We somehow managed to find Lacey; she was down in the basement of the saloon. I didn't even know saloons had a basement…that's one really interesting thing that they leave out of the textbooks at school. But maybe this movie needed a basement for something.
Lacey was tied up in a chair in the middle of the room, her mouth gagged with a dirty cloth. There was one single light shining down on her, the rest of the room dim but visible. She looked tired but not hurt; her clothes were ripped and streaked with dirt. Her eyes widened when she saw us and she started to squirm, trying to get out of the rope's still tight grasp. I rushed over to her and started to hurriedly undo the rope, taking out the cloth.
"Althea!" She cried, happily relieved. "I thought I would never see you again!" She hugged me once she was free.
"I thought so too, Lace, even though I had a feeling that I would." She pulled back and smiled at me.
"Just please get me out of here," Her eyes darted to the doorway that led into an even darker room; her tone became hushed and whispered. "There's this one guy that keeps flirting with me." She rolled her eyes, not saying anything else. I smirked.
"Helios?" I questioned but Lacey shook her head.
"No, he had what looked like a harp or something. I don't know. He was trying to show off. It got kind of annoying, actually." My eyebrows rose as Chandler revealed the answer.
"Wait, Orpheus?" She joined by my side. "But he has a wife in the Underworld." I pursed my lips.
"Yeah, well, that doesn't stop men nowadays." I stood up. "Or even mythological men, in that matter." I felt another presence join us in the room.
"Hello, again," I looked to my right to see Orpheus leaning against the doorway, his arms crossed. My lips fell into a straight line.
"Hi." I merely responded. Adam walked up to me and my eyes darted over to him.
"I knew it," I told him. "I knew he would be back."
"Do you want me to take care of him?" His eyebrows rose.
"Nah, I can take care of him. I already have before, right?"
"Yeah, but that was musically." I arched an eyebrow.
"You doubt my fighting skills?" He smiled as he nudged my shoulder.
"You know I would never doubt you, Althy." I smiled back and rolled my eyes.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you guys are all supposed to be dead by now." I looked at Orpheus who was standing on his two feet now.
"Well you can tell Helios that his 'obstacles" were nothing and that we're ready for a little one-on-one." Orpheus smirked.
"Well, the fun is not done." He strolled over to me, his smirk turning into a mischievous grin. "I told you I would be back." I forced my hands against his chest and pushed him away, making him stumble back a bit. He looked up at me with a shocked expression but it quickly turned into an angered one.
"How dare you do that to me!" He cried, rage burning through his eyes. "You beat me once, but you cannot beat me again!" Adam shot me a look that said: this guy is absolutely crazy. But, Orpheus kept continuing on with his rant. "Ever since I lost my wife, everyone thinks that they can just push me around and treat me like nothing! But, I am done with that. No one will be pushing me around anymore!" And before I knew it, he slugged me right in the face.
I swear, it felt like my whole jaw had popped out of place and painfully realigned again. Word to the wise: never ever piss of a Greek hero; it really hurts in the end. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Adam flinch and hold his jaw when he went to punch Orpheus back, reminding me of something that easily slipped from my mind for the past couple of days.
Ever since Adam and I had met, we had this sort of connection. It was an emotional connection. You see whenever I wouldn't be feeling well or even came down with a sickness; Adam would always end up not feeling well either or became sick too. It was the same for me, naturally.
It was kind of cool in a way, because we always knew what each other wanted or felt like. But, it wasn't cool when Adam contracted the chicken pox in seventh grade, I was in fifth. We were both quarantined in his living room for a good couple of weeks, illegally scratching ourselves as we watched cartoons all day, living on popcorn and fruit punch juice boxes. But, by the end of the day, we both knew that each of us was fed up with that bunny and his munching of his stupid carrot. Chandler shook me back to reality.
"Althea!" Her eyes were wide. "You need to go help Adam!" I saw that Orpheus had him pinned to the wall, repeatedly punching him in the nose. I managed not to flinch as the sudden aching flooded to my nose.
"Why didn't you help him?"
"I tried!" Her eyes flickered over to Orpheus's back pocket. "But he took my trident…" I sighed and ran over to them, pulling Orpheus off of Adam, kneeing Orpheus in the stomach, forcefully pushing him to the ground. He rolled on the ground, holding his stomach. I grabbed Adam and Chandler's hand, Chandler managed to grab Lacey's arm before we stumbled out of that room and into the next.
Adam's nose was bleeding like crazy so I let him lay on the ground as I tended to him. It didn't take long before his tired feeling unfavorably transferred to my body, but thankfully my nose wasn't bleeding. It just felt like it was going to explode at any minute.
One hand rested on his forehead and the other hand hovered above his nose as I healed him. Both hands emitted the light, but sometimes it would flicker and relight again, but less brightly. I was getting worried, that part of the fight where Chandler got dangerously hurt was coming up soon.
The good thing about me healing Adam is that it helped me feel a bit better too, a warm, renewable energy sweeping through my body. Once I learned that I could heal others, I tried it on myself but it didn't really work. The glow would light up but I didn't feel that same relief like I did currently. I did heal fast, but just not as quickly as others.
Just as Adam was done healing, I heard a chuckle that made a shiver go down my spine. Chandler tapped my shoulder when her gaze fell on something that was behind us. I looked at the figure over my shoulder, even though I already knew who it was. But, that didn't matter. It was our absolute and final obstacle: Helios.