Despite Achilles protest he was discharged from the med bay and was sent straight to training. They did not let him rest once, he was pushed beyond his limit and was forced to work harder than anyone else. "What, what happened to my brother?" he asked through his exhaustion, Augustus looked away from him for second and looked back, "Augh, shut up and continue exercising." He commanded as he slammed his hand on the wall. "You aren't here to ask questions, you're here to serve your country." He said through gritted teeth, Achilles quickly nodded his head and ran faster. Miles entered the training room and walked to Augustus, "How's the lad doing." he asked tiredly between a yawn. "A normal person would have collapsed long time ago, I don't know how he's still going, this should be impossible." Miles looked at Achilles and placed a hand on his chin.

"You see those cracks on his body he's trying to hide. Yawn. He's not human, I don't know what he is, but he isn't human." he said lazily pointing towards the boy. Achilles could feel each crack on his body chip with each movement he made, he was scared and confused yet he didn't stop because he was more scared of what the NPOC would do to him if he stopped. "You can rest now" Miles instructed Achilles. Achilles finally collapsed on the ground and huffed trying his best to breath. He was worried about many things, like his family his friends, and what happened after he did whatever it was, he did at the fountain. Achilles tried to stand up, but his legs collapsed under him. "Where's my parents" he asked Miles walked towards him and stood in front of him, "Your fathers with Peleus and your mother is under intense protection at the moment." Achilles sighed in relief before getting worried once again, "And my brother?" he asked, Miles looked at him with a stone-cold expression and replied, "He is not of importance right now, focus on your training, and when we see results, we will tell you." Miles said, this sent shivers down Achilles spine as foreign thoughts began to plague his mind and he began thinking about the worst possible outcome, but who can blame him, for all he knows he revealed something he shouldn't and is now facing the repercussion of such actions. He hated what he did, yet he knew he would have hated it more if he did nothing when he was the only one who could have done something. "P-Please, at least tell me he's safe." he stuttered out, barely able to form a proper sentence as he began to drift in and out of consciousness black creeping up the borders of his view. Miles kneeled down to get closer to Achilles and put his face inches away from him so he can hear him properly, "He's safe." he simply said and with that Achilles blacked out once again.

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Present Time:

Iris was busy working away while Zeke and Alex were out and about trying to gather information about the giant cat. "So, what you guys have to do this all the time or?" Alex asked trying to make light conversation with Zeke, "huh, oh yeah, it's become sort of a routine for us." he said, Alex nodded and continued walking with him, she thought about the giant cat and a question formed in her mind. "Hey Zeke, tell me, what's up with this whole thing, like why is there a giant monster cat thing." Zeke sighed and kicked a pebble that was in his path as he placed his hands in his pocket. "Well, something's happening." he said vaguely, Alex looked at him and squinted her eyes. "You're seriously going to be that vague with your reply, what do you think this is." she said annoyed, Zeke chuckled and scratched the back of his head.

"I don't know how to explain this because I don't truly know what's going on, but something ancient is emerging from the earth, something. Um, big?" he said trying his best to put his thoughts into words, he then shook his hand around as he tried to explain better but ultimately gave up, "This is something from Hero's time, I have zero clue what's truly going on so yeah."

Alex tilted her head to the side and walked in front of Zeke,

"His time? What do you mean?"

"Well, what I'm saying is Hero is far older than what you believe, well in a way." he said again.