Point and Time

Chapter 10: Fig: Beyond War

'Realizing I was going to lead these kids into war by myself was terrifyingly frightening. I was taught by Eli how to begin training them, not perfect them. I wanted them as safe as possible and I was scared to think maybe I was not enough for them. Maybe I was not the person I wanted to be in order to get them where they HAD to be to defeat Gornid. The truth was out now. Elijah was not a friend any longer. Gornid had turned him against me.

Seth, Macie, Mark, Emily, Chase, Ethan, Ever, and Ari had to train to be the best possible and unfortunately, I wasn't sure I could get them there. I had to though. There were no other options, well there was one, last case scenario I would send them over to them. To the only other survivor. I'm not sure what good it would do but I knew it would buy them more time. That's all that mattered to me. I needed them safe, and the survivor knew the backup plan. If they showed up and said my name it would swing into action. We had to get this done. We had no other options.'

I locked my journal and sent it into the portal. We had huddled around a campfire at this point and began to just breathe. We thought being safe was with Eli because he would protect us but it wasn't. It was the opposite. He was plotting our demise. Maybe Gornid knew I was alive now. Maybe Eli was already working with him when I was being trained with my eight. Maybe that's why we lost because we had someone blowing it up from the inside. We didn't stand a chance. The kids were quiet. Not speaking period. No one said anything. Finding out that not only are you a demigod, not only do you have to save the world, but the person training you had been setting you up can be a lot to hear in twenty-four hours. At no point in your life do you think that's what you will hear when you are either fourteen, or thirty. Nobody wants you to have to save the world by yourself.

As the time went on the kids began setting up tents and going to bed. I felt bad because I didn't know what to say except for "Goodnight, sleep well." I did want them to sleep well because after this I wasn't sure when the next time they would sleep would be. The prophecy gave us a timetable when I and Eli heard it. A total of thirty days from coming together. I was down to twenty-nine to train them and have them kill Gornid.

When you find the keys, the lock will close.

Thirty days time, until it unfolds.

Two wars will occur winning both must convey.

To find the truth one will stand higher

Go further to find the raging river.

Falling low you fly much higher

Until the one above all is no longer.

While being a shorter Prophecy I had no idea what it meant besides the thirty days. We only had thirty days to find the keys, the kids, and stop the lock from closing, Gornid getting his powers. As all the kids began going to sleep I stayed up to make sure the fire had gone out completely. The smoke slowly faded as the embers sparked into the night sky and disappeared. I looked up hoping that I would be given some sort of answer as to why I was chosen by the gods to do this. Fate was something that was real. I had the fate of being the biggest Olympic failure to them, or the greatest success that came from them. I needed to do this right but if I didn't we all lost. Gornid would become more powerful than all of us, then all of the gods and he would take the world over and most likely end it.

"Hey, Fig?" Seth asked while slowly stepping out of his tent.

"What's up?" I replied acting like I wasn't letting my mind devour me whole.

"Do you think that we can beat him?"

"If you mean Gornid-" He cut me off

"Eli, he trained you, everything you learned, you learned from him. It comes down to if the student can teach the students to be better than his teacher. How faithful are you that you can do that? That we can become better than HIM in combat?"