336 hours: the labyrinth of chaos
DESCRIPTION
Jefferson Ferraz is a normal boy of 14 years who discovers he is a Demigod specifically a son of the god Apollo that Tartaro trapped along with the other gods and the titans as a new order made by the Big Six are dominating the world without the knowledge of people. To destroy the rebels and Demigods prevent his power is threatened the Big Six have created a deadly reality show where twelve newly discovered demigods are sent to a maze designed by God Primordial Chaos. Now Jefferson and eleven demigods have to survive the dangers of the deadly maze before it self-destructs in 336 Hours. In the midst of a search for freedom they are also fighting for a prize millionaire and for their lives.TRANSCRIPT
336 HOURS THE LABYRINTH OF
CHAOS
THE LABYRINTH OF CHAOS
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336 HOURS
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FIRST BOOK
336 HORAS
THE LABYRINTH OF
CHAOS
ΛΑΒΎΡΙΝΘΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΧΆΟΥΣ
BY LEÔNIDAS PESSÔA
(KEIR FERRAZ: THE
TRANSCRIBER)
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© Copyright 2012, Leônidas Pessôa
Original Titile: 336 Horas: O Labirinto do Caos
Preparation and Layout: Leônidas Pessôa
Cover Art: Daniel Filipe
Parcial Translation and revision: Leônidas Pessôa
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No part of this publication may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form without the written permission
of the author and editor.
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Pessôa, Leônidas
336 Hours: The Labyrinth of Chaos / Leônidas Pessôa
- 2012 – First Edition.
(336 HOURS; v.1)
1. Greek Mythology – Young Adults.
The characters and situations in this book
are real only in the realm of fiction, do not
refer to people and facts, and emit no
opinion on them.
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For Jefferson Ferraz, João Lucas and Lucas
Carlos my best friends
.****************Leônidas Pessôa
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336 HOURS
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***** MESSAGE TO READERS *****
I want you to know that
everything you are about to
read was actually taken from an
audio tape I got from a friend
who got a friend and so on. I
decided to take his knowledge
all the facts that I heard
along the tape, because every
fact made me really upset to
lose all sense of reality.
Please do not spread the
contents to anyone other than
their extreme confidence,
because every part of it is
real and can provoke the ire of
some Greek Titans or another
creature. Well, after you read
this manuscript ask that leads
up to the Street and Street
134, *** store in a false
bottom in the middle of the
room of an abandoned house down
the street. The house has the
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number 445 and even I know is
not monitored. Every care
little. Well the tape has been
passed on the entire record was
transcribed with the exception
of a few noises strange sounds,
if I find another tape you will
be the first to know.
Keir Ferraz: The Transcriber
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WARNING!
JEAN FISHER - ZEUS
MAX MOSS - HERA
PETER SMITH - IRIS
JOÃO LUCAS - HERMES
NATALI KINNER - POSEIDON
JEFFERSON FERRAZ - APOLO
DANIEL ASSIS - HEFESTO
ALEX ZIMMERMAN - ATENA
EMILY BRENT - AFRODITE
BRUNO RODRIGUES - ARES
CATHERINE GRINCH - DÉMETER
ANNA MARY – DIONISIO
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********************** CONTENTS
1. Never Began ............. 11
2. Accidental Mistake ...... 36
3. Unresolved Conflicts .....59
4. Demigods Runaway ........ 80
5. The Two Faces of Natali..103
6. Weighting Act .......... 125
7. An Old Prophecy ........ 148
8. The Seventh Son ........ 166
9. Taurus or Wolf? ........ 194
10. Three Stories ......... 213
11. Behind the Masks ...... 238
12. The Winner, the Gainer and
Loser ..................... 251
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1. NEVER BEGAN
●RECORD
I
PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THAT YOU ARE
listening, because all that is real and it happened
when we were participating in the worst game ever
invented. Actually not really a game but a very
strange reality show called 336 HOURS. I do not
have much time so listen. You probably found this
tape in a wooden box on a beach all in Louisiana.
Do not turn off and listen carefully.
You should hide this tape so done listening
and hope that no monster the old dog, now you run
a great danger. I am one of only three survivors so
far a real sick game in a Greek-style labyrinth that
is close to Louisiana. My name is Jefferson Ferraz
and I am fourteen and I lived in any one town that
is New Orleans in Louisiana, I found out the hard
way that I was a demigod, half man half God. I just
discovered it thanks to this sickening and deadly
game. I think if my best friend would describe me
say that I have straight hair dark (I have a sort of
attachment to it so that whenever it step by hand to
remove foreign bodies, but I do not think I will
include it along the recording ), brown eyes and a
white skin and I'm always wearing clean clothes. In
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addition to always use my lucky charm is a collar
around my neck. A dragon "mechanical" because it
was made of metal and gears.
A few days ago I was in my school library
doing research on Greek mythology to deliver to
my history teacher. He and the type of person and a
perfectionist, if there is a wrong word was the 10th
least in their work. I was not the kind of student
who mess much, but was not shy, I was the most
common type.
I was sitting almost in last place in the third row
when the teacher came in and started talking crap
about the Greek myths and how they influence our
lives, it was boring. The hours were slow to pass
the time like my grandfather, slow!
Until a colleague sent me a messages with the
words THIS DRUG and I started laughing and
almost at the same time the teacher was taking the
phone out of my hand and reading the message.
“It this that do you think of my class Mr. Ferraz,
that she is a drug” he walked to the front of the
room “Class, Mr. Ferraz thinks that talking about
Greek myths and Olympians is boring or how he
said it sucks, I do not know if you make use of
these supstances, but I think my class is not like it
at all with them”
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.
“ I don’t know what you are talking about” I
tried to protest.
“ Ten leaves upon Greek mythology on my table
tomorrow "sir" I think the lesson of history is a
drug, this is I'm not bothering you it is clear” He
finished throwing my colleague's cell phone in a
landfill.
The guy is an idiot, but I could not do anything
but to spend the afternoon reading and writing
about those myths boring and useless. I actually
spent hours writing and when I finally finished the
library was empty with only the monitors staring
me something about clearing his throat and watch
your TV series.
That was not my day if you understand. First a
horrible job and then a bath means two baths
because of rain so I went out I got wet in a can of
water and took a few steps when a car went through
a puddle of her giving me a blast.
At that moment I almost exploded, but I
restrained myself and I put my hood up and walked
about half an hour in the rain until my house gets
after a few blocks.
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I had to go through a park to get to my house
which was only two blocks from the park was
deserted and wet. As soon as I entered I felt a
shiver down the spine, but I kept walking until I
felt someone following me. I continued to walk, but
every step hurt a lot and was worse than lying on a
bed of thorns. The park was full of old trees,
fountains old, old banks, that is, was old.
I never had so scared about that park that night.
I knew he was being followed so I started to run up
to excruciating pain to take care of me, the pain
was strong in my neck and I could not stand it and
started screaming. It hurt so much that can not even
remember that moment very well, until now I have
chills.
My vision was blurry I just saw a figure of a
man carrying me. I remember waking up in a cabin
in the woods, quickly dismissed that this site was
the park that I had never seen a hut in the middle of
a park. I was shirtless and burning with fever at
least that's what I heard. Actually I could see my
clothes on top of a bedside table and I was dressed
as a boy of Greek ancient mythology.
“Revealed a demigod, then form twelve and the
symbol and fever may be the son of the sun god
think this soup will help you” said a very strange
woman.
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I tried to raise more the woman stopped me.
“I would not if I were you, a demigod revealed
is the worst thing that can happen on a day like this,
you need to rest-this” was the last thing I remember
that night.
I woke in my bed. I was with my clothes, but
they were soaked I could not see very well and had
a very strong pain in the neck as if something was
burning him.
I could barely get out of bed to hit the ground.
I was creeping to the door and I ran with my
sister who was ready to work. She picked me up
and could not even touch me, she took me to bed
and took a thermometer. My sister Lisa was very
careful, since our parents died, she and full of care
to me and makes me a little too free.
“Are you burning with fever, put on your coat,
let the doctor” said Lisa run to her room.
“I am well, doctors will say that I need to take
an aspirin and a cold bath, if I get better after doing
both here at home I am otherwise I will” I
protested, going to the bathroom.
The drops of water seemed knives coming at
me, but soon felt better and after taking an aspirin I
really improved. A strange thing was that the water
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flowing into the drain was red. I was wiping away
when I saw something strange in the neck, perhaps
the reason of it all.
It was the mark of a sun and I did not
understand much because it appeared on my neck,
but I left it there and put a clean cloth. My sister
took my temperature again and it was normal, then
it released me so I could go to school. I went into
the bedroom to get my bag and saw a strange
scene.
There was a puddle of water right under my
bed. I did not care and started my walk towards my
school. So I went through the old square I
remembered my dream, and I could see myself
falling on the wet floor.
I was so distracted that he did not notice a
bump on my back.
There was no monster or something like that
was just my friend Naomi who was trying to scare
me. She cried because I almost got there in the
middle of the park was very busy. She started
laughing and soon after said:
“You're a coward himself”
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“You took me by surprise, it was not fair to
me” I argued.
She followed me all the way, she was studying
in my room and she had black hair and a nose
pirce. We had the same age I had a crush on her, a
fall that almost made us lovers. She was a little
rebellious which made her very interesting. All
went well until finally the teacher of history appear
and lost his job that he had spent the previous day.
I had done so when he asked for and got out of
my wallet and handed him the job that caught and
tore at my face and then threw in the trash and
looked at me as if he wanted to kill me. He called
me to the front of the room and I was very upset by
what he had just done, I had to control myself not
to punch that white skinny with gray hair and a
nose of witch.
“At least I know one thing, you could not find
my class a drug, you have researched and so it will
get only one warning, if you do it again will get
much worse, now feels!”
He turned and began to prepare your lesson.
He started explaining things about Greek and
Roman gods. I almost sleep in that class until
something caught my attention.
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I remembered of my dream and ...
They are persecuted me, things are bad here in the
maze, they found me and want to kill me. There
were two birds, or a mixture of birds and horses
they were just statues, but a few minutes they
began to haunt me. I'm not sure if my friends are
alive, but I have to survive. Since the challenge
began several creatures are chasing me, trying to
kill me and how they are trying to do now.
***
It's alright now, the creatures are Pegasus was
chasing me and they are just a piece of cake
compared to what I experienced during the last two
weeks of my life. Well, I'll have to go back to
history before my time runs out. The name of my
history teacher is Uncle B, everyone at school
called him so because he always changed the B by
P and his real name was Ben or Benjamin Parker
also influenced this name to your nickname.
He was saying something about the gods and
their symbols until one of them caught my
attention. He spoke clearly the symbol of Apollo
was a sun, a bow or a lyre. I remembered the old
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lady who was in the cabin. What she had spoken
seemed to be true.
At that moment my neck started to hurt and I
actually weighed that he would die of pain there in
front of the entire room. I would not, I was dying of
pain.
II
Cough, cough. Excuse me, I'm a serious problem in
the throat since I came to this maze frightening and
deadly, but continuing my story. I started to feel
sick and the fever returned and I was sure that even
I could feel something heavy in the air. The only
thing I could do was ask Uncle B out and he tried
to arrest me plus I got out I always get.
I walked as fast as possible to the bathroom and
when I got there I wet my face and looked at my
mark on the neck. She was brilliant and practically
screaming at me. I started to moan in pain as he
looked back to see a hideous woman behind me.
She was old and had strange eyes, she was
dressed entirely in black and had a creepy smile.
She looked at me and then I was sure to hear a cry,
but then I was deaf. The mirror broke in threw me
on the floor, everything was glass had burst. The
dark figure moved quickly to me.
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“Son of Apollo, as is his lovely golden she is
strong and will be destroyed very soon, you have
been recruited as a sacrifice, you just got his death
sentence”
I closed my eyes and screamed.
There were pieces of mirror on the floor and
there was also a woman dressed in black in the
bathroom. Everything was the same way as before
and it scared me a little. I did not know what was
real or not things got really bad.
Uncle B was still in the room explaining things
about Greek and Roman mythology and saying that
both are similar. He showed slides through the
figures of Greek gods and their Roman form and
then he showed some creatures. It was boring and I
was too preoccupied to be able to think of
something stupid Greek.
Son of Apollo
This expression came into my mind every
minute and the woman's face. Recruited as a
sacrifice, I did not understand what it meant, just
invaded my mind. I could not concentrate in class
and my neck hurt more every minute
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“Well, with that I close the part apout gods now
pelieve that everyone knows apout the origin of
Greek mythology and the holy pook that does not
exist” said Uncle B changing slide. “We will now
see the monsters peginning with the Greek harpies
that are a mixture of a woman with pird, they are
considered the sisters of Iris”
I recognized the picture on the slide. I took a
big scare that almost got sick, the woman who had
attacked me in the bathroom was a harpy a Greek
mythological creature in the world. I really thought
it was all myths invented by men to explain things,
but after my experience I have found that myth was
not the correct designation for that.
I could hardly realize it, but things would
change abruptly from now on especially after I
received a subpoena. After he saw the image of the
harpy I put the pocket of my coat, still do not know
why I did that, but I did and found a card with a
picture of a sun and a strange message.
Before the door someone will expire by someone
you will not believe!
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Below there was an address and forced me to
go at five o'clock for that location. I do not
understand that, but the brand that suddenly
appeared on my neck was burning and I could not
understand why. Perhaps this place could give me
some answers.
***
I had to invent a very good excuse for both my
sister who was leaving work to prepare dinner and
also for my school that only accepted students who
leave after half past five in the afternoon.
The card told me to go inside an abandoned
railroad from New Orleans. I followed it with fear.
It took almost an hour to reach the place and I
was right at five o'clock, there were more than four
other boys and three girls. Each had a strange mark
on the neck. I walked toward a boy who was crying
in the corner away from others.
Even with fourteen years he wept as I made
little child and other times I would beat him until
he cries in pain.
“What's going on?” I asked.
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“Let's die, and what will happen” to the kid
who spoke kept crying.
“Pleasure, my name is Jefferson Ferraz and
how well we die?”
“My father prepared me for this moment, he
said that my mother was a goddess Athena and she
literally” said, taking it from his pocket a card
similar to what I got “When a demigod full
fourteen years and he offered as a sacrifice to a
maze with scary creatures, only a few survived”
Before he could speak any one loud whistle
echoed through the station and a train arrived. The
station was almost falling apart as the train was
huge and black. A being came from the shadows
and forced us to get on the train that probably had a
certain destiny.
As we entered, I could feel a strong smell of
old and musty. There were three boys and a girl on
the train they were sitting in an old armchair and
cobwebs. Once all the train came and went and
started shaking a lot. A strange man with black suit
out of a wagon and walked up to the middle of the
wagon.
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“I bet you are confused and wonder why they
are here and because stranger things have happened
in the last hour” said the man.
Looking good man was a youth of eighteen in
a suit and a beard on his face and piercing blue
eyes. His black hair was short and did all your
features and want to die. The man gestured with his
hands for everyone to follow them to the next
wagon.
We did not know what awaited us.
The new car looked like a wagon of a luxury
train with butlers and more comfortable seats.
There was a smell of flowers in the air as it relieved
the heavy weather we face as we enter the first
wagon.
“Every two years since we were driven from
power is a 336 hours, a challenge that always ends
with the death of several demigods and I know you
have not completed fourteen years yesterday, but a
few weeks ago” he paused and took a sip of a
drink. “Each of you, and son of the twelve great
Olympian gods and this and the eleventh edition of
336 hours consisting of twelve demigods playing in
a maze full of monsters and give a prize to anyone
who can leave, before going on I'll be the patron of
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this years, my name is Gregory or you can call me
Hades.”
Some others had a shock or surprised. I could
not believe my father was the sun god Apollo and
other things. I do not understand how a god can die.
But today I know the whole truth, I'm adopted. A
whole world I just knew at that moment.
“How can you be god of the dead Hades?” He
asked a girl with glasses and a mark with a symbol
of a bunch of grapes in the neck. “Gods are myths,
they do not really exist”
“Fold your tongue-little pest, if I could afford I
would send you to the Tartarus right now, but I'm
Hades and I'm only here to avoid the death of
thousands of people like you he” spoke with a face
pretty. “The 336-Hours and as the Olympics,
spectators and will also bet some of you have
prepared a long time while others did not know his
past.”
A flurry of thoughts flooded my head and I was
not sure if it was real or a dream. I just knew that
somehow what that boy said to me was real. We
were going to die sooner or later.
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III
The intro video started with a banner of 336
hours, the name was written in a few funny letters.
The symbol of the 336 hours was a triangle with
the tip down with the name of the TIME 336 cut in
half, still had a globe and three wings and one in
particular covering the name.
Hi, if you are watching this and they are gods, sons
of the scum of Olympus Olympians. Every two
years a deadly competition occurs in the labyrinth
built by our viceroy. Twenty-four years was a battle
between the Olympians and their children and who
won were the demigods who threatened to destroy
the human race the only reason for the existence of
the gods.
After a year of victory primordial gods helped the
demigods to regain power, the human world never
felt anything related to it, they think it is a myth.
The Mount Olympus was destroyed and the gods
imprisoned, one of them are drawn to act as patron
every two years in 336 hours.
Twelve demigods shall go to the Labyrinth of
Chaos each with a clue how to get out of the maze,
they have two weeks out of the maze. The first three
that come out have won awards, but only the first
two won a prize money man.
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Ancient monsters roam the maze in search of a soul
of a hero, twelve shall go racing maybe all will die,
because the six years we have a winner of fact, six
years no survivors.
The only rule and you can not share tracks or rest
and released into the maze, to get the tracks can
each do as you wish. Each of you already have the
track and received an instruction guide, a writer, a
magic item and a special item.
That begins 336 Hours!
The film ended up leaving some perplexed by
what others laughed and called or not. We were no
longer on the train but in a room with aspects of
ancient Greek and marble walls. At the bottom
there was an old projector and had twelve seats
marked with a different symbol, mine had the
symbol of the sun and was the last chair second
row is the row from right to left.
The train had arrived at a station deep in the
Louisiana I do not know where it was. The train
station was very similar to a luxurious Greek fairly
old building. There were portraits of Olympians
and Titans, but I do not know much about them.
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On the ceiling six images of boys and girls was
what gave prominence to the site. Once the video
ended, I remembered the six figures on the ceiling.
Hades or Gregory entered the room with a teenager
about the same size that he and the two went to the
front of the room.
“My name is Thomas Laisvent and I'm the idiot
son of the God of war, I took control and now I am
one of the six gods of modernity, and come to wish
good luck to you demigods” he then began to move
through the room. “After the change, we created
336 hours to finish the new demigods, but no
offense”
I felt an urge to kill that guy, but my brand
would not let it burn like I controlled. As soon as
Thomas called the two horses with the heads of
men. Today, I feel an idiot for not knowing that
these creatures were centaurs.
They brought a box with the logo of 336 hours
and they put on top of a stone table. Then another
centaur brought several foreign guns, brought
another small boxes with the logo of the games and
the last one brought the manuals and engravers.
Hades came up to the table with a clipboard he
gestured with his hand and then appeared a black
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feather in his hand. He gestured to the centaurs to
depart and then cleared his throat.
“I will say the name of a mystical weapon or
magic item and then I'll take a symbol of the
section, the owner of the symbol out of it will feel a
burn and then you should come here to grab his gun
front, manual, toast, recorder, armor and then you
can call a relative.
“Call a family member?” Said the girl sitting in
front of me.
“You may call a family member before being
formally introduced to the other gods, titans, gods
and all our prime-wide audience” said Hades
giving the shoulders. “Shield of burnished gold that
once belonged to Ares had been with. The daughter
of Demeter.”
The girl who was in front of me stood up and
took the shield that was shaped like a knife. The
symbol of her was a strange flower I did not know
the name, but then I learned the hard way the name
of that strange flower.
"The sword blade made of mortal and heavenly
blade goes to ... The son of Ares, the bow with
arrows of gold goes to heaven and deadly ... The
daughter of Dionysus, a shield made of gold
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heavenly and deadly with his teeth and venom
fiercest dragon in the world goes to ... the son of
Apollo, "he paused and I waited.
I took a compass, a tape recorder that I'm using
to try to record the facts, a case where there was a
bonus, the manual and a full Greek armor. I could
not see the other names on the list or weapons was
directed to a room made of ancient pottery. There
were inscriptions in ancient Greek and phrases in
various languages.
I was not in a room but in a building dedicated
to Apollo the god of the sun and my father who
never Know. Inside was a very pretty girl that
attracted me a lot. She had blond hair, blue eyes
like mine and a charming smile.
“Your name must be Jefferson Ferraz son of
Apollo, my name is Emma Gority and I am his
assistant the next five hours, because after 336
hours officially begins.
“Pleasure, and the bid to speak with a relative
or something.”
“To this I will need the full address, because
you cannot leave the person you want to see is that
I came up here” she then took a blank sheet and
turned to me. “What’s your address?”
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I noted and witnessed her throw the paper in a
blue flame that turned into light. Soon after Emma
turned to me with his charming smile and asked:
-Do you need help or have any questions about
the 336 hours, anything I can help you.
I was thrilled and terrified at the same time, I
did not know what to ask, I did not know what
could help me. I just knew he was the son of
Apollo and he was stuck somewhere waiting for
help from someone.
IV
I nearly died of fright when I saw the Harpy
had found in the school bathroom. It was more
frightening than before, before I tried to do
something Emma came up to me and spoke softly
in my ear.
“She and her guardian, she cared for you while
you were revealed so treat it well or it can eat you
alive.
“I wanted to see his face for the last time the
son of Apollo, I know that the chances of survival
are slim, yet he wanted to see his face so tasty and
give me hungry” she said putting a large tongue
out. “I will not bother, tartar until my boy”
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***
Lisa came to my room crying, she had been
born by a woman with her wings being different
from the Harpies. Lisa looked into my room and
then looked at me with a Greco-Roman armor and
then gave me a hug.
“I can’t help you at school and find that you
and a demigod or who knows what”
She told me that the woman who had taken
everything said about 336 hours and told that I was
the son of Apollo. She did not believe in anything,
but still cried.
“I'll be fine, I'll try to stay alive my sister, I do
not quite know what this was all happening so fast,
said trying to hold back the tears”
It is important for me not to cry what nerds will
think if they see me crying. They will laugh and I'll
have to break their face many times and I think
that's wrong, but the guilt and theirs.
“I hope for you that god or gods or whatever to
protect you my love, my brother” Lisa said giving
me a kiss on the cheek.
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The woman who had brought the entered the
room and I recognized a picture of the last lesson of
history. Since this business brand in the neck since
I started and saw the symbol of my neck in one of
the slides I started paying more attention to the
lessons of history that have not been many. That
woman was Eris the goddess of discord.
She almost pulled my sister's room and then I
heard screams and then a silence echoed through
the room that reeked of mildew. I thought it would
all work when I felt a stab in my back.
Someone was trying to kill me.