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Chapter 10: A mother’s love

Hermes is wearing a golden and white plated torso with red feathered outline and white plated armored shorts with gold stripes embedded on the edges. He wore a golden helmet in the shape of a griffin. He's also relatively short, he has light skin,Hazel colored eyes, and a burn mark that reaches from his thigh to his calf. Mother grunts in pain due to the injury on her left shoulder and was bleeding heavily. She says, "Hermes where'd you take us?" Hermes replies, "We're in the outskirts of the village. He won't find us here unless we make a sound that's loud enough for him to hear." She replies, "Well, that's good to know. What about the others?" Hermes looks down and stays quiet. He clenches both of his fists, and in a soft and sad tone he says, "They didn't make it...They were collateral damage from the lightning bolts. Those things wiped out everything and everyone in an instant.I was barely able to escape it. After I did, that's when I heard you taunting Zeus. Your voice literally echoed throughout the entire village. I knew it was my queue to go and save you. Well, the three of you."

The Priest chuckles, and in a sarcastic tone says, " Ah yes, let me go ahead and commit taboo to anger the strongest God to ever exist. Surely that would end well." Mother lets go of my hand and proceeds to bitch smack the priest. She says, "Listen here you old fucking buffoon. It's do or die now, so if you're gonna start complaining then by all means go surrender yourself to the one you worship. Trust me, you'd be making it a lot easier for us." The Priest stays quiet and starts to clench his left fist. They look at each other for a few seconds. There's clearly some tension between those two. Honestly, I can kinda see why ,since he worships the god that she's trying to take down.

The Priest says, "Fuck you, you filthy woman. You tricked me into teaching you the history, and now I too must pay for your actions...no, they also had to pay the consequences of your actions...the innocent men, women, and children...You killed them all, not him. I warned you, didn't I? That there would be punishment? Yet, you still went in without thinking for a second as to what could happen. What if he got your son? You ever thought of that?" My Mother took a step back and replied, "No, that's where your wrong. If anything, I thought of every single possibility as to what the punishment could be, but this was one that I didn't see coming. Demons from the underworld were somehow released, and he's using them as an excuse to slaughter us. He doesn't care who's collateral damage, and he won't stop hunting us down until he knows that we're completely gone." Lightning starts to strike continuously in the middle of the village. We hear a loud roar come from Zeus. Hermes walks up to my mother and says, "He's gonna destroy all of the forest and mountains to find us. We have to get going before it's too late." Mother nods her head, and walks up to me. She picks me up and says, "How the hell are we supposed to get out of here without being noticed?" Hermes points at the top of the shortest mountain which was on the other side of the village and says, "That's our only shot. We have to move quickly and quietly to reach it." Mother replies, "Well, you are the fastest god so I don't see how that's a problem." Hermes takes off his helmet and reveals his sepia colored hair. He says, "If Zeus throws a lightning bolt then it'll be over for us, and the only reason I was able to save you all three of you was because I had already started running before he even grabbed the third bolt. I'm just barely faster than his lightning anyways. If I start running then he'll notice my golden trail. Another reason why he didn't notice me when I saved all of you was because my trail was covered by the flames and the fact he was already putting his attention on his aim. He knows it's me tho. I'm the only one who can escape his attacks"

  

   Mother's jaw drops and starts to tease Hermes. She says, "Damn for the fastest god you're pretty fucking slow. How can you not outrun lightning? Haven't you been training at all?" Hermes gets embarrassed and throws his helmet into the dark. He sarcastically says, "At least I can outrun an old lady with a stick." Mother gets flustered, and replies, "Hey! That was just one time, and I was injured by the way!" She sticks out the

middle finger, and Hermes laughs, but quickly shuts his mouth. The Priest taps them both on the shoulder and says, "I just want to say that I hate you both, and I hope that after we get out of this you treat me to some good ass food." Mother chuckles and nods in agreement. She says, "There's the optimism! Alright lets get going."

   We start heading into the vast darkness that engulfs the entire forest. The only source of light we have is the fire in the distance from the village itself, but that light can only reach so far so we're literally going in blind. We can hear different kinds of noises from insects and animals like crickets or hissing from snakes. The sound of wind blowing into the trees as Zeus' screams of frustration create winds that can even lift trees from its sheer force and velocity. Luckily for us, we're on a side of the forest where the winds are fast, but not strong enough to lift us. It seems that Zeus is just hoping for the best, but since he doesn't know where we are then he's just complainin like an ignorant child. The Priest trembles in fear, and in a scared, low, and trembling tone he says, "I don't want to die...I can't die here..." Mother and Hermes don't reply. They keep on moving as if there isn't an angry god going on a tantrum.

   Zeus' starts to grab lightning bolts and throws them onto the already burned down village. He yells, "WHERE ARE YOU?!?! HERMES!!!! I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE!!! HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU'VE LEFT YOUR HOME?!?! I LOST COUNT!! A DISOBEDIENT CHILD LIKE YOU DESERVES TO BE PUNISHED!!! YOU KNOW, YOUR UNCLE HADES WOULD BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU!!!" Thunder roars and echoes throughout the skies. Hermes clenches his and softly says, "He doesn't know what he's talking about. My uncle was a great god, and he will pay for what he did." Mother rushes to Hermes, but before she could get to him we start to fall, but before we hit the ground Hermes had already caught both of  us and says, "Oh shit, Serenity you're bleeding a lot. You imbecile! What did you do?!" Mother replies, "Long story short, I fought a demon and almost got my ass handed to me. It seems that the extreme blood loss is getting to me." Hermes puts me down right next him and says, "If that's the case then we have to make it there quick."

   Hermes picks up mother, and gives her a piggy back ride. Hermes asks, "Hey Pluto, you think you can walk the rest of the way?" I reply, "Yes sir! You can count on me!" I give him and thumbs up. He smiles and reaches his hand out to me. He says, "Here, you can hold on to it if you want." I hold his hand and we continue to make our way. Mother groans very quietly, and softly says, "Thank you Hermes..." Hermes smirks and replies, "My pleasure, but save your breath, ok?" Mother nods, and closes her eyes.

We walk for what seemed to be a few hours, and Zeus has been quiet for some time. The winds have completely stopped, the insects have stopped making noises, and the snakes have stopped hissing. Hermes whispers, "Halt." We all stop moving, and The Priest starts to tremble in fear. My butt clenches, and I hold in my tears. I can't make any noise or we're all dead. The Priest whispers, "Why hasn't he done anything for the last few hours?" Hermes doesn't reply, but shushes him instead.

Hermes slowly moves forward and says, "We're not alone." We put our backs against each other to see if anything comes popping out of the dark. After a few seconds of silence we hear leaves crumble. As if something was moving, but very slowly. Low growling was heard a few feet in front of me, and it got closer with every second that passed. Hermes looks into its direction, and prepared for combat. He lowered his knees as if getting ready to sprint, and held my mother even tighter on his back. He whispered, "Both of you, get behind me right now." We very slowly and carefully move behind Hermes. The Priest quietly asked, "What could it even be?" The growling grew closer, and the leaves crumbled even louder.

Eventually revealing a silhouette of a bald creature with two long arms. It crawled closer with its two long black nails, and then it stopped. We were staring at each other for what felt like years, but it was only my fear that made me think that. The creature put both of its nails in front of its entire body, and lunged itself to me, but then Hermes kicked it down in the blink of an eye. It was gonna let out a loud shriek, but before it could Hermes kicked it on its jaw horizontally. He kicked it so fast that its head started spinning which led to its vocal chords ripping apart. It couldn't make a sound. He then pierced its chest which killed it in an instant. Hermes says, "I thought Zeus killed them all, but it looks like some were smart enough to escape into the forest." The Priest replied, "Some of the demons survived...?" Hermes nods and says, "We have to be extra careful from now on. Luckily, this one was missing half of its body so it only had one heart."

Mother groans in pain, and quietly asks, "What happened...?" Hermes looks at her, and gasps. He quietly exclaims, "Serenity...your skin...its pale!! Holy shit! At this rate you're gonna die from blood loss!!" Mother chuckles, and slaps the back of his head. She says, "You fool...you really think that this...this is enough to kill me...? I ain't dying...til I know my son survives past tonight.." Hermes grits his teeth and says, "Let's hurry it up then." We continue to move forward into the woods. The Priest says, "Hey, wanna hear a funny joke?" Hermes replies, "Sure, we could use one right now." The Priest smirks and asks, " What do unicorns eat?" Hermes confused replies, "Uhh I don't know. What is it?" The Priest chuckles and says, "Greek yogurt."

Hermes stayed quiet and Mother groaned in pain again. She slowly lifted her head and softly says, "Dude...that was fucking terrible." Hermes chuckled and replies, "Well, at least he tried. Honestly I'd rather feel awkward than feel hopeless." The Priest shrugs it off and says, "Well, I can agree with that." We head forward, and the short mountain is actually visible now. Hermes says, "We're almost there. Just a little bit more and this'll all be over." The sounds of thunder start to appear out of nowhere. Little droplets of rain start to fall, and then we heard Zeus yawn. Hermes' eyes widen and he starts to shake. His face grew pale, he starts to sweat, and his breathing got even faster. He says, "I can't believe it...I thought we were safe..." The Priest replies, "What? What's going on?" Hermes stops moving, and slowly looks back at the priest. He says, "The reason why Zeus hasn't said anything, or why the winds stopped...was because he's been sleeping this entire time."

Mother replies, "It's fine, he hasn't...noticed us...ugh...yet." Hermes nods and says, "You're right. Come on, let's keep on going. We're almost there." We continue walking towards the mountain, but then that's when we heard Zeus roar louder than before. His shout which was filled with rage and hatred made the winds blow stronger than before, and rain poured harder than ever. He yelled, "I HAVE AWOKEN FROM MY POWER NAP!!!  YET, I CAN STILL FEEL YOUR PRESENCE!!! SERENITY!!! IT WAS YOU WASN'T IT?!?! YOU PUT ME TO SLEEP!!!! YOU CALMED ME DOWN TO THE POINT OF SLUMBER!!! HOW DARE YOU?!?!?!" Lightning slammed into the tress behind us causing a wild fire to start. It spread quickly throughout the forest eventually getting to us. Hermes quietly exclaims, "We have to hurry now!! Before the fire catches us!!" We start to sprint towards the mountain hoping we can outrun the flames that were chasing us.

I start to fall behind since my small feet can't catch up to them. I exclaim, "Wa-" before I could finish my sentence Hermes quickly picks me up and holds me with one arm. He catches up to the the priest and runs beside him. He asks, "Hey man, you ever loved someone before?" The Priest replies, "That's a bit of a random question." Hermes smirks and says, "Just trying to make conversation while we try to escape death." The priest chuckles and replies, "Yes, I did once love a woman by the name of Seraphine. She was gorgeous, and was the nicest lady you could ever meet. She was a brunette, with yellow eyes, dark skin, she was pretty tall, and always wore a red gown. Don't ask me why because even I didn't know. We got married with four kids. Three girls and one boy. We lived the happiest eight years of our lives until my wife got very sick. She had leprosy which gave her blisters all around her body. We tried everything we could do to save her, but nothing worked. Eventually, she passed on without even getting to see her kids turn ten years old. After my wife's death, I had built the palace of blessings. She loved talking about the gods, and so I made that place as a memorial for her, but it eventually became a safe haven for the people of the village. Something about it gave it this feeling that your sins were being lifted and it made you feel free. A few years after I built the palace, all three of my little girls became ill and died on the same day. While my son mysteriously disappeared."

The priest shed a tear, but it got immediately evaporated from the heat that surrounded us. Hermes pats him on the shoulder and says, "I'm sure they'll be proud of the fact that you've been living your life, and haven't given up at all, but before I continue what's your name?" The priest replied, "My name is Zephyr." Hermes nods and says, "Zephyr...that's an interesting name. Not many have it. Your parents are very smart for giving you such a unique name." Zephyr laughs and says, "Thank you, I am honored to be complimented by a god." Thunder roared louder and lightning struck the ground again creating an even bigger fire. Mother groans and says, "Look...we're at the bottom of the mountain..." Hermes smiles and says, "Yeah..we're here!"

The priest jumps in joy with sweat dripping down from his entire body. I mean, even I'm sweating from the intense heat. Zephyr says, "Come on let's hu-" his sentence gets interrupted by multiple loud shrieks coming from within the fire. Hermes looks back and says, "What the hell?" Zephyr looks into the direction of the shrieks and says, "There's no way..." multiple demons crash through the flames revealing themselves to us. Mother looks at them, and says "one...two...four...ten...there's too many to count. We're completely outnumbered." The demons rush to us without hesitation. I can see their saliva dripping from their mouths. Their nails piercing through the ground with each step. Mother says, "Hermes, put me down." Hermes hesitates as he thinks that's a horrible idea especially with her current condition. Zephyr says, "Is this it? Is this how I go out?" Hermes lets out a sigh and puts both mother and I down.

The demons quickly surround us in the shape of a circle, and roar at us. The fire get nearer with each passing second. We all put our backs against each other, and mother says, "Hermes..make a path...leading straight to the mountain..." Hermes replies, "Yes ma'am." Hermes gets in a running stance, and takes off plowing through multiple demons. Ten demons lunge at mother, but before they could reach her she creates a shockwave from her words. She chants, "Your screams and anger shall be silenced by the shallow tranquility that lies deep within your souls." The shockwave passes through the ten demons which led them stop their attack and calm down. She took this opportunity to take off each of their hearts with her working arm, and kill them off.

Zephyr asks, "How the hell am I supposed to do anything? I don't have any weapons nor powers. I'm useless in this battle." The flames grew bigger as the battle wages onward. I'm scared and my small hands and feet can't do anything, but stand still waiting for all of this to be over. The sight of my mother fighting these monsters head on even when she's been heavily injured astounded me. I felt somewhat safe knowing that she's here to protect me. Rain pours even harder and we hear Zeus yell again in frustration. He shouts, "WHERE ARE YOU?!?! WHERE DID YOU ALL GO GOD DAMNIT!!!!" He throws another bolt into the other side of the forest creating another wild fire. Hermes plows through more demons to make sure they don't attack me or Zephyr, but he didn't notice the demon that was lurking on the outskirts of the fires. That things snuck by both my mother and Hermes eventually reaching both Zephyr and I. The demon sprints in front of me and roars into my face. I start to cry out for help, but then Zephyr shuts my mouth with his hand.

He says, "I'm done watching anyone else die tonight. I can't bare to see another child fall to the hands of these fiends anymore." The demon swings its nail to try and cut Zephyr, but he narrowly escaped it by moving backwards. He grunts in pain because it managed to graze his entire chest. He puts me down and says, "run to your mother while you still can." I do as he says and sprint towards my mother who is fighting as I move towards her. I run without looking back until I hear a shriek of pain come out from Zephyr. The demon pierced through his chest and bit his neck. It ripped it off and began to eat him. Hermes stops running and looks at Zephyr's lifeless body was being devoured by the demon without any remorse. He hold his mouth and a tears falls from his face. In the blink of an eye he killed the demon and ripped its head off.

The flames spread even closer and reached my mother. Demons kept appearing, and she kept killing them. Hermes ran to help her, but we were running out of time due to the fire. My mother says, "There's too many of them. They just keep coming, but how? I thought Zeus killed all of them?" Hermes replied, "It's the punishment. It won't be undone until the one who committed the taboo has atoned for their sin." My mother stayed quiet and kept killing the demons with Hermes. Ripping each heart out without hesitation. Hermes stops sprinting and puts his back against hers. He says, "Let me guess, you want me to buy you time?" She replies, "If you can, I would be grateful" Hermes replies, "Go to him." She stops fighting and starts running towards me.

Hermes gets rid of all the demons that try to get in her way until she eventually reaches me. She crouches down and puts her hand on my face. She sheds a tear and says, "My son, oh my perfect child." She weeps as she says these words, but she tries her absolute hardest to smile. She says, "You are the best things that has ever happened to me, ok? Don't ever doubt that not even for a second." I reply, "Mommy? Is everything gonna be ok? Why does this sound like a goodbye?" My mother's tears fall faster and she starts to bite her lip. She says, "No son, this isn't goodbye. You'll see me again someday. After you've lived your life, after you've made family, friends, and memories. You will see me again on the other side, ok?" I start to cry and reply, "Mommy I don't want you to go!" She passes her fingers through my hair and puts her forehead on mine. She asks, "Can you promise me something?" I reply, "Yes mommy anything!" She smiles and replies, "Promise me that you'll be strong. That you will live your life to the absolute fullest, and that no matter how hard it gets you remember these words. Even if I'm destined to suffer then I will face it head on, and defy the destiny that has been given to me for I will keep getting up no matter how many times I fall. Promise me you'll remember that." I nod my head, and boogers start to come out of my nose. She wipes them off with her dress and kisses my forehead. She slowly lets go of my face , and runs towards the demons. She says, "Hermes! Grab Pluto and go now!" Hermes replies, "What?! Are you crazy?! You'll die!!" Mother laughs and says, "This is this literally the only way!!"

Hermes clenches his fist and sprints to me immediately grabbing me. Mother shouts, "HEY YOU FOUL DEMONS!!! I'M HERE!!!" They all look at her and lunge at her. Her right shouldee gets pierced, her left leg gets sliced off, and her right hand gets bitten. I yell, "MOMMY NOOO!!!!!" Hermes yells, "SERENITY!!!" My mother shouts, "HERMES WHATEVER YOU DO!! DON'T LOOK BACK AFTER THIS AND RUN!!!" She takes a deep breath as the demons slowly eat her, and lets out a scream that echoes throughout the entire forest. Zeus replies, "I SEE!!! SO THAT'S WHERE YOU WERE HIDING!!!" He hysterically laughs as he lifts his hand up in the air, and brings it back down to reveal a giant pillar of lightning forming in the clouds. Big enough to destroy everything around us. Hermes immediately starts running, but everything turns into slow motion for me.

I can see my mother smiling as she sees us run away, and she has blood pouring out of her eyes and mouth. The pillar of lightning immediately hits the ground, but Hermes is so fast that even though we're in it. We can't even feel the burns. However, I can see my mother die in the distance. Her flesh melts into her bones, and the demons all start to immediately perish alongside with her. I can hear the agony in my voice as I call out for my mother, but its no use. She's already gone, and we're now too far away. Hermes wept as he ran, and murmured the words, "He'll pay." Multiple times, and got faster as he continued running. Eventually, we couldn't even see the mountains anymore. He had ran into a completely different area, and kept running. After that, my whole world started to collapse into darkness. Hermes disappeared into thin air, and my eyes closed.

Morpheus appears before me from within the darkness, and wipes a tear coming out of my eye with his thumb. He says, "I'm sorry, but this one appeared to be the one you needed to see." I stayed quiet for a few seconds, and then asked, "So why is Zeus targeting me...?" Morpheus softly replies, "I can't tell you that either. You have to find that out on your own too." I clench my fist and yell, "WHAT WAS THE POINT OF SHOWING ME THAT THEN?!?! WHY DID MY MOTHER GET KILLED BY ZEUS?!?! WHY?!?! WHY?!?! WHY?!?!?! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS INFORMATION?!?! WHERE DO I GO?!?!" I kneel down, and softly say, "Where do I go..." Morpheus replied, "That I can answer. You must go to the Valley of death. There, you will meet someone who may have the answers you're looking for." I reply, "Are you sure?" Morpheus replies, "Yes, that should be it." I stand up and clench my fists. Morpheus says, "Oh, and when you find out what it is you're looking for. What is it you're going to do next?" I look at him and reply, "I'm going to kill Zeus."

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Chapter 9: A Scarlet Night

The Priest points at a illustration on the left wall with the shape of a baby with what seems to be light coming from him. The Priest says, "Zeus was born from the light that was casted into our world. His mother, who is unknown to us was no ordinary woman that's for sure. All we know is her name. Her name was Rhea, mother of Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon." The Priest follows the wall , but reaches an empty space. He says, "A piece of history is missing. You see, Rhea's story is hidden somewhere, or maybe it's with someone. After this missing piece, she completely disappears. Never to be heard of ever again." My mother holds me tighter and says, " No matter, just continue telling me about Zeus." 

   The Priest shows us a new drawing, and it showed us three boys play fighting. One held a trident, the second held a lightning bolt, and the third had what seemed to be black flames around his hands. The Priest says, "The Gods used to get along as children, but that didn't last for long. You see, here.." He points to a man who kept winning countless battles. The Priest says, "Zeus became older and wanted to test his powers. He challenged every single God and won every single match. Zeus grew arrogant, selfish, prideful, and always underestimated his opponents. Eventually, his feats were recognized by his father Chronos who at the time was the ruler of all gods and men. Zeus felt that he needed more than just battle. He wanted control. He wanted to rule the skies, and look down upon those whom he knew could not ever defy him. He knew that if he became a ruler, then he'd be the most powerful being in the universe with the most powerful army.

   Zeus took it upon himself to challenge his father in a duel. He offered his life if he were to be defeated, but if he were to come out victorious, then he would become a God for all. Chronos accepted Zeus' offer and the two began to fight. This battle would go on for centuries, each blow shaking the very fabric of the cosmos. Eventually, Zeus defeated his father. He decapitated him, and kept his head as an example for all. He placed the head of his own father in a golden plate, and always had it beside him whenever he sat on the throne. Eons pass by, Zeus married Hera who was the goddess of women and marriage. He had six children with her. Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, Athena, Ares, and Aphrodite. Artemis was the goddess of animals, Hermes was the fastest among all of the Gods, Athena was the goddess of war, Ares was the living embodiment of war and battle, and Aphrodite the goddess of beauty. Apollo was the god of music.

   Six strong, and fearful children who would soon become his six most powerful soldiers. Zeus was happy with the way his life was going. Until he met the only person who has ever defied and defeated him. Nyx, the goddess of night appeared before him once and declared that she didn't want to be ruled by him. She wanted her own freedom. She wanted to live her life without having to take orders from an arrogant god who would kill those that didn't agree with him. She thought that he wasn't fit to rule anyone especially her. She challenged Zeus to a duel. She offered him her powers and her life if she were the one to be defeated, but if she won then he would let her roam everywhere, and do anything she wanted for all of eternity. He wouldn't be able to control her. Zeus would laugh and mock her, but he accepted the terms. This battle didn't take that long to finish.

   You see, Zeus may have been the most powerful god among all of them. At least, that's what was said up until this point. Zeus was overwhelmed by Nyx's powers. She humiliated him in front of everyone. It was a one sided battle and he didn't stand a chance. Nyx was older and wiser than Zeus. She had known his weakness from when they first fought, but she never cared about her reputation nor was she benefiting anything from their bout in the past. So she had let him win. This time, her freedom was in jeopardy, and she wouldn't want her life to be controlled by someone who is full of himself. So she didn't hold back, and had Zeus for the first time in his life fear death. Nyx would threaten Zeus that if ever tried to come after her, then she would kill him, and end his reign in Olympus.

   She didn't care what would happen to the others. She only fought for herself. Some say that she was selfish for this, but I think she had her reasons. Nyx would then disappear and never to be seen again. Zeus was enraged that he had lost such a valuable asset to his kingdom, and he feared for his own life every single night. He had nightmares about Nyx, and of his own defeat. He also grew angry at the fact that he knew someone was out there whom he could never control."  Mother stood quiet with a blank expression on her face. Her entire body starts to shake, and her lips quiver. She says, "I'm getting shivers down my spine. Something isn't right." The Priest says, "Like I said earlier, learning about Zeus is taboo. I don't know what happens, but something does. We're already in to deep. Might as well finish." He continues walking along side the wall of illustrations. On the wall, it showed a man in all black sitting on the throne with a woman who had a pink dress and green hair. The Priest said, "This right here is Hades, God of the underworld. Right beside him is his wife, Persephone the goddess of Spring. Together, they ruled over the underworld, but Hades didn't feel right. He thought to himself why he was put to rule in such a place. All he ever felt was the pain, sorrow, and guilt for the damned souls that were sent to hell. Not because he felt sorry for them, but because their negative emotions affected him too. Luckily, Persephone was there to give him all the love she brought forth.

   She would cook him delicious meals, tell him stories of her past, make love to him, and would reassure him that everything will be fine. In the end, all good and bad things must conclude. Hades remembered the day Nyx defeated Zeus, and gained her free will. Ever since then, he's considered fighting for his own if not for those he loved, but he knew that if he tried then he would fail miserably and most likely end up dead. He wanted to change the underworld into a place for second chances, but he would need Zeus' permission to accomplish that. Knowing his brother, he wasn't going to even bother asking. Instead, he said his goodbyes to Persephone, and traveled all the way to the top of Olympus.

   It wasn't hard for him to get there since he was loved among the Gods. You see out of the three brothers, Hades was the most understanding one, and the least prideful. He didn't care about winning battles nor did he care about his reputation. He cared for others and when he could, he would help other Gods with their duties on a good day. So naturally, he made it up in less than a day by the help of Hermes who was coincidentally passing by. Hades storms into Olympus and meets Zeus who is sitting on the throne announcing something to the other gods. Zeus was shocked to see his younger brother who never leaves his realm.

   You'd think that he would be mad, right? But in actuality he was delighted to see him. Zeus offered Hades to sit beside him for he was about to announce something that would change how the world works. This change would even affect the gods themselves. Every God sat around the biggest golden round table to ever exist. Zeus sat on his throne, and each of his children had their own special chairs. Zeus stood up, and announced that every god will lend a portion of their powers to specific humans and they will do their jobs for them.

   The gods shocked by what he said discussed it amongst themselves. Hades wasn't even surprised in the slightest. He was mad, because now the human race will practically be enslaved against their own will. Doing something that they themselves were never created for. The sad thing is that no one would've been able to say no. For they would have been killed on the spot. Poseidon rejoiced and told everyone that this was a new beginning. That they themselves don't have to do anything but watch over the land of the mortals. He was without a doubt on Zeus' side. Poseidon, god of the ocean would then bow down to Zeus and immediately pick a random human who was minding its own business. the gods whom had no choice, but to obey did as they were told.

   Except Hades who had changed his goal just slightly after hearing Zeus' absurd declaration. Zeus questioned Hades as to why he hasn't chosen a human. Hades reveals that he came up to Olympus to duel him. That he would take the throne of Olympus and make everything just. That he would create a land where gods don't have to fear their ruler, but instead communicate without fearing that they would be killed. A land where gods have free will, and humans don't have to do their bidding. The gods stood still and looked at Hades with expressions of disbelief. They wanted to cheer him on, but if they did there would be deadly consequences.

   Hades offered Zeus his life and his realm if he were to be defeated, but if he triumphs then he would take the throne of Olympus. Zeus would reject his offer, and instead change it. Zeus states that if he were to be defeated then yes he will give the throne up to his little brother, but in turn if he came out victorious. He would give Hades a fate far worse than death itself. Hades agreed to these terms, and so the two fought. This bout lasted roughly around three thousand years, but in the end. Zeus came out on top and it wasn't even close.

   Hades was dragged by Zeus and tossed him in front of Hecate the goddess of magic. He ordered her to curse Hades with everlasting reincarnation, that everytime he died he would reincarnate into a random human. She hesitated, but Hades insisted that she should obey him. She casted the curse on to Hades, and wept as she did so. Zeus then announced to everyone that they would be reminded as to why they should fear him. He was about to strike Hades with the killing blow, but before he could Hades had a final statement. He promised Zeus that one day his time of reckoning will come, maybe it won't be him that stops him, but someone else. No matter how many years, centuries, or eons it takes. It'll come for him, and he will taste the flavor of defeat yet again. Someday, everyone will be free of his grasp. Zeus summons a lightning bolt, and throws it through Hades' chest. Killing him in an instant. The gods watched in horror as they saw their friend die right before them, and there was nothing they could've done. Zeus grabs the corpse and decapitates his head. He puts it on another golden plate, and has it as a trophy right next his to his father's head.

   Zeus showed the gods that not even family is safe from his wrath. That he will do whatever it takes to show authority. He calls for Hermes who had his face drenched in tears. He orders him to go to the underworld and let Persephone know about the events that had happened. The other children laughed as he stormed off for they did not feel any empathy for Hades. Nor did they care for anything else. As long as they remained in power, and in the protection of their father. They wouldn't even lift a finger to help any of their fellow Gods in need.

   Zeus then heads to the top of Olympus alone to look at the sight of the glamorous moon, and a tear falls down from his face." Mother replied, "How dare he try to care..if he did care then he wouldn't do such cruel things. What a joke of a god. Everything that has been fought for won't go to waste. Zeus will fall." The Priest gets shocked and asks, "What exactly do you mean by..Zeus will fall..?" Mother replies, "It's a long story, but I don't have time to explain. Just keep going and finish." The Priest became suspicious of my mother, but continued anyways.

   He says, "Hermes reaches the underworld and lets Persephone know that Hades had been killed by Zeus, and that he has been cursed to reincarnate as a human for all of eternity. She held Hermes tightly and had him leave. She became the new ruler of the underworld for in the name of her love. She won't let anyone tear his realm apart. Persephone woe'd for eons awaiting for the love of her life to return, but he never did.  She never looked at another God or man, for she would wait even for the rest of eternity to reunite with the one he took from her. Even if she dies in process, her love for the king of darkness would never fade. In a way, she too had been cursed. Cursed to never feel loved by someone ever again."

   My mother shed a couple of tears, and clenched her fist. She said, "He will pay for what he has done. She didn't deserve to be collateral damage. No one deserved what happened to them." The Priest stayed quiet, and continued with the final part of history. He says, "That was the past, and now we move to the present. Do you see this?" My mother looks closely and sees that the illustrations are shifting into what seems to be a woman in a black dress holding a child, and a man in all white studying a wall. My mothers holds me even tighter and says, "That's us, isn't it?" The Priest replied, "Yes ma'am and now lets see what it changes into." The illustrations convert into a giant man made out of lightning emerge from the clouds, and strange creatures run amok the village. My mother asks, "what the hell is that supposed to mean..?" Everything went silent, and the priest starts to cry. He says, "Look what you've made me do. You've doomed us all." Another moment of silence and we hear a sudden banging from the door. The person exclaims, "WE HAVE TO EVACUATE NOW!!! THE VILLAGE IS BEING RAIDED!!! GET AWAY FROM HERE!!!!" The priest says, "That voice...it's one of the guards!" My mother opens the door, and the guard exclaims, "ALL OF YOU MOVE! MOVE IT NOW!!!! BEFORE ITS TO LA-"

   He stops talking, and blood starts to pour down from his mouth. We look down, and a long sharp long black nail pierced through his abdomen. The Guard gets lifted up into the air, and uses his last breath to softly says, "We're all fucked..run..now.." He then gets tossed across the room, and The Creature reveals itself. It was skinny, its skin was redish with veins scattered all over its body, one mouth that only had sharp teeth, an extremely long tongue, four limbs, both of its arms didn't have any hands it instead had two long sharp black nails, its legs were slim, with sharp toenails as its feet, and it was completely bald. I start to cry and scream in absolute fear. My mother holds me tight and whispers, "Don't worry son, I'll make sure nothing happens to you, ok?" She made me feel a sense of serenity. I felt safe in the warm grasp of her motherly touch. I calm down, and look at the creature. It was hideous.

   The Priest starts to pray to Zeus in fear, but my mother exclaims, "YOU FOOL! GET UP! YOUR PRAYERS WILL NO LONGER BE HEARD!! WE HAVE BROKEN A TABOO AND NOW THIS IS THE CONSEQUENCE!!" She puts me down and says, "Pluto, watch closely for you might need this someday." She walks up to the creature with a serious look on her face. She gets in front of it, and then it roars directly into her face. Mother was unfazed, and then the creature tried attacking her by swinging its nail to slice her in half, but before it could my mother dodged it by sliding under its feet, and touched its back. She whispers into its ear, and then it calms down. She then pierces its chest with her hand and rips its heart out. She throws it to the ground stomps on it. The Creature groans in pain, and my swings its nail towards my mother again. She tried to evade it, but just barely made it underneath its feet again. She touches it back again, but this time the creature hopped forward onto the stairs, and lunged at my mother.

   It tackled my her, and was now on top

of her. It didn't even hesitate for it took the opportunity to pierce my mother's left shoulder with its left nail. My mother yelled out in pain, but she too used this as an opportunity to touch the creature and calm it down again, and then she pierces through its abdomen ripping out a second heart. She then crushes it with her palm, and the creature falls right beside her, and dies. She starts to groan in pain and says, "We have to...ugh...get out..of here..now." The Priest gets up and rushes to my mother's aid. He reaches his hand out to her and helps her stand up.

   The Priest says, "You're bleeding a lot!!" Mother replies, "Yeah, but that's the least of our concerns." She grabs my hand, and we rush back upstairs to the main area of the palace. The Priest says, "How did you even manage to defeat that thing?" My mother replies, "A lot of practice." I ask, "Mommy? What were those ugly things?"  My mother replies in a very serious tone, "That was demon. It appears that some have escaped from the underworld. I guess that's what happens when its former ruler has gone missing." The Priest exclaims, "DEMONS?!?!" My mother replied, "Yes, you dumb fuck. I'm not repeating myself."  We make it to the entrance of the palace, and open the two giant doors.

   The Priest yells out in shock, "OH MY GODS!!!!" We look out and see that the people are being slaughtered by demons, and houses are collapsing due to how strong they are, but then the cloud start to turn grey, and lightning strikes outside of the mountains. They continuously strike outside and start to form a giant man with a beard, and long hair. He roars into the sky and exclaims, "IT SEEMS YOU HAVE BROKEN THE TABOO I HAVE SET IN PLACE!! NOW LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!!!"  He takes out a giant lightning bolt from the cloud, and throws into the right side of the village. It immediately disintegrates the demons on that side, all of the houses, and the people in it. Zeus has just killed innocent men, women, and children. He then says, "I have to get rid of all of these demons for you! Don't worry! This won't take long." The Priest yells out in guilt, "PLEASE MY LORD STOP!!! YOU ARE KILLING THE PEOPLE THAT WORSHIP YOU TOO!!!" Zeus looks at the priest, and asks. "Wait a minute, I recognize you. You filthy vermin! You were the one who was to become my godlender, but you rejected me. Instead, you offered to worship me, but you promised that you wouldn't tell a soul about my history. For it puts me in grave danger. Luckily, that missing piece is what you truly need to hurt me, but guess what? YOU DON'T HAVE IT!!!" He starts to laugh, and thunder roars along with him.

   Zeus grabs another lightning bolt, and then throws it into the other side of the village. All of the people's screams of agony and fear completely vanished immediately. The priest yells out in sorrow, "NO!!!!! STOP IT!!!! PLEASE!!"  My mother is shook to her core, and hasn't said a word since the first lightning strike. She yells out enraged, "YOU OLD FUCKING BASTARD!!! YOU CALL YOURSELF A GOD?!?! YOU'RE A MURDERER!!! YOU'RE SICK!!! YOU'RE FUCKING SICK!!!!" Zeus was about to grab a third lightning bolt, but instead he grew curious as to who just insulted him. He points at my mom and says, "You...I thought you were dead. You coward..you ran away and after eons this is where we reunite..? How ironic is that? You ran away from me knowing that I would kill you, and yet here you are right in front of me. This time, you won't escape. If anything, you can't." My mother starts to laugh at him and says, "Oh you poor bastard..you're afraid aren't you..? You still have his dying words ringing inside of your head every single day and night!!"  Zeus yells out in anger, "SILENCE!!" Thunder roared even louder than before, but my mother was un fazed by it.

   She taunts him by saying, "Oh look at you..how pitiful..you've stooped down low enough to kill mortals as an excuse to save yourself from your own fear. Your father would be disappointed. Although, he wasn't that different. Seeing as he would eat his newborn children for he too was afraid of being overthrown." The Priest looks at my mother and asks, "How do you know of this..?" My mother smiles at him, and looks back at Zeus. The screams of the remaining people echoed throughout the entire village or at least what remains of it. The remaining demons are slaughtering them all as we speak.

    Zeus asks, "Say, what is the name that you go by now?" My mother replies, "Serenity." Zeus laughs and exclaims sarcastically , "NOW THAT RIGHT THERE!!! THAT RIGHT THERE IS INTERESTING!!!!" He grabs the lightning bolt and aims it at us. He says, "Well, this has gone for long enough I'm getting bored." The priest yells, "OH MY GODS!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! HOW ARE YOU NOT AFRAID!!!" My mother smirks and says, "I was just stalling." Zeus throws the lightning bolt and asks, "What did you say?" The Priest starts to continuously scream in fear, but then right before it hit us. Something picked us up, and in a split second we were outside of the village hidden in the forest. We saw the lightning bolt hit the palace, destroying it completely. My mother says, "You arrived just in time! I mean, you always do..." The man reveals himself from under a shadow and smiles. My mother finishes her sentence and says, "Hermes."

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Chapter 8: Memory

Everything is pitch black. Not surprised since Morpheus completely reset the plains, but that doesn't matter. I ask, "So what do we do?" Morpheus appears behind me, and puts his hand on my shoulder. He says, "Don't worry, I'm just choosing your dream." Morpheus lets go of my shoulder, and snaps his finger. He says, "Well, this one is very interesting indeed." I look at him with a confused expression on my face. I ask, "You already know what's in the dream?" He signals me to be quiet and says, "From here on out, you will be put in the perspective of your own dream. After it ends you will have a short amount of time to ask me anything, and then you will wake up." Morpheus then slowly starts to fade, and the dream world transforms into a beautiful village brimming with joyous people. Civilians chanting to their gods, and everyone is just in an overall good mood. The sun shun brightly over the clear blue sky. The houses are humongous , and are made out of different types woods. Oak, Ebony, Maple, Citrus, Olive, and Cedar. The people are roaming the streets dancing, singing, and some are even riding bulls. The elderly are filled with energy! It's as if they aren't old at all! The children jumped around, and played with dolls made out of wool. The babies laughed all the time, and never let out a single tear. It seemed to be the perfect civilization. No one cared about anything, no one batted an eye if you made any weird movements. They're living their lives to the fullest. They have free will. There were mountains around the edges of the village. Getting out of here would be quite the hassle. Before the mountains, there are forests surrounding us too. Who knows what kinds of animals there are?

There's a palace at the end of the village. It is filled with Gold. I'm guessing that's where the leader lives. The dreamworld then suddenly started to shift my perspective onto the me of the dream. Everything turned white, and all of a sudden, I've become a little kid. I was holding hands with a woman. She was gorgeous, with scarlet colored eyes, the smile of which could belong to that of a Goddess, Tanned light skin, her hand was as soft as a feather, she was abnormally tall, and had long curly black hair, she wore a black toga dress, and was bare foot. I ask, "Mommy, where are we going?" She halts our movement. She looks at me, and picks me up. She says, "My son, we have been invited to the palace of blessings. We have been given the honor to formally meet the priest. He will educate us on our Gods!" She jumped in excitement, but as she did, the ground started to shake, and the people laughed louder than ever. An old man from a distance yelled in sarcasm, "Hey Serenity! You're gonna make us fall! Haha!" My mother chuckled and waved at the old man. We continued walking towards the palace. People waved at us, and the bulls bowed down as we passed by. I ask, "Mommy why are the animals doing that?" She replies, "Well, it seems that they've been trained to do that. Anyways, look son! We're getting close!" The place was ginormous, and it had twelve pillars holding it in place. Each pillar had a face, and a different symbol. It had approximately twelve stairs, and it had two enormous golden gates with two guards making sure no one gets in. My mother inhales and exhales, and says, "Well, let's behave good, alright?" She smiled, and took us to the front gates. The guards get in front of us, and one of them says, "Ma'am you aren't allowed to step into the palace. If you want to admire it, then please do it from a safe distance." My mother grins and says, "Sir, we've been invited by the priest himself to come in." She takes out a gold paper that was in between her breasts and says, "Here you go, this is proof." The guards look at it, and signal her to go through. She says, "Thank you, and may the Gods bless you both." She steps through the gates, but before we could go up the stairs, one of the guards yells, "HEY! THE CHILD DOES NOT HAVE AN INVITE! HE MUST HAVE ONE OR HE STAYS!" She looks back and yells, "HE IS WITH ME! I WON'T ALLOW HIM TO STAY ALONE!" She continues to go up the steps, but the guard yells, "IF YOU TAKE ANOTHER STEP, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO USE FORCE! LEAVE THE CHILD!" She grits her teeth, and yells, "WE DON'T HAVE TO RESORT TO VIOLENCE! WE COULD DO THIS PEACEFULLY, RIGHT?" The guard replies, "NO! LEAVE THE CHILD OR FACE THE WRATH OF OUR LAW!"

My mother puts me down, and says, "Pluto, you're a good boy. Now, I'm gonna need you to stay seated here, ok? This'll only take a few seconds." I sit down on the steps, and my mother walks down to the guards. The guard yells, "I SAID BRING THE CHILD!! HE DOESN-" She puts her hand on their shoulders, and she whispers something into their ears. They calm down, and let her go. She walks back to me smiling, and lets up a thumbs up. She picks me up and takes us inside the palace. She gasps, and her voice echoes throughout the whole place. Her eyes widen, and her jaw drops. She's laughing,and tears of joy start to fall from her face. She exclaims, "It's gorgeous! It's beautiful! It's exquisite! It's magnificent! It's Ho-" A man in all white interrupts her, and finishes her sentence. "It's holy." ,He says in calm soft voice.

The place was of course filled with Gold, but the difference is that for some odd reason it had this heavy spiritual lifting your sins kind of sensation. It's as if all of my negative feelings have been completely vanquished. It does feel that way throughout the entire village, but this sensation feels stronger when we're in here. It really is a palace of blessings. On the edges of the roof, there are many paintings. Depicting many moments that have happened or will happen. There are two giant mirrors of gold, and each mirror is parallel to each other. One of them on the left side, and the other one on the right. The mirror on the left had a naked woman, and she had hands around her form the shape of a heart. The mirror on the right side had man with Gladiator armor, he is holding a spear on his right hand, and a shield on his left. In the middle of the palace, there were three giant statues of three men preparing for combat. One of them was riding a kraken, and he was wielding a trident. The second man was riding a cloud, and he was wielding a lightning bolt. The third man was riding a fierce dragon, It was bigger than the kraken, and it was letting out flames from its mouth. The man on the dragon was wielding nothing. Instead, he held his hands up high as if he were taunting the other two. There were no windows other than the one at the middle of the roof. You can see the sun shining its light directly above it.

The white man says, "You are Serenity, right?" My mother replies, "Yes sir, that is I." She gives out the biggest smile. The man replies, "I am the priest. Some call me the leader of the village, but I can assure you that I just like to spread the word of the Gods." I say, "Mommy? Why is that man in all white? Why are we all alone?" My mother gently pats my head and says, "Don't worry my son, we're here to learn and to be blessed, right?" The Priest nods in affirmation. He asks, "Well, what do you know about the word of the Gods?" Mother replies, "Not much, but I'd like to know more about Zeus. He's the most powerful, right?" The Priest smiles and says, "Well, if that is what you wish to learn then follow me, but allow me to warn you that learning about him is a grave sin. You will be punished." My mother nods, and says, "That's fine. I wish to learn about him." The Priest leads us to the statue of the man on the cloud. He presses what appears to be a button on the its left foot. The three statues start to rotate and rise up revealing stairs underneath them. The Priest says, "After you." Mother chuckles and heads down. The Priest asks, "What got you interested in learning about Zeus?" She replies, "Well, I've had a thing or two for lightning. It's loud, and dangerous. I've always wondered about the one behind such a strong phenomenon." We continue to head down the stairs, and then the statues close down on us. Everything turns dark, but we can clearly see the priest since he dressed in all white. The Priest lights up a torch, and says, "Don't worry we're almost there." As few more steps, and we reach a door. It's no ordinary door, nor is it made of gold. It has the symbol of a lightning bolt imbedded in it, and it's made out of silver. The Priest says, "Excuse me, I have to open the door for you." Mother steps aside, letting him open the door. We step inside, and it reveals many illustrations of Zeus. The Priest says, "These are all the stories about the almighty Zeus. His battles, his past, his family, and maybe even his future." My Mother stops smiling, and her facial expression changes into a serious one, and her eyes start to glow red. She asks, "Would you mind teaching us about him?" The Priest replies, "Ma'am from here on out, it is up to you. For it is a sin to learn about Zeus. I only led you here for it was your own choice. I don't want to partake in this. I'm sure you'll understand." The Priest starts to tremble in fear. My mother sighs, and puts her hand on his shoulder and says in a soft gentle tone, "O dear lonesome one, thou shall not fear thy knowledge. For it shall be used to pursue those who have neglected the law of free will. Become one who shall partake in the victory for the battle that has taken place for over a millennia. Please lonesome one, help us understand." The Priest calms down, and says, "Yes ma'am, allow me teach you about the God of Gods."

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Chapter 7: Consequences

What the hell happened out here? Amelia's left arm is practically gone. Zeph is staring at something on the ground. Ugh, what is that smell? It smells like a rotting dead fish engulfed in a giant pile of human shit. I feel nauseous and proceed to vomit . Amelia then says, "Yeah, I don't blame you for puking. Honestly, it took me several hours to finally get used to the smell." I stopped vomiting, and out of pure shock I question, "Several Hours?" I look up at the sky and I notice that the sun is coming down. I then ask Amelia, "How long was I out for?." she answers, " I have no idea. I woke up to you holding my head on your thighs, so in return, I did the same." She started to play with her hair as she said that. I look at Zeph, and ask him, "Hey, what's wrong?" Zeph looks at me and points down to what he was staring at. What I saw next was something very disturbing, and horrifying. I stand up immediately to get closer. It was a corpse. It was fully burnt to a crisp, some of its flesh melted to the bone, one of its eyes was liquified, and its hair is completely gone. I exclaim, "WHAT THE FUCK?! WHO DID THIS?!" Wait a minute, I've seen that before. The way this person was killed. My mother died the same way, but how is this possible? The same incident? I look around and realize that the restaurant has been reduced to nothing but ashes. Zeph then says, "I don't know if you noticed, but Walter's dead." I turn around immediately and look at Zeph. I ask, "Is that dead body him?" Zeph turns to me with a blank expression "No shit." He clenches his fists and his jaw ticks. His blue eyes glow bright, The sky forms dark clouds all around us, and heavy rain starts to pour. Amelia groans as she tries to stand up, but she can't. I run to aid her ,and the rain pours heavier as I get closer. I put Amelia's arm around the back of my neck, and help her up. She says, "Thanks Pluto, now hold me while I cover for us." I do as she says and hold her waist. She proceeds to lift her right arm in the air, and a giant lily pad with a stem under it rose from the ground. Covering the two of us. Amelia then looks at Zeph and exclaims, "ZEPHILIOUS!!! CALM DOWN!!! YOU'RE CAUSING ANOTHER STORM TO EMERGE!!" Zeph then cries out, "GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!!! ITS HIM!!! THAT PILLAR WAS HIS DOING!!! HE USED ME!!! THAT PIECE OF SHIT!!!! HOW DARE YOU?! HOW DARE YOU?!?! YOU MURDERED INNOCENTS!!! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!!!" Zeph stops, and in a low sad tone says, "Who am I to judge? I'm not any different, right? Zeus?." He looks up to the sky, and rain gushes down through his face.

Thunder roars and echoes throughout the wasteland. Lightning starts to strike the ground every so often. Zephilious is crying out in pain and anger. Lightning starts to hit Zeph, over, and over, and over again. Blood starts to spew out from his eyes, and his clothing rips apart with each strike. Amelia then angrily says, "Alright, I'm tired of this bullshit." She gets rid of the lily pad and instead summons a giant batch of black flowers with white stripes. Zeph then says, "You never respond. You never communicate with me. How are you going to choose me, when I can't even know what you're thinking? You just say something when you need me. Why did you choose me? Why me? I always have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You're nothing, but a filthy God. You may have never actually done it, but you have more blood on your hands than I do. You absolute cryptic piece of filth. I swear one day you'l-." Before he could finish his sentence. The batch of black flowers smacks him, sending him flying a few meters back from where he was standing. Zeph is now lying on the ground motionless, but he's still conscious. The storm starts to fade away, and Amelia shouts, "YOU FUCKING DUMBASS!!! YOU COULDA KILLED US!!! GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, AND LET'S GET A MOVE ON!!! IF YOU DON'T GET UP IN THE NEXT THREE SECONDS THEN I'LL BEAT YOU TO A DAMN PULP!!! YOU HEAR ME?!?!?!"  I shouldn't get in between these two, or else I'll get smacked with some flowers too. My body feels exhausted for some reason. I don't know why, but I'll ask Zeph later. As of now, I'll let Amelia take care of him.

    Amelia then stares at me and says, "Take me to

him now." I nod, and helped her make her way to Zeph. Zephilious stands up, and says, " You wouldn't understand. None of you know me." Amelia then replies, "You're right, we don't know you at all. You're just a stranger that attacked us in our front yard, but that can change. Let's get to know each other because trust me. We'll need each other. By the way, I do understand you. You're forgetting that I'm a chosen one too. So get up you whining baby we have to get moving." She then extends her hand out to Zephilious. He looks at it, and they do a handshake. He replies, "Yeah I guess you're right, but where would we go?" Amelia then points at me and says, "That's up to him." They both stare at me, and Zephilious asks, "Hey, you've been quiet this entire time with an emotionless expression." I reply, " Oh right, I think we should rest now. We'll go out tomorrow morning." Amelia then asks, "Where to?" I then turn around with my back facing them and reply with a serious tone, "That's what I'm gonna find out." We make our way back to Amelia's place to sleep. An hour later passes by and I'm already laying down in my bed. My entire room would be dark if it weren't for the moon lighting it up a bit through the window. I close my eyes, and just within a few seconds I fall asleep. I appear in the same plains where I met Morpheus for the first time. I look up, and I see him jump from the sun to a cloud with the shape of a flame, he then floats down and lands right in front of me. He then snaps his fingers, and everything disappears in the blink of an eye. It's all completely dark. He says, "Welcome back Pluto. Well then, shall we get started?"

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Chapter 6: Dreams

I feel at peace, but I don't know how this is possible. I'm asleep, so how am I able to stay conscious? Where am I? Everything is pitch black, and quiet. "You...you are special, boy. You remind me of someone. Someone from an era in which the Gods were unified and the world was at peace. It's as if there was a missing piece that was once lost. Yet, it has returned to finish it's puzzle. Oh I remember now, so it is you." Said a mysterious yet soothing voice. I replied with, "What? Who's there?" A speck of light appeared in the darkness, which then shined covering the entire area. Now, instead of pitch black, it's all white, but not to the point where it's blinding. It was just enough for me to see a tall man, with a black robe, blonde hair with silver stripes, pale skin, and blue eyes standing right in front of me. He then says, "Hello Pluto, it's been a while." Who is this man? How does he know my name? I then reply with, "How do you know me?" The man smirks, signals for me to follow him. So we make our way through the light, and as we walk a path starts to form beneath our feet. The light slowly starts to wear off and reveals a plain with tall grass filled with all sorts of animals and insects. The Sun and the Moon are on each ends of the sky. Half of the area is day, and other half is night. The side of the day has animals that are usually awake during daytime, and The night side has nocturnal animals. The man then stops and asks, "You really don't remember? None of this?" I look around and say, "No, I have no idea where I am, but it does feel like I've been here before.Anyways, you still haven't answered my question. Who are you?" The man sighs, and replies, " I am the God of dreams and Nightmares. I go by the name of Morpheus."

"Morpheus.." I mumbled. I then say, " No it doesn't really ring a bell, but I have heard stories about you. God of dreams and nightmares is it? I want you to answer me this. Why do you keep giving me that God awful nightmare about my mother dying?" Morpheus then replies with, " I don't give you the dreams nor the nightmares. Those are derived from the memories of your own experiences. I merely watch over them to make sure nothing goes wrong." I see, but why did he say that it's been a while? He acted as if he's known me for some time. I then ask, "Hey Mr Morpheus, why did you say that it had been a while?" Morpheus looks away and points to the moon. He then says, "There, that is the place where you would go to clear out your thoughts while you slept away from your sorrow." Wait what? I've been here before? I then say, "Uh, I don't ever recall being here. Are you sure you got the right guy?" Morpheus chuckle and says, "Oh right, you don't remember. I do though, I know who you are Pluto. I know why your parents died, and most importantly, I know why Zeus is targeting you."

What?! HE KNOWS WHY ZEUS IS TARGETING ME?! Wait, what does he mean by he knows who I am? Wait a minute, that old man with one hundred eyes said something similar back then too. He said something along the lines of, "You don't realize what you are,boy. Soon, everything you've ever loved will be taken away from you." That's crazy talk! I know who I am, right? Morpheus then puts his hand on my shoulder and says, "I can help you, if you'd like Pluto." I stare at his hand, and grab it. I tell him, "Morpheus, you can help me by telling who I am. Apparently people think that I don't know myself. So why don't you just go ahead and spit it out?"  Morpheus sighs, and with a tone of disappointment he says, "Pluto, I can't do that. You have to find that out on your own. The only thing that I can do is tap into your dreams and replay a different dream or nightmare every time you go to sleep. You'll see different memories each time you close your eyes." I can't believe that I actually don't know myself. I guess that explains the feelings of Déjà vu, huh? I then say, "Alright, I'll do that. I guess it's my best shot at figuring myself out." Morpheus then looks at me with a serious face and says, "Pluto, dreaming every single night will have its tole in your body. Doesn't matter who you are, but if you go into the land of dreams and nightmares every single night then your mind and consciousness will slowly start deteriorating. You will go mad. So you have to figure it out quick, got it? We're running out of time so you will start tomorrow." I reply with, "Got it." Morpheus then smiles and snaps his fingers. "See you tomorrow, Pluto." The dream land starts to disappear along with Morpheus. Shortly after that, I wake up to Amelia holding my head on her thighs, and Zephilious looking at something on the ground. Oh, I just realized that I forgot to ask Morpheus why Zeus is targeting me. GODDAMNIT IT!! I'll ask him tomorrow.

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Chapter 5: Arrangements

We make it to the restaurant, order a table for three, and then we start asking questions . "Hey Zeph, what do you know about Zeus?" I asked. He replies with, "To be completely honest with you. I've never actually been in contact with him. All I know is that he's one of the most powerful Gods if not the strongest. Also, why'd you call me Zeph?" I then immediately reply with, "Oh! That's because your name is weird and long. So I wanna just call you Zeph since it's shorter and easier to remember." Zeph nods and starts to think. Amelia then questions him and asks, "So if you have the power of Zeus does that mean you can beat anyone?" Zeph looks at her and blinks more times than I can count. He then says, "You guys beat me. Look, just because I have his powers does not automatically mean I can defeat anyone, and not only that, but I don't have much control over it yet. You'd be surprised how hard it is to maintain this power."

    Now that I think about it, he mainly used physical attacks to try to defeat us, but he only used one lightning attack which ironically enough was the reason he lost that fight. Amelia then questions me and asks, " Hey,how's your hand doing?" Now that she asks;I realize that I'm not in pain. I put my hand on the table to show it, and my hand looks normal. No burnt marks, no bleeding, my skin isn't falling off. Amelia's eyes widen and then looks at me. We make eye contact for a good minute or two without saying a word. She then asks me, "How is this even possible? Your hand has fully healed..?" Before I could say anything; Zeph grabs my wrist to take a look and asks me, "Didn't you hold my lightning bolt? How is your palm still intact?" He lets go of my wrist then proceeds to look at me. He gives me this death stare for some god damn reason. Why is he suspicious of me? What have I done? Even I don't know how to answer that. Amelia then asks me, "Pluto, if you don't want to tell us how then that's completely fine, but we're just curious is all." I then reply with, "That's the thing! I don't know." Amelia looks away and Zeph is still staring at me. Before I could say anything, Zeph stands up and says, " Come outside. The both of you." Amelia and I look at each other and proceeded to follow Zeph outside.

    While we're making our way to exit this restaurant. Zeph takes a knife from one of the tables, and hides it in his pants. Why did he take a knife? What is he planning? It seems no one noticed him, but how odd. Anyways, we make it outside and Zeph takes out the knife. He then says, "Give me your arm."  I reply with, "Why?" He sighs and then in the blink of an eye he grabs my arm, cuts it with the knife. I squirm in discomfort and I exclaim, "WHAT THE HELL MAN?! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Amelia tries to hit him with a dark,monochrome, sharp plant that she raised from the ground, but before she could he simply pointed at my forearm and said, "Take a close look." Amelia stops her attack, and starts to look at my forearm. Her mouth drops, her eyes widen, and she gives me this look of shock and disbelief. She says, "Pluto..you're healing. Slowly, very slowly, but I can see it." I look at the cut myself, and what do you know? I am healing. Part of me is shocked, but another part of me feels like this is another Tuesday. Why's that? I look at both Amelia and Zephilious,�� and I say, "Look, I have no idea what this is. I'm being completely honest. Why would I hide something like this?" Zeph then responds with, "Your lack of reaction says otherwise. What are you? WHO are you? Are you a Godlender?" Who does this guy think he is? Questioning me like he's some sort of man detective. I then look at Zeph's eyes and ask him in a serious tone, "I have no idea why I can do this. Why would I lie! What do I benefit from this?" Zeph gets right in front of my face and says, "I have no fucking clue, but you're not telling us something, and let me tell you that I hate liars. So spit it out already." This is about to get physical isn't it? I'm telling the truth. If he doesn't believe me then I'll have no choice but to defend myself. Amelia then tries to calm us down, but she knows it isn't gonna work. Both Zephilious and I start to clench our fists, but before we could do anything a tall, wide, old man with a cowboy hat, leather jacket, and leather pants steps between us out of nowhere and exclaims, "What's the problem?! You two having a fight in front of my damn restaurant?! Instead of fighting like a bunch of fucking pussies, why don't ya just talk it out LIKE NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS!!YA GOD DAMN DUMBASSES!!! I ain't tryna pay no more bills for collateral damage. It always ends like that when someone starts causing a ruckus. It's a pain in my ass. Oh mighty Zeus..I pray that these fools come to their senses and don't cause no more trouble for me." Zephilious unclenches his fists and approaches the owner of the restaurant. He then asks, "Hey Mr, what's your name?" The owner replies with, "it's Walter, Walter Cooper to be exact. Now as you can see, I ain't from round these parts. I come from up North. What's it to you?" Zeph replies with, "Well, I saw that you prayed to Zeus, and we'd like to learn more about him since we want to start getting into religion." So he's lying his way in, not bad at all Zephy boy. Amelia then comes up to me and says, "You guys are idiots, but at least it looks like we'll be able to get what we came here for originally." I reply with, "Yeah you're right." As Zeph is speaking to Walter, a thunder storm starts to form on top of the restaurant. Everything starts to slow down. I'm getting déjà vu, it's as if I've experienced this before, but something's not right. Wait, why is Zephilious screaming in absolute pain and agony..? What's going on? I look at Amelia and she starts to form a barrier around us made out of Deciduous plants. Walter is down on his knees with hands up in air as if he's praising someone.

    The barrier closes, and through the little holes in between each branch I can see that the lightning starts to take the form of a pillar in the sky, just before I knew it. It slammed down into the ground and exploded. Destroying nearly everything that came into it's path. The Plants starts to disintegrate, and I can see Amelia's skin start to slowly fall off. The restaurant is completely gone, everything around us is filled with nothing but light blue. The electricity is burning my skin and flowing through my clothes, and Zephilious is knocked out cold. I can see Amelia's tears start to evaporate as they come out. Is this where I die? Is this the end? I'm scared. I don't wanna die. I don't want Amelia to die. If only I was a Godlender then I would've been able to protect all of you. My eyes start to close and just before they do. What appeared to be Black Flames, starts to engulf my entire body, and then I let out a screech of excruciating pain, and the flames explode all around me, and the shockwaves breaks the pillar of lightning into a thousand pieces until it vanishes into thin air. The Pillar left a giant crater in the ground, all of the people in the restaurant have been burned to a crisp and Walter is no where to be seen. I look at Amelia and immediately go check up on her. She's lying down on the floor practically lifeless. I yell, " AMELIA! AMELIA! NO NO NO!!! YOU'RE GONNA BE OKAY!! PLEASE STAY WITH ME!! JUST HANG ON!!!" Her entire left arm is completely black. Her neck has suffered some burns but not enough to seriously damage her. I check for a pulse and I sigh from relief. I say, "Oh good, you have a pulse. Just hang on for a bit. I sit down, and lay her head on my thigh. Shortly after that, I blacked out.

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Chapter 4: The King of Olympus

A few days have passed since Amelia's incident ,but everything's gone back to normal. I still think about what that whole thing meant. Persephone, an old man with one hundred eyes, and a prophecy? What's that all about? Amelia doesn't seem to take interest in it. In fact, she doesn't seem fazed by any of this. It's as if nothing ever happened to her, or maybe it's because she's already used to being taken over. I honestly don't know.

      I keep having nightmares about my mother's death. Does that have anything to do with this? It's not entirely impossible. I put my hand on my chin and start to think. I can't think of anything besides what that old man said.  "You don't realize what you are,boy. Soon, everything you've ever loved will be taken away from you.The Prophecy is set in stone. For thy woe shall not be discerned nor heard." Is what he said. What does he mean I don't know who I am? I know exactly who I am! It must've been my head messing with me. I mean, I had a huge headache and went dizzy so it must've been just that.

    Amelia sees me and walks towards me then puts her hand on my head. She then says, "Let's go grab something to eat outside. I'm not in the mood to cook right now." We look at each other and agree.   As we step outside, the clear sky starts to dim, and dark clouds start to form near us. My head starts to hurt and I hear a voice.., "Mama! I'm scared!" I also see the trees and the burning houses . After that, I came back to my senses.

That was moments before my mother died, but why did it come back? I look up and I see lightning roar and strike down multiple times. Amelia then looks at me and tells me, "We should get back inside; it's too dangerous!"

    I nod,but before we could go inside a man with a black cloak  appears before us and yells, "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE COME BACK! YOU SHOULD'VE STAYED DEAD!" I reply with, " WHO ARE YOU? WHY HAVE YOU COME HERE?!" The man stands still and proceeds to hysterically laugh, and in the blink of an eye he moves in front of me and whispers, "If it wasn't for you. Then I wouldn't have to take two lives today." Before I could even react;he grabs me by my throat and lunges me to the front yard of the house. Rain starts to pour ,and lightning starts to roar even louder than before. As I stand up,I see that he's choking Amelia.

   I sprint towards the man and clench my fists to punch him ,but then he disappears into thin air. Amelia and I look at each other,but before i could react the man pulls me into a chokehold from behind and says, "This time, I'll go for the kill." He then pushes me to ground and puts his foot on my chest. He reaches his arm out for the sky and a lightning bolt comes down to the palm of his hand ,but before he could finish me. Plants start to pull down on his arms ,and act as chains. I look at Amelia and see that she's holding him back.He drops the lightning bolt ,and then it starts to slowly disappear ,but before it did I grabbed it. I felt the electricity rush through my entire body. My palms were burning and smoke was coming out of my hand. I can barely control it. The pain is making me feel nauseous so I go for the blow.

     I aimed for the chest, but I missed and hit his abdomen instead. The man screamed in agony. While he was in pain I took the chance to unveil the hoodie from his cloak. He had blonde spiky hair with black highlights at the end of each hair, pale skin, and light blue eyes. He also has something that seemed like a birthmark rested under his chin with the shape of a lightning bolt. He has a scar going through his eyebrow. He looks at me and says, "I'll kill you as many times as it takes...just you wai-" he then passes out and the lightning bolt in his abdomen disintegrated.

    Amelia rushes to me and holds me before I could fall,and yells at me saying, "ARE YOU CRAZY?! YOU COULD'VE DIED!!! OF ALL THE THINGS YOU COULD'VE DONE?! WHY DID YOU GO HOLD A LIGHTNING BOLT?!?! LOOK AT YOUR HAND!!! ITS PALM IS BURNT TO A CRISP!!!!" I then reply with, "Well, at least he's down isn't he?" She slaps me ,and says, "Next time, think before you do anything. Unfortunately, I don't have enough power to fully heal your palm, but I can make it feel better." I smile and reply with "Thanks for being there for me. I honestly don't know where I would be if it wasn't for you saving me." She smiles and then holds my hand. Green light starts to engulf my palm and we make eye contact. I never realized how detailed her eyes are. One dot on the top part of her pupil, another one on the bottom left, another one on the bottom right, and a small leaf in the center of her pupil. Before I could say anything the man starts to wake up. Both Amelia and I prepared ourselves for another fight,but he looked at us very confused. He asks, "What happened? Where am I?" Amelia then asks him, "If you don't know what happened then I think I might know. First of all what's your name?" He then makes eye contact with her and says "Zephilious."

I then ask Zephilious, "Why did you attack us?" He looked at me very confused and replies with, "Attacked? What do you mean? I woke up in the middle of nowhere and you're accusing me of attacking YOU?" I reply, "Yes you did! You even threw ligh-" before I could finish he interrupted me and yelled, "I ATTACKED YOU?! NO, THE WAY I SEE IT IS THAT I WAKE UP IN THE FRONT YARD OF A STRANGER'S HOME AND MY STOMACH HURTS LIKE HELL!!! ITS AS IF I WAS STABBED THEN BURNED!!! IF ANYTHING IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ATTACKED ME IN MY SLEEP!!! YOU BUNCH OF COWA-." He starts yelling out in pain and I tell Amelia, "Help him out." She tries get close to him, but he starts crawling away yelling, "GET AWAY YOU FILTHY BITCH! AHH!! YOU VERMIN! YOU COWARD!!"

Forget it. I'm gonna pin him down. I rush towards him and hold his entire body down. He screams for help,but no one can hear him since we live relatively far away from anyone. The nearest village takes about 5 hours to get there, and the nearest restaurant is 30 minutes away. He then yells, "LET ME GO! GET YOUR COWARDLY HANDS OFF OF ME!!! YOU'LL RUB ALL OF YOUR COWARDLYNESS ONTO ME!!!" Amelia then places her hand on his wound and starts healing it. He then realizes what's happening and calms down. She asks him, "Are you a Godlender?" He then asks her "How do you know what that is?" She then explains who she is and he replies with, "I see..Well, yes I am a Godlender. I am the Godlender of Zeus."

A few minutes passed,and both Zephilious and I are back to normal. Zephilious looks at me and says, "So I got taken over, huh?" I then nod and reply with, "Yeah, but what was that all about? You were saying that I shouldn't have come back? That I should've stayed dead?" Zephilious chuckles and says, "I don't know what you did, but it seems you've caught the attention of Zeus. I honestly don't know why,and I could care less. Now, if you excuse me, I'll head back home." Zephilious stands up and makes his way to the door, but then Amelia runs in front of him and says, "I'm sorry,but you don't seem to realize the scope of the situation at hand. The God of Gods just tried to kill my friend here. I don't know why, but we can't just sit back and pretend like nothing happened. So whether you like it or not. You're part of this problem now." The two look at each other without blinking for a good minute. It's as if they were having a staring contest, but eventually, Zephilious gave in. He sighs and says, "Fine, but I'm really hungry so can we please get something to eat? I'm starving." Amelia and I look at each other and say, "That's what we were going to do till you attacked us..." After that, we went on our way to the best restaurant of all time.

Ten minutes have passed ever since we left the house. Zephilious and Amelia are very quiet. I hate the silence. Very much. So I try to make conversation and say, "Why is it so quiet?" Zephilious looks at me and says, "The silence can be a good thing sometimes, and in this case it is." Amelia then says, "Yeah, I can agree with him on that." I hate these two....damnit we're in for a long walk.

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Chapter 3: The helping hands of the gods

I follow Amelia outside and she's looking at the view. She said,"You ever wondered how the Gods could manage to make such marvelous yet simple shapes? Look at our Sun for example. It is literally just a circle." I then look outwards and reply with, "Not really, I never thought about it to be honest."

She looked at me and said ". Bit of a random question,but are you a Godlender?" I get confused as to why she asks me this all of sudden,but I reply with "Nope, though I do wish I had some sort of power. It's cool that Godlenders can have such extraordinary strength! Especially, since we're just humans!" She looks at me with this surprised look on her face. I ask "What's wrong?" She said "No, it's just that you are insanely lucky." I raise an eyebrow and ask her "What do you mean "I'm insanely lucky"?"

She then said, "When you first came here. You had an injury no normal human could possibly get out of alive. I don't even think a Godlender could survive such a thing. You're whole chest was blown out and your eyes were engulfed with blood. You had third degree burns all over your body,and Not only that,but you were also missing an arm,but now you're just here all fine after a few days. Except the missing arm..of course."

I look down and and let out a sigh. "Amelia, I don't really know how I got here. All I know is that I'm alive and that you've been the one taking care of me. If there's anything I remember it's how my mother died,and that's about it." I look back up and She's quiet. She walks up to me and hugs me. "I'm sorry Pluto." I then reply, "Don't worry about it. Anyways, can you tell me how Godlender powers even work?" She lets go of me and starts explaining what Godlenders are.

   "Well, it all started a few million years ago. The Gods realized that they can't really protect earth and everything else all on their own,so they decided to have us help them whenever something would disrupt the peace around here. So they picked the lucky few on this planet and called them Godlenders. We essentially have direct powers from the Gods themselves except it's not to their fullest extent. You see, we can only manage to use around 25% if not less than what their actual power is. I've heard stories about one person being able to use Zeus' full power,but that only happens when The Gods let you use all of it,but the only drawback to that is Death. It makes sense since we're only human and we're not meant to hold onto that much power."

I'm astounded! I never knew humans could use the power of the Gods! I then come to a realization and I ask her, "Wait a minute, you said "We". Amelia, are you a Godlender?" She then smiles and says, "Yes, I am one of the lucky few. I am the Godlender of Persephone the Goddess of spring growth."

   I said, "I'm sorry? I need you to repeat that again. I think my ears aren't functioning as they should right now." then she chuckled and told me, "Well, it's exactly as I said. I'm the Godlender of Persephone." Everything went quiet..we're staring at each other. I'm speechless, I'm shocked, and I'm having an existential crisis. Alright, maybe not that dramatic,but still. My friend is a Godlender..I just have to know! So I ask her, "So what exactly can you do? I mean, I know she's the Goddess of spring growth so how can that help in battle?" She then put her hand on my my missing arm,and then all of a sudden. Green leaves,and branches started to take the form of an arm. I'm witnessing my missing limb grow back..it's like a miracle. "Now, this is not a new arm, it's more like a replacement! Think of it as a prosthetic arm. Though, it's made out of leaves and branches..it's an arm nontheless!" She nervously exclaimed. I then hold her hand and stare at it. I feel a sensation,though I can't really explain it. It's as if I've felt this before.

     I let go of her hand and ask her, "So you can heal wounds?" She then replied with, "Well, yes and no. You see, I didn't heal your arm; I merely replaced it. I did however, try to heal your wounds from when you first got here,but they were so severe that Persephone's power didn't work. Anyways, that's also why I was surprised after a few days;since your body had gone back to normal."

      Wow, I guess the Gods blessed me and kept me from dying. Everything goes quiet again,but this time I feel a sense of familiarity. Amelia looks at me and says, "Oh husband, how I yearn for you my darling. Please, come back to me. I'm all alone and the screams of the damned aren't enough to get rid of this void inside of my heart." Amelia then gently grabs my face and tells me, "Close your eyes." Oddly enough, I do as she says. I close my eyes and our lips touch. I then come back to my senses and grab Amelia by her shoulders and ask her, "Whoa whoa whoa! I'm sorry Amelia,but I don't recall ever meeting you before.  Are you ok?"

     After that Amelia collapses and I immediately take her to her room. "I'll be right back" I said. I sprint downstairs to grab a wet towel and head back upstairs,and as I'm nearing her room I get this big headache. I feel dizzy and my body feels like it's about to shut down,but I can't right now. I then hear a voice and my ears start to ring. An Old Man with hundreds of eyes appears before me and says, "You don't realize what you are,boy. Soon, everything you've ever loved will be taken away from you. The Prophecy is set in stone. For thy woe shall not be discerned nor heard." The Old Man disappears and everything goes back to normal. I don't know what that was,but right now I have to check up on Amelia. I rush to her room and she's already awake. She then looks at me and asks, "It happened didn't it? She took over?"

      I then reply with, "What? What do you mean she took over?" Amelia sighs and she gets up from her bed. As she walks towards me I can feel that something's off about her. I ask her, "Hey, What just happened?" She looks at me and replied, "I forgot to mention that whenever they feel like it; the Gods can take over your body and speak for you. It seems Persephone took over my body and spoke to you. Though, I have no recollection of what happened. I just know she took over because everytime it happens I wake up randomly." So, Persephone herself spoke to me...,but my body feels like something is missing..like a part of me. Amelia looks at me confused and asks me, "Are you alright? You look pale." I looked at her and told her to sit down. I sat next to her and for the next few minutes I explained everything that happened. Amelia's face turns completely red like a tomato and yells, "WE KISSED?!" I then nodded my head confirming it.

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Chapter 2: Friendship

"GRAB PLUTO AND RUN!!!"

     "This isn't goodbye son, we'll see each other again.."

   "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

     "MOMMY!!! NOOOO!!!!!"

"I'm done watching anyone else die tonight."

"WHATEVER YOU DO!! DON'T LOOK BACK AFTER THIS AND RUN!!!"

    "Mommy I don't want you to go!"

    "MOMMY!!!"

                      "MOMMY!!"

"MOMMY!!"  

                           

                         "MOMMY!!"

  

I gasp as I wake up from that reoccurring nightmare. I'm not sure how many times I've gone through it, I lost count. "Pluto? Did you have that nightmare again?" As I take in my surroundings I catch a glimpse of someone, my friend Amelia. She's been taking care of me ever since I got here. I said,"Oh hey Amelia, I hope I didn't make any noise." she replied with, "Oh don't worry, you didn't. I just came to tell you that breakfast is ready." I replied, "Oh, then I'll be down in a sec."

     I stand up noticing my entire body is drenched in sweat. Amelia looks at me and says "How do you not have a girlfriend with that physique?" I replied with, "Well, generally speaking most females want me for my looks so I just kinda reject all of them. It sort of a habit now." The room goes quiet and all I hear is the breeze of the wind pass by the window. The awkward silence is something I deeply hate, and what makes it worse is when you're both making eye contact. I am clueless as to what to do. I need help. "Anyways, I'll see you down stairs." She then sprints away. What a great way to start the day...

  Sighing I head downstairs  and I catch the scent of something. I actually started drooling too! "Whoa! What'd you make today?" Amelia smiled and replied with, "Today I made the Amelia special dishing dish..thingy..Sorry, I don't exactly have a name for it...".she chuckled. I laughed as I sat down. I said, "I can't wait to put this in my mouth! Seriously, it smells awesome!" She chuckles and asks me, "I never knew you could get excited over something. Geez what are you hiding? Hmm?" I'm stuffing my mouth with food while she talks to me. Hell, I don't even think I heard what she said! "Pluto..Pluto...PLUTO!!!" "HMM?!" I exclaimed. She looks at me with her beautiful purple eyes,and clear white skin. Her crimson wavy hair wailing through the air. My mouth dropped. "PLUTO!!" She yelled. "THE FOOD IS DROPPING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!" She exclaimed. I immediately sealed my mouth to avoid spilling more food and I smiled at Amelia. She smiled back and said ,"I'm glad you're enjoying the food."

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Chapter 1: Speaking my mind, the beginnings.

In a wooden house far from any signs of civilization in the middle of a barren wasteland, except for a random restaurant a couple of miles away, there sat a boy by the name of Pluto on his bed in a dark room, with fluffy black hair, semi defined muscles, and scarlet eyes. Wondering about his own life, The boy doesn't have any recollection of his memories, but instead has small fragments of them scattered throughout his mind. He doesn't know why he's there, but at least he isn't alone. The house doesn't belong to him, but it belongs to a girl that goes by the name of Amelia. As far as he knows, she's been taking care of him for a while now. This is all weird and sudden for the boy, but as of right now all he can do...is wonder.

I don't exactly recall how I happened to be here. In this cold, spacious, dark room. I just remember running away from the bright flames, and the shrieks from indistinguishable beings. I remember the smell of smoke and the awful scent of rotting dead bodies. Screams of agony and fear; a giant blue light from the clouds almost striking me, it was all so sudden. I do however, remember my mother dying off in the distance seeing her flesh melt down into bones.

Before she left, she whispered these words into my ear, "This isn't goodbye."After that, everything went dark. I wake up in the middle of this room and here we are in present time. It's a peaceful night and the moon is full. I like to gaze at the beautiful nightsky; it makes me feel at ease. My Mother once told me that the stars align our destiny and that everything we do is for a purpose. I'm 16 and I'm still trying to figure out what is my purpose...

  Although, there is tale, a tale of the constellations. They tell your purpose, your fate, or your destiny. It's all the same, but when I gaze up at the moon, at the starry night. I see the stars align the shape of a Phoenix. The animal of rebirth, the bird that starts anew after death, a new youth, a new cycle of life. I don't really understand it, but it's pretty cool to look at I guess.

Wanna know something? I'm sure you probably don't care or anything, but I'll tell you anyways. Have you ever felt out of purpose? Or maybe you feel like you haven't done enough with your life? If the answer yes, well I've got nothing to say to you, but if your answer is no, then I guess you and I have a long road ahead of us. I know, I know it's stupid...you're probably thinking "You're just a kid! You don't have to think about this!", right? But that's the thing, there really isn't much to think about. At least, not for me.

I want to do something with my life, I want to be part of something big, something that'll change...history? Ok, maybe not THAT big...or maybe that big..? I don't know, doesn't hurt to dream I guess.

A moment of silence ensues after the boy shares his thoughts...to himself. He sits there on his bed pondering. The dark room and the silence consumes him, making him feel drowsy, but his thoughts are what keep him awake. He turns his head to the side, seemingly looking at a darkened square with hints of lights in between its crevices. He slowly stands up and takes a few steps towards the dark square. Reaching his hand out, the boy clasps his hand on the square, he puts his finger in between the lines that show off a spec of bluish light, with a tint of white. He pulls his finger up allowing for the wooden curtain to open, revealing the moonlight, and the sky filled with stars. The boy looks up at the night, feeling a sense of calmness. The moon reflecting on his left eye, the boy looks upward, to see the constellation he spoke of earlier, the phoenix. A gentle smile forms on the boys face, he finds it calming to watch the sky, to watch the stars. It's probably his favorite hobby in a way, is it really a hobby? I guess you'd call it stargazing, so we'll call it a hobby.

A single tear falls from the boy's face, not because he's sad, but because he's tired. He yawns and stretches his arms up, he's ready to head to bed. The boy closing the wooden curtain, darkness takes over the room again. Slowly creeping his way to his bed, he doesn't make a sound. Sitting down on the mattress on the floor, the boy moves his body downwards laying himself face down on the bed. His eyes blinking as if trying to stay awake, but they slow down as the seconds come to pass. His eyesight dims, the dark becomes even darker, the boy's eyelids make contact, dozing off into deep slumber.