Zoe's P.O.V
Everyone was shocked except for my mother's family. They all just stood there looking at the rest of us, waiting for any reaction.

The food had finished just before Death arrived and now a bonfire was blazing away.

The last person I thought would stir everyone was my grandpa Ted. He went over to the bonfire.

"Gather around family, friends and rivals. It's story time." He announced in his deep voice.

Everyone gathered around the fire without any arguing. My dad was holding on to me tightly. A part of me wanted my mom to do it, but she didn't make any sign of coming over. As we all sat down grandpa Ted started his story.

"This story goes back to the beginning. Where good and evil would meet at day to fight and settle at night. There is always unrest between those two. Many people have wondered where good and evil came from and there are many stories. But this story is about the change." He paused letting his words sink.

"The change?" Psyche asked.

"Look at good. There are many explanations and beings that were made from good. There is Zeus as an embodiment of Justice. People, like Nelson Mandela, that represent good. But there is evil. Sitting around this fire, evil lurks around us like the blood in our veins."

"Are you implying that we are all evil?" My dad questioned.

"Indeed. Look at us here at this fire." As soon as Grandpa Ted said that the flames turned purple. He turned to Psyche," You should understand? You are named after a hero that was as beautiful as a god but Underworld magic has seeped into your blood."

Psyches face darkened immediately.

"And you Michael? You have been pulled into his grip and now he taints you but not the same way as Psyche. No, you're tainted by the fear; his engulfed you in Phobos."

Michael looked ready to defend himself but Grandpa Ted moved on.

"And you, son in law" He turned to my dad. "You married a Nyx and even gave the opportunity for the next-generation, twice even yet you can't accept it."

Once more my dad looked pissed.

"Aphrodite? You carry such pain in your heart, but you still love easy. Yes, you should've died long time ago, but you haven't. And you Zoe, " he said disappointment on his face. ", you are, in this case, Minte, under the trap of Death yet you will die by the hands of another god."

I could feel everything leave me as my dad squeezed me.

"The beginning of it all was in Egypt. There the Pharaohs hosted the god Horus. The Greeks and Romans knew they could do the same, but their gods could be people by themselves, they did not need us. For centuries people tried to host the Greek and Roman gods but these gods weren't Egyptian so those who tried, they died. "

"But I don't understand! " I interrupted. "How come..."

"Then came the various wars including WW1 and civil wars. All the while people tried to host the gods. They just kept dying. Then came WW2 or more specifically, the Battle of Greece. As always in history there was a name for the sides."

"The Allies and Axis Powers?" Psyche offered.

"Italy vs Greece. Why, because the Greece stood in the way of Italy, at least that's what History says. But I know what happened there. Prime Minister Benito Mussolini of Italy had cracked the code. They needed the Underworlds blood more specifically an underworld god's blood. He had an affair with Nyx and the child she bore was a demigod, her first. The child's name was Zoe Nyx." He looked at me with a sly smile. "Your name means light. Your surname means Night. You are conflicted because you have both natures in you, Zoe. But back then the choice was made by Nyx. Your ancestor was the first to host a god."

I felt my stomach twist. My ancestor had hosted a god? That means I could. I started getting excited for no reason.

"This started a war. Greece was not happy. They thought that Italy, or in their mind Rome, would soon take all their gods. So the war began. Loannis Metaxis led the Greek side. He fought two wars. The one that history has been allowed to carry and the one that has been forgotten. Loannis needed somebody to take down the Nyxs, so he recruited the most bad-ass family that time, the Telikós or the Ultimate. Jake Ultimate had founded a city named His burden. He was obviously dead by the time the war rolled around but his descendants had been around. "

I was, to put it bluntly, confused.

"Grandpa Ted, what's the point of this story? Like no thriller, no action or suspension." Toni complained.

"The Ultimate family divided into two branches: The Eaves and The Thales."

"Now we're getting somewhere!" Bradlin screamed out.

"Loannis ordered one of the Thales to kill the Nyxs. He had to kill the entire clan. His name was Jake Thales and what surprised Mussolini and the Nyxs the most was the fact that he was hosting Trigon, the Roman Titan of evil. Think about it, Zoe, the man that's supposed to protect you, was once in charge of slaughtering us. How does that make you feel?"

"It makes me right about him!" My dad said.

"22 April 1941, he attached his sword to his belt and dawned a black robe and sauntered into the night. That night not even Nyx could protect our clan. Trigon was just too much. Jake slaughtered our entire clan except my father. He was eight at the time and watched his parents die in front of him."

Grandpa extended his hands, the purple flames responding. Immediately the flames rose six metres high and took on millions of colours. We all had to move back because it was so hot. Then images appeared in the flames. There was Jake standing with his sword drawn over two bodies. A boy entered the room and immediately screamed.

I felt the evil rising off him. The boy couldn't see his eyes but they were bright red igniting all my fears.

"Why does this look so familiar?" Bradlin said lowly. What?

He turned to the boy and as soon as their eyes met, he fell. It looked like he was having a stroke but after a while he stood again. The kid was brave.

"Why...WHY?" He shouted, tears falling. My heart broke into tinier pieces.

"When you're just like your father come find me. Use your hate and become stronger because when I come back, I'll have no mercy. "

With that the flames died down to normal size.

"I always thought he was just an idiot trying to be a bad boy, but I never thought he came from a murderer like that." Psyche said in disbelief.

"Quite on the contrary, he was the ultimate hero." Grandpa Ted said.

We all looked at him as if he was insane.

"How?" I could barely get it out.

"On the 23rd, a day after the slaughtering, Greece and Italy made peace but not because of the Nyxs. No, that night Jake slaughtered his own clan as well. He knew the power of a god couldn't be handled by us mere mortals. We had to be trained. Later my father came and killed Jake but the hatred he used made him able to host a god, any god. He then had two children. One was a girl named once again Zoe and the other a boy named Jake. And from that day, the Thales have been protecting anyone with underworld blood in them including all who are here today."

What a story? And to make it worse suddenly in the distance a purple explosion lit the night.