Legacies: The Champion of Olympus

5- I'm A What?

The doors of Salvatore flung open and a boy walked through the door carrying an unconscious body.

"Landon?!" A voice called throughout the school. It was late and dark. No one should've been awake at this hour.

"Landon!" The boy called again.

Footsteps pounded from up the stairs as the boy frantically searched for a place to put the lifeless body down.

"Somebody help!" The boy called as he entered the library. Pushed all the books to the side as he laid the girl's body on the table.

"What's going on?" A voice asked from behind. "Who are you?"

The boy spun around slowly with his hands up, his body was covering the girls face from the two people who stood in the threshold of the library.

"Back away from the girl." The older man with the crossbow said jerking the crossbow to the side.

The boy hesitated before slowly moving to the side, revealing Hopes lifeless body.

Tears threatened to fall as the two men's eyes began to water.

Landon was at the girls side stroking her hair gently as he stared at her grabbing her hand. His relief quickly turned to anger as he stood up and confronted the boy.

"What did you do to her?" Landon growled.

"Hey, hey." The man said pulling Landon back. "Let's all take a seat and let him explain."

"I like that idea." The boy said terrified of what Landon was going to do to him.

They moved to the table in the corner where the man put a small glass ball on the table.

"My name is Dr. Saltzman." The man said. The ball turned blue.

"I know. Hope told me everything." The ball turned blue.

"When you tell the truth it turns blue, but when you lie it turns red. So don't lie." Landon growled obviously protective of his girlfriend.

"I wasn't planning on it." The boy said staying calm.

"Who are you?" Dr. Saltzman asked.

"My name is Achilles Walker, Achilles like the Greek hero." The boy said.

Blue.

"How did you find Hope?" Landon asked.

Achilles took a deep breath before explaining the entire story to them. From the dream, to the voice, to the bus, to the diner, to the next bus, to the cyclops.

The ball turned blue.

"What was a cyclops doing on campus?" Dr. Saltzman asked.

"He was following me. At the bus depot. He said my name like he had known me all my life." Achilles said shuddering.

"That's never good." Landon said. "I know from experience."

"Why are you homeless?" Dr. Saltzman pried.

"My dad has never been in my life and well my mom was murdered a few months ago, in my own home. With a sword, a bronze sword."

Dr. Saltzman said pondering his thoughts for few minutes.

"You're not thinking about sending him away right?" Landon asked. "Remember what happened last time you didn't think someone was special."

"You're right." Saltzman said. "Landon, there's an open room right next to yours can you show him to it?"