Chapter 7: Apollo

Chapter 7:
 After a long and exhausting day, the group finally went to sleep. It felt as if the group hasn't slept in years. Of course, it was shortly lived from the hotel's alarm clock's ringing by Alex's bed.
 "Oh god make the suffering stop." Kayla groaned as she fell off her bed. Alex, who couldn't open up his eyes at this time of day, waved his hand around aimlessly until he hit something, the machine. It fell off the desk and made a rapid ear piercing beeping sound.
 "I got it." Terri got out of bed and bashed the alarm clock with his gavel, the suffering finally stopped. However, the machine was still beeping.
 "Don't destroy the machine, I'm up." Alex fell of his bed and looked at the same green/red dot that they saw last night.
 "Can't we just put the machine on silent?" Kyle asked.
 "Well, not really, but I think we should investigate, Mars said that not all Figures are harmless, so maybe it's another one of those." Alex and the group reluctantly got out of their warm, comfortable beds and walked down to the dot. They were in the kitchen and dining area, which was serving breakfast. Everyone got distracted with the variety of food and eventually got to the dot twenty minutes later with at least two plates of food and too many beverages to count.
 "False alarm, it's just Mars" Alex said while eating a Bear Claw.
 "Hello, I found out the location of the next threatening Figures" Mars said whil holding a muffin with buttercream frosting.
 "Oh, don't worry, our machine can-" Alex was cut off
 "Yeah, I know, but not these. They're known as "Invisible Figures" because they cannot be found on any tracking device, no matter how advanced." Mars dropped a metaphorical microphone with that reply. Alex was staring at the machine, knowing that if those Figures are so advanced that they don't show up on a tracking device, they could be a nightmare compared to the other Figures.
 "Well, how many are there? It's not that big of a deal if there's only one Invisible Figure, right?" Terri asked, eating an orange.
 "There's not that many" The group sighed in relief "If you consider eight not that many, though" erri almost fell out of his chair.
 "Well, can you show us the location of the Figure you were talking about?" Mars agreed to Alex's request, and after eating and getting their weapons, they set off to find the Figure.
 "Remember, these Invisible Figures are stronger than the ones you fought, so be careful." Mars led the group through an alley, which opened up to a wide, dimly lit space, with what appeared to be a hand shaped ship, rising out of the thumb was what appeared to be a Figure. He had apricot skin, and was wearing a short sleeved brown shirt and black jeans. He appeared to be levitating lazily while talking to Hephaestus.
 "So, you're saying that these children. These ordinary human children, are a threat?" The Figure was levitating around Hephaestus.
 "Look, Apollo, I know that this is something you don't hear everyday, but they beat me and Helios, and they only had a loaf of bread!" A light emitted out of Hephaestus's forehead, showing Kayla bashing Hephaestus with a loaf of bread.
 "One way to look at this is that you and Helios are incompetent at your job, so I might as well deal with this 'threat' by myself." Apollo kept his voice at a calm tone and never rose his voice "I'm going back to sleep, thank you for waking me up for nothing." Hephaestus scanned the area until he saw the group standing right there, in plain sight.
 "Oh, it's you again, I didn't want to deal with you again." Hephaestus looked at Mars instead of the group when he talked "Apollo, they're here!"
 "Just let me brush my heir, you know that I have terrible bedhead." Apollo still talked at the same volume, but Hephaestus was still able to hear him. Hephaestus looked around to think of a way to district the group. He then pointed up at the sky and yelled.
 "Look Mars, another section of Figures for you to betray!" Hephaestus still looked at Mar. Eventually, there was just an awkward silence for about a minute until Kyle broke it.
 "So, Hephaestus, did you hear why Adele crossed the road?" Hephaestus didn't reply "To say hello from the other side!" No one laughed, and the silence was finally broken by Apollo.
 "I couldn't find my hairbrush, so I just dyed my hair black." Apollo's previously brown hair was now black. "So, where are they?" Hephaestus pointed at the ground, where the group was. Apollo did a double take when he saw Mars.
 "Oh my God, is that Mars? I thought I told you to leave after you joined Adrian's league." Apollo said Adrian's name with disgust.
 "Wait, how do you know Adrian?" Terri yelled so Apollo could hear.
 "Well, me and Adrian always loved to create new things, for example, I created this ship by hand. But then, he wasted all of his potential creating the Prototype. Mars decided to join Adrian's Prototype after years of being with us. Now, I think this would be a great time to eliminate all of you." Apollo rose his hand in the their, making four geysers of light erupted around the group. Apollo dropped himself to the ground, making it a fair fight.
 "I'm guessing his weakness could be his hair?" Kyle grabbed a pair of throwing scissorss and threw it at Apollo, he dodged them.
 "Don't think that I actually have a weakness like those inferior Figures." Apollo shot a beam of light at Mars, it hit him in the chest, and almost knocked him unconscious. Mars shot a burst of flames at Apollo, it hit him, but he didn't even flinch. Terri grabbed his golden gavel and bashed Apollo with it, he still didn't flinch. Apollo kicked the gavel out of Terri's hand and caught it. The gavel crumbled in Apollo's hand, he then made a geyser of light erupt under Terri, leaving him unconscious. Alex got a violet knife out of his backpack and dashed towards Apollo. Apollo didn't do anything to block the knife, he appeared to be injured, but didn't act as if he was.
 "I'll take care of this!" Kayla grabbed an explosive filled taddy bear and threw it at Apollo. The bear exploded, Apollo's clothes appeared tattered, but he didn't seem weaker. Apollo formed a cloud over the remaining group members, the cloud rained daggers of light, Mars and Kayla fell unconscious.
 "I never met someone that survived that before, I guess I have to use a last resort." Apollo summoned a violin shaped form of light in his hands "I was given the name "Apollo" because he was known as the God of Music, but he hasn't seen what I can do." Apollo played the light violin, the violin sounded beautiful, but it was somehow physically damaging Kyle. After the song was complete, Kyle fell unconscious.
 "I'd like to know how you are still standing." Apollo pointed to Alex, who was somehow still standing "Well, Adrian did say that the users of the Prototype were the owners of supernatural powers." It hit Alex like a truck. Adrian did say that, and from his online username, it is possible that music has something to do with his power. Alex dashed to Kayla's backpack and got a silver-plated violin out of her backpack. Despite never playing a violen before, he was able to play the instrument beautifully.
 "I guess it's a challenge that you want, then." Apollo and Alex were both playing the same pettern of notes. Alex was soon tired and felt like he had to stop soon. He saw Apollo, who showed no sign of stopping, and stopped playing, he stabbed Apollo in the chest with the violin bow. For the first time, Apollo showed a sign of pain. In anger, he shot a beam of light at Alex, it was so close to hitting Alex, that he  felt it graze his hair. Alex slammed Apollo with the silver-plated violin, and Apollo fell down.
 "Okay, you win, I'm going back to sleep." Apollo lazily levitated back to the ship.
One down, seven to go.