IM SORRY I HAVE BEEN MAD BUSY WITH COLLEGE WORK, IM SO SORRY AND NOW HERES CHAPTER 7, I PROMISE THE NEW CHAPTER WILL BE UP NEXT WEEK!
I realized the moment I stepped through the door into the barracks that my life would never be the same. I looked at the people in the building as they looked at me. "As you already know, my name is Blake and I am your new centurion, I am hoping I can live up to your expectations and I can do the same kind of good Jacob did in this position. I got blank stares back at me from the room until one individual stood up and he paced across the room to stand in front of me.
He was an older man, probably 40 something he had brown eyes and bleach white hair. He held out his hand "Axel Jacobs, son of Sommnus, Jacobs's godly brother." I took his hand and shook it "pleasure". Everyone seemed to release a breath they had not realised they were holding and went back to whatever they were doing. Axel introduced me to a few people, a pair of twin sons of Ceres, Jack and James. I quickly got away from them as they attempted to grow vines around my ankles, Axel quickly behind. Next group of people were sons and daughters of Mars. Kit and Nathan were the first ones to be introduced while the rest of them got up and left the building.
"What's their problem?" watching them leave I looked back at Kit who answered "they were very close to Jacob, he would train with us every day and lead us to victory during the wargames, but when he went missing it all went downhill and fights have been breaking out within the cohort and we are now more divided than ever."
I sighed looking around at the rest of the cohort. "Time to train." They just looked at me until Axel spoke up "get up now! Were going to train with our new centurion for the war games tonight." Reluctantly it seems they got up grabbed weapons and put on armour and followed me to the colosseum.
We all shuffled in and they got their swords ready and started sparring against one another while I spared with Axel, I noticed he used dual swords and I was widely swinging verdict to block his constant attacks while maintaining focus on the other battles around me. Until finally he swiped at my legs and caught me, I fell over the flat of his blade onto the floor and verdict came out of my grip and suddenly I had two swords pressed to my neck. "you win" I grunted out and I got up and shrunk Verdict back into its ring form and slipped into my finger and stood beside Axel watching the rest of the cohort fight each other. "They really need a win in the next war games y'know?"
I glanced at Axel and realised that he was right I sighed "any ideas what we are up against?" he didn't turn to look at me, his eyes scanning our troops "were going to definitely facing Jason on the opposite team on the Fifth, the praetor seems to want to test the steel of the newly promoted centurion" he smiled looking at me, and if you can fight me for that long while maintaining focus on another thing is pretty impressive."
I just shrugged "I need to be able to deal with what's around me and in front of me most of the time since I'm using verdict I got to be alert." He looked at the ring on my finger "guessing the armour and the javelin are a gift from your father?" I nodded and he chuckled. "Lucky you, none of us have ever gotten gifts off of our godly parents or even recognized besides the claiming." I shook my head "that is horrible, they just use us kids like cannon fodder and it makes me so angry" I slammed my fist into my other palm.
Axel was looking at me with an eyebrow raised "yeah…I…ugh guess so…the gods are more on the abandon the mortal parent once the child is born. Not many get to meet their parents, but when they do I heard it's pretty rare, I believe the former praetor, Michael Varus, and your brother actually met your father while on his way to Alaska with the fifth cohort." My eyes widened, I had a brother? "Where is my brother?" Axel's eyes flicked to the ground and he became so small suddenly "he died…just like the rest of the cohort in the land beyond the go-er Alaska." He corrected, I nodded and just again sighed and sat down on the arena floor, as the rest of the cohort troops took a break when they saw me sit down against the wall. "look, Blake I heard you fought a bleeding fire breathing giant, I've been here in the camp for thirty years, I've seen Varus leave I seen Reyna and Jason climb the ranks to praetor, I've seen too many people die, you need to change it.
It isn't the first time I have seen a potential camp hero enter and come into the Legion. Like Jason you could be something different, you could stand out and make the reputation of Janus a thing again, you can make sure Varus and his disaster of a quest can be glorified in the eyes of the gods" I snapped my eyes to him and stood up "THE GODS?, what have the gods ever done for me? They left me fending to myself; my father left me pity gifts, a javelin and armour like he expects me to forgive him? HE LEFT MY MOTHER TO DIE. I HATE HIM AXEL" my voice came out as a whisper for the next part "I hate the gods, I just wish Jupiter could go shove one" thunder rumbled and lightning flashed while Axel watched the sky with wide eyes and mouth hanging open.
"I turned verdict into its javelin form and launched it into the sky with a roar and turned and ran out of the colosseum into the forest across the Field of Mars. I just kept running with slight tears in my eyes, how could my father do that to my mother, all I could think about was the cruelty to the gods and what I could do to hurt them. It then clicked the dream! About that guy with lord Kronos? Whoever that is, maybe I could find him and ask him for help! I looked at my hand as verdict had returned into my finger and I kept running until suddenly I fell into a hole and onto my face.
I groaned and stood up looking around as my vision kicked in, the same time as the maze back with Lupa. Huh this must be some kind of old maze then. I started wandering until I heard a voice in the distance I slipped my helmet on and slowly stepped towards the voice as I got my finger ready on the ring. "Oh gods stop it! Stop it please! Just leave me alone the voice yelled, I was surprised when he came into my vision that he was a young teenager just under my height his armour he was wearing was ripped to shreds from what seemed to be claws? His hair was black and short and black, but his eyes were the most startling, they were crimson red! Not something you see every day huh? I felt like this is the time to reveal myself "is that your choice?" I stepped out of the darkness into the little light there was in the tunnel. He stared at me until his face morphed into anger and he drew his dagger and growled at me "get away from me! If you don't get out of my way! He stood still and I laughed as I drew verdict its imperial golden light shining in the darkness of the tunnel as it made his eyes shine even more, attractive almost. "I'm going to have to choose kicking your ass if you don't move out of my way" I snapped.
He charged me so I did what Lupa taught me, I lowered verdict and charged him in the confined space. We sliced and hacked at each other trying to best one another but it seemed neither of us could get ahead of each other. I grabbed his arm and brought my other elbow down on it breaking it. He screamed and dropped his dagger he grabbed the back of my helmet and slammed my head into the wall forcing the helmet off of me, I dropped verdict in the process and I could feel the blood in my mouth as it came from my nose. He punched me in the face again and I fell to the ground.
He raised his dagger to stab me but I waved my hand I hopped that my father being the god of doorways gave me an idea, I hopped this would work I fell through the floor as I was doing that I grabbed verdict and into a newly appeared doorway and coming out behind him and I stabbed him in the butt. He shrieked "DID YOU JUST STAB ME IN THE ASS?!" he fell to his knees as he ripped verdict out "WHO DOES THAT? WHAT KIND OF HUMAN BEING STABS A GUY IN THE ASS? AIM FOR THE LEG DUDE THE LEG!" he looked up at me as I realised he could see my whole face I smiled and got up and stepped back into the tunnels as my vision was obviously better than his in the tunnels, whatever they were.
He drew his gun "ILL KILL YOU" he roared as he fired off a shot which caused him to drop his gun and clutch his ears, he must have deafened himself! He stood up then so I knew I had to act quickly appearing behind him again and sweeping his leg out from under him and his head slammed into the ground and I had verdict pinned against his chest. "Okay now just wait a minute let's talk to his out" he whimpered at me I pressed verdict a bit harder into his chest "who are you? He suddenly spoke into the silence that seemed to last ages. I looked at him thinking over my choices in this situation and finally decided to answer "Blake Jefferson, son of Janus and you are?" he looked at my with those startling crimson eyes and answered back "S-Sam Strife…son of Eris.
I would greatly appreciate it if you didn't kill me." I gripped verdict a little harder thinking about how easy it would be to kill this pathetic enemy. Then I decided against it. "I gave you a choice! You didn't get out of my way so the choice was I kill you, any last words?" he seemed to mull this over in his head he then spoke "what if give you a choice?" I froze thinking what a good idea that was! My brain didn't seem to respond normally "what kind of choice do you have in mind?" relief flashed in his eyes "would you go back to camp or be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams?! Go back to camp empty handed or join the titan army and be greatly rewarded for your services?" he asked me. I thought about what kind of rewards it could be? It sounds like a better offer and I could have a chance of getting rid of the gods? This is what my reward could be…I could get back at the gods for abandoning every demigod child. I lowered verdict and he stood up "you can now spy for Kronos! If you go back to camp send information back to Kronos he will reward you. Trust me I know what I'm talking about, I'm his top lieutenant!" I looked him up and down, a top lieutenant? Huh pretty easily beaten. I spoke then to him "if I am to send information to Kronos, I can't leave camp all the time people would notice" he grinned as he pulled out a scythe charm and he handed it to me, I glanced at it and then back at him.
"This is a communicator. As you can see it's easy to hide, anything the camp is planning use that device to inform the titan army alright?" I closed my hand around the charm and nodded thinking about how this could finally be my chance to get back at the gods! He handed me back my helmet as I handed him his gun. I noticed Sam looking at all the surrounding tunnels "How in the hell am I supposed to get back to San Francisco?" he said out loud. I laughed and told him "I can show you the way, being the son of the god of doorways and passages means I can navigate this…maze pretty easily. Follow me" I began walking towards the way I came from and I quickly heard the footsteps of him following me close behind. Maybe this won't be all bad.