And Then There Were Four

---17 Seconds till Death---

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This chapter is written a little bit differently. It's written in what's known as the 3rd person PoV. I may try it every now and then, but, for the most part, I will continue with the current style

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"I AM SATURN" At this Kendall stopped and looked back.

Rascal no longer looked like himself, but as if he had gained eons of power and wisdom. Kronos had fallen years ago, but here was his Roman form, ready to destroy the world.

Kendall ran that much faster. She wondered if Rascal was even alive through that whole process.

As a matter of fact, Rascal still struggled. but now he was losing. The Titan was slowly draining his life force.

But, on the bright side, Kendall had been claimed. By Apollo of all gods. At least it was better than getting the Aphrodite makeover.

Around lunchtime, she stopped at a nearby Subway. She couldn't keep running all the way to Alabama. That would kill her (again). She needed a faster way to get there.

When she exited the restaurant, she saw a bow with one arrow lying against a pine tree. As soon as she picked up the bow she found herself in a wooded area.

It would have been quite helpful if it had taken her all the way to Water World. Unfortunately she had only traveled 80 miles southwest to a national park in Virginia.

Something moved in the trees.

"Who's there?" Kendall called

Another movement.

""Hello?" she nocked an arrow. Moments later, Kendall located a small strand of blond hair in the trees. She pointed her bow in that direction. "I am not afraid to shoot."

Kendall then felt an arm grab her from behind and a dagger press to the front of her throat.

"And I'm not afraid to kill." A voice behind her whispered in her ear.

"Who are you?"

"I am Jay," the other girl in front of Kendall announced stepping from behind the tree. She was dressed in combat armor and held a golden sword with a leather blue handle. Kendall couldn't tell if the sword had blood on it, or if Jay had used it to spread ketchup on her hamburger. The latter didn't seem likely.

"And I'm Hailey." the girl behind her said without losing her grip. From what Kendall could see, Hailey appeared like a nice girl. Almost like one who would seem shy. Then again, that girl was holding a dagger to Kendall's throat and was "not afraid to kill".

"Are you demigods?" Kendall asked.

"You could say that. We are Greek, but we ally with neither Greek nor Roman. Our father has told us that an ally would be coming, but the past three demigods who showed up didn't make it." Jay answered. "One had this nice gold sword though."

"How did you know that they weren't the one your father promised?"

"Well, we allied with them, but we ended up killing most of them." Hailey replied. "One took our stuff, so we killed him and took this dagger along with some of his supplies. Another got on Jay's nerves, and now she has a beautiful gold sword. And the last one hopped on a plane to Florida without telling us. I wanted to kill her, but we don't like leaving these woods."

"Wow. Well, I certainly won't do any of those things." Just then a note appeared in a nearby puddle of water.

"Ah," Jay commented, "that's how our father talks to us."

Jay picked up the note while Hailey still held the dagger to Kendall's neck. But, after Jay showed Hailey the note, she released Kendall.

"Our father has approved you. But, he said you were a, um" she looked back at the note, "demivergent. What's that?"

However, just before Kendall found out that she was demivergent, something happened back by the coffee shop in D.C.

Rascal was losing, he didn't have much time. 17 seconds now, before he died.

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He struggled against his very conscious.

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He was falling from the mortal world.

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Time slipped away along with Rascal's being.

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He prayed to his father that he would be able to tell Kendall one last thing from the underworld once he died.

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Then he had a thought.

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A thought that might save his life.

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Not much time.

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It wasn't going to work. The titan would fully rise and Rascal would die.

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He had almost pulled it off but Rascal was dead.

The split one

The Jedi

The Timelord

The Hydra agent

One of the Four.

Tori would kill him again if she could because his death probably interfered with achieving victory.

"But if I'm dead," he thought, "how can I open my eyes?" He opened them, and was confused.

Rascal could open his eyes because he wasn't dead. His plan had worked. He had channeled his inner Greek and completely cast out the Roman titan, along with his Roman essence.

He was alive. Saturn slept just a little bit longer Now, he was just a child of Ares, there was no more Mars in him. Though he was starting to doubt his godly parentage. And Tori would not kill him because, even though he didn't know it yet, she was one of the Four as well.

But he did know something. Something that he felt. He had to find Kendall before the Nemean Lion got to her first.

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