The Ring Of Chaos

Chapter 2: The Fates

I hoped you liked the first chapter, now here is the second one, and please if I make any mistakes point them out to me.

Sally pov:

The next thing I knew after I saw the lightning I was in a strange room. There was no doors, no windows, and all the walls were gray.

"Where am I?" I wondered aloud to myself.

I stayed here for a few minutes and then something started to happen. The scenery began to change from the gray room to a cave of some sorts. I tried walking out of the cave, but as I did I almost fell down a straight drop into a dark abyss. I decided it was better to go the other way. As I walked through the cave, I noticed that there were many paintings hung along the side of the cave.

I recognized the paintings as different points in Greek mythology from one of my classes I was taking at the university. There first was a picture of a remarkable attractive young lady that had flawless skin with a silver-ish tint to it. She had long, straight flowing black hair that traveled down past her shoulders to the middle of her back. She wasn't so skinny as to look unattractive, but she had a flat, toned stomach from what I could tell. She was wearing a tunic of sorts that gave the painting an old vibe. However, the most remarkable things about the painting were her eyes. Her eyes were a shiny black with a purple tint that seemed to radiate power from them, even through a painting. The eyes looked to have little constellations and stars twinkling throughout them. I think I remember hearing about this person before… Oh! This must be a paining of lady Chaos, the creator of everything! Not many of the professors at the university know much of anything about this far back in Greek Mythology. I wonder who painted it, for the painting is flawless, I cannot see a single imperfection anywhere on it.

The next painting is of many bright shining stars and planets. I can tell that all of these painting must tell a story. This one depicts the beauty of creation when Chaos started to make everything. The next one is a painting with forces of nature such as fire, storms, water, earth, electricity, light, and darkness. This must show how destructive nature was without a being to control it. The next picture is one that shows a number of beings with ropes tied around the elements as if trying to tame and control them. This one has to be Chaos creating the primordials to control all of the elements she had made.

The next picture I thought was odd. I did not recognize this one. It was a ring. The ring was pure black with designs of everything from ground to sky to the stars. There was a remarkable red gem in the ring that seemed to pulse with power. This ring seemed to be a really powerful one, although I've never heard of such a ring this far back. No professor of any kind has ever made a speech or presented an idea about something like this. I wonder what it does. Maybe it is supposed to have some sort of magical powers from Chaos or one of her creations. This is rather peculiar. I'll have to come back to it later.

The remaining pictures were of better-known parts of mythology. They were events such as the primordials creating life on the planet Earth, having children also known as the Titans. Then the Titans overthrew the Primordials and enslaving mankind in the process. There was also a painting of a woman leaving the Titans. It looked much like the first painting I saw of Chaos; only she looked much, much older in this one. Maybe this is why Chaos is talked much less of in Greek Mythology compared to the Gods. Next there were paintings of the well-known Titans having children, otherwise known as the Gods, and their leader, Kronos, eating the children after they were born.

After that one I became less interested as I have heard these tales many, many times. I eventually got to paintings of Achilles, Perseus, Orion, and many of the very well known people. I think Greeks often referred to them as demi-gods or half gods. I wonder why there are so many paintings here? Where did they come from? Soon I got to the end of what I know to be Greek Mythology when the Romans Defeated the Greeks. There was still more paintings after that, which intrigued me. The paintings now were of camps of these so-called "Demi-gods" and different quests that they did. I've never heard of any of this before. I wonder if even after the Greeks were defeated, they still kept on making up stories that did not get passed on like all of the other ones?

I saw a finally saw a light at the end of the Cave that I have spent so long looking at the paintings. I cautiously walked towards the light and I found an opening to a room with bright lights in it. There were three old ladies with yarn and scissors and they seemed to be knitting a hat.

"Wh..who are you?" I quietly asked.

"You know who we are sally. You studied us for quite a long time back in your sophomore year of collage." They all three spoke at once without even looking at me.

The only thing that I studied that year was…. The fates! But that can't be right, because the fates are not real as are none of the other Greek tales.

"You're….. You're not real." I said to them.

"That is where you are wrong mortal. You see we are very much alive and so are all of the other immortals from you're Greek mythology books." They all said looking straight at me this time, while they continued sowing the hat. It looked like they were almost done.

"So you are saying all the monsters, and Titans, and Gods, and Tales are all true?"

They simply just nodded their heads. Well I just got struck by lightning, and none of this makes sense, so… this is all probably true and messed up just like the rest of my life is.

"Wait why are you even telling me all of this?" I asked being curious.

"Your son. He is a demi-god. He is a son of Zues, Lord of the skies. Zues just tried to kill both you and his son because he made a pact with his brothers not to have any more kids after an… incident occurred. When he saw you, he could not take his eyes off of you and he just had to have you, and when you declined he got angry that a mortal would dare to refuse a god so he forced himself upon you." The middle lady explained.

"Both you and your son were about to die, but then something happened" The one on the left continued, "When we were about to cut your strings, our scissors broke. That means you were not to die yet. You're son is the one. Even without the ring he was able to absorb the powers of his father and then use his own to make an explosion around the both of you. He needs the ring to defeat the great evil that is coming.

The last on the right continued speaking for the sisters of fate.

"As a result of absorbs the power of Zues's very own master bolt, he no longer posses any powers of a child of Zues, or the scent of a demi-god, which attracts monsters to them the stronger their scent is."

She then pulls out the very same ring that I saw in the painting on the wall of the cave.

"You must give this to your son. It is the only way. The Ring Of Chaos…"

Then she hands me the ring and they warn me to give it to him again and again before they let me leave. The Room all of a sudden got very, very bright, so I shut my eyes before I went blind and when I opened them again I was in a hospital bed and I knew I was in labor by the excruciating pain I was suffering. Somehow I knew I was not going to make it to the end and see my baby, I knew I had to give my son the ring no matter what, and then I knew what I had to do. I looked at the ring, trying to convince myself that there is another way, but I knew what had to be done. So I did it. I swallowed the Ring of Chaos and everything went black.

Well here we are at the end of the chapter. Review and tell me what you liked, or didn't like, or give me suggestions for future chapters.