To Save the Future

2. The temple, once under the control of Xylen, it has now returned to its original state.
The ones who live here are tempted to remain out of the way of the legacy as it
enters its final days leading up to the inevitable war once Xylen returns with full
force. Although some choose to avoid this place, others just stroll right up to the front
doors…

3. Zeus: It needs to be done, she has to come back. And I know you can do it. So I’m
giving you an order: Make it happen.
“Why? Her time came and went it was woven.”

4. Atropos just glared at Zeus, why is he ordering her back now? Her time was passed
and she should remain in blissful oblivion.
Zeus: She will help, we can’t lose the Triad pieces to Chaos again.
Atropos: Daphne Reed’s time was ended once Dalen changed her Fate; she does
not belong in this time and place. Let her be at peace where she is.
Zeus: Are you willing to defy me?

5. Atropos: His heart does not belong to her anymore. He has mourned her and moved
on. Why do you want to re-open healed wounds? Hasn’t Reias been through enough
already?
Zeus: She has insights that we need to fight Chaos with; being where she was is
valuable knowledge that even we gods cannot find. She would know how to hit Chaos
hard where he lives.

6. Atropos: If we do return Daphne Reed to this plane of existence she will forget
everything she learned while dead; those insights you claim she has, she will not
remember them. It is the way of the universe and even you cannot change that.
Zeus: They always remember something, it’s just a matter of when it’s required to be
remembered. She’ll need training of course; and I know just the people to do it.
Atropos: Why her? She was second born and not the heiress, her power is very weak
and the strength of the family line now will crush her.

7. Zeus: Exactly why we train her to become stronger. That child she had with Reias, Callie was
it? That half god was far too strong for when she was born, if Daphne comes back now, that
kid will be born in the right time for her powers to work at their best.
Atropos: The Fates of the two offspring Reias has now are already being laid out; reintroducing
the first one he had would unravel the very fabric of his tapestry, I cannot condone such a
thing.
Hera: Perhaps she is right darling…perhaps Daphne should remain gone.

8. Zeus: Having her back is what we need to win this, you should already know how the
battle ends being one of the Fates and what you know I know as well. I want her
back in this time and you will do it; understand?
Atropos: And if this should back-fire? How will you repair the damages?
Zeus: I’ll cross that bridge when and if I come to do. Get it done.
Atropos: Very well. I shall obey…but be warned; this is on your head should it fail.

9. Hera: Artemis, were you listening to that?
Artemis: Yes, I heard it all. What do you want me to do?
Hera: Train her; as Goddess of the Hunt your abilities are best to teach her with.
Daphne Reed is needed and you will train her so that she will be ready.
Artemis: Why do we need her? Aren’t the current generation kids enough?

10. Hera: It’s not so much Daphne herself we need, it’s the child she had with Reias that we need.
Artemis: Whose to say that they would even mate to produce her again? How can you be so
sure that she would come back exactly how she was? I thought he was happily married to
Roxie and happy with their boys.
Hera: A first born child is always the strongest one, Callie’s power is superior to that of both
Solan and Derek combined. Twice bred through both sides; Reias and Daphne. Daphne was
originally descended from Ares, if you remember and Roxie was only a mere mortal.

11. Hera did have a point about that; and training a strong woman is exactly what
Artemis loved to do, but there were still some doubt in her mind. Is bringing Daphne
back really wise? And what happens if Callie doesn’t get reborn? Odds are 50/50
that she won’t be, Reias could easily produce a third son.
She, like all the gods, was bound to obey Zeus and Hera even if she didn’t like the
idea of what they proposed. If Zeus ordered Reias to produce a child with Daphne
again, then he would have to obey…even if it meant ruining his happy life with Roxie
and his sons in the process.

12. Up on Olympus…
Ashika had heard rumours of what Zeus had ordered the Fates to do, but actually
seeing her in front of her was entirely different. Ashika could see her entire past; her
gift as Oracle of the Past often worked with a single face-to-face meeting with a
person. She could see their history in a blink of an eye; and Daphne’s was full of
pain and tragedy. Ashika only met Callie briefly; a long time ago and she didn’t get
to know her that well before she was gone.

13. Ashika: Daphne, do you know who I am?
Daphne: No…should I?
Ashika: I am Ashika Genia, daughter of Athena. My gift is being an Oracle of the Past
and I can see yours clearly.
Daphne: I see. Well care to enlighten me on it? I don’t seem to remember any of it.

14. Ashika: You don’t remember anything?
Daphne: No…well flashes here and there. I know my name and that I born here, I
think my mother was named Alana, and my father….Orson…Octavius…I know it was
an O name…
Ashika: Oliver. Oliver Reed was your father.

15. Zeus: She remembers nothing about her past?
Hera: Well Atropos did say that she would not remember anything coming back from
where she was my dear.
Zeus: Yeah, but I thought that meant she would remember eventually, not be a
complete blank on everything…this is a problem.

16. Athena: Father, maybe this was not such a good idea after all. If she doesn’t
remember her past, how can we expect her to bring Callie back?
Zeus: You too? Athena, don’t you see the strategy in this? We’re facing a war, you’re
the Goddess of Disciplined War!!
Athena: I do see certain merits in your strategy, but not the planning of it. You knew
that her memory would be wiped if she came back down to this plane of existence.

17. Athena: In war, a strategy is no good if you don’t have the knowledge of the
requirements to enact it. You didn’t think this through father, and now we’re left with
a blank slate.
Zeus: Well we can’t send her back now, she has to remember. Get your daughter to
make her.
Athena: Ashika’s power is not used that way.

18. Daphne: I can’t!! I’ve been trying to really…what do you want from me?
Zeus: You have to, it’s crucial.
Daphne: To what? I don’t understand…
Zeus: Fighting Chaos, saving our world, making sure we have a proper Peace God
again.

19. Apollo: Gee Pops, lighten up. Give the poor girl a chance to breathe. Let me help her
out, I’d be willing.
Daphne: Aren’t you the Sun god? What could you do for me?
Apollo: What couldn’t I do for you baby? They don’t call me the Shining One for
nothing you know.

20. Artemis: She’s not another conquest for you brother; she’s my responsibility to
prepare Hera has ordered it.
Apollo: Sure, ruin my fun…
Artemis: What do you think Ashika? We could work together with Daphne, I can train
her, you can help her remember the past she lost.

21. Ashika: Sure, I can do that.
Hephaestus: I’d like to help too, I can train her in weaponry.
Ashika: I don’t see why not. You would be best for that Hephaestus, it’s your specialty
after all.
Hephaestus: I’d be glad to.

22. Daphne: It’s great you all want to help me, but what if I mess up? I’m only mortal
after all.
Ashika: She is right you know; we should ease her into things.
Daphne: Thanks.

23. Zeus: Alright fine; do whatever and however you have to do it, just make sure she’s
ready before the tenth generation is born.
Athena: But don’t push too hard daughter, take it slow.
Apollo: Sure I can’t help?
Ashika: I don’t think so, but I appreciate the offer Apollo.

24. So Artemis began her training the next morning. For a mortal she was pretty quick
at picking up on what she had to teach, it surprised her. Daphne had a lot of power,
but no idea how to use it, this training would help. She was only second generation
though, so her power is not nearly as strong as it would be now. Her time was one
of transition; her birth was early in the legacy and Oliver had some of the same
issues she does. He didn’t remember his past either.

25. Little by little, it would come back to her. Daphne was willing to learn and that was
always a good thing, Artemis hoped that when she did remember everything that
she would be able to handle it. Perhaps losing a child is something she should
forget…

26. Or perhaps it would make her resolve stronger if she knew what was lost. It was a
toss up as to which way it would go; good or bad. But right now that didn’t matter,
Daphne needed to build up her strength, being dead for six generations is a huge
hurtle to overcome.

27. Training her body was only one half of the equation; training her mind was also
required. She started taking meditation lessons with Hephaestus to get her in the
right mind set for weapons training. Odds are that when Xylen came back, he wasn’t
going to come back alone, he would have minions and underlings to throw between
him and the tenth heir. No super-villain ever fights on his own if he has underlings to
push around, the gods knew there were some minions and underlings still here in
Hidden City acting on his behalf; the incident with Virgil in college is proof of that.
They had to be rooted out.

28. Normally, Hephaestus wouldn’t bother with meditation whenever he did it, his mind
always came back to his own loss of a child; Aleidra. He had mourned his little girl
for several decades and it still could bring him to tears thinking about her. He knew
better than anyone what Daphne would feel like if she ever remembered losing
Callie; it’s part of why he volunteered to help her out. His pain was old, but hers
would be all new and raw again if she remembered.

29. Meditating with someone else actually kept his mind from wandering too far, he
would think about Daphne, what she was going to learn, how she was going to learn
it. His thoughts strayed briefly to Aleidra, but he didn’t cry, he was actually happy he
could still see her face and hear her voice as clearly as if she were right beside him.
It was almost as if she was encouraging her father to go through with this training.
Sensing that gave him new strength, he knew this would work out in the end.

30. Hephaestus: You did well Daphne, I’m impressed.
Daphne: Thanks, it actually helped.
Hephaestus: Did your remember anything?
Daphne: Umm, a bit I remembered going to college with my twin brother Adonis. I
remembered him and my sister Hestia.

31. Hephaestus: Was there anything else?
Daphne: Yeah…
Hephaestus: Well, you can tell me. I’ll listen.
Daphne: I remembered…

32. “Reias.”

33. Gotcha. That’s all there is for this Interlude folks. Cruel? Yes. Fun? Most definitely.
So once again Zeus is messing with things that ought not be messed with despite
repeated warnings against it. Is having Daphne back from the dead a good thing? Or
a bad thing? What did Atropos mean when she warned Zeus that the fates of Solan
and Derek were already being written? What will that mean for the legacy?
And, most importantly; how big of an impact is trying to get Callie back going to have
on Reias and his sons? Are first born children really stronger?
This Interlude was not really something I had planned on doing right now, I wasn’t
sure of how to work it actually. But my original idea didn’t include anything to do
with Daphne or Callie, just one night it came to me. Originally this whole legacy
started out with a single RP character on Old Boolprop. The whole history of Hidden
City, Dalen, Diamos, and Reias really took on a life of its own after that. I learned to
listen to my dreams since they so often turn out to be awesome things like this
legacy. So I hope that this Interlude is going to be worth the writing and that no one
is scratching their heads about why I’m doing the whole thing with Daphne’s return.