I thought to Hermes, 'Bring it on!' My next lesson was to practice necromancy, the real deal. I was ready for the impossible, considering how my whole life has been. Bringing some of the most scary people on Earth back to life, sure. With an obnoxious god of thieves who is more powerful than you and might just kill you at the moment? No biggie.
Hermes rushed to my side, handing my a shovel. I rose one of my eyebrows as I took the thing unwillingly. My look clearly said what-in-Olympus-is-this-for? 'Dig a pit'. Okay, I was ready for everything that involved being in supreme power, but this? Dude, do I even look like I'm for maid-servant duty?
For people who have seen me and are out there reading this do not, and I mean do not say yes. I'll kill you for forever and let you suffer for eternity all the time I get to wake you up from the dead again. Once Hermes teaches me, of course which I think he isn't doing. In front of me magically appeared some barley, wine, water, milk and honey.
But then I finally saw where this was going, and chose to dig the pit. I mixed all the ingredients together and poured it into the pit. Then, three white rams appeared in front of me. Hermes taught me how to chant the spell. "Now, you only have to chose the person you want to summon back from the dead in backwards. Chose a lesser being for now, supernatural forces are stubborn and hard to return to the underworld." The person I chose, well you wouldn't say she was a lesser being. I remembered my debt to Ares and sacrificed those three white rams in his honor. After that? Well, let's just say I gave him a extra present.
In Greek I summoned her:
This woman I summon, from the Elysium Fields in Hades, atyloppiH. Daughter of Ares, Queen of the Amazons, arise from your underworld refuge and come back to the land of Gaea.
As if on cue, the god of war appeared before us at the arrival of his daughter. Hippolyta bowed in the presence of her father. Ares shook his head slightly and held his arms out, smiling. The former queen of the Amazons came running to Ares and held each other in a fatherly embrace.
Sophia swears that she saw me tearing up at the scene. I don't know, maybe it was the fact that I never really knew my family. Seeing the two like this made me think, What if that was Metis, Hades and me? Now that I knew the truth about my parents and the possibility in us being a real family became the only dream I ever wanted to come true.
After Ares' and Hippolyta's family reunion the two turned to me. The superior spoke first, "Child, I am forever in your debt. I haven't seen the face of my precious daughter and missed her so. You have brought me joy into this dreadful life. How can I repay you?"
Thinking about the choices I really didn't know. Unfortunately, the dead can read my mind too. "As am I. Although my gift to you is small, please accept it," the tone in her voice said that I didn't have much of a choice.
"Before going to Florida, you must first go to Boston. There resides the Amazons. Once you arrive, summon me again and I will convince them to be in your side at the war. Although I am no longer their queen, I still have the one one wish every queen must have. As for my father's wish, it shall be granted when you must need it. Go and find your destiny."
Hippolyta dissolved into the ground and Ares materialized into thin air. That left Sophia and me. Turns out Captain Cathy couldn't stand the whole violence aura of the scene. Sophia said, "What war? Do you it's the one that might happen between you and Zeus?" I didn't answer but I knew one thing for sure. Whatever it was against, I didn't like it.