Willium Valen and The Curse of Hades

Chapter 10-Is It Him?

Willow tapped my shoulder to get my attention, she was helpless without her hearing aids, she couldn't hear a thing. She could only sign, which with her autism, is very frustrating for her."What is it?" I asked. I turned to face her, Willow's eyes glowed in the moon's light like two green fireflies. Willow's curly hair shone under the light of the moon. She looked very stressed and concerned. The forest was quiet, with only sounds of nature, and frogs chirping in the ponds. Fireflies and other insects hummed about the air waiting to become something's dinner. Crickets chirped high in the safety of the trees.It's getting dark, we should set up camp, Willow signed. Willow seemed off like something was wrong, she must have been upset about her hearing aids. I could always tell when something was wrong when she'd get quiet, like mentally quiet. She seemed sad, she folded her arms over each other."What did she say?" Geo asked, turning towards us."We need to make camp, it's getting dark," I said."Right here seems pretty good," Geo looked around. I looked around and noticed that we were in a pretty good spot, with water nearby, and the trees weren't too dense so you could see the stars.Willow nodded, she used her powers to set up camp, tents, and a campfire that lit up electric blue.We all sat down around the fire on logs."This place is very blue," I noticed.Not just any blue, electric blue, Willow signed."It's weird here, it feels like this place is calling me or something. I bet you feel it too, the strange vibe," Geo sighed. Geo seemed panicked as he looked around."From the little blue things, right?" I mused."From this whole place," Geo said.Which God's color is electric blue? Willow signed."Hades, originally, but Molly now," I said. "This place doesn't feel like it's on earth, it kind of feels like how a mindscape does, but this place belongs to someone else,""Strange things have been happening leading up to this," Geo remembered."What kind of strange?" I asked."Nightmares, relentless ones, all about my sister," Geo grumbled, hugging his knees to his chest."I had nightmares too, but they were all about the mindscape," I muttered."Did you have visions, did your eyes flash white?" Geo asked."Yes, what does that mean?" I muttered.Do you all remember learning about Hades' curse from your families? Before something would happen or before he would curse or strike, you would get nightmares and visions of someone you lost or someone you were afraid of, Willow signed."My sister was in my visions," Geo said."For me, it was Zeus," I had to think for a second. "Wait are we actually considering this? Hades is dead-""Gods can only be killed by other Gods and the God that is being killed has to accept their death. My mom killed Hades, but from what I've heard from her, she didn't want to," Geo explained."Then why is Hades dead? That doesn't explain anything," I scoffed. What in the world was Geo even talking about? He was so far from the point."I don't think she did it, if you think about it nothing adds up. Even if she did it, why would Hades accept his death in the middle of the curse, why would he die without finishing the job?" Geo ranted. Geo still wasn't answering my question, of course, he wasn't gonna listen to me. Why would he ever listen to anyone? He's so cool and mean, so he can do whatever he wants.What does any of this mean? Willow signed."It means that Hades never cursed anyone. It makes sense, Hades' powers were electric blue, but if you were under his curse your eyes would go white. And even if it was Hades, whatever is happening now is not him. Hades is dead and dead Gods cannot affect the living world," Geo explained."If this isn't Hades, who is it? What are you even talking about, Geo? " I asked.Zeus, it only makes sense, he was in the old prophecy, Willow signed.It all came back to me, Zeus, for better or for worse I realized something."Poor little Willium," I realized."What?" Geo scoffed."That's what Zeus called me and Hades told my uncle that he was going to kill everyone in his family 'even poor little Willium'," I said."That's weird," Geo was holding onto their knife the same knife that they held to my throat.It was a black knife with an electric blue handle, the blue faded into the base of the knife and rippled up to the top of the blade. The side of the knife that was held to my throat was electric blue and mixed in with the black. The knife was small and now that I was looking at it I realized that it wasn't a knife at all, it was a dagger. It was good that Geo always kept it with them."Look at that sky," Geo gasped. Through the gaps in the trees, you could see the night sky. It was pitch black, the perfect backdrop for the tiny shimmering stars."I've never seen those constellations," I sighed. "We're definitely not on earth anymore,""Maybe this is the opposite of a mindscape, like a dreamscape," Geo mused.Willow snapped her fingers and we looked at her. This might come as a shock but I can't tell what you are saying if I'm not able to see you, Willow signed, rolling her eyes at Geo."I can't tell what you're saying if you look at you or not," Geo scoffed."Okay, let's all calm down," I said. "Sign language is easy to understand. Different hand signals mean words or phrases and you don't need to learn how to spell them or pronounce them. Willow why don't you demonstrate,"I hope you die, Willow signed."What did she say?" Geo asked."Um...I think we'll be fine if I translate," I muttered."Whatever," Geo scoffed.