The Fallen
Ally's POV
After Joyel and I finished our drinks I left Sound wave walking home since it wasn't too far from my house, probably a 5 minute walk at the least. I slung my back pack over my shoulder and walked down the path to my house. All that was heard were the sound of the rain hitting the pavement. But something seemed out of the ordinary… I started to hear feet hit against the pavement and I mentally freaked out. What if it was a serial killer or a guy with a chainsaw… man I've really got to stop watching American horror story. I started to walk faster as the steps got closer, I looked behind me and saw that there was no one there. Now I knew that I was just hallucinating. I walked faster through the rain as my house came into view, I stepped up the concrete stairs searching through my bag for my keys. I finally found them and unlocked the door as a breeze of cold air came towards me. I shivered and kicked off my shoes as I walked into the kitchen, I saw a note on the fridge but there was no need to read it I already knew my mom was on another business trip so it wasn't a surprise. Ever since my dad died my mom has had to work her butt off since day one to provide for me. I felt pretty guilty since I wasn't at the age point to get a job yet. I sighed and walked up the stairs and into my room shutting the door quietly, it was kind of scary having to be at home by myself but I got used to it and it got less frightening each time. I pulled out my textbooks and sat them gracefully on my bed as I reached inside my leather bag for Cassidy's papers but I couldn't feel a stack of papers inside of my bag. "No! No! No!" I yelled as I ran my fingers through my hair. I can't believe I lost Cassidy's papers! She's going to kill me and then I'll be an even bigger loser than ever! I screamed in frustration as I could only find my homework. How could I be so irresponsible? Losing her papers means losing whatever pride I have left of myself. I laid back on my bed as my head started to pound. I ignored the constant feeling and decided to finish my homework at least I won't get yelled for that. An hour later I finished my homework I looked at the time as it read 9:45. Time goes by really fast when you have deadly headache. I went downstairs and into the kitchen. I grabbed two pills of Advil and a bottle of water swallowing them whole. I breathed in deeply trying to calm myself and went back upstairs. I walked into my bathroom brushing my teeth since I wasn't that hungry anyways and hopped in bed. I could feel the hairs on my neck stand up as I felt that I wasn't alone. I felt as if someone was watching me, I looked over at my window and all there was, was a tree moving in the wind. I inhaled deeply knowing that my anxiety would kick in any minute I hated being alone it was the worst feeling in the world and it scared the heck out of me. But a sense of drowsiness washed over me as I felt my eyelids get heavier and soon I was out cold.
*Beep beep beep!* I woke up slamming my alarm, I groaned in frustration as I realized I had to survive another day in school with Cassidy and her annoying crew. Could life get any harder? I got up and pulled on a yellow tank with a tan cardigan and dark blue jeans with my casual brown boots. I brushed my hair and curled it at the ends quickly. I brushed my teeth and then grabbed my leather back pack. I ran downstairs and grabbed a granola bar on the way out as I closed the door locking it while running down the path to my school quickly and walking slowly through the parking lot I wanted to go as slow as I could if it meant not having to get yelled at Cassidy. I opened the doors to the front entrance and walked down the hall turning the corner to my locker. I opened it and sighed, I guess today is just not my day. I grabbed my textbooks since I had history next with Mr. Randal for an hour and a half. I jumped when I saw Austin standing right behind me. "Hey Ally." He said smiling. "Hey…" I said awkwardly. It's not that I didn't mind him it's just that I wasn't use to people wanting to talk to me for other reasons than asking me to do their homework. "Finish your homework for Mr. Randal last night?" he asked leaning on the lockers. "Yeah it was actually pretty easy to be honest." I said as I slammed my locker shut. "Want to walk with me to class?" he asked smiling. Wait he did not just ask me to walk with him to class wow…I am going crazy. "Sure." I said and we walked up the stairs to our first period class. "Why did you leave Sound wave early? I mean you just got there and then you decided to leave." I said. I remembered the expression on his face and how Elliot's was so similar to it. "Oh it was nothing just a family emergency and stuff like that." he said but it wasn't that convincing I could tell he was keeping something from me. I couldn't help but feel that there was more to this than just that. "Oh." Was all that I could manage to say. We entered the classroom and took our seats in the back. The tardy bell rang and of course as usual all the popular students spiraled inside the classroom taking their seats at the front. Oh no here comes the end of me. "Hello Dawson." Cassidy said putting a hand on her hip. "Where's my homework?" she questioned, it felt more like a demand than a simple question. "Look Cassidy I can't find… I swear it was in my back pack but I can't find I could only find my homework last night." I explained and she looked like her head was going to fly off for a moment. "Give me that!" she said whisper yelling at me and then grabbing my leather brown bag. "Hey give it back I swear it's not even there!" I argued back. She looked through my back and looked up at me giving me a confused look. "What?" I snapped, I was almost at the breaking point. She pulled out her stack of homework papers and my mouth literally dropped to the floor. "You didn't do my homework well look what we have here." She said swinging it in my face. What!? I didn't even touch that homework much less write on it! It wasn't in the bag and I swear I looked through that bag like there was no tomorrow. But it had my hand writing all over it and it was neatly stacked and in order. "Wow Ally…lie much?" Cassidy said turning on her heels and walking to the front. This is getting flat out creepy…just creepy. I inhaled deeply and watched as Mr. Randal came into the classroom. "Sorry I'm running late kids had to drop my son off at school." He said putting his suitcase on his desk. "Ok so I hope you guys did your homework pass it up." He said and students started to pass up the papers to the front. "You did your homework?" I asked Austin as he looked through his back pack. He got out a sheet of paper and it was blank…of course the kid didn't even do his homework on the first day of school. I looked back as the kid behind me tapped my shoulder handing me the papers. I neatly stacked them on the desk when Austin handed me his paper. I stared at it in complete shock. There it was a paragraph with a title and everything, I'm going insane…I'm going insane. I stared at him in disbelief and pure shock, "What?" he asked as he took the papers and handed them to Mr. Randal. "N-nothing…" I stuttered. Ever since he's gotten here nothing has been normal…nothing has seemed in place. "Ok guys today we are going to talk about Zeus the great god!" he said happily, here goes a whole lecture.
After an hour and a half lecture about how Zeus and Hades were brothers which is hardly believable. Hades is evil and Zeus is good how could they be born of the same blood but be so different in a huge way. Not that I care I don't believe in that junk anyway. What happened earlier in class with Austin was still lingering in the back of my mind, it was so weird one minute it's blank the next it's filled with words and a title in pure cursive. No one could write cursive that fast unless they want a major hand cramp later. I was pulled out my thoughts by the bell for the end of first period oh great I have science today and then gym…living the life aren't I? I walked out of the classroom as Austin ran up right next to me. "So would you like to hang out with me today?" he asked and I stopped right in my tracks. "Sorry but I don't date." I said but deep inside of me I knew I wanted to say yes. But Austin isn't the best choice, he looks more like trouble and the last thing I need is trouble. "Is that a yes then?" he asked smirking. "I said I don't go on dates." I said sternly. "I didn't ask you on a date." He said smirking before walking down the hallway. What the… ugh he gets on my nerves! I walked into science class and my heart skipped a beat, there was Dallas at the front lab table… wait what is he doing here I thought he went to Ravenswood Academy. "Hey Ally!" he said interrupting my private thoughts. I smiled and walked over to him taking the empty seat. "What are you doing here?" I asked sitting my leather bag on the floor. "I had to transfer, my scholarship was something I just couldn't afford I used to work at 'Milo's buffet' but I had to quit and move down here." He said sadly. I understood what he came from…he was suddenly at the top of the world and now he's in this prison. "Oh I'm sorry about that." I said as Mrs. Ameen our science teacher came in. "Ok guys I see you're in a seat, as long as you don't keep up the constant chit chat you are allowed to sit in your chosen seat." She said sweetly. I really liked this teacher, at the beginning of the school year she made assigned seats I guess she's beginning to trust us more. "So we are going to do a lab today since this is advanced science we are starting extremely early." She said grabbing a stack of papers and handing them out to us. It was a lab on how to mix baking soda with chloride. "Ready to get to work?" Dallas said sweetly. I nodded and smiled as we were dismissed from our seats to the lab stations in the back. Dallas grabbing a beaker and a flask pouring the blue chloride in the test tube. He seemed to know what he was doing. He poured the baking soda in the chloride and it began to fizz and bubble. "Ok hypothesis is if baking soda is poured in chloride it will begin to fizz up." He said and I wrote down the hypothesis. Wow he's really good at this whole thing. Finally we were down with the lab after cleaning up the station. We sat back down in our seats as Mrs. Ameen came around and grabbed our papers off. "So Ally I was wondering if you and Joyel would like to go with Elliot and I to Persephone the carnival tonight since it is a Friday." He said shyly. I could feel my cheeks get hot and my heart skip a beat. "Y-yeah sure." I said stuttering. Best day ever…well partly.
Mount Olympus:
"You let Poseidon send our son to earth!? Cyrene yelled Apollo. "He stole Poseidon's trident, cupid's arrow, and destroyed the laurel tree that my father passed down to me!" Apollo yelled at Cyrene as he walked out of their royal room. "He is our soon Apollo how could you not even have trust in our own son!" she yelled following him into the garden. "Asclepius has faced his down his crime and now he needs to pay the price it's not like I can give him the special treatment!" he barked at her and she was taken aback by his harsh tone. He had never had the nerve to yell at her like that. "He is a shame to the gods Cyrene can't you see he betrayed the gods his own grandfather Zeus for crying out loud!" he yelled as he felt the tears sting his eyes. He loved Asclepius but he himself and his stubborn pride got the best of his better judgment. "Don't you love him?" Cyrene said in a softer tone. He could tell she was trying her hardest not to break against her will. "Cyrene that is it! You will not be telling me what I love! You know I love Asclepius and I love you too!" he said as his habit of speaking like a true god came intact with his voice. She stepped back as she felt some tears fall from her eyes. "Fine then…but I don't believe he did any of that... you actually believe he tried to break the gates of the underworld?" she whispered to Apollo. He stood there in shock…she wasn't supposed to know any of that it was top secret and the main reason Asclepius got kicked out of the Mount Olympus. It seemed a little farfetched to Apollo, yes Asclepius was a troublemaker but he loved Olympus why would he do something so consequential that he would want to unleash the monsters of the underworld. "How did you know that?" he asked and she laughed. "I am after all the goddess of knowledge, nothing gets past me without me knowing it. I know your thoughts Apollo…you do believe but you're so concerned on your own pride you couldn't even at least tell him that you believed him. You didn't even tell me you guys were taking him to earth as punishment!" she yelled at him, it was the most nerve racking expression he's seen on her face. She was normally the peaceful one always looking out for everybody and being 100% positive but something threw her off balance and he knew what it was but he wouldn't stop pushing until she saw the real point in this. "Cyrene we are done talking about this, what is done is done." Apollo said walking past Cyrene as she stood there in despite and anger.
Author's Note- Ok guys hope that gave you a little idea on Asclepius past!:) I think we all know Asclepius is hopefully:) Anyways I am doing a little contest on all my stories for each chapter the one with the best review gets a shout out! It starts today, I know that there are a lot of people reading some of my stories so don't be shy to speak your mind trust me no one will judge:) Keep up the amazing reviews guys I want a lot of reviews so you guys can tell me how I'm doing it really inspires me to write more stories:) i know that this chapter was a bit boring but i promise more in the next one!:)
-Taylor:)