Hi my name is Haldo Blue, my dad left the moment he laid eyes on my little brother, whose name is Willson but I call him Wille.
My mom remarried a guy called Noah, who is now my step dad. He is really nice infront of mom, but is abusive and demanding towards me and Wille behind her back. His reason for this is that "the marriage didn't state anything about dealing with kids'' and because he can't get rid of us, he decided to use us instead.
I never understood why my real dad left. From the very few memories I have of him, he was a kind and loving man. He was almost always smiling. The only time I saw him truly horrified was on that day, when he ran out of the hospital. On his way out, he looked at me with tears in his eyes, said that "I wished that I could leave my old life behind me", then ran.
I never found out what he meant. I never told Wllie about it, and mom never spoke of it again. She rejected any questions or comments on dad, and I mean rejected. Whenever we asked her about him she would scowl at us, smack our faces and then storm out of the room. Noah would get very mad at us for doing this to mom.
Me and Wille recently have had the same dreams as each other. Which is weird all on its own, but they were all flashbacks of what seemed to be our memories of Ancient Greece. When we told mom and Noah about this they didn't believe us and when mom left the room he smacked each of us for lying to them. Surprisingly Noah actually loves mom, just he hates us.
We had just gotten home from school and Noah was checking our test results. They were straight A's with one B. He didn't like that so he hit us. Mom saw this and was furious with him. She was even more furious with herself for not believing us when we told her that Noah was actually the nice man she thought he was.
She ran out of the house in a very similar fashion to Joe, my real dad, on the day he left. She left, got in her car and drove away. She was gone when we made it outside. Noah was absolutely fuming and he hit both of us in the back of the head with a bat. We were knocked out cold.
The next thing we knew he was burying us alive with our hands tied behind our backs in the cemetery. There was complete darkness when the dirt coffin was completely sealed.
I was only fifteen and Wllie thirteen when this happened.
A couple moments went by. Then, out of nowhere a hand grabbed onto my arm and pulled me out of the grave. For a moment I saw Joe, but it was just a kid my age who seemed to have sneaked up on Noah and knocked him out with the shovel that he used to bury us.
He cut off the ropes and I immediately grabbed onto Wllie's arm and pulled him out too.
We were still in shock of the incident. We knew that Noah hated us but this was on a whole other level.
The kid called 911 and described the situation.
They came as fast as they could, then I fainted.
Next thing I saw was Wille and the kid hovering over me with cops everywhere, as I looked over I saw Noah was being arrested. As he was shoved into the car he gave me a really nasty look.
I have had some bad days but nothing compares to this one, this day was the worst one by far.
I got really mad really fast. I started chasing after the cop car Noah was in, when a cop tackled me. I hit the ground with a grunt, and the cop got off of me. Everything was a bit woozy for a second.
Wille showed up looking rather disappointed and told me that "he was the one that was going to chase after the car".
The kid came over and exclaimed to everyone's surprise that "we were definitely the ones he was looking for". The cops became very suspicious and started approaching the boy.
He told us that his name is Jones then turned around and kicked all of the cops butts, we just sat there in awe.
He walked back over to us and I told him that from now on I am calling him Bones, he grinned scarily at that, sending shivers down my spine. Soon after he told us to get in Noah's car, we did.
I know, I know, this sounds like a terrible idea, but even if we didn't he could have definitely forced us himself
Bones proceeded to tell us all about his past, he started off by saying "do you know anything about Greek mythology'' we do. He then told us "some of it was real and that the dreams that we were having were actually the memories of the big three Zeus, Poseidon and Hades". Just, I had Poseidon's memories, Wille had Zues' and Bones had Hades'.
Only Bones started getting the dreams thirty years before we did, we didn't believe him at first. I mean how could a fifteen year old boy actually be over thirty it's just impossible.
We then noticed that he knew about the dreams, it possibly could have been a guess, but he knew what the dreams were about and it was too exact to be a guess. So we continued to listen to what he had to say, he continued after a bit of silence"each of us have the abilities of the big three, and whoever's memories we have correspond to whose abilities we gain".
He stopped the car at the edge of a forest, he got out and started walking into the forest. He stopped moving, turned his head, and scowled at us. Bones then did a forceful beckoning motion with his hand. We were a bit reluctant to follow a man we just met into the woods, but we did anyway.
Once we caught up to him we walked together in an awkward silence, then Wille coughed which made it even more awkward. Bones seemed to be completely unaffected by the awkwardness we were feeling.
Eventually we made it to a cave with a giant boulder/disk covering up the entrance, Bones stopped and without even touching the disk, moved it out of the way. Which completely caught us off guard.
At this point it feels like he is just purposely showing off.
We walked inside all together. It was a surprisingly cozy place to hangout, there was a nice warm campfire which heated up the small space efficiently.
The nice warm air was a good change from the cold forest. It got really warm when Bones put the 'door' back over the exit.
Me and Wille sat down on the bear fur rug, while Bones was cooking a stew over the campfire. It was already dark out when we started eating.
Bones told us "we are going to start training first thing in the morning", once we finished eating we curled up on the floor and fell asleep.
(there were nice places on the floor i am not that mean - Bones)
I woke up to Wille tossing ice water onto my face, which to my surprise felt really nice.
Bones was already outside waiting for us, he looked like he was geared up to go to war with Sparta. Naturally I asked "where's our armour" he said "you have to earn it".
He then absolutely destroyed us for about an hour. Then all of a sudden the sweat that had accumulated on my body condensed in my palm, in a small, swirling, ball, like a marble. I then flicked it at Bones, it hit him right in the chest which dented his armour and sent him flying.
Bones just hopped up and came over to me and Willie (who were gawking at my hand) like nothing even happened.
He congratulated me, then asked me how many pull ups I can do. "Ten in a row" I replied, puffing my chest out a little like it was a world record or something.
Bones to counter and crush this show of pride did ten muscle ups on a branch.
{muscle ups are an advanced form of pull up where you push your self up and over the bar}
When he finished demonstrating he did a final muscle up, placed his leg on the branch, and back-flipped off of the branch, and had the audacity to ask me to repeat what he just did.
When he walked past me and continued to spar with Wille, he was wearing a big grin, again sending chills down my spine. (I say spar in very loose terms, it was more like him beating us up lightly).
Meanwhile I was trying to replicate the display he had just put on for us. I slipped off a few times, tearing my fingers up is the process. Once I finally stuck on by finding a good grip, I did a muscle up to everyone's surprise, but it didn't last for long.
Apparently the grip I had gotten was too far forward for holding the second part of the movment. Nevertheless I slipped again but this time my hand went over the branch (this wasn't a small branch btw), my chest rammed right into the branch winding me, and due to the impact it kind of shot me off the branch landing right on my back almost knocking me out.
I laid there for a while before Bones came over to check if I had died or not. He had an amused look on his face, which just pissed me off.
"Very good, very good" he teased.
He assigned twenty five of these every five hours, with exceptions to night hours), rest day was wednesday.
If I was doing my exercises during breakfast, lunch or dinner I would only be allowed to eat after I finished.
I got really sore really fast, just the day after I started I felt as though if I were to lift my arms above my head they would just fall off. Once I got up Bones was waiting for me and assigned an extreme workout regimen, which consisted of 25 muscle ups, 15 one handed handstand push ups each side, beating up a tree with punches for 10 minutes , then switch to kicks for another 10 minutes, and a mile jog/run to cool down, with the previously mentioned time schedule.
This was only arm day as well. Needless to say it was brutal on my flimsy young body, I wasn't scrawny or anything but this still felt ridiculous.
Wille activated his powers during that morning's sparring and joined in on the fun of the workout later that day.
Thankfully tomorrow is Wednesday, and we get a day off, unfortunately we don't get a break from 'sparring'.
Wednesday started off with a nice long sleep-in, Bones was already up making breakfast. It was a nice change of pace from the normal schedule.
(mind you that we were only a day into this schedule -Wille)
We went on a nice long recovery walk as well. When we got back we went straight into sparring.
The rest of the day was very peaceful and we mostly just sat around doing nothing (we eventually decided to go on another walk).
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I guess what I going with for why they stay with Bones is they never had a real father figure who fed/housed them. They would have also had an innate connection with him due to him having similar abilities.