Long, long ago, in the land called Thebes; people talked about the tale of a young man. A man who carried the blood of the king of gods, a man that also carried the hatred of the queen of the gods, a man that…
"I'm gonna put my face in it!"
…was not exactly easy to understand. Even for one such as Chiron, the great teacher of heroes and the youngest child of Titan Kronos.
He had high expectations when he had heard that he was going to be training the son of Zeus.
Sure; there were quite a lot of them, a lot more than Lady Hera was comfortable with at any rate, but the knowledge that he was going to train this son of Zeus had came from Zeus himself. The king of the gods himself had told Chiron that this child was special and that Chiron was to bring out all of his potential, he hadn't done that with even Perseus!
But of course, the king of the gods had conveniently forgot to tell Chiron about his son's... peculiarities.
"Cool, it's a giant wasp!" Like his casual disregard of any kind of danger, and the power to survive such disregard.
Power that he demonstrated very clearly as Chiron heard a very loud buzz followed by the sound of flesh being ripped apart.
"Cool, honey!" Sometimes Chiron wondered what was the sin that made him deserving of such a head case as a student.
"Asclepius, go help your fellow student." Centaur said with a sigh as he looked down at his other student who was immersed in medical texts that were complex enough to make best sages around Greece confused out of their minds.
"What's in it for me?" And of course his medically inclined student was not willing to help him without proper rewards. Why couldn't he ever get a nice and obedient students, he felt like those wouldn't end up killing themselves with stupid ways.
"You get him, I'll give you full marks."
"What does markings have with anything?" Asclepius asked with a tilt of his head.
"Not that kind of marks. It's something I invented, a way for me to keep track which of my students are good and which are bad. Getting full marks will mean that you're good." The centaur sage said with a proud nod, it was a rather ingenious idea after all.
"I'm not sure being a good student is worth dealing with that." If only his students weren't such nut jobs.
"Go get my dumb student and I'll give you the next medical text." Chiron finally conceded and Asclepius ram towards his other student, faster than he ever had in their trainings.
He was getting far too old for this shit.
"Hey teach, check this out! Giant honey sack!"
"Yes, I can see that; Alcides." Far too old.
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"Is this okay teach?" For all of his fault, Chiron could not deny that Alcides was a hard worker. The son of Zeus may have been… one hit to the head away from being a moron, but he never shied away from work. Even when it was ridiculous things like building a new hut for Chiron or even making all the equipments his students used for training, unlike some of his students.
"Yes, yes that's perfect Alcides." Chiron said with a smile as he inspected the training post the young man had carved out of a tree with his bare hands.
"It sure is nice to have some students willing to help out their teacher." He said as he glared at the rest of his students who were laying on the ground with no care for Chiron's words.
Asclepius, the son of Apollo and arguably the single most talented medic Chiron had ever seen that was not a deity.
Jason, a descendant of Hermes and a boy who wished to take Thessaly back from his uncle since said uncle had overthrew his brother and rightful king Aeson, Jason's father.
And finally, there were Castor and Pollux. The children of the queen of Sparta and, surprise surprise, Zeus. Another reason that one day Hera would stab her husband in the dick.
All of whom were completely uncaring about his admonishments, he would give them low marks for that.
"Hey teach, you need me for anything else? I need to go up and pray to step mom." But not lower than this moron who, for some reason, could not understand that the queen of the gods hated his guts and had been trying to kill him for years!
"Alcides… I think it would be better if you did not… bother the queen so much." Chiron said as gently as he could, hoping that his student would for once listen to his sagely counsel.
"Pfft, don't be ridiculous teach." Of course not.
"You know I do this everyday, step mom is already expecting me." The muscular youth said with a smile and Chiron finally gave up on kindness.
"Okey, no. Alcides, I will explain this to you in a very direct manner. Hera hates you and has been trying to kill you for years." Almost as if the gods themselves were trying to prove his point, which a certain queen likely was, a snake jumped out of the grass and lunged at Alcides' throat.
"That's dumb, you're dumb." Only to get caught in the demigod's grip as Alcides ripped the snake's head off with a single movement of his thumb, but down on the exposed flesh and tore off the skin off of the snake's corpse.
"If she hated me, she wouldn't keep sending me snacks. She's been doing that since I was a little kid." She actually had been doing that since he was a baby and the purpose of the snakes was to kill him, not to be snacks. Though that did bring up the question of why the queen of the gods still used snakes against Alcides even after they have proven to be less than useless against him.
"By the way, teach, when can I go back to Thebes? I kind of want to see Laonome and Iphicles, and his son Iolaus too. It wouldn't do well to neglect family, I wouldn't be able love with myself if I disappointed step mom or lady Hestia like that." You know what, getting rid of his students for a while would be nice. Especially since the chariot of Apollo tended to be visible far longer than the rest of the year these days. A break was in order, more for him rather than his students.
He would call this new idea of his, summer break.
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