Falling from a World Once My Own

(Meet Me at World's End)

Hanging with my peeps,

Hanging by my fingertips,

Falling next in view.

'NOT WHAT YOU THINK'

Now that's a phrase you wouldn't think I would start this book with, no? Let's do a quick flash-back until we go into the real stuff. I, Apollo of the Greek pantheon are in a sticky situation, after I made an oath. No playing instruments till I re-attain godhood.

Am I a moron?

Yes, of course I am.

Now that I stare at Styx herself, I realize, I'm the problem. She said the thing,

"I told you so."

She did indeed. now, I'm hanging from a ledge, in pain, all because I used an ancient arrow on a snake. and being dragged down a river.

But.. this isn't the real.. wait. I gaze into Primordial Chaos. It. Stared. Back. My hand quivers. I swore on the river of death, and broke my promise. I look up at Styx, she's speaking, angrily. But, I can't hear her. Something is very, very wrong.

"Trillery.."

I hear a unsettling small voice, piercing my ears. I can't see where it's coming from, but it's definitely there.

Trillery? That.. name. That's me. I'm not Apollo. I'm Trillery. I feel something, like strings.. Styx is gone, my mind frayed, it all comes rushing back. My true self.

"Fall in.. join us, Trillery. You have nothing to live for, but you'll see her again."

Her? no I can't.. I ruined us. She hates me. I killed her. I REFUSE!

I reach towards Styx, and she grabs me.

"Apollo!?"

She pulls me up further, and throws me onto the side of the river. I look up, petrified. I.. saw something I wasn't supposed to. I'm terrified, I saw the snake being grabbed by melting hands, that snake, the one I was just struggling to fight.. died while I survived. What in the Tartarus..?

The walk back to Mt. Olympus (Empire State Building) was nothing but humiliating. I got saved by the person who had the right to kill me. Now, I must confront my father and tell him of what I saw there, my nerves are on end as I exit the elevator on the six-hundredth floor, as I step out, I see twelve gods in a circle, including the big man himself, Zeus.

"Father."

I walk awkwardly up, keeping my head bowed a bit.

"Apollo."

I can see him glaring at me.

"Why did you break your promise?" I look up towards him.

"I.. couldn't help myself. It's a vital part of me, you know that father-" "Enough!" He interrupts me.

"That's not an excuse, and you know it."

"Father.. I saw Python being taken into.. something. I saw melting hands dragging him down! What is that, Father!"

When I said that, I felt a rumble. Like the building was fall apart. I see Zeus's image flicker. Who was that? I felt like everyone's eyes are on me, which they are.

"Are any of you even real? Is anything even real!?"

I stare at him in the eyes.

"Sparin."

before he opened his mouth, I stopped him.

"Don't you feel any remorse for what you did to those three!?"

My form starts flickering too, I can't see it, but they can. Paler skin, bluer eyes. I move closer, infuriated even though I don't know why.

"You turned them into something they never wanted, making them have more responsibilities than you, at what cost, SPARIN?"

I feel the earth closing around me, my hearing dumbs down to a single voice, a loud piercing voice.

"The god of the sun who took an oath out of spite, shall no longer see the light. becoming a mortal, not understanding this type of quarrel. The one who swore on the river Styx shall drown in his own sorrow, shall no longer see tomorrow. Seeing the truth of the facade, uncovering the front of the gods who are such frauds. Oh Trillery, Beholder of Megalodon, the one who shall be thrown to an unknown place, far from the one you spat in the face. Begone, son of pride, for your time is gone never sought, your time in this place is no more, removed from this place which bores."

after those final words, I feel as my body is collapsing on itself, I close my eyes, tears falling down from the pain. Then, I feel my arm being grabbed, and I get thrown. Somewhere.

I open my eyes after.. 2 hours? I couldn't count since the pain was that bad, almost as bad as the first time I got a fever.. Anyway! I can only see a very far blob in the distance. Was that home, or something new? wait, there's an even closer blob, it's coming in really, really fast. Is that a palace? BOOM! I fall through a ceiling and splat on the floor, that really hurt. I struggle to keep my eyes open, perhaps adrenaline keeping me afloat, but I'm spent. I look up, there's a throne? With a dress coming from it.. huh? I look higher.. a face. A girl? No, a cat? I squint hard, trying to make out the blurry image in front of me. A cat-girl!? My world then goes dark.

"Healing Halo, no no.. that still doesn't sound as good as it used to.."

I hear a calm, almost posh voice, with hint of... welsh?

"Oh, you woke up? Finally."

I feel a soft hand move my head down to a pillow. My eyes slowly open, It's the same cat-girl I saw when I landed..

"Hey, you, brunet boy, wake up."

She speaks again, and I open my eyes wider. I see the older lady in front of me; pretty, soft features.. and those darn cat ears. I knew something was wrong with them, they're backwards!

"Are those real..?"

I say in the most raspiest voice that has ever come out of me, I clear my throat, and raise my hand towards her ears.

"Idiot! Don't move."

She gently moves my hand back down to my side.

"Yes, they are real.. just put on differently. Okay?"

She looks down at me, and puts on a more serious face. "Now, you need to explain yourself. Where did you come from, and why do you have this powerful aura around you?"

She pauses for a moment, and turns her head slightly, looking at the wall next to her. She turns back towards me, and says cautiously.

"Who are you?"

Lester, right? That's who I was.. Lester Papadopuolus. But am I?

"Trillery."

I look at her nervously. "Yeah, Trillery."

She begins to speak again, less serious but you can hear some annoyance in her voice. "Trillery, hm. strange name, but I'll accept it."

She narrows her eyes at me.

"You shot a beam through my palace which hit the Selestria barrier! Now it's somewhere in space, and I'm in trouble with Selestria!"

I look at her confused, I don't remember doing that.

"What do you mean..?"

She looks at me exasperated.

"Well, when you hit the ground, some weird beam came out of ya, and almost killed me!"

I smile awkwardly, "Oopsie..?"

Her eyes widen in shock from my audacity.

"EXCUSE ME!? Oopsie!? You dare speak to a Queen like that!?"

She raises her hand to slap me, but puts it back down and takes a deep breath. She's feisty alright, but maybe I was in the wrong.

"Perhaps I haven't properly introduced myself," she continues. "I am Queen Nia of the Royal Gormotti line, or, Queen of Manoden, and your.. nurse." She lets a deep sigh out, and speaks again with a calmer tone, the one she started with. "Please be good, Trillery. I am really not in the mood, okay?"

I reach my hand out again, and she moves it back down.

"My head is not for patting. You have no boundaries, do you?"

Ah, well I guess petting doesn't work here. The poems I've heard usually says if you pet a cat-girl, she gets all flustered? No, more like sassy.. anyway.

"When you get better, I'm interrogating you, got it?"

She looks at me seriously, as if I just committed treason (not like I've done that before).

"Okay, but do I get grapes?"

She narrows her eyes at me, annoyed for some reason.

"Grapes? Which ones? Dark, Walnut, or Juicy grapes?"

she then whispers under her breath. "Or the neon grapes from the second game.."

"What?"

She looks back to me, "Nothing. Which ones, brunet boy?"

Juicy, obviously, I haven't had those since maybe three thousand years ago? Being 4612 years young, I've been fed by my servant quite the delectable treats back then, such as the juicy grape. That's why I'm choosing walnut grapes.

"Walnut, please?"

she mutters something under her breath, then leaves the room.

As I wait, I crawl on the other side of the bed I woke up on, there's no blanket, just a short sheet covering both sides of the bed. I look out the window, and see that I am very high up in the sky. maybe a thousand feet down? I try to stretch, as my limbs are very sore from falling through space and time, but it's fine, I just have to let out a groan of pain when I move. It's beautiful out there, reminds me more of a European country then America. But, it seems more condensed. I can see a huge lake, and a giant sword, and like two skulls, looks like a titan skull. Perhaps this place also has the titans? hm, maybe one of them is just a geological structure, but I can't really tell-

"Trillery. You'll be here for a while to recover."

Nia comes in with a wet towel, and a tray. she sits down next to me, setting the tray on the table beside the bed.

"This won't sting. I promise."

she wraps the towel around her hand, and puts it directly on my head. I get chills from the cold water towel, and droplets fall down onto my chest.

"Cold.."

I murmur out.

"Don't be such a baby, Trillery."

she channels energy straight into me, which gives me a somewhat euphoric feeling. She sets the towel down, and slides off the bed. I feel much better as I stretch my limbs.

"Alright, get up brunet boy."

I get picked up by the queen, and brought to a room. It's obviously an office just made into an 'interrogation room' but I'll go with it to amuse her.

"So, Trillery, tell me where you are from."

As I munch on the grapes provided, I look up at her with a smirk.

"Mm, these taste amazing~"

I look up at her, finishing my grape,

"ah, Earth."

she settles down back into her weird floating chair thingy, and closes her eyes for a few seconds, then starts to speak again.

"Tell me about this Earth."

She pulls out a notepad, and glasses? I'm not going to question it.

"Well, I lived in this place called New York, and I needed help from a camp full of Demi-watchers teenagers."

She writes on her notepad, and looks up at me.

"Demi-watchers? How many?"

I paused for a moment..

"80. There were more, but they passed fighting.. "

I look down at my grapes, well one grape.

"I shouldn't have let them sacrifice themselves.. but, I couldn't..."

a tear falls down the my face.

"Damn it."

I look up at her, wipe my face and start again.

"I know Gaea resurrected, I felt her damn presence, all around me."

She looks at me concerned.

"Who are those two?"

I look at her dead in the eye.

"Chronos is a self-centered time controller who's also a poser, and he got defeated by teenagers. and Gaea? She's the Titan of Life. I'm pretty sure she's the one who sent me here."

I can see her get a little frightened at that.

"I'll inform the counsel of sparks about that.."

The counsel? Isn't Sparin part of that?

"Wait, don't do that."

She looks a bit confused.

"Why?"

I hesitate. Should I tell her so soon?

"Well, I know one of those sparks. He wouldn't do anything about it."

She has a confused expression on her face, but it settles back to a normal one.

"Okay, well.. is that everything or..?"

I take another deep breathe, then smile at her.

"No, not exactly.. but.."