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Chapter 5: Suspicions Confirmed

Lila Adams was a scientist working for the World Health Organization. She had been looking for anomalies on the death rate counts, trying to see if she could find a new sickness in the United States. In her hands was a notebook which she used to write down any suspicions. Nothing seemed to out of the ordinary. The higher numbers stayed within the big cities and places known for high criminal activity, lower numbers were around the peaceful states. It looked like she wasn't going to find anything useful today.

As Lila worked, she almost didn't notice one of the mail boys, Justin, walking up to her with a bulky envelope in his hands. Justin carefully set the envelope on her desk, making sure he didn't move anything. It wasn't a big secret that some people at W.H.O prided themselves in having neat and orderly desks, some of them would even be known to throw baby tantrums if something was moved. Thankfully, Lila wasn't one of those people, but one can never be too careful.

Lila looked over at the letter, deeming it more important than the numbers on her computer screen. The envelope had an unknown sender, but came from somewhere in Nebraska. Intrigued, Lila opened the envelope. She didn't know anyone in Nebraska, so the fact that the envelope was sent to her excited her. Why did they want her to look at it?

As Lila opened the flap and took out the contents, she found that most of the pages inside were charts and graphs. Lila dug around the pile she created, looking for some sort of letter to explain everything. She found it at the very bottom of the pile, and immediately started reading. When she was done, she read the letter again, and again, and again. Then she looked at the data to find that everything in the letter could be confirmed with the data. Blinking, Lila started to search the computer system to find that her collected data also matched. It looked like today wouldn't be so boring after all.

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Bruce Williams, the head chief for one of the most prominent missing children agencies, was confused. It all started this morning, when he went to his office in New York. All of his workers were running around in sheer panic. Apparently there had been a sudden burst of missing children in California and New York. They were now trying to figure out what was going on.

The weird thing about this is the fact that all the missing kids seemed to have two things in common: they were "troubled kids", and they each had an illness. The World Health Organization announced some sort of new blood problem. Apparently, the problem manifest itself at random times throughout a person's life. They stated that the problem had been looked at for a long time, and that they had just discovered the cause.

Bruce had absolutely no idea how the two things were even connected. Yet something in his heart told him they were. He knew he had to figure it out fast though, because this problem wasn't going to work itself out. He knew that the trouble lay with the way the issue suddenly came on. This was a relatively new illness, however the sheer number of people getting sick told him this was major. "Now I just have to figure out why..." he thought to himself.

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The president sat in his office, patiently waiting for the Secretary of Defense to come in for their appointment. He was hearing constant reports that some sort of new illness had been discovered. He also noticed a report of missing children and teenagers following the discovery of this illness. Along with that, some new threat was announced, and he found out the Secretary's assistant had gone missing after a meeting. To say the president was stressed beyond belief would be an understatement.

Finally the Secretary, a tall man in his late forties, walked in. He also looked tired, and seemed to be paranoid about something. The president decided to get straight to the point.

"Steve, we have both had a long day, so let's get straight to the point. I have missing children everywhere, along with your assistant, and some new threat. I would like you to start by explaining how much of a liability your assistant is, then explain what this threat is. I want to know everything you know, nothing left behind so I can get this done," the president demanded.

The Secretary sighed before replying, "Mister President, this might be more complicated than you think. I'll start by saying my assistant should not be a problem. He knows nothing of major importance. As for this threat; that's where things get really weird. You see, there is more things than you may know going on in this country. I may go a little overtime with this explanation"

The president nodded for the secretary to go on. As the secretary started to explain things, the president started getting different facial expressions which ranged from confused, incredulous, to angry. When the secretary was done with the initial explanation the president sat quietly at his desk, trying to absorb everything that was just said.

Finally after a long pause he said, "So wait. Let me get this right. You received a tip from some blond teenage kid in you office, saying mythology was real. Than he shows you a video, makes General McCannas dissapear by putting on a hat, and you create this plan. And you think it's not just Greeks out there?"

The secretary nodded, before continuing on, "In New York, we have found many demigods, but we've also found some in California. Most of them are under the age of 15, and some that are older show more of a Roman side. We've also found some kids who carried magical artifacts from what we could tell. They have very faint signs of anything beyond human in their blood, but we are still investigating them."

The president nodded and sighed. He wasn't going to have any peace soon.

A/N: So I decided to give you guys this chapter before I leave on a hiking trip for three days. This is mostly filler, sorry. I only checked for misspelled words, so if I mess up grammar. Sorry. BYE!