Millie and the Impossible Battle Chapter 4

The Elders

It was a rainy London afternoon. The building was old and Victorian, there was no sign on the front of the building giving the feel of mystery. It had always been this way, it was the main hub of the council of elders and had been for well over one hundred years. The council of Elders were a prestigious group of men and women, the council is always made up of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. They are in charge of the group, unless the person has not been reincarnated yet, the rest are specifically hand chosen by the main three. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades' reincarnations are in charge of all final decisions and the meetings in general.

The building was built and decorated like the Greek palaces of old, walking in one felt as if one had just went back in time. Everyone who came into the building must have a pass code and had to immediately change into the clothing of that time period. One wasn't permitted to dress modernly past the main hallway. This was the custom since the beginning of time and would not change anytime soon.

This meeting was called as an emergency, it was a very important meeting as only emergency meetings could be. As the reincarnations of the gods and goddesses filed in and sat down, there was a lot of whispers trying to guess what the meeting was going to be around. Once they were all seated around a very big, round marble table, the meeting began.

Three large men stood up, then the rest did as well. The other gods and goddesses stood, bowed to them and sat. "The Meeting of the Council of Elders has been officially opened." The biggest of the three and standing in the middle said and all three sat. "This meeting has been called in an emergency, as the prophecy has officially begun." Said the same man with a very serious tone. There were a lot of whispers that came across the room. The man frowned and scratched his white bearded chin, he raised his hand and the room went quiet. "But Zeus, what of the girl?" said one man across the table. "Ares and to those who are also wondering, she has been tested and is indeed a goddess, although it still is undecided what Goddess she truly is, we think her to be Demeter. This is only an assumption, but if true, and we are hoping this to not be the case, that would mean that the age old prophecy has indeed started and that she must be taught immediately. As such, I have sent Artemis to go retrieve the girl." Zeus said. The man to his left with dark brown curly hair, clean shaved,with deep sea blue eyes and with deep tan skin spoke, "Does she know, brother, about who I am to her in this life time? Does she know that I am indeed her father?" Zeus turned to his brother and replied, "Poseidon, that is something you must do. I must ask you to explain what Artemis was told not to. This is your daughter and now that she is tested, she must be explained to and trained. You must be the one to do both." Poseidon sighed, "Do not get me wrong brother, I want to have a relationship with her but why not her mother? Artemis should be the one to do this." There were many whispers. Then another stood up, she have skin of ebony and long black hair, she was absolutely stunning. "If I may interrupt my lord?" she spoke elegantly, "Yes, Aphrodite." Zeus said and Poseidon rolled his eyes. "You allowed your wife to go on this quest, don't you feel that you should be the one to take this quest on? From what I know about marriage," she glared at Ares and he immediately looked down, "it's a team effort. You both followed the rules for the main gods and were not allowed to see her growing, she watched and protected her. So please tell me why you refuse to help her?" She sat down and glared at Ares. Poseidon slammed his fist down on the table and every jumped. He stood and with anger pointed at her, "DO NOT QUESTION MY JOB AS A HUSBAND AND FATHER!DO NOT MAKE YOUR PERSONAL AFFAIRS, YOUR MARRIAGE WITH ARES MADE MY BUSINESS HERE." He bellowed. "Brother calm down." The third brother tried to calm him. He was snow white skin and black eyes, and pure black hair. Hades sighed and put his hands together in a fist, leaned his elbows and himself on the table and tucked his hands under his chin. "Hades I am too calm." "Everyone calm!" Zeus said. "I am done with these childish games, Poseidon you will do as I say and train the girl, that is how it is done with every generation you are no different. Now on to more important news and the reason we are truly here." Zeus sighed. "Kronos is back, he has infiltrated the council of leaders in the United states with his minions, this comes to me directly from Artemis herself. He has killed the ambassador and brutally murdered his family. AS a result, the council has fallen and the members have fled into hiding. This is in direct correlation of the prophecies, Brother, how could he have gotten out? Have you not the highest security watching that demon's cell in hell?"

"Zeus, I have the strongest guards assigned to his cell and many spells protecting it from being escaped or broken into, and as I said before and at your request of repeating here this is what has happened." Hades sighed and released his hands from under his chin, he rested them on a table and took one and swept it in the air. What looked to be a hologram but really magic, appeared to show the story of what happened. As he spoke the hologram would show what happened. "Hermes and myself traveled to his cell and the rest of the monsters' cells like our job from the almighty says to do, last week. All of the demons were there and accounted for but something caught both mine and Hermes' eyes. Something I haven't seen since Greece's fall. Hermes' I will allow you explain what the symbol was." A short, chubby man with a beer belly and dark brown shaved hair stood up and spoke, "Just as Lord Hades has said there was a symbol, in all my times this life and previous, I have only seen it once, this was after Greece's fall. When Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, the symbol was engrave on the cross. The sign is of Lucifer.," the hologram then showed them a symbol of an upside down five pointed star with some symbols in the empty spaces that are indescribable unless you saw them. "It only comes around when he has touched something. He was part of the crucification, there and relished in the son of light's death. That night Lucifer's symbol was there on several walls and then we came to Kronos' cell. I will let Hades continue from here." Hermes sat down and Hades cleared his throat and stood up to continue the story. "It was empty and the sign was left on the lock of the door. Now, only HE could've left that symbol and he has much stronger magic than I. I cannot out beat the devil at his magic. We looked and no guards stood in their places, we can only assume they were killed, taken hostage or took the dark side. I left Hermes to take care of the notes for today and quickly left to the White Room to speak with the creator. When I got there, the door had the symbol on the handle. The white room was splatter in red, it was defiled, disgraced, bastardize. No longer had the light lived there only darkness." The gods and goddesses gasped.

He continue on, "I felt someone behind me, and turned to find a man in white robes and with white hair. I knew this to be of light and a messenger for the creator never visits in person. The man stood before me and spoke to me 'Hades I am Gabriel, I am the messenger angel He has sent.' I bowed and straightened myself. 'I am of your service, as always.' I replied. 'You are not of my service, for I am below you on the totem pole, you know this but thank you for the kindness. This is a direct message from the creator himself and you must take heed or all shall be lost. Please listen carefully Hades and take this message back to the Elders immediately, you must call an emergency meeting.' I said at once, 'You can count on me to do this, please let him know this.' 'He knows that is why you are chosen to get the message to them. The message is this. Lucifer has taken it into his hands to once again break the Creator's orders and has thought to bring upon the apocalypse before time. He has released Kronos and all the evil gods and goddesses from the other major lands in hopes of them working with him to control all mortals and animals alike. His plan is once ruling, he will destroy all life and light and will rule over the Earth with his demons. You must help stop this, you must find the other gods and goddesses from the other lands and gather all to destroy them. The girl is prophesied to be the secret keeper, she keeps the secret of light in her mind and it must be opened! She does not have all the information, for there are five others of the prophecy that have the rest of the information from the other lands. Once gathered, they must lead the battle between good and evil and they will succeed, ONLY if all live till the battle, if one dies, you must be doomed to live for two years while the apocalypse begins till the new successor comes. You must not let this happen, you must keep all safe. The Creator does not want this to occur yet, it is not yet time.' 'Gabriel, may I ask what lands we can find them in and where to start?' I asked the angel, he replied with these five lands— Egypt, Norse, Celtic, Hindu and Mesopotamia. He quickly left after this." Hades said as the gods and goddesses whispered.

"Well why didn't you tell me about this brother?" Zeus glared at him. "I was not permitted till the meeting today, I am sorry brother." Ashamed Hades looked down. "No matter, what's done is done. We have our answer, Poseidon's daughter must be protected at all costs. We must find the book and Poseidon you must protect her as well, you must become the father you always wanted to be and are. Prove your worth." Zeus replied. Ares and Apollo stood up. "We volunteer our services to go and get the girl and her mother and bring her safely home." Ares said with Apollo in agreement. "Good, if your quest does succeed your accomplishments will not go unnoticed." Zeus said and the two men sat down. "Now that has been accomplished, we have nothing more to speak of till the girl arrives, unless there are any issues that need to be brought up we may begin tea time." Aphrodite stood, "Where will the girl stay? Where will she school? We must prepare for this as a group, for I fear if we are not all caught up, things may go wrong." She sat down and Zeus stood, "You are right Aphrodite, forgive me for not thinking of that. I have an idea if agreed upon by the elders and her parents. In order for her protection, I feel it would be safer for her to stay with her parents who've mastered their gifts, anyone who would wish to help with enchantments of protection that will be great and Hades and I shall invoke upon some of our friends in the rank of titans in the spirit world to help protect the girl and her family. She will be taught by Hermes.," "But sir what of my current job at the school?" "We will get another to fill it, you will be paid two times as much as you are paid at your job now. Poseidon, no need to worry about helping us you must worry about you and your family. No arguments. Anyone disagree with this?" There were no objections to this proposal. "If there are no more concerns, let's eat shall we? I am starved!" There were no more concerns voiced at the meeting. "Terrific!" and Zeus snapped his fingers, the servants brought in the food.