Chapter 35

After dropping Arthur and Atlanna off in Amnesty Bay and watching the joyful reunion between Arthur's parents and leaving the Poseidon stone in Arthur's possession like she'd left the Zeus stone in Diana's, she was finally returning home to the Tower in San Francisco so that she could finally start her search for the final piece of the Kronos stone, the Hades stone. Once she got that, she could put the three pieces together to form the Kronos stone and use it to defeat Ares and finally get her freedom from Artemis.

Anyways, when Thea entered Titan Tower, she found her boyfriend waiting for her.

"So, was it a productive trip?" Roy asked her.

"Very. I'll tell you everything with the rest of the team. Where are they?" Thea asked.

"They're all here. Kory, Garth and Donna are in the lounge and Dick is watching Zara and Rachel spar, since he thinks that it will help Rachel learn to control her powers, since mastering them has become even more important than it already was. We'll bring you up to speed after you tell us your story." Roy said and Thea nodded.

After the Titans had all gathered in the war room, Zara and Rachel were not allowed to sit in right now.

"So, how did it go? Did Arthur get the Trident and you got the stone?" Garth asked.

"Yes to both, with another unexpected retrieval." Thea said.

"What do you mean?" Donna asked.

"It turns out that the way people usually get to the Hidden Sea where the trident was located is to get through the kingdom of the Trench, which is where Atlantis usually sends people they deem to be traitors to die. But if you manage to survive the Trench, there's a one way portal that leads to the hidden sea. Fortunately, my powers allowed Arthur and I to bypass that death trap and get straight to the island, where we found someone who managed to get past the Trench to the Hidden Sea." Thea said.

"Wait, are you saying what I think you're saying?" Garth asked and Thea nodded.

"We found Arthur's mother Atlanna there too and after Arthur got both the trident and the stone, I was able to use my powers to free her to return to Amnesty Bay to be with his father." Thea said with a smile.

"Arthur must be thrilled to finally have his mom back." Dick said and Thea nodded.

"He is. I can tell that a burden of guilt has been lifted from him. Who knows, with Atlanna back, he may finally decide to take the throne from Orm, especially since he now has the trident." Thea said.

"Let's hope, since once word gets back to Atlantis about this, Orm will never be able to rally an invasion force large enough to attack the surface." Garth said.

"Let's hope. But anyways, now we need to start focusing on our search for the last piece of the Kronos Stone, the Hades Stone." Thea said.

"Actually, I think we already have a lead on it." Donna said.

"What do you mean?" Thea asked.

"I'll go get Rachel, since she should be a part of this conversation since it involves her." Dick said.

"Okay?" Thea asked as Dick went to go get the girl who he could tell had already become like a daughter to him and when he returned, Rachel was with him.

"Okay, so what's going on?" Thea asked.

"I think that my powers are the key to getting the last piece of this stone, since I keep seeing it in my dreams and recently, I think the ghost of Hades appeared in them." Rachel said.

"Of course. Where is it?" Thea asked.

"We think it's in Tartarus and Hades enchanted so that not even an avatar of the Greek Pantheon could retrieve it, not to mention the gates to the Underworld have been sealed since the Gods died out." Donna said.

"But Rachel's powers are connected to the same darkness that makes up Tartarus, so she can theoretically summon the stone from Tartarus, though it would be dangerous, especially since Rachel is still learning how to control her powers." Thea said.

"I can do it." Rachel said, right as Zara burst in.

"Not without me you're not." Zara said.

"Zara, were you listening in on us?" Donna asked.

"Not exactly." Zara said.

"What does that mean?" Thea asked, looking between the two girls.

"One power we discovered early on was that I have what I guess you'd call psychic powers, like mind reading and stuff like that and as Zara and I got closer, we began to develop a psychic connection I guess is the best way to describe it." Rachel said and Donna and Garth both smiled, since that clearly a sign of how serious things had gotten between those two.

"And I think that connection can help us try and reduce how dangerous attempting to retrieve the stone will no doubt be." Thea said.

"What do you mean?" Zara asked.

"I mean we're attempting to open a backdoor into one of the most dangerous places in existence and we're relying on Rachel's unmastered powers to do it. I think that Zara can use their psychic connection to help keep Rachel grounded, help her focus her powers and keep them under control." Thea said.

"That actually does make sense." Dick said and the other agreed.

"Okay then, so how should we do this?" Rachel asked.

"That, I don't know. This isn't like the other two pieces that were just being kept some place safe here on Earth. This is something that requires a little more knowledge of magic than any of us have." Thea said.

"So, what should we do?" Roy asked.

"We hang tight while I make some calls." Thea said.

"I might have a contact who can help too." Dick said.

"Is your contact by any chance a British guy with an accent, a beige trench coat, a smoking and drinking problem and is just a dick in general?" Thea asked with a smirk.

"I think he's actually Welsh, but yeah, I know who you're talking about. You know him?" Dick asked.

"My brother does and he gave me the bastard's phone number for situations like this." Thea said.

"Then make the call." Dick said and Thea nodded.

"Okay then, the meeting adjourned." Thea said as the meeting ended.

Quick update, forget the idea I had about Thea becoming the last airbender kind of avatar. That idea lost its appeal and I've got a new idea for her that I like better for after this story is over. I won't say anything more for now.

Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top