The Hidden Family Secret (The Guardian Chronicles)

The Ancient War- Chapter 6

"No!!" I screamed as I feebly tried to grab my brother. Anna and I dropped together and cried that we might not see him again. My great sadness made me do something I never thought could be done for a girl of my stature.

My sadness became rage then grabbed a slab of sidewalk and tried to chuck it at the monster. It got about seven hundred feet in the air then came crashing down but before it hit Orion slowed it down so the crash wouldn't be catastrophic.

I dropped to my knees, tears coming down like Niagara Falls. Anna and Jericho were a little hesitant before approaching me. I could hear Titan squeezing the leather in his hand tighter and tighter on his hammer. What shocked everyone and, even me, was that I sprang to my feet and began running for no reason. I don't know how far I ran but I abruptly got stopped by running into an old, homeless lady.

"What where thy feet take thine self, young Bella," she said in an old witchy voice.

"Sorry," I said wiping my eyes and passing her. After about five feet, I immediately stopped myself which took my weight forward and almost made me topple over. I spun around to face the old lady but she was gone. I walked for about twenty minutes when I stopped to rest my aching feet. Suddenly the old lady shuffles around the corner and sat on the bench next to me. I slide my shoe back on and sat next to her.

"Excuse me, do you mind if I ask you some questions?" I asked the lady.

She glanced up at me real quickly, sighed deeply then just nodded

"When I ran into you back there, you said my name. I want to know how you found that out." I questioned in a stern voice.

“I overheard the other folks say your name,” she said while rubbing her back.

I nodded the realized something, “Wait, no one said my name, no one really said anything.”

She sighed deeper than last time and, while pulling her cowl down, began telling a story.

I jumped a little at her appearance because it was like what I expected, wrinkly and creepy, but I listened anyway.

[Old lady flashback]

"Atty, you ready yet?" I heard Apollo call from outside my large golden door.

"Yeah, Polly almost." I said putting the last braid in my hair. I grabbed my helmet and strung my sword around my waist and walked to my stone door over my white marble floors. I sensed him wincing from beyond the door at his nickname Polly which frustrates him.

I open the door to see his smiling face with Titan and Acheron quietly chatting behind him.

"Sorry, Athena," he said apologetically. Titan scoffs and I toss a glare his way, he laughs and just slings his hammer over his shoulder.

"Man of few words aren't you, Titan," I said with sarcasm.

"Only to you, baby sister," he said in the most angelic voice that even man, woman and gods buckle at the sound of it. He dropped his hammer at his side with a clang and picked me up to give me a hug. He was a little bigger than the other gods especially at his waist but he likes his Olympian food and he may not look like it but he was one of the best fighters of us all, even Apollo admired him. He had the most gorgeous blue eyes that change with his emotions his short, black hair made him look intimidating. He gave off a red glow that also gave a little heat but what can you expect from the son of Helios and prodigy of Hephaestus. He glared over at Acheron, who was playing with his plasma blaster (it looks like a normal sword but if you got close enough you'd see why we call it a blaster). Acheron glared back with his silvery eyes from under his flowing clean cut hair. He was the leaner and more fit of us all.