The Fire Inside

12. Meeting

When Jimin finally finished explaining the situation no one said anything. There was way too much information to process!

"So you're telling me you have the flame of life? And that you need to stop this Hell person?" Varun asked. His own logic was currently being hijacked by these new, but huge facts.

"I told you! Hestia called it! And I bet this Hell guy is Hades!" Maria said proudly. For once she understood more than the hotshot Varun.

"Jimin, you're ok, right?" Heiwa was scared and shocked, but understood that Jimin had probably gone through more confusion than all of them combined.

Julien just hugged Jimin and looked at Isadora. He didn't completely believe the girl, but after what he had witnessed, there wasn't much he could do.

Emmalynn and Riley refused to question anything since them questioning Jimin last time they met hadn't gone well.

Isadora, on the other hand, was lounging on a cot. She was cuddled into her own warm jacket and smiled as she watched all of them get confused, finally understand, and then get confused once again.

"You guys are so adorable!" She cooed.

"How old are you? How are we cute?" Varun said, feeling slightly offended.

"This brat is 14..." Jimin stated.

"Brat? Jimin! Be nice!"

"She was in my head, Heiwa! I can call her a brat because she was! Do you have any idea how many times my head throbbed because of her!"

Heiwa chuckled as Isadora pouted on the side. Maria walked over to Isadora and scooped her up.

"She's so small! And so cute! How can you possibly not like her?"

Emmalynn watched as the younger was being rocked side to side.

"Hold up!" Jimin held out a hand, "How did we even get here?"

"As in how did we meet Riley and Emmalynn?" Julien confirmed.

Jimin nodded and Julien turned to Heiwa. Heiwa took a deep breath before starting.

"Well, let's just say it was all complete luck. Or maybe the flame led us there..."

"Stop dramatizing. I'll tell her," Julien said. He had a feeling Heiwa would make it longer than it had to be.

*Flashback*

"Jimin!" Julien screamed as she collapsed right in front of him.

He lunged forward and caught her before realizing she could've hit her head on a sharp rock. That scared him senseless. He scooped her up and held her princess style. It took Maria and Heiwa everything not to comment, but Varun wasn't as smart in this case.

"Aw! Well isn't that sweet?"

Maria smacked Varun on the back of his head.

"Yo idiot! We have more important things to do you know!"

"Sorry," Varun rolled his eyes at the tallest girl.

Julien ignored the once again bickering duo and turned to Jimin. She was slowly getting paler and he didn't know what to do. Heiwa noticed this and quickly came to his aid. She took Jimin from his arms and motioned him to turn around.

"We'll look for someplace to settle down. The ground is pretty sharp around here."

She carefully made it so Jimin was on Julien's back. Julien moves his hands to support Jimin's thighs so she wouldn't fall off. When the arguments coming from the Varun and Maria finally stopped, the two idiots noticed how serious Jimin's condition was.