The Great Eight (Temporary Hiatus)

Chaos 101

"Here we are! New Olympia" Hermes's exuberant voice rang into the sky as he led the flock of griffins into a smooth dive. Creating a quick and easy landing on the pitch of an impressive schoolyard, conveniently empty of people who would become witness to this kidnapping, I mean rescue. "you can let go now, Herry. The ride is over, off you go" The God removed his goggles with a paternalistic coo to address his trio of teens who were possibly sore and woozy. Which was proven in the case of the farm lad who slipped off his griffin's neck with a grunt. While Jay and the huntress managed a far more graceful dismount.

"Go where?" Jay asked quickly, observing his surroundings and the individuals he was with. Though his instincts were now somewhat biased as he spent so long getting acclimated to the mythological beings in his presence, so he couldn't really rely on his wits at the moment to keep him true. " Where are we?" The trio walked together, sensing companionship in light of their common ground, as they all gazed at the sturdy looking building before them and at each other.

Jay, the most forward of the group with an acute sense of leadership and direction, stood with his hands on his hips. Giving his two newest friends a feeling of stability and fortitude, unknown to him though. Not like he was dressed as some great leader, with his yellow and purple striped sweater and his common pants and brown shoes. The only feature most notable about the ensemble was the person wearing it. With a prominent Grecian nose, kind and light brown eyes, and his fluffy ( and two-toned ) sandy brown hair.

"You guys want to tell me what's goin' on?" The Herculean boy asked the two others, still trying to stretch and get his backside back to how it was before the griffin ride. Allowing the two others to take in his gargantuan stature that rose at least a foot taller than Jay. With broadened shoulders, built arms and legs, and a slim torso the young boy seemed much more aggressively built for someone who lived on a farm. However strong farmers are due to their rigorous daily activities, this boy seemed way to stocky to just excuse his physique on farm labor. But with his gentle tone, and calm countenance, giant he may be but a gentle and caring one. How could one refute that argument against his puppy dog face with his big and dark brown eyes? As well as his equally dark, short, and wavy hair paired handsomely with a pair of sideburns to frame his chiseled jawline. Complimenting well with his tanned skin wearing a simple grass green shirt and a stereotypical pair of guy's shorts in grey.

"Don't ask me, ask Hermes! He the one who-" Jay cut himself off after twisting his body to gesture to the God that was supposed to be behind them with his griffins. But alas, the energetic God and his pet birdies were no where in sight. "Where'd he go?!" Jay's question sounded like an echo on the abandoned pitch.

"I don't know, a toga party?" The huntress shrugged her shoulders. Her blazing red hair in a perpetual state of being windblown and backwards. As if her hair knew she was born to run and simply kept itself in that shape, though it was also cut short to help with not getting in her own pair of dark brown eyes. But all could see her toned, and lithe torso under her light blue shirt with a generic square decal on the center of its front and some darker blue edgings. Matched with a pair of guy's shorts in green with a belt to keep them up on her slim waist. But to add to her, already evident, tom-boy style were the pair of white socks with black stripes at the top inching their way to her upper calves and her functional tennis shoes. The most accessorizing this girl had beside her belt was the black and white striped, cloth bracelet/band around her right wrist.

"Unbelievable..." Herry trailed off, scratching his head at their predicament as he too gazed around. But among them, Jay was the first to notice an older male standing at the doors to the building with an impatient look to his wrinkled features. Though, it would be hard to argue against anyone being that grumpy who were stuck at a school cleaning with that kind of old fashioned, janitorial outfit.

"Hey! It's like that janitor is waiting for us. Maybe he can help us?" The teen observed with an air of suggestion as to what to do next to help themselves. Though, the only girl in the group sat her hands on her hips too and discouraged the idea.

"I don't think so Jay." She remarked with a cock of her head.

"Let's just see if he'll let us use the phone at least." Determined, Jay lead the group into the building. Starting as a brisk pace then a run, seeing as the janitor fled the scene as soon as they got near enough to catch the door. As soon as they trio stepped inside the school, they saw the janitor at a bend in the hallway a bit down the way as if coaxing them to follow. His silhouette blurring as he walked out of sight.

"Excuse me, sir?!" Jay called with a lifted finger, leading the chase once again. Only to turn on an another empty hallway, where once again the janitor was at the opposing end of the hall waiting on them to follow.

"He sure is quick." Herry remarked. The female making an affirmation beside him as their temporary leader worked fast to catch the man's attention, or at least tried to.

"Hey could you help us? We need-" And yet again the man escaped before their eyes. "Man! How rude is that?" Jay remarked as they again, took up the race to get to the man. Skidding around yet another corner, only to be met with a completely empty corridor. The only thing that tipped the kids off being the click of a door that was shut some ways down the hall.

They walked to the door, what they presumed to be the janitor's closet. " Ugh, it's locked!"Jay grabbed the knob and made an attempt to twist it open but it didn't budge.

"Let's just go!" The girl, still adamant about the man not helping their situation, directed her speech to the other male who wasn't as determined as Jay.

"Hello!" Jay called while looking into the dark room through the hatched glass window on the door, still attempting to wriggle the knob. Halting his efforts and then seeing a strange symbol was cut into what should have been a common keyhole, and crouching down to peer at it closely. "That's weird" he spoke to himself, and possibly to the others, as he dragged out a golden pendant from under his shirt that he assumed matched the strange locking mechanism.

"You got one of those too? I found this one the other day." Herry remarked as he grasped at an identical pendant from one of his pockets. It is a wonder, from the day he had, that it stayed in his pocket.

"Me too!" The red head joined in while revealing her own copy of the necklace. All of them circular and flat in shape with a small compass-esque, clock-hand on the surface, with their first initial carved in the backs.

Jay, not speaking a word, merely took his pendant and inserted it into the lock. Watching as it lit up mysteriously with a billowing shine and the clock-hand part moving in a circle until it reached due north which unlocked the door.

"Wow!" The crouched boy exclaimed. "Hello!" He called again into the dark, janitorial space.

"Where'd that old man go?" Herry asked as they entered the space with a distinctive absence of the man from before. Which seemed impossible since the room had no other exit, not even any window to get out from.

"Hey mister, you in here? Come out, come out, wherever you are!" The girl sung into the room, a bit of petulance left in her tone at the seemingly useless task of finding the man. But as her hand lifted to tug on the stringed light on the ceiling, the group was met with yet another strange occurrence.

The door abruptly slammed shut behind them, and a whirling mass of blue spun into existence before them reaching all corners of the room in which it split in half as if it was a sparkling curtain.

Jay, once again taking the lead, stepped forward to touch the phenomena. Though he just as quickly retrieved his hand back to make sure it was whole and to also inspect any residue it might have left on his palm. But there was none.

"Welcome!" A slim silhouette opened her arms from the other side of the blue portal. Accompanied by a new and maternal voice that they had not heard as of yet. Though, with how today was going, being welcomed into a space was the least wild thing that has happened. Even if the front door was a spinning blue portal. " I am glad you found your way. Please come in." She, she seemed like a she, waved towards herself and beckoned them into the unknown.