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~when the children are eight~
"Go Max, go!" Willow cheered, clapping her hands in the stands as her brother rounded the last corner of the track, Ollie close on his heals. "You can do it Ollie!"
A few months ago, their father had informed them they would be holding an olympics based on the track and field events. The last children of Chaos were participating along with Terra, Kyley, a daughter of Aether and Hemera, Dan, Kyley's older brother, Susan, a daughter of Ourea, and Timmy, a son of Eros and Thesis.
Currently, the boys were running the mile race. Willow sat in the stands with her sisters as she watched Max begin to kick in Ollie right behind him. The two boys were leading the race at a clipping 7:43 mile pace. Percy was behind them, still running quickly. A little ways behind them were Ethan and Paul, stride for stride, Dan a yard in front of them. Paul was faster, but Ethan had the inner lane. Drafting off them, Timmy was running hard. Hayden and Alabaster brought up the rear.
The crowd cheered loudly as Max pulled away from Ollie and crossed the finish line a beat ahead of his brother. Their hazel green track uniforms were soaked with sweat as were their black shorts. Thanatos and Hypnos the only ones without children in the games, recorded their times as Dan, Paul, Ethan, and Percy finished. Soon all the boys had finished.
"Any girls running in the 1600, please report to the starting line," Chaos voices booms. Our whole little group, Imogene, Keira, Mia, Amy, Holly, Kyley, Terra, Susan and I made our way down the stairs out onto the track.
Unlike the traditional Greek Olympics, we did not compete naked. Instead we wore some of the clothes that mortal competing in track meets would wear. Willow and Imogene wore hazel green shirts with black shorts. Nyx's kids wore navy blue tank top with black shorts. Terra wore a blood red shirt and black shorts with red flames down the side. Ananke's children wore purple tank tops with black shorts. Kyley and her brother Dan wore bright yellow shorts with tan brown shorts. Susan wore a bright white shirt with brown shorts.
Hypnos held out a black bowler hat that has little slips of paper in it. Each paper has a number one through eight, referring to the lane that you will be in. To be fair, the lanes will be random.
Imogene got lucky when she pulled and received a one. She moved to the inner track. Mia got a seven while Keira pulled a four. Willow plunged her hand into the hat and grabbed a slip. Five, not horrible, but certainly not great. Susan took the outside lane with a nine. Kyley drew a three while Terra grabbed the two. Holly drew the eight while her sister, Amy, got the six.
The nine girls got into their lanes. Thanatos stepped in front of them with the starting gun in his hand. "A few rules for starters. You must complete four laps around the track. Once the gun goes off you may move from your respective lane, as long as you don't cut anyone off. You must run OUTSIDE of the thick white line in lane one for your time to count. You may not touch your hands to the ground throughout the race or the start. The clock stops when your torso, not your arms, legs, or head, crosses the finish line. Any questions?"
No one speaks up. "Okay, I'll say, On your marks. At that time you may get into your starting position. Then the gun will go and the race has begun. Hypnos will ring a bell when the first people have one more lap."
Keira smiles reassuringly from beside Willow. "Good luck."
"Run fast, little dark hair," Willow uses her best friend's nickname. The two exchange smiles.
"Take your mark," Thanatos commands. Willow focuses her game and gets into the lunge starting position.
The gun fires a blank into the air and the race has begun. Willow sprinted off the line, not too fast, but enough to get ahead of the pack. She darted across lanes three and four, far enough ahead of Kyley and Keira not to cut them off. Making for lane one, the daughter of Gaia found that it was being held by none other than her own sister, Imogene.
She's my full-blooded sister. Of course we will have similar abilities. But if she has a shorter distance to run, how am I ever going to be able to get into lane one? She pondered as they rounded the second turn, having to run faster than Imogene to keep with her. The two breeze the first lap at a blinding speed as fast as the boy's.
As they rounded the first corner, Willow is able for the first time to see how everyone else is running in the mile. Kyley and Terra were running side by side, Keira and Mia just a step behind them. In a pack, Amy, Holly, and Susan run together, but Susan is slowly pulling away.
They continue to fly around the track for the second lap. Thanatos reads their time to Hypnos as they race by. "3:58. Not as fast as their brothers, but very quick."
The third lap is flying by. Both girls are tiring, but neither wants to be the one to drop back. For Imogene to drop back, it would mean giving Willow access to the inner lane and an easy win. For Willow to drop back would mean that Imogene would nothing standing in her way to the victory.
Hypnos rings a bell as the duo race across the line. Both open a can of fast for the final lap.
Willow's right leg stutters a little as she strides forward on the first turn of the final no, not now, she thought as she struggled to keep the pace with her ailing knee. Even five years after discovering the disease in her right leg, nothing could be fixed and she still had to wear the black knee brace. The brace is clicking normally but Willow's knee wasn't cooperating.
Combined with the speedy pace she was holding and the strain on her leg, Willow's knee gives out. She gasps and begins to fall. Time seems to slow down as the girl falls towards the ground. "A tree always has the strongest roots. If a part of it gets chopped off, it finds another way to do something," Willow remembers her father telling her once. Then she realizes what she must do.
Imogene is almost thirty feet of ahead of Willow. Jumping forward, Willow began to take long, gliding strides, taking the pressure of her knee. Gritting her teeth, Willow begins to close the gap between the two girls, running in the inner lane to save energy. With only a two hundred left, the younger daughter of Gaia is five feet behind her sister. Stretching her legs, Imogene sees her sister coming and runs even faster.
It's the final one hundred of the race and Willow is only a stride behind Imogene. Both began sprinting for the finish line. Ninety feet, eighty, seventy, then sixty, only fifty yards left. Thirty feet away from the finish Willow makes up her mind. It's all or nothing. Gathering the last of her strength, Willow bolts for the finish line like a possessed girl.
Slowly, Willow inches ahead of Imogene. The older girl notices and tries to compensate, but it's too late. Willow crosses the finish line, a second ahead of Imogene. Thanatos is reading times off to Hypnos while he scribbles them down, but nothing reaches Willow's ears. She feels like she has been dipped in hell fire and sent running through the river Styx and Phlegethon. Her muscles ache so much that as soon as she walks with Imogene to the infield, she has to sit down before she falls over. Letting their heart rates return to normal, the two girls wait for the others to finish.
Imogene has a sour look on her face as the sisters watch Mia cross the finish line. "What's wrong?" Willow asked. We both ran fast, 7:42's. Hypnos had showed her the time.
"Nothing," Imogene replies, but there is a hard edge to her voice.
-Several Hours Later-
After a long day of competing in various events, the children gather at a podium near the track for an awards ceremony. They had put on track jackets but left their running stuff Olympic track meet was two days long, several events each day. On day one, there was 100 sprints, 300 hurdles, 400 mid distance, and 3200 long distance for running. In field and jumping, the events were high jump and discus. Day two had the 200 sprints, 800 run, and 1600 long distance along with 100 hurdles, shot put and long jump. All eighteen of the children gathered to win their awards.
Hayden won the 100 sprints for the boys while Amy took the girls. Willow and Ollie won the 3200 while Mia and Ethan took the 400. Paul snatched the 800 with Keira dominating the girls. In the 200, Holly and Alabaster swept the field. Willow and Max took first in the 1600.
Percy and Susan both won all the hurdles. Terra and Timmy leapt high with the high and long jumps, winning by a lot. Siblings Dan and Kyley brought home the first in the shot put and discus.
As Willow stepped on the top of the podium to receive her first place medals, she never felt prouder of her achievement. Imogene's sour faces had been bothering her but she brushed that to the back of her mind.
She smiled wide as her father Chaos rested the blue ribbon around her neck. He gives her a small grin before stepping away.
Soon after all the medals and ribbons were awarded, the last children plus Kyley, Terra, Susan, Dan, and Timmy head for pizza with Chaos and their parents. Still with their medals draped around their necks, they head into Void of Pizza. The waitress at the seating counter smiles at them.
"Your regular table is open as always," She informed them with a smile.
The group headed back to where the two booths and long table were available. The nine girls all squeezed into one booth. Willow was squished in between Keira and Susan, having a good time. Their parents took seats at the large table and ordered for them. Laughing the girls traded jokes, giggled as they poked their brothers, and ate lots of pizza.
Willow had fun, but Imogene's angry look on that day would always haunt her.
~ When the Children are nine~
Percy and his siblings walked into Chaos' classroom at promptly eight twenty nine in the morning, precisely forty seven seconds before their 'class' was scheduled to start. Along with being powerful weapon wise, they also had to be smart. In addition to their daily classes and high expectation Void schooling, they spent time with their father, learning about the galaxy and everything in it.
The classroom was unique in several ways, attached to Chaos' office. The previous day, the whole room had been a forest with poisonous and edible plants growing. They learned how to identify plants, tell whether not they were safe, and best structure of trees for sleeping in. Percy loved the days where the classroom was an experimental wilderness type. He was a hands on guy, always wanting to be in the action, not sitting at a desk listening to a lecture.
Today the classroom looked more like a mortal's classroom. Maps of America, Greece, Rome, Europe, Asia, and several others lined the walls. On the front board was a giant white sheet of paper with a family tree drawn on it, except the family tree has no names. Chaos sat at the round circular table near the board with the paper on it.
"Come sit down," Chaos beckoned them to the table.
They headed to the table and sat down. Percy put his notebook and pencils on the table. To every class, you needed to be ready to do different activities. This meant wearing comfortable clothing and always having a notebook and pencil in case you need to take notes.
"Today, we will be learning about the greek and roman gods," Chaos began walking up to the front.
"But sir," Amy asked politely. "We have already learned about them."
"It has come to my attention that one of my descendants is rising against Olympus. While the Olympians are far from being good rulers, this descendant of mine would be far worse. You will have to go to earth after you pass your test and unite the greeks and romans. You must save Olympus," Chaos explains. "And we want you be prepared as possible. I will give you three clues and you must figure out who the threat is while completing the family tree. Who wants to be the scribe?"
Mia volunteers and walks up to the board. "Where does it start?"
Chaos smiles and shrugs.
"Helix!" Percy bursts out. "It has to begin with Helix. Chaos didn't have just three children, Helix did. It couldn't have been anyone lower because the line is too long.
The other children nod while Mia writes HELIX in the top spot. "I believe it would be Order, Chaos, and Void next," Max says.
"And from Chaos, Ouranos, Gaea, Erebus, Nyx, Chronos, Ananke, Pontus, and Thalassa were born," Hayden adds.
Mia turns around to look at them. "Gaia and Ouranos had the titans who had the Olympians, so they are the ones at the top of the long chain under Chaos. Nyx and Erebus had the twins, Aether, and Hemera, so they have the next most amount of kids."
Ethan studied the board, deep in thought. "The problem is those lines connecting from Chaos to the goddesses."
Willow studies the same thing. "It's us. There are thirteen of them."
A murmur of ah's and I see's were said as Mia marked them down. They easily completed the rest of the primordials.
"This is going to get tricky now," Hayden reminded his siblings. "We need to be looking out for the threat along with filling in the chart."
"Which is where your first clue comes in about the enemy- not the oldest," Chaos informs them.
The children all look at their father with blank expressions. "What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Percy asks, confused.
Chaos shrugs. "You'll have to find that out for yourselves."
"All the titans came from Gaia and Ouranos. So the oldest two titans were Oceanus, the personification of the ocean, and Tethys, the titaness of the Hyperion, titan of light and the east, and Theia, titaness of sight and enlightenment, were next. Third was Koios, titan of farsight, knowledge, and the north, and his wife, Phoebe, titaness of prophecy and oracular intellect," Paul listed off his fingers while Mia wrote quickly.
"Though born third, Kronos, titan of time, and his wife, Rhea, titaness of fertility, motherhood, generation, comfort, blessing, ease, and the titan queen of the heavens, took the thrones as King and Queen of the titans," Imogene said.
Percy glanced at his sister. "Rhea had a lot of titles. How did you know them all?"
The elder daughter of Gaia shrugged. "I've been reading."
"Wait," Ollie put his hand out. "Are you seriously telling me that all these titans are my half siblings?"
"Also your nieces and nephews," Holly threw in.
Ollie shuddered. "This is messed up. Anyways, Iapetus was the titan of the mortality, pain, death, underworld, and the west, along with his wife, Themis, titaness of divine law and justice were the second youngest group."
"Lastly," Mia spoke as she wrote. "Krios, titan of the south and constellations, and his wife, Mnemosyne, titaness of memory and remembrance, were the youngest of the bunch."
"So we have the titans done but still no clue on who the enemy actually is," Alabaster sums up. "I'm guessing the six lines coming down from Rhea and Kronos are the six gods, Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus."
"My second clue to you is that the head of the threat is a father," Chaos said, watching the activity with interest.
"Then it can't be any of the females, Order, Ouranos, or Oceanus, because they are the oldest. Hey, all three of those guys names start with O," Percy adds.
Mia summons little red X's and puts them next to any females name or an oldest male. "Unless we can get our third clue now, we'll have to complete the chart before finding out the threat," She looks to Chaos. "I suppose we can't get our next clue now?"
Chaos shakes his head. Amy sighs. "So close. Anyways, all the lines coming down from Zeus are his fifty zillion kids. Who were all of Zeus' kids?"
"Ares."
"Persephone."
"Hebe."
"Apollo and Artemis."
"Hermes and Hephaestus."
"Dionysus."
"The muses."
"Athena."
The children slowly put together the names with the branch of the family tree. Soon, it was completed. They all turned to Chaos waiting for their final clue.
Their father scratched his chin. "You guys are getting too smart for me. I can't think of a challenge hard enough to keep you guys occupied for long. The final clue is ... son like father," He finished.
"I think we would find the answers the quickest if we compared sons to their fathers," Willow suggested.
Agreeing, the others nodded. "It can't be Zeus and any of his sons. They have nothing alike. And why would the Olympians attack the Olympians?" Alabaster reasoned.
"So we can eliminate all of the Olympians, leaving us just the titans. Wait a second," Keira turned to their father. "Is the father the threat or is it the son?"
"The son," Chaos answered simply.
The children exchanged glances as they have all silently came to the same answer. "Kronos," They said together.
Chaos applauded. "Well done. Tell me: how did you come about the answer?"
"When you said it was the son, that made it easy. We knew it already was the titans and not Oceanus. That left Hyperion, Koios, Kronos, Iapetus, and Krios," Holly explained. "Kronos was overthrown by his children just like Ouranos. So the threat is Kronos."
"I may have underestimated you. Keep up the good work," Chaos compliments and the children smile.
~When the children are ten~
Percy's POV
Perseus and his siblings plus Terra were all sitting around the table, eating dinner one night. Chaos was not present because he was in a 'Top Secret Meeting' with the other primordials that they were not allowed to attend. Something like final training or the last test. They chatted amongst themselves, finishing up their healthy dinner that Thesis had insisted they eat in order to become stronger.
As they were clearing the table, the magical servants had been given a rest, the doors swung open and Chaos walked in. He looked older than he did when they had first been born. Percy's mom, Thalassa, tried to explain to him when he was younger that Chaos was fading. He hadn't understood it until a few years ago what that truly meant.
Chaos sat in the head seat of the table. Amy and Paul hurried over with their dad's favorite foods. They were not obliged to serve him, but Chaos was so kind, you couldn't help wanting to. He smiled at his children as they laid star fruit and mac and cheese in front of him.
The next few minutes were filled with the sound of plates and silverware clinking as Chaos ate and the children washed the plates. Percy used the water from the tap and his powers over water to scrub the plates shining. His siblings used the shadows to dry the plates, the air to put them away, and manipulated the floor to bring the plates to the sink smoothly.
Their father pushed back his chair as he finished eating. Immediately, Imogene used her powers over air to sweep the plate off the table and raised the floor to carry it over to Percy, who washed it with water, before Mia lifted it out of the sink with shadows to dry it. Chaos smiled as he saw his children work like a well oiled machine- all the parts did their job well and fit together.
"Terra, would you mind go finding your father and the others to tell them it is time for them to come here? Then you are free to go," Chaos spoke to the daughter of Tartarus. She nodded. Terra, luckily, knew when it was time to let the closely knit family alone. She stood up, and let the shadows consume her.
About a minute later, sixteen people appear in the room. Ourea, the primordial of mountains, waves his tanned hand and the table elongates so all of them can sit down. Hemera summoned more chairs. Everyone pulled up a chair to the table. Without meaning to, Chaos, at the head, and the primordials sat at one end while the children with Percy at the head at the other end.
"Children," Chaos began, lacing his fingers together. "We have decided as a council that it is time for you to complete your final training."
"Final training?" Paul asked.
"Yes, it will show us whether or not you are ready for your task that lies ahead of you. If you succeed, we may send you to earth in the near future," Ouranos added.
The children looked around at each other. Earth! How they all wanted to visit the planet so much!
Eros sighed ever so lightly. "But let's not get ahead of ourselves. The task is hard," He turned to Chaos.
"Your task is simple. Climb the Stormy Mountain and retrieve the enchanted wood chest by two sunrises from now," Percy and the others exchanged glances, easy. "Don't get cocky now though. We have been developing tasks for you to complete."
Now Ouranos began explaining. "The rules. Number one, no teleportation is allowed. Even if you attempt to teleport, you won't move and possibly have a set back. Short teleportation like from one tree to another is allowed. Rule number two, you must begin as a group. Some of the tasks may require some people to stay behind, but only one of you may retrieve the box from the peak. Three, the moment the sun rises, you will be teleported back to the castle, box or no. If you some how happen to get to the box before hand, it will teleport you all back here. We have been developing challenges since you were born, toning them to attack your weaknesses beware."
Percy looks around at his siblings, seeing their faces less confident now. He feels the same way. "You will be teleported to the base of the mountain at sunrise tomorrow. You will have exactly twenty four hours to complete the task. The only thing you may have with you is your weapons, powers, and anything in this backpack," Thesis pulls out black hiking backpacks.
"They can't wear clothes?" Tartarus asks, appalled. "Hey, that should be a new torture in my pit. Climbing a fiery, explosive mountain naked."
"Eww no!" Gaia slaps her brother. "There's clothes in the backpacks."
"Good," Holly breathes.
"You may go," Chaos dismisses them. "I would recommend getting a good night's rest, but it wouldn't hurt to formulate a plan. Remember the task attacks your greatest weaknesses."
The children nodded before grabbing the backpacks and leaving. They headed to their meeting room. Mia, Willow, Keira, and Amy begin sorting through their backpacks, checking out the supplies they were given. Paul and Ollie grab notepads of paper before joining them. Percy activates the large holographic map. Punching in the location, stormy Mountain comes up right away. Imogene, Holly, Max, Alabaster, Ethan, and Hayden all look intently at the map.
"Imogene, Max, can you guys look for best spots to climb up? Alabaster and Holly, could you look for caves and possible resting spots? Hayden and Ethan, can you guys help me look for water and animals?" Percy instructs his siblings. They nod and get to work. Hayden pulls up his personal holographic map device that is mounted onto the table in front of him. Ethan grabs a pad of paper and a pen. Percy sits beside the two, already using his senses to find sources of water.
Using the little styluses, they mark waterfalls, streams, springs, and pools. After fifteen minutes of working, the people who had been working with the backpacks, came over to take their places at the table.
Mia tapped his shoulder. "Percy, we're finished and ready to begin when you are."
He nodded before calling the meeting to order. First they began with the backpacks. "What did you guys find in them?" Percy asked.
Amy began to read off from her list and Willow with Keira's help held up each item for the group to see. "For clothing, we have one black backpack, the backpacks will never get heavier or bigger no matter what you put in them, pair of tan zip off pants, grey dry fit t shirt, one black sweatshirt, one pair of ankle socks, one pair of hiking sneakers. All of the clothing is adaptive to size."
Ollie read the next section of the list. "Two twenty-five ounce water bottles, very durable but empty, a refilling assortment of granola bars, packs of crackers, jerky, and dried fruits, oatmeal packs, and thermoses are the food options. There is nothing sleep wise like a sleeping bag or that. But there is basic hiking supplies, ropes, pulleys, and so on. Plus these totally awesome collapsible bowls," He adds, pulling his out to demonstrate. Oh yeah, and matches and flashlights."
Max projected the map of the mountain. "No picture of the mountain peak is available; it's always too stormy to get a picture. But for the lower part of the mountain we have found several is obviously a tourist route, a worn path that is not steep, just very long. It snakes back and forth. It is the easiest route by far, yet will take the most amount of time."
"And time we do not have," Percy says, tapping his pencil. "What of the other routes?"
"One of the other routes is very steep. An almost vertical climb, we would be going straight up and over rocks. It is the quickest but the most strenuous. The third route is a mix of climbing, walking, boulder scrambling, etc," Imogene explains. "Predicted climbing time for route one is twenty six hours, route two is twenty, three is about twenty two hours."
"What did you find on resting spots?" Percy asked Holly and Alabaster.
"The only good resting spots are on the twenty six hour route. They wouldn't do us any good either way," Holly explained.
"The second route has almost no ledges to stop and rest on," Alabaster adds.
"The water we found mostly came out of the caves. There are scarce water falls or springs on route two and route one," Ethan says.
"Which route should we take?" Keira asks.
"Route one is too long, it's out," Willow states.
"Route three would be our best option. It's a mix of the two. We will have to keep a watch on time though," Hayden adds.
"All in favor?" Percy asks. Every hand goes up. "Then we will take route three. Be ready in the morning and have your weapons. You'll never know what we'll face."
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