All I could do was stare. He was here, and he'd seen me kiss-well, almost,- a man.
"Um, hi Father." Cyrus rolled off me and stared at him, his mouth dropping open.
"Y-Your father?" I nodded.
"Yeah, that's him."
"But-but he's so young!" I sighed. Same reaction every time. I'm not going to tell you about that.
Really, I'm not.
I mean it.
Anyways, father stepped down the steps, looking directly at me. "What in the name Olympus do you think your doing?"
All right, you know Pallas? She introduced me to a sweet guy whom I really liked. Well, Papa paid as a visit and scared him witless. He thought he was my lover. How sick is that?
You see, he caught us kissing and that was when he first met Pallas. She just stared, awed at his beauty, and he stared in outrage and shock. So did the guy…
What? Don't look at me like that! I just
Well, there was that time with-
Never mind! You do not need to know that!
"Hey Cyrus, can you give me some room with my father so I can talk to him?" Cyrus nodded, still to astonished to speak. He walked to the other side without a word.
"Hey Father, It's been a while. How's Hera?" For a moment he stared.
"Aren't you going to give me a hug?" It was the first time he'd asked me that. I guess there's a first time for everything.
I gave him his hug, and he held on for a second. I stepped back.
"What's going on? I heard some disturbing rumors." He looked away, fidgeting ever so slightly.
"It's nothing." I glared at him.
"I don't think so, the truth, stat." He stepped forward and reached out.
"Athena, listen to me."
"I'll listen to you tell me what's going on. Now I want the facts." His expression turned ugly and a blade slid from his sleeve, he brought it down, ready to kill.
"Minerva!" Cyrus knocked him down. The two were rolling around, fighting to the death. I grabbed my shield and brought down on Father's head.
He slumped, unconscious. Cyrus rolled away and stood up. I was in shock. I'd just hit my father!
"Oh no! What have I done!" I began pacing, scared of what would happen when he woke up.
"Um, Minerva, does your father have six toes?" I blinked.
"No, why?"
"Well, he does, on both feet." I choked, another specter? Now what?
"So what do you want to do?"
"Let's see if we can get him out of here." Cyrus nodded and lifted him on his back.
We walked in silence, mainly so we wouldn't attract any unwanted attention. When we got back to my cabin, it had been burned down. I gasped at the sight, grateful I'd had everything irreplaceable with me.
"Minerva, I'm so sorry." He dropped the specter and came to my side pulling me close. He smelled good, beneath the blood and sweat. It wasn't really sandle wood, but a little sweeter. I breathed deep, his smell surrounding me.
"Thanks." I pulled away, not wanting to fall completely under his spell.
The specter groaned behind us, standing. "What happened?"
"Awake already?" I kneeled by him and looked him in the eye. "Why don't you tell me why you attacked me?"
He glared angrily, "Let's see, your brother killed one of ours. An innocent." Be a little more specific, which one? I didn't want to ask which one with Cyrus just behind me, but something was wrong seriously wrong.
"Cyrus!" I flinched.
She's back. Cyrus glanced at her, a wild look in his eye. Like a deer caught in the headlights.
When she got there, she looked at the specter. "And who's this one?"
"We don't know. I'm thinking I'll call him Loxias." Zenia giggled, Cyrus smiled, "Loxias" scowled.
"It's Kaj." Zenia clung to Cyrus. "Hey, nice friend you have there. Cute."
"Thanks," Zenia winked.
"If you like shrimps with no modesty." I smothered a laugh behind my hand, Zenia squeezed Cyrus's arm.
"Ouch!" He yanked his arm free and moved to my side.
"Well, Kaj, why don't you stand up." He did, and yanked me too him.
"Well, my dear, you shouldn't be too trusting." His lips were by my ear and he kissed it. I pulled back shocked.
Cyrus jumped forward, grabbing him by the collar. "Think you can take original form? It probably makes Minerva very nervous to get a kiss from her father." I smiled. He was right about one thing, it had been unnerving to be kissed by the spitting image of my father, even as chaste as that one was.
He grinned and grabbed me again, kissing me full on the mouth. I struggled a little, my eyes wide open, so I saw the golden beauty of my father turn a bit paler, and dark hair sprout from his head, overpowering the blond.
I broke away gasping and wiped my mouth. "You-" I took a deep breath, "are the most twisted person I know."
"Why thank you." Yep twisted.
"Now, what are you doing here?" Cyrus spoke with more authority than I'd ever heard, "Why attack Minerva?"
"Minerva, is it? Funny, I thought Greeks knew you as-" I raised my hand to slap him silent, but Zenia was faster as she dived at him. The two went sprawling and fists were flying.
Cyrus jumped forward to pull them apart, but I was right behind him and managed to stop him. "Let her have her revenge." As much as I hated it, I owed her one.
"By Hera! Get off me!" Kaj shoved her to the ground, locking one arm behind her back and pinned the other to her side. "You're just a little ball of fire."
"Thanks," She sneered up at him.
Cyrus grinned, "You two make the cutest couple." They both pulled away from each other in an instant.
"Alright, Kaj, you can go now, we've got what we wanted. And you got a little bit more than you wanted, am I correct?" he scowled at me. "Well, not all, but you can survive."
Cyrus looked at me, confused. "Never mind. You don't want to know."
"Minerva? Do spectors live off of sexual energy?" Kaj sneered in disgust, and Zenia was sputtering in outrage.
"Uh, no. These two just like to tease." Zenia clenched her fists in mock anger.
"Minerva! I am not a tease!" Her words and motions were too dramatic to prove that. I stood up and began walking towards the cabin, the ruins that it was.
Apparently, no one wanted me to go, because a was dog piled by the three, Cyrus right on top of me. My face rubbed against the dirt, and I couldn't breath. What was I thinking? Of course I couldn't breath! But I was a goddess! I couldn't die! My uncle was the lord of the dead! But it felt so good, having him right there on top of me. What was I doing? What if father saw?
I stood up, knocking all three to the ground. I heard groaning and turned around and there they were, piled up on each other. Cyrus on top of Zenia, who looked like she was in nirvana, and Kaj under her. He was the one who was groaning, and I saw why, Zenia had hit him in the wrong place when she'd fell back.
I hope you understood that, because I wont explain.
Any hoo, he also had a shiny little thing called a knife dangling from his hand. The man was still after my life, dang it.
I offered my hand to Cyrus. "Sorry about that," I smiled to let him know I was alright. A clod of dirt fell onto my lip. Yuck.
He wiped some off my cheek. "Let me help you clean up, it's my fault your such a mess, after all." My heart missed a beat and my breath quickened, his hands, on me…
"S-sure." I looked at Zenia meaningfully then at the weapon. She took the hint, get rid of all his weapons, search him. Cyrus put his hand at the small of my back, and I looked up at him, surprised.
"Come on, you don't want to go around looking like that. Is there some place you can get washed up?" Mutely I nodded and pointed towards the pond. He pushed me forward lightly.
A clot of mud fell from my hair and I gladly walked the way to the pond. He dipped a clothe into the water and wiped at my face.
I felt cleaner already. But I had to get the stuff from my hair. "Um, Cyrus, I'd like to go for a swim…" Was I blushing? Yes I was! Darn it, I'm not supposed to blush!
Cyrus blushed too, "Uh, sure."
"I'd like to do so…alone…." He blushed even more.
"Uh, I won't look! I swear!" He turned around so he wasn't facing the pond.
I peeled off the dirty clothes with disgust. I was going to make them suffer after this. All three of them.
"Minerva? Why do you live here? Alone? Don't you have family? Besides your Dad I mean." I glanced back, chest deep in the pool. "You know, brothers, sisters, what about your mother?"
"I don't have a mother." I didn't mean to snap, but it's a touchy subject. You see, for those of you who haven't read much about mythology, my father ate my mother top prevent my brother from being born, how I escaped is a mystery to me.
"Oh…" He looked back at me. "Oops" I ducked under the water, my hair fanning out around me.
"I'm sorry Minerva! I didn't mean to!" I blushed, he'd seen me naked!
"I-it's okay…please turn around…" I heard some rustling and surmised he had. I swam to shore figuring I'd had enough excitement for one day. I grabbed for the clothe I kept down here for emergencies and proceeded to wrap it around myself, eyes closed.
"Minerva? Can I turn around now?" I nodded, then remembering he couldn't see me shouted my answer. "Are you mad at me? I'm sorry I did that, I didn't mean to intrude on your privacy."
"It was an accident, no worries." I smiled, which sent him blushing again.
"Um, I'm going to go check ion Zenia and Kaj." And at that he left. He was so cute when he was embarrassed.
Hey! Sorry for taking so long and the poor quality of this chapter sigh. I guess I was having problems wityh the theme...but I'm trying to pick up the story, so hopefully updates will come faster!
Another thing about this chapter, I originally was going to make it seem, like Pallas and Athena were lovers, but I scrapped the idea and added the guy...so if you see something odd about that section up there, I apologize, I was to lazy to editSob
Yet again, I thank you reveiwers for your input, it's all welcome. I'm thinking about starting to shout out next chapter, so we'll see what happens! Especially with school starting and everything...