Cliff in Grizzlies East, State of Ambarino, 1899
As I died looking at the sky it seemed as if the light was going with me. I just hope John got to his family ,outta all this mess. Still can't believe it ended the way it did, Lenny, Sean, Hosea, all them years Dutch all them years, all for that snake Micah Bell. Guess it's too late now guess that's what I should have expected. When you do bad your whole life you can't expect to have good happen to you. Arthur closed his eyes breathing his last breath as three old ladies watch from the shadows mending and twisting a cut string. "He will do"
*gasp* Where am I? Wait am I breathing? Is this hell? I'm not sure, I woke up on the cold floor in a room that is completely white and clean with an ebony table in the middle. I walked up to the table and wiped my finger along it only to get no dust on my fingertips at all. There were two wooden chairs on opposite sides of the table, they had these strange symbols along them and they gave off a feeling as if they were made not of the mundane. As if the natural order of things were being messed with, a feeling not unlike what I felt when I first encountered Francis Sinclair at his cabin just northwest of Strawberry, east of Owanjila lake. I don't know why but all my life I have looked at the world in a peculiar way. Before I met Dutch and Hosea as a boy I would see strange things. Men with blurred faces and one eye. Strange canine like eyes peering at me from the dark. I never spoke of it I assumed I had grown out of it. Until I started having dreams...
"I see you are awake " said a man in a dark suit and bowler hat. "Wait who are you? Where am I? Is this Hell?" Arthur asked frantically" The man held up his hand. "Patience you have been chosen by fate." "Chosen? By who? What for?" I would usually not be so quick to trust the world of some strange feller I just met, but there's something about this feller. "You've been given a chance at redemption. I am Thanatos the god of death, son of Nyx and Erebus. The fates have seen your life and decided your skill set would be just the thing needed to insure the prophecy childs quest comes to fruition. To sum it all up the beings you know as the Greek gods are real. They follow the flame of the west residing in where it burns brightest. The flame moved from Greece to Rome , it was in London for a time and as of 1921 it resides in the States." "Forgive me if I seem a little doubtful this is all a lot to take in, what exactly is it you want me to do?" "You will be sent forward in time your mission is to assist Perseus Jackson in his quest to defeat Kronos afterwords your path is your own" "Who exactly is this Kronos?" "He is the King of the Titans, father or the eldest Olympians" "Mister how exactly am I to fight titans and monsters" Oh you'll find that you are going to be well equipped" He snapped his fingers and a wall of firearms and melee weapons sprung up out of the floor. "Take your pick and then we begin"