Chapter 10 Step 2

My mother hadn't changed during my absence . She continued teaching us what she wanted and told us stories about the world outside and her childhood . She told Artemis why we can't leave until we are old enough to take care of ourselves and revealed that demigods are the best toys for the idiot gods, under the banner hero they r continually played with , that is why she let's me go train alone . According to her as the Olympians have gone unchallenged so they have degraded from the vallent kings who freed the world to cruelty very similar to that of the titans. The titans oppressed and killed other races, in their insatiable need for power leaving hate and destruction in their path . And now the only difference with Olympians is that they feel they already have all the power, so they cause unending wars, rape and kidnap both man and women only unlike the titans no direct violence is used. Instead they work in the shadows as they manipulate, suduce, threaten and even mind control humans all just for their entertainment . To them humans are but fragile toys much like any small cute mindless animals. I was surprised my mother was so insightful and progressive, I couldn't help but accidentally vocalize my thoughts by asking, "how on earth did Zues even qualify as a sperm donor" . My mother giggled and said ; "little ones we are gods, we do not need sexual contact to have children. Zues transfered his essence by placing his hand over my stomach. Even women can have children with each other ." . It was obvious this was meant for Artemis as she is already determined to stay a virgin but it seems my mother still wants to be a grandmother *sigh*.

I spend a lot of time with my mother these days, it seems I was letting a treasure of knowledge and experience go unused. Although my mother doesn't say it, I think she tells me so much just to spend time with me - she misses me. I found out that during this period of absense she was teaching Artemis about the forest, how to hunt and archery. As we talked my mother said something interesting " With the absense of the premodial goddess of the earth the Olympians are getting worse and worse as time goes. Between the disgusting orgies and insufferable parties I doubt many realized or cared that the spirit of mother earth goddess still exist in some form. And just like during the time of the titans she is unhappy. She is taking her children and this time permanently. First the dwarves and giants could no longer have children and now the old races are dying out. Then came the dragons who eventually diluted their bloodline as they were forced to mate with other races because they were basically extinct after the old war. Now the so called dragons are basically snakes and other beasts with dragon bloodline. A new Era just like before will eventually begin. "

With foundation all set, we decided on weapons. Nina had always thought those badass ice queen swordswoman were the coolest and I found her cute as she demonstrated it.Her obviously pretend emotionless face that had eyes that screamed excitement were adorable . So the sword was a given. And with me being Apollo we decided to pick both swordsmanship and archery.

It took a lot of research but finally after 6 months the asura sword manual and thunderstorm archery manual were born. They were flawless arts, that focused on simplicity and but in truth with further practice the more difficult and complex they turn out to be .

The manuals didn't have stages and could be practiced at practically any level of strength but it takes continuous repetition, understanding and and growing strength to fully realize the manuals . The arts also gradually helped one gain insight into the law of destruction with regards to asura sword art and law of wind and thunder when you practiced thunderstorm archery.

As the manuals were pretty comprehensive they allowed us to start at basics and eventually achieve mastery of our respective weapons.

In addition to weapons, practiced karate. We chose it as it was a common martial art that didn't need special talent to learn - this is shown by how wide spread it was in our previous world. Ofcourse we had compiled the knowledge of different karate dojos from earth until it had no flaws. Our reason for this was that we were from a peaceful earth and even with weapons we may not necessarily react and position our bodies as we block or move as well as experienced masters we needed our bodies used to fighting effectively - karate.

And to use the three martial arts to their maximum we needed strong bodies. With this thought came the biggest prize from our research - Domination Body manual. It was devised into 4 upper body exercises that seemed to be variation of push ups, pull ups, plank and rows ;and 3 lower body exercises. The animal movements were based on snake, bear and dragon.It is a body strengthening manual that refines the body with natural elements to increase affinity and resistance to them and it strengthens the body through exercise, stances and animal movements. The art would be nearly impossible to train as it needs one to be in different extreme environments and gravity as the body adapts as well as an impossible amount of flexibility and coordination to perform the animal movements. It looked like nothing special it was a mixture of advanced irregular calisthenic exercises performed at extreme environments to strengthen the body and make it resistant to the elements in addition animalistic movements that worked to remove impurities through various muscle contractions and bioelectric pulses combined with breathing techniques allow one to be attuned with elements and intake nature energy that heals the body . The technique could be repeated however long it was effective.

Our plan was morning from 4am to 12pm - body strengthening, TLC 12 to 2 pm, weapon practice 2pm to 8pm , night 8 pm to 12 am - meditation then sleep at 12... With breaks through out for food.

With everything planned I told my mother I would be training again and returning when I turn 10.