Sorry about the mistake with chapter four, if you read it it was just a repeat of the second part of chapter 3 But it should be fixed now!
Smenzer stepped forward, hands clasped behind her back, "Well you see sir, we kind of have a problem."
It had gotten late while the cadets that remained at the ruins tried to think of solutions to their rather large problem.
"I don't think Feducious will be that easy to capture," Alayia said turning down a new cadet, Erran's suggestion.
"Yeah I know did you see how fast he ran?" Casche exclaimed.
"I know! So I'm thinking if he can run better, than he probably has more physical strength than normal," I added, as I walked around our campsite a bit. Hercules had a fire going by now and Iolaus and Neila had gone to look for food.
"Where could Neila and Iolaus be?" Hercules asked a bit worried. The two cadets had been instructed to look away from the ruins but who knew were Feducious was at the moment or how powerful he actually was.
"Well I think it's safe to bet that Neila has found food only to have Iolaus eat it while she's not looking," Celest joked though everyone thought of it as the truth rather than a joke.
"Probably," Hercules replied with a laugh.
"I definitely don't think we should split up anymore," Dracus suggested. "We either all go, or none. It's safer that way."
"I agree and since I'm in charge, hey I like the sound of that!" Garen admitted with a chuckle. "We will each have watch in shifts, two at a time as so no one is alone."
"I just thought of something!" Alayia exclaimed. "Do you remember that spell or what have you Feducious said before running off. Well it might be able to tell us what we need to know. Does anyone remember it?"
""Let past be present, let present be past.
This time I will not go, this time my life will last.
I gave my life and one more will take my place.
Forever living and dying continuing the race.
My life I did give, my life I did provide.
In change for that I will exchange the mind.
Body from body bring soul to soul,
My life has ended, now it shall begin and I shall be whole"
Everyone looked to turn, shock written on their faces, at Celest who was now smiling happily at having remembered what Fiddle Face had said word for word. Being a goddess did have lots of advantages after all!
"Well he said 'let past be present, let present be past' Could that have anything to do with the fact that sacrifices used to take place here a long time ago?" I asked thinking to myself.
"I think your on to something sis!" Dracus exclaimed. "I think your right plus the next line says something like 'this time my life will last'"
"If Mimma was here she would know how to decipher it," Casche said thinking about the young sorceress.
"Now all we have to do is figure out what it plans to do to get it's life back," Hercules spoke.
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After Smenzer had explained the whole situation to Cheiron, he was very concerned for the safety of all the cadets as well as Garen and Feducious himself.
"I've heard about this kind of thing before. The spirit posses the person. Now we have to figure out what the spirit plans to do." Cheiron said.
"Well we know he plans to sacrifice someone. Whether it's Feducious or someone else I don't know," Jason added.
"According to the spell he spoke, he plans to sacrifice someone else, if he succeeds then he can stay in Feducious' body and live his life. If not he must return to where he came from. It can only happen something like every 200 summers so I think he's desperate," Mimma explained to everyone.
Ares looked around and crossed his arms, "Now what are we waiting for let's go save those cadets!"
"Well it's the middle of the night they are probably all sleeping by now. Besides it will be easier to find Feducious in the light," Cheiron suggested "Why don't you cadets get some sleep and we'll leave at dawn."
"I'll be back to dawn and we will leave no later," Ares said and with that he popped out of Cheiron's quarters.
"Good night cadets, see you in the morning"
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I offered to go on first watch, and was joined by Iolaus who had returned with some food a couple of hours earlier. Celest of course was right and he had eaten most of the food. We we're talking quietley as to now awake the other cadets.
"I always knew there was something a little off with old Fiddle-Face but I never suspected something like this!" Iolaus confessed.
"I know your right," Casche said as she laughed out loud. "I hope they return with Cheiron soon....real soon"
"I know but who knows it will take a centaur to travel those tiny pathways we went through before."
"Good point, they probably won't be here for at least another day. I just hope we don't have anymore unusual meetings with Feducious."
As if on cue, an eerie silence spread over our campsite. Before at least Hercules' snoring and Dracus' mumbles could have been heard. Now, nothing could. A complete and utterly terrifying silence that sent chills down Casche's spine.
"Did you hear that? the young woman asked anxiously.
"No I didn't hear anything," Iolaus responded, a bit of worry in his voice thinking that his companion was going crazy.
"Exactly!" she exclaimed standing up, dagger in hand "It's too quiet. Something's up and I want to know what!"
With that she started heading towards the nearby woods with Iolaus running at her heels, struggling to keep up.
"Casche! Wait! We shouldn't leave them they are defenseless all sleeping like that!" he exclaimed losing some of his breath while trying to watch out for fallen branches.
"I'm sorry but I can't sit around here and wait for him for get us!" she said turning to face the young hunter, determination in her eyes. "Your right we can't leave them defenseless like that, that's why your going back to continue the watch!"
"Oh no! I'm not letting you run off like that. He's dangerous I know your anxious but we have to work together to stop this," he said eyes pleading.
"Alright, I'll go back,"
The two walked back to find everything as they left it and the sleeping cadets none the wiser. Hercules resumed his snoring and all seemed right. Eventually Alayia awoke and her and another cadet named Andros took over the watch.
Dawn approached steadily as the cadets began to awaken one by one. At the Academy, Ares was impatiently waiting outside Cheiron's door. Eventually the teacher, the god and the three cadets managed to rendezvous together outside the Academy walls. Back at the ruins, even Iolaus had managed to get up....without anyone's forcing, as he was accustomed to. The cadets has just started to eat their breakfast when they were startled, surprised and relived all at once.
"Your back!" Iolaus exclaimed and ran up to hug Mimma. All the cadets did the same hugging their friends. In reality they had not even been gone in a day, thanks to Ares helping with their travel. None of the cadets seemed to notice Ares presence right away. We were all more happy to see them back we hadn't even noticed that they 'popped' in on us, so to speak. Celest was the first to recover and ran over to the god of war our father.
"Dad! What are you doing here?" she exclaimed.
"Well I saw what was happening and couldn't let my two daughters alone in this type of trouble," he replied, brushing away one of Celest's ringlets.
"Well I'm glad you came," I spoke up, walking a bit closer to my father.
He nodded and the three of us turned to look at the rest of the cadets who were now staring.
"Nothing to see here!" my sister told the other cadets.
Though instinct told Hercules not to trust his half-brother but he had tried his best to get used to seeing his enemy with his two daughters. After watching the three of us getting reacquainted Hercules found that he couldn't take it much longer. The young demigod stormed off and was followed closely by Garen.
"Hey man everything ok?" the young teacher asked as he caught up with one of Zeus' sons.
"I don't know Garen, I mean yeah lately Ares has been helping us out but I don't know. I still can't bring myself to trust him
"That's understandable. I mean he is usually trying to kill you," Garen said cracking a smile and receiving on in return from Hercules. "Just try and stay out of his way. We don't want you to fighting each other and Feducious running around capturing people now do we? Plus we know it will only upset Celest and Ashley. And we don't want that do we?"
"Your exactly right! Exactly," Hercules said shaking his head as his long blonde hair fell in front of his face.
"Now I know I haven't been teaching here that long, so tell me if I'm wrong but all these girls at the Academy, there's just something about them I can't explain. Yeah I know I'm older than all of them, but wow but some of them....wow," the blonde haired teacher said, or attempted to say.
"Boy do I know exactly what you mean," the prince of Corinth said walking up between the two men talking.
"Exactly what who means? What? When? Who? Where? What'd ya say Jase?" Iolaus said obviously tongue tied and having his brain not connecting properly to his mouth as usual.
"We were just talking about some of the girls at the Academy," Hercules explained to his friend.
"Like Neila," Iolaus started. "She's what the only female son of Zeus, so that's why he made her immortal. Almost as tough as Hercules here. Yet she's ten times more graceful and one of the nicest cadets. I love the way her hair shines in the sun. A beautiful half-goddess if I ever did see one."
"Yeah like Lilith too. Wow I wish she could have come on this trip. Not only is she funny, but she's pretty too. Look at what she started. She was strong enough to be the first female cadet and now there are almost as many girls as guys. She out up with all our stuff alone," Jason spoke, drifting into his own thoughts.
"Yeah and Alayia, boy is she a fire cracker. Her eyes, oh wow. They are almost the color of ice...but they are blue too. They are just to unbelievable for words. I love talking to her, its so easy she makes it so easy. And what a fighter she is, its hard to believe she came to the Academy not so long ago" Hercules exclaimed.
"Casche is a goddess now. When she came here she was just half-wood nymph now she's the goddess of Nature! I have never seen her as happy as when Carey was here before though. They made such a great couple. He's a good guy too bad he had to go back to the future. And what a voice!" Garen added.
"Celest's a goddess too. But now she's always been. It's hard to imagine she's in charge of all those stars. I guess all goddess' are beautiful though right? But wow her hair is gorgeous, all those long ringlets. I've never seen hair that beautiful unless you count...well mine," Iolaus said running a hand through his hair.
"Smenzer is a new cadet but she has fit in perfectly here. She's so nice, so trusting. Everything she tells me amazes me, she has lived the most remarkable life. Smenzer isn't afraid of anything. I wish I could be like that. Almost perfect that girl is huh, pretty, smart, trusting, nice, she's everything" Jason explained.
"Don't forget Mimma. Now she has amazing hair, that one blue streak, now that is just amazing. It's hard not to stare at her, in a good way that is," Hercules chuckled. "Some of those spells she can do fascinate me. She can send people to the future and what not...she ahs so much skill its amazing."
"Alright now I don't know but there is just something about Ash. I just look into her eyes and it seems everything is going to be alright. I can't explain it but that's what it feels like," Garen confessed, his own eyes glazed.
The seven above mentioned girls giggled uncontrollably once they realized these guys really appreciated them and regarded them so highly. And to the fact that the boys had no idea they were there and listening intently. The knew the guys liked them they just never know they had appreciated them till now. They were still listening to their conversation when Dracus came up from behind them.
"What are you girls doing?" He asked loudly so that Hercules, Jason, Iolaus and Garen turned to see the seven girls sitting there looking guilty and immediately knew they had heard the whole thing.
"That's it you little eavesdroppers your gonna get it!" Hercules exclaimed as he chased after them.
That was the most fun we had fun at any point in this whole trip. The adventure there was treacherous, but not even the most daring found fun in that. Then when the rest of the cadets went to the ruins, Feducious spazzed out. And the rest of the time everyone was too worried to have any fun. Yet now they were really having a good time. A little fun in a situation full of uncertainty.
*A/n - I wasn't going to add that last part but after spending some time with my 19 year old brother and his friends I discovered they actually talk like that! I just changed the names and things a bit lol Hope you enjoy this please r/r Well you did the first "r" now do the second! please!
Smenzer stepped forward, hands clasped behind her back, "Well you see sir, we kind of have a problem."
It had gotten late while the cadets that remained at the ruins tried to think of solutions to their rather large problem.
"I don't think Feducious will be that easy to capture," Alayia said turning down a new cadet, Erran's suggestion.
"Yeah I know did you see how fast he ran?" Casche exclaimed.
"I know! So I'm thinking if he can run better, than he probably has more physical strength than normal," I added, as I walked around our campsite a bit. Hercules had a fire going by now and Iolaus and Neila had gone to look for food.
"Where could Neila and Iolaus be?" Hercules asked a bit worried. The two cadets had been instructed to look away from the ruins but who knew were Feducious was at the moment or how powerful he actually was.
"Well I think it's safe to bet that Neila has found food only to have Iolaus eat it while she's not looking," Celest joked though everyone thought of it as the truth rather than a joke.
"Probably," Hercules replied with a laugh.
"I definitely don't think we should split up anymore," Dracus suggested. "We either all go, or none. It's safer that way."
"I agree and since I'm in charge, hey I like the sound of that!" Garen admitted with a chuckle. "We will each have watch in shifts, two at a time as so no one is alone."
"I just thought of something!" Alayia exclaimed. "Do you remember that spell or what have you Feducious said before running off. Well it might be able to tell us what we need to know. Does anyone remember it?"
""Let past be present, let present be past.
This time I will not go, this time my life will last.
I gave my life and one more will take my place.
Forever living and dying continuing the race.
My life I did give, my life I did provide.
In change for that I will exchange the mind.
Body from body bring soul to soul,
My life has ended, now it shall begin and I shall be whole"
Everyone looked to turn, shock written on their faces, at Celest who was now smiling happily at having remembered what Fiddle Face had said word for word. Being a goddess did have lots of advantages after all!
"Well he said 'let past be present, let present be past' Could that have anything to do with the fact that sacrifices used to take place here a long time ago?" I asked thinking to myself.
"I think your on to something sis!" Dracus exclaimed. "I think your right plus the next line says something like 'this time my life will last'"
"If Mimma was here she would know how to decipher it," Casche said thinking about the young sorceress.
"Now all we have to do is figure out what it plans to do to get it's life back," Hercules spoke.
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After Smenzer had explained the whole situation to Cheiron, he was very concerned for the safety of all the cadets as well as Garen and Feducious himself.
"I've heard about this kind of thing before. The spirit posses the person. Now we have to figure out what the spirit plans to do." Cheiron said.
"Well we know he plans to sacrifice someone. Whether it's Feducious or someone else I don't know," Jason added.
"According to the spell he spoke, he plans to sacrifice someone else, if he succeeds then he can stay in Feducious' body and live his life. If not he must return to where he came from. It can only happen something like every 200 summers so I think he's desperate," Mimma explained to everyone.
Ares looked around and crossed his arms, "Now what are we waiting for let's go save those cadets!"
"Well it's the middle of the night they are probably all sleeping by now. Besides it will be easier to find Feducious in the light," Cheiron suggested "Why don't you cadets get some sleep and we'll leave at dawn."
"I'll be back to dawn and we will leave no later," Ares said and with that he popped out of Cheiron's quarters.
"Good night cadets, see you in the morning"
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I offered to go on first watch, and was joined by Iolaus who had returned with some food a couple of hours earlier. Celest of course was right and he had eaten most of the food. We we're talking quietley as to now awake the other cadets.
"I always knew there was something a little off with old Fiddle-Face but I never suspected something like this!" Iolaus confessed.
"I know your right," Casche said as she laughed out loud. "I hope they return with Cheiron soon....real soon"
"I know but who knows it will take a centaur to travel those tiny pathways we went through before."
"Good point, they probably won't be here for at least another day. I just hope we don't have anymore unusual meetings with Feducious."
As if on cue, an eerie silence spread over our campsite. Before at least Hercules' snoring and Dracus' mumbles could have been heard. Now, nothing could. A complete and utterly terrifying silence that sent chills down Casche's spine.
"Did you hear that? the young woman asked anxiously.
"No I didn't hear anything," Iolaus responded, a bit of worry in his voice thinking that his companion was going crazy.
"Exactly!" she exclaimed standing up, dagger in hand "It's too quiet. Something's up and I want to know what!"
With that she started heading towards the nearby woods with Iolaus running at her heels, struggling to keep up.
"Casche! Wait! We shouldn't leave them they are defenseless all sleeping like that!" he exclaimed losing some of his breath while trying to watch out for fallen branches.
"I'm sorry but I can't sit around here and wait for him for get us!" she said turning to face the young hunter, determination in her eyes. "Your right we can't leave them defenseless like that, that's why your going back to continue the watch!"
"Oh no! I'm not letting you run off like that. He's dangerous I know your anxious but we have to work together to stop this," he said eyes pleading.
"Alright, I'll go back,"
The two walked back to find everything as they left it and the sleeping cadets none the wiser. Hercules resumed his snoring and all seemed right. Eventually Alayia awoke and her and another cadet named Andros took over the watch.
Dawn approached steadily as the cadets began to awaken one by one. At the Academy, Ares was impatiently waiting outside Cheiron's door. Eventually the teacher, the god and the three cadets managed to rendezvous together outside the Academy walls. Back at the ruins, even Iolaus had managed to get up....without anyone's forcing, as he was accustomed to. The cadets has just started to eat their breakfast when they were startled, surprised and relived all at once.
"Your back!" Iolaus exclaimed and ran up to hug Mimma. All the cadets did the same hugging their friends. In reality they had not even been gone in a day, thanks to Ares helping with their travel. None of the cadets seemed to notice Ares presence right away. We were all more happy to see them back we hadn't even noticed that they 'popped' in on us, so to speak. Celest was the first to recover and ran over to the god of war our father.
"Dad! What are you doing here?" she exclaimed.
"Well I saw what was happening and couldn't let my two daughters alone in this type of trouble," he replied, brushing away one of Celest's ringlets.
"Well I'm glad you came," I spoke up, walking a bit closer to my father.
He nodded and the three of us turned to look at the rest of the cadets who were now staring.
"Nothing to see here!" my sister told the other cadets.
Though instinct told Hercules not to trust his half-brother but he had tried his best to get used to seeing his enemy with his two daughters. After watching the three of us getting reacquainted Hercules found that he couldn't take it much longer. The young demigod stormed off and was followed closely by Garen.
"Hey man everything ok?" the young teacher asked as he caught up with one of Zeus' sons.
"I don't know Garen, I mean yeah lately Ares has been helping us out but I don't know. I still can't bring myself to trust him
"That's understandable. I mean he is usually trying to kill you," Garen said cracking a smile and receiving on in return from Hercules. "Just try and stay out of his way. We don't want you to fighting each other and Feducious running around capturing people now do we? Plus we know it will only upset Celest and Ashley. And we don't want that do we?"
"Your exactly right! Exactly," Hercules said shaking his head as his long blonde hair fell in front of his face.
"Now I know I haven't been teaching here that long, so tell me if I'm wrong but all these girls at the Academy, there's just something about them I can't explain. Yeah I know I'm older than all of them, but wow but some of them....wow," the blonde haired teacher said, or attempted to say.
"Boy do I know exactly what you mean," the prince of Corinth said walking up between the two men talking.
"Exactly what who means? What? When? Who? Where? What'd ya say Jase?" Iolaus said obviously tongue tied and having his brain not connecting properly to his mouth as usual.
"We were just talking about some of the girls at the Academy," Hercules explained to his friend.
"Like Neila," Iolaus started. "She's what the only female son of Zeus, so that's why he made her immortal. Almost as tough as Hercules here. Yet she's ten times more graceful and one of the nicest cadets. I love the way her hair shines in the sun. A beautiful half-goddess if I ever did see one."
"Yeah like Lilith too. Wow I wish she could have come on this trip. Not only is she funny, but she's pretty too. Look at what she started. She was strong enough to be the first female cadet and now there are almost as many girls as guys. She out up with all our stuff alone," Jason spoke, drifting into his own thoughts.
"Yeah and Alayia, boy is she a fire cracker. Her eyes, oh wow. They are almost the color of ice...but they are blue too. They are just to unbelievable for words. I love talking to her, its so easy she makes it so easy. And what a fighter she is, its hard to believe she came to the Academy not so long ago" Hercules exclaimed.
"Casche is a goddess now. When she came here she was just half-wood nymph now she's the goddess of Nature! I have never seen her as happy as when Carey was here before though. They made such a great couple. He's a good guy too bad he had to go back to the future. And what a voice!" Garen added.
"Celest's a goddess too. But now she's always been. It's hard to imagine she's in charge of all those stars. I guess all goddess' are beautiful though right? But wow her hair is gorgeous, all those long ringlets. I've never seen hair that beautiful unless you count...well mine," Iolaus said running a hand through his hair.
"Smenzer is a new cadet but she has fit in perfectly here. She's so nice, so trusting. Everything she tells me amazes me, she has lived the most remarkable life. Smenzer isn't afraid of anything. I wish I could be like that. Almost perfect that girl is huh, pretty, smart, trusting, nice, she's everything" Jason explained.
"Don't forget Mimma. Now she has amazing hair, that one blue streak, now that is just amazing. It's hard not to stare at her, in a good way that is," Hercules chuckled. "Some of those spells she can do fascinate me. She can send people to the future and what not...she ahs so much skill its amazing."
"Alright now I don't know but there is just something about Ash. I just look into her eyes and it seems everything is going to be alright. I can't explain it but that's what it feels like," Garen confessed, his own eyes glazed.
The seven above mentioned girls giggled uncontrollably once they realized these guys really appreciated them and regarded them so highly. And to the fact that the boys had no idea they were there and listening intently. The knew the guys liked them they just never know they had appreciated them till now. They were still listening to their conversation when Dracus came up from behind them.
"What are you girls doing?" He asked loudly so that Hercules, Jason, Iolaus and Garen turned to see the seven girls sitting there looking guilty and immediately knew they had heard the whole thing.
"That's it you little eavesdroppers your gonna get it!" Hercules exclaimed as he chased after them.
That was the most fun we had fun at any point in this whole trip. The adventure there was treacherous, but not even the most daring found fun in that. Then when the rest of the cadets went to the ruins, Feducious spazzed out. And the rest of the time everyone was too worried to have any fun. Yet now they were really having a good time. A little fun in a situation full of uncertainty.
*A/n - I wasn't going to add that last part but after spending some time with my 19 year old brother and his friends I discovered they actually talk like that! I just changed the names and things a bit lol Hope you enjoy this please r/r Well you did the first "r" now do the second! please!