Mercury's Trails

Chapter 2: Sugar

We searched day and night only to no avail. Meghan could easily see that I was losing hope more and more each day. She was starting to really worry about the situation. We had stopped one day for a rest, and then everything went black. I awoke to the sight of Meghan and myself tied up in a rope. We were surrounded by darkness while in a dim room. I scooted twards Meghan, she was out cold, and her skin was cool to the touch. I got closer to her and warmed her as much as I could, while still being tied up. I wondered where we were, and who would've taken us. Meghan started to wake up, and I waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness. She crawled closer to me for warmth and comfort. She asked what happened, and we tried to think of what we were going to do. We scooted back to back, and Meghan untied my hands, then I undone hers. I cuddled up next to her and we fell asleep to wait. Around an hour later a door creaked open and a little girl appeared in the door. "Come with me and I will explain everything." She said. I woke Meghan up and we followed her. Meghan and I were exhausted from hunger and we had to hold onto one another for support. We finally made it to a room and the little girl stopped. She turned around and stared at us for a few seconds, "this is your room now. Get ready and I will come back later.Oh yeah, before I forget my name is Sugar." She closed the door and left Meghan and I alone to ourselves. We obeyed the girl, took showers, and we were provided with clothes. Everything was already in our size. Someone knocked on the door, and I answered. Sugar and a boy a few years younger then Meghan and I were standing at the door. They entered the room and sat down on our couch. Meghan and I sat on the bed, and Sugar started to talk. "I know this must be really confusing, but you will have to trust us. We knew what you were, and we needed you." "And what are we exactly?" I asked. "You are a rare breed of a Greek God or goddess and a mortal. We are all demigods." Sugar responded. "So we have the powers of the God or goddess?" Meghan questioned. Sugar said, "Yes, I know this is hard to believe but all of this is true. We can prove this to you." "Hard to believe? Even if it is true, what will we do, where we go?" I asked. Sugar answered,"tomorrow we can talk more but you need to eat and get some rest. We have a long road ahead of us, and we need all the energy we can get." Sugar and the other guy left, and we fixed ourselves up in five minutes. Sugar was waiting outside the door, along with the other boy. He introduced himself as Oliver and we started to walk down a long hallway. We came to a kitchen and me and Meghan immediately started breath heavily. We had most likely not eaten in a few days so we were starving. We got ourselves a pizza and put toppings on the pizza that we liked. We were so hungry we ate three pizzas, just the two of us. We chatted with Sugar and Oliver then we headed back to our room. We said our goodnight to Sugar and Oliver, and settled down. While Meghan was undoing her hair, I slipped into the bed, and I got comfortable. She cut off the lights, and scooted closer to me. She whispered in my ear, "can we really trust these people, we just met?" I answered, "I don't know yet, all we can do is try to trust them." After five minutes, Meghan was out. I stared at the darkness in the room and drifted off to sleep.