Chapter 10

We Discover Why Things Are

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P.S: I took the story out of bold, I have read all bold posts and they hurt my eyes. Don't want that to happen here!

*ALYIA'S PAST continued*

"That's a good little girl," cackled Melinoe, "doing whatever her daddy says. Haaha heehee heh…"

"Quiet! Melione, Hecate. Put the boys in the cage." ordered Hades.

Hecate and Melione thrust Mickey and Jeremiah toward Demeter, and the boys fell to the ground. When the boy's bodies finally began to move, Demeter raised her hands and a cage made out of thick, twisting roots formed around them.

Alyia looked at her feet. Knowing that she was doomed anyways, there was no way out of this mess. In her mind, a plan was brewing, a plan that could save them all, now if Hades would only do as she hoped, everything would work.

"Bring in the essence!" commanded Hades

A skeleton emerged from the darkness of the palace carrying a small beaker on a silver tray. The container was as long as a man's middle finger, but its contents were another story. It carried a black, glowing ball, no bigger than a marble.

Hades stepped down from his throne, grabbed the beaker from the warrior and walked over towards Alyia, who was standing in the middle off the circle. He leaned over towards her and said:

"Are you ready? Are you ok?"

Alyia took her time to answer, her bubbling hatred for her "father" growing with every passing second. "You are seriously asking me if I'm ok. I'm not ok. You're going to turn me into some dummy for this chaos stuff and my brothers are going to die! Everything's peachy."

"Listen, I realize that you hate me for what I am doing right now, but it is the only way that peace will be restored to the world. The forces of Chaos and balance have been battling, fighting to overcome one another. Lately, Chaos has threatened to overcome the balance in our world. Zeus, Poseidon and I managed to get chaos all bundled up and sealed in this vile."

Hades brought the beaker towards Alyia, giving her a close up view of the light. I was bouncing all around the container, creating miniscule cracks where it bounced.

"In order for this power to be suppressed, it must be sealed into another's body. We have been waiting a long time for a demigod that would be powerful enough to be the vessel. We tried once, 73 years ago on a boy named Kevin, but he …. he wasn't strong enough to take on the power alone. You however my dear have the potential of being the most powerful demigod in an extremely long time. And trust me when I say this, I have yet to see a demigod that would have rivaled your power."

"I don't care. I'm not doing this for you or anyone else, I am doing it for my brothers. Your may say that their souls will be taken from me, but I will prevent that. Nothing's going to happen to them." Alyia retorted.

"… of course."

Alyia stared up at her father and said "Let's just get this over with"

"Sir," Charon intervened "may I remind you that even though Alyia is more powerful than Kevin was, but didn't you want to give her the extra protection? Just in case?"

He said that in an almost pleading voice, begging Hades to put extra precautions over her, for he DID NOT want to see her spontaneously combust, not like Kevin. He cared for Alyia and did not want to be the one to clean up her scattered remains.

"Thank you Charon, for that reminder. I do indeed want to see my daughter alive after this."

A look of terror passes through Alyia's face, but it was quickly suppressed. She let her blue eyes wander and they eventually landed on her two helpless siblings trapped in the root cage. Their faces showed obvious fear, and a look of concern for their sister; but they were too young to fully grasp the danger of the present situation. Just then, Hades cried out:

"Εκάτη και melione, δίνουν το κορίτσι λίγη από τη δύναμή σας. Εκείνη που χρειάζεται για να επιβιώσει. Τώρα!" (1)

Hecate gave her master a quick nod and glided towards Alyia, her tattered dress flowing behind her. As she drew near, the chalk circle around Alyia began to glow a dark green. Hecate entered the circle and stood in front of the girl and spoke:

"Με τη δύναμη της Γαίας και Ουρανού, μπορώ να μεταφέρω λίγη από τη δύναμή μου σε σας, έτσι ώστε να μπορεί να αντέξει τη δύναμη του χάους!" (2)

She pressed her middle finger to the center of the girl's forehead; and instantly Alyia's eyes began to glow green, the same color as the circle around them. Her body began to shake, and she let out several screams, begging for the pain to subside. When Hecate finally pulled away, Alyia dropped to the floor onto her hands and knees, gasping. The circle faded back to normal and her eyes returned to their regular blue. Hecate kneeled down near the girl and spoke.

"Λυπάμαι που σας ανάγκασαν τον πόνο, εγώ μπορεί να είναι η θεά της μαγείας, αλλά αυτό δεν σημαίνει ότι θέλω να σας κάνουν να υποφέρουν. Έχετε δύναμη νέους ένα, υπάρχουν περισσότερα να έρθουν. Melione είναι αδίστακτος, έχει θάρρος." (3)

Alyia nodded stood up. Slowly, but surely, she got onto her feet again and stood up straight. Hecate retreated from the circle and faded into the shadows. Melione stepped forward and approached the girl.

Now, Alyia was not one to express fear openly, but seeing the half mummy-ghost woman coming to her, she couldn't help but whimper quietly. Melione stepped inside the circle and the chalk line burst into flames. She spoke:

"Με τη δύναμη της Γαίας και Ουρανός: σου δίνω δύναμη μου, έτσι ώστε να μπορεί να αντέξει τη δύναμη του χάους!" (4)

She placed her middle finger on Alyia's forehead and the girls eyes began to glow with the color of the flames. Alyia cried out several times, but now that she was used to the pain, she did not let out a scream, which seemed to infuriate Melione. Soon it was over, and Melione stepped back into the shadows and the chalk circle faded back to normal. Alyia collapsed onto her knees again, but her recovery was quicker than her first. She finally got up and looked to see the reaction of her brothers and Hades. A few seconds passed and then Jeremiah let out a shriek:

"Al..Alyia? What HAPPENED? Daddy what did you do to her?"

"She has received some of Hecate and Melione's power. What happened is a side effect. Nothing else." Hades confided

"What? What's wrong?" Alyia asked, "Can I have a mirror or something?"

Hades gave a motion to one of the skeletons to give her a mirror. When it appeared with the mirror, it handed it to Alyia, but stayed outside the chalk circle. Alyia took the mirror with shaking hands and held it up to her face. She screamed. Her short, platinum blond hair had grown down to her shoulders and turned a midnight black. Her skin had paled to the same, chalky white that Melione had. Last, her eyes, oh her poor eyes. What used to be a happy, comforting blue, had turned pitch black. She looked at the mirror, wishing with all her might that it was a prank mirror, or it was dust the chalk dust from the circle making her like this. She started trembling and the mirror dropped from her hand. It shattered upon impact, causing shards of glass to cover the ground.

"You," she looked up at Hades, "YOU TURNED ME INTO A GHOST!"

"No, daughter-"

"Don't call me that. You never were-"

Hades interrupted "yes, yes whatever. What I was saying before was that you are NOT a ghost. The combined protection spells of Melione and Hecate turned you into what you are now."

"MY SKIN IS WHITE!"

Hades sighed. "I have no time for your complaints. "

Hades rose off his thrown and walked toward Alyia, who was still inside the chalk circle. He stepped inside the circle and it turned into miniature jewels. Alyia looked up at him, trembling. The emotional effects of her "change" had not worn off yet. He placed the beaker holding the energy in a syringe and injected the orb into her shoulder.

Alyia immediately stiffened. Hades stepped away as Alyia's shoulder began to glow a bright white. The glow traveled down her arm and around until it covered her entire body, from her toenails to the tips of her hair. Alyia mouth was opened in a silent scream. As the light pulsed, the little glass shards from the mirror began to vibrate and started swarming around her, driving Hades to back up even further. The pulsing light suddenly stopped, and started congesting in Alyia's chest. It created a "vacuum" inside the circle. The vacuum caused the glass shards to collect over her head, packing themselves so closely that they formed a solid ball of glass. Hades raised his hands, knowing what was to happen next and created a shield, protecting himself, the boys, his wife, and the witches. The light inside her chest exploded outward, blinding everyone and propelling a humongous amount of force out from her body.

…..

When the smoke finally cleared, Hades had been thrown across the room Persephone and Melione had been completely knocked out. With all the chaos around them, Mickey and Jeremiah's cage was untouched except for a small portion had been burned away, giving them the chance they needed to crawl out of their confinement. Hades stood up shakily, and saw Alyia floating a few inches from the ground her hands glowing with energy.

"Hades."

A strange voice came from Alyia's mouth, it seemed very powerful and as old as time itself.

"My creator," Hades groveled and bowed on the floor, "this is your new body. I hope you find it sufficient."

"It is as you describe. This girl was the perfect vessel for my greatness. She was able to withstand the- the" The voice started to falter and her glowing eyes closed.

"Creator? Is something-" Hades stammered.

Alyia opened her eyes, which had changed back to her new black color. She looked at Hades with murderous anger in her eyes.

"You have underestimated my abilities, Hades. Yes, I was strong enough to accept the power of Chaos, and yes he is bonded with my soul. But you did not count on the fact that my will is stronger than his."

Quicker than the speed of light, she ran to the cage and scooped up Jeremiah and Mickey. She turned to the dumfounded god and said:

"Hades, I bid you adieu," An empty wine glass appeared in her hand and she raised it toward him, as if giving a toast. "to the hope of never seeing your sorry face EVER again."

And just like that, she was gone.

*****end chapter*****

Ok, ok. I know it's been an EXTREMELY long time since I updated, but hey, what do you want me to say? High school is very time consuming. That's all I got for you right now.

A reader (Aeternum Spe) noted that my story is turning into too much a "Mary Sue" story and I completely agree with him/her. I went head first into this story without really thinking this through. I have decided to put this story on hiatus until I figure some things out. All I know is that if I DO continue "Rogue" it will be less "all-about-alyia" and more about her adventures with Percy and the gang. I just needed to put the last chapters in to explain her past/freak powers.

Here are the translations to the Greek lines:

" melione, give the girl a little of your power. She needs it to survive. Now! "

"With the power of Gaia and Uranus, I transfer some of my strength to you, so you can withstand the power of Chaos!"

"I regret that I caused you pain, I may be the goddess of magic, but this does not mean that I want to make you suffer. You have a new power, there is more to come. Melione is ruthless, have courage. "

Same as #2

Ok, I think I covered everything. Even though this is going on hiatus, I have just started summer vacation and I WILL be starting a new story. This one will be about Percy. A couple of people have done a similar idea, but none like what I have in mind. Be on the lookout!

Thank you to all my readers that have favorited/liked/read/commented!