Hector Olyos -Clashing of World's-
Chapter One -Surprised?-
I stood in front of the hallway connecting to the living room, my thoughts were 'Why is he crying?' 'What happened?'
"Jax?" I asked, frowning. "What's wrong?"
He looked up and stared at me for a solid second, his body frozen like it was in time. Suddenly he rushed to me and hugged the absolute Hades out of my body.
"WATCH IT!" I gasped for air as he squeezed me.
Despite being a foot smaller than me he was pretty strong, then again he did threaten to drive me mad one time. He held onto me with the grip of iron clamps, it felt as though my lungs would burst.
"What are you doing here?" He sobbed.
"I've been here all night," I laughed. "We slept in the same room."
"No you left yester-" He continued but his Mother let out a loud grunt.
I jumped and apparently it startled Jax too because for a moment he stopped crying and hugging me.
"Jaxson," She crossed her arms and cocked her head towards the T.V which was playing the NFL. "Maybe he needs some rest?"
Suddenly he bounced back and wiped his eyes. I wasn't sure what to do in that situation. My mind raced thinking of all the reasons he'd be crying, trying to piece the suspicious activity of his Mother and him.
"I-I gotta shower." Jax avoided eye contact.
"Alright," I frowned. "Are you sure you're okay?"
"I'm fine, just need to feel clean." He hurried down the hall and I looked at his Mother who suddenly had a very big interest in her earrings.
"What's going on?" I asked.
His Mother acted coy, she glanced around the room and then grabbed the remote to shut off the T.V. Afterwards she hurried to the kitchen and beckoned me in, reluctantly I followed.
"You left last night," She frowned. "You don't remember that at all?"
I shook my head and thought hard, nothing was adding up.
"No," I sat down on a stool. "I swear I was here all night."
Courtney pursed her lips and walked behind the counter, she kneeled down and opened a cabinet. She came back up with some Coffee grounds, then she opened another on the top row and grabbed two cups.
"Maybe you just need some coffee," She smiled. "Milk and sugar or no?"
I sighed, "Both."
She continued to make the coffee without a machine which confused me a tad, suddenly my pocket vibrated. I reached in it and pulled out my phone, the iphone 4 which had just come out.
"Hello?" I picked up the call that read Mother.
"Baby?" She sounded exasperated.
"Who is this?" I frowned, not because of her but because I didn't recall having a mother.
"It's me baby," She said with a worried tone. "Your mother."
I pulled the phone from my ear and looked at it confused, then it hit me out of nowhere. My mother, she was 38 years old and was the COO of Apple.
"Ohhhh," I put the phone back to my ear. "Hey Mom, what's up?"
She was silent for a moment and then I heard her suck her breath in, 'Oh boy.' I thought.
"What's up?!" She shouted. "You didn't think to call me after going missing for a week and a half?!"
That's right, I had gone to the park and on a whim followed Reyna halfway across the country.
"Sorry Mom!" I pulled my hair lightly as my usual lecture began.
She didn't let up for a solid 15 minutes, in that time I drank my coffee and sat on the couch with my head down. Mrs. Scott frowned at me, little did she know I was being berated by my mother.
"Now," She sighed. "Come home immediately."
"Yes Mother." I responded and she hung up.
"Mother?" Mrs. Scott asked, confused. "Jaxson told me you didn't have a mother."
My mind also blanked again, then it came to me in a lightning fast timing.
"Figuratively," I laughed nervously not knowing why my mind was blanking so much. "She's always at work you know?"
Mrs. Scott nodded, "I know the feeling, before my marriage to Aaron I think Jaxson felt the same."
I nodded and stood.
"I've gotta go grab my stuff," I nodded. "She wants me back immediately."
"Oh!Do you need a ride?" Mrs. Scott bounced up, almost spilling her coffee.
I shook my head quickly, it was bad enough I put my own Mother through that during the apparent and unknown end of the world crisis. There was no need to stress another Mother out with taking me home.
"I'm good Mrs. Scott," I walked to the guest room. "See you after the school year?"
"Sure," She smiled. "Take care."
I packed quickly and heard Jax in his room so I went to knock and let him know when I heard a voice. It was muffled so I couldn't hear much, but like the nosy person I am…I tried.
"So he doesn't remember anything?" Jax asked.
"Nothing involving his-" The voice responded.
"But he remembers our relationship?" He asked.
"He does," The voice responded. "Though it will be shaped according to the mist from now on."
The voice also rambled about how they couldn't remove my powers, it was quite a vague conversation.
I knocked confused and a little suspicious, there was rustling and a windy gust before he opened the door.
"What's up?" He said, his hair was wet and he wore nothing but a towel around his whole body.
"Large towel," I grinned. "I'm going to my Mom's now so I'll see you probably after the school year?"
"School year?Mom?" He frowned and his face lit up. "Right! I will for sure see you after and maybe during."
I nodded with my grin still stuck on my face, "So I'll see you at camp then?"
"For sure!" He nodded with a soft smile.
I hugged him goodbye and walked to the door looking down the hall one last time before stepping out and into an elevator across the apartment hall. The elevator played tunes from Jay Z and some Adele while I went down. I stepped out and found a tall pale man with an umbrella in his hand waiting.
"Hey pops!" I grinned.
"What's up Hector?" Hades swung his arm around my neck casually.
"Nothing much, just heading off to Mom's before I get grounded for life." I stuck my hands in my jeans pockets. I wore a black sweater with grapes on it with blue jeans and some converse along with a beanie and a gold grape chain around my neck.
"Word," He nodded. "So how's Jax?"
I glanced at him, he was unusually up and chill with me compared to my memories of him.
"It's doing its thing," I said. "Just platonic at the moment, why?"
He grinned, "Why wouldn't I be interested in my son's romantic life?"
"Platonic." I corrected him as we walked outside in the unusual rain. It was summer which made it especially unusual for it to be raining, my converse plopped onto the wet sidewalk and I frowned.
"Mind giving me a lift?" I looked up at him. He stood at 7,0 which made us a really unusual site on the streets of New York.
"Not sure your Mom would want to see me," Hades rubbed his head after putting his umbrella up. "But I'll drop you off and go?"
I nodded and suddenly the world around me warped, needing to rub my eyes and they adjusted. I was standing in front of my Mothers large house which sat on the edge of Long Island's coast.
"Tell her I said Hello." Hades smiled and warped away.
The house loomed over me, it's height and length felt unreal. It felt as though this was the first time I'd ever been here but I know that wasn't true. Quickly I rushed up the steps onto the front patio and opened the door.
"Who goes there?" My twin sister rushed into the entrance hallway. "Oh, it's you."
She looked just like me except she was feminine and 5,4 in height while I stood at 6,7.
"Dad says hello," I brushed past her. "Where's mom?"
"She's in the office registering us late for school," Pers followed. "So where were you?"
I ignored her and kneeled to untie my shoes when she plopped onto my back, she grinned when I glanced up at her.
"At a friend's house." I untied my left and then my right before kicking her off my back.
"Don't lie," She frowned. "You were at Jax's…your boyfrienddddd."
I slipped off my converse and tossed them on the shoe rack next to the stairs.
"Quiet down," I hushed her. "I'll tell you about it later and he's not my boyfriend!"
She grinned even harder and rushed upstairs, her footsteps leaving behind a booming sound despite her tiny stature. I walked past them and down the long hallway to stand in the open doorway of my Mother's office.
"So?Am I grounded?" I asked.
My mother turned to face me like a classic evil mastermind in a spy movie, she stared at me with an unimpressed face. She then sighed and turned back around to continue typing on her computer.
"I saw your father standing outside with you earlier," She kept her head perfectly still. "I see everything."
I nodded and leaned on the doorway, "Am I grounded?"
She laughed lightly, "No, but you do owe me a month's worth of chores."
"A month?" My jaw dropped.
"A month." She stopped typing and turned.
There was no reason to protest so I nodded and turned to leave but before I could she tapped on her seat with her long nails. It sounded eerie, the unpleasant feeling that came with it invaded my mind.
"There are rumors that another prophecy was issued," Her voice was cold. "Eris."
I paused in the hallway, that name shook me to my core and I didn't even know who it was.
"Who's that?" I asked.
"The Goddess of Hatred or strife and daughter to Nyx," She sighed. "Your father told me when you came back on the grid…guess he forgot to mention it to you."
I nodded, this feeling of fear was next level despite my lack of knowledge.
"Have you contacted Chiron?" I asked.
"I have not," She turned. "I will tomorrow but you have to get ready for school."
I groaned and retreated down the hall, she called after me and told me my stuff was on my bed. Before returning to my room I grabbed a glass of water and snuck it upstairs. We usually can't have dishes upstairs but I didn't care.
"You're gonna get in trouble if she sees that," Pers was leaning on the railing when I went up. "I'm not snitching though."
I rolled my eyes and walked to my room, she followed.
"So," She flopped onto my bed, careful not to squish my filled backpack. "How is he?"
"Why don't you ask him yourself at camp?" I asked, feeling annoyed. Placing the glass of water on my desk next to my laptop and bookshelf. The afternoon light flooded into my room through my window, the sun soon to touch the land in the distance.
"Well," My sister sighed. "I'm here if you need to talk."
She pushed herself up and pranced out of my doorway, closing it behind her. I sat in my desk chair, thinking of Jax and the way he was acting. Nothing was adding up, none of it at all.
I opened my laptop and logged in, navigating to a website called .
The top line read, "God of Immortality steps down from Godhood."
"Why would that idiot do that?" I muttered to myself.
Scrolled down until I found another article, it held the video of the conference. The Olympians all gathered around a Hearth, the Goddess Iris commentating here and there.
"It looks as if the Elder God is showing the exact actions of that day," Iris spoke. "The meeting so far has been a terrible recollection of the past."
I leaned back in my seat, "No kidding…poor guy."
The footage was cut exactly after the exchange between Olympos and Zeus where the King of the God's agreed to Olympos terms.
"Wonder what changed that guy's mind," I shut my laptop and glanced at the window. "Damn it's getting late."
The night had risen while I watched the long recording of the apparent "Hearth Decision". I yawned and rose out of my seat just to crash down onto my bed. Kicking my backpack to the floor I passed out, my socks still on my feet.
The next morning hit like a stone to the face, the light of my window blinded me as my phone went off. The alarm did not fail to wake me, I didn't even remember setting it.
"Shut that thing off!" Pers opened my door violently.
"I am!" I groaned and reached into my pocket to find my phone wasn't there. Panicking I looked on my bed after bolting up, it wasn't there. I searched my desk quickly, it wasn't there either. Then I searched under my bed just to find nothing. Of course I heard it after sometime since it didn't stop ringing, it was on my nightstand. I sighed and tapped off on it, yawning. I didn't even think of how it got there.
"Dibs on the shower first!" I said loudly and my sister responded with. "Already showered."
I grabbed my phone and some clothes. Today's outfit was a white shirt with black jeans with some AJ4 Military Blacks. I grabbed my stuff and moved to the shower quickly, my towel sitting on the counter. After I quickly dressed and sprayed some cologne on me, this school was completely new to me so I knew I was gonna be late.
"Alright," I looked at myself in the mirror. "This is the easy part."
"Come on!" Pers called from downstairs and I frowned, jumping down the stairs and landing on my feet. We hurried to the garage where my car sat, a white Audi A6.
"Oh yeah," I grinned and reached in my pocket to fact check that my drivers license was there. "Perfect."
She knocked on my window and I hurried to the drivers side, immediately turning it on and opening the garage. The speed of the acceleration threw me off but I quickly recovered and drove out of the driveway and down the roads of Long Island. My sister eyed me like I had just stabbed her in the chest.
"What?" I asked with a frown as I raced towards Queens.
"Are you serious?" She made a weird movement with her neck.
"What?!" She rolled her eyes as I persisted.
The school we were going to was all the way in Queen's due to the fact we'd been kicked from all the others closer to us for fighting. The traffic began to get dense and we were just on time after parking and splitting to our classes. I rushed up the stairs and down the hall at lightning speed, the teacher didn't see me so she began to close the door. Sticking my hand into the doorway I stopped it and grinned at the startled English Teacher.
"May I help you?" She cleared her throat as I entered the classroom, ducking under the smaller arch.
"Hector Olyos?" I glanced at her clipboard which held the almost complete attendance sheet.
She stared at me with a blank face and then smiled, "Ah my new student…sit next to Irene…Irene raise your hand!"
A hand darted up and I spotted a small statured girl with preppy clothes. She smiled as I sat next to her, surprisingly she didn't mind my large body.
"Now then," Ms. Lamia smiled. "The art of words."
The lecture went on for what seemed like hours, her words sounded slurred in my mind. My boredom was so severe I had nearly fallen asleep.
"So?" Irene said and I looked at her through the corner of my eye. "Where are you from?"
"Long Island."
"Ethnicity?"
"Greek."
"Ooooo."
The bell rang before she could probe me with her preppy attitude, so I hurried out of the class to find my next subject. Quickly navigating through the crowds, my eyes were on my paper so when I bumped into someone I just apologized. Glancing at my Rolex I noticed my timing with the bell and entering class was gonna be close.
"Oh boy." I folded my paper and began speed walking through the halls as they became emptier by the second. I bumped into a small Asian girl and she stumbled back, looking at me with a glare.
"Sorry." I frowned and continued on quickly. The bell had at least 30 seconds before it rang, my head began to sweat. My ADHD and ADD started to kick up as I panicked, looking for the room number. Finally I found it and stepped in, my back sweating profusely.
"You must be Hector," The man stood up and walked to me from his desk. "I'm Mr. Gonzo."
I nodded with a nervous smile, "Nice to meet you."
"Likewise I hope." He grinned.
"You hope?" He nodded.
"Not all my students live up to my standards," He whispered. "For example the back one…Ariadne Hanz, a troublemaker here at Long Island High."
I nodded and hurried to my desk uninterested in his opinions of students. As soon as I sat down the girl threw a pen at me, the Teacher was too busy with his story of how his wife is divorcing him.
"Psst," I ignored the girl's voice. "Hey."
I frowned as she continued to press on, then finally I broke.
"What?" I turned and hissed.
"Names Ariadne," She grinned, ignoring my hostility. "What'd you do to get placed in this place?"
The school was known for accepting kids with no future, but some here were actually geniuses who needed to be corrected into society's logic.
"Nothing," I turned back. "Pay attention to the story."
I stared past the teacher at the wall because of how boring and uninteresting plus how common his story was. The usual sob story of an unsatisfied wife, it bored me for the solid 45 minutes we were in there. Next class was much funner, it was Art. The teacher minded me no attention when I walked in but the students tried not to stare which was obvious. She told us our project was to build a pyramid from popsicle sticks as the inside structure.
"The blueprint will come from your mind," She threw her hands up in the air. "If you do not impress me then your grade will most likely fall."
I furrowed my brow because of how much that said about her, the grades would most likely reflect how she felt the day plus the quality. But that didn't bother me because I could easily make a pyramid with my abilities.
"Thanks pops." I closed my fist and shook it fast. The guy next to me must've thought I was crazy because he frowned when I did so.
"Well," Mrs. Otis spoke up. "Get to work!"
Everyone scrambled to the bins for some popsicle sticks, me myself found my hand deep in the bin just to find only 3 sticks.
"Unfortunate," A redhead boy grinned. "We can team up if you want?"
"I'll pass," I nodded. "Thanks though."
He frowned and walked off, my social status wasn't exactly solid at the school but I'm sure that made it much worse. I sighed and found a table in the back corner where nobody worked or looked, quickly manifesting clay around my build. There were clay lumps in a bin at the front but it wasn't natural. For an artistic touch I needed an au natural type of pyramid.
"Look at a Greek making an Egyptian Pyramid," I muttered. "Fantastic choice Otis."
The class was really busy and everyone was talking to each other, perhaps my choice of not teaming up with the redhead wasn't a good one. At least I'll have some peace while I worked, that put a grin on my face.
"So," Ariadne's voice interrupted my thoughts. "How's it going?"
"Yeah," The other girl from earlier added. "Tough going?"
I turned and blinked at them with a blank expression to send a clear go away. Unfortunately they did not pick up on that like dense people usually don't, instead they continued talking until I showed them my Pyramid which was half finished.
"That was fast." Aria frowned.
"Remarkably." Art grinned.
Turns out the two were sisters, very opposite sisters.
The bell rang and I stood, the teacher pointed at an empty bookshelf in the back to put our Pyramids. Quickly walking past the two sisters and placing my project on the shelf I left the room and hurried to the gym. This was the last Class of the day due to our 4 class schedule here at Long Island High.
I walked into the gym and found it completely empty other than a 5 foot man with a bat. He heard me come in and turned to face me.
"Well?" He shouted across the gym. "Sit your ass down on the court!"
I nodded and hurried to do so hoping his bat was only for show. His head darted upwards once I sat down because of the talking that ensued with the dozens of students.
"Quiet down!" He shouted and his voice echoed in the large gymnasium. It seemed to bounce off the walls because it ended up hurting my ears. A boy with blonde hair stepped forward and began arguing with the Coach about his volume.
"Chill out Hedge." The blonde kid frowned.
"You shut your mouth Hanz." He growled back and then there was a deafening boom. The wall that faced the garbage bins out back blew up. The debris flew past my head as I ducked and tucked, the cries of not so lucky victims were in the air once I rose up in the dust.
"Hector Olyos," A slithery voice hissed. "Come out and we will spare your people."
I hurried behind a giant piece of wall as the dust settled, a dark Dracaena with abnormally dark scales and eyes searched the gym with her eyes. A group of the same look entered through the wall except it was a diverse group of monsters. Cyclops, Dracaena, Harpies, Laistrygonians, and much more.
"Did we blow the right wall?" A second Dracaena hissed.
"Of course we did Haisa." The first hissed.
"Are you sure?Our intel is always off Edic." Haisa responded sourly.
Edic hissed and growled at her sister, "Thisssss one is different…his schedule was on the monitor and I watched himmmm come in."
I hid my head as Haisa looked in my direction, she and her sister argued for a few minutes before deciding something.
"Perhaps we should use the other name?" Haisa suggested.
"But Madam Eris told us not to," Edic hissed. "Not that he would recognize it, fool!"
I looked for the piece of wall again and found them slithering all over the place, their group advancing in the gym when the sprinklers activated. They found this funny, the water must've been tickling them.
"Such old technology." Edic grinned and her sister cackled.
Or not.
I rose to my feet, my daggers in the form of my phone and wallet. Both of them sat in my back pocket.
"Listen," I raised my hands and their heads snapped towards my direction. "I don't know who you are or what you want…just leave and nobody get's hurt."
"Funny half-godling this one is," Cyclops' laughter boomed through the gym. "Armless and threatening us?"
I glanced at the inanimate bodies of my classmates, Coach Hedge was snoring on the court floor with his bat several feet away.
"Useless." I muttered and sighed.
"Dessssperate are you?" Haisa asked
"Not at all," I put my hands into my back pockets. "One last chance…leave or die."
The group erupted in laughter which did demotivate me but I unsheathed my blades and threw one at the head of a Cyclops who evaporated immediately.
"Not so funny now is it?" I smirked.
The two snake women hissed at me and retreated behind the Giant, it charged at me and I dodged a steaming rock as a second threw it. A giant grin stayed on my face as the giant tried to grab me, quickly slicing his fingers off and sliding through his legs. I retrieved my second blade a mere 3 feet away from the group and threw it at the Giant's head as he turned, his body evaporating into dust. Haisa charged me with a Cyclops, I ducked her slash and stuck my blade into her gut which turned her into Black goo. Frowning but not thinking much of it I engaged with the Cyclops, his one eye was bloodshot. I put my hands up for a second and he stopped then I pointed at his feet.
"Shoes untied." I smiled and he looked down at his bare feet. Before he could realize I'd tricked him I stabbed his eye and dodged Edic's swing.
"Youuu are ssslyy." She hissed joyfully. "So are we."
I felt a searing hot pain in my shoulder, the feeling jolted down to my waist. Looking down I realized that a gold blade was in my waist followed by a large gash downwards..
'She must've stabbed my shoulder and pulled down to my waist." I thought and grunted in pain before falling. Laying on the floor I saw Haisa rejoin her sister, that was impossible I thought.
"Goodnighttttt." They cackled and an arrow whizzed past their head and into a harpie who squealed before evaporating into dust.
"Huntersss!" Edic hissed and began retreating. "Back now!"
My vision began to blur as figures chased after the monsters, a slim and pale face entered my line of sight. The figure couldn't be made out but she tried speaking to me, unfortunately I blacked out before I could process her words. Once my eyes closed, they opened again and I found myself in a pitch black darkness. Looking around just to find more darkness, my brain was giving off danger signals despite my knowing that this was a dream.
"You're still alive?" A familiar voice spoke and I turned to find a pale woman with blood red lips standing next to a hovering black ghost-like figure.
"Eris and you are?" I reached for my blades to find they weren't there.
"My own brother…can't remember me?" The ghost spoke mockingly. "Not even after I was the one who imprisoned him?"
I frowned and eyed the now circling Goddess of Strife, her tongue licking her lips. My thoughts were scrambled as she circled closer and closer.
"I have no idea who you are," I swallowed my fear as my forehead began sweating. "And I do not know what you want."
"I want you," The ghost spoke in unison with the Goddess. "Dead at my feet."
A thought popped into my head at the worst time and my loud mouth couldn't hold it in.
"Considering you have no legs that would be hard." I grinned nervously.
The Goddess snarled and lunged towards me as I closed my eyes in fear.
I woke to a beeping noise. The surroundings were blurry a tad but I made out a hospital monitor and a wooden futon.
"We must send him back!" A girl's voice sounded upset.
"I will do as I see fit , Thalia," An older feminine voice responded. "He is awake so hush."
A Woman with raven colored hair and gray- silver eyes entered with a stern and serious face.
"Hello Hector." Artemis greeted me.