Celebwen Telcontar: Well, is there anyone alive out there save Shagrat?
Balrog: Doesn't look like it. (Goes back to nursing his lavawhisky)
Celebwen Telcontar: That is what I was afraid of. Well, I will be getting back to the action soon. Here's another chapter, people who decide to visit and review. Or should I say person? Thank you, Shagrat, for your reviews. This chapter does have quite a bit of violence, but no sexual situations. It is still rated R for the violence though.
Severus, Kilissa, Actaeon, Deianira, Antigone, and Tithonus often visited Penelope and Telemachus, and soon Penelope was fed up with the suitors eating her out of house and home and being so rude. So, she devised a plan, and brought down Odysseus' bow and had a servant set twelve axes in a row so their heads were aligned. She then proposed a test to the suitors: whoever could string the bow and shoot an arrow through the twelve axe heads would be the person she would marry. The suitors greased the bow and warmed it to get it fully supple, and then three of them tried without success. Then, an old beggar man came in. He was bedraggled and not very becoming, and besides that, he smelled awful. He walked up to the dais, and picked up the bow.
Telemachus had the women leave the room, and go and hide in separate pantries and other rooms. The young man returned in time to see the old man bend the bow to his will with no problems, and hooked the bowstring over the horn, then picked up the now strung bow and an arrow. He knocked an arrow, pulled back on the string, aimed through the twelve axes, and released the string.
The arrow whistled through the twelve axe heads, not even brushing one as it passed through. He then picked up another arrow, and aimed at the lead suitor, and released the bow. The arrow went up into the throat of the suitor as he was drinking, mingling the red wine and the blood. The suitors backed up as Telemachus fled the room. The old man, now seen to be Odysseus, shot several more suitors until he was out of arrows. By then, Telemachus had returned, and he tossed a sword, two spears, a helm, and a shield to his father, Actaeon, Tithonus, and Severus, before the five people began to slaughter the suitors. Actaeon had the heat of battle running through his veins, and roared as he behedded a suitor and ran another through. Severus flung one of his spears, impailing a suitor who thought the former Potions Master was an easy target. Now the suitors were also armed from an unknown source, and Telemachus yanked a spear that had landed in the wall and flung it back at its caster, hitting the man in the eye and the spear burying itself in the man's skull. Tithonus almost slipped on the blood, but used the slick liquid to his advantage as a suitor was barreling towards him and slipped in the blood. He stabbed his sword into the man's back, and soon he was rendered to blowing red bubbles through his nose and mouth.
With a cry, Severus swung his sword at another suitor and disemboweled him, being careful not to trip in the dying man's entrails. His thoughts were on Kilissa as he ran a man through, her voice singing in his mind as he ran a man through. Her voice now would probably keep him sane during this slaughter, and he almost felt her hands touching his face, massaging his shoulders. He saw the vacant look in Tithonus' eyes, and thought the redhead was thinking about Deianira and Actaeon about Antigone and his infant daughter Atalanta.
Then, there were no suitors left to slaughter, and Odysseus thanked his friends, having Telemachus release the women and find out who was supplying the suitors with weaponry. It turned out to be the goatherd, and he also reported that there were quite a few women who had given themselves to the suitors. Odysseus had the errant women line up, and beheaded each of them, then decapitated the goatherd.
Kilissa ran up to Severus, and made sure that he was unharmed before throwing her arms around his lean frame, and Severus walked up to Actaeon and Tithonus, an arm around Kilissa's waist. Tithonus looked slightly murderous, but that may have been residue from the battle.
"Tithonus, Actaeon, I have to ask you something. May I have Kilissa's hand in marriage?"
Celebwen Telcontar: Well, I think I'll leave you with that Cliffhanger. What in Zeus' name will happen to Severus? What will Actaeon and Tithonus, particularly Tithonus, do to him?! Will he survive?! I would still like you to reply and tell me what you think the Dursley's should think of the new changes to Actaeon? The Weasleys to Tithonus and Kilissa? Professor Dumbledore to Severus? Yes they all will be returning to their own time, especially since we still have Voldemort on the loose. Please review. Reviews are my life blood! My breath! My food and water! Review!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
