The next morning, Caesar is training, in his room. Throwing punch, after punch, after punch at the air. He does the same with kicks, til he hears a knock at his bedroom door.

"Caesar, can I come in?”

Caesar jumps onto his bed, and picks up a book. "Yeah."

His mom walks in. "I wanted to check on you, I heard a noise coming from here, a couple of minutes ago."

Caesar flashes back to a few minutes ago when, one of his kicks knocked over a lamp. "Just knocked over my lamp."

"Oh okay, well how was school yesterday?"

"Uneventful." Caesar keeps his eyes glued to his book.

His mother asks hopefully. "Did you talk to anyone?"

"Yeah, two actually."

Caesar's mom face lit up. "Really, who were they, what did you talk about?"

"They're both new to school, I meet them in the library, and we talked for a little."

His mom suggests excitedly. "Why don't you invite them over?"

"I don't know them that well." When will his mom learn, he likes being a loner.

"But could you?" His mother said with a pleading look.

"Yeah mom, I'll ask.” He said.

And she smiles. "Thank you, now you better finish getting ready, we leave soon."

"Okay, I'll be down in a minute."

His mom leaves the room, and closes the door.

Caesar falls backwards on his bed. Covering his face with his hands. Thinking to himself, how did he go, from a bookworm, to leading a double life, in less than twenty four hours. He gets off his bed stands up. "Okay time to get ready, and save the world." He lets out a deep breaths, and goes to his closet.

Meanwhile on Jacob's farm. The blind teen, is carrying a tray food into the barn. "Medusa are you here?"

"Yes." The green girl said in a hushed tone.

Jacob cane in hand, follows the sound of medusa's voice. He sits down, and places the tray of food on the floor.

"Eggs, bacon, toast and orange juice, you should try the eggs first my mom makes the best eggs." Jacob takes the fork picks up a piece of eggs, and hands it to Medusa who stare at it hesitantly. "I promise they're amazing." Jacob said with a smile.

Medusa grabs the fork, and takes a bite.

"Good?" he asked her.

Medusa nods, but remembers Jacob can't see. "Yes, they're quite good."

"So did your mother really liked Greek mythology?"

When Medusa hears the word mother, an image of Mother Earth appears in her head.

"Medusa you still with me?"

"Yes."

"Okay I was trying to be sly asking about your mom, I hoped you would tell me why you're hiding here?"

"I ran away.”

"From home?"

Medusa thinks back to the moment, Dr. Eisner, and his excavation team found her tomb. The images of people turning to stone, and the sounds of their screams filling her mind. "You could call it that."

"Why'd you run?" He asked.

"I was scared, and I wanted to be free."

"Scared, and free of what?"

Medusa doesn't say a word. She removes her eyes from Jacob, and just stares at the ground.

"You can trust me Medusa."

“...”

Jacob sighs. "Okay I have chores to do, be back in a few." He gets up.

"Have you ever been trapped because, of something you couldn't control?" Medusa asked.

"Like?" He asked out of intrigue, and confusion by her question.

"Anything," Medusa said.

"Yeah, I've spent every moment of my life on this farm, I know everything inch of this place, like right here." He steps on a floorboard which makes a squeaky sound.

"That's how you can move around like you can see."

"Took me some time, but now I know everything inch of this place, from the squeaky floorboard, to the way each piece of wood feels, to the differences in the same kind of animals' voices, after awhile it becomes second nature."

"So you know what it feels like to be trapped in a place, and to feel like you're suffocating, and all you want is to be able to breath."

"From the moment i was born my mom and dad have been trying to protect me and they have, so yeah sometimes it feels like that, but also I love this place, it's my home, and i wouldn't trade it for anything, and sometimes I have to remind myself that, isn't there something you love about your home?"

She said easily. "No." She never wants to see that tomb again.

"What about people you love, they can be home just, as much as a place?"

A memory comes flooding back to Medusa. "My child, you are one of my most beautiful creations, you were made to protect all beings, never forget that."

"But why do I hurt people?" A crying child Medusa asked.

"When something is born into this world no one not even I know what it will end up being, but I know that anything can bring pain and suffering, or joy and happiness, it just depends on how it is used, do you understand child?”

"I think I do." Little Medusa wiped tears from her eyes.

"I love you, you know that right?"

"Yes I do, I love you too mother." Medusa said with a smile.

Medusa's thoughts change, to another memory, of her in the tomb, and the lid being put on. "Please I don't want to go to sleep." A tearful Medusa says.

Mother Earth said in a somber voice. "I'm sorry, but this is the only option for you, and everyone else to be safe, I really didn't think it would end this way." Then closes the tomb.

"No, let's me out, please mother, mother please, don't do this!" Medusa screams before she is overcome in a green mist, and falls into a deep slumber.

"Medusa, Medusa!"

'What?"

"You spaced out again."

"Oh, um yes, oh your question yes, but I don't think they want me."

"Well you said you think why don't you find out for sure."

That question is answered with silence.

"Hey why don't you help me with chores?"

"No, I can't."

"I could use the help, and you need to stop hiding, you're not really free, if you go from being trapped in one place to trapped another."

“Jacob!” A voice yelled.

"Coming mom!” He turns to Medusa. “I gotta go.”

Medusa looks at the wall behind Jacob, and notices a hoodie, and a bandana hangs on a rack. "Jacob, I'll do it."

Jacob grins. "Okay, I'll be right back." As he walks away, Medusa goes to the rack. She picks up the hoodie, and bandana, looking at them, unsure if she just made a good decision.

Amore runs down the school hallway, towards Caesar and Dillon. "Hey guys wait up!"

"What took you so long?" Caesar asked.

"I had to beg my mom to let me go today, after what happened yesterday."

"What, was she afraid it would happen again?" Dillon asked.

"Pretty much." She replied.

"Whatever, you're here now is all that matters, now let's hurry and meet Mother Earth." Caesar said.

When the school bell starts to ring. "Well I guess we'll have to meet up, with Mother Earth later." Dillon said.

"I still don't get why she couldn't just tell us what we're up against earlier." Caesar remarked.

"She said, she wanted to tell all of us together." Amore says.

As they take their seats, a white guy in his twenties walks in front of a desk. "Hi I'm Simon Gregory, but you can call me Simon, I'll be your teacher this semester, and I hope that we can have a great semester, but before we get started I'd like to welcome your new classmates, Dillon King and Bella Amore Valentine." He said pointing to them.

They wave hello to the rest of the class.

"Well now that introductions are over, let's get down to business." Mr. Gregory said.

"So can you believe it, we have superheroes in our town?" A student said. Peaking our heroes’ attention.

"Stopping a couple of bank robbers doesn't make them heroes." Another student said.

Hearing that our heroes faces change. Amore's turns a little sad. Caesar’s somewhat annoy. Dillon straight out angry.

"Well I think anyone who saves people's lives is a hero." Dillon said.

Amore and Caesar stare, at him afraid he'll say something he's not supposed to.

"Whatever, I give them a week before everyone forgets about them."

While the group continues class. Medusa remains unsure, if leaving the barn is a wise idea.

Jacob walks in. "Medusa you ready to go?"

"Yes." Medusa responds. She puts the bandana over her eyes, already wearing the hoodie she saw earlier. She stands next to Jacob, and links her arm with his. "Lead me the way."

Surprise is evident on Jacob's face. "That's the first time someone's said that to me."

"You said you know this place so well, show me."

Jacob smiled at her. "Okay let's go." A minute or two later they reach the pig pen.

The pigs start oinking, as soon as Jacob and Medusa arrive.

"So are you happy to see me, or do you just smell your food?" Jacob asks with a chuckle. "You want to do the honor?" Jacob asks Medusa.

"Huh?"

"Feed the pigs, here." He hands her a bucket of food.

Medusa whom vision is impaired by the bandana. Feels around for the pen until she feels wooden spoke, and proceeds to pour the bucket in.

Pig line up side by side and chow down on their breakfast. The loud oinking of the pigs triggers a memory of when she was a little girl watching wild pigs from afar.

"Medusa!" Medusa snaps out of her daze. "You spaced out on me again."

"Sorry."

"No need to apologise, what were you thinking about anyway?"

"About how I used to watch, so much many wild animals pigs, deer, birds, they were all so beautiful."

A smile crept up Jacob's face. "That sounds great."

"It was." Medusa said thinking of all the joy watching the animals brought her as a child.

"So you're from the country?" He asked.

"No, a forest."

"That must had been nice."

"It was, even though it got lonely, I would sometimes pretend the animals were my friends, as I watched them, I even gave them names." She said with fondness and sadness in her voice.

"I may not be a pig or a deer, but I like to think I could be a friend." Jacob said.

Medusa just stands there not sure what to say.

"We should get moving, still have a lot of work to do." He said.

"Yeah." As they walk off, a familiar aura washes over Medusa. "What is this feeling, I know I've felt it before, but I can't remember where." She thought to herself.

Back at Moss City High. Our heroes are in the back of the library waiting, for Mother Earth to show up.

"What's taking Mother Earth so long?" Caesar asked himself.

"Don't worry, I'm sure she'll be here any minute, I mean if anything was wrong we'd know it, since she’s the earth." Dillon said chewing his ham and cheese sandwich.

Caesar just looks, at Dillon sloppily eating. And falls back into his chair.

"Do you think we cut out for this, I mean we don't really know what we're doing, or what we’re up against?" Amore asked the boys.

"Is this about the guy from earlier, don't listen to him, he doesn't know what he's talking about, we're heroes." Dillon responded.

"I know we're heroes, but I just wonder if we're super-heroes." Amore clarified.

"We're both, right Caesar?" Dillon asked.

Caesar who's laying back in his chair. Stoically responds with. "It doesn't matter really, we're doing this to protect people, not be superheroes, and as for if we can handle this, I have no idea, we won't know till we have to face whatever it is."

At that moment Mother Earth materializes. "I found her." she announced.

Caesar was quite confused. “Who?”

"Medusa." She responds.

"What!" they exclaimed.

"You mean snakes for hair, and turns people to stone?" Amore said.

"How is that even possible?" Caesar asked.

To be continued...