Sea people, great!
"What are these!" I yelled, Xavier replied "I don't know!" Everyone pulled out their weapons and my sword appeared in my hand, Rane runs out and points at the serpent which split into six necks and they bend over and I saw them clearly, their faces were girlish yet having three sets of razor sharp teeth isn't helping. "That's Scylla!" Rane shouted, then she pointed at the half animals-fishes and said their name, "and those are Ceteas!" she said, the ceteas snapped and growled at us with their leopard, wolves, and lion foreparts. "watch out!" Karen warned as she slash at a head that came close to her. My siblings starts fighting and I see Dallas with Lexi going to the bastilles and start firing Greek fire at the Ceteas. Scylla hisses and pull out her octopus limbs and wrap them around the trireme. I look at Xavier, "you have to win this, we'll deal with the limbs, you have to take Scylla away from here and away!" Xavier nodded and start to get to the middle of the ship. I start running and Rane is next to me, she pulls out a short leaf shaped sword from her back scabbard and I see Brian and Sheldon stabbing and slashing the limbs. The ship starts slowly breaking apart with the slow steady speed of cracks and squeak as its increasing. I stop in front of a darkest pink tentacles and I stab my sword deep in it. Scylla hisses more and I pulled back out my sword. Rane slices one up and I looked back at Xavier as he focuses, water starts slowly gathering around him. The cool bluish water runs up from the Atlantic and comes onboard the trireme, it starts swirling around Xavier in a double helix going up in the air. I keep slashing and stabbing at the tentacles and Scylla kept screeching and her body parts keeps slowly healing back. "Xavier! are we almost done yet?" I asked, he didn't give me a response. "Xavier! we're not playing around! are you done?" I repeated in anger, still no answer. "piece of shit..." I cursed at the tentacle, one of Scylla's head looks at Xavier and starts to curl up into a strike. I finished hacking my tentacle and told Rane, "I have to go save Xavier! don't let this boat sink on us!" I ordered, she looked at me and nodded. I ran to Xavier and jump over the water in the way. Scylla strikes and I hold my sword horizontally and Scylla bit it. My sword glows more brighter and Scylla's spare heads attack me. I hesitated and shut my eyes. Please let me live or feel so much pain. A few seconds past, I open my eyes and see the water surrounding me like a wall.
I look at Xavier, his eyes glowed sea-green and the water surged around him. He push his hands towards Scylla's main body and all of the water pump to her. It turned from a messy wave of water into in straight spear and it pushes her out of the water and to the sky. The water steadily fell out away from the trireme but make some waves that rocked us. I felt a little sick and I look at Xavier in awe. He dropped on the ground and his eyes faded back to normal. I walked toward him and lay next to him panting a bit. "Hey, come on man, get up." I said, he looks at me and pants as well. "sorry dude, I'm just... tired." he said, he closed his eyes and crashes. "Xavier! don't die!" I joked, he would have laughed saying that he isn't. Lexi ran over and examined him. I got up and walk to Dallas. "t'was some damage, not m'uch but I 'm going to need a heavy wo'rking kid." Dallas said, he handed me a toolbox and I sighed and held it. "Am I the only one working with you?" I asked, he laughed and calmed down. "No, Gavin and Brian are going to help." Dallas said, "but that just leaves Sheldon, what if something happens?" I asked again, Dallas laughs and looks at me "lad, 're you sexist?" he asked, I thought of my words and shook my head. "sorry, it was by accident." I responded, I felt a bit dumbfounded and Dallas laughs a bit more. "'et's get to work no." he starts walking downstairs and I followed him. We walk to a hole that lays between the roaring waves and the outside air. "alright, do you know 'ow to repair?" Dallas asked, I shook my head. I'm a son of Ares! not Hephaestus like you! Dallas sighed and grunts a bit. "a'lright, I'm not that good on te'aching but I'll try." he responded, he takes out a modern day hammer and shows it to me. "do y'ou know w'at it is?" I looked a little ticked and was about to yell but I bit my tongue. I replied, "Yes I do, I know most of the tools." He nodded and pulled back his hammer. Gavin and Brian walks downstairs and I greeted them. I turned back to Dallas and let him continue. He takes out a nail and asked Gavin, "did you bring the spare planks?" Gavin looks at Dallas and face palmed himself. "crap, forgot about that." he answered, I chuckled as he walked to get the spare planks. Dallas grunts and shake his head, "you lads these days." he chuckled a bit, I looked at him confused, not knowing what Brian was doing.
"you're not that old compare to us as well Dallas." Brian said, Dallas grunts "listen, I don't wan' a fight n'ow, later." I look at the two, I felt like it's my fault if this turns into a fight, I don't know why but I can just feel it. Ares, please send me a message why I feel guilty. Gavin comes back with a load of wooden planks and dropped it next to Dallas. Even though the ship's outside is made of bronze, it's reinforced by cedar wood on the inside. Dallas start instructing us on how to build. We repaired the hole and we were exhausted. We dragged ourselves to the sleeping quarters and I see Xavier playing with Sheldon. Xavier has a scar on his left arm in a messed up shape of a trident. I waved at him and told him to get off of my bunk. Xavier nodded and got off and Brian told Sheldon to go play with the girls. Sheldon whined and Brian repeated and Sheldon left. I sat and relaxed on my bunk. I doze off.
A flash of a purple banner came to my view and disappears. All is dark until fire breaks the vigil. Fire spread faster and faster, men appear out of the fire screaming and burning alive. I was surrounded by it, the burning bodies crawled, scrambled, dragged to me. They screech horrible and painfully. I covered my ears to block out the noise, it's still there. Stop! stop! take them away! I closed my eyes and opened them. Golden words in all caps SPQR charged into the fire and legions scattered in, staying in their box formations, they advanced. The burning bodies turned to them and attacked them. The legions got hammered by from 5 to 500 of them at a time. The legions stayed calm and fought, stabbing them down as the waves came. I shouted and cheered but nothing came out of my mouth. I start running to through the fire, if you ask me what it felt like. It felt like you're on the sun! (yeah, sorry for the exaggeration). I couldn't touch any burning bodies nor they can either, we just past each other. I look at the legions as their dim shiny swords shone yellow as they stab their victims. I felt one thing that is true. My sword, it appears in my hand and I feel like joining the Romans... like siblings. The legions starts to turn into a blaze, but unlike the fire, they're golden, whitish fire, unlike the dark crimson fire. I looked appalled and I snapped out of it. Words charged in at the legions' behind. They didn't see it, words bashed them, destroying them. They fought valiantly, but they all fell, ten by ten. I tried to scream but I remember no words can come out of my mouth. One of the soldiers, wearing heavier and decorated armor waved his sword, commanding his men to stand still in Latin. "Ad victorum! Ad victorum!" The soldier kept their morale. They knew they would lose but a whisper came behind me "fleeing the battlefield is one of the biggest crime in Rome." I twisted around and saw no one. Just the fire growing stronger, I turned back at the fight. The words became clearer, all of the legions fell and all of the words grouped together. Together they say, "Rome will fall with the old Earth."