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Chapter 10 – The Minor Heroes & Warriors:
For the Muses, most of the minor Heroes: Fox Queen, Boreas, etc. etc, NoHands was behind all of these. With the Muses' mother, Rattle Diva, he slept with her for 9 consecutive nights, which resulted in the 9 Muses.

Then, NoHands slept with Sonia, and look what happened: Pangolin Queen, heroine of flowers and music, much like her mother, except younger. More suitors tried to win her hand, but Sonia, being the overprotective person she was, denied all of them any chance.

And Fox Queen: She was born, though thankfully not of NoHands...at least, not by his interference a lot. She was close to Lin Chung, and taught him some of her magic. After that, NoHands, as usual, was the first Hero to get involved with a Mortal.

Both had a child: A Warrior. Not yet a Hero, but a Warrior.

Many followed.

Some of them: Wu Song (NoHands), the Three Sailor Brothers (Kowloon), Orion (Kowloon), Theseus (NoHands), and all of the other great Warriors in history descended from the Heroes. However, most of them were alone.

Because of their power, the Heroes were not allowed to interfere. Rosefinch, Lady Green and Hera remained outside of any matters to do with the Mortal World. Woo had children, yes, but he imagined them, having them come from his books, his enchanted scrolls.

Lady Green and Rosefinch swore on the Styx that they would forever be a virgin, and that was the end of it. Lady Green occasionally chose some lucky Warrior (who wouldn't be swooning over her or their luck) and take them out, training them to hunt properly.

Lin Chung, nearly locked up in the Underworld now, hardly had any contact with the Mortal World. He didn't have any sort of children at all, no Heroes, no Warriors, not even any creatures.

Jumpy was his only companion.

Then the day came when Archer, acting odd during the Winter Solstice, came up with a prophecy. This was frightening in itself, about how a single Warrior would one day either be the destroyer or preserver of Big Green.

This would be frightening to all of the Heroes, but another confirmation calmed them down...but only slightly. That the Warrior would be a child of the Eldest Hero. If logic were in this, the oldest would be Peacock Queen, but she had too many children, and wasn't properly considered a Hero.

Therefore, Rosefinch was next in line, but virgin Heroine, so no. Then came Lin Chung (which got some people worried), but they decided to pass him for the time being. After that, Latifah (who didn't have Warriors – she loathed them!), Sonia (who couldn't care less now that she had Pangolin Queen), Kowloon, and NoHands.

Only Lin Chung, Sonia, Kowloon and NoHands would have any hope in this.

But according to rank, Lin Chung, Kowloon and NoHands were the considered the Eldest Heroes. Sonia was now out of the game.

Therefore, in front of the other Heroes, they swore on the River Styx that they would never have any Warrior children.

Lin Chung - none of them had any trouble believing that he would keep the oath. Kowloon was also considered fairly trustworthy.

It was NoHands that they didn't trust. He had had so many Minor Heroes, and so many Warriors, that people were now scared that he would break it. Even after Latifah guaranteed that she would look after him with a strict eye, none of them were calm.

It was only when all of NoHands' siblings promised to keep an eye out for him did all of the Heroes finally let themselves be reassured.

But Kowloon was mostly in the Sea, in his kingdom. Lin Chung was kept busy in the Underworld, where there were a lot more deaths that he had to keep up with. Sonia spent most of her time in the Mortal World, with Pangolin Queen. NoHands had more than once escaped the eye of Latifah thanks to the many debts that he had held from other creatures or Heroes.

That left Rosefinch, but she was mostly at Big Green, tending to the fire.

NoHands occasionally crept away, but were held back by his sisters or brothers. When he once refused to stop and even tried to fight them, Lin Chung was stuck with NoHands screaming at him from the Underworld for a whole 48 hours.

After that, even the calm Hero could take it no longer, and shoved him to Kowloon, locking himself in the Underworld with no contact for a week.

To most people that would be funny.

But there was no time to think about that, since something else was going to happen.

That something was the beginning of the Pantheromachy.