Red flame 2

Chapter 3

I'm sorry did he say, Cleopatra? As in the crazy cat lady, who wanted everyone to bow down to felines? Was he high? I knew dad had some crazy ideas and dreams but this was going to far? If he didn't want us here he didn't have to go as far as claiming Cleopatra was real. I had NEVER heard of her since I've been with Loki. And he looked at me, maybe knowing something was off. Thor also looked confused. This was in Hades' area of expertise. And I was seriously doubting this was true. I could believe the frost giant, but Cleopatra? That was far fetched.

"I'm sorry, dad you've done many things, but this, this is crazy because Cleopatra is a myth," I said, without thinking. Hades stepped towards me.

"Actually, she's not, She was quite real," He said. I looked to him, snapping my head towards him in surprise.

"I'm sorry, we are talking about the cat queen, right?" I asked. Hades shrugs his shoulder.

"It seems far fetched but, she was real once, and they killed her, and placed her in a tomb, mummified, but she was at one time, very real," He said. I looked at Percy and Annabeth.

"He's right, my mom told me her and medusa fought, to take the throne of Egypt, until Medusa tried turning her to stone, her cat jumped in front of her, and she turned it to stone instead, crazy story," Annabeth said, shocking me to my core. I looked at Loki, he shrugged.

"I may have researched some important people, from Greek mythology, and I know she is real, that and I tried to take her prism at one time," He said. Did everyone here know her? Except me and Anna?

"Okay, so how do we get to her tomb?" I asked. Dad sighed in defeat, and Hades had a very unusual look on his face.

The door opened, and one of the guards ran inside. It was unusually hasty. Something was going on. He was panting as soon as he reached us. He couldn't catch his breath. His sword by his side, he clutched it in his hand. He looked up, catching his breath finally. Loki walked closer to me, while Thor joined be my side too.

"There's a man, he requests entry to the mansion your majesty," He said looking at me. Loki looked confused.

"Well, do you know him?" He asked. The guard shook his head. So he didn't know him?

"Did he say why he wanted in?" I asked. The guard shook his head again.

"He said he knew King Thor and Prince Loki, that's all I know," He said.

Loki looked at Thor and they nod to each other. I look to them both, and they begin heading to the door. But the moment they get about five feet from the door, a guard is pushed inside, and man, African American man with dreads, steps inside. Loki and Thor look at each other and to the man, in what looks like shock.

"Heimdall?" Loki says. Thor was also confused. I knew him, they had told me one time, that he died upon Thanos' ship.

"Wait, he's supposed to be," I was interrupted by Heimdall.

"Dead, yes well seems I am not, and I come baring some unsettling news," He says, looking at Thor. And then at Loki.

"You're not going to like this, Loki," He says looking at Loki. But Loki straightens himself up and stands in a poise posture.

"And why pray tell not?" He asks.

"Because I know why the Frost giant is here, both of them," He says. Loki looked to Thor. I step up, slowly, but Heimdall looks at me, and he freezes. His eyes turn yellow golden. Loki looks back at me.

"Because of Ella?" He asks. Heimdall takes a deep breath and looks at Loki.

"You're lady, I'm afraid, let them in, as she let me in, through the portal that Red flame made, to save her." He says.