After a while, everyone realized that it was getting late and, they decided to go home.
Sophie was all prepared to walk home, survive dinner, then fall asleep and interrogate a wisdom goddess.
Her planes were foiled at the "walk home" part when Aaron and Diana decided to walk her home; both looking around like their lives depended on it.
"Why exactly are you two here?"
Diana rolled her eyes, "Protecting you."
"From who him?" She pointed at Aaron.
"Hey Sophie that's not very nice, I'll inform you that I am not the thing you need protecting from." She was walking between Diana and Aaron so, she was literally in the middle of a sibling argument. She was having doubts that she would survive the walk.
"Yeah, you need protecting from monsters and him."
"Why would I do her any harm?"
"You might accidently kill her from being too annoying."
"Hey!"
Sophie tuned them out. Jeez, one metal bird attack and you get stuck with them.
By the time that they got to Sophie's house, she was ready to shoot someone.
"Alright were here. I think that I can survive in my own home."
Aaron smirked, "yeah, today's monster wouldn't of pecked your brains out if Diana and I hadn't shown up." He said sarcastically.
"As much as I hate to admit it, my brother's right. We're just here to get you stuff."
Now Sophie was getting irritated. "But tonight's movie night!"
Diana scoffed, "when movies became more important that survival I don't know but, you are lucky my brother and I showed up when we did. No more near death experiences thank you."
"Fine," Sophie grumbled walking into the house with her body guards at her heals.
"Mom, I'm home!" Sophie shouted, while Aaron cringed.
"Yeah, be loud will you." He muttered.
Then, an answering shout came back. "Hi honey, I'm in the living room."
When they got to the living room, they discovered Sophie's family in movie preparation mode.
They were planning to watch the movie in an hour but, with dinner and all the arguments they were able to get into over which movie to watch, it was a miracle if they had enough time to finish the movie before bed.
Charlotte was the first one to notice them. "Hi Sophie, who are your friends? By the way, Mr. Nobody is still waiting on you to pay him back his money." Fiona took a break from arguing with her mother about movie choices to explain.
"Mr. Nobody is Charlotte's imaginary friend."
"He's not imaginary!"
"Then explain why I can't see him?"
"I'm the only one that can."
"Why?"
"He likes me best."
"You two, I'm sure that Sophie's friends didn't come here to hear you argue. Now please be quiet."
Diana launched in an explanation. "Hello Mrs. Williams, we are wondering if Sophie can sleep over my house."
"She can if she wants too."
Sophie was tempted to tell her mom that in fact, she didn't want to but, thinking of the monster attack this morning, she didn't want to put her family in danger again.
"Yeah, we came here to get a few things."
"Alright, but why is the boy here?"
Diana sighed. "He is my brother Aaron, he will be there too."
"Alright" Sophie could tell that her mom didn't particularly like it that he would be there, but she was letting it go.
A few minutes later, Sophie had packed everything up and was on her way.
By the time they got to the twins house, it had gotten dark.
"Alright, we better get inside." Diana was looking around worriedly.
"One question," Sophie asked. "Why were you near my house anyways?"
"Easy" Aaron answered "Diana here is like a monster detector she sensed it so we went to kill it before it could do that much harm."
"Cool."
When they got inside, Aaron promptly ran over to the next room over and brought out a woman with midnight black hair and deep blue eyes.
Diana smiled "Hey mom."
Then the woman turned to Sophie "Nice to see you Athena, was wondering when you would stop by."
Sophie was surprised, "how do you know who I am?"
"How am I not going to recognize you? I've known you since the day you were born"
"Wait a moment, are you Leto?"
"Yes, I see you met my kids."
"Yeah, why did you call me by me old name?"
"Because, I believe that we got our names for a reason, why should we use others?"
When it was finally time to go to sleep, Sophie found herself on Diana's bed. Diana herself was camped out on the floor. Sophie had tried to convince her that she would have been fine on the floor, but Diana was having none of it.
That night, instead of meeting her counterpart or going to camp crazy, Sophie had a trip down memory lane.
She was sitting in a big cavity. It was immense in size. It had a little light but the flickers of the four beings in it.
The first one Sophie recognized instantly.
It was her mom. She had her same hair the color of honey, same grey eyes the same as Sophie's and as usual, she was helping her children.
She was holding a girl that Sophie recognized as Fiona. She was crying in her mother's arms. She was deathly pale super skinny and looked as if every second being there tortured her. Even though Sophie thought that it was just a dream, she could feel her heart breaking.
Holding her hand was Charlotte. She looked better than her sister. She was the only source of light in this place. Her whole being seemed to glow and, around her, things came to life then, collapsed on themselves to create something new.
There was the Parthenon, the pyramids of Giza, fire with smoke trailing up in the air, planes flying in the sky.
"Really, if you would just not argue with fathers ideas so much, you would be better off." Charlotte said sympathetically.
"He's no father of mine" Fiona chocked out. "He swallowed mother. Leaving us to live in this hell hole, look around you. Mother uses all of her energy to keep us alive, you are our only light, look at Athena, she is denied the very thing that she lives for. She would never be great in here.
Sophie could then feel herself speaking. Why would I want glory if you are here, racked in pain, punished for existing.
The Fiona look alike just cried harder. "If it wasn't for me, we wouldn't be here and, we all know it."
Their mom stroked her hair. "It's not your fault who you are my daughter. No one here blames you."
Then Fiona sat up. "Just you three, how would you feel if your own father hates and fears you, if all that you want to do is strike him down, even if you know that it's wrong?"
Sophie stood up and knelt in front of her sister. "You're the goddess of free will, you drive gods and men alike to have their own thoughts and wishes. Without you, we would be nothing."
Then she held Charlottes hand. "And, you are the goddess or imagination, without you, nobody would be able to think up anything. You unlock all of the secrets to the world. All the future philosophers and tacticians will have their glory because of you. I pale in comparison to both of you.
The Fiona lookalike smiled grimly at her. "Says the future Olympian."
I put Fiona and Charlotte in here for a reason. Since no one is in charge of free will or imagination in Greek mythology, I decided to invent them.
I'm going to be gone for a while starting in two days so, I'm going to write as much as I can till then.
