made a hint of guilt enter Krotos' heart.
He wanted Dallan to be happy, but he couldn't give her the life she wanted. He wanted to be with her just as much as he hoped she wanted to be with him, but knowing what happens when a God and a Mortal get together he didn't want to cause Dallan heartache.
He ran his hand through his hair and gritted his teeth, why didn't Dallan deserve to be happy? Just because she was a demigod didn't mean she had to be locked away at Camp Half-Blood her whole life. It wasn't fair the way the Gods treated the mortals and demigods.
"Is everything alright?" Dallan asked while standing behind Krotos. He gave a jump and turned around to face her, he didn't expect her to just creep up on him like that.
Krotos wanted to tell her it was, he wanted to just forget everything and enjoy this honeymoon with her. But he knew it wasn't right, this wasn't real. If they had truly gotten married, it was just more heartache that he would cause her.
"No, nothing's alright." Krotos replied.
"What do you mean 'nothing's alright'?" Dallan asked, a tone of annoyance in her voice.
"THIS. US. It's not meant to be, Dallan I'm sorry but I can't do this to you." Krotos said and started for the door, Dallan grabbed his wrist and Krotos looked back at her. Tears in her eyes.
"Krotos please. Don't walk out on me." Dallan said through tears, Krotos wanted to explain everything to her but he couldn't. He just wrapped his arms around her while she silently cried.
"I-I know you might not understand, but it's for the best Dallan." Krotos said and Dallan tightened her grip around him.
"I want you to know that I'll never stop loving you, alright? But you have to forget about me." Krotos said and kissed her head as she cried harder. It broke Krotos' heart in two to see him causing her so much pain.
He gently pushed her away and headed to the door, grabbing the door knob and wiping a tear away as he opened the door.
When Krotos blinked he wasn't in the hallway, he wasn't even in Rio anymore. He was standing at the very edge of a cliff that seemed to go on forever, darkness swirled at the bottom and blocked any view to how far it really went.
Krotos went to move but he heard the sound of chains rattle and he looked down to see his wrists chained. He was stuck at the spot and couldn't move forward or back, when he turned around he saw that the chain extended to a large pole.
He tried to break the chains with his strength but nothing worked, he felt weak and puny. Like someone or something had taken his Godly abilities away and he was just a mortal.
"You can't escape." He heard a voice and turned around to see a man standing behind him, his eyes were blue wolf eyes and his hair was snow white and fell down past his waist.
"Maybe we could watch him struggle." Another voice rang out and from behind the man stepped another person, this time a female who looked exactly like the man.
"No no. We could simply have him watch his friends fall to their death." A different voice said and another person stepped out from behind the woman. It was a teenager who looked like the other two.
Krotos looked around and saw his friends were chained at the wrists as well, all of them were standing at the edge of the cliff and most of them were starting to slowly lean forward, the chains slowly bending and would snap at any point.
"Let them go!" Krotos yelled at the trio, a roar of laughter erupted around Krotos as he saw more people emerge from the darkness, all of them looking similar but of all different ages.
"'Let them go'? Why would we do something like that? That would get rid of our only form of entertainment. . . For now." The teenager said with a smirk.
"You seem confused. Let me explain." The woman started and stepped closer to Krotos, gripping his chin in her hand.
"Mortals wander into our territory and we ambush them, chain them up to the posts and blind them with Desire. The blue dust you saw before you blacked out, then we make bets to see who will fall and who will wake up. Those who wake up we keep as pets or we make them entertain us. Those who fall, well I think you get the idea." The woman said and flicked her hand away, cutting Krotos' bottom lip.
More hyena like laughter came from the pack of people, Krotos tried to break the chains again but his muscles felt like noodles.
Hyena, packs. . . Hellhounds! Krotos' conscience yelled, getting a better look at the trio and the people Krotos saw that they were Hellhounds. But in the form of humans.
"You're sick!" Krotos yelled, the teenager made his way to Krotos and looked down at him.
"Sick? You Gods should say that to yourselves. Considering that you're powerless in our domain you should watch your tongue." The Teenager said and glared at Krotos, kneeing him in the gut with incredible force causing Krotos to cough out golden ichor.
A woman jumped down from one of the hill sides that the others were on and stood in front of Krotos, her hair was short and her eyes were navy blue. For a few seconds she reminded Krotos of Dallan.
She turned to face the trio, her long dress twirling at the bottom and wrapping itself around her legs.
"He's mine, as the rules go I was the only one who bet on him and so I get to keep him." She said and the trio didn't look to pleased, they whispered to each other for a few seconds and then nodded.
The woman went over to the pole and unwrapped the chains and holding them firmly in her hands, Krotos tried to run but his legs gave out from under him and he collapsed. His muscles feeling like noodles and jelly.
"Another reminder." The man said as he looked down at Krotos.
"Your limbs will only work if your master wants them to, so until she allows you to move. You'll remain like a rag doll." The man said and kicked the black dirt into Krotos' face, causing Krotos to spit and cough.
The woman dragged Krotos along the dirt causing him to get cut and bruised up, as they slowly made their away from Krotos' friends he saw Dallan struggling with her chains.
"Dallan!" Krotos shouted and she turned to look at him, before she could speak she crumbled to the ground. A man holding her chains and pulling her towards him.
Krotos opened his mouth to shout but his voice didn't work, it seemed that the woman also had control over other things then just his limbs.
Before they turned the corner all his friends started to struggle, but one by one they crumbled to the ground and were dragged away.
Krotos was dragged to one of the many small hand chiseled caves in the hillside, each cave belonged to one of the hellhounds and was the size of a small bedroom.
Krotos sat down near the wall with the end of his chain connected to a hook on the wall, the hook was bent so no matter what Krotos did he couldn't get in out. The girl was gone and a small fire was burning in the center of the cave to warm it up.
As Krotos looked around the cave he noticed every little detail, a small bed made up of pillows and blankets was near the entrance of the cave and hanging from the ceiling was a net full of fruit and bead necklaces.
Krotos managed to make it to the entrance of the cave but his chains constricted him to go any further, staring out he could see nothing but darkness and a small hint of light where the exit must have been.
He heard the sounds of footsteps and quickly returned back to his spot in the corner, just then the girl entered the cave wiping her mouth off with the back of her hand. Krotos had learned that her name was Xylia.
"You. Over here now." Xylia said and Krotos lazily walked over to her and his legs gave way again, forcing him to crash into the make-shift bed of pillows and blankets.
Xylia sat down on the bed with the bottom of her dress flaring out, Krotos' face was pushed up against a pillow and he had to tilt his head in an uncomfortable position in order to look up at her.
"How old are you." Xylia asked and Krotos managed to mutter out 18, though he could barely understand it because his cheek was being pressed into his mouth.
"You don't look 18." Xylia said and leaned closer to his face, inspecting his features and then leaning back.
"I guess you could pass as 18, but you seem older." Xylia said and stood up, heading over to the net and picking an apple from the net.
"What did that have to do with any thing?" Krotos said, Xylia took a bite out of the apple and turned to him.
"Nothing really. I just wanted to make sure you were an adult, I don't like having teens as my slaves." Xylia said and snapped her fingers, feeling instantly entered Krotos' legs and he was able to stand. Readjusting his jaw to make sure nothing was broken.
Krotos sat back down in his corner as he watched Xylia eat a few more fruit and then sleep, he could hear all the others snoring but Xylia was silent and was curled into a ball. Holding a stuffed bear that was missing an ear and one eye.
Wanting to get out of here Krotos pulled out a small rock from his pocket which he had been carving ever sense he was thrown in here, he put it under the hook and pulled and pulled. Bending it back and finally snapping it off, taking the chains off and breaking the lock with the rock also.
Stepping over Xylia quietly Krotos made his way onto a small platform that had stairs at the ends and connected all the other caves. Krotos closed his eyes and tried to listen for the heart beats of his friends, they were different then the wolves and were easy to hear.
He opened his eyes and made his way to the second floor, finding Cyrus and then Alexander he quietly took off their chains with the rock and helped them out. The trio made their way up to the other floors breaking their friends out of the chains. But Dallan and Skyler were no where to be found.
Krotos sent Reiner Cyrus Alexander and Raidne down to the bottom while he went to look for the girls, slowly making his way up and up he came to the top of the hill where one large cave was chiseled into the hill. As he peered inside Dallan and Skyler were fast asleep, though laying next to each of them was a guy.
Krotos gave a growl and entered the cave, even though his powers weren't supposed to work he could feel himself getting stronger the more anger filled his heart. Acting like Dallan and Skyler were prizes made Krotos angry, then acting like they own them? Some blood was going to get dropped.
Krotos grabbed the guy sleeping next to Skyler by the throat and crushed it with one swift move, no noise was made and blood dripped out of his mouth.
He woke up Skyler and told her to be quiet, though a look of fear was in Skylers eyes. Like she didn't know Krotos, he broke her chains with his hands and then told her the others were waiting.
When Skyler left Krotos grabbed the guy sleeping next to Dallan by the mouth and grabbed the bottom and the top and tore his head in two. Throwing the body away Krotos woke up Dallan, breaking her chains and heading down with her.
The others didn't have the same look that Skyler had, not even Dallan seemed afraid of Krotos. But Krotos couldn't be thinking about that, he waved his hand and the skeleton horses appeared in front of them. They all climbed on but a howl from one of the hounds alerted their escape to all the others.
"Go!" Krotos yelled and they all took off, Krotos pulled Dallan up and she wrapped her arms tightly around his waist as the horses charged at full speed towards the exit.
The howls of the hellhounds were getting closer as they were catching up to the group, Krotos held out his hand and a crack formed in the earth of the underworld. Creating a large crack that separated the hounds from them.
They didn't dare try to jump over the crack, it was far to wide and they would surely die. Krotos looked back to see the hounds pacing back and forth and letting out multiple roars.
The group rode on ahead towards the exit, glad to still be alive. They dismounted and the horses went on their way into the darkness. The group passed through the large golden doors and stepped out from a hillside, the beautiful city of Greece below them.
"Now to find Leon." Cyrus said and the others nodded, they headed down the hill towards Greece. Hoping that they would be able to find Leon and it wasn't to late.
Yeah! Our group of Demigods (And one God and a Nymph) made it to Greece! :D I hoped you all liked the part with the hounds (or wolves :P) Please review and let me know what you think! ;)
Again I know I ask this every chapter, but if you want me to add anything to the story like a back story or a flash back I don't mind at all. :3
~I am Katie Daughter of Demeter