We have entered into another huge room with more doors. There were little spaces between each room. This time there was nowhere as many doors as they were before, Isis starts to walk to the door label bipedal. “Isis what does bipedal means?” I ask while she was hoping to the door. “It means you have two legs.” Isis answers. She hops through the door and the world change. There were mats all over the floors and hundreds of different manner of beings. All of these beings have 2 legs yet they are looking so different. Some of them have two arms and yet others have more. I also see being with one arm. There were beings with scales, feathers, jelly-like substance and others.
I really want to poke some of them. I want to feel the skin of these ridiculous beings. Hey, look another robot looking just walking past me. It seems so weird that these beings all trying to learn dancing. There were men, women, and somethings that are in between. Isis hop past people. As we were going along it starts to hit me on how big this place actually is. I was looking to start ahead and yet I see different beings doing different things like stretching, running, and other things but there doesn’t seem like a limit on how far the room goes.
As I was looking around I notice something else. There were teachers talking to everyone getting to one page. We skip past lots of people. “these people are in the way and jumping over all of them is annoying.” Isis starts running people over and kicking people out of her way. People start to give her a lane to walk through and yet she still hit people in the face with her paw. Some of them got tired of seeing her hit people out of her way. They attack in different directions and all at the same time. She lets them hit her. They all pull their hands back from her. The hands were bloody, isis turns her fur into spikes.
One of the teachers had enough and walk up to isis. “I demand why you are attacking people this is a dance floor. Do you want to be punished by the ship?” the being asks. Isis looks at it. This being had two legs was the color green but its head attached to its body. It didn’t have a neck and had 3 arms one in the middle of its chest. It was smaller than the two arms on its side. I have no idea if it is a man or women. It face look soft like a woman but hits upper body wasn’t cover and he had pecks like a guy. Isis swings her arm and it went flying. “I am the damn ship you people should be happy I am interacting with you at all. Either get out of my way or get the punch!” Isis yells for everyone to hear.
The room got quiet and everyone runs to the side leaving a road for isis to run through. Isis runs through the area. Isis still must have a grudge against these people. It took a while for us to get to our destination. Isis walks up to a female that was cowering on the wall. “Wendelin this is Hercules girlfriend most times in this place. She is the one who is the best at teaching his style but she is a coward. Shouting around her is a no-no. I have no idea why someone like Hercules likes her but he does. You cannot pronounce her real name, so call her. So people have given her the nickname Rex. People are cruel right Rex?” Isis said to the lady, the lady got up from the ground. She had two arms and two legs. She was a blonde with black eyes. There wasn’t a little circle in the middle. Her whole eye was black. She was around 5’10, she was a tall and skinny woman. She was wearing a tank top with sweats for pants. She had a 6 pack on her abs. Her skin was silver. It looks metallic and yet there were scares up and down her arms and abs.
She walks up slowly to Isis and I didn’t hear any metal scraping together. “I heard you are the great ship Isis please do not hurt me,” Rex says as she falls to the ground and starts bowing to Isis. Isis swings her huge paw and smacks Rex across the room. “Why did you do that? That poor lady was bowing to you, Isis.” I scream as I watch Rex bounce across the room. I can see her break limbs as she was rowing on the ground. “I just felt like it. Also, she isn’t really nice to the other A.I.s on this ship and that was her punishment. Don’t worry she will heal in a second.” Isis said as she starts licking her paws. I watch as Rex stops rowing and is cover in gold blood coming out of her arms and legs.
She stood up and the blood was going back inside her body. Her wounds are healing right before my eyes. All of her bones are moving back into place. She comes back to Isis “I am the sorry oh great ship. What did I do to encounter your wrath?” She asks as she went back to bowing in front of Isis.
Isis ignores her and she picks me up with her paw from her back and put me down in front of Rex. “She is a decedent of the shadow. She is also Hercules disciple. Train her in the way of Hercules dance.” Isis tells Rex. Rex looks up from bowing and look me up and down. She looks toward Isis and says, “do you want me to break her? She is just skin and bones; she wouldn’t be able to handle the training. I can recommend another teacher that would be more on her level. Not to be a mean little girl, but I am the most advanced class and there aren’t many people that can handle my training.” I look at her. I want to explode. No one can tell me what to do.
I might not really care for dancing and might want to give it a chance, but now. I will show this lady who I am. “I will take the class. I am me and I am the only one who gets to decide my fate no one else does. So tell me what to do so I can get started training.” Rex looks at Isis and Isis nods her head in approval. Rex walks up to me and starts touching me. “You need a lot of work what is your name again?” Rex asks as she was touching my arms and legs. “My name is Wendelin.” “I have some stretching exercises that I need for you to do.”
She made me do some strange things with my arms and legs and each time she would shake her head in disappointment. Rex is shaking her head and says, “You are stiff as a board we are going to work a lot to get you some kind of flexibility. This is your last warning people train for years before coming to me. Yet, you want to dive into the deep end right now?” Rex asks I nod my head, and Rex just sighs.
“Isis the great ship Can you please transport us to a track that is a mile long and isn’t be used by anyone,” Rex asks Isis and isis nods and we were transported to a track. It was a huge track. Rex snaps her finger, “I forgot to ask are you ok with running in circles or do you want to run in a straight line with a change of scenery?” Rex ask me, I reply, “It doesn’t matter to me at all.” Rex nods, well then run 20 laps around this field as a warm-up.” I look at the track it was so long I don’t think I will be able to do it but it doesn’t matter. I got on the track and starts running.
This is the first time in my life that I wasn’t running from an enemy but because of training. I feel so relax, running while listening to the air blow past you. It took no time at all for me to finish the first lap this training does seem so hard. I just kept running and running. Around the 6th lap, I start to breathe heavily, my legs got heavier and heavier. It got harder and harder to run but I couldn’t give up and I wouldn’t give up. By the 10 laps, my body was soaked in water and I got very hard to breathe. I am walking now. I am only halfway done and it yet it feels my body was dying but it doesn’t matter. I must not give up and keep moving.
By the 13th lap, I was crawling on the ground. I must complete my task. I think I could hear voices in the background. It doesn’t matter what anyone is saying. I was given a task and I must complete it. As I cross the 14th lap I black out. I woke up in a bed next to isis and Rex. There was a plate of food in the room for me to eat. I got up and start eating the food. Rex wakes up and looks at me. “You are a weird little girl there was no need for you to push yourself that hard. I just really wanted you to complete 8 laps anything more than that was a bonus. Crawling on the ground was no needed. I can believe you are a decadent of the shadow. No, I know you are descendent of the shadow. No one else I know would try to do the impossible like that. They would complain and then try to push themselves somewhat. You, on the other hand, you died in that field. Or was so close to death that it doesn’t matter. You are by definition is crazy.”
I look down at my food. Am I weird? I do not think so I was just trying to prove to her that I am not a weakling and not someone that can keep her word. “Do not worry about anything Wendelin, your heart is in the right place and be yourself. You are going to be the one that is going to save your planet no one else. The shadow picks the Jeonglyeong, Anaisa and I picks you. Your brother is just an extra you are the one that will change your world. You are going to make a name that is going to be kept in the history books forever.” Isis says.
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I am the one that is supposed to beat a monster, well from the sounds of it; I might be a monster as well. That does make me happy and the pain from running was relaxing. I can get used to this pain thing. I hurry and ate my meal and looks at rex. “What is next?” Rex looks at me with a confused look. She sighs and says, “Rest Rome wasn’t built in a day we will start again tomorrow. We are going to working on your foundation. Running and stretching will be our main focus until you are ready to start dancing. You need your rest your body needs to heal up.” “I nod my head and go back into the bed to sleep. For the next 6 days, all I did was run and stretch. On the 6 days, Isis looks at me and says “Break time. I am fighting a god today so no training little girl.” We are transported to the stadium.
A huge 6-foot spider was standing next to the shadow and Hercules. Isis joins them. The shadow summons a microphone from the ground of the stadium. I look around and see my little brother with Emily and goldfish. “So, how was your week Wilfred?” I ask, waiting for the shadow to talk. He looks at me with an excited expression. “Sister you should have come with us. We rode on so many different coasters. We also played a lot of games. You should have seen the arcade. There were so many games that you could play in so many ways. There was 3d games, 2d games, fighting games that follows your motion. I could have spent the rest of my life there. What did you do after we left to ride the roller coasters?” He asks as he was jumping up and down. “I ran a lot, ate, and stretch,” I said. He looks at me puts his head down and walks to Emily. Goldfish looks at me and nods. "You have done well."
“Hello, people today we are going to watch Isis vs a God. This rabbit next to me is the ship Isis. She is here taking care of my decedents so everyone gives a warm welcome or ELSE!” The shadow says looking at the audience with evil eyes. The crowd erupts and all you can hear is a deafening applause. The shadow nods his head. “Hercules comes over here I have a question for you. Since this is your fight what god should we fight and should it be a place where we know or one that doesn’t know us?” The shadow throws the mic to Hercules and Hercules shots. “One that doesn’t know us, and I want Isis to beat up Ares the God of War.” The crowd erupts once again, they start yelling “Fight, Fight, Fight.”
The shadow nods his head. Hercules gives the mic back to him. “Isis find us a universe where there are Greek gods and Ares is one of them. They also shouldn’t know who we are. It is time for a butt whupping that they never saw before.” A screen slowly comes down from the top. It shows only darkness and the ship. Looking at the group in the middle, the shadow yells “Isis take us to a place where we can fight Ares the God of War.” Isis stands on her two legs and with her front two paws, she claps her hands the screen change. We are in a room that is cover in gold with clouds roaming around. There is no ceiling but pillars that circle us. In a side of the room were 12 other people each one sitting in a giant golden chair glaring at us.
The 12 people were not sitting at the same level. There seem some can of order in the chairs. There were some higher than others. I know about the Greek gods but not much. Each god looks like an old wise person. A guy holding a lightning bolt slams the blot into the ground. “Who do you think you are coming to mount Olympus without the gods’ permission?” The old guy said while pointing the lightning bolt at us. The shadow looks at Hercules and says, “Since it is your fight you get to be the ambassador for this fight.” Hercules shots “Yes! I will make you proud shadow.” The shadow smiles and snaps his fingers.
Hercules appears on the screen next to the rabbit. He yells, “I am the mighty Hercules and I damn a duel with Ares the God of War. This ship vs the God of war,” As he points to the ship that was licking herself. The gods start roaring with laughter. The guy with the lightning bolt stands up and speaks to Hercules “I am the mighty Zeus and you dare to claim to be my son? My son is a beautiful white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. You look more like the barbarians from the south that doesn’t believe in us. Get lost before I smite you and that rabbit.” Hercules starts laughing. Zeus doesn’t look please he points at one of the other gods, I think and then points back to Hercules.
The god got out from his seat. He was wearing a hat with wings on it with wings shoes. As he is standing up he is glowing brighter and brighter. It was becoming so bright that I had to put my hand in front of my face. I hear snapping and the screen starts to dim and I could see again. The god runs at Hercules and his hand starts to glow white. He throws a punch at Hercules in which Hercules easily dodges and grabs his hand. Hercules punches the dude in the face as the god was falling after receiving the punch Hercules pulls his hand. He punches him again and this time into the ground leaving a crator. The god face was all twisted and the rest of the gods' faces look on in horror beside a few. Hercules then picks up the god and throws him.
“Do not send Apollo to fight me, please. At least send a fighter Zeus.” He says to Zeus. Zeus was changing colors. He was turning red to blue to purpler to finally black. He yells, “You filthy mortal I should smite you down where you stand.” Zuese stands up and for some reason, a hand is on his shoulder. It was the shadows. Everyone in the rooms looks at the shadow in horror. Zuese sat back down. The shadows walk to Hercules and say, “ You didn’t have to throw that poor god into space Herc. But it was funny so I am here to move things along do you people mind?”
Everyone in the room shakes their head no, that includes Zeus and Hercules. The shadow turns toward a man caring a spear and says, “Ares stand up it is time for a fight do not worry it isn’t one to the death this time. You are going to be fighting my ship Isis do you have a problem with that?” Ares responds, “ No sir. I love fighting my father should’ve let me fight with your ship in the first place and you wouldn’t need to this yourself.” The shadow nods and says, “ this is why you are my favourite god Ares you just like to fight. Now let's move this fight to a better location. It wouldn’t be fair for me to ask you to fight inside your own house.” With a snap of his fingers, we were in another location once again. The shadow turns toward Zeus and says, “ Hercules is here to speak on my behave. I am going to find a better seat to watch this fight.” Zeus nods his head and the shadow snaps his fingers and was back on the stage.
The shadow creates a chair and sits on it. Zeus starts to speak, “Name your challenge mortal.” Hercules claps his hands and says, “this rabbit vs Ares the only rule is no killing. Anyone at any time can ask for mercy. If the person falls unconscious then it would be seen as there lost. Ares can use all of his godly powers and The rabbit would use only 25% of her strength to make this fair.” Zeus stabs his bolt into the ground and yells, “How dare you to disrespect us. Let this rabbit fight at 100% Ares will win no matter what.” Zeus turns toward Ares and jumps down unto the meteor. Ares starts to glow red. It looks like a fire was wrapping around him but the fire was clear. The ground around him turns into glass. Hercules puts his thumb up and says, “Dude no need to show me your power I guess correct how much power the rabbit needs to give you a decent fight.”
Ares stops glowing. He folds his arms and looks at Hercules and says, “When are we going to get this fight started. Or are we all going to grow old and wait.” As he was saying that he was getting younger and fitter. His muscles start to grow. A white lite glows in his hand and it turns into a spear and a white light glows on his other arm and it turns into a shield. Ares gives Hercules a pose and slams his spear into the ground. Boom! A Thundering roar could be heard throughout the stadium. Hercules laughs and says, “I know how you gods like to show off so I wait for you to get ready.” Ares Armor was glowing a bright yellow it looks like he is cover with gold.
Hercules looks at Ares up and down and says, “ You are finally ready. This ship is always ready to let me get out of your way to the fight can get started.” Hercules jumps off the meteor and sits on top of Ares seat. Ares rolls his eyes at Hercules and says, “You are trying to make me angry but let's get this fight started. I am going to show you how powerful I am and then beat you black in blue for calling me out.” He starts to glow once again but this time the screen dims early making it so that we do not have to turn our eyes.
Hercules looks at Zeus and says, “I will give you the honors. You can start the match Old Man!” Hercules than smirk at Zeus. Zeus bangs his bolt on the ground. “You have till the count of three and the match will start. Ares destroy that thing and send that guy packing. 1. 2. 3. START!”
With that isis jumps into a rock above her. Ares takes the spear in his hand and throws it at isis. Isis easily dodges the spear but then a fist closes on to isis. Isis jumps on top of the fist and runs up Ares' arm. Ares tries to hit Isis with his shield but isis jumps. A spear comes down from behind of isis, I have no idea where that spear comes from. Isis with using one of her ears slaps always the spear and jumps on top of Ares' arm that was trying to punch her from behind. Isis this time jumps off the arm and kicks Ares in the face with her two hind legs.
The two fighters fall back. I can see the spear is flying around without Ares needing to touch it. There is blood flowing out of Ares' nose. The blood was like rex it was gold. Ares wipes off the blood off of his face and yells, “Playtime is over!” There were light glowing all around Ares and they all turn into spears. There were hundreds of them may be over a thousand. Ares starts to glow again and his eyes turn red and he grows bigger.