Chronicle of Heroes Chapter Five

Author's Note

Thanks for the reviews and sorry for taking such a long time to update this. A shout out to CarnivorousBookWorm25 who helped me with my story and PMed me on what I did well in and what I didn't do well in. I also apologize in advance for any typos or grammatical errors I am still kinda new to all of this.

Quote of the Chapter

"Everyone would've been like sayeth what, where's Odin" Loki to Zod and the Joker in HISHE

I Lose My Mind

Summer

Flashback.

The battle was raging all around me and I was seriously considering running to the bathroom and locking myself in there and waiting this battle out. Hell, even jumping out the window and landing face first in the ground below was less terrifying than facing things that looked like they came out of my worst nightmare with nothing but the things that were in arm's length that I could throw. But I knew I couldn't run away then come back here and face the shame and humiliation that came with running away from a fight, when even ankle-biters where here doing the best they could. However a part of me was saying screw shame and humiliation just survive, I would rather feel shame and humiliation than nothing. "Shut up me" I shouted at my mind, great I told myself this stuff must really be taking a toll on my mind if I am talking to myself.

Concentrate I told myself survival is all that matters right now, but I can't do this on my own and even though Max was right next to me throwing things, his black hair untidy and unkempt as usual and his dark eyes intense and focused (there's a first time for everything, this would've been an amazing moment if it weren't for the fact we were trying to stay alive) on throwing things around him. "Summer" Max screamed at me while still throwing things "we needed something slightly more powerful than me throwing my shoes". "What do you want me to do I am very new to... well all of this" "do something I am running out of rocks, odd boomerangs and sticks to throw" "actually the odd boomerangs are wands, we were told this by Coach Goat" I told Max, "Summer please now is not the freaking time" Max screamed at me, "fine" I said "I'll try to do something". I concentrated on my Phoenix (woah never thought I would think of those words in my entire life) and said "help me, please I don't want people to die". But I got no answer instead I had to continue throwing things and hoping that I would survive. Suddenly Amos and Percy ran in sword and staff in hand and charged right into battle, yes I thought now we have a better chance of getting through this. I looked at Max as he shouted "Yeah my man, Percy, kick those monsters butt, because Summer sure as hell can't". "Shut up Max" I said to him with a smile.

Yes I thought we've got hope, we can make it to the end of this battle and win, but suddenly the world started to dissolve around me just to be replaced by yet another location. I was in a hall room, the room was incredibly large and made entirely of marble and gold with a large golden statue of the goddess Artemis (don't ask me how I know this it baffles me too) holding a bow and arrow in her hands, but the amazing beauty of this room was ruined by the fact that three goddesses were fighting all of them angry. One of the goddesses was Bast her knives where drawn, her hair was standing on end and she looked completely feral. One of the goddesses had black hair and multicolored wings, Isis my brain told me, and they were both attacking the other goddess who was holding a shield so terrifying that I felt like my entire body had become a statue, she had long dark hair and grey eyes Athena (I still don't know how I know this). And the battle they were fighting was incredibly bloody, all the goddesses were bleeding so much I was amazed they were still alive. Their blood was flowing over the ground and was starting to steam, the entire room was slowly crumbling, the ground was shaking, the roof was starting to break and the battle was becoming more viscous and lethal, just the site of all this blood was making me...happy? Confusion ran through me but it was slowly being overrode by my urge to cause more carnage, the battle in the vision was getting worse and the worse it got the more I changed, I felt myself mentally changing I wanted more destruction, I wanted more battles, I wanted the world to be an endless war zone. I wanted death. ''No Summer'' I shouted at myself, "you are a 16 year old girl, you attended a school were you met Percy and Max, you dyed you're hair as an act of rebellion to your Mom, you're Father disappeared when you were six(something you've never truly gotten over), your Mother is the kindest person in the world, you have magical powers and you're a descendant of some ancient pharaohs who could channel the powers of the Egyptian Gods, you are not some war crazed bloodthirsty beast, so SNAP OUT OF IT''.

I opened my eyes and the first thing I noticed was I hadn't passed out, Max was still at my side throwing things and acting like nothing had changed he was still fixated on protecting me and himself albeit by throwing rocks but I was still grateful, it was then I realized I just probably blacked out for a second. The next thing I noticed was that I could see red fiery auras emanating from every person or thing in this room. Well this isn't weird at all, I thought sarcastically, I looked at their auras and I started to notice that they were starting to glow brighter the more the people and monsters fight. Again the urge to for blood and destruction flew through my body, I couldn't fight it this time I felt the urge to destroy something, anything, I felt an energy pulse flow through me and I felt it forming something, a weapon made of pure destruction and for just one moment I saw something a face that was brutally scarred with red sunglasses that seemed to have a strange fiery glow at the center. The pulse started to grow until I needed to release it, and my eyes locked onto the first person I saw, and that person was none other than Sadie Kane. The pulse formed an arrow that flew from my fingertips and rights into Sadie's heal. No I thought, what have I done. I rushed forward but a monster that had a completely red body a quiver on its back and a head that was made completely out of fire and red horns that came from the top of its fiery head. Stood right in front of me it took an arrow from its quiver, notched it and shot it at me, but the arrow went right by me and hit Max instead. I turned and ran to Max and saw that he wasn't bleeding, in fact the arrow appeared to have been completely disintegrated. I looked at him and I opened my mouth to talk but the look on his face said "please don't ask" so I just shut up. Suddenly a maelstrom ripped through the room and destroyed just about every monster in the room. And the ones who did survive run straight through the portal they came through. The battle was over we had won, I saw everyone start to cheer but how could I, I hit Sadie Kane with an arrow that I created, my thoughts where however interrupted when I heard Zia scream "No".

End of Flashback.

Amos came out of his room his eyes puffy and red. This is all my fault I thought, everyone is running around thinking a monster did this too Sadie and the truth is a monster did do this, because right know that's what I am and the worst part is I did it on purpose that urge that hit me, it made me do this and I couldn't control it I just lashed out and tried to kill the first thing I saw. The part of my brain that seemed to concentrate purely on boys said "what if that had been Percy, what if we had poisoned Percy instead" "shut it me, I care about Percy a lot and I am glad we didn't hit him with that arrow but right now we have bigger problems to worry about". Man that burst of information from that vision is really making me crazy. Amos was just about to walk down the stairs when the guilt of doing this overcame me I run forward and said "Amos I am so sorry, this is all my fault" Amos looked at me questioningly and said "Summer, why on Earth would this be your fault?" That question put me on edge, if I admit it was my fault then he might just kill me but then again if I don't then the guilt will kill me, I need to choose should I tell him or should I not. In a split second I made up my mind "If I was a better magician or combatant I might have been able to kill that monster" Amos just stared at me and said "you can't change the past so you should accept it and move on" but honestly it sounded like he was trying to convince himself rather than me, and with that he briskly walked out down the stairs his shoulders sagging and when he got to the bottom of the stairs he yelled "Summer come down it's supper time" "I'll be right there" I yelled back down the stairs. I walked down the stairs thinking great Summer you've mastered the art of deception, what's next mastering the art of successfully killing someone and then never getting blamed for it-oh wait I just did that.

Supper was silent and lifeless, everyone ate and no one even looked up from their plates, even Max understood the seriousness of the situation and didn't try to do anything stupid or reckless or even make a joke. I was glad for this silence because it meant I wouldn't have to listen to everyone talking about how Sadie might die in a few days. Suddenly Amos broke the silence and said "Jaz can you come with me, I need you to find out what kind of poison was used in this arrow, maybe then can you and I manufacture a cure" ''sure thing Amos'' Jaz said her voice so quiet that you could barely hear it. I looked at Percy who seemed to look uncomfortable and sad at the same time, which was a strange combination but somehow he still managed to look good. I tried to meet his eyes but he was looking down at his food. I looked at Max who was staring into space but his eyes where unnerving me, they seemed to be endless black holes that was slowly starting to suck my soul. The more I stared at them the more lifeless I seemed to become, "then look away"shouted my inner voice. I slowly broke my gaze and looked across the table but I couldn't take this, this silence, this guilt I simply abruptly got up and walked away. As I walked out of the room I could feel everyone staring at me but I ignored them, I ignored that intense feeling of turning around and shouting "stop staring at me" I simply walked forward and entered the sick bay(excuse me if I haven't been showed my room) and I fell on the bed. I grabbed the pillow and I screamed right into it. I felt my eyes water as I started to cry and I fell asleep thinking I killed Sadie Kane.

My dream was strange I was in a cornfield and there was an ominous glow in the center of the cornfield. Staring at it I felt intrigued and I wanted to check it out however there was a part of me that kept saying curiosity killed the cat over and over again. Finally I turned away and said to myself "whatever it is it isn't worth it, it could be like that vision in that hall/throne room". But my legs weren't listening to me because suddenly I was turning around and walking straight towards the glow, after a matter of moments I saw that the glow was a huge fire that had a vague silhouette in the middle I tried to find out what the silhouette was but suddenly the fire became so bright I couldn't see anything for a second I was totally blind and that feeling of not being able to see and being totally alone scared me out of my mind "wake up", I shouted at myself "WAKE UP". Suddenly my eyes opened and I was staring right at a fire that was at the edge of my bed, no I thought stop, stop please, but the fire didn't listen instead it grew and I could feel it drawing closer and I wanted to run away but my legs were burnt and I was in so much pain. No I thought again please no but it was too late the fire had grown and engulfed me and I burnt, my body set ablaze and I screamed in utter agony as my entire body burnt.

I woke up screaming but Percy was right there and hugged me, "it's okay, everything will be alright" he said. I cried into his chest as a tingling warmth spread across my body. "Please don't leave, please". Percy looked at me his sea green eyes filled with worry "I won't leave you I promise". I relaxed slightly when he said those words. Percy hugged me tighter and said "I want to show you something?" I looked at him and answered "sure", I got up and walked forward with him. Percy and I walked to the terrace and he said look I turned my head and saw the sunrise it was breathtakingly beautiful. I stared at as its warm glow covered me. I turned and looked at Percy who looked so at peace it was hard to imagine him fighting monsters and carrying a sword. Percy turned to me and said "whenever I have nightmares I go and watch the sunrise on the beach, but since there isn't one here I just decided watching a sunrise on a terrace is good to". "You remember?" I ask, "no-wait ye- no" he said as he winced in pain like he had a migraine. Percy clenched his fist in anger but I quickly put my arm on it. "Percy it's okay, we will figure this out, will do it together" I said as I stared into his eyes. I leaned in for a kiss and so did he but suddenly Max walked onto the terrace aimlessly. Percy pulled away and said "Max are you alright?" but Max didn't answer he just walked forward and faster than a viper grabbed my throat and lifted me off the ground. "Max" I screamed as he chocked me, Percy tried to grab his arm but an invisible force sent Percy back "Max stop" I said as his chokehold got stronger, I stared right into his eyes and saw that they were entirely black, "Max?" I said just as Percy rushed forward his green eyes blazing with anger as he charged towards Max but suddenly he froze "I can't move" Percy cried but I could barely hear him because I was getting light headed and before I knew it I had passed out.

I woke up in the sick bay (man you might as well just make this my room) and saw that both Percy and Max where on the beds next to me, both of them had passed out and both were deadly pale. I got up and saw I had very large bruise marks on my neck. I walked out of the room and went to Amos. He was in his room he was wearing a red suit today and he looked regal and kingly(is that even a word). He looked up as he saw me walk in. "Yes" he said as he looked right into my eyes. "What just happened?" I asked "sorry I meant what happened between me, Max and Percy?" "well" he said "I was rather hoping you would tell me, when Jaz found them all three of you were out cold", "so please Miss Fields enlighten me with what just happened", "I don't know" I answered "I just don't remember" I lied. "Well when you do come tell me" I was just about to walk out when I turned back and said "I had a strange dream" "that's very common for us please continue" "well it started off with me in a cornfield and there was this fire in the center" Amos nodded as I continued to explain the events of my dream starting off with the fact that I couldn't control my own feet and ending with the part of me being burnt alive, when I was done Amos looked at me and said with a straight face "did you have the body of a chicken", "what, no and what does that have to do with anything" "then I don't know most magicians who have dreams like yours usually get them due to Baa travel", "Baa travel what is that?" I asked he didn't answer he just turned away from me "my dream isn't the worst part" he turned back to me and said "then what is?", "the worst part is the fact that I thought I was awake when I woke up in the second dream and it felt real, even know it feels like my entire body was burnt I just don't have the scars to prove it, I mean if that wasn't real then how do I know if anything is, I mean that's the worst part to me, the fact that I don't know if any of this is real". Amos turned to me and said "this is real, it's not just some nightmare you're brain made up", I wanted to believe him but I just couldn't. Suddenly a tremor shook the grounds. Amos looked at me and said "we better go check that out" I nodded in agreement as we run down the stairs. We looked around in confusion, there appeared to be no one here. Suddenly Percy came flying through the wall. "Shit" I said as Percy rolled on the ground. I run towards him and put my arm on his chest, phew I thought he is still breathing. Suddenly Percy got up as dark shadows appeared from nowhere taking the form of wraiths, that whispered in my ear "you killed her, you killed he, you killed her" over and over again "no" I shouted at them "I can still save her, if we find a cure then maybe I ca-" "NO" they screamed at me "you killed he and there is no saving her" , I screamed as the wraiths bit my neck. My shoulder exploded in pure agony like molten lava had been thrown on it. They were going to eat me I thought in absolute terror. Then a sword pierced the wraith in the back and it hissed. It's shape contorted as it turned to the person who stabbed it Percy. Percy grabbed me and held me tight and whispered in my ear "stay behind me" and even though I could barely hear him over the pain of my shoulder I did what he asked me to do and honestly I was in so much pain I couldn't move anyway like my body had gone into shock. So stood rooted to the spot behind Percy and whenever a wraith got close he pierced it with his blade. Where is Amos I thought shouldn't he be helping us but when I turned I saw him lying on the ground. I groaned as a sense of nausea rolled over me like a wave. My eyesight started blurring and the pain in my shoulder started to increase I looked up as I fell to the ground but just before I hit the ground a wave of power rolled over me and my Phoenix spoke to me "get up Summer, you are not weak, you are strong, get up" I slowly stood up and tried to ignore the throbbing pain in my shoulder and I tried to summon that rage and bloodlust I got when I saw the battle but instead I got nothing I tried to summon something, think of a spell, anything to help but I was in so much pain I couldn't think straight and the next thing I knew a portal had opened up behind me and Percy. I tried to run away but a huge gust of wind knocked me over. I looked up and saw Percy trying to fight wraiths and stay on his feet at the same time. I tried to get up but I just couldn't the wind was too strong. "Woah" Percy screamed as he fell over and the wind pulled him in. We both held onto the floor but we couldn't get back up and suddenly the wind gre much more powerful and we flew right into the portal.

We hit the ground hard, when we landed. I screamed in pain as I felt heel break. Percy automatically run to me and said "what's wrong" my heal I said "it's broken". Percy looked at me with worry and I thought I am officially useless, I mean all I've really done is make a Phoenix that isn't loyal to me and doesn't help me and know here I am unable to help Percy. Percy turned to me and said "look". I slowly got up as my entire body screamed please no stop. I stood up with one foot bent and I hopped towards the direction Percy was looking at. And right there were graves, they were both large and grey. I hopped towards them while Percy walked by my side. I looked at them and I was shocked, the graves where ours, One read Percy and the other said Summer Fields. I hesitantly touched my grave, while Percy just stood there dumbfounded. I stared right at my grave, it was plain, there was nothing on it nothing that said in loving memory of or loving daughter and I felt really hurt by that, it hurt so much it seemed to dull the pain of my two wounds. Percy said to me his voice quiet "let's go we shouldn't be here" "yeah" I answered "this place is freaking me out". Percy grabbed my hand and then lifted me up bridal style and we started to fly. I stared at him in amazement, but that moment didn't last because seconds later we were attacked by shadow wraiths (gods don't they ever have like a day off). Percy veered away from them and said to me "this might get slightly uncomfortable" I nodded then braced myself as Percy suddenly nosedived to our graves but just before we hit the ground he pulled up and the shadow wraiths landed right on the ground with a large splat. Percy then sped up and flew forward but suddenly a portal opened in front of us and we saw Amos standing right there his hand outstretched to reach us as he shouted "grab on" he shouted but the pain of my wounds seem to increase tenfold and I started to lose consciousness again, and the last thing I remembered before I blacked out was Amos shouting "hurry they are coming".

I woke up feeling like crap, my shoulder was throbbing and so was my heel however I did see a pair of crutches next my bed and saw that both my heel and my shoulder had been bandaged. I tried to get up but I couldn't. I lay in bed for what felt like days as I waited for the pain in my leg to decrease. When I finally could get up (though my leg still hurt likes hell) I got the crutches out and hopped out of the room to the great room, to find Percy talking to Amos. "Her dream was far to surreal, it worries me" said Amos, "it worries me too I mean if she can't tell a dream apart from real life what will happen next" "I don't know but we can only hope-" "hope that what huh" I said as I interrupted Amos that same rage that came over me in the battle coming back but less angry and less bloodthirsty just plain old pissed. "Hope that I am not going crazy, hope that this is just a temporary lapse and I will get back to normal" "Summer" Amos said, but I didn't care they were talking about me behind my back and I felt angry so angry in fact I didn't notice that I was creating weapons, "do you have any idea how strange my world has gotten over the past few days, I can't take it, I mean one moment there is only one God, the next there are multiple gods and I know that you're all okay with it but I am sixteen I am supposed to worry about my future, whether or not I should go to college and if I do which one and if I can pass my driver's test but no I am worrying about whether or not this place is real and worrying about the fact that monster's might come fight me and try to kill me, so yeah I have the right, to not know whether or not this is real, I shouted at Amos and just like that all my energy dropped out of me and I fell to the ground crying and as I fell the weapons I created evaporated, and I thought what had come over me? Percy kneeled to me and said "you're gonna be okay I am here for you". I looked at his sea green eyes still as beautiful as ever but somehow I knew I wasn't going to be okay. My eyes watered as I said "I am not gonna be okay Percy" I said, as I felt my sanity slip away I said something that I had said so many times throughout the day "I mean I don't even know if any this is real"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" I screamed as my eyes flew open. I looked at the time and it said 2:37 a.m., I had only been asleep a few minutes, then I realized I wasn't awake I was dreaming again. No I thought, I am dreaming again and I need to wake up I thought to myself as a large amount of panic swelled up inside me "wake up" I told myself "wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UP" I shouted at the top of my voice and suddenly Percy came running in and asked me "what's wrong Summer", "you're not real" I said as I started having a panic attack. "What?" Percy said "what do you mean I am not real, I am standing right in front of you" but I didn't care what he said I didn't believe him. My vision started to blur as sweat formed upon my brow. "Summer I promise you I am real, as real as the gods" Percy said "no" I answered "this Is a dream, I am going to wake up", "Summer" Percy shouted as he grabbed my shoulders "I am real this is not a dream, if this is a dream then prove it, if I am just a figment of your imagination then calm down and do something, if this is your dream then you are supreme here, think of something with enough concentration and it should happen". I stopped and tried to calm down and I thought of my home, I thought of how nice it would be to at home and how much I longed to be in my own bedroom and as I did my entire chest swelled up with emotion and nothing happened. I looked Percy was still holding me and we were still in the sick bay. I started to calm down as I fell to the ground. "Percy, am I going to be okay?" Percy looked at me and said "of course you will you just have to make sure none of this affects you anymore than it should". Percy smiled at me and for a second I believed him but only for just one second.

Two hours later I was in the bed in the sick bay, and I was trying not to fall asleep again which was easy when I constantly heard the wraiths from my dream saying "you killed her" over and over again. But that wasn't the only thing keeping me awake because I kept on seeing symbols. Definitely Egyptian I thought but then they were others, other which looked like Norse symbols. I felt myself get worried as I thought I am going crazy for sure. I just wish I could understand them I just wish I had the wisdom to know what they mean I thought with so much emotion that suddenly my personality changed, suddenly I was calculating, strategic, iron willed, incredibly intelligent and very wise. I looked at the symbols and they made sense, because it was literary the same thing over and over again a very clear and precise message. Suddenly I felt myself black out as I saw the symbols start to glow.

I opened my eyes rapidly and with a large breath intake. I looked around and noticed I had written the meaning of the symbols everywhere. The same thing over and over again a message, a message on how to possibly save Sadie and that message was coordinates. Mountain Valley, route 23, Crescent Hills High School. I smiled at myself as I thought maybe she won't die after all and maybe I can finally silence those wraiths.

I ran right outside the sick bay and noticed Percy and Max sleeping outside on chairs, man they really care about me I thought. "Percy, Max" I said very loudly "we have to go" both of them opened their eyes and said in unison "Summer are you okay, are you feeling any better?" "Yeah" I answered rather quickly, "we have to go" "go where" said Max and Percy together. "To Crescent Hills High School" "and that is where exactly?" said Max "I don't know" I answered honestly "but it's where we have to go if we are going to save Sadie". "Save Sadie what you're not making any sense" "I know but can you please trust me when I say I'll explain everything when I can" I said. Both Percy and Max smiled as they both said in unison again "when do we start". "Right know" I said "hurry, we have to leave now". Percy and Max quickly got up and ran to the weapons room. When they came out minutes later they were both carrying schoolbags and Percy handed me one. I looked at them in confusion as Percy said "supplies, food water and weapons don't ask me how it all fits I have no idea" "probably magic" said Max "oh and the food is fresh we found it next to some herbs and healing potions which we took and in the same cabinets as the boomerangs, long wooden poles and odd curved blades" I nodded as I grabbed my bag and said "so are you ready to do this?" "Born ready" answered Max "then let's do this" I said as together we walked out of the Twenty-first Nome and onwards to find a cure for Sadie and hopefully redemption for me.

So that's Chapter 5 I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you're not mad at me for not updating in a while. Another shout out to CarnivorousBookWorm25 like seriously all of my readers should go check out his stories they are awesome. The next update will be in whenever but hopefully you won't have to wait this long for chapter six also the prophecy is now "8 Heroes shall answer the call" you'll find out why I changed it as this story progresses. Also shout to all my readers I would like to say you guys are kinda why I do this so please read and review and feel free to P.M me or vote on my poll on my page. So yeah that's all I have to say and until next time.

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