CHAPTER LI:Spiral City

I walked through the town towards the town exit, how the towns worked was very interesting. If you walked to the right town order went Augustus, Bacchus, Caesar, Diana, and then you get to the entrance to the main city (above the entrance was a sign in Greek that read 'New Athens'). After that sign was Elagabalus, Fortuna, Galerius, Hades, and then another sign above another entrance to the city (the second sign read 'New Rome' in Latin). The city and the towns looked like a spoke wheel. You had the center, split into two parts, and then eight rods that did different jobs.

I walked to the left along a Roman style road and looked above at the sign. I couldn't read Latin (hell I could barley read Greek), but I had heard some of the legion say the name. I walked through the entrance and immediately saw several legion training grounds. Pluto's Guard was gone, Mars' Legion (the largest legion) was training reserves on their very unforgiving obstacle course, Apollo's Arrow was practicing archery, Jupiter's Strikers was training with only five troops, and Sol's and Luna's Protectors were nowhere to be found.

I walked past all of the large training grounds to the center of the town. Retired Legionnaires and Adventurers were walking around the town in their old gear ready for an attack. I also managed to pick Daedalus from the crowd, he was carrying about sixty pounds of meat. It was all probably for his Sphinx friend since she looked pretty upset about being bested by Penny when we left her.

I jogged over to Daedalus, "Hey! Da Vinci!" I called out.

Daedalus looked over in my direction confused. Daedalus hadn't heard that name in centuries, and it was probably weird to hear the name again.

"Oh it's you, how have you been?" Daedalus smiles.

"We just saw each other?" I half asked half stated.

"I know, I just wasn't sure. The Labyrinth has an interesting time change. I've been meaning to ask you by the way, have you started recruiting the members for your mission?" Daedalus asked.

"No…I haven't had time. How did you know about that?" I asked.

Daedalus pointed to his yellow eye, "my eye was enchanted by dead gods, the ones that couldn't keep enough of their power. This is Egyptian, a sort of seeing eye that allows me to see far more than peoples names and health." He said.

I looked at him and realized that he had found ways to rouse dead and forgotten gods. I knew that they still had residuals of power and influence, but the fact that Daedalus could receive a blessing was amazing and scary as well. If they had power, that means they could eventually come back. That would not be an age I would like to be around for.

"I don't know where they all are, maybe you could help me." I said looking at Daedalus.

"Leonidas Shepard is back home to see family, Luna Forrest is training at the school, Chris Fletcher is an operator in Athena's war room, Alex Garner is with Amaya Evelyn on a picnic date, and Sara Pearl is.....in danger in San Francisco, California." Daedalus said, his yellow eye was moving around frantically.

"In danger?! From what?!" I asked ready to run.

"Sol's and Luna's Protectors are marching on San Francisco to kill Sara. From what I can tell the same figure who wanted you killed, wants her dead as well. It's hard to tell who though, some dark and ancient magic is blocking my sight from seeing them." Daedalus said, his eye started to dim to a dull yellow and he walked off.

My heart was pounding against my chest, I ran out of the city through Town Augustus. I avoided any questions given to me, and kept my feet moving. I doubt anyone had to time to head home (especially Penny since she shared a home with Athena who was to busy to go home), and I could get them geared up before it was to late.

If Sara was one of the eight people in the prophecy then I needed to save her, and I needed to do it fast. I ran past the entrance sign through the redwood forest that covered the school and the cities. It was to keep it all hidden from plain sight, that and the dozens of magical barriers that deterred mortals from finding us.

By the time I got to the school the legions were patrolling the school, the head of the patrols was Sheldon Marco the leader of Vulcans Collectors (which despite being artifact hunters they were still combat ready). He stopped me, but after one look at my clothes and armor he let me through. My guess was that they had my description on hand so they could let me and my quest group through the school if we needed.

I quickly ran through the hallways with my shoes squeaking on the freshly cleaned tile floors, I really hope it was a demigod who cleaned the floors and not a god. I kept running and got out the back doors to the archery range.

Artemis' Huntresses were still practicing for the war, but no gods were there to supervise. I suppose they didn't need it since a few of them would be adults if they weren't immortal, but I found it weird that Artemis wasn't breathing down their necks. Or that Apollo wasn't cracking jokes at them while dodging arrows. If we weren't in a war I would set up a stand to score Apollo's dodges.

I went through the still crowded war room, with Athena and Ares still arguing over battle deployments, and into the quest room.

Seth had set up a cot (my dear brother could sleep anywhere as long as he had his pillow), and was getting ready to fall asleep. Penny was reading a Harry Potter book, Adam was passed out in a corner, and Olivia was on another cot across the room from Seth already asleep. I wanted to wake them up, but I realized it wouldn't help. The only thing worse than an injured Greek is a tired one.

I sighed deeply and sat down in a corner and laid my head back, I wish I was back home sleeping but this corner would do for now. I think the exhaustion of being awake for a few days, even if it only felt like one, was catching up to me. The second I relaxed in the corner I fell asleep, and my next dream would be worse than my other dreams recently. Mainly because a god would be taking the wheel.