Juniper POV
It has been too long. Far too long. Ilaria is gone, along with Goliath and Elisa and that gargoyle dog Bronx. The gargoyles know nothing. The police know next to nothing and are just as unsure of what has happened to Elisa. Even Matt doesn't know what happened to them.
It feels like it may be just a dead end but I go to see the gargoyles to ask if they had any news of their whereabouts. I take a taxi I don't think I could drive or walk there myself. As I enter the police station I run into Matt.
"Juniper, I mean Ms. Cornwall. If you are here for an update on the search for Ilaria…"
"No I am here about the case about the Gargoyle statues vandalized in the burrows. A friend of mine lives not far from where the attack is and she is worried that it might progress."
"I see come with me." I follow him as we journey to the clock tower where the Gargoyles reside. Hudson was the only one who was there.
"Juniper, I hope you have better news."
"I'm sorry, I don't know anything more than what I knew the first time I came to ask you for help finding Ilaria."
"Unfortunately for both of us we cannot find the answers we seek." The door opens on the face of the clock and in stepped Brooklyn. An angry heat comes to my heart upon seeing the red gargoyle. When he came back telling me that he had lost sight of Ilaria in the park; when he took her on patrol I was furious with him. Even after he said he stayed the whole night and day by the lake in case she showed up I still am angry with him. It is his fault. He was supposed to see that no harm came to her.
"Juniper." He called to me. I turned sharply on my heel and left. Matt chased after me and stopped me at the bottom of the stairs.
"What is bothering you?"
"Nothing."
"Something is. Are you mad at me?"
"further from it."
"Then who?"
"I am still angry with Brooklyn."
"He tried to look for her."
"But he was the one who lost her. If he hadn't tried to help her overcome her fear of flying she never would have fallen into that lake and disappeared."
"Juniper, Brooklyn and the others are still looking for her and the others. We will find her. I bet she is with Elisa and Goliath and are heading home."
"For such a conspiracy buff you sure are a glass half full type."
"I have to keep you in good spirits what kind of boyfriend would I be if I did otherwise."
"Not mine."
"Come on. My shift has ended and I could go for something to eat. You look like you could use a bite of two."
Ilaria POV
After our adventures in Egypt we came to emerald isle were an epic battle between the banshee, the reincarnation of Cu Chullian and Bronx as the great beast. The banshee sure was a piece of work I tell you like listening to a tone deaf opera singer try to break glass.
"Where do you think we are this time?" A kangaroo came to the water's edge and then hopped away prompting Bronx to start growling.
"That was a kangaroo. And unless we landed in a zoo. We're in Australia."
"Awesome, do you think we'll get to see the Crocodile Hunter?"
"I doubt it." Elisa said. "But if we do you can get his autograph." We dock the boat and then walk towards the outback and instead of seeing a kangaroo we find a strange wave of silver coming towards us in fear we were taken to the sky. Since this trip my fear of flying was starting to dwindle. Still there but not as potent anymore. It stopped moving and then receded we walked on running into another enemy of the Gargoyles. One named Dingo.
Fox POV
Mother and I stare at the latest scientific marvel the Matrix. But Mother just had to damper our spirits with her insistent worries and I had to rectify them. It is a pain to deal with them at times but what can you do.
To humor her I decided to erase the program and start over. Once we had finished that superfluous project we go to check on my man in the field. He should have some valuable insight.
Once that task had been accomplished Mother and I returned to the Matrix. Apparently the Gargoyles are in the test area that we had set up for the Matrix. Upon opening the door to the Matrix things had begun to go berserk. The Matrix was no longer in its unit and the robotics were going crazy. Mother and I fled from the no alarming creation. Able to make it to the helicopter I flew the three of us out of there. The Matrix did not give up so easily as it damaged the chopper and we had to run for it. We came upon the gargoyles and I introduced my mother to them and Goliath figured out who my father was. Good for him. But I noticed someone new to the unusual herd. A girl I had heard David talk about her guardian Juniper, a truly brilliant woman, we would have brought her on to the Matrix project, but since the girl's mysterious disappearance it was best to keep her on low grade work in the pharmaceutical department.
"Just what are you four doing with a missing girl?"
"Don't change the subject what is that thing out there? Seeing you here confirms this has Zanato's name all over it." Maza said pointing to me in an accusatory fashion.
"You said you had control over the bloody thing." Said Dingo my man in the field.
"So you did have something to do with this." Maza then accused Dingo. He didn't deny it, but he did say he wasn't expecting this and that we had to stop it. As much as I agree with him now there was not much I could do.
"I don't know that we can. Once the Matrix taps into the atomic power plant that powers the labs then nothing can stop it." Mother explains further scaring our guests. We went through one idea and Goliath, Angela and Dingo went off to see if they could that.
Sometime later they arrive with news more distressing than before. The Matrix had evolved past it's original programing and when it gets to the power levels needed in a few days the whole planet will be covered. The shaman came to with an idea that to me still sounds ridiculous as I looked at the frozen ones called Goliath and Dingo.
"You should sit down and rest. It's not good on the baby." Ilaria said guiding me to a rock to sit down upon.
"How far along are you?"
"Not far from giving birth." I tell her.
"And yet you still are working on this. Can you explain something to me?"
"I can always try too. What is it?"
"Why did you create this program?"
"It was created to shape the world that David and I sought."
"I see. You and your husband have control issues."
"What?" This one has developed New York bluntness early.
"If you could live in this world without having to control so much of it then you would not have had to create the Matrix. Something that is to control everything. Living creatures do not like total control to be placed over them as much as they want control over others. But when you have total control over someone the more they will begin to resent you and you will see to late the error of your control. It is best to be moderate with the control you use. No one can live their life if others are living it for them."
"Are you sure you are a teenager?"
"Yep." Goliath and Dingo came to as the Matrix moved back taking the form of humanoid and then bonding with Dingo's armor. He was going to become a hero. Well the group had to leave apparently they had somewhere to go. But before they left Ilaria gave me a message to give to Juniper. I do owe her that so when we arrive back in New York. I'll have David call up Juniper and give her the note.
Ilaria POV
"Oh boy. More jungle, that means we are either in a different part of Australia, South America, Central America, Asia or Africaaaaaaa!" We dive down the rapid waterfall and come out only soaking washed up on a riverbank. According to Elisa it may be Africa that we are in. Then she mentioned her mother and Angela started up with the fact that Goliath doesn't want to talk him or her mother.
"You have many fathers and mothers. You are a child of the clan."
"But you are my biological father." (Gasp!) Oh god that is disgusting! I hate poachers they ruin everything.
"Maybe that's why Avalon sent us. To stop this disgraceful thing."
"I think poachers deserve the death penalty for what they do."
"Why would you say something like that? Life is a precious gift."
"Goliath poachers don't take the law against hunting these kinds of animals seriously because the punishment is too low. If the punishment was raised it may discourage them from trying this way of life and could save the ones who need it most. This animal could have been hunting to feed it's offspring and do those poachers care that they killed its mother? No, they only care if the offspring has enough fur for a muff."
I walked ahead I needed to cool down before I could talk to anyone else. We marched on and came to a village where in the center was a campfire and a storyteller. I stopped to listen. Stories tend to be better when told out loud.
"The Panther Queen was the most beautiful animal in the jungle. Her fur was soft and shone with the blackness of the moonless sky. Her claws were razor sharp and her teeth were huge and white. But she was also very vain and careless. She mocked the hippo. She mocked the crocodile. And then she made the mistake of mocking Anasi the spider. Anasi wove a magic spell into his web that transformed the Panther Queen into a human female." This is getting good.
"Gone were her beautiful black fur and sharp claws and when she opened her mouth to speak she had no fangs but puny little teeth. The Panther Queen begged Anansi to return her to her proper form. But he would not." Well she did mock him that takes a while to forgive.
"She threatened to kill the little spider. Anansi just laughed at her. Creatures such as he cannot die he said. But he agreed to change her back." Well that didn't take long.
"If she would build him a great city shaped like a giant web." There's the catch. "The Panther Queen knew she would need help. So she married the Oba of the Houka tribe. The Oba was very good to her and they had many strong sons and clever daughters. But the Queen never forgotten her true form and longed to race through the night in her beautiful panther body. In time they built the city of Kara Digi. Anansi was very pleased. When the Panther Queen came to him he wove a spell giving her back her beautiful black fur, sharp claws and shining teeth. But Anansi had tricked the Panther Queen for now she lonely and she missed her human children. She asked Anansi to turn her human children into panthers so they could run with her through the dark nights. The Queen showed him her broken heart and finally he agreed. But with a price." Geez this spider is starting to sound like a heartless tax collector.
"The spider would let her have one and only one of her children if she hunted for him. So the Panther Queen hunted for Anansi and brought him food and Anasi became fat and happy. The Panther Queen made her mark on her oldest son. Who was the wisest, bravest and most handsome man of the tribe. But the selfish Anansi did not want his favorite subject to leave. The trickster told the prince of the bargain with the queen. The Prince did not want to become a panther. He asked if there was any way to escape this fate. Anansi told the prince to kill the Panther Queen. The prince was young and very angry. He hunted the queen, but when he found her. Looking into her great golden eyes he remembered the sweet voice and gentle hands of his mother and realized that she had chosen him out of love. He loved her too and could not bring her to harm. So Anansi was forced to change the prince into a panther. Anansi was so furious that banished all the humans from Kara Diji. But that was foolish. Because now he had no one to tend his needs. And so the spider went hungry." The children laughed at the ending of the story. And at the end we found out that the storyteller was Elisa's mother who was happy and relieved to see her then went to demanding of answers.
"I'm here on a case."
"Oh please." That's when I tripped in. "Who is this? Wait, I know who she is. That's the girl who was reported missing around the time that you disappeared."
"Mom relax this is Ilaria, a friend of mine."
"Pleased to meet you Ms. Maza. I enjoyed the story."
"Thank you Ilaria. Don't think you don't have to explain yourself." Her expression was angry then went to fearful as men with guns came into view pointing them at us. One was a woman that one of the Villagers, Fara Maku knew. They came to kill the panther. Ms. Maza and I jump in front of the panther blocking the gunman. The woman, Tea was adamant about killing the defenseless creature she was also keen on killing all panthers.
Suddenly Fara Maku turned into a panther and was shot by Tea and like Dracula he rose again. The second time Tea tried to shoot at panther version of Fara Maku she missed because Elisa intervened. She tossed Elisa to the ground and went after Fara Maku telling her grimy cohorts to deal with us. Oh it is a good thing I am wearing my glasses. The tingling over my body grows it didn't hurt anymore after that trip to Avalon. The scales appeared and snakes began to hiss and I was ready to tango with some poachers with the help of Angela and Goliath of course.
"Who feels brave enough to take on Medusa? How about you little man?" I didn't get a chance to do anything because they took care of them. "Goliath I had them."
"I know Ilaria. But your distraction brought them down quicker."
"The night I get abilities of use and I don't get to." Elisa had some explaining to do with us since her mom was reasonably surprised, but it would have to wait since we have to chase a wounded panther and an armed angry woman. We tracked them down to the waterfalls and when Goliath captured the woman Tea we found out that she too can turn into a panther. We follow them through the forest with Bronx as our guide. Our search brings us to the city of Kara Digi in its ruined form. We found that the two panthers had gone in two different ways meaning we would have to split up. Elisa, Angela and Bronx went one way and Goliath with the insistence of Elisa went with her mother.
"Come on Ilaria."
"Actually Goliath, I think it would be best for me to travel along the stone tops. In this form I can stay well balanced and climb surfaces easier. Besides if I can see from above where they have gone or what traps may be around and then warn you."
"You bring a good point. But you have to use the upmost caution. Those buildings my crumble too easily."
"I will. See you guys later." We go our separate ways and as I climb I notice the amount of webs and the abnormal size of spiders. No wonder this is a spider city. I didn't see much. I moved forward and travel about looking for one of the panthers. I run across several spiders that I pick up and gingerly move somewhere out of my path. Till finally I spot them and I rush forward. They were turning back to normal and Tea was about to attack him. I moved Fara Maku out of the way and Bronx knocked Tea to the ground. The others had caught up. Tea told us how she was attacked by a panther that hadn't hurt her, but had marked her and how the stress of living in the city would cause her to turn into a panther. Fara Maku claimed that it was out of love, but Ms. Maza set him straight.
"That's not love Fara. That's selfishness."
"What a second you marked Tea, but who was it that marked you?"
"Yeah who made you panther Lon Chaney Jr?"
"I did." A voice from above amplified out of the web came a really big really fat spider.
"Anansi!" Gasped Ms. Maza. According to Anansi Fara Maku had come to him and made the bargain. Tea tried to go after Anansi and was knocked across the way. Fara begged the spider to take the curse off Tea and he would serve him for the rest of his life. But Anansi had other plans, plans that involved us. He wanted to turn us into his hunters so he could grow fatter. Gluttony would be so proud of him.
"Not a chance Spiderman!" Elisa runs towards him and he swings out a leg to bowl her over. Goliath grabs her and lifts her out of the way to then get hit by his leg.
"Cut the webbing! He is too fat to fight us on the ground!" Angela shouted. Together we went towards the webbing and began to cut it down. It helps when you have fangs. But the webbing is disgusting.
"I will spin you wishes. Give you treasures beyond count!" the spider pleaded as his descent grew rapid.
"Your gift's always come with a price trickster." Ms. Maza says the spider falls to his back and the spear Ms. Maza was holding is given to Angela who gives it to Goliath who stabs him with it and he disappears in a screen of light. Fara Maku agree to use their abilities to help protect the jungle. Dawn was arriving as we came back to the village. Goliath finally called Angela his daughter and they hugged as the sun shone on them. And with the sun my curse disappeared leaving me as I was before. The day is spent telling Ms. Maza the whole story allowing her and Elisa to bond. I'm happy that they are getting along, but I feel a small bitter seed. I could never do this with my mother not that I could do it before so why now do I have that bitter seed.
"Ilaria the children are playing soccer would you like to join them? I'm sure it will be more fun than listening to us chat away."
"Sure."
Elisa POV
"She seems like a nice girl. But that transformation last night, does it happen often?"
"No, Mom. Ilaria's gorgon side comes out during the week of the new moon."
"Luckily she does not have Medusa's sight otherwise last night we would have all been stone statutes."
"That would have happened if Ilaria didn't have those glasses on last night."
"Then she has the sight after all. Poor child having those gorgon abilities and there is no one to guide her on how to use them."
"Maybe we will get lucky and find gorgon hand book." I laughed, but Mom looked worried. She wanted me to go home with her, but I was needed by Goliath's side on this mission. With all danger that has happened on these missions I couldn't forgive myself if something happened to him because I wasn't there.
"Elisa I know that you are hell bent on staying with the gargoyles on this mission, but are you sure that it is a good idea to allow Ilaria to keep travelling with you? She is still young and these missions if they're anything like what we went through last night."
"Mom, Ilaria has been with us since the beginning and has been through worse. She will be fine and like me she's stubborn about sticking with us."
"Still the least I could do is tell her guardian that she is fine. I'm sure the poor woman is overcome with worry. I was when you disappeared."
"That is probably what Ilaria was going to ask you. She does that when we find a friend on our journey she stops and asks them to tell Juniper she is fine."
"She is a thoughtful girl. Speaking of which the two of you should be thoughtful and go greet your friends. It's almost sundown and I'll wager that they will be quite insistent on leaving soon."
POV Juniper
The weather is foul today and nothing was reported about it on the news. It was not like a normal storm for it felt more like the trumpet call of something coming. The coming of a bad day to go out, for a concert in the park with your boyfriend.
"I better call Matt."(Ring!) "I swear that man's timing. Hello?"
"Hey Juniper, I hate to cancel our date tonight, but a case came up…"
"It's fine Matt. I was just going to call you. The weather looks pretty bad tonight."
"I wouldn't know. I haven't seen outside since I came to work today."
"Well take my word for it is lousy weather."
"I will reschedule for this weekend."
"I will see. Bye Matt." I hung up the phone and thought about the messages Ilaria had left me. One was from England, another Prague, there was one from Mrs. Xanatos when she came back from Australia and recently from Nigeria and Elisa's mother told me she saw them herself. All these places with no set course. Why are they going in such a pattern? Was there a reason they were heading to these places? I was very deep in thought and when I heard a rapping noise on the glass door to the balcony. It left me a little startled. The Gargoyles were on floor. I open the door and let them in. In walked Hudson, Broadway, Lexington and Brooklyn, but a new gargoyle came in with a man in armor.
"Juniper this is Grip from the London Clan." Hudson introduced the Eagle gargoyle.
"Pleasure to meet you Ma'am. You're Ilaria's mother I take it?"
"Her guardian. You met Ilaria?"
"As did I fair maiden." The knight stepped forward. His persona gave the air of nobility.
"And of course this is King Arthur, perhaps you have heard of him?" Who hasn't? The real king Arthur is here in my home. Do I bow or curtsy?
"Juniper, we are in need of some assistance. I am looking for my sword Excalibur and the only clue we have is a poem that Griff learned as a hatchling."
"How does the poem go?"
"Isle of towers glass and stone. The lady waits for him alone. Heaven glass in emerald frame. Pure white lilies speak her name. Blood red bane in dragon's stone. Excalibur waits for him alone."
"We figured out that the sword is here, towers of glass and stone. But the rest has us confused." Hudson said as he rested on the couch. "Do you have any ideas?"
"If I were to guess the lady in the poem is referring to the lady of the lake. According to legend Excalibur was given back to her. Therefore heaven's glass must me the reflection of water as on a lake. Meaning the next clue is in Central Park where trees grow around the lake like an emerald frame. We need to find the one that has lilies."
"My lady fair that was most impressive." King Arthur said giving rise to a blush.
"Thank you."
"I insist you come with us." I can't refuse a king's request so we travel on the wind to the biggest lake in Central Park where a white lily stood in bloom. Arthur picked it up and tossed it into the water and he summoned the Lady in the Lake. The water swirled around the lily flower. A hand rose from the water holding the flower till she appeared hovering over the water. She was beautiful like the legends said.
"I had not expected to see you for some time Arthur Pendragon. What would you have of me?" King Arthur waded into the room and bowed before the Lady.
"I need my sword. I am not whole without Excalibur."
"Excalibur serves the king who can claim it. Arthur Pendragon."
"Then I claim it. I am the King of Britain."
"This is not written, but a far larger stage. Still the world does need a leader and that leader needs the sword. But you must prove your worth." She used her magic to create a water monster to attack. It kept him inside of it. The others went to his aid, but the being pushed them back. He said to use the lightning weapon on the base of the creature. Griff took aim and shot at its base. The shock travels through the creature and spits out Arthur as it forms back with the water.
"Well done. Pendragon you are still a leader born." She made an appearance of the next place to go to get the sword which Lexington figured out that it was at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden hedge maze. We head there next and are greeted by laser shooting hover vehicles. Someone else was after the sword. I go with Griff and the King to look for the sword. We cheated a little with using the lightning gun Griff had to pass through the hedges. We could hear the sounds of battle as we journeyed farther into the labyrinth. A man grabbed the sword in the stone.
"Your time has passed Arthur Pendragon. Macbeth son of Finnely is the one true king." The storm rolled in again and battle commenced between Arthur and Macbeth. One that did not last as Arthur yielded to the new king. The ground shook and the stone dragon took life. We dodged the beast's flames and the others kept up the attack. The beast's tail knocked Excalibur from Macbeth's hands sending it flying into the hands of Arthur who found it to be a fake. While his back was turned the living stone grabbed him in its claws and then took Macbeth in the other. Then flew off. I run to the others just as they saw the dragon. They used the hover vehicles to create stairs so they would have enough height to fly. I on the other hand rode one of those to catch up. The dragon rears its head and breathes flames towards the Manhattan clan.
"I should have warned you about that."
"It's too late now!" Brooklyn shouted as he dodged the next flame attack. I catch Lexington before he fell to the ground and he rose up again and helped in the attack. Then the most curious thing happened. A flame came from the chest of the dragon and with it a glowing sword. It was the real Excalibur. Macbeth admitted that he was not the one to hold Excalibur, but would be there to fight alongside Arthur if he should ask.
"Macbeth, I am going to have to borrow this for a short while. I will bring it back here when I am through."
"Deal Lass."
I gave Arthur a lift as we sailed through the skies back to the Clock tower.
"What will you do now?"
"I must begin a new quest to find my friend Merlin and somehow get Griff back to London." Griff said that he was rather hoping to continue with Arthur on his quest. Arthur said only a knight could venter with him and as the sun rose he made Griff a knight. The sun turned them to stone so that they may sleep.
"Of course not only knights can travel with me. A bright and lovely maiden such as yourself could help to greatly aid my quest."
"I am very flattered your highness, but I must decline. I have to be here when Ilaria comes home. I am all the family she has in this world right now."
"A noble heart to go with your strong mind. You have been properly blessed."
"I thank you, but there is something else. I am in a courtship now with someone."
"I see. I will respect the boundaries that have been drawn, but should this courtship fail. Allow me to ask for courtship with you."
"I will allow if that time should pass. Now if you will excuse me. I have to return this to its proper owner."
Ilaria POV
"I am so glad we are out of Norway, that was coldest I have ever been in my life."
"Snow doesn't fall in Hawaii?" Angela asked.
"Only on the tops of the three tallest volcanoes, sometimes a freak cold storm but not often. I hope the next place we go to is either home or warm."
"I'm glad that your transformation did happen while we were in Norway. Then you really could have frozen to death. Do you have any idea why you are starting to transform out of the usual new moon times?" Elisa asked as looked for land.
"I don't know. Ever since Avalon it's been going off like crazy. Only reason I can see is with these new magic powers showing up it could be a reaction to the practice."
We travel on and hit into something odd that fogs our vision till bam! A utopian looking city appeared in our view. Three hovercrafts appear and Angela, Goliath, Bronx and I hide from view. As they lower shock hits us, especially me. They weren't humans. They were ancient Greek monsters. At least two of them I recognized. A Minotaur and a centaur the other looked like a relation to a member of the Fantastic Four. They tie Elisa up and we rush to her aid. Being throw aside by the blast of a fire grenade knocks down the hood of my cloak. Revealing my snake features in haste I put the hood back on hoping no one had seen. They may have been monsters in Greece, but that didn't mean they were all friends.
"Helios wait!" Helios? As in the sun god? That explains the hair.
"We have no quarrel with you gargoyle."
"You know about gargoyles?" Elisa asks.
"And we know about human's as well." He pressed a button and did the beam me up thing to Elisa. "She will be taken to the Senate house. You may follow if you like. Boreas will ultimately decide her fate."
"You don't mean to kill her do you?" I ask. The bull looks at me with anger in his eyes. I feel like cowering behind Goliath's back.
"You remove your hood at once."
"Um, I am afraid that I cannot do that."
"And why not?"
"Because I have hood hair? Ha-ha….he"
"Helios remove her hood for her." The flame man dove towards me and grabbed the hood from off of my head. Showing my snake entangled hair.
"A gorgon. From what branch do you hail? Are you of Stheno? Or perhaps Euryale?"
"According to the one entry I could find in my Dad's journal about Gorgon ancestry it said Medusa."
(Gasp!)
"It can't be! The line of Medusa has only one member and she resides on this island. You lie about your heritage!"
"I'm not lying."
"You can't be. We would be stone otherwise."
"You would be if I wasn't wearing these glasses! They were made so I wouldn't turn people to stone."
"What is your name?" I turn to Goliath who nods.
"Ilaria Floros."
"Floros. You will come with us and you will met our Medusa decedent."
"What about my friend?"
"As I have said. Her fate is to be determined by Boreas." I turn to Goliath for guidance.
"Should I go with them?"
"You should. You have questions about your ancestry that this decedent could answer. Angela, Bronx and I will follow Elisa and see to it that this mess is cleaned up."
"If you think I should. I will go." I hop onto the Centaur's hover craft and we speed away in the opposite way of the others. We travel along the shore till we reach a grand home of white marble and stone with blue tiled roofs similar to what you would see in Santorini. We land and exit the hovercraft and the Centaur knocks upon the door and a satyr answers the door.
"The Mistress is tending to her garden and wishes not to be interrupted."
"Tell her that this is important and concerns her blood."
"Fine I shall tell her." Ten seconds later the same satyr appeared and allowed us in. The house was far more spacious than any home I had been in.
"The Mistress requests that you two relax while she prepares herself." He brought out a cart of food. "Cake, cookies or perhaps a tea sandwich?"
"Um No thank you. I'm fine."
"All right what it that Taurus thinks is is so important that I need to see it immediately." A woman entered. She had long black hair, deep purple eyes and a wicked smile. The first name to come into my head was Circe. She looked like the most famous sorceress in history Circe.
"Ilaria?"
"You know my name?"
"I could only guess. You have his eyes. Tell me how is Mikolas? No wait he goes by Mike these days."
"How do you know my father?"
"I should know him, he is my brother, my beloved younger brother and you are his daughter. My niece. The carrier of the Medusian gene."
"How come Dad never mentioned you?"
"He chose to live a life among humans and I chose to live amongst the New Olympians after I had my fun in the human world. I asked him to keep quiet about me until you were ready to know the past of our family. Since you are here that means he must have told you to come here. You still haven't told me how he is."
"I feel bad for having to tell you this…"
"Morgana. The family loved that name so I was given it. You may even call me Aunt Morgan if you wish."
"My father died four years ago. He didn't send me. I have been travelling with my friends and we were brought here. I had no knowledge of you." She rose silently from where she sat and went to the window to look out over the sea.
"How did he pass?"
"It was during a climbing trip. He fell."
"That fool he died doing what he loved. It is late and know that you must be tried please let Cronus show you to a room. I will show your escort out." I don't argue she just found out that her brother died too much for one night. Tomorrow we will talk about the family history and hopefully I shall find out what has happened to Elisa.
I follow the Satyr named Cronus to a lovely room. With an ocean view and a really soft bed. I had no idea how much I missed sleeping in a bed till I saw that warm inviting and plush fluffy pillow covered bed. No other action was needed than for me to lay my head on the pillow and I was off in the deepest sleep I had ever had. But a nightmare loomed over the fear of what was to happen to Elisa. I woke up early to the knocking on my door.