14 years had passed, and the people of Troy had rebuilt their civilisation, and their city, which they had built a wall around it, to show that they were Trojans.
Helen had given birth to a boy about 7 months after the war, whom she and Paris had named, Anton, and about a month after, Briseis gave birth to a baby girl, whom she called, Alix. Astyanax, Hector and Andromache's son, was nearly two years older than Alix and Anton, but the three of them were always found together.
One day, Alix and Anton were upstairs on the balcony overlooking the city.
"Hey look," Anton said pointing to the sea, "boats."
"I wonder where they are from." Alix said, "Should we tell your father?"
"Yeah, come on."
Anton and Alix went down to the hall, where Paris and Helen were talking.
"Dad? There are ships approaching the city. I don't know where they are from. I've never seen ships like them before." Anton said.
Paris and Helen followed Anton and Alix up to the balcony.
"They are Greek ships." Helen informed them. "I wonder what they want?"
"Let's go down and meet them. You two stay here."
The Greeks had landed and were approaching the gates of the city.
"I am Mem, King of Greece. I demand the King of Troy come forth," Yelled a man.
"What does the King of Greece want in Troy?" Paris yelled to him from the top of the gate.
"We have come to claim what Troy stole from Greece 14 years ago." Mem yelled back.
"If I remember correctly, it was Greece that attacked Troy. If anyone has stolen anything, it is Greece from Troy."
"I beg to differ, King of Troy."
"What is it that you think we have stolen from you?" Paris asked.
"You have stolen the child of Achilles from Greece, and we have come to claim him back."
"What makes you think Achilles had a child? He died before he could have one."
"The Gods themselves told me. Now give him to us, or we will come in and take him." Mem threatened.
"You will have to do more than threaten us to get inside these walls." Paris yelled back. "Now I suggest you leave Troy. I do not wish to fight with you."
"Very well, King, but I can assure you, you haven't seen the last of me." With that Mem led his men back to his ship.
"What do we do now, my Lord?" asked a man called Joseph, who was captain of the Greek army.
"We will go back to Greece. We will assemble the army and return to Troy. If the rumours are true about this child, then we will be unstoppable. Using his power, we can rule the world.!"
Paris and Helen watched as the ships sailed out to sea.
"We should tell Briseis." Helen said to Paris.
"Yes." He replied.
Helen and Paris, went to find Briseis, but Alix and Anton met up with them first.
"What did they want?" Alix asked.
Thinking quickly, Paris replied with, "directions to Greece. Do you know where your mother is Alix?"
"I think she's at the temple," Alix said.
Paris and Helen passed them and continued on to the temple to find Briseis.
"Something's going on." Anton said to Alix, "Why would Greeks need directions to their own country?"
"I don't know. Maybe we should follow them? See If they talk to my mother about it."
"Yeah. Come on, let's go." Anton said jogging out of the palace to see his mother and father enter the temple. They ran down to the temple and around the back of it so they wouldn't be spotted. As they entered they heard Paris and Helen talking to Briseis.
"What do you mean they want the child of Achilles?" Briseis asked. "How do they even know he had a child?"
"Calm down Briseis. They seem to think the Gods told them about it. But they also think his child is a boy, so at least for now she is safe." Paris motioned for them to leave the temple, sensing that Alix and Anton may be there. They walked down to the beach where it was quiet and continued to talk.
"Do you think they new we were here?" Anton asked.
"I think so. But who is this Achilles they were talking about?" Alix answered.
"I don't know. I've never heard of him before. But by the sounds of it, his child is someone your mother knows. Do you think they were talking about you Alix?"
"I don't know." Alix replied.
With that they retired back to Troy. They lay on the grass in the garden for a while, staring up at the sky. Suddenly, Astyanax appeared out of nowhere.
"Hey guys. Want to go down to the river?" He asked them.
Forgetting about what had happened earlier; Alix and Anton got up and followed him to the river. They waded and swam until sunset, when they headed back to have dinner and go to bed.
As the Trojans slept, the Greek army was approaching the city. They hid their boats and walked to the back walls of Troy. They had long ladders and used them to scale the walls. When they had entered they started to slaughter the people of Troy as they slept. Mem went to the castle with Joseph and some other men. Mem was determined to return the child of Achilles to Greece and use his power to rule the world. They entered the castle silently, and started to search.
As they were searching, A young boy climbed into the window of Alix's room, startling her awake.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"I am Jed. There are people climbing over the walls. They are killing people. I didn't now where else to come." He said, his voice trembling.
Alix rushed out of bed and looked out of the window. She saw shadows coming over the walls, shadows entering houses; she heard the echo of a scream in the distance.
"Wait here." She instructed the boy. "I'll go tell Paris." Alix ran down the corridor to Paris and Helen's room. "Paris!" she yelled as she entered the room.
Paris and Helen sat up in bed, wondering what was going on.
"We're under attack! Look out the window."
Paris and Helen looked out the window to see the city being attacked. "Helen. You and Alix wake everyone up and go down to the escape tunnel. Many people will already be there waiting for someone. I'll sound the alarm and get the army ready to fight." Paris instructed.
Paris went and rang the huge bells that resided in the top tower of the palace and went to ready himself to fight. Helen went to wake Andromache, Briseis and Astyanax, while Alix woke up Anton.
Alix and Anton were running down the hall to meet Helen and the others when Mem stepped around the corner in front of them.
"Well, well. What do we have here? A Trojan Prince and Princess? Get them." He instructed his men. Alix and Anton turned around and ran back the way they came as fast as they could. The only way to the escape tunnel was being blocked by Greeks. They had to find another way out of the city. There were three men chasing them.
"They're getting closer Anton." Alix said. "What do we do?"
"You know how we found those secret passageways?" He asked.
"Yes."
"At the end of the hall, you go left and I'll go right. Get through a passageway and I'll meet you in the room they all lead to, OK?"
"OK."
At the next turn, Alix turned left, and Anton went right. The three men behind them saw this.
"You two get the boy." Said one of the men, "I'll get the girl."
As Alix entered the room with one of the passageways in it, the man following her saw the door close.
"Ha ha ha. I have you trapped girlie." He said pressing his ear to the door and opening it slightly. He opened it wider to see Alix passing behind a carpet wall hanging. He ran to it and pulled it off the wall, but all that was there was wall.
"Must be a secret switch or something." He said to himself. Suddenly the other two men had come into the room dragging a struggling Anton between them.
"Hey? What are you doing?" They asked the man examining the wall.
"I saw her go behind the wall hanging. There must be a secret switch or something. But I suppose it doesn't matter. You got the kid Mem wanted. Let's go find him.
Alix was listening on the other side of the wall and had heard everything. She had to find Paris and tell him that Mem's men had caught Anton. When they were little, Anton, Astyanax and Alix had explored these tunnels almost everyday, so she knew exactly where each tunnel led. She ran down one of the tunnels and stopped at the end, pressing her ear against the wall to hear if anyone was there. She couldn't hear anything so she opened it and looked. It was clear. She ran down the hall and was about to turn the corner when she bumped into Mem and his men and fell backwards to the floor.
Two of Mem's men went behind her and picked her up by her arms and held her there. She looked past Mem to see Anton there.
"We meet again. I hear you are a hard person to catch." Mem said to her. "Take them back to the ship. Joseph, go and call the army back to the ships. We shall leave now that we have what we came here for."
Back at the escape tunnel, Helen, and Briseis had seen many people through the tunnel with Astyanax and Andromache at the lead.
"Where are they? They shouldn't have taken this long." Briseis was getting worried. "What if they've been captured?"
"I'm sure they're fine, Briseis." Helen tried to reassure her, but she was worried about them as well. "Look, someone is coming."
Paris emerged from the shadows. "The Greeks are leaving. They killed some people, and they don't seem to have damaged the city at all. Is everyone here alright?"
"Anton and Alix never came through, Paris." Helen said. "Did you see them at all?"
"No, I didn't. Do you think the Greeks took them?"
"Oh, I hope not." Briseis said.
"Look, you two go to the meeting room, I will send the people home, and the army men to clean up the dead bodies, and meet you there. Greece will not get away with this."
