Chapter 8 Family Reunion
The room through the underground door was...well, a kitchen; which is kind of disappointing. I'd kind of hoped my brothers and sisters would be there waiting for me. Instead I get some random people I don't know staring at me.
"This is the kitchen. We each take turns in here and on guard outside; most of the time. Except I keep an eye on things, so we've sort of stopped having a guard. Some stubborn people still do it, those idiots. They don't trust me. Oh, and hot pot." I turn to see someone coming towards me, with a boiling pot of...something. I pause and waited for her to go past.
"Oh, dear, I didn't see you there. I really should be more careful, shouldn't I?" The women said, smiling. She had an old face but kind, with her gray hair up in a bun. She wore a red dress, but it had so many stains, that red could've just been spilt more often. But minus the stains, the dress was quite plain. She was a bit plump, but in that kind old women kind of way.
"Um, well, nothing was spilt." I said with a smile.
"True" She chuckled. "I'm Agatha, and before you ask, yes, I'm also human." Whoa, I'm meeting my first human. She looks normal, like me. I'd heard my father talk about them, about how weak and useless they were. But she didn't seem weak, old, certainly, but weak? Not much.
"Is that dinner?" Prometheus asked.
"Yep, I've made Pumpkin soup. And you'll all eat it. It's good and nutritional. You all need your strength."
"I always eat my vegetables, Agatha. Why would I stop now?"
"Haha, you?" Agatha laughed. "You're the worst! Never eat my cooking. Your one of the naughty ones."
"I'm not naughty." Prometheus said, offended, but still laughing. "You're cooking just smells funny."
"That is because it's full of nutrition, you silly boy. You'll eat my cooking, wont you?" Agatha asked turning to me.
"Um, of course Agatha - as long as it tastes good." I told her much to my dismay.
"Of course it tastes good. I made it. Nothing I make tastes bad." Agatha said proudly. "What's your name, dear? I feel so rude, asking, but I feel ruder not knowing, though."
"Hera." I told her.
"Hera, that's a pretty name. That's a pretty name to match a pretty girl." She smiled. "Now off you go, you probably have more important things to be doing then talking to an old lady and I have to get back to feeding you all. Shoo, shoo."
Prometheus smiled, and headed to another door - the kitchen had heaps of doors in leading off of it.
"Bye, Agatha." He waved.
"She's nice." I said, and even I can hear the surprise in my voice.
"Yeah, she is. She's in charge of all the cooking, and although I don't eat her dinners; no one doesn't eat her brownies. They're wonderful. They melt in your mouth."
I thought about Agatha. I can picture her making something like that. Then I remember Prometheus had said something about a hot pot, and then there she was, about to walk into me. Maybe he already saw her coming? Or maybe he can see the future? I turn the idea over in my head. It would explain the knowledge in his eyes. But it's the future, no one can see it. It's impossible. It would explain a few things. It's impossible, no one can do it. But what if they could?
Ok, ok. If it's true about me knowing who the spy is, I'll believe him. Because how else would he know about it?
"...and there are heaps of others there, as well. They're really nice. But I think it really helps being in a group." Prometheus had been talking to me while I've been thinking. But what he was talking about, I had no idea.
"Because if it was you; you'd feel really selfish. Well I would anyway. Because everyone watches any practices they can. It can be really funny - especially if they're new. No offense."
"Right" I nod, hoping he won't know that I have no clue what he's talking about.
"It's really very fun, and we're here – the practice room. Or the training room, or what other name we come up with next."
We were in a massive - and I do mean massive, like 30 meters by 50 meters room - and people had made a ring around the edge of the room, or the ring was around these two people fighting in the middle. They were really good.
One had flaming orange hair. It looked like his hair was on fire that was sticking up all over the place. He had black eyes that looked bottomless. He was a head shorter than the other guy, and really skinny.
The other had black hair, but his back was to me, so I couldn't see his face. He seemed familiar, like déjà vu, I hadn't met that many people. The guy with the red hair did something with his sword, which made the familiar guys' sword swing out of his hand, and across the room.
The guy with the red hair was going to kick the guy with the black hair, when the guy with the black hair kicked the guy with the red hair's arm – part of it was his elbow. The guy with the red hair cried out in pain, while the guy with the black hair ran for his sword.
The guy with the red hair ran over to the guy with the black hair just as he reached his sword. The black haired guy spun around to deflect his blow, and was now facing me. I could've kicked myself for being so stupid, but I'd rather run up to him and give him a hug. However, I couldn't give him a hug because he was still fighting with the guy with the red hair.
"Don't interfere." Prometheus said. "They need to do this. Besides, Hades will be fine." I have no idea what that means, but just then the guy with the fire hair like faked a quick jab right then hit him on the left. He clutched his side, his face twisted in pain. I want to run to help him. Don't interfere.Ok, Prometheus is starting to creep me out a bit. The guy with the red hair puts his sword under Hades' chin.
"Do you surrender now?" He asked, and it sounded kind of friendly. Weird.
"Yeah." Hades winced. "I surrender." Hades held his hand up, then the guy with the red hair bent down, grabbed his hand, and pulled him up. Ok, this is extra weird.
"We have a winner!" I heard someone exclaim. I look up to see...Muscle man? I can't believe it. But, of course he'd be here. Hades is here and they promised they'd stay together.
That means the rest of my family is here too.
"Your other brothers and your sisters are out there." Prometheus said, pointing over to the left far side of the room.
"Did you just read my mind?" I asked him.
"No. I can't do that. I don't even know anyone who can. Although it would be really cool to be able to read someone's mind." Prometheus said. "Although I'm not sure I'd want someone to be reading my mind. I told you, I only see the future. I saw you looking for your brother and sisters. I was just helping you find them."
He's really weird, but I think he's alright. Once you get over the freakiness of him being able to see the future.
"Well, Okay. Come on then." I said and turned to walk over to where Prometheus said my brothers and sisters were.
"What?" Prometheus asked.
"I thought, since you can see the future and all, I wouldn't actually need to ask you to come" I told him.
"No, you don't. I just wanted to hear you say it." He smiled. I punched his arm but followed him around the circle of people. Another fight had begun, between Nike and Maia, and everyone was watching it, and whispers from the crowd.
'Nikes going to win for sure, how can she not?' and 'Did you see that kick?', 'Did you see the way she looks at Zeus? If Metis finds out she's toast.'
"Who's Metis?" I asked Prometheus. I know I've heard her name before. But where did I hear it from before?
"Metis is engaged to Zeus. She's also one of the Titans." Prometheus said.
"She's a Titan?"
"Yeah, but she's too smart to fight with the rest of the Titans."
"So, is she a good fighter?"
"She's alright. But she hardly ever goes outside base. She's to busy making her special Nectar." Now I remember.
"The Nectar that heals Moltle poison, right?"
"Yeah, that's the stuff. How'd you know?"
"Selene and Helios told me."
"Little know fact, she also created the poison."
"What? Why?"
"She was still working with the Titans at the time. But 7 months later, and she was begging to join Katsika mitera."
"Why was she begging, wouldn't you be happy to have her?"
"We were. But at that time we thought she might be a spy."
"Like the one we know about?"
"Yeah." He said, talking slowly. "Like him."
Right, he doesn't want to talk about the spy. Talk about something else.
"When did you join Katsika mitera?" I asked.
"When it first started - I saw that Zeus was going to start Katsika mitera and arrived as fast as I could. Excluding Zeus and Mother E, because they started it, I was the first to join."
"That's pretty cool, and now how many are with Katsika mitera?"
"Just over 250 with nearly 180 at base now."
"So who's Mother E?"
"That's a secret. Besides, guess what."
"What?"
"It's time to put your hands over your ears, cause it's about to get really loud."
"What are you-" But I was cut off by someone's shout.
"Oh my, HERA!" I heard someone shout. Someone who sounded a lot like...
"Hestia! Are you alright?" I asked as I'm engulfed in a hug.
"Am I alright? I'm not the one that's supposedly dead."
"I'm not dead." I say. "I mean, I think I'd know." Hestia laughs.
"Same old Hera." She giggles. "I never really believed you were dead. It was just so shocking. I can't picture you being dead. Come on, everyone's over here." Hestia led me around a few other people who were watching the fight.
"Katsika mitera is so cool. I mean, all the fighting is kind of hard." Hestia started to say and would continue to say for a while. Sometimes you just can't shut her up.
"You know how I hate fighting, but other than that it's really cool. Oh, and Skills are the best, I wonder what you'll have. I have fire and Poseiden has water, Demeter has, like, earth and plants. I'm not too sure what Hades has. It's really weird, but it's kind of similar to Demeter. We can also talk to people inside our heads. How cool is that? You don't even have to talk. Well, we are talking, just inside each other's head. But it takes up a lot of energy, so it's best not to use it all the time.
"Also, you don't want to make it easy for the Titans to track you. Tracking is really hard. It's taping into energy waves, like the talking inside someone's head, but others as well. People who are really good at it can pick up on the energy of breathing! But I don't think the Titans know how to do that.
"However, we can still cover our energy, so the Titans won't know about us. You'll be really far behind though, we've all learnt so much. It's fascinating!"
Then I saw Poseidon, Demeter and the same guy with the red hair talking to Hades, who was sitting down beside him on a near bench.
"And here we are, everyone. Well, not everyone, but..." I stopped listening. I remember how bad Hades' wound had looked. He looks fine now, just a bit tired (again with the weird).
"Are you okay?" I asked Hades. Everyone looks up and stares at me. But not one of them answers - stupid idiotic family.
"Hades, are you okay?" I asked again, slightly annoyed.
"I'm fine, just a bit stiff. How did you get here?" He asked in shock.
"I came with Helios and Selene." I told them.
"Who?" Poseidon asked.
"Helios and Selene." I repeated.
"And who are they?" asks Poseidon.
"They're my friends - they used to be with Agonistes tis eletherias." I said.
"Used to? As in, they got kicked out? So where are these friends of yours? I can't see them." Poseidon pretends to look around. "Really good friends you have - to leave you all by yourself." I can't believe it, I thought they'd be thrilled to see me. Like Hestia was.
"They are great friends. At least they're nicer than my stupid family." I spat.
"How dare you say that? You take that back right now!" Poseidon countered.
"NO! I won't! You aren't the boss of me! I can do whatever I want! I'm not a stupid doll!" I self-countered for myself.
"You can't do what you like! Remember, I'm older and you have to do what I say."
"Yeah right!" I laughed sarcastically. "I'm not going do what you say today, or any other day. Why would I? You're just an idiot!" A lot of people were staring now.
"I'm not an idiot, I'm older and more mature."
"Just because you're almost a year older than me doesn't make you more mature. Or more wise. Or smarter - even. Or anything else! Or-"
"It does make me wiser." Poseidon interrupts. "But then it's not hard to be wiser then you."
"Fine then! You can go off and pretend to yourself that your wise. You can go kid yourself, off in your own little fantasy world. But I'm gonna live in the real world, with real things. Lets see if you can deal with a real thing, from the real world. It's called bye. Here's me saying it. 'Bye'" I stomp off.
"Oooooo."The red-headed guy said as he whistled like a grenade dropping.
"Oh yeah? Well, I'm saying 'bye' too!" He shouts after me.
He's such an idiot! I can't believe I'm related to him.
I push my way through the crowd that had gathered around us. They were all staring at me. I don't care. Let them stare. But I was struggling to hold back the tears that started to sting the sides of my eyes.
I hate him.
AN: hope you like it. Well, maybe not the end. Did I do the fight right? Any suggestions would be helpful.