One week later, Theo's P.O.V (1st person)
Bailey and I somehow managed to rebuild our chariot from the first race we had earlier. We had it painted all nice and silver and crimson red, and my mom had even been nice enough to let us borrow her phoenixes again. Bailey and I planned to win this time, and no crazy magic birds were going to distract us. Ever since our kiss... well sort of make-session in a week ago, Bailey and I have spent a lot more time together once we got back to camp. No, we haven't snuck off to kiss at all, like you're probably thinking. We have just spent a lot of time together, becoming even closer.
We had applied the fleece to the tree earlier today, and it was working its magic. Chiron decided to have the chariot races in order to celebrate. I looked over at Percy, Annabeth and Tyson's chariot. They were allowed to team up this time. I left Bailey petting the phoenixes and walked over to them. I smiled and put my arms around the two of them while Tyson was adjusting something on the chariot.
"So, did you guys have fun almost dying again this year?" I asked playfully.
They both laughed, "Oh yeah this year was a blast. I wonder what'll almost kill us next year." Percy played.
Even Annabeth laughed and smiled her signature cute smile. "It'll probably be something dangerous, and life-threatening. I hope it's a little more of a challenge haha." She said joking for once.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Well it doesn't matter to me, as long as we stick together, there isn't anything that can take us down. Thanks for a great summer guys, but I'm sorry I'm gonna have to whoop you guys in this race." I said turning and running before they could respond,
As I was expected I had rocks tossed at me while I ran. I just laughed. I really had great friends. unlike my other 'friends'
Okay, maybe I was a little overconfident in the chariot races. Bailey and I came in second place, behind none other than Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson. I never expected their chariot to have so many gadgets and stuff on it. It was as decked out as the Hephaestus cabin. Now here I was walking around guarding camp at night, as I liked to do. It had overall been a good summer.
However I didn't wanna get to complacent since I did have on quest left still. I didn't know how dangerous sneaking into my family's tomb could be, but I wasn't taking any risks. So far in my life, nothing had ever been as simple as it seems. I was also contemplating my relationship with Bailey. I liked her of course, but my instincts that it wasn't time yet kept nagging at the back of my head. Whenever I tried to picture myself in a relationship with Bailey, the thought of multiple mysterious women with blurred faces kept nagging me. Like, seriously, what is that about?
I was just about to switch off guard duty with Conner Stoll, when a bone-chilling scream went through the air. I recognized the scream as Annabeth's and I never moved that fast in my life. Under the sun I was even faster, I knew she was guarding the tree. I made straight for the tree we had just saved. I wasn't fast enough however, when I got there a group of kids were already surrounding something. I pushed my way through, and found Percy, Riptide raised in one hand the other was around Annabeth.
"What happened!?" I asked Percy.
"Look!" He said pointing forward.
In front of us on the ground was another girl. She looked to be about 14, she had shoulder-length black hair, and a bunch of dark black punk rock things on. She had these intimidating and electric blue eyes which almost made me scared. She was beautiful and it made guilty about thinking about her like that when I was still thinking of Bailey. I went over and helped her to her feet.
"Hey are you okay?" I asked her.
She shook her head, regaining herself. "Y... yeah, I'm alright, where... where am I?" She asked. She looked at me and blushed
I looked out at the crowd of campers then back at her. "This is Camp Half-Blood, it's a camp for Demigod children. Who... who are you?" I asked her.
She looked around for a little, still beet-red then answered. "I'm Thalia, Thalia Grace, Daughter of Zeus." She said.
Oh this was just great.
"I know, I heard about your 'incident' with Hades and thought you might be a strong opponent" I said, my warrior lust creeping in.
"O-o-oh t-t-thanks and w-w-who a-are y-y-you again?" She said, stuttering and then her skin ACTUALLY CHANGE COLOR before my very eyes. I grin, thinking that this would make a fight with her more interesting.
"I am Theo Draco Lysandrian, The very first Son of Hestia and, apparently Vesta, so the guy who you Dad and Godly brothers are jealous of for some reason" I said, remembering the jealous glares I had gotten from Dad, Ares, Hermes, Zeus, and Dionysus at Olympus after the last quest. I also said Vesta in a low and whisper voice
She stopped stuttering, but all of her skin was literally the color of a red crayon, but was toning down slowly, "I have gained some abilities from being a tree because I could talk to the nymphs and learn 'skills' from them" she said getting up to leave, but I grabbed her wrist and asked "Can I fight you some time? I want a challenge and Percy is getting bored with us not being able to a worthy opponent"
She nodded, but her face started turning red again when I touched her and she started stuttering again, "S-s-s-sure."
I was trilled at having a challenge and said "Thanks" and walked off.
Words can't even describe how nice it was to be back in Minnesota. Sixty-five degrees in the middle of August, that's just the kind of weather I liked. Now you're probably thinking "Oh geez, Theo, how did you get from New York to Minnesota". A quick ride on Damien and and I were there. I really didn't know where to start. What I needed to do sounded easy enough, I needed to find a way into my family tomb. It was incredibly weird because I didn't know people even had family tombs anymore. However I did some research, and I figured out, everyone in the Lysandrian family was buried in one tomb since 1945. That must be a lot of people, I had no clue how one tomb could fit that many people.
I sat on my old bed in my old house, in my old home. I insisted to Bailey we visit it before going to the tomb, which was again, very weirdly, built in the backyard of my grand-parents mansion. It definitely wouldn't be easy to get into it, Bailey and I scoped the place out, and it had two guards stationed on it, and just to get to the two of them, the whole courtyard was filled with traps and such. What the Hades were they guarding?
Bailey came back in, she went ahead to the mansion again to scout out any weak points. She did that while I just stayed here, trying to remember a time before I learned I was a Demigod. She was sporting the special black armor the Hephaestus cabin had made for us. It was black as night, and they even made us special knock out arrows, which would simply put a target to sleep. We didn't want to hurt any mortals.
She removed her black hood so I could actually see her standing there now, thanks to the full moon reflecting of her face. "Anything?" I asked.
She nodded and smiled cheekily. "Yeah, I found a group of trees. Should be easy enough to climb them, after that we can hop down and we avoided the courtyard traps." She said with her arms crossed.
I nodded and smiled at her. "Good job B, let's get going." I said getting up.
She put a hand on my chest to stop me from leaving. "Are you sure you wanna leave? We can stay for a few more minutes if you want, the tombs not going anywhere, Torchie" She said.
I looked at my room one last time. I grabbed one thing before I left. It was a picture frame, it was a simple picture of me and my father. I didn't have any left so I grabbed it, and dropped into my black bag. I slung the bag over my shoulder, and gestured for Bailey.
"Yeah come on, we need to get going. It's time for me to get some closure." I said walking out of the room.
Bailey just nodded and followed. We exited the house and walked down the sidewalk towards my grand-parents mansion. We stayed silent, as not to attract any attention. Whenever a car came by, we ducked into some bushes. We did not want to be seen. People in this town would recognize me. Even in my night black armor, my daggers, and eyes still shone a bright crimson red color. People knew me as Ryan Johnson's crimson-red eyed son in this town. Some people even thought I was an alien. When I used to play with kids when I was little, they used to think I was an alien, or I had some kind of super powers.
I never thought that they would be proven right.
"So do you have any guesses yet as to what your little secret identity might be?" Bailey asked trying to break out science.
Little secret identity was an understatement. If the Titan Lord himself was ordering my assassination, I must secretly be a god or something. As if being the first ever son of Hestia AND Vesta wasn't enough to make the monsters drawn to me like I was catnip, I had some other secret power that everyone seemed to know about except me. Chiron knows, my Apollo who is Dad, knows, Luke knows, my mother knows, the Titan Lord Kronos himself knows. I mean it seems like everyone knows except me. It infuriates me to no end, I deserve to know what my father was keeping from me. Also, what if this secret power ever activates and I don't know how to control it! If I at least know what it is, I could attempt to learn to control it.
"No, I still have absolutely no idea what it could be. I mean I hate it that everyone else seems to know except for me." I said as we finally came into view of the mansion.
Have you ever seen Batman's mansion in those batman movies? Yeah, that's exactly what my grand-parents' house looked like. It had to be at least a three levels high. It had a huge grand entryway, with an amazing topiary garden out front. Despite it being so huge, I hated coming here when my dad used to have me come visit (forced). I learned at his funeral that they also knew I was a Demigod, and they've know since I was born. They claimed I was a freak and would only bring them bad fortune. I didn't mind, I was never big fans of my grandparents. The both of them still dressed like it was the 1950's and for some reason always smelled like sand.
"Come on the way over is this way." She told me putting her black hood back up. I did the same, but I could still see her outline from the light in the garden.
We found the cluster of trees she had told me about. She was right as usual, we easily climbed them and gracefully jumped over the fence and landed on the inside. We had avoided all the traps in the front courtyard. We peered around the side of the house to the backyard, and sure enough saw the big tomb, with the two guards standing in front.
The tomb, looked like an immaculate guest house. It must've had the entrance to the actual graves inside. We just needed to get past the guards. I nodded at Bailey who understood easily. I summoned my crimson red bow from the phoenix heads bracelet, and Bailey pulled out her jet-black one.
"I got the one on the left, you get the one on the right." She said quietly, but loud enough for me to hear her.
After another five seconds both guards were on the ground sleeping. We both ran quickly but silently over to the small house. I dragged both guards behind it while Bailey picked the lock on the door. I was right about the real entrance to the tomb being inside. It was a big wooden cellar type of door which lead down. Above it a sign read, "Here lies the great Lysandrian family". Bailey attempted to pick the lock, when she couldn't I tried as well.
My lock-pick broke and I tossed aside in frustration. "Hades! How are we supposed to get in there now!?" I yelled quietly.
"Your grand-parents must have a key in the house." She suggested.
She was probably correct so I nodded. "Yeah your right, you stay here and make sure the guards don't wake up. I'll sneak in there and find it." I told her.
She nodded her head, and she went and perched herself on a low branch of a tree in the backyard. I looked up at the giant luxurious mansion. It was time to get that key.
Getting into the house was easy enough. For some reason my grandparents had ivy vines growing down one side of their house. After a quick climb up them, I was in the upstairs hallway. The house was just as weird inside as I remembered when I was younger. It smelled of sand, and dirt. There was red wallpaper, with a weird African style carpet. I silently walked down the hallway gazing at all the pictures they had up on the walls. Most of them were of my grandparents in the desert, which desert I didn't know, but it was still weird.
It was easy to find my grand-parents' bedroom. It would be the biggest one there was. I silently crept in, completely invisible. My grand-fathers loud snores echoed throughout the room. I watched them, sleeping there in their huge king-size water bed. If I was feeling mischievous I would cut a little hole in it, but I didn't hate them that much. I spotted the key ring easy enough, it was right above my grand-dads night-stand. I quietly crept over and grabbed the ring of keys he had there.
I noticed a picture frame he had on the stand right below it. I picked it up and examined it. My eyebrows scrunched in confusion when I saw it. It was my grandparents, my father, a little me, another man and women, and two kids. We were all standing in front of what looked like to be a big monument, it was made of stone and was just a seventy foot tall monument, nothing seemed special about it.
The first person I noticed was little me, I had to be about five years old, and there I was, crimson red eyes and all. I had no clue who the people around me were, other than my father and grandparents however. The man had dark brown skin, with happy looking brown eyes, a short head of hair, and a goatee. His arm was around a very beautiful women, with fair colored skin, gorgeous caramel colored hair, she had eyes a deep shade of blue which sparkled in the desert sunlight. On the left of her were my grand-parents, my father to the right of them.
I was in-front of them, in the middle of two kids. I had my arms around them both and the three of us were smiling like we were best-friends. It was strange, by the look of me and the two kids on this picture, we seemed like absolute best-friends. However I didn't recognize them at all. I was trying my hardest, and their faces looked vaguely familiar, however I just couldn't place them.
The boy looked like the man standing in the picture, he must've been his son. He looked around my age maybe older, with curly black hair, and the same brown eyes as his father. The girl was hugging my waist and seemed a year or two younger then me maybe. Assuming the women was there mother, the girl resembled her perfectly. With the same caramel colored hair, and deep blue eyes. I tried with every brain cell in my head to remember these two! Perhaps if I couldn't figure out what my father's true identity was here, these two kids could help me, I guess I had another quest I had to complete later.
"Who could they possibly be?" I asked.
I turned the picture frame around and opened it up.
Written on the back it said.
We'll miss you, all of you. Hopefully we can meet again one day, and things can be like they were. If you ever need to find us again, Ruby's parents in London go to them and have them contact us. Hopefully the children can see each other again. – Love Julius, Ruby, Sadie, and Carter Kane.
The Kane's. I've never heard that last name before in my life. I didn't remember their children at all, Sadie and Carter, I tried my best to remember their faces, but I just couldn't. How could I possibly not remember them if we were supposedly so close? It was another question to add to my already long list. One thing I knew for sure was I needed to find these people, maybe I could get answers from them about why I didn't remember them. Also it might have been good to get two supposedly good friends back.
I carefully removed the picture from the frame. "OW, Hades!" I yelled as a stray piece of glass from the frame cut my hand.
My hand straight away went over my mouth. However I had already made the mistake of yelling.
"What! Who... who's there!" I heard my grand-father start to mumble.
I had about five seconds before he was up and ready to kill me. I remembered one thing about my grandfather, he was ex-special-forces, and he knew about twenty different ways to kill a man. I stuffed the picture into my pocket and bolted for the door to his room. I rushed out into the hall-way and made a left.
"Stop now! I will catch you whoever you are!" He shouted running behind me.
I went to turn a corner, but out of nowhere a decorative Egyptian sarcophagus scared me and caused me to stumble back!
"Ha! Caught you!" My grandfather yelled.
I turned around and I saw a long wooden pole come flying towards me! I got ready to jump out of the way, but it didn't make it to me! It just landed right in-front of me, and just stayed there in the ground. I almost laughed, I was about to get back up and run again, when the staff glowed white. It morphed and changed for a few seconds, before a fully grown snake sprang to life! It leaped at me and tried to stick me with its fangs. However the window nearby exposed the full moon, and it's almost impossible to hit me at night. I rolled out of the way and pulled out one of my dagger and slashed the snake in half.
"How the Hades did you do that!?" I yelled absolutely terrified.
My grand-father who for some reason didn't realize he was attacking his grand-son laughed. "Haha! Foolish man, you will regret breaking into the house of a magician of the First Nome!" He yelled.
Okay I was officially freaked out now. I had a hard enough time believing Greek Gods, and Demigods, and monsters were real. Now, my about seventy-plus year old grandfather was making snakes appear out of basically thing air, and was trying to say magicians were real! I could only handle so much crazy in my life. However before I could say something else, a blast of fire came my way! Just out of thin air a blast of fire came towards me!
Thankfully I was right near the steps to the bottom floor. It didn't feel very good but I tumbled down the steps just out of the reach of the fire. I stood up and dusted myself off. I ran around the back of the stairs. I heard my grandfather came down the steps. I leaned up against the stairs praying he wouldn't notice me.
I felt the blood dripping from the hand I cut myself. It dripped down the door, which I noticed was a little loose. I felt the door start to shake, it started to move, then in a second the door flipped and I was inside the staircase!
"What the Hades is this?" I asked in wonderment as I examined the small room.
There was a stone door with a big hand shaped print in the middle. The door was littered with Egyptian hieroglyphics. The whole door top to bottom was covered in them. Okay, I had absolutely no idea what this could be. I always knew my grand-parents were way into ancient Egypt, but this was a little excessive in my opinion.
"What in the world are you guys?" I asked quizzically.
I wanted to open the door somehow, to figure out what was in there. However I knew Bailey would soon become worried. Also my grand-father might make his way into the back-yard to see if everything was okay there to. So I made a mental note to come back here one day, and figure out what it was. I looked at the door that brought me, and saw a similar hand shaped print in the middle of it. I looked at my hand which was still bleeding. I placed it in the print, and again the door flipped and I was right back where I was before.
I managed to avoid my crazy snake and fire summoning grand-father and make it back to the entrance to the tomb. I motioned for Bailey that she could come out of the tree, and she jumped out jogged over to me.
"You found the keys then?" She asked.
I nodded my head. "Yeah you bet, but look at what else I found." I said taking out the picture of my family and the Kane's.
I explained to her what happened. How I snuck in, found the picture, my grandfather summoning snakes, and fire. Safe to say when I was done, she was just as freaked out as I was.
"I had hard enough time believing, Greek gods and monsters were real. Magicians though? That's a little far-fetched don't you think?" She asked as we entered the shack-entrance to the tomb.
I nodded. "Yeah, but I swear that's what my grand-father did and said. I'm more concerned about those people in the picture. The Kane's, apparently our families were good friends." I said as we tried the multiple keys on the lock.
"Yeah, and from the look of you and the two kids, you guys seemed like best-friends. You're sure you can't remember them at all?" She asked.
I shook my head. "Nope, no matter how hard I try I just can't remember any memories with them. I need to find them." I said determined.
Bailey looked up at me shocked. "Theo, I understand you must want to find them. You can't though, not now at least." She said stopping me from trying the keys.
"Why can't I?" I asked.
She scoffed and shook her head in disbelief. "You do realize that the Titan Lord himself is rising right? The world could be in danger of being taken over by the Titan's, Luke is out there right now recruiting more to his cause. You're one of the most powerful Demigods out there right now, and with this prophecy you told me about. You can't just leave Percy to fight it by himself could you?" She asked me.
"Well no, but I mean these people the Kane's I... I don't know what it is, but I just feel like I need to find them!" I said taking what my gut was saying.
"Well you don't know how long it could take you to find them. London is a big place, and you don't have any memory of them. It would be a while before you found them. Let's just get into the tomb, figure out what your father was. After that we'll deal with Kronos, and if we're still alive after that we'll find the Kane's." She promised me.
I gotta admit Bailey was smarter then I was. She had a great point, I couldn't just leave Percy to face his prophecy alone. I just nodded my head, and the next key I tried opened the door.
"Woah this is creepy and I know creepy." Bailey said grabbing onto my arm.
The way down was completely dark. You couldn't see anything at all. There was one lone torch burning at the beginning of the steps down. I carefully grabbed it, and with Bailey attached to my arm, I grabbed the torch and we started descending the stairs.
I had such an eerie feeling as we walked down. It was a really long staircase for some reason. I let out a huge breath when I saw torches at the bottom. Bailey let go of my arm and we walked through examining all the graves of my family members.
They all said the same thing, which sent shivers down my spine. It would say the person's name then after that... magician of the First Nome. I still had no idea what a magician was, or what the First Nome was, but I wasn't sure I wanted to know.
We finally reached the end... my father's grave. It said something different though. It read. "Jack Lysandrian, Magician of the 21st Nome."
"So your father was a magician?" Bailey asked next to me with her arms crossed.
I nodded my head in confusion. "Yeah, but I just wish I knew what in the Hades a magician was." I said aloud.
"I can help you with that my boy." A voice came from behind us.
Within a second Bailey and I had arrow notched in our bows and we were turned around aiming. Right there, now with his hands up, was a very large man. He had on sunglasses despite us being down underground. He was wearing a classy old style suit. He had on a top hat, and looked like a barrel shaped jazz musician. What in the world was he doing down here?
"Who are you!? Tell me right now or I swear I'll let this arrow fly!" I threatened.
He held his hands up showing us he meant no harm. "So you're the son of the great Jack Lysandrian. You like just like him you know, other than the crimson red eyes obviously." He said.
This peaked my curiosity. "You knew my father!?" I demanded.
He nodded his head, he spoke in a tough, deep, but non-intimidating voice. "Yes I knew him very well, he was my student in the 21st Nome. A very, very powerful magician, one of the most powerful I've ever seen." He told me.
"What is a magician!? And who. Are. You?" I asked.
"Oh pardon my manners, my name is Amos Kane." He said carefully extending his hand.
Kane, He was a Kane. "Kane? Tell me who these people are now!" I demanded putting away my bow and showing him the picture I took.
He looked at it and had a cold look. "Ah that's my brother Julius, his wife Ruby, and my niece and nephew, Carter and Sadie. However Ruby, she is... no longer alive." He said sounding genuinely sad.
"How did she die!?" I demanded raising my bow again.
"Well they decided it would be a good idea to release some of the Egyptian gods. They lost control of them, and she was killed." He explained.
I didn't want to believe it. Egyptian gods actually existed? It was hard enough for me to believe that Greek gods and goddesses existed still. I couldn't add Egyptian gods to the mix, it would make my head explode.
"Ha! Egyptian gods, magicians, how am I supposed to believe all this!?" I yelled.
He laughed. "Haha, you learned that Greek gods, Demigods, and monsters are real. If you believe in them what makes it so hard to believe in Egyptian gods, monsters and magicians?" He asked us quizzically.
"What do magicians do anyway? Are they children of gods like me and Theo?" Bailey pipped up from behind.
She had lowered her bow, so I decided to do the same. Amos was obviously not going to harm us. "No my dear. Legends say that in the ancient Egyptian times, every pharaoh was blessed with magical powers by the Egyptian gods. Well this isn't a legend it actually happened. Magicians are descendants of the pharaoh's, they have what we call blood of the pharaoh's, since they have this blood, they can do magic." He told us, trying his best to help us understand.
Okay, I had to admit, I could understand why Kronos was scared of my power now. So basically I had the powers of the Greek and Egyptian gods running through my body. I remember Dad saying that a Demigod like me had never been born before. If I really could control both of these bloodlines, I could see how I would be a threat to Kronos.
Why is it always me?
"But what do they do nowadays? Do they go on quest for the gods and stuff like us Demigods?" I asked him again.
He shook his head. "No. You see Egyptian gods and Greek gods are different. Your Greek gods try to keep peace in the world. While most Egyptian gods, not all, but most, want only to conquer it. So magicians nowadays do everything they can to stop them from entering the world." He explained.
I nodded my head. "And you're saying my father was one of them which makes me..." I started.
"A magician as well. You see it's different from your Demigod powers however. You don't have to use or embrace magic. You have the ability to do it however. Your Demigod powers attract monsters, so sooner or later you have to embrace them." He said.
I nodded understanding now. Dad told me, that I would need to understand and master both of my bloodlines, to save everyone I love in the challenges ahead. So ignoring this magician side of me wasn't an option. I needed to have at least some kind of understanding of it. My parents was right, I was special.
"So is it true? Am I the only ever Demigod/magician ever born?" I asked him.
He nodded his head. "Yes it's very true. Look Theo, I know that you have your problem with the Titan Lord rising. However Carter and Sadie, let's just say that they will need help soon, a lot of help. I can show you basics of controlling magic, enough to help you. However please, Sadie and Carter will need your help!" He pleaded with me.
I looked at Bailey and she nodded. I nodded at Amos. "Okay Amos, it's a deal." I told him.
My list of problems was as follows now. 1.) The Titan Lord was rising, and me and my best-friend were his main targets. 2.) I now figured out I was a magician, and I had no idea how to use any of these other powers I had. 3.) My two supposed old best-friends, would soon need my help as well.
Well I guess, it was just another day in the life of Theo Draco Lysandrian, the First Son of Hestia AND Vesta, and the first ever Demigod/magician.
I just hoped that whatever life threatening situation I got myself into, it would be slightly easier then this summer.
A/N: 85% of the 26 chapters actually belong to a story called 'First Son of Artemis' and it is a really good story, but its on wattpad. The reason I am doing this now is because I don't to get sued and I'm finish with the stuff I was using from it. Plagiarism the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. I DON'T OWN THE PARTS I USED FORM THE 'FIRST SON OF ARTEMIS' and i'm serious, go check out the First Son of Artemis
I got back to Camp and heard that Thalia got settled in and is adjusting to the new things that came out while she was 'incapacitated'. I was happy for her. Zeus was going to hold a party were all Greek entities are invited, for the succession of the quest and for Thalia being brought back to life. I had dark blue jeans that clung to me, yet had a perfect fit. The jeans rand down to some extremely expensive looking Italian shoes that were polished and black. I also had a dress shirt that had been purposely folded up at the elbows to show off my impressive forearms.
Looking at them reminded of the training Dad put me through when I was 9, but 5'5 at the hands of Master Yin and the other teachers at the Italian School of Martial Arts.
Master Yin's P.O.V
Being a Demigod must be tough on Theo and I would know because I am a son of Ares. I just hope Theo is okay. I went back to the memories he told me of his journey:
It had been a year since Theo enrolled in the Italian School of Martial Arts and he had already finished all of the classes, from hand to hand combat to swordsmanship. The hand to hand combat classes included Karate, TaeKwonDo, JiuJitsu, and some more less known styles of hand to hand. He also did Roman, Greek, Samurai, dual wield, and knight style swordsmanship. Surprisingly his favorite style of swordsmanship wasn't Japanese, it was actually traditional dual wielding. He had to settle for swords that weren't balanced correctly for him, but he still passed.
He broke all records in the school when it came to speed of completion of the classes and By the end of the year he was able to beat all of the teachers in 1 on 1 combat, in all of his classes.
After the graduation ceremony he decided it was time to move to the next place to train. After hours of research, he was finally able to find a school in Japan. He decided on Japan, because during school his language class was Japanese, making it easy for him to go there. Also, this school was famous for teaching people how to completely control your mind. This ability would prove most helpful in combat.
After Theo packed all of his stuff, he and his Dad traveled to the Japanese temple the school was located at. The temple was a classic Japanese temple. It was a large red building with a curved grey roof. It had a porch with railing that wrapped around the entire building. The building was about 10,000 square feet in total, so a good sized building.
He walked in and started his enrollment process, again. When he finished he looked at his schedule and sighed, most of his classes were self control classes, with a few combat classes. He walked over to a nearby bench and sat down. He pulled out his lab top and groaned when he looked at the web sight list. All of the web sights were in Japanese! He sighed as he and began the tedious work of typing and translating.
When he got to his first class he sat in the back of the group. There were no chairs of desks. Just mats for them to sit on. He sat down meditation style and began listening to the teacher.
Theo had been learning at the Japanese Temple for 2 years, when he finally was able to graduate. Those 2 years seemed like an eternity for Theo. Everyday he would go to the temple and meditate with the rest of his class. The meditations started out as a way to clear your mind, then evolved to turning off parts of his brain.
At the end of the 2 years, Theo was able to achieve a death trance (not unlike what when a child of Hades's Death Trance). The death trance was achieved when you turn off all the parts of your brain that you don't need, but still keep your senses on. It allowed you to be in a sleep like state, but still be able to tell everything going on around you. It also took less air consumption than sleeping, making it great if you have a low amount of air.
His version of the 5th grade is being at this school is what he says
After he mastered the death trance he stopped sleeping. It was more convenient than sleeping, it allowed you to be alert, and rejuvenate yourself at the same time. It was also good practice for if he is ever captured and put into a prison with limited air supplies.
While he was training, Theo also achieved almost complete control over his mind. He could stimulate specific parts of his brain to do many things like increase his senses, recall events perfectly, and think faster. (Look it up, its a real thing.) He could also do more things to his body like, control his heart rate, increase and decrease his internal and external body temperature (Better than before), and Theo's personal favorite, get rid of itches by thinking.
At the temple he is one of the most skilled students in its history. He learned quickly, compared to everyone else, and was able to finish in 2 years, rather than the normal 8 years. He was also able to complete the few combat classes they offered faster than anyone else in the history of the school. He mastered all of their hand to hand classes, sword classes, throwing knife/star classes, pressure-point combat classes, and stealth combat classes.
After his first year, Theo mastered his stealth combat classes, and earned the Assassin Medal of Honor. The Assassin Medal of Honor is awarded to those who can sneak up on, and get the Head Monk into a death position. The Head Monk is the owner of the temple and has mastered all Japanese styles of combat, and is considered almost invincible. It took Theo 5 tries to get the Assassin Medal of Honor.
During the graduation he was offered a position as a teacher for combat classes, but he declined saying that he is only 11-years old, turning 12 in 2 days.
He decided to go to Australia to take extreme survival classes. He had learned all combat styles he could think of, and he was still lacking in his survival skills.
He went back to his camp. It still had the dome of metal and darkness protecting it. He could keep it going without even thinking about it at this point, even though he is only 12. For the first few weeks he had a lot of trouble, and came back to a bug infested camp more than once. At the end of his first year he didn't need to think about it, and by the time he came back after graduation he could subconsciously manipulate it for his needs.
Theo told me his powers manifested in '5th-grade' and he somehow transferred all of his experience to his friend Leon in a subliminal mind transfer through the connection, link, and bond that formed in the comas that they went through, meaning they are connected through anything mentally. All the stuff that Theo went through, Leon had a dream about the same thing
He packed up all of his stuff and snow traveled to Sydney, Australia. He went to a nearby park and sat down on a bench. He pulled out his laptop, and started searching for a survival training course he could go to. After an hour of searching he finally found a suitable survival coarse. It was a year in the Australian wild, so he wouldn't have to look for a national park to stay at. It was also led by a native Australian, so he would know his way around the area. Lastly it was meant to be for experts looking to increase their knowledge a challenge, Theo wasn't an expert by any means, but he could make due, and he wanted something challenging.
The class started in 2 days, so he had some free time to go 'talk' to Leon. He found out Leon Had figured out how to subconsciously lock away EVERYTHING that Theo learned for the both of them, but he made the conditions are that only a burst of strong emotions all at once can break the seal. When Leon sealed it, he made it so that the skills keep getting stronger every 3 months. He taught Theo how to do it when Theo came back home.
It had been two days since Theo 'talked' to Leon, and the survival class was starting. He met up with 9 others and the instructor to begin. They all had large travel packs with them for the long voyage ahead.
They set off into the Australian wild to begin their 1 year journey. All of them excited to begin. Theo was especially excited to begin, after this he would have completed all of his skills training. He had no doubt in his mind the year ahead would be relatively easy for him, but it would still prove a challenge. He was the only Black person there.
They entered the wild and set up camp for the night. For their first day they worked hard trekking through the forestry wild of Australia. They had to be careful to watch for snakes and other dangerous creatures. They sat around the campfire at the center of camp and. Began to converse, they had to get to know each other if they wanted to live together for the next year.
In the morning they set out for their second day of their trip. They were all excited to really get into it.
It had been a year since Theo started his wilderness survival class in Australia, and he was one of the only three students from the starting ten. It was to difficult for the other seven, so they took a helicopter back to the city.
The three that made it back were more physically fit than when they left. They all had learned and experienced a lot in the year long trip. They all learned how to start a fire, build a camp, and hunt for food with their bare hands.
Theo excelled above the other two, and could do all three in under and hour, rather than the couple hours it took the others. His instructor was both impressed and curious of how he could do so well. He became more curious when they were attacked by a group of wild animals(monsters) and Theo dispatched them all in under a minute.
While on the trip, Theo would practice his powers in secret, so he wouldn't get rusty. He didn't learn any new abilities, not that he could, but he greatly increased his insurance while using his powers. He could at this point drain all of the the heat from a chunk of the forest and convert it into fire, then light, then back to fire. He then would return all of the heat to the forest. It was extremely draining. When he first tried he almost passed out, but by the end of the year he could do it multiple times without breaking a sweat.
His physical stamina also drastically increased. He could sprint a marathon sized distance, then run back. While he wasn't at his physical peak, he was pretty darn close.
When the three students and the instructor got back to the city they all went their separate ways. Most of them had grown pretty close, but Theo distanced himself. He knew he wouldn't see them ever again, so he tried not to get to attached to them.
When Theo left the group he went to the beach to think of what to do next. He thought about returning, but he wanted to finished his training completely before he went back. While he had mastered almost all combat skills, he wasn't at his physical peek. His stamina was great, but his strength could be better. He may be a 12-year old, but he thinks like a adult.
After a while he decided he was going to train his strength. He wouldn't go to a gym, because it wouldn't be nearly enough to increase his strength. He decided he was going to do his strength training on the bottom of the sea. All of the way at the bottom, he was going the the Mariana Trench. He was a Biokinetic, so he could stand a lot of water pressure by 'giving' himself gills, but the bottom of the Mariana Trench would still push him to his limits.
Theo grabbed all of his stuff and walked towards the water. When he reached the end of the beach, where the waves meet the sand, he kept walking. He kept walking till he was completely submerged.
He shot himself strait to the Mariana Trench using the heat in his body to go forward. When he was at the top of the trench, he could already feel the pressure, and it was a lot. He got into a meditative position and let himself sink to the bottom. On the way down, he made a mental map of the trench by sensing where the walls were with his Magnekinesis because there is metal in the ocean floor and a bit in the water. He sensed a few fish, but they all kept their distance. At this distance, they could sense he was powerful.
When he hit the bottom he opened his eyes and tried to stand up. The key word in that sentence is tried, the water pressure was so much that he couldn't stand up. The pressure is 1000x that of sea level, making it excruciatingly hard to move.
After hours of trying he was finally able to stand up. He vowed to himself that he would stay here till he could handle the pressure like it he was on the surface. When he stood up he was sore, after hours of fighting extreme pressure he was already tired. He decided to go into a death trance for a month to help his body to adjust to the new pressure.
A month later, Theo ended his death trance. He stood up with a lot less struggle. He started to walk around, checking the area out. He stretched out his body. He grimaced when he heard his back pop and crack.
He looked around and decided to make some equipment to train with down there. He used his metal powers to make a weight room, some tools to make a track, and a training room with targets and dummies. He made targets because he thought it was time he have some fun with Archery.
He started working on a track. He grabbed a plow he made. He shoved it into the ground and started to drag it behind him in a large oval. The oval he made was a mile in circumference, and had three lanes. It had a start and finish line carved into the ground.
By the time he was done with the track he was aching all over and tired beyond belief. He still wasn't used to the pressure. He went and made an metal mat, where he sat and began a new death trance.
A week later he ended the death trance and got up. When he got up he was stiff. He stretched and popped his bones. When he was done he looked around him again. All of his metal stuff had cracks and spots of rust in and on them from the intense pressure. He frowned and held out his hand. When he pointed his hand at an item the cracks and rust disappeared and the item reformed.
When he was done he walked over to the weight room. He walked over to the bench press area. He sat down and conjured an ice bar. He made two weights. He increased their density till they were one hundred pounds each. He put the weights on the bar before laying down. He began to lift the weights.
By the time he was at fifty he was already struggling. Having to constantly concentrate on the ice bar to keep it from breaking, and lifting the weights at the same time was really taxing him. He kept going till he got to one hundred benches. He turned the ice back into water and laid there for a second.
When he got up he went strait to the track he made. He was sore, but sucked it up and began to run. He ran, and ran, and ran till he couldn't run anymore. He checked how far he ran and groaned when he realized he only ran two miles. He was to tired to continue, and he hadn't even practiced archery or swords. He went over to his mat and sat down to rest.
After he finished, he subconsciously sealed EVERYTHING he had gained from being in the Marina Trench and even 'shape-shifted' ALL of the muscles, physical effects, strengths, and his whole body. He returned to his home after that.
Theo's P.O.V
I remember the seals that me and Leon put on ourselves and remembered how one day we might break them and all the 'modifications, upgrades, and adjustments' will be released and we will have some explaining to do. For now, we just decide to have some fun.