ELEVEN AND STRANDED: The Beginning

Maximus The Great

Maximus is a son of Zeus who has been hiding out deep behind enemy lines. His crew is small but effective. Draven "Sir I can see three civilians just over the hill." "Draven you stay here and help defend the fort, I will go meet the three." "Yes sir. Soldiers Formation 2, three men Topside with the archers. Stand your ground and cover Maximus. He is going outside. We may have some new recruits." "Negative, we will not have new recruits. I believe they are all daughters of the Big Three." "Oh my Gods!" There is a second flash of light. "Cover your eyes and don't look at the light!"  Maximus exits the sanctuary and approaches the group.  A dragon lands behind the three and starts fighting alongside his master.  They fight and fight until Maximus says something.  "Identify yourselves immediately or vacate the premises!"  Lydia "Are you Maximus?"  "I am and who seeks being in my presence?"  "I am Lydia and my travel companions are Skyler and Kaitlin.  The man fighting beside the dragon is MCRC."  "I knew who he was the second I saw him dismount the dragon and start fighting.  He stopped the Gods from fighting each other.  You however I have never heard of."  "I am a daughter of Zeus."  "Ah my sister, Zeus told me you would be passing through my area.  I just wasn't expecting you this soon."

Skyler "We are on an important quest.  We need to reach Kronos's layer and free a girl named Rumor Smith."  Maximus "Good old Rumor, always thinking she is better than everyone else." "You know her?" "Sort of but not really. I heard the stories and then I saw Rumor walking straight past my encampment and deeper into the woods. It was after that point I found these legionaries and built up a stronghold here. With the help of the lost legion I was able to secure a perimeter of about half-mile in all directions. Now nothing can touch us. The Giants have tried, only to wind up thousands of miles away from here thanks to my traps. Yes I built traps to either catch a giant or to throw it a long distance. Any Giant that has hit the launcher has wound up almost dead and are lucky a God or Goddess didn't sense their weakness." "You can single handedly take on an army of Giants without losing ground or soldiers."

"Well I need to get you inside before this sector comes under fire." MCRC "You said the lost legion, are you referring to the Ninth Legion of Gual?" "How do you know about the Ninth Legion?" "I happen to be one of the two Praetors of the Eighth Legion. I myself recite the Legend when my Legion needs motivation." "I am impressed to meet someone who knows the Legend. Not many people know about the Ninth, how is it you came by the Legend?" "I'll tell you when these three girls are safe inside your sanctuary." Lydia "You are concerned about us?" "Why yes, naturally I am. It's not everyday I wind up protecting three beautiful girls who just so happen to be the spawn of the Big Three. Zeus I am not hitting on them so don't you start sending nasty monsters my way." "Zeus? You mean my father?" "Yes, he has been sending monsters my way ever since I started to get close with Bailey, daughter of Poseidon." "How long ago was that?" "Two years ago I met her for the first time. After a few months I realized we had a lot in common with each other than our own fathers. Her and I were beginning to get closer and Zeus didn't like it. He knew that together we were more powerful than himself. So he split us up by sending his monsters after us. We were on a date when it happened. We got separated after a damn Hydra attacked the theatre we were in. Tore the place apart and when I killed the beast using my surroundings and stabbing it through the heart she was running away. I did not know why until about six months ago when she sent me an Iris message. She said she had only a few minutes before everything goes wrong and she is captured. She had been on the run from the Titans for six weeks and was deep in the old world. Greece is not a good place for a demigod for there is where the oldest of monsters live. The most powerful of all time, the ruby-red dragon. It spits fire at everything that moves. In its ancient name given it by the elves, La Sprastene Terone."

"What did she say exactly?" "Well she said she misses me however there was an underlying concern in her voice. The kind no one wants to hear. Next thing I know someone appeared behind her. The last I saw of her, she was being dragged into a building that almost looked like a shrine built to Apollo. Then just before the message shimmered out of existence I saw Kronus himself following the monsters who took her. Her reason for running that night in the theatre was that she was scared that if we got any closer it would weaken us both. To this day I am still searching for her and thanks to Evelyn I know my search is still worth it." "Evelyn, she helped us get to the edge of the Badlands. Then she disappeared into thin air." "I told her to take it easy with the shadow travel, what did she tell you?" "She said we have six days to rescue Rumor and that she would provide us with transportation back to camp when we have succeeded." "Six days, when did you talk to her?" "Yesterday at around 10:00 in the morning. She also said Kronos's layer was three days out from the edge of the Badlands." "When I find that son of a gun I am going to rip him to pieces. I will put Kronos back in the freaking casket and banish his remains to the deepest point of Tartarus." "You will get your chance. We will all get our chance. Now we are trying our chances with this quest because there are four of us. Even numbers on these quests are never good. Most of the time any group of demigods traveling in teams of any even number don't make it back." "We are safe for now and I've been trying my chances for over a year. When Bailey ran off I began searching for her alone. Just five days ago I rescued a demigod whose name is Lyn from a monster army. She was on her way to CHB when they came under attack. Her guide's name is Juni and he was knocked out just before I showed up. I took her to my camp, the Eighth Legion awaited my orders and we got her all set up." "But you are a rogue, a one-man army. You have achieved much more than any demigod in history." "I have killed 17,000 monsters in my 20 years on earth. I was fighting them before I was six years old. I never had training but I have killed mor emo star than almost any other demigod. But by no means am I the best demigod ever. No the earliest ones were way better than me."