No one knew just exactly how we were going to stop Feducious but one thing was certain. We had to find him...and soon. No one knew what he was planning to do. Whether is be sacrificing himself, or someone else. We couldn't let that spirit take Feducious from us. After all, then who would we make fun of! The cadets had been fooling around with each other when Cheiron and Ares approached.

"Alright, Ares and I have come up with a plan," the headmaster said, sending a glance towards his new teammate "We know that he is the ruins somewhere and we are going to split up into two groups. Half of you will be with me and half of you will be with Ares. Ok, Garen, Alayia, Ashley, Andros, Smenzer, Celest, Dracus and Jason will go with Ares. So Erran, Hercules, Iolaus, Kapper, Mimma, Neila and Casche will go with me. Any questions? Good...Let's go"

We all began walking together towards the ruins. You could tell everyone was worried what was going to happen. There was no way to tell what kind of powers Feducious had now. But there was only one way to find out, and that was to find the man himself.

"What was this school thinking taking you cadets on this trip in the middle of nowhere. And they were actually surprised something went wrong? I can't believe I'm sending you two here!" Ares complained as his two daughters rolled their eyes.

"Hey did you forget something? You don't send me here! I pay my tuition from my job!" I retorted.

"Yeah and mom decided I was going here remember!" Celest said, talking about her mother, Aphrodite. "You only recently stopped attacking the Academy."

"That's beside the point!" Ares responded not to happy at being proven wrong by his own daughters.

"They go here because it's a good school. They need to learn how to defend themselves, they obviously aren't learning from anyone else." Jason said, hate filling his voice.

"Do you think I care that your the King of Corinth?" Ares said advancing towards the young monarch,

"Do you think I care that your the god of war?" Jason asked, standing his ground.

"Alright cool it you two," Garen said coming between them. Save it for later."

Both reluctantly agreed but not before shooting death glances towards each other.

""I can't take this!" I exclaimed walking away. "Why do they all have to fight? Feducious is out there doing Zeus knows what and all they can do is bicker. And now I'm talking to myself!"

"At least no one interrupts," Garen said catching up to me. "That's the way I always think of it at least."

"Yeah I guess that's a good way to think of it," I said smiling.

" Don't worry about all them. You got to give them all time. They've had a rough past together. They've got to have more time to chill."

"Your right, I just wish they'd hurry up I don't think I can take it much longer! I feel like pulling out my hair."

"I know how you feel don't worry. When I was growing up my father never seemed to get along with my older brother. They were always fighting about what he should do with his life. Till one day my brother just up and ran away. I haven't seen him in 5 summers. It's horrible," Garen confided.

"That's awful. I'm sorry," I said putting a comforting arm around his shoulders.

"It's alright. I'll tell you more about it later. If that's ok. I've never talked about it before. I don't even know how to express my feelings about it vocally ya know"

"Yeah no problem. Once this whole thing is over we will have lots more time to talk."

"So what do you think is going to happen with Feducious?"

"I don't know but it looks like we won't have to wait long," I said as I looked up and saw Feducious walking calmly towards our group.

"No one do anything drastic ok. We'll handle this calmly and let him make the first move," Ares instructed us.

"You should have left when I gave you the chance!" Feducious threatened as he advanced on our group. Cheiron and his group was long gone and had no idea we had found our teacher. "Now one of you will pay. Now let's see which one should I take? Oh wait why settle for just one!"

With that Feducious raised both his arms and that's all the cadets could remember before the world around them went black.

Alayia was the first to awaken and couldn't quite remember what had happened. She sat up, and immediately closed her eyes and put her throbbing head in her hands. She could not remember ever having a worse headache. Suddenly the reality of what had just happened hit her. She looked around nervously and noticed all her companions unconscious close to her. Even the mighty god of war had been knocked out by whatever Feducious had done. As she frantically searched around it seemed as if the search party had decreased.

"One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six," Alayia counted frantically as Ares and Garen began to awaken." I can only count six! I can only count six!"

"Alayia calm down," Garen said sitting up slowly an placing his own head in his large hands.

"Not so loud please," Ares said angrily "What happened?"

"They're gone! He took them! That's what happened! We have to do something!" Alayia shouted by now the rest of the cadets had slowly awoken and we're beginning to notice what Alayia had.

"What? Who's gone?" Garen asked surprised. Whatever Feducious had done had hit him the worst. "Where are we anyways? What's going on?"

"Ash! Jason! They're gone!"

"Where?"

"Garen are you all right?" Smenzer asked concerned. "You look kind of pale and your obviously confused."

"I'm fine," he lied. His head was pounding and he didn't remember anything since before Ares arrived but he did remember Feducious was possessed and that Alayia had just said Ash and Jason were gone.

"He took my daughter, now he is going to pay," Ares fumed, his fists clenched. He was mad that a fat old man, let alone a mortal, had managed to knock him out, then taken his daughter

"Dad, don't worry," Celest said grabbing onto her father's hand. He eased at his daughter's gentle touch. "Let's just worry about getting Ashley and Jason safe. We can't hurt Feducious, it's not really him doing this."

"She's right," Alayia added. "All we can do right now is concentrate on finding the others."

"Ok everyone come close we're going to go let Cheiron know about this," Ares instructed.

All the cadets immediately came closer to each other and to their teacher as well as the god of war. Before they knew it they had been transported to Cheiron and his group of students.

"Did you find him?" Neila asked excitedly as she glanced at the group, not noticing that they were now two short.

"Wait a minute, where are Jason and Ash?" Hercules asked worriedly.

Everyone looked around nervous, not willing to be the first to speak. Cheiron looked angry but not as angry as Hercules did. His eyes fumed. *Somehow this is Ares fault* he thought angrily and he was going to find out just how it was.

"What happened?" Casche asked, her voice shaken. "Why won't anyone tell us what happened?"

"We saw Feducious," Garen began hoping that someone else would share the rest of the information as he didn't really remember it.

"His powers are strong, he even managed to knock me out with whatever his did," Ares added.

"That's not so hard," Hercules sneered.

"Save it you two," Cheiron advised. He did not feel like dealing with Hercules and his half-brother's fighting at a time like this.

"Well anyways, He lifted his hands up and then we must've all some how gotten knocked out. I don't even know how long we were out but what I do know is when we woke up they were gone, and I'll give you three chances to guess who took them and the first two don't count," Alayia informed.

"And we have no idea where he took them," Smenzer added.

"Well he must have gone some place closer inside the ruins, remember his main goal has got something to do with a sacrifice and since he has taken two captives it seems like it has something to do with him sacrificing others and not himself," Mimma theorized.

"So what are we waiting for?" Alayia asked " Let's head for the ruins!"

When the world first came back into focus the light was so strong I almost wished I could will myself to go back into darkness. I couldn't remember my head hurting this much before in my life. I didn't even have enough strength to open my eyes, let along move.

A loud groaning on my left forced me to open my eyes. I had no idea who or what it was but whatever it came from seemed to be in pain. When I sat up, I suddenly realized that I was in some sort of a cage. The groaning had not stopped and I finally realized who it was coming from. The person was in a separate cage but it was directly next to my own. They were slumped up against the side that was adjacent with my own side.

"Jason, are you all right?" I asked as I crawled closer to the prince, from where I was I could not tell if he was awake or not. "Jason please," I pleaded as I put my hand on his cheek. He was not awake but seemed to be having some sort of a nightmare or something.

It finally hit me where we were. I remembered Feducious coming to us and then him lifting his arms. I wondered if the others were all right and what he had done to them. *They can't be dead, can they?* I wondered as the previous events swirled throughout my mind.

*Feducious lifted his arms and bolts of energy shot out of them. Everyone except for Jason and I were hit. Fiddle Face's evil laugh was all that could be heard as he told us of his plan. He swung his arms around again and the wind picked up. Jason struggled walking towards me when all of the sudden he fell to the ground in pain, clutching his left shoulder. Feducious raised another hand and he was picked up and thrown farther away. I started towards him and thats when the rain began. Then the world began to spin feverishly till all went black*

I winced at the memory I had no idea what Fiddle Face had done to Jason but I only wished he would wake up and I would know he was all right.

"Jason come on wake up," I said shaking him. Whatever he was dreaming about was scaring him and I wanted to help, though I wasn't sure if I could.

"Ash is that you?" Jason asked weakly as he began to regain consciousness.

"Yeah Jase it's me don't worry," I said as I gave his hand a quick squeeze hoping to reassure him. "I don't know where we are or where Feducious is but everyone has got to be looking for us by now, I hope. Hey how's your shoulder? What did he do to you?"

"I don't know what he did but all I could feel like my bones were breaking it was horrible. But right now it's all right I guess. It's throbbing but not broken or anything so I guess that's good right?" he said with a laugh, trying to make the best of the dire situation we were now in. "I guess all we can do now is wait."

"I'm sick of waiting! This 'spirit' or whatever that's possessed Feducious is a coward! He can only take us by using his powers. I won't let this god be given any powers by sacrificing us. I won't let my life end that way."

"We'll just have to see about that now will you my dear," Feducious sneered as he approached our cages. "My little pets all snug in their cages? You two should be honored that your going to be sacrificed to the great god, Ackros in his honor. I only need one sacrifice to bring him back, but the second one will unleash the evil he was banished for. My spirit was sent to find a body to help and this old man was the first one I came across. Now the question is will you go willingly or will I have to use force on the two of you?"

"We will never let ourselves be sacrificed to you or some powerless god!" Jason spat.

"He may be powerless now but once he returns to power you will be praying that you are on his side young one."

"Now which one should go first? Well neither one of you actually have parents. Well you have one but he could care less about you after all how many other kids do you think he has. A prince would be missed a lot more than just some peasant girl,"

"She's a lot more than just some peasant girl. Don't you dare say one disrespectful world about her or so help me I will not be responsible for my actions," Jason threatened.

"Don't test me boy!" Feducious yelled and sent out a light beam towards the young monarch causing him to yell out in pain.

"Stop it!" I yelled. "Alright, if I sacrifice myself, will you let Jason go and stop hurting him?"