Cyrus and the gods among us

Just a normal day. Until we were on our way home.

"I was just a normal teenage boy trying to fit in with the world, and all of a sudden there was was this huge, black dog like thing. It almost looked like a Great Dane, but it was bigger, and more muscular, and just more. I had no clue what I was going to do. Then all of a sudden, Lilyainna-"

"Um... Cyrus. You may want to start from the beginning."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that where you're starting, that's closer to the middle of the story... Or at least the middle of that day. Start from the beginning."

"Right. Sorry. Um... I'm not sure when the story starts. Weird stuff like that happened all the time for me. That's just the first time something happened afterwards."

"Well... How about you tell them a little bit about yourself? That would work. Tell them what happened earlier that day that lead up to that point. Stuff like that."

"Okay, that might work... Well, here goes! Hi. My name is Cyrus Joshua Smyth, and this is how my story starts... I think...

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So basically, my day started the way it usually does. I wake up, get dressed (usually in a wight T-shirt, a black hoodie, and Blue Jeans.), and be downstairs by 6:30 to spend time with family (otherwise Mom will yell at me.).

After breakfast the four of us go outside to do our daily chores on the farm (and by the four of us, I mean my brothers and I.)

So there's Caleb, he's the oldest at 19. Alexander (Alex) and Jacob, twins at 18. And yours truly! I'm the youngest at 16.

I'm also the best looking. I'm a blonde with gray eyes, not tall enough for every girl to feel short around me, and not to muscular. I actually don't have much muscle at all...

Caleb and Alex on the other hand. They have dark brown hair and dark eyes, they are really tall and if they stand next to one of the cheerleaders at school, she looks like an Oompa-Loompa, and they have more muscle then everyone on the football team.

Then there's Jacob. He has light brown hair and green eyes, he's taller than me but shorter then Caleb and Alex, he has muscle, but not to much that he looks like a WWE wrestler.

My Mom and Dad both have darker hair and Moms eyes are green, and Dads are brown. So I don't look like my family at all. My brothers like to torment me about it. Well... Except for Jacob. Jacob's different, he's a real brother. He makes fun of me, yeah, but that's what brothers do.

So anyway, back to the story. We had just gotten outside and were going to the barn to get the stuff to feed the pigs, when Caleb and Alex started talking about me like I wasn't even there.

I mean that in general is not anything new, but it's what they were saying, that was what got under my skin. There conversation went something like this...

"Dude! Did you hear what Cyrus did?" (that was Caleb by the way.).

"Ha! Yeah, he is so stupid to try something like that! I mean come-on, did he really think he could do something like that and get away with it?" Alex replied.

Jacob and I turned to look at each other. We both know what there talking about, but we had no idea how they knew about it. The only people I told what happened that night was Jacob and Mom. The only other person that I could think knows what happened that night, and was dumb enough to tell Caleb and Alex, was Jeffrey Sikes.

Jeffrey is one of those kids that aren't really kids. You know. The ones who are held back in school, so they end up still in high school and there 34. Okay, so Jeffrey's not 34, his only 22. But you get the picture.

Anyway... He doesn't like me much. I'm only old enough to be a fish (freshman) but I'm 2 grades ahead so I'm a junior, and the only reason I'm not a senior is because I wouldn't be able to be in the same classes as Jacob. (can you tell he's my favorite brother? If not, his my favorite brother.) Jeffrey is a junior but he's old enough to be a junior in college.

So anyway what happened that night was this.

I tutor some of the people at my school. It's not an all the time thing, just when someone needs help and have tried other tutors and it didn't work out.

So that night it just happened to be Jeffrey's girlfriend, Nicole. Well... Ex-girlfriend. He never told her how old he was, so when she found out... She was NOT happy! (by the way, she's the same age I am, and also two grades ahead. I know, how can someone be two grades ahead and need a tutor? Just give me a second, I'm getting there.)

So... She has jet black hair (why do people call it "jet black"? Jet means black! So basically there saying "black black"! Sorry, I got distracted. Back to the story.) and lightning bolt blue eyes. She's taller than me, but not by much. She is actually really smart, but she needs help in history class, and I'm the history king! So she asked me to help her out.

Anyway, we just got done and I was walking her home, then all of a sudden... There's Jeffrey!!!

He said, "Hey babe. What ya doin'?"

"No wonder his still in high school..." she mumbled to me. "How English is terrible!" then she looked at him and said, "I'm not your babe! And it's not any of you're business! Come on Cyrus. Let's get out of here before his "Intelligence" rubs off on us."

He was so shocked that he doesn't say anything as we walk away.

We were about three blocks away from where we ran in to Jeffrey, when all of a sudden we hear the high pitched scream of a little girl. We look at each other, then start running towards the scream.

I know what you're thinking: Why, WHy, WHY, would you run towards the scream?!?! What were you thinking?!?! No wonder you're brothers think your an idiot!

You'll see why in a second.

So we get to where we heard the screaming come from and all we see is a little girl. Nicole and I look at each other, and I know we were thinking the exact same thing: We have to talk to her.

We walk over to her and I kneel down in front of her with Nicole standing right behind me, and start talking to her.

"Hey, are you okay? We heard you scream. Do you need any help?"

"I-i'm fine. Who-who are you? You look familiar."

Okay weird thing to say...

"I'm Cyrus, and this is my friend, Nicole. Where are your parents?"

"I-i don't know. One second I was walking with them, and the next... They were gone. Or I was..."