XXVIII: Themis

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lineysha's POV

Pagpasok namin sa temple ay isang malaking estatwa ng babae na may hawak-hawak na scale at sword ang sumalubong sa amin.

"How are we gonna summon her?" Harry asked.

"We don't have to." I said in a low voice.

That presence...

I was already aware and familiar with that kind of presence.

I look around, there's nothing in here only the statue. We're already in her domain the moment we passed that hallway.

"Themis..." I whispered as I closed my eyes to have contact with the titaness just as I did to Hecate and Athena before.

And trying to do so, I felt my body slowly heating up. I ball my fist. Doing this requires a great amount of strength.

"Demi-gods." I opened my eyes and I was met by a radiating light that if I'm not a demi-god I'll be doomed.

The titaness in her true form.

Meízon were down on their knees, bow head and trying to fight the presence of the titaness in front of us.

I looked upward, a woman two story tall, wearing a gold chiton and a gold laurel wreath on top of her head, our eyes met and it strikes my core. Her eyes were drowning and it makes me feel guilty to a sin I never committed.

"Daughter of Coeus." I did not move an inch. "Lineysha.." finally I bow my head as a sign of respect, I refuse to be called and labeled as my deity's child.

For a moment I felt like the strong force around us lessened and when I looked back at the titaness again, it was already in her mortal's form.

"I am aware behind the reason of you presence here." She stepped down, Meízon got up from their knees.

The titaness walked and suddenly our surrounding change.

We're currently in a hallway and the wall around us shows what happening in mortal realm, the serving of justice in mortal realm.

We followed the titaness after her while she walk in the hallway, seeing different kind of scenes.

"Do you believe that justice is for everyone?" She asked and it seems like people with me doesn't have a plan to answer her.

"Only for those who deserve it," I answered it.

"Indeed, but the question is, the difference between just and unjust, how would you know?" Suddenly she stopped walking and she faced the wall which shows a scene in a court trial. "A girl who killed her abuser."

Pinanood ko ang pangyayari, the girl wearing an inmate shirt, just stared blankly while the judge declared a verdict.

"She was sentenced with murder and life time imprisonment," the Titaness muttered, "she only did what's the circumstances offered and that is to protect herself, but the law of mortal wouldn't view it as just. Do you think she deserve the sentence?" She looked at me, I was stunned for a moment but I immediately got back on my feet.

"She doesn't deserve the sentence, it was self defense." I said without fully knowing the case, only what have shown to me.

"Self defense." She looked back at the hologram. "But self defense become murder if those who are in a higher up continue to held the sword incorrectly, hurting the wrong side."

A smile was drew on her face and she looked at all of us.

"What do you think? Should I held the sword correctly?" She asked indirectly and from that moment I knew what she was talking about.

"Please.." I lowered my head.

"I must," she continued walking and we follow her again, "the Olympians has done something that could be wrong, I was not there to advice the king, Hera wouldn't let me." She chuckled and I don't know what my reaction will be.

My mother as a jealous woman wouldn't really let her. Themis is the second wife of Zeus before.

"Gods are just like mortals but with divine power and lifetime." Huminto kami sa nilabasan naming isang pabilog na silid na kagaya noong una ay walang laman kung hindi ang isang ginintuang malaking upuan. Humarap sa amin ang titaness. "I know you are seeking for the gods, demi-gods, even if they have done you wrong. You have chosen am I right?" The titaness sat on the big chair.

"Yes." This time Zia answered.

"To side with the gods?" Nagkatinginan kami at bumuntong hininga.

"To side with no one but what is right." Z said in her serious tone as ever.

"And what is right?" The titaness asked.

What is right...

"You have chosen to fight against the titans, it means you are siding with the gods? You want the gods to rule," she said, and that made us stop and think of our own decision. "But the gods are just as greedy as the titans."

With her words she started crumbling our morality, making us questions our decisions.

"Because that's what's better..." Ciara said in a low voice, with her head lowered. "The gods could lead better as they also care about the mortals, but the titans..." Silence, the whole place turned silent, "we don't care about anything else but the mortals and humanity."

A smile formed in the titaness face, "we cannot let them down, once the war broke the whole world would turn in chaos, and once the titans won I could not see humanity ahead," Ciara uttered in fear like she could see exactly all of what she said, "the mortals only have us, and in our eyes the mortals are right, we are siding for our own race and we would not deny that, Themis."

The titaness laughed, "what could go bad with a child of Apollo." She looked at us with an expression I cannot explain, it seems like she was amazed by the mere sight of us.

She stood up from her seat,"come to me Lineysha." Just like what she said I walked closer to her. "Accept this." In her hand she showed me three gold coins, drachmas, she handed it to me and I accepted it. "Give it to them," I looked at her wondering who's she talking about, "to the Moirai, seek for them and you'll know."

Tumalikod siya sa akin, naglakad naman ako palayo sa kaniya ng nakayuko.

"They are my children, and they are ought to help you."

But in what way the Moirai could help us? What is their help for?

I don't understand...

"You'll know, you can doubt but you can trust as well, child."

















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