Blog 14- Heroic Story

On a dark and stormy Friday night in the middle of June, Alec Montague was born to Margaret and Jason Montague. Nothing out of the ordinary had come to past that stormy night in Prague.  Looking back on that day, almost twenty years ago, Alec had hear the story of his birth so many times from his mother and aunt he could practically tell it word for word himself. Every time he hear the story of his first birthday, he was always filled with wonder, the Sunday after his first birthday his father had gone missing. 

To this day he had no idea where his father had gone, he knew that his father wasn’t dead. Little did his mother knew that every year on his birthday, Alec received a card from his father, telling the boy how much his father wished he could be there with him to celebrate his birthday with his son. Alec had always thought that his father was someone very important, not only to him but to whoever he worked for, and maybe that was the reason that his father was never able to come home. 

Well none of that matters anymore, since Seth and I are going far far away from this city. Oh how rude of me, Seth is Alec’s best friend, Alec had always love how Seth wasn’t afraid to be a freak along with him. Now that the boys were old enough and finally had a little bit of money they plan to go to college together in the UK. They’d send applications to several different schools, and they both were accepted to Oxford University. The best news wasn’t only that they got into the school but they were accepted on full scholarships.  

The boys arrived on campus, on June 17th, three days before Alec’s twentieth birthday. After finishing unpacking the two boys meet to check out the rest of campus. As the two walk with no real point on campus, the boys released just how huge the campus was. 

“Thank God we learned English back home!” 

“Yeah I never really thought that I was ever going to use it but now, without it how would we talk to......” Seth trailed off as he walked past two beautiful women in pink and blue lace sundresses. “....... Beautiful women like them.” He said as he turned to Alec for his friends opinion of the lovely looking brunettes that had just passed. Apparently the two could still hear Seth because they turned to look at the two boys with smiles across their faces. 

“Go ahead and leave me, they look like they're into you, too.” Alec said with a smile. Typical Seth, always looking for trouble, I mean really? We haven’t even been on campus for two hours and he’s already trying to win over girls. Alec thought to himself, and with that Seth was already off talking to the young women.

Alec walked on for a while before finding a dining hall and deciding that it was time try the food, that he’d be eating for quite a while. But he was stopped short, by a men looking at him and for some reason he felt like he knew the man. As Alec continued to look at the man, the man started towards Alec. 

As he came towards Alec his mind finally started to make the connects. The man looked like a slightly aged version of the picture that his father had sent Alec along with his birthday card on his fourteenth birthday. 

“Excuse me, young man, you look a lot like someone that I know. If you don’t mind my asking, What’s your name?”

Alec had never remembered his father very clearly, and for some reason he was a little hesitant in answer the man’s question. Then he thought he’d be funny and tell the man in true James Bond form, “The name’s Montague, Alec Montague.”

And with that a million dollar smile spread across the man’s face. “Really?!?! Alec?!?! It’s really you?”

To this Alec reacted, to that like any nineteen year old would when a stranger asks if you’re really who you say you are, “Nope. Sorry I’m Santa Claus.” He spat with sarcasm. “If you don’t mind me, asking who are you?” 

“Well since you’re Santa, I’m the Easter Bunny.” The man said with just as much, if not more sarcasm in his voice, “I think we’re off on the wrong foot already. Sorry my name's Jason Montague.”

Jason waited a little bit as the information sank into Alec’s mind. After a while Jason wasn’t to sure that Alec remember who he was. 

“Your father.....” Jason prompted.

“Oh, I know who you are I’m just trying to get my head, around the fact that you haven’t been here for me for almost nineteen years and then I go off the college and here you are. How did you find me here, of all the places in the world, How did you know I’d be at Oxford Univestary?"

This question took Jason by surprise, “Uuuuhhhh, lucky guess.....” He trailed off, “You’re probably hungary right? Want to get something to eat? I have a lot to tell you.”

Alec hesitantly answered, "Sure, dad. I have a lot of questions for you anyway.”

    

The two of them went through the dinner line in dining hall. They sat down to start their long catch up and who comes back but Seth, with the biggest smile across his face.

   

 “Hey, Alec. Those girls are something else, but the one was really into you, asked me to give you this,” he said handing Alec a folded piece of paper, “Probably her number, or is it a love note?” Seth asked curiously

    

“Hey there, that's for me to know and you to possibly never find out.” Alec said grabbing the note out of Seth’s hand before he could take the paper and read for himself what she had wrote.

    “Who’s this?” Seth asked just noticing the man sitting across from Alec.

    “Believe it or not this is my dad, Jason Montague.” Alec said to Seth even though he knew Seth would never believe him.

    “I thought that your dad left when you were a baby?” Seth said slightly confused.

    “I did, but I was just about to explain why. If you don’t mind my asking, Who are you?” Jason said to Seth.

   

 “I’m Alec’s friend, Seth.”

    

“So you’re the famous Seth, I’ve heard so much about.”

    

“How and what do you know about me?” Seth said as if he just found out that he had had a stalker for years and finally found that all his fears were confirmed.

   

 “Seth, ya know how every year on my birthday I’d get a letter from my dad. Well after a while I started to answer the letters.” Alec answered.

    

“So you have talked to your dad, since he left? You always made him look like the bad guy whenever you talked about him.” Seth answered.  

    

“Well not exactly, I never wrote to him more than once a year so it wasn’t much of a conversation that we had going on......” Jason answered in defence of his son.

    

“Well why did you never write to him, you could have helped him through so much that he had to figure out himself!” Seth shot back at Jason.

    

“Well if you’d stop asking so many questions and just let me explain why I did what I did then maybe some of your questions would be answered and we could save so much time.” Jason spat at Seth. You could hear the annoyance in his voice.

    

“Okay, Start explaining.” Seth demanded.

    

“Wow, I was expecting that from my son, not his friends. I thought that Alec would the tough guy to get to listen to me.”

    

“Well when you grow up around mom you really  learn to just shut up and listen and even when she wrong, she’s still right.” Alec said.

   

 “Sounds like she hasn’t changed a single bit, your mother, was always like that.” Jason said with a pity smile across his face and a slight laugh in his voice.

   

 All three just looked at each other and started laughing like they’d known each other forever, even Seth who was just about to kill Jason.

         

 "Well anyway, back to explaining myself so Seth doesn't kill me."

         

 Jason looked over both his shoulders. Alec thought his father had lost his mind. "Okay, I think you're both old enough to take care of yourselves." Taking one last look over his shoulder, "Well Alec, I left you because I didn't want to put you and your mother in danger."

        

 "What do you mean dad?"

         

"Well son, I'm a........."

   

“Secret Agent.” finished some guys behind Jason.

    

With that Jason jumped up only to be dragged away by two guys that looked like they could be Alec’s age.

    

The last thing that Alec heard his father say to him was, “London or Paris.”

   

 What could he mean by that? Alec thought to himself, not really taking in the fact that his father had just been kidnapped by two weird guys.

TO BE CONTINUED........................................................

~Emily

Hero Story-Blog 14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prologue;

 

In a faraway land of water, long, long ago, there lived the mighty beast; the dragon. They were majestic beasts, brightly colored and very elegant in the water. Our focus is on a small family, a mother and her egg. The mother, a small but fierce rose colored sea dragon floats above her turquoise, shimmering egg, watching over it intently. She backs off a little as it begins to crack open, a small bright nose poking out of the shell. She smiles a little, waiting for her baby to break through. She’s so attentive to the egg, that she doesn’t notice the scuba-hunter behind her. Humans, with their underwater equipment, intent on killing mysterious sea creatures for their hides and jewels. The scuba-hunter swims slowly behind the mother, and jams a harpoon into her back. On the tip is a poison that could kill a sea dragon quickly and efficiently, without destroying their hide. She looks lovingly at her egg one last time, and closes her eyes and starts to drift down the sea. The scuba-hunter grabs her and pulls her to the sea surface, oblivious to the cracking of the tiny dragon. He climbs into his boat, and speeds away without looking back, or seeing the red dragon hiding in the weeds behind him.

The shimmering egg falls open, revealing a small blue sea-dragon that looked much like it’s mother. It mewls softly, afraid to be alone so young. She looks around her, at her empty home and open waters.

A small, brilliantly bright purple sea-dragon swims near. While the blue baby has triangular fins, this one has squares. The blue dragon has a horn on the tip of her nose, and the purple one has them down her spine. The purple dragon floats near the blue baby.

“ Are you lost?”

“ I don’t know. I’m just alone,” the little blue one whispers.

“Then come with me!”

They swim away together, exchanging names. The purple one’s name is Tanis, meaning “serpent lady.” She is sweet and caring, and watches over the little blue dragon, who does not yet have a name.

“ My mother will name you, I promise.”

They get to Tanis’ home, a small sea-cave surrounded by sea-weed. The cave’s wall is entirely turquoise, much like the egg the small blue one just left. It shimmers as the sea moves, throwing off light here and there. The seaweed is bright green, and very toothsome, full leaves and great stalks.

Tanis’ mother, a long deep-red dragon that resembles Tanis, is going through her jewels in the cave. She swiftly moves them back into her chest when she sees the children approaching.

“Mama, its just a friend and I,” Tanis slowly said.

“I know, but i do not know this friend.”

“I have no name..I was alone when I was born. Ma’am, I would never steal your jewels, they are much too precious.” the blue babe said.

“Then I shall name you Dalinda! It means “noble dragon”, for being so kind as to say that.”

“Thank you so much!” Cried newly-named-Dalinda. She was so excited that she swam in a circle, chasing her tail.

“Would you girls like to hear a story? I know a good one, all about treasures and sailors,” Tanis’ mother said.

“Oh, yes!” Cried the little dragons.

“Once upon a time, there lived a human. His name was Davy Jones. This human was actually friends with the sea-dragons, he would scavenge the human lands for treasure to share with the dragons. One day, Davy Jones met an evil sea-dragon, one who was conspiring with even more evil sailors. They plotted against him to steal his jewels and to steal from his friend-dragons also.”

The little sea-dragons gasped at this, horrified to hear it.

“ It doesn’t end there, little ones. The largest dragon, a dark cobalt black one attacked Davy Jones after his greatest plunder on the humans in centuries. This dragon threw Davy into the sea, and dragged him into the deepest, darkest cave, one that no one else knew about. Some other dragons sunk Davy’s ship, stealing some treasure but letting most of it drown with Davy Jones. They swam away with the sound of Davy Jones’ last dying gasps behind them. To this tale, it’s said that you can hear his breathing in the water, guarding his chest of treasure.”

“That’s horrible!” Cried Tanis.

“ I don’t understand how a dragon could do that to a human who helped them, humans are good,” Dalinda said softly.

Tanis’ mother looked at her sharply, and then lovingly. She then realized that Dalinda hadn’t hatched yet, therefore Dalinda hadn’t seen her mother’s murdering. She caressed Dalinda’s head with her tail, and Dalinda looked up.

“ It’s just a tale. Don’t worry about it, dear. Alright, off to bed kids!”

Dalinda and Tanis went to sleep, sleeping together with Tanis’ mother watching over them.

“ The poor dear, all alone in this world. She mustn’t know that my story is true, neither of them can never know. They would go for the gold and die trying,” Tanis’ mother softly said to herself. She nestled into her own bed and fell asleep.

She missed her young daughter’s ears pricking up, listening to her mother saying thoughts out loud.

“ I must find this, if it is true!” She thought to herself. She glanced over at Dalinda, and woke her up.

“Pssssst, Dal!” She stage-whispered.

“Whaaaat Tanis, I’m sleeping here, can’t you see that?”

“Hey, so. I think we should go for that treasure. My mom just said that the whole story was true; Dalinda, we should GO FOR IT. We can leave NOW.”

“Uhm, we won’t get in trouble? I don't’ want to make her mad after she names me...” Dalinda said slowly, unsure.

“ Uh, no. She’ll be fine it, I’m sure. C’mon, let’s just go!”

They swim away under Tanis’ mother’s nose, barely making a whisper in the water. They leave the cave and swim away, laughing softly to each other.

They swim for a while, enjoying their freedom and being with each other. They swam until they were stopped by an underwater ship. Tanis and Dalinda looked at it wide-eyed, when suddenly ghost sailors come pouring out the peep holes! They brandished their swords at the small dragons, who were moving backwards, trying to get away.

“ Oh gosh Tanis, how do we get out of this!? We never should have left!” Dalinda wailed.

Tanis looked around, unsure of what to do. She missed the small green turtle who was swimming by, spectating the show. The turtle, named Atira, sped up and bonked one of the sailors in the nose. The ghost sailor roared horribly, and flew back into the ship. His gang of ghosts followed him, a swoosh of wind going after them.

“Thank you so much! How could we ever repay you?!” Dalinda cried to Atira.

“ Well, where are you guys going? What are you doing?” Questioned Atira.

“Oh, just swimm--” Started Tanis.

“ Lost treasure!” Dalinda yelled, butting into Tanis’ sentence. Tanis looked sharply at Dalinda, upset that she shared their secret with this turtle.

“Well, could I join you guys?” Atira asked quizzically

“Yes! The more the merrier!” Dalinda said excitedly, while Tanis looked at her like she was crazy.

The three friends swam away from the haunted ship, happy to have the ghosts gone. Soon, they got to a dark cavern, with many little loops and holes. A dim light came up from one of these holes, and Atira swam in to a get a closer look. She came back, excited.

“ IT’S THERE GUYS ITS ALL THERE.”

Tanis and Dalinda followed her back into the hole, bumping into each other and the wall in their own excitement. They all entered the small cavern with the light of the gold jewels and treasure in their eyes. The girls gasped and started to freak out, happy to have found it.

“We found it--”

“My mom will be SO excited!”

“Look at this!”

Tanis started to pile jewels into the pouch on her stomach and Dalinda threw a tiara on her head, while Atira just gazed around her.

“Think I have enough to make my mom happy?” Asked Tanis.

“ I thought you said your mom would be OKAY with this, Tanis!” Dalinda yelled, a little scared now.

“Yeah, she will be. Now that we found it!”

Dalinda shook her head in amazement at her friend’s bravery.

They swam out of the cavern and went back home, tired but happy.

They came home to a MAD dragon mother.

“WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN TANIS OUT TO ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT AND WITH THE HUMANS ABLE TO SEE-- Hello Dainda dear, I’m glad you’re safe, hello little turtle, please stay and sleep-- GO TO YOUR BED THIS MINUTE YOUNG LADY” Roared Tanis’ mother.

They all went to bed under the eye of the raged mother.

“ Hey, we’ll tell her tomorrow, Tanis, about the treasure, we can surprise her!” Whispered Dalinda.

“Yeah, okay. Hey, Dal, thanks for going with me and doing this. And Atira, you were a great help too.”

They all hugged, as two sea-dragons and a turtle could hug.

 

-Amber( sorry for the new post, it's long!)

Blog 14-Alex -The Quest of Regaining the Title of Superhero

The Quest of Regaining the Title of Superhero

Superman and Batman were two superheroes who needed to redeem themselves. One day Superman got in huge trouble for not saving the people of New York City when the World Trade Centers fell. Superman was not able to stop the planes from hitting the towers so the superhero god sentenced him to a long and treacherous journey. Superman did not want to go on the journey by himself, so he just gave up hope on becoming a superhero again. Until one day Batman lost his superhero title for not helping the people of Boston when the Boston Marathon bombing happened. He was unable to detect the bombers before it happened, so the superhero god also sentenced him to go on a long and treacherous journey.

This brings us to the beginning of the story and a long journey. One day Superman and Batman meet up in Boston and decided to try and regain their title of superhero. Superman and Batman first went to a Boston Red Sox game and hired David Ortiz, Red Sox designated hitter, to drive them to Canada. Their journey was to travel to the Yukon territory in Canada and get the superhero god his precious oil. His oil is so important because he uses it to bless superheros before they begin their life fighting crime. Once they got to Canada, Superman and Batman persuaded David Ortiz to leave his car at the border and join their quest for oil. Ortiz could not pass up such a great offer, so he agreed and went along to take advice from the two.

This journey through Canada can only be done on horseback or walking, so the three adventurers went to try and buy three horses. The first place the three men went to get horses was a saloon in the town of Red Oak. The owner only had two horses, so he gave them to the three men and told them to go through the Sherwood Forest and visit his friend for another horse. When they got to the area they believed was Sherwood Forest, they met a man who reminded them of Robin Hood. This man told them in order to receive another horse, they must all shoot an arrow through a hole one inch wide. The task was easy for Superman and Batman due to their training to become a superhero. For Ortiz the task was very difficult, he was so used to swinging a baseball bat that his archery skills were very poor. He finally got the arrow through after three tries, so the man gave them another horse and revealed his true identity, Robin Hood and told them if they needed any help along they way he would help them.

After about three hundred miles of riding horses through the forests of Canada, the trio of men saw that something large was blocking their path.  When they got within twenty feet of the object then it told them to stop. When they stopped to find out what it was, Robin Hood came running to the rescue and told them to turn around and find a different path and that he would fight the bear, but they refused and stayed to help if needed. Robin Hood had fought this bear many times before, his name was Raeb, the master of all bears in Canada.  Raeb was around one thousand pounds and could kill any human with the swipe of his paw. Robin knew the best way to get past the beast was to shot him in the heart with an arrow to stun him long enough to get by him. Robin had Ortiz use a tree branch and a black walnut to play baseball to distract Raeb, this task was not easy but with an expert like Robin the job was done in about three minutes. This task would have taken the three amateurs at least a day to distract Raeb, to passed him. After the help from Robin, he disappeared and they never saw him until they needed help again.

The three men went along on their journey, stopping every night to camp under the stars and listen to wolves howling under moon light. Every couple of days, the men would stop in a village and buy food supplies for their next couple days of journey. On day eighty-five of their trip they reached the place that the god of superhero’s explain to them as the place of the precious oil. The only way they could get to the oil was to pass by a vicious pack of wolves. This pack of wolves consisted of around five hundred females and about two hundred alpha males. While they were thinking of a plan to get to the oil, Robin Hood came to the rescue again and fought off the male wolves one by one. The male wolves could be fought off by using lilac saplings that have a poison in them that works like an anesthetic that works for about three hours or less. This task had to be done fast, so the wolves did not wake up while they were receiving the oil. This was the best way to get past because once the male is put to sleep, the females obey the person who has harmed the males. After this Batman and Superman went to get the oil, they put it in a fifty-five gallon drum. Then after the three adventurers got to safety, Robin Hood left then for the final time and they never saw him again.

This occurrence of finding the oil caused a large problem. They had to take the drum of oil back with them and there was no way the horses could carry it, so the fast thinking David Ortiz thought of an idea. His idea was to call Jacoby Ellsbury, the Red Sox center fielder, and have him fly his private jet to Canada and pick them up. The three men went to the nearest town and called Jacoby, he said he would be there in no time. He was right, with his super sonic jet he got there in one and a half hours. Once the drum of oil was loaded on the jet they took of to their destination, Boston. Once in Boston, Batman and Superman thanked Ortiz for his help and told him they would repay him one day. Batman and Superman took the oil to the superhero god, he was pleased with the job they had done,so he gave both of them their title of superhero again. From that day on Batman and Superman have been proudly serving Boston and the rest of the world as they had before.

-Alex

HEROIC STORY -REMINGTON

The Unsuspecting Blow

She walked through the forest very calmly knowing that nothing could stop her. She knew the forest was filled with demons waiting to kill her, but she didn’t care. Her name was Vexx and she is the daughter of Hades. She has tried running away from him many times and all tries have failed. This time it worked, and she has been free from the Underworld for four days now, walking aimlessly.

Suddenly she heard a branch break behind her. She stopped in mid step and slowly turned around. Behind her stood a large 6 foot tall all black figure with glowing red eyes. She stared it down, her golden eyes examining the creature as if it is nothing. She knew of the creature and she has had several encounters with it before. “I warned you before creature, I told you to stop following me, I AM NEVER GOING BACK!!,” she yelled furious, “and now you will pay the ultimate price”. She tilted her head and the creature dropped to the ground rolling around, screeching in pain. Her eyes pierced the creature and filled it with pain. Finally after minutes of torture she snapped her fingers and the creature’s neck snapped. She turned around and continued on as if nothing had happened.

Suddenly her eyes caught a glimpse of a building, no of a couple buildings, “ah a nice place to lay low for a while while i figure things out.” She walked to the edge of the little town examining it. Her eyes flickered black as she saw a person. Her senses told her that something evil was in the town, but she pondered it for a while and realized that nothing could be more evil than her. She walked in and saw a vacant house. Walking toward it, she turned the handle to find out that it was locked. People walked by staring at her and she couldn’t help but to not look at them, for if they found out what she was the other “ones” would surely kill her.

Her dad called them the other “ones”he never spoke of them even when she asked him questions about them. All that he told her was to stay away from them. He told her that they were the only ones that could hurt her. She hated her dad for what he was and what he created her into, so she never listened anyway.

She broke the door handle off and walked inside, and quietly closed the door and laid on a comfy white couch to rest. Before she even knew what happened Vexx was asleep.

The morning sun pierced the windows and made her skin all tingly. She knew it was time to get up and figure things out. She rose up and walked out of the house. The town was empty. She was still half asleep as she walked around. Suddenly as she walked past a building a dark figure two times the size of the one before slammed her into the wall. It took the breath out of her, and she had no time to react. The creature held her arms above her head, it took its claw and put it at the tip of her stomach, injecting poison, that she knew could kill her in a matter of minutes, into her.

But out of nowhere as the pain started a lightning bolt came out of the sky and hit the creature killing it. She dropped to the ground holding her stomach in pain. Vexx closed her eyes as the pain got worse, but suddenly she heard footsteps running up to her. She dared not to open her eyes, for it might be a human. The man spoke to her in such a soft voice and, it calmed her down and soothed the pain for a moment. “Don’t worry I will get you out of here, everything is going to be ok” he whispered in her ear. The last thing she felt is being picked up and flying? She felt the wind blowing through her hair and she believed that she was flying, then everything went black.

She woke up in a huge house sleeping on a bed with velvet blankets covering her. Vexx tried to get up but pain overcame her. She felt a hand on her shoulder, and looked to see a man standing there. As her vision came back she saw a soft face with big blue eyes, with lightning bolts in them. There was a scar over his right eyebrow, and his shortcut blonde hair shined in the light. “Who-who are you”she asked very shaky.

“I am Jason” he said, “and who are you?”. She was very weary to answer but she could tell that he was not normal. He sat next to her on the bed.

“I am Vexx.”

“Ahh well very nice to meet you Vexx, and such a pretty name too for such a pretty face.” She didn’t know what it was about him, but she felt weird around him, something tingled inside of her. She blushed and he handed her a cup of red liquid.

“What is this?” she asked.

“Uh its the stuff that saved your life so i suggest you drink it,” there was something about him that also told her that he was dangerous. She drank the liquid. “Am i free to leave Jason?”....

“Well of course but you are in no condition to move anywhere darlin’” he turned on the TV “ I mean look at what’s happening it’s so crazy” he said. On the TV it depicted pictures of earthquakes, fires, and weird creatures murdering people. Vexx gasped at the sight because she knew it was because her father finally found out that she was gone, and he would stop at nothing to find her.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

“Umm oh nothing it’s just really freaky”.

“You got that right” he answered. “My father isn’t too happy about it, he says that it interrupts his work”. Vexx had a feeling that his father must be someone very important for it to be interrupting his work.

Vexx sat up in the bed “I uh have to leave like now”. She could feel the presence of something evil near. and she didn't want Jason to get hurt.

“But you can't leave you are in no shape” he said. She quickly rose out of the bed, and as she looked at the room all she could see were stars (feeling so dizzy). “Please you can't leave” Jason said. She turned to him and looked into his eyes, which were so captivating to look at. She paused for a moment as she felt something weird. He got closer to her and he whispered in her ear “ I will protect you from the evil you can trust me Vexx”. It gave her chills down her spine, the way his voice flew through her ear and sunk into her body. She took a breath and realized that he wasn't lying, and that he was going to protect her. But she couldn't let him get hurt she barely even knew him but the way he looked at her, Vexx knew that he was different.

“I can't let you hurt yourself I mean, for me, I barely even know you.”

“Look i know you don't trust me but there's something about you that i find so captivating.” She sighed knowing that whatever she said he was going to stay with her one way or another.

“Fine but don't help me unless I need you to.”

“Fine”he said. She knew that this was her mission to confront her father and talk to him. But she knew that she would have to get rid of Jason somehow, he could not find out that she was the daughter of Hades. Her father could not find out about Jason for if he found out she knew that he would have eternal punishment just for touching her.

“They won't be able to even get in” he told Vexx, as he saw the worried look in her eyes, “there is a protective barrier around the house so at least let me give you the grand tour of the house.” He grabbed her hand. It was so soft and warm. She had never felt this warmness before. It made her stomach flip. She smiled giving into his intriguing eyes.

“Fine she said but then i need to leave”. Vexx was in awe as she saw the house. The walls were dark blue and the house was so big it took an hour to just view everything. They both talked and talked not knowing what they were getting each other into. Vexx liked talking to him she had never met someone this nice before, but Vexx knew that she would have to betray him so he could never find out her secret.

As they neared a window Vexx saw that demons were starting to gather around the barrier. They were trying to break the invisible force. Jason saw the worried look in Vexx’s eyes, and he quickly pulled Vexx away and grabbed her other hand. She could see that Jason was worried too. “I am going to get us somewhere safe” he told her. “You just have to trust me”. Vexx knew she had to run now but she couldn't. There was some force that tugged and pulled at her insides, and it told her to stay with Jason. Jason grabbed a book from a book case and opened to a page with writing Vexx didn't understand. He said something, but before Vexx could hear what he said she heard a loud CRACK and everything went black.

Vexx woke up. Her head hurt and she couldn't move. She tried moving her hands but soon realized that she had chains around them. She was also chained to a wall. She opened her eyes and saw that she was in a prison cell. There were no windows and it was pitch black. She moved one of her hands in front of her face and blew on it, and a flame caught just above her finger tip. It made it so she could see the whole cell now. She looked around trying to remember what happened and she remembered. “Jason!!” Vexx yelled for him. Suddenly she heard voices outside of her cell and they seemed to be getting closer. Vexx couldn't make out the voices, but she knew that they were dark creatures. The door cracked open and a black shadow about eight feet tall came in. It hovered above the ground and it unlocked Vexx’s chains. She was so furious she tried punching it, but her hand went right through it. The shadow grabbed ahold of her somehow and it dragged her outside the cell. As soon as she stepped outside Vexx knew where she was. She was home.

The shadow led her through the gates and to the palace. Vexx closed her eyes because she never thought she would end up here again. Before she even knew it she heard a booming voice. “Oh great” she thought , for Vexx knew that if her father had captured her, he had surely gotten Jason too. She opened her eyes to see her dad walking toward her in his normal form. “Vexx” he said “what a lovely surprise,” he grabbed Vexx by her arm and dragged her over to his throne chaining her up to a pillar. “ Just in time to see a punishment trial, oh the gods, how I have missed you” he smiled at her as she looked down at the ground. “Bring the prisoner out” he yelled, “oh this is going to be so fun”. Vexx hated her father for everything that he had done to her. She wished that he would die or the other “ones” would just kill him. Vexx looked up as she heard someone struggling against two demons. She gasped at the horror. Jason.. he had blood running down his face and he was covered in bruises like he had been beaten.

“Father let him go right now!!” her voice echoed through the room. Hades, ignoring his daughter, walked over to Jason.

“Ahh what a lovely surprise” Jason looked over to Vexx. His eyes pleaded to her to not watch but she couldn't help herself. Hades raised his arm and punched Jason across the face. Jason spit out blood and didn't say a word. “A son of Zeus i suppose”. Hades kicked Jason in the leg breaking his bones. Jason yelped in pain, and Vexx couldn't take much more. Hades laughed as Jason screamed. “ Just a boy too, well too bad you even laid eyes on my daughter.”

“Dad stop!!!” Vexx screamed.

”And you, to be with a boy of the other “ones”, you disappoint me. Hades walked over to Vexx he stroked her chin with his hand, and suddenly he pulled out a knife. “You will remember to not run away from me” he said. Hades put the knife at the tip of Vexx’s stomach, and black poison spread into her. Vex knew she had to do something as Hades walked back over to Jason. She began to feel the pain. It made her mad and she felt something she had rarely felt only on occasions when she was super mad. Vexx pulled at the chains ripping them right out of the pillar. Hades turned around, but only after he put the poison into Jason. She stared at her dad, looking right into his eyes, telling him that they were about to fight. “Ahh a little father daughter showdown, sounds good to me.” Vexx wasn't joking as she charged at her father, who thought she was joking. She slammed into him knocking him against his throne. She ran over to Jason as he was lying on the ground choking from the poison. (You see Vexx had had the poison so many times it didn't start hurting bad until after a couple of hours. The effects of the poison can kill a person in just a few minutes though). Vexx looked at Jason and took his hand, now she knew who he was and she had to get him out of here. Suddenly Hades came up behind her and grabbed her shoulder. “Vexx i don't want to hurt you” he said.

“Well thats a first” she yelled back grabbing his arm and shoving as much pain as she could into him. The pain only made Hades get more mad because he had given Vexx that power, and now she was using it against him. Vexx took his arm and then jumped over his back breaking it. She kicked him and he went flying into the wall hitting his head. Vexx ran over to Jason who was now screaming, “I have to get you to your father he is one of the only ones that can cure it”.

Jason pointed to a book laying on the ground, he whispered “page 24, read the words”. Vexx ran and got the book and opened it to page 24. She saw the words στο βουνό των θεών, she understood them and read them aloud in English, “to the mountain of the gods”. Jason grabbed her hand and everything turned white as they appeared, landing on the ground of a cold white marble floor.

She looked around seeing two strange faces looking at her. Two strong men grabbed her by the arms and dragged her away from Jason. Vexx stared at the one man who looked like Zeus, he ran over to Jason and he chanted something, and Jason got up. “Jason what has happened?” Zeus asked.

“Well dad long story short i met Vexx and her dad got pretty mad.”

“You mean you were with that thing” Zeus pointed to Vexx.

“Dad that is Vexx and she is a really sweet girl.”

“Son believe me she is a monster.” Vexx looked at Jason with eyes begging him to make them let go.

“Ares Apollo let her go” Jason said. “She is not going to hurt anyone.” Zeus knew Jason was telling the truth and as soon as the men let her go Jason ran over to Vexx and her eyes looked lifeless. “Vexx are you ok?” Jason asked her.

“I will not tolerate this son she needs to be executed immediately”.

Jason ran up to Zeus as fast as lightning and looked into his eyes so intensely Zeus even backed down, “you won't touch her”. Ares and Apollo grabbed Vexx again and Artemis appeared with her bow drawn and pointing right at Vexx. Just as Vexx thought it was over she saw a bright flash of light and the woman was suddenly on the ground. Everyone looked at Jason and couldn't believe what he had just done. He had just hurt Artemis. All the gods ran over to her not caring about Jason and Vexx. Jason grabbed Vexx’s hand and chanted a few words, and they disappeared.

When they appeared, they were in a meadow with flowers all around, as far as she could see. There was a small cabin nearby, and Vexx wondered where they were. She saw Jason standing, staring at the sky. She walked over to him and grabbed his waist hugging him. “Thank you so much for everything, but I won't let you risk your life anymore I- I have to leave.” He turned around and looked into her eyes. She could see that they were full of regret and sorrow.

“Please” he said pleading “stay with me, we are safe here” Vexx knew that if she left it would just break Jason.

“Fine i will stay”she said. “Where are we anyway?” Vexx asked.

“We are on an island i discovered a couple years ago no one knows about it except me and now you , and it is protected so nothing can ever get to us, ever.” Vexx smiled and walked toward the edge of the island with Jason following behind her. She saw the cold waters and ran into it diving in. She laughed and played in the water as Jason sat at the edge. He stared at Vexx taking in her beauty. Jason loved her eyes most of all the brightness of them shimmered in the sunlight. The sun started going down and Vexx walked out of the water. She walked over and sat next to him.

“You are a little soaked aren't you?” Jason asked.

“Well yeah but watch this” she smiled and Jason couldn't help but to stare at her. She put her finger to her mouth and blew air out, making the flame ignite above it again. Vexx put it onto her shirt and her clothes and even her hair puffed up, all of a sudden becoming dry.

“Wow now you aren't” Jason inched closer to her and she laid her head in his lap. They both sat there watching the stars as they thought about what was waiting for them in the reality world, and both of them realized a cult of angry gods was wreaking havoc on the human world looking for them both. Vexx sat up shivering and Jason pulled her closer.

“Vexx i know we just met and all but...” she put a finger to his mouth shushing him. She leaned in closer and they kissed.

Vexx woke up laying in the meadow. She stood up and saw Jason pacing. “Vexx they are going to be here any minute” he sounded worried.

“Wait who is going to be here?” she asked.

“My father and your father they sent a message to me early this morning and they said that they wanted us back, and that if we didn't go back they were coming to get us.” Vexx gasped at the horror. She knew her father was going to torture her for hurting him. Vexx didn't know what to do so she began to cry. Tears streamed down her cheeks and Jason realized what he had just done. “No no no Vexx its ok i will protect us from them don't worry.” She looked up and he realized that there was no hope in her eyes. Jason hugged her tightly as she still cried. “Listen we can go and hide for a while i know of a great hiding place that will fool them for a while.” She nodded and he led her out of the meadow and into a cave just behind the little run down cabin.

The cave was dark and very shallow. Suddenly as Vexx stopped crying and sat down they heard a loud BOOM. Jason knew that it was the gods breaking down the barrier and they made it in. He kissed Vexx on the forehead and they both were as still as they possibly could be as they heard the gods searching everywhere for them. Jason could smell fires “probably the cabin and the trees” he thought.

Vexx could hear the sniffing of hell hounds. “This is the end”she thought. Jason put his mouth so close to her ear only she could hear him. “I have something very important to ask you” he whispered.

“What? we are about to die what is it?” she said a little louder than she should have. Jason pulled out a ring from his back pocket Vexx gasped. Jason got down on one knee. Vexx will you marry me?.

“Ye..” she began to say, then Vexx heard a loud bark and she turned her head to find a group of hell hounds barking at them. Vexx saw a dark flash and everything began to swirl around and she passed out.

Suddenly Vexx woke up. She realized that everything was white. She looked down at herself to see that she was wearing a beautiful white dress. Vexx looked up to see Jason in a white tuxedo. “I do” came out of his mouth as Vexx looked around.

“I do” Vexx said as Jason looked at her weirdly.

“Vexx? VEXX?” she heard him shouting but everything began to swirl again. She woke up barely breathing in the middle of the meadow. She grabbed the soft flowers as she realized Jason was standing beside her asking if she was ok. Suddenly Jason was ripped away by something Vexx could not see. Her vision was blurry and she stood up. Someone with such force grabbed her arms and held her back so she could not move. Her vision cleared and she saw Jason with Zeus doing the same to him. She realized that they were trying to separate Jason and her. The fighting ceased as Jason was being dragged backwards.

“Jason!!” she yelled. Someone punched her across the face making her jaw hurt badly. “YES” she yelled “I will marry you.” They were getting so far away from each other that she could barely hear him. But she saw the smile across his face Vexx gasped because she felt something cold and hard stab through her stomach.

The last thing she remembered was Jason cradling her in his arms telling her that everything was going to be ok, and she felt the cool streaming tears flowing down her arms as he started crying, and then everything stopped.