Rhea ii

Book One

Volume 2

Ch. 21 Rhea ii

-Kara-

Soon we arrived at school

The teacher was in the middle of a lesson when we walked in unannounced

"Rhea" Mr. M smiles at her "welcome" his smile disappears after seeing me walk in right behind her "Kara… please have a seat" he says in disgust

I return the same nasty look he gave me

"Ahem*" he clears his throat "Alright as I was saying, because planet Gaia is so large without the power of the Gods it would take the planet a full 12 years to make a complete orbit around the sun, but because of us Gods that time is reduced to 504 days in which we divided into 12 months, that being 42 days every month" he explains

"Hey, what's up, Kara" I hear beside me

"Coco, how we doing today, baby" I dap him up as he sits down beside me

"I'll knock you out." Coeus grumbles

He hates it whenever I call him Coco

He's 2 years older but he failed this class just as I have so now we're in it with Rhea

"Where have you been?"

"I was checking up on Cronus" he says

"Cronus, really? How is papa?" Rhea asks

"Cronus? Oh he's fine." Coeus says "he was training just as hard again and caught a cold" he says

A cold?

Gods don't get sick so that was odd

He's probably been training way too hard

His obsession to surpass Ignia is beyond anything

"Oh... okay" Rhea gets back to studying

"Excuse me Mr…. Amaterasu if you may, I am trying to teach"

I sigh

"yeah-yeah" I roll my eyes

"Anyways our planet measures;" he points at the board

Volume

1.5 quadrillion cubic kilometers

The Diameter

142,000 miles

The Radius

71,000 miles

The Surface area

63,300,000,000 miles squared

Our Moon's Volume

23,400,000,000,000

The Moon's radius

17,750 miles

The Moon's diameter

35,500 miles

Animal species

1,080,000,000

Insects

1,200,000,000,000,000,000,000+

Mortal races

600

Human beings

960,000,000,000+

Plant species

48,000,000

Trees

364,920,000,000,000+

Humans born a day

43,200,000+

Humans born a year

15,600,000,000+

Humans die a day

19,200,000+

Humans die a year

7,200,000,000+

"As I said BEFORE" he looks at me "our planet is about 320, or more, times larger than a more natural planet.

A 'natural planet' is born from swirling dust and gas being pulled together by gravity to form into a planet with a max capacity of 10-15 billion people and only about 9-20 million different species of Animals" he continues

"Thanks to Ignias rise to power our planet has grown exponentially since that fiend, Kara, was in command" he looks at me again

"Tch" I smack my lips

I hate that I looked so much like my father. Everyone treats me like I'm some kind of reincarnation of that monster

The rest of the day went by and after a friendly football game after school I was about to head over to the shop like Ignia asked me too

"Kara!" Rhea jumps into my arms

I fall back on my ass before I feel her shove her tongue into my mouth

I hug her tightly before she finally pulls her head back

"R-Rhea?" I look up at her

"Where are you going?" She asks

"Ignia asked me to drop by the shop. What was that for?"

"We're dating now silly" she says as we stand up

"Oh..." I look around "what if your brother sees?" I ask

"Who? Coeus?" She asks

"Or Cronus, both of them will beat my ass if they see you holding on to me like this"

"Don't be so scared of papa" she giggles "he spends most of his time at the castle, not to mention he's gotten sick" she adds

"Hmm... okay" I sigh still a bit worried about Coeus

"So what are you planning to do today?" she asks as we make our way to the shop

"N-nothing, why?" I ask

"Are you kidding? What do you mean why? Do you know what day it is?" She asks

"Umm..." I think

"It's the day Ignia defeated Father, silly" She giggles "seriously how dumb are you Kara" she tilts her head

"Hey, stop being so mean" I frown

"Anyways it's been 9 years on the divine calendar since then" her voice trembles "man, I really miss mom" she sighs

"Yeah" I sigh, remembering how I felt about her

"I-it's okay, Cronus was there for me from the very start," she says

…

I wonder how Isis is doing

"Ahem*" Rhea clears her throat

"Huh?" I look at her

"You okay big guy?" She smiles

"Y-yeah" I nod

"Well, we're here"

"Oh..." I look up at the door to the shop "you coming?"

She shakes her head

"I don't think I can even look at him after this morning" she blushes

"Oh.. okay then" I head inside

"Ignia?" I find him underneath a car

"Mgh*" he grunts "don't break-don't break-don't break" he begs "ahh" he sighs "finally" he grumbles as he crawls out from under the car

With his strength it's awfully hard not to tear the car to pieces when he's really just trying to fix it

"Oh" he looks up at me "hey Kara" he grunts, getting back to his feet

"You okay?" I ask

"Huh?" He wipes his hands "oh y-yeah, the cat wouldn't budge" he huffs "so what's up with you?"

"You told me to drop by earlier" I remind him

"Ahh... shit yeah, huh" he remembers as he wipes his sweaty face with his shirt "so where's your little girlfriend?" He asks

"M-my what?" I blush

He smiles, opening up the door

"Come in babe" he tells Rhea who was sitting on the floor

"Oh... hey mister" she looks up at him

"Come in baby" he says again

"Okay" she walks in

"So what you two planning on doing tonight?" he asks

"N-nothing I was planning on seeing how daddy's doing" Rhea says nervously

"My ass you're planning on missing out on the festival" Ignia says "Cronus will be fine, mama. There's no need to worry bout that guy"

"Is this why you wanted me to come over or..." I ask Ignia

"Hehe*" he giggles "lighten up kid" he slaps the back of my head

"H-hey" I stumble forward

"Well I certainly wouldn't want to bother you o-on a day like this m-my lord" Rhea says

"Don't call me that silly" he raises a finger "you call me Ignia or big bro no exceptions, alright kid?" he smiles widely

"Hehe* you got it big bro" she smiles just as widely

"Was this what you wanted me to drop by for or what, old man?" I ask a bit impatient

"Calm down, calm down" he reaches into his pocket "here" he tosses me a stack of money "its payday, kid"

"Oh..." Right todays payday, only he gave me a lot more than usual, but hey, I'm not complaining

"A little extra for your girl" he winks

"Alright, take it easy, old man" I say after he gets Rhea flustered again

"Anyways" he smiles taking a good look at the both of us "today's a big day, you two should get your rest before tonight" he says as I lead Rhea out

"R-right" I agree before I feel his hand on my shoulder

"Remember, calm." He reminds me of the training he had been putting me through "in order to control this… this rage. You must stay intact with who you truly are," he raises his finger. "Don't do that and you'll lose all sense of yourself, okay?"

"R-right" I nod

I found it weird that he was telling me this now

Maybe he knows I train behind his back even when I'm not supposed to..

Oops…

We make our way back home where Irene decided to just ignore us for the rest of the day

Igneel arrived shortly after with his wife, Layla, his daughter Kari and their newborn son

"You want to watch some Netflix?" I ask Rhea as Mia and Kari went off to play outside

She nods as she gulped down the rest of her dinner

"Alright come here then" I open my arms, inviting her into the blanket with me

She looks around for Irene before hoping right in as I started the movie

"Is it scary?" She asks

I smile widely

She frowns before just laying her head on my shoulder

"Hehe*" I giggle as the movie starts

...

Soon it got dark by the time the movie ended we could hear the music beginning outside

"Mmngghh" Rhea stretches

"Where are you going?" I ask

"I'm going to take a bath" she walks off

"Ooo" I jump to my feet

I follow her to the bathroom where she stopped me

"H-hey" I frown

"Stop being silly" she whispers

"What do you mean?" I pout

"You know how Irene got, seeing us together" she says

"So what" I try getting around her

"Later.. tonight" she smiles "I promise" she shuts the door

"Hmm" I frown

…

-to be continued