“The Rise of Zeus – Chapter VI (Pt 5)”
Author’s Note: This is a Take Ten to Write story and has not been proofread for errors. If I feel inspired or if there’s interest in the story, I’ll post a revised, edited, and extended version at a later date. Happy reading!
BASIL (cont.)
“So?”
“So what?” I say with a frown.
“Was I right?”
“About what?”
She lets out an exasperated sigh and rolls her eyes. “About you thinking about unicorns.”
“Umm…”
“So that’s a yes?”
“Well…”
“I’ll take that as a yes.”
“Okay, if that makes you happy.”
She scrunches her nose at me as the car suddenly jolts to a stop. I look up to see that the tiny house I’d seen in the distance before towering over me.
“Oh, I guess we’re here.”
She turns off her car and opens her door. “Come on. Silas is waiting.”
Her door slams before I can ask about Silas. I hurry out of the car and look up to see that she’s already at the door.
“Come on!” she repeats impatiently.
I jog to catch up to her, this time asking my question as I go. “So why didn’t Silas bring me here himself?”
“He was busy.”
“With what?”
She glares at me as I skid to a stop next to her. “Did you not see that giant dog outside the kennel?”
“Adoption centre,” I correct her out of habit. “And that was a dog?!”
“Yes. Cerberus.”
“What?”
“Cerberus.”
“Repeating it won’t make it magically make sense.”
The door suddenly slams open and there stands Silas, no longer in his white armour but once again in normal modern day clothes. “Cerberus is a creature from Greek mythology that appeared as a three-headed dog,” he says. “It guarded the Underworld and was Lord Hades’s pet.” His lips turn up into a smirk. “Of course, the Cerberus that escaped today isn’t exactly the same as the one in the myths.”
A large fluffy creature suddenly at Silas’s feet, pushing its nose between his legs to peek out the door.
“Basil,” Silas says with a chuckle, “meet Cerberus.”
The big, shaggy black dog squeezes out from behind Silas and bounds over to me. Biscuit immediately meets him and the tails start wagging.
Neera leans over to me and whispers, “Cerberus has separation anxiety. He escaped today to find Silas.”
Final Comments: They finally arrived at the house!! Wrote for a bit longer today because I missed yesterday… Writing today felt good though!
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