Percy looked at Aliya. He shook his head and then started to laugh. His entire body shook and he gasped with the force of his laughter.
"What are you laughing about?!" Aliya yelled at him, he stopped laughing and then sat on the bed opposite hers.
"I'm laughing because even though you may be smart, you're incredibly stupid." Aliya threw at him a look of pure anger, and he smirked.
"What are you talking about?" Aliya asked him, her eyes narrowed with suspicion. Percy shook his head and put his hand to his chin in thought, absentmindedly he began to stroke the hair that had begun to grow there.
"Well, what if you found someone, who agreed to pretend to be your soul mate. Then with a little help from Aphrodite you could convince the other gods. You'd tell your dad about Ares, but seeing as you've found your "true love" all that would happen would be that Hades would kick Ares' ass, pardon my language. You and the guy could then pretend to be betrothed. It's so simple!"
Aliya rolled it over for a second and then her face brightened. Her eyes filled with tears and she began to laugh and cry all for the joy of it.
"Oh Percy, this is wonderful!" She leaped up and hugged him, he hugged her back tightly, again noticing her wonderful smell. It was when she began to moan that he released her. The tears in her eyes now were tears of pain.
"Oh, Aliya I'm so sorry…" She shook her head, but continued to cry, it was then that Percy knew how extensive her bruises must be.
"Aliya, I'm going to run you a bath. While I'm doing that I want you to strip down to your undergarments." She made a move to protest but he quickly silenced her. "I learned this summer how to heal other's with water, that's what I'm going to do with you."
"Thank you Percy, I didn't think you were going to hurt me though, I just don't want you to see the bruises." Percy went into her bathroom.
"But, Aliya I need to see them to heal them, I'm sorry if you're embarrassed that Ares did this to you, or perhaps you're afraid I'll think you're weak. I know you aren't but this is for the best I promise."
His voice was tender and soft. He calmed her inner shakings and when he shut the door to the bathroom to give her privacy she knew that he was good.
sSs
Aphrodite stared at the two youngsters in her scrying glass. She had been watching them since Ares came back in a horrible temper. Actually she was watching the girl. Though she was the original airhead Aphrodite was not dumb, she knew that Ares wanted the girl.
She hadn't known about the boy friend, the fact that he was ready to wed her the year before or that he had the worst temper with her, but she did know that she would help Aliya.
"Let's see know, who could I hook young Aliya up with? Mr D.? No, she'd drive him nuts, to much of a daddy's girl. Apollo? No she's far to dark for him…Hermes? No, too much of a goody too-shoes… Think Aphrodite, think. Maybe a half-god? One of Hermes', or Athena's?"
Aphrodite paced around her chamber, her heels clicking and clacking faster and faster as she thought. Then it hit her, who would be perfect for the daughter of Hades? Who would help to heal the rifts between the gods, who was so kind that his own children would be just as kind or even more so.
"Yes, he's perfect. Oh I am so smart!" Aphrodite jumped up and down in a giddy school girl fashion. Her red hair bobbed with her, and her blue eyes sparkled with glee.
She ran to her closet and pulled out an amulet. It was called the Amulet Amore. It was created for the simple purpose of finding one's soul mate, this amulet was how she found Hephaestus and she knew that it would bring together Aliya and her mate.
"So now all I need to do is get myself ready for tomorrow. With only three days until the dance, I'll need Aliya to find the guy in time to announce it at the dance and then the fun will truly begin."
Aphrodite was now wide awake and ready to present Amulet Amore to Aliya the very next day.
sSs
The maidens sat in a valley secluded in the Rocky Mountains and untouched by mortal men. A fire was built high in the middle of it, and the maiden's sat in a circle around it.
This was a secret meeting; it had to be, their leader Artemis was no longer welcome among them. The girl who called the meeting stood and blew a ram's horn calling silence to the group.
Her name was Ariane, she stood at six foot three inches. She had been with Artemis since her childhood and she was the only maiden here who was part of the original group. Ariane's olive skin glowed in the light of the fire and her black hair shown. She was the most respected maiden now that Artemis was gone and she liked it that way.
"My sisters!" Cheers rang out from around the circle, Ariane's voice carried all heard her, all wanted to hear her.
"For centuries I have watched as our Lady let us mortal women join her in her quest for our sacred virginity. She allowed us only after one of her faithful nymph warriors was seduced by our Lord Zeus." Boo's were hollered from the girl's as well some well placed hissing.
"I was among the first of these mortal women allowed to hunt with our Lady, and she gave us the gift that as long as we were with her we would never die, we could be her companions for ever!
She promised a world safe from the hands of men, promised that none of us would ever be allowed with her unless we had not given away our sacred selves to that of a man's unholy snake! SHE PROMISED THAT SHE WOULD REMAIN A VIRGIN HUNTRESS FOR ETERNITY!
But our Lady has broken that promise. For sixteen years she has hidden her lover and her child from us. For sixteen years we have followed a none sacred leader. For sixteen years we have been lied to!" Yells, of agreement were raised from the crowd, even those who had not been a part of them for sixteen years agreed, they believed in the cause after all.
"I have watched as my past sister's have fallen from our vows, they left our group to become wives. They fell from the light but I never dreamed that our Lady would fall. Now that she has we must do to her what she did to that first seduced nymph.
She would want us to destroy her reason for falling. Once he has been destroyed we will burn her and send her to Hades where she will live in forever exile of us. Then we will take her daughter and she will be our new Lady, Lady Aliya, the virgin daughter of our past Lady; and our new leader."
The cheers shattered the silence that captivated the girl's. They agreed whole-heartedly, this is what their Lady would want. Now it was time for them to hunt the most dangerous predator of all, Lady Artemis of the Hunt.
sSs
"Aliya, the bath is ready. Come in when you are ready." Percy's throat was dry. His would be the first major injury that he would heal, he didn't know if he could do it. It had nothing to do with the fact that Aliya would be almost naked…well it had almost nothing to do with that.
In the back of his mind it told him that if he thought thoughts like that it would come to no good. His father was her father's brother, they were cousins, but at the same time siblings married in the world of gods and goddesses why not cousins.
'Stop that!' He demanded of his brain as the door began to open. Aliya's face peeked through, he could see that she was even paler than before, the area of her that wasn't covered with her towel were more bruised than her face.
As she came in she quickly shut the door behind her and swallowed quickly. Aliya glanced at her feet and then stuck her head up defiantly, she would not let eyes that she had just met embarrass her.
Slowly she unwrapped her towel and let it drop to the floor. She stepped away from it, and her skin was instantly covered in goose pimples.
Percy, against the little voice in his heads will, drank in her with his eyes. Every inch of skin from her head to her toes was covered with the deep purple bruises. He didn't happen to notice how her breasts were full and large. Percy tried not to notice how the red bra she wore clung to her breasts accenting the swell of it, all the rises and falls.
He tried notice that her abs were defined and hard. Percy wanted to ignore the fact that, had she not been covered in bruises, Aliya would have looked like she was craved from the whitest marble.
Percy swallowed when she stepped into the tub and her black thong came into full view… When she was submerged in the water he saw her relax, her arms uncrossed from her chest and laid floating at her sides.
"Okay, Aliya the way Poseidon taught me to do this was that I have to lightly brush the affected area with my palms, the more grievous the wound the harder I push and the longer my hand has to stay…If that alright with you?" Aliya glanced at him her eyes deep amethyst, she smiled.
"Why Percy, it isn't as if I mind being healed, do everything it takes to get me healthy again okay? I don't mind, truly." Percy nodded, he was glad the bruises were beginning to gross him out, he felt responsible for them.
"Okay I'm going to start now." He took off his long sleeved shirt leaving his chest exposed. Aliya noticed that his chest was lightly dusted with black curls, she smiled a sweet smile at him as he dipped his hands into the water.
He started with her feet, as they were fully submerged. His palms pressed down and he willed the water heal. The water did as he commanded, it was willing to help him and Aliya. He made quick work of her legs until he reached where he didn't have to reach but an inch in the water to touch her.
This spot happened to fall at her upper thighs. 'Great,' he thought 'Just great, this will take longer than before, I hope she realizes this.' He pressed down his palm and was surprised when a flood of warmth pushed back at his hand. He looked at Aliya.
"I thought you might need my help, and though I can't heal myself I can help other's heal…" He nodded. He continued up to the bottom of her breasts. Percy looked at Aliya, the color was returning to her cheeks slowly, and it seemed that she had fallen asleep.
Slowly a smile crept on Percy's lips as he watched her chest rise and fall with each breath. He very gently laid his hand on the very top of Aliya's breast. He moved the water up to cover it and then began to will it's healing.
Aliya's breath hitched, and then he realized, her injuries were deeper here. Pressing down harder he searched inside himself for the strength to heal her bruised lungs.
Then Percy was falling into a dark well. He found himself in a place completely devoid of light. Searching out he discovered a door with a small round handle. Opening the door slowly he was shocked by the light of the next place.
"Hello Percy…" A voice said, the words were familiar, he looked over and saw a young Aliya. She appeared to be about eight, her black hair was long and curly, here eyes were large and a deep blue. The young Aliya ran to him and hugged him.
"Where am I?" Percy asked looking at the young Aliya. She looked at him with her round eyes and grinned, she was missing her front teeth.
"You're on the Inside, Percy. This is our nerve system, our main core."
"In English…"
"Everyone has different parts of them that make them who they are on the Outside, but on the Inside we are all separate."
"So, you are one of her emotions?" Young Aliya shook her head.
"No I'm sort of like a state of being." Hearing such a young girl say that was sort of funny like a child professor.
"Oh really, what state of being are you? Silliness, Happiness oh I've got it Angst!" Percy laughed a hollow laugh. Young Aliya stuck her tongue out at him.
"Seriously! Silliness' room is three from here and she walks around with a rubber chicken. Happiness is so cheery she's boring you'd hate her and Angst is on the other side of me, she's good company but a little bit of a drama queen.
No, no I'm none of those lasting beings; I happen to be one of the most often lost states. In fact once I'm lost I can't be regained, funny huh?" Her eyes began to tear up and young Aliya sat on the floor.
"So you don't want her to lose you?"
"No! I want her to lose me, only once I'm lost can I become something else, something so pure, so lovely, so huge that I'll need a bigger room!"
"So what will you become?"
"I become Everlasting Love. True normally I'd become like Infatuation, only consumed with Lust and control, I would have been ugly and horrid. but seeing as we are determined to have a soul mate I am special I get to transform into Everlasting Love."
"What are you now?" Percy was shocked at the dreamy expression on the girl's face. When he said that her expression changed and it made him feel almost like he was the child.
"Duh Percy, I'm Innocence. Sure some call me Virginity, like stupid Jealousy, or Anger, usually it's Envy that starts it off. But I don't care I am our Innocence, and soon to be lasting love…unless Darkness wins…"
"Darkness?"
"You just met her, Darkness is the part of us that still loves Ares. Darkness tries to consume us and she almost had until we met you." Percy sat down with the little girl.
"Innocence, what did I have to do with it?" She giggled and sat in his lap.
"We like you. Even our combined self likes you. So now Darkness is annoyed, she wants us to be Ares' mate and to bring down Olympus. I have another name for Darkness, it is Evil."
"So I guess it's true everyone has some evil in them."
"Yes, but sometimes Darkness is larger than others. We, have a large Darkness, you could say that our combined form craved it when we were younger, and now we can't get rid of it, only slow it down. It is our hopes on the Inside that I can beat out Darkness so that she is the child."
"Were you once an adult?" Innocence nodded.
"Oh yes, I was the most beautiful of us all, even Inner Beauty and True Beauty could not compare to me. I was strong too, not a child.
It was when we met Ares that I began to grow weaker. He touched and kissed us in places that made us shudder. He awakened Lust from her sleep. He made colors appear before us that none had ever seen.
I used to be a toddler when he was around, I would have been changed too but our form thought it wrong. She knew that he wasn't meant; something here on the Inside told us that.
After that I grew steadily stronger, than when we met you we awakened a stronger Hope than ever before. You are kind and considerate." Innocence jerked her head suddenly, and her eyes changed to a feral gold.
"You must leave Percy Jackson. Darkness knows you are here, she will try to kill you, and our self's heart rate has increased, something is coming on the Outside and we don't like it!" She pushed him towards a pit that lay in the far corner of her room.
"But what about…"
"No Percy Jackson this is not the time for more questions, you must go or our life and yours will be in the gravest danger."
"But…"
"Good-bye Percy, we'll see each other again…!" Innocence pushed him into the pit and as he fell back to the Outside he watched her as her body became that of a pre-teen.
Falling back into his mind Percy felt himself slip into the tub, awaking Aliya from her dreamless sleep.
"Percy what are you?..." Aliya began to ask, when the door to the bathroom creaked and began to open.
"Percy hide!" Aliya pushed Percy farther into the bathroom. Soaking wet he crouched on the floor near her vanity.
"Aliya! Are you in here daughter? I though I heard someone in there with you, are you alright?" The voice of Hades filled the room. Aliya grabbed a dark blue robe and put it on quickly, she just tied the sash when Hades entered the room.
"Daddy?! What are you doing here?" Aliya had her hands behind her back and rung her fingers nervously. Hades walked up to her and kissed her forehead, thankfully Percy had healed the bruises there while he had been speaking with Innocence.
"I was worried about you precious." He took a seat on the over stuffed chair that was in the bathroom. Aliya came and sat in his lap.
Percy looked on the sight and saw that Aliya acted with Hades the way that he acted with his mother, and Hades responded in kind. Aliya laid her head affectionately on Hades' shoulder and he ran his fingers slowly through her wet hair.
"Daddy you know you don't have to worry about me, I'm a big girl." Hades patted her cheek and looked at her, his eyes distant and sad.
"I know darling, its just for all these years no monsters have attacked you and now all of a sudden you seem to be there only target. I love you so much Aliya…" Aliya put her head under her fathers chin.
"I love you to daddy…" Hades lifted her chin and looked into his daughters eyes. In them he saw her mother, so strong willed and confident. He also saw a sadness that she had always hidden from him, a sadness he knew came from her lack of a mother.
What worried Hades the most though was that he saw a secret, something Aliya was hiding from him, he knew because this was the same look her mother had always given him.
"Aliya," He pulled her closer to him "You don't realize how much you look like your mother…"
"Oh daddy, I know that I look more like you…" Hades chuckled deeply in his throat.
" Sometimes that happens to be true, mostly when you are lying, or stealing, when you're about to start a fight, are in a fight or finish one and yes your features are more harsh, but if you spent more time in the sun you would get her skin tone rather than looking like a corpse.
You only look like me when you do these things, but your laugh, your smile…when you sleep, when you are truly happy and when you are deeply sad you are your mother…"
Percy was taken aback when he saw a lone tear find its way down Hades cheek, leaving a lone trail in its wake.
"I lost her because I was to foolish to see that she was lying to me. I can't lose you, Aliya please tell me what has been going on. I can't leave only to come back and find you dead…I can't handle to see her die again in you…I'm not strong enough."
Aliya felt her own tears slip down her face. She knew, had always known, that her father truly loved her mother, but never before had she seen him cry for her, never seen him so full of emotion for her.
The breath hitched in her chest, she wanted to tell him everything. Aliya only wanted to spill her soul, to tell this man, her own father everything that she had gone through.
Only she couldn't, she couldn't do it to him he already seemed so old and tired. Aliya could tell that it would destroy him that he couldn't save her, or even help her.
"Daddy, you know that I have always loved you, and its true that I have not told you everything I should have, but now it's to late for it and I have to do this on my own.
I will always be your daughter, but I'm past your help now…" Hades hung his head and sobbed against his daughter's chest. Aliya held him there, she wanted to hold on to him forever.
"Sleep…sleep daddy…" Aliya whispered into his ear. She felt him slowly relax into her arms as her power took its toll on her fathers spent mind and body.
"Percy…" Percy came from his hiding place. Aliya was holding her sleeping father as though she were his guardian angel. "Help me get him into bed…" Percy nodded and took the Lord of the Underworlds feet.
Together they placed him into the bed opposite of Aliya's. Then Percy sat and watched as another side of Aliya showed. Yes she was protecting her father, but she was also mothering him.
She slid his black shirt from his body and folded it, laying it on the floor near the bed. Percy saw that his body was perfectly chiseled, the only imperfection was a scar that ran from his upper left shoulder to his navel.
He didn't notice when Aliya flung Hades pants at him. Looking up at her a startled expression on her face, Percy found that Aliya was glowing. She smiled at him and the lights caused it to look like she was shining.
"What are you smiling about?" Percy said, nonchalantly. Aliya put her hand to her mouth and pointed down.
"…Spongebob…" Was the only word he could make out. Then Percy understood. When Aliya had taken off Hades' pants she discovered a pair of Spongebob Boxers. Aliya stifled a laugh and covered Hades with a blanket. She then threw another log on the fire and motioned for Percy to come outside with her.
Once they were outside Aliya grabbed Percy's hands and spun him around. Laughing themselves to tears they soon fell onto the grass.
Aliya still clutching her stomach rolled next to Percy her eyes shining brightly.
"Percy I haven't been happy like this in a long time not since I was eight years old…" Percy swallowed quickly and smiled.
"Really why?" Aliya smiled and rolled back onto her back. She looked up at the stars.
"I was happy as a child, even though I didn't have a mother I didn't need one. Artemis visited us all the time, everything I needed she and Grandfather provided. Oh I knew she wasn't my mother, after all Grandfather had Mother's pictures everywhere, and every visit Daddy and I visited the spot where she was buried.
I never missed her though. If I did I went to her grave, that was my true home. I don't know how many times Grandfather came out to get me in the middle of the night.
The forest was my mother, I knew every inch of it, I never got lost and was never scared. I knew that my mother's spirit was still there and that she was protecting me. Grandfather used to call me a true daughter of Artemis until one day daddy had a surprise for me…"
Percy watched that while she talked wildflowers grew around Aliya, some were colored silver and purple, they twined into her hair. He realized that this must be what she meant, in nature she was at home because it welcomed her like it welcomed no other.
"What was the surprise?" Aliya looked at him and smirked.
"Look at me, I've only just met you and already you know so much about me…"
"Well, perhaps its because here it doesn't matter if we've just met, maybe its because we share a common need, the need to be accepted and loved, that no one here could be a stranger to you." Aliya nodded and then looked back to the sky.
"He took me down with him to the Underworld, he held me in his arms the entire time I was only eight or so, and I'd just lost me two front teeth. Anyway we go down and there's Cerberus and he's standing over this huge box.
We go foreword and I hear a bunch of whimpers. Inside the box are a litter of puppies all smaller than my palm. Some have three head, some four and I'm so excited.
'Aliya, I was very young when I got Cerberus, now I want you to have your own companion.' Here I was in my father's arms and I was getting a puppy. So I look them all over, there's about fifteen in total. Then I see the perfect dog.
She's black with two heads, the only one in the litter. The right head has a white heart on it and the left head has a white diamond on the chest.
I named her Amoretto. Then carrying both of us Daddy took us both further into the Under world. We reached the fields and he sets me down. 'Stay here, I have another surprise…' So I stand and wait and wait, hugging Amoretto to my chest.
When he comes back he's leading a woman behind him. Then I know why we took this trip, it wasn't about the dog, it was because of this woman.
I demand to know who she is and he gives a sheepish grin. 'This is your mother, I've finally found her for you.'" Aliya quickly takes a breath and when the sky goes cloudy Percy knows that this memory saddens her. Aliya goes on, speaking softly.
"I approach her and she just looks at me. She can't speak I realize so I take her hand when I touch I'm filled with this power, something I'd never felt before. She nods at me and pulls a chain off of her neck putting it on mine I feel even more power, I feel as though I may burst from all of this energy filling me.
'Speak! I command you!' I yell at her and she clutches her throat. 'What's going on tell me!' She takes my hand again and I feel more of the energy, my eyes are going white now, and now its painful to hold it all in.
I'm screaming and screaming and I just want it to stop and then I hear her voice in my head 'This is your birthright, you need this. I will always protect you Aliya, but you have to hold this power, keep it inside you until you can control it.'
I scream longer, and louder until I realize that each time she touches me she gets more transparent. Then I'm trying to run away because I want so much for her to stay here, so that when I need her I can come and see her.
'STOP! STOP!' I'm screaming I want her to stay….NOOOO! MOMMY! NOOO! DON'T LEAVE ME!" Aliya screams. Percy puts his hand over her mouth and then hugs her to himself.
"Hush, Aliya…it's alright I'm here for you, you're safe."
"I couldn't make her stay, she wanted me to have her gifts, I-I c-couldn't make her come b-back…P-percy…" Percy rocks her back and forth while she sobs into his shoulder.
"Everything is alright, now I think we should go back to our cabins and sleep, you've had a long day." Percy looks around making sure that no one has heard her. Aliya yawns.
"No stay out here with me, until I fall asleep, please…" Percy, unable to do anything else lays down beside Aliya. He puts his arm behind her head and she rolls into his body molding her body to his side. He wraps his arms around her and closes his eyes.
"I'll leave once you fall asleep…"
"Thank you Percy Jackson…" Aliya whispers closing her eyes and relaxes in the smell of the sea.
Percy breathed deeply Aliya's smell, and then without realizing it nuzzled into her hair. Sighing deeply he quickly fell into a deep sleep.
sSs
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropus sat around there all seeing crystal. Around them in the room were hundreds of thousands of threads, each one playing a different life. Some were old and long and looked about ready to break others were new and some short. Many were frail, but even more than that were strong, some were pure white, others black as coal but many more so had shades of gray.
Atropus almost without thought grabbed one of the older frailer threads and snipped it with her small silver scissors.
"Alex Green, 95 leaves a widow and many grandchildren." She said her eyes still fixed upon the globe. Lachesis nodded and pulled out a small tape measure.
"The widow has another two years of living and will find happiness again." Clotho spun out a new thread and hung it to the ceiling.
"Tony Patterson, a new life begun after one has ended."
Clotho, Lachesis and Atropus, the Three Fates all sat unmoving riveted by the two young demi-gods.
"Amazing…" Clotho said "I spin so many lives and yet I've never looked so closely at one than I do now."
"Incredible…" Lachesis said touching the globe with her finger "I measure so many lives but I never realized how much you can fit into one thread."
"Spectacular…" Atropus added "I cut so many threads but I never realized how much trouble can be in one thread…one life. I feel bad for her…Clotho, Lachesis can we help her out at all?"
Clotho stood. She looked around twenty-one, her red hair fell below her waist and was braided loosely so that tiny pieces often escaped it. Clotho had a kind face and a sympathetic one, but she was also wise. Her eyes were green and showed just how old she truly was. As the oldest sister she had once done all three jobs by herself and was the most experienced with lives.
At this moment she wore an I Love Ashton shirt and a pair of Daisy Duke shorts. She paced around the room biting her manicured nails.
"I'm not sure we'd be allowed to Atropus, you remember the last time we meddled into the threads…" Lachesis stood and nodded.
She was slightly shorter than Clotho. Her brunette hair was in a ponytail at the top of her head. She wore a sports bra and running shorts. Appearing to be about eighteen her bright blue eyes showed that she was much, much older than that.
"Yes Atropus, the last time we meddled the brothers decided to not reproduce anymore! We caused that war and all those threads to be cut!"
Atropus was the youngest of the three, she was also much shorter. At fifteen she still wore her blonde hair in pigtails, with a cute but pink summer dress on. Her hazel eyes sparkled with emotion.
"We didn't cause the war, we tried to make the boys life better, we tried to make him happy!"
"And what will we do for this girl? Try to destroy our oldest mistake?" Clotho said running to a closet. Inside it were threads of pure gold and silver. They were the threads of the Higher Gods and the Lower Gods.
"Your mistake sister, we were not born yet!" Lachesis spit back at Clotho. Clotho glared at her sister.
"What are we to do but that? And though they may be my mistake we must all take credit for it, we are a trio afterall!" Clotho yelled, causing many of the threads to move from her breath.
"All we have to do is continue watching, I know that we'll be able to help her I just haven't been able to see when yet." Atropus said defiantly, watching Aliya and Percy sleep.
"You've been future gazing with out us!?" Lachesis and Clotho yelled. Atropus nodded.
"You wouldn't have wanted to, fearing we'd learn to much, but from what I saw so many threads will tangle around hers that we will eventually have no choice but to help her."
"I hope you are right Atropus…" Clotho sulked.
"Yes I would hate it if you wasted all that time on nothing." Lachesis said laying on her bed and grabbing the new Teen Vouge.
"If I have seen true than this will be the biggest clash between the gods since the Titans were defeated…" Atropus said and her sisters were silent. Atropus saw that she had put fear into her sister's eyes.
"What is the event that starts it? Perhaps if we stop that…?" Lachesis said running towards the globe causing it to go blank.
"Yes Atropus, perhaps if we can stop that?..." Clotho said looking to her sister, but Atropus only shook her head.
"I'm afraid sisters that it is four events that start the chain reaction and three of the four have already happened…and stopping the fourth may perhaps make it worse, rather than better." Atropus cast her hand over the globe and she noticed that it was now almost morning on earth, they'd have to keep constant surveillance now that they ran on different times than Earth.
"What were the events, perhaps if we gaze into the past we would better understand?" Clotho sounded hopeful so Atropus agreed.
"The first event was Aliya was revealed to certain gods and goddesses, causing her to meet Ares who falls in lust with her, if this is revealed it will cause Hades to rage war with Ares.
The second event was Artemis being revealed as Aliya's Grandmother, causing her huntresses to wish for Aliya's Grandfathers blood to be spilt.
The third event is Aliya meets Percy Jackson and forms a bond with him, which enrages Ares, and what is worse is that they're bond can not be separated even when the wars come.
The final event is Aphrodite giving Aliya the Amulet Amore, causing Aliya to find her soul mate thus enraging Hades to war."
Clotho sat on her bed, she buried her face in her hands and began to weep. Lachesis join her and sobbing filled the room. Atropus tried to comfort her sisters.
"The last time we meddled we made things worse, perhaps this time it would be for the better?" Atropus said in a small voice.
Clotho, looked up and nodded, Lachesis just stopped her weeping for a meek 'settled then'. Atropus looking very pleased with herself placed her silver scissors on the table next to her bed, she then laid down.
"We will do good this time we must…" she whispered as sleep over took her.