Chapter 16 - Flowers

33 6 0
                                    

APOLLO POV.
Athena commands, "Raise a Fire sheild."
I raise a basic Fire sheild.
She tests it with a few arrows, and nods.
Then, she cries, "Freeze the toxins before they Pandora!"
I freeze a bucket of water being dumped over Pandora.
Athena growls, "Quicker!"
I freeze another bucket. She glares, then continues  on bossing me around.
Then, not thinking of my true abilities, cries menacingly, "Make a  Multi-Sphere."
My head concots a spell to try to make this thing.
I utter quietly, "Ak quack."
I groan at how dumb it sounds out loud.
I notice a tri coloured ball foming in front of me.
Athena seems unimpressed, and has a look of evil and hate on her face.
She zaps it with a black light, and it turns into a beast of Fire, Ice, and Dark.
Pandora tries to stand, but something is holding her hostige.
I stare at the monster, and draw my sword. The gentle shing calms me, gets me ready.
The beast quickly realizes who made it. I slash and crash down on it, enough to turn it into a flower using magic.
I sheild it, so it'll sit there blooming forever. I always do it when Athena turns an orb into a monster, which pleases Feona because she now has a flower garden of sheilded plants.
Pandora stands up, lifts me up, and takes flight.
She decides to visit Feona's flower garden, and add to it. She takes me for a walk, recalling every battle.
Then, the special flowers sit in the farthest corner, secluded from sight. I find the secret path to them, and Pandora follows.
I find the flowers, and sit down.
Pandora retells the story of the flowers....

It was my first class with Athena. She was grieving, and for some reason blames me.  She launches savage attacks on me, using quad element orbs to try and eliminate me. I begin to use Darkness to shift them to sheilded flowers before they hit me. They plant themselves, and seem content. Then, as I shoot a few down, two light element orbs hit me. Blood and a black substance leak from the punctures.
I place my finger in the black substance, but my finger absorbs it instantly. My powers?
Feona sees me laying on the ground, Pandora laying wrapped around me.
She cries, "Stop!"
Then, Athena throws a pair of orbs at us. I stop them with fading powers. They turn to white tulips, with a big blood red mark on thier gentle white petals. Their sheilds are strong, and seem to almost shimmer at times.

When she finishes, I hug her. Her suprise echoes into a quiet warble.
She whispers, "I know why Athena blames us."
I ask, "Why?"
She whispers like the evening winds, "We're what the vigilantes, the monsters, the other kingdoms, and angery villigers are after."
I cry in suprise, and ask, "Why?"
She hugs me with her forepaws and wings.
She whispers, "Because of a spell cast by a drunken mage. It was cast on you and I Apollo. It affects us both, so do not feel discouraged by it."
I ask, "What spell? Which mage?"

 Unexpected HeroesWhere stories live. Discover now