CHAPTER LXII:Calm Before The Storm

I sat at the kitchen table with Penny, Mino, Sara, Seth, and Olivia. Adam had come down at one point, but he practically inhaled his food and went back upstairs. I had bandaged my hand, while ambrosia was healing the hole in my hand.

"So, Helios withdrew from combat?" Olivia asked.

"That's what Sorcerer said, he claimed that Helios pulled himself and his forces from combat." I confirmed.

"He won't be useful anyway, the storm is gonna start soon." Sara said looking outside.

Sara's eyes were still a dull grey instead of that bluish-green I first saw when I met her. Sara's statement was correct, the storm was practically on top of us. I really hoped we could finish this fight before the storm started. Sorcerer had said that they had planned for the storm in case combat got this far. It had to be one hell of a plan if they believed it could take on a Kid of Poseidon in their element.

"Sara, about the war in Atlantis. Other than specially trained troops and monsters, who else could take on that fortress for that long?" I asked.

Sara thought for a moment before answering, "Any child of a minor ocean god. Same would go for children of the minor lake and river gods as well. As time passed more gods have been made, or born in some cases." She stood up and grabbed a book.

"The only one that comes to mind is Kalypso though, she's a footnote in myth but she's rather powerful." Penny said.

Ah yes, Kalypso. Of course she would would have part in this, especially if Atlantis was taken. Kalypso could be rather nice, in the end she was still powerful and probably feared Khaos as much as the others at her side. I looked at the book Sara was holding. The book cover was a light blue with the with 'The Water Gods' written in black on the spine.

I stood up and looked through the books on the closest bookshelf, now seemed as good a time as any to study while the battle hadn't started here. Pluto's Guard was keeping the enemies at bay, and the fight wouldn't reach us for a bit. In the mix of books I saw a shelf dedicated to war. The books I saw was one on the Persian-Greco war, The Peloponnesian Wars, The Macedonian Conquest, and The Roman Conquest. In the mix of the books, I saw books on wars, that mortals weren't aware of. The war between Olympus and The Egyptians, the war between Olympus and Asgard (which continued all the way to 1781), and so many more wars on a godly scale that pushed humanity in the direction it's taken.

The war between Olympus and Asgard, I've read already. The basis of the war was when the Nords reached Britain the so called 'Holy' men tried to fend them off. They were ultimately successful but the Vikings gave them hell. Apollo, or at this point the Christian god, guided King Aelfred's hand one last time before the uneasy alliance between the gods. The battles between the gods lasted on and off until 1607, when the American Colonies were founded. That was, of course, after the Nords had defeated England and had their own kings in place. The war then picked up again in the 1770's, but this war was called The American Revolution. A sort of rematch between Olympus and Asgard, the Americans called upon Apollo who had followed them to the Colonies as their Christian God. The British did the same, but Apollo had forsaken them after Olympus moved because of the Nords.

Both sides in the war were calling the same gods, but Apollo refused to answer the British prayers. The other gods didn't help them either. The decision to not help the land the gods had forsaken was, for the first and last time in Olympian history, unanimous. Poseidon made travel near impossible (same with Zeus), Ares and Bellona helped the Americans win battles, Apollo and Artemis guided bullets, and Athena helped guide commanders.

That being said, The Gods of Asgard also had some sway in the war. They were so far away from home they couldn't get to help the British as much as they wanted to in the war. The furthest it ever got was when Loki whispered in the ear of a certain Major General, Benedict Arnold. The war went on for awhile after but finally the Gods of Asgard were defeated in 1781, and soon after they started vanishing. In the books it says that Odin disappeared, by choice, in 1986 after The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.

Out of all the names they gave Odin, Wise One seems the most fitting. In the last chapter of the book it tells that gods who vanish by choice can come back by choice. In fact two Nordic demigods were born in 2008, a Son of Odin and a Son of Heimdall both born just a few months apart. If the book is right, the Gods of Asgard were fated to come back by their hands. The Greek Adventurers and Roman Legionnaires were forbidden from interfering. Mainly because a world with more gods meant a world with more freedom, to demigods it did anyway.

Back in the era of the gods there were many cultures dedicated to their worship. Japanese, Egyptian, Chinese, Nordic, Aztec, and Mayan were among many whose gods had all but vanished after key moments in human history. I remember the stories of how they vanished well, I was a lonely girl trapped in a castle with heroes and books. I read when I was bored and when no heroes were available. I finally moved away from the bookshelf when I didn't find any book that interested me or that I hadn't read yet.

"Anything interesting on the shelf Mary?" Penny asked.

"Nothing you haven't read or memorized yet. You'd have better luck in Andromeda's room" I answered sitting down.

"Not likely, it's all written in some unknown language that only a few demigods can translate." Sara stated.

"For those books you need a Kid of Selene, a Kid of Hecate, or in rare cases, a Kid of Thanatos." Seth continued.

"Damn, I really wanted to read her spell books." Penny muttered looking at the table.

"I left the translations Andromeda gave me in Atlantis, I'll see about giving them to you when I get them." Sara said kindly.

I smiled, and looked out the front window. As I did I noticed that the fight had finally gotten to out street. Arrows were starting to fire from up top, and Keaton was in the street fighting two Legionnaires in Roman armor with white clothes under it. On their helmets they had white plumes, and the same 'X' welded on their helmet that I had seen on the bridge. Keaton stabbed a legionnaire with his spear and coughed up a grey sludge like substance. The other legionnaire behind Keaton had stabbed him through the chest. Keaton took the sword out and turned around. The legionnaire ran away in pure fear all the way down the street.

"Is that us?" Olivia asked.

I nodded in response and readied my weapons. Sara grabbed a Xiphos from off her wall. The blade was celestial bronze with a fine steel lining. Olivia drew her sword and dagger, Mino readied his sword and shield, and Penny readied her sword and shield as well. Seth on the other hand ran upstairs and grabbed his crossbow off his back. I opened the door and ran out, the usual method of handling protection situations would be to keep Sara in the house. However, she had the spirit of Poseidon and Sara staying in that house was not an option. After we had stepped onto the asphalt, the rain started and the horror of a plan made by Khaos was about to be revealed.