2,000 Years Ago: Chapter 7

Pandora's POV

Atreo and I left the city. I admired the wristband he had bought me. It was pure gold. The wave designs on it reminded me of my mother. She loved the ocean. Atreo studied the map and decided we should go to Athens. It was a sea port. I had stopped at a ship that had come from Rome in the sea port. They carried letters for people that needed to contact Greece. There was a letter from my mother. She said that my father couldn't find me because we were on land. We needed to get to the sea. She enclosed a few pure gold drachmas, so we could get a boat. We found out we were just in Iolcus. We had to head south. We arrived there a week after we left Iolcus. We went to the port right away. There was a man selling small boats. "Hello, how may I help you?"

"We need a small boat."

"That'll be twenty drachmas."

"We only have five."

"I'll take those and..." He looked for any valuables with us. "Five drachmas and that bracelet will be sufficient."

"What? We can't give you this bracelet."

"How about that necklace?"

"No."

"Wait. I can sense the sea in one of you. You demigods?"

"Yeah. I'm the daughter of Posiedon. He's the son of... He's unclaimed.

"You can have this for a discount. I want those five drachmas." I handed him the drachmas and he gave us a boat. We went to the beach and Atreo pushed in into the water. I used my powers to keep it from rocking while we got in. I willed the sea to push us out farther. We got out about half a mile from shore and then the water started boiling. A man burst up from the water.

"Father!"

"Pandora, my daughter. I see you took your mother's advice. Hello, Atreo."

"Hello, sir."

"Well, I'm here to warn you two. Athens isn't safe."

"Is that just because of your rivalry with Athena?"

"No, Kronos is rising."