DO YOU KNOW HOW ADDICTING IT IS TO WRITE?!!?!? SERIOUSLY!!!!!
Oh, and guess who just finished The Mark of Athena?!
WORST CLIFFHANGER EVER!!!! AND I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT FALL AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I mean both cliffhanger figuratively AND literally.
-=THAT IS WHAT TRUE LOVE IS!!!!!=-
I'm crazy, aren't I. Yup. Anyways.
A continuation of the Best Dream Ever written by Erin, daughter of Poseidon.
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"How long does it take to get a pen!?" cried Lauren, pounding her head on the table. I gave an exasperated valley girl sigh and stood up.
"C'mon Lauren, let's go find her," I said, standing up and tugging Lauren's wrist. "With a demigod's luck, she might be devoured by monsters already." That got Lauren up.
She ran over to the cashier and screamed in his face, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH BAILEY?!!?" The cashier cringed and dramatically wiped his hands down his face.
"Hey girl, say it, don't spray it." Lauren scowled, whipped out a dagger (where did she get that from?! We all know she can't be trusted with sharp objects!) and pointed it at the guy's throat. His eyes widened and he raised his hands up.
"Alright, alright! In the back! She's in the back!!" Lauren put away her knife (thank gods) and the two of us burst into the back, almost knocking down the door. We hoped not to see Bailey getting devoured by monsters, but what awaited our eyes might have been worse. We walked in on Bailey and Nico! I could not believe my eyes! They weren't kissing or anything, but still! They were staring at each other fondly, looking quite shocked when Lauren and I burst in.
"Were you... SNOGGING?!" exclaimed Lauren. She turned green, covered her mouth, and ran outside.
"For your information we were NOT snogging!" yelled Nico after her.
"Dude, can't your dad see everything? You guys are in SOOOO much trouble," I taunted, which probably wasn't the best idea considering I was taunting two death-dad-kids.
"It's called a spell," said Nico, like it was the most obvious thing ever.
Then I realized they were sort of blurry. And a bit darker. I realized there was a thin black veil around the two of them; it seemed to be shifting. I reached out with my left hand to touch it and immediately recoiled. It was freezing! It seemed to be literally draining the life out of my hand. Just the average thing for them apparently, because they were having a ball inside there! Lauren stumbled back in, clutching her stomach, and I gave her a big hearty pat on the back. Apparently that wasn't the thing to do, because she ran outside, covering her mouth again. Nico raised his eyebrows at me. I wanted to change the subject.
"Bailey, we were WORRIED!! You could have come out and told us that you wanted some snogging time with Nico. We would have let you be! We just thought you were in danger or something."
Bailey was just about to reply when the pressure changed and a large pop come from outside. It also got really cold. I heard Lauren outside, hacking her guts out.
"UGH, DISGUSTING!!!" came a familiar voice. "RIGHT on my soul-robes. Now the furies will have to launder them..."
Nico gasped and immediately shadow-travelled away from Bailey. Actually, away from all of us. He just disappeared.
"Your brother/boyfriend's a wimp," I said. Bailey gave me quite a lovely glare. The two of us walked out of the back room to see what on earth was going on. Bailey's dad, looking quite dejected, was holding a barf bucket on his knee while Lauren fulfilled the purpose of it. When she finished, Hades stood up to address all of us.
"Daughter, Romans, Nieces, lend me your ears. I come to-"
"Dad," interrupted Bailey, "We're Greek, not Roman. We have no SPQR arm tattoo."
"I have an ankle tattoo," I said. "It looks like an eye."
I was stared at.
"It doesn't matter, Bailey, the point is I have a pretty good idea of where my insolent brother's iPhone is, and I came to assist you."
"DID SOMEONE JUST CALL ME INSOLENT?!" I turned and saw my dad walking towards us, little whirlpools forming in the places where he stepped.
"Not you, brother, you're not the most insolent of us." My dad shrugged and nodded. We all stared at the sky, expectantly.
After a few minutes of waiting, Bailey shouted, "Hey Lord Zeus, my dad just called you insolent!!!"
"Yeah," chimed Lauren, "and so did Uncle P!"
"Uncle P?" said Bailey, trying to contain a laugh. I put my hand over my mouth and stared at the ground, trying not to break a grin.
"Yeah, what's-- oh," said Lauren, realizing and loosing it at the same time. The three of us fell to the ground, rolling around and clutching our stomachs. We were interrupted when a large boom of thunder cracked through the air, and before we knew it Zeus was standing next to his brothers.
"So, you called me insolent, did you? WELL-"
"I did, brother," said Hades, "Frankly, you annoy me and I think I can do things better than you. I don't know why you got to be head god." There was an awkward silence while Zeus tried not to explode.
"There's a reason you're only god of the Underworld," retorted Zeus. Hades clenched his fists in rage. At a nearby hospital, screams of agony went up while most of the occupants dropped dead.
"YOU KNOW--" Hades was cut off when my dad flicked his hand and zipped both of their mouths shut. All of the big three looked very outraged, so I decided to try to calm everyone down before World War III broke out.
"Uncle Hades, why did you come to talk to us in the first place?" I asked. My dad let his brothers open their mouths.
"I was going to help all three of you on your quest, but now I think I'm going to change it up a bit. I think Bailey should be the leader of this quest," he said.
"Now, brother," said Zeus, putting his say in, "you have the right notions, but you have the wrong child. Lauren is obviously the most capable person on this quest, therefore she should be leader."
"What are you talking about?" said Poseidon. "Erin is the obvious leader." Then the three of them started squabbling again. I looked at Bailey and Lauren, and they returned my look. 'Adults are idiots.'
"HEY!" I shouted, over the din of noisy gods. "I HAVE AN IDEA!" They looked at me.
"What if the three of us split up? That way we can each lead our own 'quest.' Since nobody seems to know where the iPhone is," (I shot a glare at Zeus at this point) "Bailey can search underground, where she's in her element, Lauren can search over the land by flying, so she's in her element, and I can search underwater, where I...well...I can't breathe underwater, but technically that's the obvious choice for me."
They looked at each other and seemed to actually start to be convinced. They gave each other long stares, and I wondered if gods have telepathy.
"It's... not a bad idea," said Zeus reluctantly, "but I don't like the idea of my daughter travelling alone. If something happens, she's by herself." Hades nodded, actually agreeing with his brother on something.
"I don't like it either," said my dad, "And my daughter can't even breathe underwater. I propose we send another hero along with them, just so they're not by themselves."
"And they must be another of our children," added Zeus. "So I choose Jason Grace to accompany Lauren!" Zeus snapped his fingers, and Jason appeared next to Lauren, looking very shocked and in a towel. He was also dripping wet.
"DAD!" protested Jason, "I was in the baths!"
Zeus looked down and realized one of his children was half-nude, so he snapped his fingers again and Jason appeared in full battle armor. His knees crumpled, and he sat down to take off the heavy bronze.
"I suppose I should introduce you two," said Zeus. "Jason, this is Lauren, Lauren, this is Jason."
"...Hi," said Lauren, obviously feeling rather on the spot.
"Um, hi," said Jason, struggling with his breastplate. "Dad, that doesn't tell me very much about her at all."
Zeus looked sort of uncomfortable. "I'll just let you two get acquainted on your own time. After all, you will be going on a quest together!"
"A quest?!" exclaimed Jason, looking genuinely confused. While Zeus and Lauren started to explain the circumstances to him, Poseidon turned to Bailey and me.
"To accompany my daughter, I choose...well, I don't have that many children, so I choose Percy Jackson!" Poseidon snapped his fingers and a very dizzy Percy appeared next to me.
"What just happened?" Percy asked, dazed and stumbling. Our dad put a firm hand on Percy's shoulder.
"Son, this is my daughter!" said Poseidon, which provided no explanation at all.
Percy continued to look stunned. "I have a... sister?"
"Half-sister," I corrected.
"Whoa... are you Roman?"
"Nope, Greek."
"Cool," said Percy, actually grinning a bit. "I'm going to...sit down now." He stumbled backwards into a chair.
"So... Percy, Erin. Erin, Percy," said my dad, looking anxious to get on to the next topic. "Hades, your turn!"
Hades turned to Bailey. "My hero is Ni-- no!" Hades apparently started to realize he didn't want Bailey to see Nico, or Nico to see Bailey. What he ended up saying sounded rather like 'niño.' Hades apparently wasn't fast enough in changing his mind, though, because as soon as he said the syllables 'Ni,' Nico shadow-travelled back to where we were and grabbed Bailey's arm. He really gave her quite a fright.
"I'm here, father!" said Nico, grinning and trying to get on his father's good side. "I think it's a marvellous decision for me to accompany Bailey, because--"
"NO!" screamed Hades, fire blazing in his eyes and more people dying at the hospital. "I will not permit that!"
"Remember, brother," said Zeus unhelpfully, "It has to be one of your children."
Hades seethed. It was frightening.
"Fine, then," seethed Hades, "I choose Hazel Levesque!" Hades snapped his fingers and Hazel appeared, brandishing her calvary sword and charging towards the wall. She stopped when she realized where she was.
"What happened?! I was going to charge cohort 2, but then..."
"Hi Hazel!" said bubbly Bailey. "I'm Bailey, and I'm your half-sister! Well technically, quarter-sister, since I'm Greek and you're Roman. You like horses, right? Well, me, not so much. I haven't even fought anything yet! I'm new, butmaybeyoucanhelpmeoutsinceyou'reallswagandthat--"
While Bailey was rambling, Hades picked Nico up by his shirt collar while Nico frantically tried to grab Bailey's arm. He failed. Hazel noticed him.
"NICO? What are you doing here?!" exclaimed Hazel. "You told me you went to the Underworld but you never came back! Have you been avoiding me?!"
"Um, no," said Nico. He tried to reach for the shadows and escape, but Bailey's dad wouldn't let him there.
"Nuh-uh, young man," said Hades, "you're coming with me today." Nico proceeded to sulk.
Hades then added, "If you don't change your attitude maybe I'll tell Persephone to turn you back into a dandelion. HAHAHAH!"
Hades shadow-travelled and took Nico with him.
"Well," said Zeus, "you all better be on the way to your new quests. Six demigods in one place give off quite a scent, so I suggest you be on your way." Then Zeus disappeared. My dad turned to leave, too.
"Dad," I said, before he left, "what am I supposed to do? You know I can't breathe underwater."
I must have looked pretty troubled because he put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Remember what you have?"
"Bermuda triangle privileges?" My dad nodded and winked. UH-OH.
He disappeared, too. All of us demigods sort of acknowledged each other for a moment.
"Hey Jason," said Percy, breaking the silence. "You doing okay?"
"Guess so," replied Jason. "What about you, Percy? It's been a busy year for you, you know, with all that... Underworld business." Jason seemed to tiptoe around the topic. Hazel bristled.
Before Percy had a chance to reply, Hazel said, "Speaking of which, Bailey and me should be going. You know what Lord Zeus said about monsters."
"Right. See you, Haze," said Percy, giving her a smile. Bailey waved goodbye to Lauren and me, and they stepped down into a tunnel I was sure wasn't there a few minutes ago.
"We should be going too," said Lauren.
"Can you fly?" Jason asked her. "I think dad mentioned something about flying?"
"Of course!" said Lauren. "I flew to Olympus last time."
"Great," grinned Jason. He took her hand and the two of them flew off, looking like Superman and... a flying Lois Lane. Or whatever blond superheroine could fly.
"Well," said Percy, turning to me, "should we be off?"
I nodded, and we set off towards the nearest ocean.
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