It had been a quiet Sunday afternoon at the Brownstone. Neil was still not talking to Jay, Herry, Odie, or Archie for what happened the night before and he was spending more time with Selene than training to fight against Cronus. He was still not believing that Selene was a werewolf. Everyone had given up trying to convince him.

Archie, Theresa and Atlanta were watching a movie, Herry was in his room lifting weights, Jay was up in his room studying, Neil was out with Selene (big surprise), and Odie was outside in the garage tuning his moped.

Odie tightened the front wheel of his small bike. He had retreated to the quiet of the garage to escape the constant noise that radiated out of the TV.

"I knew love was blind, but I didn't think it was deaf," the Brain mused.

Odie stood up a began to put his tools away. He was just opening the gate to go inside when he heard a low growl behind him. Odie slowly turned around. A large, black dog stood behind him.

Herry was just heading out into the backyard (having finished his work-out early) when he heard a *thud* on the gate.

"Odie?"

"Insane dog!"

Herry ran to help his friend. Odie was managing to keep the dog back with a short pole. Herry grabbed the dog and threw it away from Odie, but not before receiving the animal's claws down his arm. Herry grasped his forearm to stop the bleeding. The dog shook itself and ran off.

"Herry, are you okay?" Odie asked.

"I'm fine. Are youokay?" Herry questioned.

"I'll live," Odie said with a shrug and a sigh.

"Let's go inside before that thing comes back."

The friends made their way inside. The front door was closing when the boys walked into the kitchen.

"Who's leaving?" Odie asked.

"Jay," Archie answered as he opened the fridge.

"Gone to see Hera?" Herry guessed.

Archie stood up and shrugged. "Who knows? What happened to your arm?" he asked.

"It's nothing," Herry told him.

"If it's bleeding that badly, it has to be something," Archie pressed.

"I got clawed by a dog, if you must know," Herry answered.

He headed upstairs to the bathroom. Odie and Archie glanced at each other. They were both thinking the same thing: that was no ordinary dog.


"Do you think Cronus set Cerberus free again?" Archie asked.

"If he did, we would have known about it by now," Odie pointed out.

The two friends were down in Odie's room thinking of possibilities for the strange dog attack.

"Maybe it was a stray," Archie suggested.

Odie took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

"I really don't know. I'm at the point now where I just blame Cronus for everything."

"Like Erebus?"

The room fell silent. Odie looked over at Archie.

"Who do you blame more? Cronus? Jay? Or...me?"

"Arch, please. Not this again."

"Who do you blame for what happened?"

"I blame Erebus. Yes, Cronus told that snake about us. That's his nature. But, it was Erebus who killed all those people. Not Cronus, not Jay, not you. Erebus. It was Erebus who took control of Jay."

Archie ran his fingers through his hair. "I should have saved Jay before that happened," he said.

"Archie, it was our fault for not believing you. We could have all saved Jay by going to the gods. But, we were just glad to have Jay back safe and sound we didn't want to believe that there was anything mentally wrong with him," Odie explained. "And when we finally came to our senses, you were..."

Odie left the sentence hanging. Archie hung his head and closed his eyes. Dying wasn't fun. He knew first hand. But, it was either Theresa's life or his. And, he chose to save Theresa's life.

The Warrior looked up and scanned the room. He noticed the silver book lying on Odie's desk. He reached over and picked it up.

"Jay let me borrow it," Odie replied.

Archie flipped through the pages. Most of them were filled with ideas, random musings, complicated equations that only Odie would understand, and different project names. Archie finally came to an entry that looked promising.

Day 145,

It took many tests and many more failures, but, it looks like Operation: Silver Wolf is a success. The young girl we brought from the orphanage had very little resistance to the experiments. Although they have left her with little to no memory of who she is or what he life was like before now. From the background information we've gathered from the orphanage director, she was the only child to a successful business owner, and was last, unknown, remaining descendant of the mighty hero Perseus.

"Something wrong, Arch?"

"Looks like we've missed an important point. Selene's the descendant of Perseus," Archie said.

"But, that's impossible," Odie replied, getting up from his computer and sitting down on the bed next to Archie.

"She had her DNA messed up, Odie. Not her family tree."

Archie flipped through a few more pages.

Day 159,

The project was another complete failure. The creature is far more capable of memory than we had hoped. We have no choice but to destroy the beast and start over. I am not worried, though. The procedures are all described to the last detail withing the pages of this book.

Archie turned to the next page. It was blank. This was probably the last entry that was written before it had been stolen. Archie continued to flip the pages. Another entry appeared. But, it was in a different handwriting. More than likely it was Selene's.

Day 162,

It had been one week since this book was last opened. I could not bring myself to open its accursed pages since I escaped that horrid palce. Luckily, I was found by a nice man by the name of Hermes. He had taken very good care of me. He treats me as if I were his own child. I will be sad to see him leave. But, Hermes has promised that he has found a new home for me. I trust him with my life, so I'm sure the family he has found is very kind. I shall write again when I have settled in with my new family.

Yours truly,

Silver Wolf

"I guess Hermes told her about the experiments," Archie thought out loud.

"It would seem," Odie agreed as he finished reading.

"Do you think we should go see Hermes?" Archie asked.

"What more is Hermes going to tell us?" Odie wanted to know.

Archie closed the book. His thoughts drifted to Herry and the dog.

"Of course...I'm more worried about Herry right now."

"So am I," Odie answered, getting to his feet. "But, there's nothing we can do. We don't know where that dog came from or if it had an owner, or what."

"Well, we do know one thing," Archie said.

"What's that?"

"We can't give Cronus all the credit."


Two chapters done. This computer can co-operate when it wants to.

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