As I shifted back into my original form and the others dismounted their transportation units, Quella placed a hard knock onto the giant bronze door. The sound was loud and clear as it rang through the thick August air.
"I'll beat you eventually," I said to Quella who still floated by the door. "You can't win every race."
"I don't know, you've got to be fast to catch me." She laughed and floated down beside Vectra and landed and crossed her arms, waiting for the doors to swing open.
"Are you saying I'm slow?" I joked. "We can settle this later." We stood in a second of silence before I noticed Rory grabbing at Vectra's bag, he scared her. She jumped and fell suddenly and knocked Adrian over like a domino. She flailed her arms and landed on his leg. A small puff of gold-filled dirt swirled in the air. They both coughed and Quella, Sonar, and I began to laugh hysterically.
"Hey!" Adrian growled, "What's your deal?" His white pants were stained with the dirt of the mountain and he was angry.
"Sorry!" Vectra whined as she rotated her foot in her boot to make sure her ankle wasn't broken. "I lost my balance.."
"More like Rory scared you!" Quella laughed and heaved her stomach. Rory frantically tried to help her up and turned a bright shade of red. Sonar elbowed me. "Watch this," he smirked. With a small kick, Sonar managed to topple Rory into the dirt as well. His landed awkwardly, directly on top of Vectra, and they were face to face.
The sight of all of them piled up was a riot. Vectra turned an even darker shade of red and she shoved him over. Adrian still grumbled and cursed underneath of them. He crawled away and attempted to dust his pants off. I laughed and helped him up from the ground while he gave me an annoyed look. He brushed some dirt off of his arms and stomped over to the door.
Rory had also gotten up and sported a dusty footprint on the back of his tunic. He hurrily tried to help Vectra up again and he avoided eye contact constantly. She blushed while he hauled her out of the dirt. She quickly walked away and stood beside the door as well. Rory walked past Sonar and punched him in the arm.
Sonar, Quella, and I still laughed at their acts of simpleness. Quella stopped laughing before Sonar and I, she was more serious than us. Through all of the laughter, we never even noticed that nobody had answered the door to Olympus. We had been outside of the gates for a good five minutes.
"Is anybody home?" I grumbled as we still stood in silence and stared at the doors. Sonar shrugged and he knocked on the giant doors. Still, they stayed closed tightly. Adrian fiddled with a stick that fell out of his hair.
"What is going on?" Sonar said while knocking again on the doors. This time, they slowly swung open a revealed a shattered sight. Olympus was in shambles, and everything was chaotic. Marble fountains were toppled over, nymphs and satyrs were running frantically around in circles, and everything was pure madness. Sonar and l gasped simaltaniously.
"Oh my word," I said outloud. "What's happening?" I started to walk into the swirling mess until Sonar pulled me back outside.
"Maybe we should go home?" He suggested. "This doesn't seem right to me. Surely Zeus would have warned us if this was happening. "
"What do you mean, this?" Adrian said while shoving Rory to the side and taking a better look at things. He gasped and stepped back, not even making another sound.
"Exactly," Sonar growled with an unreadable expression painted onto his face. "This is strange. I seriously wonder what's wrong and if this is a trap."
"They wouldn't let that happen," I placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Can't we go and see what's going on?"
"I don't trust this place," Said Adrian, "Let's go home."
