Just As Strong

Chapter 22: The 'Lake of the Gods'

For you, Corey. And King, a little bit.
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I woke up from that dream. From how the sky looked, it was,maybe, five or four in the morning. Normally, I would go back to sleep, but I couldn't. I really wish I had that watch.

With nothing to do, I looked around our area. Nothing interesting. I couldn't really make a fire, either. Unless I wanted to wait forever to dry out some weeds. Well, the car still works.

Inside the car, I listened to the radio for hours. We're in the home stretch here, but how long until we get there?

Selina woke up a while ago. We were back on the road.

We just made it to Nebraska in the dead of night. Not exactly, but close enough. The main problem was, where do we sleep? We don't have enough money to go to a hotel or motel. And, there's not a lot of places we can camp. But, Selina felt something.

"I swear, I'm feeling something!" she told me. "But I don't!" I said. Which was true, I didn't. "I feel it! It's just up ahead, I swear!" she told me again. She ran ahead of me after she said that. I followed her.
She found a big lake. "Hey, Yn, do you see that?" Selina asked. She pointed in to the lake where there was a glowing white spot. Much like my dreams.
"I'll jump in you stay up here," I said. "Alright," she replied.

I jumped in the water in the murky water. Luckily, it wasn't some magic water, or something. If it was, I wouldn't be able to breathe. I was at the bottom of the lake, before I saw it. The strange white figure chained to a rock.

I waved my hand in front of the person's face. She didn't respond. 'Okay, maybe let's be a little more....forward.'
After mustering up some courage, I shook the woman. Still no answer. Well, I'll just get her to the surface for now.

I tried with all my might to pull out the chains that kept her there. Nothing. I tried again. Nothing. I tried one last time. Except, this time, I tried with 3,000,000,000% of my power. It didn't bulge. Man, what is keeping this here!
I was joking when I said I would use 3,000,000,000% of my own power, but dammit! I tried really hard!

Apon further examination, I found that the chains were held to the ground. I dug out some dirt in the area to see what held it down there. The answer? Swords. I dug, maybe, four or five feet into the ground. When I tried to pull out the sword, my chest started to burn. It felt white hot. Really hot actually.......
Wait, am I on fire? I looked at my chest. Sure enough, my right pectoral was on fire. It wasn't eating away at my clothes though. And, it only hurt when I touched the swords. Why though?

After some white hot pleasure, I managed to get the swords out of the ground. They were large, identically curved blades. It looked like something out of a video game. As soon as I put both the swords down, they went shooting to the mysterious ash-white person. I quickly swam over to the person.

The person in question had their eyes wide open with golden light coming out. The light dimmed down and they looked right at me. A snarl curled at her lips. She then screamed in a fit of rage.

How is she so damn fast? When she screamed, I tried to swim to the surface. But, was the surface always this deep? It took a while to get down her, but I've been swimming as hard as I possibly can! And she's been on my toes the entire time! How mad can one woman be!? Especially since she just woke up! And, why haven't she ran out of breath!? She's been screaming the while time! How man do you have to be to be able to breathe water? Or is she a daughter of Poseidon? Nah, no way. She would've been talking the whole time.

Man, I've been swimming for so long, I'm tired! God damn she's angry. Come on! Just give up! Wait! Holy shit! I finally see light! Hot damn! Finally. Just a little further!

What the hell? Where am I? Did I swim for so long, I went to the future? No, the future shouldn't have Greek......statues. I'm on Olympus, aren't I?
"COME FIGHT ME, COWARD!" I heard a female say. "Wai-!" I tried to get out. Instead of stopping, she tackled me. Instantly, the air was knocked straight out of me. She raised her fist. Are those metal boxing gloves? Well, they didn't exactly look like boxing gloves. But they  were pretty close. She brought her hand down and struck me. That felt bad. That was the simplest way to put it. She did that over and over again. It stopped when I kicked her off of me. Man, I wish I had water right about now! Now that I think about it, didn't I have a flask that could hold anything? I'm an idiot.

When I kicked her off, she screamed in a fit of rage. Calm down! Some chains came out of her arms, and with it, came swords. She threw out a strike and I dodged. I immediately jumped in the water. Sometimes I forget I have wate powers. Just like Percie, I forget. Just not as much.

I willed the water to bring me out of the water, when I was done healing. Now much more confident, I started attacking. With my sword, I hit her over the head with my hilt. I was pretty sure that this was the person that I was supposed to find anyway. My attack did nothing but aggravate her. I used my powers to bring me in the air. "Why are you so mad?!" I asked. She started to grit her teeth. "Because YOU didn't come for me in over 2000 years!" she said. "What do you mean me?! I asked again. "No more questions!" she said. And, in a fit of rage, lunged at me. She somehow for me. I went hurling a thousand miles per hours somewhere. But, surely, this will hurt.

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There we go! We finally meet our third main character! Oh yeah, we have, about, two or three more chapters to go until part two is done. So be ready! And thanks for 5.4k views!

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