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"What's wrong with you?"
"I have not had my bread sticks in a while."
Goldfish: First blood goes to the factions but I wouldn't count on God bring that hunter back to life. Yes the samurai did not die but he was gravely wounded. Whether he will come back or not is up for debate. Yes keep reminding me of the work I have to so in the further. "But I have my sith lord card so I get stronger from hate, salt, anger, and being reminded of work."
um i guess i could wight a Merlin For Honor crossover. No promises though you not the only one coming up with ideas for stories.
Austin: technically you are correct the faction warriors are mortal but celestial metal will still hurt them. Oh is see you caught that cameo ;). Don't worry Atol is not going Finn. If you know that I mean.
Glad you understand. How bought this a inheritance Circle and For honor crossover with John Cross and a certain something. Also Knights for live.
Don't worry it's coming just be patient. And let's be honest Morgan freeman style ass rip anyone.
Yes Markus and Hestia will be having an argument however it might not turn out just like that.
You will see what happens when the war with Kronos. I really don't know about the whole masks thing but we will see. Yes camp Jupiter will be in the story but I'm not saying anything after that so bite me… but don't actually bite me I swear to God that I will sic R.O.W. on you.
"Rawr."
Um just go to the Naruto for honor crossover tab should be there and if not then the author deleted it. But because I am such a chill person and because it's so easy to do the name of the other Naruto for honor crossover is called The Truth That Lies in the Path of Honor.
John092: thanks for the continued support also go check out a fanfic call Oliver Irons and The Original Fire I highly recommended it. That goes for all of you, show him some love so he starts writing again I have been waiting for the next chapter for two mouths!
Guest: It's on its way don't you worry.
Guest: are you speaking of the Chinese faction or the characters that were added to the three factions? Because if it's the ladder then they are in the story. If it's the former then that my take more time as we don't know much about them in the form of game mechanics.
Now the story
Night had fallen over the land as the sun fell below the mountains. I switched on the headlights as darkness took over the land. We stopped to sleep at a rest stop after we got our car to rest from the night long run we had two night ago, luckily nothing attacked us while we were sleeping. We only traveled at night to get the least activity on the highway, so that meant sleeping all day and driving all night.
I decided to keep driving as it wasn't that hard once my heart stopped racing and I found out other people knew how to drive too. Since we were going long distance, and since there were hardly any cars on the highway, I could turn on cruise control and only have to worry about keeping the car on the road.
I had the radio turned on the current song being Chosen Ones by Evil Dream. This radio station was kinda odd as when Atol got to the channel he started to hit a few of the numbered buttons then the music started to play and there was no host just music.
Atol had the window down and was looking out into the darkness, while Malik was sleeping in the back. We had entered in Tennessee not too long ago and we were cruising at 75 miles per hour, 5 miles under the speed limit. We were already breaking the law by driving but as long as I didn't cause an accident or get pulled over we should be fine.
"Hey Atol how do you think the others are doing?" I asked trying to strike up a conversation.
"They should be fine." He answered nonchalantly.
"Do you think they could have gotten caught?"
"No they were clearly after us meaning they were after you." He said glancing at me then in the rear view mirror
"How are they going to link up with us again?"
"They're not." Atol said taking out his phone and messing with it.
"Say what?!" I said surprised
"You're the mission." Atol said simply. "They know were going on without them so they will probably get on a plane and fly back home."
"Get off here." He added pointing to an exit.
I turned off cruise control and started to slow down before getting off on the exit Atol pointed out. He proceeded to direct me to a road that went into the woods. The road turning to dirt soon enough and getting a bit bumpy. I came to a stop at a dead end the road ending at a tree line. Atol got out of the car and walked up to the tree line. I lowered the window and called to Atol as he was walking to the tree line.
"Why are we here? It's a dead end."
Atol did not reply instead he kept walking until he came to a tree and tapped it. He pulled out his phone and seemed to hold it up to the tree. A few moments later the tree line disappeared and the road turned to pavement right were the tree line use to be.
The orange eyed kid waved me over. A little shocked I put the car in drive and crept up to Atol before coming to a stop beside him. He opened the door and got back inside and put on his seat belt.
"The Knights have many secret roads that lead all over the country. How do you think we moved around in that mobile base without getting spotted?" Atol said leaning back in his chair back.
"Why didn't we get on this sooner? We went through two states on the normal highway." I asked shocked that the knights were so dug in to the United States.
"Couldn't risk it until we put some distance between us and the hunters." Atol said closing his eyes.
The engine started to roar as I pushed the gas pedal down. I was already doing 60 by the time I spoke again.
"We haven't ran into them for the past two days do you think it's safe to be using these roads? What if they are just following us?" I tried to reason with Atol who didn't seem to have a care in the world.
We just past 90 when Atol replied, however with the sound of the engine it was a little hard to hear him.
"We killed one of them and the samurai gave her a thrashing if she did beat him then she would not be waiting for us to hook up with more people like us. Artemis would probably try and attack us at every opportunity." Atol explained.
We were now going 160 miles an hour the trees flying by us and the engine was still going strong, like it was meant to go this fast. My heart was pounding in my chest as the car only went faster, what if I was coming up on a turn? Would I have enough time to slow down? If I crashed at this speed we'd all be dead.
I started to ease off the gas and the car started to slow down. Atol noticed this and spoke.
"Don't worry about going fast. Our roads don't have sharp turns and the roads go through everything so floor it." Atol encouraged.
"He's right dude the only way to crash on these roads is if you are trying to crash." Malik said from the back, not doubt the sound of the engine woke him up.
"Then you should drive because I am not there yet." I said slowing down until the car came to a stop.
I opened the door and Malik got out of the back. We switched and Malik looked pleased to be in the driver's seat. He looked over the controls before be buckled himself up.
"Hey John do you know what Nitrous is?" Malik asked smugly.
"No." I said hesitantly.
"Hold onto your butts." Malik said as Atol grabbed a hold of the side door.
Needless to say the speedometer did not drop below 170.
I laid on the ground feeling very weak. My body felt like it weighed a ton and it was raining so that helped. I could have sworn I heard the sound of fighting in the distance cries of pain, metal clashing against metal, and explosions.
It was cold, so very cold.
From the edge of my vision came a firey light and it was getting closer. Then she stepped into my vision, a person I knew for most of my life. She held a blazing two sided axe in her hand as she looked down at me tears freely flowing from her eyes.
She crumbed to her knees dropping the axe as she went down. Her hand moved out to touch me but stopped when a terrible roar thundered throughout the forest I was in. The girl looked up and quickly got to her feet grabbing the axe as she went up. However a powerful gust of wind came through sending her flying back into the forest.
The ground shook as a large creature landed beside me. The rain stopped hitting me as the creature loomed over me. The creature spoke but I could not make out the words but it sounded worried and angry at the same time. It carefully picked me up before I found myself flying through the skies pressed up against the large creature. However its body was warm, a welcoming feeling from that of the cold.
My eyes shot opened as I started to gasp for air. Atol turned to look at me from the front seat.
"Bad dream?" He asked looking at me.
"Something like that." I said leaning back into my chair.
"You have been asleep for a full day dude you sure your good?" Malik asked looking in the mirror to look at me.
"Yea man I'm good." I reassured them.
"We will be at the exit that will drop us off near our home tomorrow night." Atol said changing the subject.
Atol seemed to know something about the dreams I has having. They seemed so real like I was there living them for myself. But Atol might be right to change the subject as now might not be the time to be sharing dreams.
We were still on the secret road and still going very fast. The moon shined down on us but the road seemed too lit by some unseen source like tons of invisible fireflies were flying around. I took out my lighter and started to flick the hatch open and closed while idly looking out the window.
As I flick open my lighter my hand grazed the igniter, because of the grips on the igniter it caught my hand and it moved. Suddenly fire engulfed the back seats creating a ruckus in the back. Malik and Atol's head shot back which caused Malik to lose control of the car. The car started to drift but Malik was able to pull out of it and bring the car to a stop.
"What the hell did you do?" Malik called while breathing heavily. "For a second there I thought I was going to meet my ancestors."
Atol stared wide eyed at the weapon that appeared in my arms. A large two handed war axe, that was on fire. I quickly opened the door and got out of the car to keep the burning weapon from starting a fire in the car.
The axe was taller than me by a few feet and it felt warm to the touch. Its head was ablaze but it was not like a fire that was out of control. The fire seemed to be directed to the blades of the axe like it was an overcoat. There also was a carving of a tree in the head but it looked like the tree was on fire from the inside.
The other two got out of the car but Atol looked surprised the most. He came around the car and grabbed on to my shirt and pulled me in.
"Where did you get that?!" He demanded urgently.
"One of the staff members at Camp Half-Blood gave it to me." I answered him his hostility lost on me due to my own surprise.
Atol let go of me and slowly backed up. He was in deep thought looking like someone just told him we were about to get attacked and that we were unprepared. He brought his hand to his chin as he started to pace back and forth murmuring to himself.
"Atol what is this thing?" Malik asked looking at the weapon.
"That is a war axe made from roclite, or Black Steel, it's our faction's special metal and it is very powerful. Their are only a few Knights that have soul weapons made from Black Steel."
"Wait, So their weapons we make from black steel from day one?" I asked tilting my head.
"No, they started like any other with a normal soul weapon." Atol said looking back at me. "They had their soul weapon meld with the weapon so it became their soul weapon. But the weapon you are melding your first soul weapon to must be the same type of weapon. Since that weapon is a war axe you can't meld it with the soul weapon you have."
"So it's useless to me?"
"Far from it, you can still use it you just can't lock it to yourself, meaning it can be stolen and used against you." Atol said grimly. "But what I am more worry about is how the Greeks got their hands on enough black steel ore to make a weapon that big."
"It's possible they had no idea what they had." Malik suggested. "If John has it then they probably thought they just found a new type of metal that could be used against their monster types."
"Then we should call ourselves lucky and pray to God that they don't have more." Atol walking back to the passenger's seat.
"So how powerful are weapons made from this black steel?" I asked walking up to the car.
Atol was quite for a moment. "Do you know how powerful an atom bomb is?"
"I know it can turn a city to ruble, well the old ones anyway." I said thinking back to my history classes.
"A weapon made from black iron by a master has the potential to level a continent." Atol said dead serious.
"What?!" I yelled out in surprise.
I was quite literally holding a doomsday weapon in my hand. What if I accidently activated it? I could wipe out the United States. The blood of millions would be on my hands. I could not wield such a weapon with this in mind. The danger was far to great.
"I can't have this!" I declared. "Atol you take it."
Atol looked at me like one would look at an idiotic person. "I said it has the potential to level a continent. Black Iron weapons draw much of its power from its wielder. As of now I doubt you could level a city much less the entire continent."
'Did he just call me weak?'
"Besides knights who wield black iron weapons put strong seals on their weapons to stop something like that from ever happening. So once we get back you just have to show it to Forge so he can inspect it."
"Who's Forge?" I asked.
"Forge is the nickname of the angel who makings everything for the knights." Atol said sliding back into the passenger's seat.
I looked at my weapon and then back at the car. It was going to be a tight fit and this thing was still on fire. I wished that it would turn back into its lighter form. Suddenly the weapon was surrounded by fire for a moment before it disappeared and in my hand sat my lighter.
I stared at the lighter for a moment before I cautiously put it in my pocket. Once I knew the weapon was not going to deploy in my pocket I walked over to the car and opened the door then slid in. Malik started the car and we were off again, the engine roaring while we gained speed.
A thought occurred to me and I was starting to get an odd feeling in my gut so I decided to ask Atol about it.
"Hey Atol how was the mobile base destroyed?"
"Engine got hit from above." Atol replied reading something on his phone. "That started a fire in the main compartment. Since the base wasn't going anywhere we started the self-destruct."
"I assume that the mobile bases have roads similar to this one." I asked looking behind us.
Atol nodded. "Yea why?"
"Well if we were on it and the hunt goddess found us what's to stop her from finding us now?" I then looked back at him with a worried look on my face."And I just got the feeling that we are being watched."
Atol's face drained and then it hit us.
Hestia searched high and low for her son and Markus. First she searched the wreckage of Markus' home and did not find anything resembling a body. In fact there wasn't much anything left over from Markus' home, except for a photo of her and Markus making food at his pizza store.
She had searched Markus' pizza store but found it under new management and a different name. When she asked the manager what had happened to the previous person that owned this shop, the manager said that he had been running this shop for seventeen years.
She searched the school her son went to only to find none of the teachers ever head of John Cross let alone the Cross family. She even checked the records on file and on the schools server and found nothing.
She checked stores that Markus frequently shopped at but even then the people working there had never heard of Markus before. Even the bartender at the bar that he went to with his friends never heard of him before.
It didn't take a wisdom goddess to know that Markus had some help from the supernormal and Hestia was no fool. This proved that Markus was hiding something from her since day one. A part of her was mad at him for not telling her, it wasn't like she was going to go to her younger brother and tell him. But at the same time she could not truely judge him, her family had a dark past and they did not act their age.
Her young brother was petty and thought the world was out to dethrone him. He would kill anyone just because they had to potential to match him in power even if they were loyal to Olympus. He would always cheat on his wife with mortel women and not once be with his wife.
But Hera was not free from blame either. She took out her anger on her husband's illegitimate children, but not just them even the illegitimate children of the other gods as well. It was not their fault they were born they never asked to be the product of adultery. She even threw her own son off Olympus just because he was ugly.
Speaking of Hephaestus, Hestia found it sad that mortal women were able to look past Hephaestus' looks and see something more. Something his own mother was unable to do. He was always given the short stick in life making him bitter towards it, which made him surround himself with his machines instead of people. While he was one of the tamer gods he too had his limits.
Poseidon could be calm when he wanted too but even he could be angered easily if one said the right words. It was no secret that he wanted the throne which Zeus sat upon which would led them to arguing over everything they could.
Hades held grudges too easily and did not know the meaning of the word forgiveness. He took pleasure in seeing the suffering of others.
Aphrodite did not give her true husband the time of day for a moment and spend all that time with Ares. She was obsessed with the demigods love lives and felt that she needed to control every signal one. And despite being the goddess of love she was so vengeful and would punish anyone who slighted her even if they did not do it on purpose.
Ares… the real question was what wasn't wrong with Ares. Even his Roman side Mars had better morals than his Greek side did.
Apollo was over protective of his sister Artemis and he seemed to have the goal to sleep with every woman on the planet. He could not be bothered to help anyone if it did not help him in anyway.
Artemis despised all men just because some were foul towards women. Sure Hestia did not like these types of men either but she knew now more than ever that not all men were like that. She would kill any man who accidentally stumble upon her hunt. She came close to seeing the truth with men through Orion but Apollo made sure to kill him as soon as Artemis started to have feelings for him.
Hestia stopped herself from listing off the faults of the rest of her family. Sure they mess up often but they were still her family and she still loved them despite their faults. She knew that she was just upset that she could not find any trace of Markus or John.
She wanted to find her son before Artemis did but knowing her she was probably on his trail. If Artemis found Hestia's son before she did then he would be taken straight to Olympus were he would be killed because Zeus would think him too powerful.
Hestia did take some comfort in the fact that whatever was protecting him from sight of Olympus would not let John be taken so easily. At least she hoped that was the case. Still she needed to find her son and what Markus was a part of so she could mouth some kind of a defense for her son. But she did not know how to dig up hidden information she was not… a… Athena.
Athena.
She was Hestia's only option. If anyone could find out about what Markus was hiding it was her but she would not just give her a lead then allow her to follow it alone. In exchange for helping her find out what Markus was hiding she would want to join to uncover the mystery for herself.
But what choice did she have? She did not have enough time do the research herself, she could find a wrong lead and follow it not knowing it was false. Hestia needed to take a risk if she was to find them and find out that Markus was hiding.
Hestia teleported to Olympus and headed for Athena's temple. When Hestia arrived she would the wisdom goddess reading a book on ancient Germany. Athena did notice Hestia coming in and went on reading the book as if no one was around.
"Athena." Hestia said greeting the goddess of wisdom.
Athena looked up from her book a tad bit surprised that Hestia was in her temple, but her face quietly turned to a smile to hide it.
"Hestia, what brings you to my temple today?" Athena going back to reading the book she was reading before the hearth goddess came in.
"I need your help."
This caused Athena to stop and close her book. Hestia never asked anything of anyone, until today.
"And what would that be?" Athena said somewhat smugly.
"My son's father has completely disappeared." Athena's eyebrows went up in surprise. "I need your help to find out where he went or at least some clue on what he was hiding from me."
Athena bought her hand to her chin to think about it. "What do I get out of this?"
"You get to solve a mystery and possibly find out what he is hiding from me." Hestia said knowing Athena's love for exploring the unknown. But to be sure Hestia gave one more push just to make sure she would do it. "You are the smartest person on Olympus."
A smile appeared on the goddess face, she always like getting her ego rubbed.
"Ok I will help you but I will need to know your son's father's name." She said not losing her smile.
Hestia balled her fist. "His name is Markus Cross."
Athena snapped her fingers and a laptop appeared in her lap. She started to type away searching the internet for people under the name Markus Cross.
However she did not get far.
A frown appeared on the grey eyed goddess. Absolutely no results under the name Markus Cross or Cross as a last name in general. The only results that came up were other peoples name not relating to Markus Cross in the slightest.
But the internet was not going to stop the goddess of wisdom in the slightest. So she went to the next best place to find someone. The FBI database. The goddess had no problem getting in as she had access to it when she join the FBI just to see how good the mortal agency was.
After Athena logged in she searched the name she was given in the database, only to to be locked out by another password. The Goddess was now started to get pissed but that was overshadowed by her curiosity.
"Looks like your first mortal lover has connections in high places." Athena said peering at Hestia.
Hestia came around to look at the laptop screen only to have her eyes go wide.
"I recognize that symbol." Hestia said looking at the password screen.
Over the password was the same symbol that was on her son's lighter. She thought that was just from a game that her son played she never thought it had some impotence to Markus' secret. Then another fact just hit Hestia as she thought about the symbol.
Her son played video games, online video games at that. He would have been broadcasting his passion all over the country if not the world, but John only had a run in with a Cyclopes and that was just before he came to Camp Half-Blood.
"Let me see if I can run a search on that symbol." Athena said putting the image into the FBI search engine only to get one result.
The symbol stood for something called the Iron Protocol but the thing was everything was covered in black bars so the document more resembled a barcode then a document. However originally drafted this protocol did not want anyone outside of it to find out what the Iron Protocol was. The only other thing that was not blacked out was the original date in which the protocol was put into effect.
1780 four years after the Declaration of Independence. Athena's eyes narrowed, did George have something to do with this? She remembered when George asked her to keep her influences out of the Declaration of Independence while they were drafting it. At first Athena was mad that her son would tell her to stay out of it, but she decided to stay out of it until her son would come begging for her help. However he never did which served to piss her off even more. She was half tempted to help the British during the War For Independence and she did a few times but even with her help here and there the British still lost.
It was possible during that time he was drafting this Iron Protocol. Clearly it had to do with Hestia's lover's secret but for this document to exist without her knowing worried her to some degree. If George had something to do with this document then that meant that he knew something that she didn't and he decided to keep it from her.
'Clam down Athena you can smite your son later.' Athena thought to herself.
Athena closed the laptop and stood. "It would appear we need to go to the source to find the document."
"And where would that be?" Hestia asked following Athena out of her temple.
"The National Archives of course." Athena said putting her hand on Hestia's shoulder and teleporting to the National Archives in Washington D.C.
The two goddesses appeared on the steps that led up to the National Archives building. None of the mortals around them noticed the two beings that appeared out of nowhere due to the Mist that surrounded the goddesses as they appeared.
Athena was now dressed in jeans, nice looking black shoes, and a grey t-shirt under a black jacket, while Hestia was now wearing a more modest dress.
Athena looked at the white building in front of them, taking in all the details of the Greek inspired architecture. The wisdom goddess smiled then started up the stairs with Hestia in tow. The two Goddesses made it passed security with no problem.
Once the two made it to the vault where the some of the oldest documents were kept they found a single man sitting behind a desk writing on a paper with a rather old looking pen. He did not look up from his paper as the two goddesses approached the vault.
The man looked to be in his late forties, having greyish white hair that was parted on just to the right of his head. He wore a grey sleeveless jacket over a black long-sleeved shirt; his pants were brown that went down to his black boots covering the upper part of them. However the strange thing about this man was that he was wearing a pair of metal arm guards that were faded green.
Just as the two goddesses walked passed him, he spoke.
"Can I help you?" He asked not looking up from his paper.
The man's voice was low and devoid of emotion, like he had not been home for some time. The goddesses stopped when the man spoke to them. Athena was using the Mist to hide their presence the eyes of mortals but sometimes there was a mortal that could see through it.
"We are looking for a document that was created four years after the Declaration of Independence was signed." Hestia said kindly to the man before Athena could.
"Do you know the name of the document?" He asked still writing on the piece of paper in front of him.
While Hestia was fine with the mortal working on his paper while he talked to her Athena was not. Athena suffered from the same problem the majority of the other Greek gods as they did not like being ignored in anyway.
Hestia could feel Athena's power start to rise as the man paid little attention to two powerful beings in front of him. To stop her niece from doing anything rash Hestia used her own power to calm the goddess.
"Yes it is called the Iron Protocol."
As soon as Hestia said that the man stopped writing and looked up from his paper. The man's eyes were brown and full of intelligence. The man seemed to take on a more hostile facial expression, his eyes narrowing and his mouth moving into a slight frown.
"We don't have a document under that title." He said dead serious and his eyes seemed to flash for a split second.
"I am very sure you do." Athena said before Hestia could. "I am with the FBI and I came across a document that was completely censored. I need to look at this document for a case I am working on."
"If such a document was that heavily censored then obviously you don't have the clearance for it." The man replied his tone seaming to get darker.
Athena pulled out a small black folder out of her jacket and plopped it down on the man's Oak wood desk. The man put his pen down and picked up the folder. His eyes skimmed the contents of the folder for a about five minutes before he set it back down and closed it.
"You have access to all our arrives but I assure you we do not have a document under the title The Iron Protocol." The man said standing up opening up one of his desk drawers and pulled out a key ring with over a dozen keys on it.
The man picked up his pen and placed it in his pocket before he started towards one of the vault doors. The two goddesses followed him, Athena having a smirk on her face and Hestia trying not to facepalm. The man came to a vault door and proceeded to open it. A few moments later the door unlocked and slowly opened.
The man stepped aside and let the two goddesses walk into the vault. The inside of the vault was furbished to have an Old American look to it so the books and documents would look more at home. Athena started to search through the shelves looking for the proper date, while Hestia stood on at the entrance watching Athena's progress.
"You seemed distressed." The man spoke but nowhere near as aggressively as he had at his desk.
Hestia looked at the man for a moment before she looked back to Athena. "Yes I am." She finally said. "I lost… two people very close to me and I can't find them""Does this document have something to do with him?"
Hestia became silent again. "No it doesn't."
"It's not here!" Athena said nearly yelling.
"I told you we didn't have anything under the title Iron Protocol." The man said returning to his cold tone.
Athena looked like she was about to blow a fuse so Hestia quickly grabbed Athena's arm and pulled her towards the exit.
"Thank you for your time, we will see ourselves out." Hestia said as she pulled Athena out of the vault.
The two goddesses left leaving the man standing at the entrance of the vault. The man walked into the vault and wen to one of the bookshelves that was marked for 1790 and pushed in one file that was slightly sticking out before leaving and locking the vault once more. The man walked back to his desk and started to write on the paper again.
A white beam hit the front of the car launching us into the air. I braced myself as the car flipped in the air before we landed upside down. The sudden impact caused me to hit my head against the roof and I started to see black dots in my vision.
Our car came to a grinding halt the front portion of the car was gone, only melted pieces of metal was the evidence that the car had a front. Atol was the first to unbuckle himself, his body falling into the roof of the car. He then spun himself so that his feet were facing the window. Using his feet Atol kicked the window and broke it allowing him to crawl out.
Malik on the other hand just unlocked the doors and opened his and rolled out. I followed Malik's example and opened the door next to me before rolling out. Atol was already in front of the car looking down the road waiting for our attacker to show themselves.
I felt the fire in my soul start to heat up as I prepared myself for battle. Malik's body flashed with a light before he was now in some type of ninja clothing along with those hand scythe weapons in each hand. He started to spin one of his hand scythes behind him as he watched for the first enemy to come into sight.
'I guess were fighting this time.' I thought to myself as I let the fire in my soul flow out of me.
Fire started to surround my body making its way from my feet to my head. When I reached my head I was now in my soul armor and my soul weapon formed in my hand. I no longer felt the weight of my armor, instead I felt right like this was how I was supposed to be.
From the darkness came the goddess that had been hunting us for so long. Her face did not give off any readable emotions but I could feel the killing intent from her. More of her hunters joined her at her side; most of them had their bows around their bodies and their hands on their daggers.
Atol's fists closed and began to shake. Suddenly his body was set ablaze as he called out his armor. My jaw fell when the fire disappeared and I got a good look at Atol's soul armor. His longsword looked to be made from a silver like material that but it had a dark grey cloth warped around the lower part of the sword. The hilt was cross guarded but it was angled towards the blade a little bit and the handle was warped in a dark grey leather that looked similar to the cloth on the blade. In the center of the hilt was a sliver gem but it had a dark mist within it almost like it was sick.
However the jaw dropping thing about Atol's blade was that it was already bloodied even though he just summoned it. Blood dripped of the tip of the blade onto the ground endlessly. But that was not the only thing dripping blood. His gauntlets were also bloodied and dripping blood from his armored knuckles, and from the look on the hunters' faces that was not the only thing that had blood on it.
His armor was made from a more steel looking materiel and he looked he had a type of wolf fur over his shoulders. The wolf fur came down his back just a tad bit and the cloth that hanged off his chest plate was torn and tattered near the bottom.
"I will take on Artemis you guys handle her hunters." Atol said glancing back at us and allowing me to see his helmet.
His helmet had a T shaped visor and there were a few dents on the side of his helmet too. But that was not the only thing that was on his helmet. Blood ran down the face of his helmet from a streak that looked like a handprint.
I shook my head to bring myself back to the fight that was about to happen in front of me. I got in my fighting stance and waited for the hunters to attack. Atol got in his own fighting stance, resting his blade over his left hand while his other hand gripped the handle.
The hunters drew their daggers and waited for their leader signal to attack. Artemis on the other hand stared at Atol with narrowed eyes.
"The samurai could not beat me." Artemis said to us. "What makes you think you can beat me?"
"A stronger drive to gut you." Atol growled back.
"How dare you talk to our lady like that you boy!" One of the hunters yelled back.
"Then come and show me the error of my ways brat." Atol said pointing his longsword at the hunter. "It will save me the trip over there to relieve your shoulders of your head."
That got the hunter to start toward Atol but Artemis stopped her by putting her hand up. She was about to say something when thunder cracked above us. Everyone looked to the sky to see lightning flashing amongst the dark clouds that were gathering.
Suddenly a large bolt of lightning struck the ground in-between us. The sudden light caused my]e to shield my eyes with my arm, when it faded I dropped my arm to see a man facing us. The man wore a white robes and a blue vest, his face shadowed by a straw hat but I could kinda seed through it. I could kinda make out two blue glowing orbs, which I assumed were his eyes. He looked like he had a skin tight suit over his head that only opened to reveal his face.
Electricity danced all over his body for a moment before it died down, leaving his forearms the only part of his body that was sparking with electricity. He turned to face the hunters and lifted his head so that his straw hat was barely hiding his face.
"Cease your hostiles at once." The man ordered.
"Who are you are you to order a goddess!" Artemis snapped at the man.
"I am Raiden eldar god of thunder and protector of earth realm." The now name Raiden replied his voice full of authority. "You are Artemis Greek goddess of hunting and the moon you have already gravely wounded one of my warriors. I shall let this offence pass but you will proceed no further."
"Holy." Malik said shocked letting his weapon stop spinning. "Dude that's Lord Raiden one of the eldar gods."
"Yea I heard him introduce himself." I said back glancing at him.
"You passion is little importance to me." Artemis said glaring at Raiden. "This county is the home of Olympus meaning you have no business being here."
"You are misinformed goddess your pantheon's presence in this county is only tolerated for the time being." Raiden replied. "This will be your only warning from me. You will end your hunt for these warriors or you will face my wrath."
Before Artemis could replied we were struck by lightning. The word went blue as the lightning struck me. I could feel the tingling sensation running through my whole body but it did not hurt in fact it kinda tickled.
I did not know how much time had passed since the lightning struck me but I soon found myself on the ground like someone just dropped me on the ground. I grunted from the abrupt impact but other than that I was fine.
I looked around me to see Atol just getting back on his feet while Malik was already in his feet. Raiden was looking at us with his arms at his side, most likely waiting for us to get to our feet before he spoke.
"Lord Raiden it is an honor to meet face to face." Malik said giving the eldar god a deep bow. "I must also thank you for rescuing us from those hunters."
"You are welcome Malik son of Jacky." Raiden said giving Malik a slight nod of his head.
The thunder god then looked over to me his eyes scanning over me. Since I was not going to be fighting anymore I dismissed my armor and weapon, Atol and Malik doing the same soon after.
"So you are the son of Markus and Hestia." Raiden said once he was done looking me over.
My eyes went wide. "What do you mean Hestia?" I said my voice shaky.
Raiden's eye brows went up slightly. "You didn't know? I would think that the Greek gods would claim their children."
"No I never knew." I said shocked trying to process this information. "Wait Hestia can't be my mother she took an oath of maidenhood."
"There is more than one way to create a child when a being of great power is involved. If she is still a maiden." Raiden said still level headed. "But I know for certain that you are her offspring your soul is similar to hers, it is why fire bends to your will even when you have not become one of your factions upper leave of knight."
"Upper level?" I asked.
"He's talking about Inferno Knights." Atol corrected.
"Indeed however I have sensed a spike in your power when I told you of your mother." Raiden started again. "Most likely the information of your origin has increased your power making you easier to track. This is probably why you were not told at a young age."
"And now that you know it is even more important that we get you back home." Atol added. "Lord Raiden where did you teleport us?"
"A mile away from you place of safety. Proceeded west and you will come upon it."
"Thank you Lord Raiden we are in your debt." Atol said giving him a slight bow.
The thunder god nodded. "You will arrive there by sun rise, I must go now."
Raiden then turned and disappeared in a bolt of lightning.
"let's go." Atol said taking off into a jog.
I followed after him and Malik soon joined us once we were going again. Finally after all this running we were going to be at our destination. We started to run once we got neared a forest, it was like a burst of energy washed over all of us as the sun rise over the hill.
"Eiyū ga kaettekita!" Malik yelled out happily.
(Play your victory music here I'm going to play Downstait Fight as One)
We started going uphill soon after we entered the forest. As we ran I spotted a man in light armor with a trident and a small shield in his hands. The man spotted us and raised his weapon up high and let out a trumpet laugh like he was welcoming us back home.
The next person I spot kinda looked like Raiden but he was holding two swords in his hands. Upon spotting us he crossed his weapons over his head and smiled at us. Soon a person in knight armor with a longsword saw us going pass him; he was holding his longsword just above the handle. He rose his longsword up at let out a trumpet roar that Atol took up when he heard it.
As we neared the top of the hill I saw a person in similar armor to me. He had a pole-axe in his hand with the end of the weapon resting on the ground. He was a lawbringer like me. The lawbringer turned his head to look at us, upon seeing us he pulled back his arm, that was holding his pole-axe, before he shot his arm out above is head while he let out his own trumpet roar.
I could not stop myself from sending up a roar so I stopped trying and I let my vocals shootout a trumpet roar of my own. The Knight seemed to get even more excited by my return victory cry and threw out both his arms and slowly spun in a circle like he was surrounded by a crowd cheering his name.
He came over the hill a few moments after that. There Atol and Malik came to a stop. I stopped beside them and looked out into the valley. I could not stop my mouth from dropping.
Atol looked at me. "Welcome home knight."
And done that a rap. You may a noticed that this chapter is much longer than my others I just thought you guys need a little treat and R.O.W needed a little bit more work.
"Like I don't have enough trying to help you improve."
I will see you guys next time.
Special thanks to my editor: ZoDiAcKiLlEr315
God bless and thanks for reading.