The Hidden Family Secret (The Guardian Chronicles)

The Truth- Chapter 4

Darkness. Nothing but darkness. I thought I was falling but I didn't feel like gravity was affecting me. I looked around but nothing was around me. Suddenly I saw someone falling above me, he looked unconscience. I rotated my whole body to see that it was Leo that was unconscience. It was him yet somehow it wasn't. He came closer but he was growing more rapidly than usual. He opened his eyes and they were the glassy ocean blue eyes that Leonidas has. A huge flame surrounded Leo and Leonidas came roaring out in his place.

"Leonidas! Where am I?" I yelled out to him.

Before he answered me a blinding white light brought me to a platform where Eli, Jericho, Bella and Leo lay unconscience. Two enormous men came gliding down and landed in front of me cutting me off from my friends. The bigger of the two turned around to pick them up, I went to stop him but the skinnier one stop me by holding my hands and feet down with shackles made from what appeared to be little tornados. I thought the bulky one was going to kill them but he stood in front of each of them and made some grass beds form under them.

The two of them backed away and looked up, I looked up and saw something coming down and down fast. It hit the platform so hard it created a small crater. When the dust cleared, I saw that it was a minotaur.

"My name is Ambrose." he said. He transformed into a really tall, ripped man. He walked over to me and held out his hand to help me up off the ground. I was wary on whether or not I should take his offering.

"Thanks for the help. I'm...." I began to answer.

"I know who you are Anna. I've had my team keep an eye on each of you since the beginning." He threw his thumb back talking about the two figures.

"Who are they and what did you mean by beginning?" I questioned.

"Come, walk with me." He gestured. I looked around to see where we would walk but I didn't see anything until he called for me halfway down a pathway that just appeared.

"The two boys are Titan, son of Helios and one of the two gods of war, and the other is Orion, son of Apollo. You may know them as the jocks, Cody and Alberto." Ambrose informed.

"What do you mean 'first god of war'?" I asked him as we rounded a corner. He didn't say anything for a few minutes.

"A long time ago, there was an epic war battle between the gods and the Titans, that's common knowledge among all beings. Titan and his brother, Acheron, were the best fighters when they had to be. During the fight against the Makhai, Titan and Acheron were separated. Titan tried to fight his way back to Acheron but in the process Acheron was ambushed and killed."

I gasped at the thought of losing a loved one. Ambrose must have heard me because I saw him give a little smile.

"After Acheron died, Titan went into depression and exiled himself. The only contact we know he's had was with Penelope, daughter of Hermes and sister to Caleb." Ambrose said as we started heading back to the group. "Titan vowed to never return until he found a suitable demigod to be the co-heir in becoming God of War."

We continued to talk when we came to a clearing that look like the park near my house. Jericho, Eli, Caleb and Orion were sitting at a table talking and eating. I looked over to see Titan walking away from Leo, he looked shocked and depressed. He looked up with his beautiful blue eyes until his met mine. When they locked he stood and walked down the path to a large pond. I walked over to Titan who conjured up a blacksmith's shop.

"Uh... Hey," I said with some nervousness. He just nodded as he tied his apron around his waist and slide on some what looked to be welding gloves.

"What did you say to Leo that made him upset?" I asked with a little anger.

He just glanced his eyes up at me ten went back to work. He grabbed a clamp and pulled out the blade part of a sword from a fire. When he glanced up, there was a moment when it was like he sent me a little video of how it went.

Cody pulled a scroll out of his pouch and handed it to Leo. "What's this?" Leo asked. Leo unrolled the scroll after Titan just buttons his pouch back up. "To the grandson/granddaughter of Acheron, if you are reading this your grandfather did not make it out if the war alive. Concealed in this scroll is the sword's hilt from Acheron's plasma gun. We believe to entrust it in your possession until it believes it found a new owner. Zeus, God of the Heavens." Leo read. After Leo finished his scroll Titan left to leave him to his letter and that's where the image ends.

I closed my eyes trying to hold back the few tears that were trying to escape. Leo avoids me for a few hours when Ambrose walks over to me.

"Do you feel it is time to go?" He asked.

"Yeah, I think everyone needs time to cope with what they just heard." I answered.

He looks up to what I would guess to be the sky if it wasn't just blackness. "Perseus, it is time." He said. All of a sudden clouds formed and a lightning bolt strikes down where we are standing. I woke up to see lightning outside again. I went to move but I stopped to see Eli and Jericho cuddled against my chest which was apparently drenched in sweat. I never retuned to sleep I just laid there waiting for daybreak.