Children of the Heroes: Omega

Chapter 16: The Discovery

Tatar POV

We all stood in shock over what just happened. Rayn just got kidnapped by a creepy death man....and she knew about it the whole time. I'm not exactly sure why she agreed to do it but she kept telling me about her dreams. And boy were they creepy...

The man walked into the shadows with Rayn by his side. Just as they are about to disappear into the darkness, Jake steps in.

"You can't do this!!!!!" Jake screamed as he threw his swords at the man.

The mysterious figure shot Jake in the gut with a gust of darkness. Jake fell to the ground holding his rib cage, gasping for air. Zac and Clare immediately helped him up, but Jake kept trying even after they were gone, pounding at the walls.

Eventually Jake slumped to the ground silently. Clare walked over to him and put her hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, Jake. We'll get your sister back. We'll find her...somehow...." she said.

"How are we supposed to do that!?" asked Zac. Everyone grew silent standing there, not knowing what to do next.

Then I saw a glint in Felix's eyes. He walked over to the wall that Jake was pounding on.

"Guys! I think I know why Hephaestus was here...." he said. We all looked very confused as Felix started tracing something on the wall with his finger. "Because he was guarding something that was built here...."

"Why would someone build something under an old shop in Detroit?" I asked.

"Detroit was the biggest city for the automotive industry..." Felix responded. then The patterns that he was tracing became visible and the wall started opening from those points.

When the doors were done opening we looked to see an old abandoned bunker with machinery pieces all over the floor and work benches. We walked in.

"Oh, great. Another dead end..."complained Clare.

We all walked in different directions around the bunker looking at half finished projects and blueprints.

"Guys....I hear something.."Jake whispered. Sure enough I heard something too. Like something, or someone was digging through some old equipment.

He walked around the corner and went out of my line of vision. We heard a rumble, a Jake scream, and then...

"PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!!!" came from whatever was behind the workbench. Jake stood up quickly and bumped his head on a hanging light.

From around the corner came a big metal table with a holographic head floating above it.

"Hedge!!!" I yelled, but quickly covered my mouth and pretended to yawn.

The face on the table looked like a short chubby gym coach with horns. On the tables sides were robotic arms with claw hands, and a sign below his face read:

Buford 115

By: Hot Stuff

Our mouths hung open in amazement. Then we all started poking at it. "GO AWAY! GO TO SLEEP! LIGHTS OUT!" Buford 115 started yelling.

Felix was distracted by something in the corner of the room. He walked over to it like he was in a trance.

We all stopped what we were doing and watched Felix.

"Hey, old friend..." he said to a bronze metal dragon head sitting on a shelf.