Wizardry System - Chapter 40

Chris once again walked in front of the statue.

“Prometheus!” Chris shouted. The room started to shake and Chris quickly ran back to where Kristine and Hermione was.

“I think we got it right,” Chris said.

“I’ve never heard of someone potentially dying because they answered a question right!” Kristine said. “The room feels like it’s about to collapse at any second,”

“Look, the statue, it’s starting to fall apart,” Hermione said.

The statue was forming cracks and soon the chains broke. Then the statue started to crumble as if it was shedding. Soon the statue was completely destroyed leaving only pieces. The room stopped shaking.

“Is-Is it over?” Hermione asked.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man jumped out of the pieces of limestone where the statue was.

The three of them screamed in surprise. The man that popped out of the limestone rubble had a beard that reached his stomach and had no clothes on.

“Ok, girls time for you two to look back,” Chris said as he forced Hermione and Kristine to look the other way. “Don’t look here until I say so alright,”

“Alright,” Hermione and Kristine said simultaneously confusedly.

Chris turned back to the man who was now stretching.

“You said my name. I’m Prometheus. I suppose you can call me a god of fire, but I love to be called a god of trickery since you know it’s my thing. Well I’m not really a god but rather a titan. They’re two different things,” Prometheus said. “And yes, Hermione I believe was the name, you were right with my legend. I’m surprised someone as young as you know about me. From what I remember, kids your age used to only know how to play outside and bother their mother for some food. And don’t point that weapon at me. Your magic won’t even scratch me even if you tried for decades,”

Chris tried to look at Prometheus’ stats, but other than his name, everything else was left with question marks.

“Why were you trapped here Lord Prometheus,” Chris asked.

‘Better to call him Lord. Who know whether he’ll get triggered if I call him only by his name with no honorific,’ Chris thought.

“Don’t get formal with me. Call me Prometheus. Well, I was freed by Hercules from my fate of eternal suffering. However, I was captured by the Keres, those goddesses of painful death and put here. I was supposed to be imprisoned here until they thought that it was the right time to cripple me forever,” Prometheus said. “It’s crazy how terrible these gods and goddesses are. For heaven’s sake, Zeus imprisoned me for eternity for teaching you guys about fire, probably the most important tool you’ve ever received,”

“Before we continue, may you please get dressed and groomed? I’m sure that my two lady friends over there would love to be able to see you,” Chris said.

“Oh yes,” Prometheus said. “I guess with the power I have left, I can do something like this,”

He snapped and he had an instant hair cut and now was wearing ancient Greek clothing.

“This should be enough although I should be using my power sparingly,” Prometheus said.

Hermione and Kristine both turned around.

“So Prometheus, why did the Keres capture you?” Hermione asked.

“Because I know stuff that they can only wish to know. It’s quite complicated actually,” Prometheus said. “And I can’t tell them the information they need because it will destroy everything. The balance of order and chaos will be destroyed and you mortals who aren’t even involved will probably go extinct,”

“Alright so is the diary yours or is it someone else’s?” Kristine asked.

“What diary?” Prometheus asked.

“This diary,” Hermione said as she showed him the diary with the riddle.

“No it is not mine and I’m quite surprised that it was able to bring you three here,” Prometheus said. “And it says ‘piece of hope’. I’m ȧssuming that’s me,”

“Prometheus, I don’t know if you know, but recently we have fought against these cult members who have apparently had the blessing of Nyx,”

“The Goddess of the Night?! That is impossible!” Prometheus exclaimed. He then stayed silent for a minute. “I think I know what you are talking about right now. So things are getting a bit more serious aren’t they? Well let’s get out of here. We don’t have time to waste in here. According to this diary, Keres is going to come to kill me here today so we should leave as fast as possible,”

“Wait a minute,” Prometheus said. He closed his eyes then said some unfamiliar words to Chris. The diary soon glowed once more and Chris, Hermione, and Kristine closed their eyes. The three soon realized that they were back in the Statue of Liberty.

(Author’s Note: I want to talk about Draco since I think he’s one of the most controversial character (just for what I think of him). There are two ways people perceive him. 1) The coward and 2) the boy with no choices. I lean towards the first one. A coward who only lives to save his skin. His family wasn’t the only one in danger. So was the Weasley’s so was the Longbottom’s (whose family was already destroyed), and many others, but all of them chose to potentially sacrifice everyone they love for the sake of the greater good. He had his choices, but chose the easier way out. Even in the end, when they turned to the “good side”, they were still cowards unwilling to stay till the very end to save their skin. Of course, this may sound like I completely hate Draco, but I don’t because I’m like that too. So are almost every one of you reading. No one except for only a few are willing to sacrifice everyone they love for the sake of bigger picture. If I was there and my family was about to be killed by Voldemort, I would go to his side as well until things go awry. Would you for the sake of myself and my family potentially sacrifice your mother, father, sibling(s), wife, husband, and etc? Probably not. However, this is why many choose to defend him. It’s because he’s so relatable. They want to defend him because by calling him a coward, they’re calling themselves a coward as well. However, to me, he was a bigot that would turn his back on the losing side. Although I say that, I think that was the beauty of his character. He didn’t need redemption. His character was one of the greatest in the series and seeing how everyone talks about him and is so divided between if they like him or not makes him one of the best characters in the HP series. What do you think?)