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Chapter Sixteen: A taste of Power
"I can't believe I'm wearing this!" Jay muttered as he looked down at the all black suit that was exactly like Cronus's. He stared disgustingly at the horrible black fabric and shook his head.
"He really needs to put color in his wardrobe." As soon as he said those words he raised his hand to his mouth to stop himself from laughing. Did he really just say that?
He hadn't even been around Neil in a while yet he was already talking like him and saying things that Neil would surely say if he was in his place.
Thank god that none of them are. Jay thought as he looked down at the floor. I would die if one of them were in my place.
"Bird boy, hurry up." A sharp English voice said from the doorway. "My lord won't wait forever."
Jay nodded his head curtly, not saying a word. In fact, he didn't even turn around to face the built form that was leaning against the cell doorway again.
Jay heard Darren sigh as he moved forward and grabbed the younger boy's wrist when he didn't move. Darren quickly pulled him out the door, despite Jay's desperate attempts to break free.
"You know if we are going to be team mates Bird boy you're going to have to listen to me when I talk." The older boy growled as they walked swiftly down the long black hallway towards the big room where Cronus and his giants were awaiting them.
A deep growl emitted itself from Jay's throat as Darren's words sunk in.
Darren and Jay stopped quickly right before the door.
"We will never be team mates!" Jay snarled as he forced himself away from Darren and walked towards the doorway.
Darren laughed slightly. "Don't worry Jay; you'll warm up to me in time."
Jay stopped in his tracks and snorted. "Have you turned gay on me you British brat? Cause I would have swore you just said that I will warm up to you!" Jay turned around sharply in his tracks and stomped back out into the hallway towards the taller and older boy.
"Believe me when I say this." He whispered dangerously, mere feet away from him. His hands were constantly clenching and unclenching at his side and his eyes narrowed until they were once more, only tiny slits on his face. "I will never, EVER like you! Whether it be as a friend or team mate I don't care! No feelings are going to happen between us except for hate. Got that?"
Without another word he turned around, but his feet still didn't move from the floor. His lip curled over his teeth into a snarl as he heard Darren chuckle.
"That's right! I forgot that you were already in love with that red headed bitch." He grunted smirking harshly as he laughed.
With a cry of hate Jay's fist flung backwards as he twisted around and punched Darren straight in the jaw, knocking the built boy into the black stone wall.
Darren eyes flew open wide as there was a loud snap in the boys shoulder and a mangled gasp of pain shot out from his mouth. Darren's hand flew to his shoulder and he tried to stand up again.
But Jay's rage had been pent up for so long, that he was in no mood to show Darren mercy.
With a yell of complete anger Jay lunged forward and landed on top of the older boy. Before he could react, Jay began to punch him, one powerful hit after the other, each hit admitting a grunt from Darren and a scream of rage from Jay.
Jay yelled in anger as he took out one of Darren's swords from his side and raised it high above his head, but a massive pair of hands grabbed him by his shoulders and pushed him away from Darren.
Jay growled rapidly, almost as if he wasn't even himself. "Don't you EVER speak of her again!" He snarled before he was pulled into the room with the door closing behind him.
Darren stood there, eyes wide as he thought about what Jay almost did to him. Jay had never before had access to such power as that.
What has Cronus done to him? Darren wondered as he followed the giants bring the struggling boy into the room.
Darren knew that Cronus had inserted a lot of drugs into the boys system, but none of them were going to take affect that quick. They were supposed to take a few weeks to break in.
Could it possibly be that what Jay had just done was done with his own strength?
No, impossible. Darren said chuckling slightly at his foolishness. Jay is anything but powerful. But Darren did wince slightly as he heard Jay still fighting off the giants. But maybe I should be more careful around him.
In the school:
Theresa groaned as her eyes opened slowly. Her eyes, not used to the bright light that was hanging above her was blurring her vision and causing her eyes to hurt slightly she tried to move up a hand to rub her tired eyes, but found that she could not move them, or any part of her body for that matter.
She tried desperately to move them, but no matter what she did she could only stare straight up, which was beginning to worry her.
Her eyes were now clearer but she could only see blurs because the light was still blinding.
"You ok there Terri?" she heard some one say in a quiet voice from beside her. She recognized the deep voice, but she had never heard it filled with concern for her before. She blinked once, twice, and then turned her head so that she was staring at Archie. He had many cuts and scrapes on his face, the worst one reaching from the middle of his forehead to the side of his left cheek, just barley missing his eyes. And also a large bruise right under his ear. The only other thing wrong with him was his wrist and arm which was in a splint. What had happened to him to get into that shape?
"Archie?" she said in a weak voice.
She saw his head nod in response and another figure bob into her line of vision.
"Neil present!" his girlish voice said to her which caused her to smile slightly.
"So are you guys going to tell me why I can't move my body?" She said quietly as she smiled at them.
"Because you're weak right now." Archie said smirking. "So don't try and move."
"What happened?" she said slowly. "What about Odie? Is he ok?" she said with worried eyes as she remembered her partner and how badly their mission went.
Archie nodded his head calmly. "Yeah he's fine. He's resting right now. There all right here, sleeping in their own beds. Don't worry the others are fine."
"Others?" she implied, as her nerves went crazy. What had happened to the rest of them?
"We were all attacked." Neil said suddenly, his happy tone of voice gone. Theresa's worried eyes shifted over to him. He never talked this quietly before, something was obviously bothering him. "There were never really any bombs in the first place."
Theresa's eyes widened and she let out a weak little gasp. "There weren't any bombs? How are you sure?"
Archie nodded. "Ya, Atlanta said that Jay was the one to figure it out." He said quietly and as he dared to say the boys name he felt like pins poked at his heart.
Theresa tried to figure out what was making Archie look so sad. Usually she would have tried to read his mind (which she was beginning to become a pro at), but she was too tired and she could no move her arms at all, and in order to read her minds right now she needed physical contact.
But as she fought through her memories, trying to figure out what was wrong, she remembered something.
"Jay?" she said in a confused voice. "Jay, he was here, wasn't he? I remember Cronus, and…………Jay?" she said, her voice growing more confused and tears beginning to well in her eyes due to frustration.
Archie looked down at her with concerned eyes. She had seen him, or so she said. But how could she have? All of them were found unconscious in the forest, without Jay. And Theresa was not paired up with Jay when they went to find the bombs, she was paired with Odie. So when did she see Jay? Or Cronus for that matter?!
"Wait a minute." Theresa whispered eyebrows furrowing in confusion. Suddenly her eyes grew wide as her memories came fluttering back to her like a ripped up piece of paper.
Jay kneeling in front of her, head bowed and tears cascading down his cheeks, blood soaking his body, face scarred beyond recognition, and Cronus's evil, demonic laugh.
"JAY!!" She screamed, her eyes widening and filling with tears as she felt a new unknown strength flow through her heart. She began thrashing wildly surprising the two teenagers standing next to her.
"Theresa? Theresa calm down!" Archie yelled over her screams as he put his good hand on her shoulders. He pushed her down so she was back on the bed but she still thrashed wildly.
Neil ran out of the room and quickly came back in with Hera and Chiron running in front of him.
Hera gasped and ran to Theresa's bed, Chiron galloping right behind her.
"Theresa? What happened?" Hera said worryingly. "What's wrong?"
"She asked about Jay and then she started freaking out." Archie said sweating slightly and wincing as Theresa resisting caused Archie's wounds to strain.
Chiron moved forward and pushed Archie gently out of his way. He opened a jar that suddenly appeared in his hands. He put one of his fingers in and took out a small finger tips worth of red gel from the jar. Spreading it on the young girls lips took an immediate affect on Theresa. She immediately stopped moving and stared straight up at Chiron.
"Jay?" Was all she said. "Jay, Jay, Jay." Her once loud voice reduced to a whisper and it seemed all she could manage to say was his name. Seconds went by before she suddenly let out a heart breaking wail and sobbed into her hands.
Hera and Chiron looked at each other worryingly and Archie looked at her strangely.
"Theresa." Hera said sitting down on the young girl's bed and placing her hand on Theresa's. "What's wrong?"
"H-He came, and now…he's gone." Theresa put her head in her hands and cried.
How helpless she felt right now was pathetic compared to the numb pain she felt in her heart, mind and body. She felt as if she could be paralyzed, but she knew it was just her muscles giving out on her for a while. If she was paralyzed, she would not be able to feel the pain…
As the other's tried to comfort their sobbing friend, Neil was the only one who spoke.
"Theresa? I'm, kind of confused. Before you said, 'He came, and now he's gone.' Who came and who's gone?" he said quietly and Archie sent him a glare. How could he be such an idiot?
Theresa cried louder and Hera looked at Chiron pleadingly. Chiron nodded, understanding her stare. He escorted Neil and Archie out of the room, although they wanted to see their friend desperately.
Chiron put his hand on Theresa's neck and began to massage the back of it slowly. Quickly, Theresa's tears stopped and her green orbs began to close faintly.
"Get some sleep Theresa." Hera said soothingly. "We have the gods searching for Jay as we speak. Rest with thoughts of his safe return in your head."
Theresa muttered quietly as a response that neither Hera nor Chiron could make sense of. Theresa quickly closed her eyes but felt only darkness as she slipped into one of her dreams.
Theresa was out cold. Her body twitched involuntarily. The injuries she had received had put a toll on her physically, but even more than that, the pain that really swelled up inside her, was the mental pain. The pain of losing the one she loved.
She twisted and turned in her sleep, groaning slightly in her sleep. Making the gods wonder what all of these dreams were about. And what they were doing to Theresa.
Theresa's Dream:
Theresa groaned as she felt her body twitch in agony. Her heart was beating wildly and her mind was spinning as if she had just gotten off of a roller coaster ride. Theresa opened her eyes and met darkness again.
She was starting to hate it, this increasing darkness, how it always seemed to torture her and grab at her soul until it tore her to pieces. Darkness was the thing that created all this evil in the world, darkness was the reason people got hurt and killed everyday. And darkness was the thing that was holding her best friend and possible lover captive.
And she found that as she sat up, as she rubbed her eyes and waited for the darkness to slowly fade and dim shadows to form out objects or walls or rocks to form, that a strange sense of foreboding was attacking at her mind again.
Her eyes didn't seem to adjust at all as she stayed there and waited.
Her heart pounded in her chest as she heard tiny sounds, voices speaking dimly to her, or maybe not to her.
Her headaches were getting worse at every movement she made. And as she stood up and felt around blindly for a wall, or a rock, or something that would tell her even the slightest bit about her surroundings, she tried to think of why.
She tried to remember what Archie had said to her when she was awake.
What was it?
He said that her body was so weak that she couldn't move a muscle at all until she began to think about Jay and her ambition drove her up. But even then she still had been able to stand up; she still had felt extruding pain that still pulsed through her veins like blood. She tried to ignore it, but ignoring it only seemed to make it worse.
Soon, she could do nothing but sit there, staying in the darkness as it over took her and bit her like thousands of mosquitoes. No, more like wasps or black jackets.
It was strange, how at a time like this she was thinking about bugs. Was she going crazy? Standing on the very edge of sanity? Just like they had feared Jay was?
She dared to think not, but the longer she stayed in there, the harder it seemed to stop herself from thinking chilling thoughts.
What if she was
Screams all the sudden rang out from all around her, shaking her done to her very core.
"From now you will take your punishments in silence. UNDERSTOOD JAY?!" Cronus's voice thundered shaking the very foundation of the cave they were standing in. The crumpled form grunted and moved until he was back into his solid position at Cronus's side.
Cronus laughed loudly as he saw him kneel down in front of him, blood pouring from the scythe marks on him.
"Answer me Jay." Cronus said smirking down at him evilly. "Do you understand me?"
Jay bowed his head lower. "Yes master."
Cronus's smirk increased and he nodded his head to the giants. "Rise Jay. My giants will lead you to the infirmary. Learn how to use it quick, no one will be healing your wounds except for yourself. No Chiron to do it for you now." He said laughing pathetically as he said the half horse's name.
Jay nodded his head, face as unemotional as ever. "Yes master." He said as he stood up on weak legs. He gave a slight bow before walking, more like limping, over to the group of giants who lead him out of the cave and out of sight.
Theresa tried to call out his name, she tried to race after him. But as quickly as the wall of the cave had moved it went back into place and Theresa was left pounding her fists on the wall. She cried out for him once more but nothing she seemed to do make Jay come back to her.
She heard Cronus chuckled behind her and her head whipped around to face him
"Darren," Cronus said turning around and facing the boy who had stayed silent during the time Jay was being tortured. "You did not seem to enjoy that? Would you prefer something else to entertain you? Or would you like to be part of the program?" he said smirking slightly as the boy gave him a half confused, half scared look. "I don't understand milord."
"Perhaps this will make you understand." Cronus growled, his eyes narrowing dangerously. Darren looked at him worryingly as the god angrily marched towards him.
"YOU ARE NOT TO CAUSE HIM TO ACTIVATE HIS POWER BEFORE I COMMAND HIM TOO!!!!!!!" Cronus yelled at him angrily raising his scythe high and swiping towards him.
Darren's eyes widened, but his instincts kicked in quickly and he dove to the side. But Cronus's scythe still nicked his shoulder and Darren winced slightly as pain made his shoulder numb.
Trying to catch his breath, Darren could do nothing but glance up anxiously as Cronus tried to stop himself from killing the boy where he stood. Cronus took deep breaths and glared down at the boy who's eyes were calm and cool, yet filled with so much terror that it made Cronus laugh.
"No," Cronus said laughing, placing the scythe down at his side. "I can't kill you yet. I still have need of you." He smirked slightly as he saw the young assassin slowly let out the breath he had been holding in. "But don't get me wrong assassin, it doesn't mean I can't teach you a lesson…….."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Theresa let out a scream of her own as the sound she heard pierced her very heart. Her body turning twitching in agony as shudders ran through her body. Withering in pain she began to arch her back up, almost as if something invisible had dug its claws into her back.