Zodiac

Chapter 6: My Origin

"So... I believe there is a lot for us to catch up to. Are you even my actual parents?"

"Actually, no. We adopted you. Your biological parents are dead," my father informs me in the lightest tone I ever heard him in.

"Dead?! How?"

"They were trying to protect you from these horrible witches that were going to try to kidnap you when you were a baby and convince you to grow up thinking you were one of them. You see John, you are extremely powerful. Your parents were both the two most powerful wizards alive behind Merlin of course. You were destined to be even more powerful than them.

These witches aren't just any witches. They don't live with all the other witches. No one knows of their whereabouts. Merlin and other leaders and their armies have tried to hunt them down before and have never found them. Then, they got in a fight with your parents and Merlin. In the battle, they killed your parents and slaughtered them. Their graves are in the other world.

Merlin was the only one left. They were going to kill them, but Merlin was very tricky. He teleported himself and left an illusion if him in his place. They all tackled him. He was going to avenge your parents and kill them, but they were too fast and escaped. It was the last anyone has ever saw of them."

"Then who are you," I demanded.

"I am your aunt and he is my husband," she told me. "Did you lie to me about your names also?"

"No. My name is still Fay and your uncles name is still Robert."

Okay. This is too much for me to handle for one day.

"Are the two of you magic also?"

"I am a wizard like your parents," replies my mom, wait I mean aunt.

"I am a Greek demigod. Son of Apollo," says my uncle a little to casually.

All of a sudden, a sharp pain goes through me and I feel like a giant hand is squeezing me and I feel like my insides are about to pop out of me. This must be the blood bending pain that Merlin was taking about earlier.

I then am forced to my feet and my body is in a semicircle shape as I get blood bended.

Robert gets up and touches me. The pain suddenly stops at his touch. Ok. That is weird.

"Why did I stop feeling the pain at your touch?"

"I am a very powerful son of Apollo. Apollo is the god of everything medical and healing. I got that power also, so I can heal people at touch. You had AIDS from the last time we went to Africa when you were eight. I healed you from the disease before it got too bad."

Whoa! Ok. So now I also realized that if it wasn't for my demigod uncle that can heal anything medical related, I could have been dead by now from AIDS.

"So. Will I feel anymore of the side effects from the pill?"

Aunt Fay answers, "You won't be feeling any sort of pain or be getting sick in the next 24 hours. Why do you think you have never been sick a day in your life?"

That is true. I have never been sick. I never thought much about it though. I thought I was simply just really healthy.

"So are there other demigods like you?"

"Actually, yes. I have many demigod half brothers, sisters and cousins. I am one of the demigods lucky enough to still be alive for adulthood. Most demigods are still kids and teenagers. They are all at this hidden camp where they train to get stronger."

That seems like a cool place. I definitely want to visit their someday.

"So these witches. Why haven't they ever
tried to kidnap me again?"

"You are too old now for them to try to convince you that you are one of
them," answers Robert.

"But the witches don't know that you are here. At least we don't think they know. But chances are that with you going in to the other dimension a lot for training, they will sooner or later discover you, but they aren't something you should worry about right now."

"You should get some sleep. I know that you could be overwhelmed with you being a wizard and your biological parents being dead and all, but you still have to go to school. Now, it is important that no one will ever know about this. You can't even tell Conner. Got that," demands Fay.

"Yes."

Honestly, that could be extremely difficult for me. Conner is my best friend and it would be kind of hard to keep a secret like that from him, but I guess I have no choice.

I go to bed and apparently Robert's touch only helped with the pain of the pill. I still get the nightmares.

I am alone in a small box that is holding me in. I only have room to lay down. I can't even move or sit up. The box then starts to fill with water and I slowly drown.

When I am just about to die, or at least I thought I was, I appeared in a new landscape.

I am tied up to a pole in the middle of a grassland. A bunch of spiders comes crawling in my direction. I start screaming me head off.

I have a big fear of spiders. They just terrify me. They come towards me and cover my whole body. It is too much for me too handle and I wouldn't dare open my eyes or mouth to scream.

I am helpless and worst of all, it is all just going on in my head.

The night of torture continues and for the first and hopefully last time, my alarm is music to my ears.

Guess now I have to go to school. Yay, I guess.