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What a psycho. No, seriously! Leto had demanded that we help her until Sakura finally agreed. Naturally, Syaoran went along with whatever she said, and so now we're stuck in damn Diamond as damn soldiers for damn idiots.
I was stuck in some room. I could see the fountain from the window, so I guess I was near the middle of the entire palace. We were being treated like kings, with a bunch of the dark-skinned guys in skirts running around after our every whim. All that was fine, really dandy, but there was a catch.
I had to share a room with that bastard Fai. Well, not really, but his room was right next to mine. And don't think I didn't know what that meant.
I was going to be driven insane.
The guy was such a pansy, he'd probably come running in screaming if he saw a mouse. Fai practically looked for excuses to piss me off. I don't care if he's been through battles, he was gonna die quickly and painfully if he even crossed the threshold.
I whirled out of my thoughts when I heard a soft footfall. I already had knives in my hands before I realized what I was doing. Slowly, I lowered my hands and grimaced at the person.
"Wheet-woo, Kuro-mino, you have great reflexes! You missed Syaoran explaining the things he said in the kitchen earlier. Must you always be such a shut in?" Fai laughed as he veritably skipped over to stand next to me. I swear there was smoke coming out of my ears.
"Don't call me names, you retard! And I've told you not to say a sound! What the hell is wrong with you?" I screamed at him. He just smiled and offered me a cup of something hot to drink.
"It's tea. You want some?" I grumbled, but took the offer. He kept talking, "Syaoran said that Leto, the woman we're staying with, is a kind of magician. She can do magic, but most everyone else in this world can't. It's a family thing."
"Family? One family, in this entire place, can do magic? You've got to be kidding me."
"Indeed not, love. Leto is not married, but she has twins. Her two parents, Coeus and Phoebe, are brother and sister. Both have power over a specific domain or element. Coeus is the Titan of Intelligence; Phoebe is the Titan of the Moon. Their parent's names were Uranus and Gaea. Gaea is Mother of the Soil, and her son, Uranus, is the god of the sky."
"Eww, that's disgusting. Gaea had two kids with her son? How'd she get him, in the first place?" I was incredulous.
"Gaea had Uranus unassisted, and she had, I believe, more than twelve children. Only six remain, however. The oldest son born of the two of them, Chronos, Titan of Time, castrated his father after a while. Uranus disappeared and eventually other of his children faded from knowledge. The remaining Titans are; Chronos and his mate/sister Rhea, Coeus and Phoebe, and Oceanus and Tethys."
"Ouch…wait, you mean that of the six tie-tens all of them married a sibling?"
"Yes. Leto's generation and younger, though, have control over many areas, and so do not call themselves Titans. They wish to spread their arms, but they can't while their parents are ruling. They are; Zeus, Leto, Iapetus, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Maia, Hermes, Dione, Aphrodite, Athena, Ares, Hephaestus, and Hebe. Zeus, it seems, gets around, and of those he has sired Apollo and Athena (though they are just babies), Hermes, Aphrodite, and countless other 'half-breeds' with the unmagical type."
Wait…so this Zeus guy had had kids with his cousins? By choice? This was all too weird. What the hell had happened? Why, oh, why wasn't I still on Japan with Tomoyo, beating wimps into twitching pulps? I was good at that.
"I've suddenly gotten a headache…" I grumbled.
"Well, keep listening. There was a prophecy made that Chronos, the leader of the Titans, would be overthrown by his son. So, every child that Rhea has born was taken to him, so he could eat it. If he has no children, the will be no plots, you see? So, in this fashion went Demeter, Hades, Poseidon, and Hestia. Rhea became angry at this, and switched her youngest, Zeus, with a rock. That rock has now been eaten like his siblings…"
"WHAT!" I screamed.
"Anyway, Zeus is now rallying to other "gods" to destroy the Titans. There, now you know, eh, darling?" He smiled at me.
Seconds later, I was fuming outside and Fai was laughing from my room. That…that pervert! Something was wrong with him. Still, he was smart, and a good ally. He had that going for him, at least.
In the garden, I nearly tripped over a little pile of princess. Picking the sleeping girl up, I glanced around to get my bearings. Fai waved at me from a window. If he was that way, then the kid's room should have been over the other way.
Thank Hadu. The less time I spent with the idiot, the me-ier I became. He made me…I dunno, change or something. Damn it.
"Kid! Hey, Syaoran! Get over here, and take care of your little girlfriend!" I yelled at the kid.
We were so screwed.
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