Olympus Has Fallen [On Hold]

Friend Or Foe

We walked slowly behind the hooded man who saved us. He was tall nearly 7ft and very muscular, his bronze sword was sheathed to his side but what scared me was his aura. It was so powerful I could almost see it, a thin cloak of shadows wrapping around him. The shadows in the room seem to reach for him but only if you really stare at them. Looking at him was like looking into the mist nothing ever truly what it seemed.

Emma and Selina seemed to be thinking the same thing as they walked hesitantly behind me and whispering quietly. I turned to Chiron who was to my left in his wheelchair form. He looked slightly paler but i don't think it was the stranger he was afraid of.

"Chiron?",I asked as the centaur managed a weak smile as he looked up at me,"yes?"

"You ok? You look a little pale"

"Oh, yes I am perfectly fine",he said still not looking fine. In front us the hooded guy just walked on humming quietly to himself as his boots crushed broken glass and pieces of wood lying on the floor." Hey, Chiron"

"Hmm?"

"Um.. who is he exactly?",I asked whispered and pointing to the man in front us who still hasn't told us his name.

Chiron smiled playfully as he looked at the tall man a few feet from hearing distance,"I'm sorry Piper but that's for him to tell you himself"

"Seriously?"I said looking back at the man from whom darkness seemed to pour,wrapping him in a cloak of evil aura. I didn't think so.

"Chiron c'mon" Emma said from Chiron's left as the centaur looked up at her pleading face. A light glint in her eyes as she stared into Chiron's."Just tell us", she demanded in a beautiful, louring tone as I knew she was using her charm speak on him. His eyes seemed void of all reason and his lips trembled as he fought himself from speaking,"he...his name--" his eyes suddenly closed as he shook his head,"your in so much trouble,young lady" he said looking back at the startled Emma with an angry face.

"How did you--" I was interrupted by a creaking sound and a voice which seemed to speak from right behind me like a ghost but when I turned around there was no one there.

"Password" the voices spoke again as the man answered in Greek.

"Ανοιξε!"

For a second nothing happened and I felt stupid standing in front a wall at the end if the hallway but then there was another creaking sound as the wall slowly slid to one side filling the hallway with a faint glow. Though the light wasn't bright i still couldn't see anything inside which made it a little creepy."A secret door"Chiron gasped wheeling a little closer toward it,"so that's how they hid from the hunters"

"Before you go in I need you to swear to keep all that you see and hear a secret never to speak of it to anyone other than each other until the day of his return" the man said as he stared at us. I couldn't see his face under the thick shadows but his tone was dead serious.

I was about to swear when he stopped me."No! Do not swear on the Styx or she will know. Instead swear on the name of our future king. Perseus"

"We swear on the name of Perseus to not reveal to anyone else anything we see or hear inside" we all said but there was no thunder to seal the oath only a calmness which seemed to spread through the room followed by a gentle wind somehow making it clear the oath was sealed.

We were let into a large room as the wall closed behind us. A table stood in the middle of the room with chairs around it where sat ten hooded figures all emitting powerful auras. The room wasn't even that brightly lit as the table and those around it were the only thing not lost to the darkness. The man took a seat at the head of the table motioning us to sit as well but Chiron stayed
where he was watching the hooded figures who all sat quietly looking at us but saying nothing.