The Sister of Hercules

A Forsaken Future

While Zeus was leading a huge search party all over the Earth, the carriage that was carrying Millenia and Hercules away from Phil stopped in front of a small building. Remina then dragged the sack down to a cellar and tied them both to a chair with the gilded chains so that they couldn't escape. Millenia gave them a death glare worthy of Hades.

"When we get free, Hercules is going to bring the building down so fast you won't even know it until it's too late!" She shouted at them. Ale laughed at her.

"Oh I don't think that you'll be getting free anytime soon. Not until your father agrees to giving up his godly power to someone who will use it for good." She raised her eyebrows.

"What, like someone like you?" She asked sarcastically. Ale chuckled.

"But of course. Your father, mother, uncles, cousins, and any other god up there, they think that sitting up there on their royal godly rumps is the proper way to run the world. But I know that what the world needs is a hardworking mortal man who knows what he's doing." Then he snapped his fingers and led Remina and Roden out of the room. Millenia and Hercules began to pull at the chains.

"Gods dang it! They must have taken these from Hephaestus's forge! They'll be impossible for us to break!" Millenia cried. Then she slumped against the back of the chair. Hercules kept fighting.

"C'mon Millenia! We can't give up! We have to get out and get Mom and Dad!" He told her. She gave him a look.

"Hercules, do you know what these are? These are the same chains that Hephaestus used to chain Mom to a chair and humiliate her because she threw him off of Olympus! She only got out with begging! We have no hope." She slumped again, tears threatening to fall. "Mom and Dad are going to lose Olympus, and there's nothing we can do about it. We're going to lose our home." Hercules looked at her in awe. In all the years he had know her, he had never known his sister, the unconquerable Millenia, to cry. She had been on Earth with him for fifteen years and she didn't even know what she was goddess of, and yet she was crying only now. That made him more determined than ever to help. So he pulled harder and harder, until he felt the smallest crack. It wasn't big enough to really break, but it was enough. So he adjusted his hands so that he could pull at the crack. Meanwhile, Millenia was trying to contact Zeus telepathically.

"Dad, please help!"

"Millenia, is that you?" Zeus could hear her! She grinned.

"Dad, please hurry! They want you to give up Olympus! They're using Hercules and I as bait!" She shouted telepathically. Then all of a sudden, she had a thought. What if she sent the feelings to him telepathically? The feelings of how they were thrown around in the carriage, her feeling how they turned left and right. So she gave it a shot.
"Millenia, I've got your directions. Hang in there kiddo! We're on our way!" Millenia grinned a tired grin and fell back. Then there was a loud crack and she turned to see Hercules had busted free of the chains!
"How did you do that!" She exclaimed. "Dad couldn't break through those chains!" He shrugged.
"I just kept pulling and they cracked." He told her. Then he went over and began undoing her chains. As he did, she talked to him.
"I managed to get a hold of Dad. He's coming to get us! We'll be out of this soon!" She told him. Hercules grunted, but was grinning as he ripped the chains off of her. All of a sudden, without warning, her eyes went began swirling and she began to speak in an ominous voice, not so different to Hercules' friend Cassandra, who was a seer.

"I foresee anger, and a man falling, his allies running. Lightning striking, thunder booming. A new power discovered." Then it stopped, and she held her head in her hand. "Whoa! What was that?" Hercules looked at her in awe.

"Millenia, I think you just told the future."