CHAPTER 1
It's 10 o'clock and the Delos family, Helen, Claire and Andy are arriving to the Delos headquarters to celebrate the boys' victory at this evening's game. They're shocked to see that the entire house has been demolished. The pillagers haven't left a stone unturned...
"It's gone, it's all gone! Our beautiful home destroyed, smashed to pieces!" Noel exclaims.
"Honey, everything will be fine" Castor says taking her in his arms trying to calm her down. "I wonder who could have done this" says Jason with a puzzled look on his face."Well who do you think could have done it?" Lucas replies "there's a select group of beings powerful enough to break the magic seal around the house. Look, there's a note," Lucas goes to pick up the note and reads it "it's blank"
"it can't be blank, give it to me" says Ariadne snatching the note from Lucas. She stares at the piece of paper with a confused look on her face
"So what does it say Ariadne?" Lucas says grinning
"Oh go away, Lucas"
"Let, me try," says Helen. She takes the note from Ariadne and reads it " I can read the note!" she exclaims "it says 'dear niece, it wasn't very nice what you did locking me up in Everland but I must say I admire you. No one has ever tricked me before. I mean, come on, I'm Zeus, but it doesn't mean I'm going to let you get away with it. I'm going to kill you and all you're little friends if it's the last thing I do. From your uncle Zeus.' holy shit"
"We can't stay here" says Lucas
"Well obviously, the house is just a pile of rubble" says Ariadne
"But where can we go?" Andy cries running into Hector's arms.
"I think I know a place," Orion says while smiling at Cassandra, "but it's kind of far"
"How far?" asks Castor sternly
"Urm, well it's in err England"
"ENGLAND?" everybody shrieks
"Err, yeah" Orion says lightly
"Not sure if you've noticed buddy, but England is on the other side of the freaking world!" exclaims Ariadne
"Well what choice do we have?" says Helen gazing up at Lucas for an answer. He nods in agreement
"And what exactly is in England Orion?" questions Ariadne as if she were about to murder him.
"An old friend lives there. She–"
"She? Who is SHE Orion?" asks Cassandra
"She's just an old friend with a big house and not a lot of company. That's all babe"
"Did you just call my sister babe?" says Lucas stepping closer towards Orion
"Everybody calm down," says Hector "I think that we should all take a deep breathe and hold a vote." everyone murmurs in agreement. "Ok, let's make this quick. All those opposed to the idea of moving to England?"
"I" says Ariadne
"That's 1 against 8, looks like we're going to the land of the tea lovers" says Hector jokily
"You guys aren't thinking this through. I mean Helen, you can't just leave you father and Kate can you?"
"I…I'm 17 year old scion for crying out loud. I have to stop thinking about myself and start thinking about others. If I don't go and don't leave them, I'm putting their lives in danger. I have to do this."
"well, are you going to call her Orion? we can't just show up on her doorstep expecting her to take us all in"
"she has a point" says Jason
"Oh for god sake, why is everyone turning this into some daytime soap opera? It's just England, it's not like it's the fucking Underworld!" shouts Claire
"Ok, let's not joke about the Underworld please Claire" says Helen
"Ok, so we're going to England!" says Andy
"shut up siren"
"don''t speak to my girlfriend that way Ariadne" says Hector defensively
"bite me Hector. And you, Orion. how do you suppose we get there exactly?" says Ariadne. Everyone turns to face a red faced Orion.
"urm…."
"I can't... believe... I'm here" pants Ariadne
"me either. I thought you would have tried to run off. I wouldn't have stopped you"
"ha ha. So funny uncle Castor. So Orion, where is this so called fucking mansion?We've been travelling for 10 hours and my feet are killing me!" she says rubbing her foot
"are you kidding? I carried you most of the fucking way!" says Hector
"and I carried you the rest of the way!" says Jason
"You guys are my brothers, that's what siblings are for"
"oh so you'll be carrying us the next time then?" says Jason
"there it is!" exclaims Cassandra running towards the mansion. Everyone gasps in astonishment at the sight of it. It has the timeless aesthetic features of a mansion - stone walls, brick paths, grass a beautiful evergreen colour, towers up to the clouds and huge water fountain with a statue of a sad little girl. Orion gulps at the sight of the little girl statue. He becomes stricken with fear as everyone else excitedly runs towards the mansion unaware of the things that went on between Orion and his 'old friend'. When everyone gets to the front door, Orion positions himself in front of the door and turns to face everyone saying,"I should urm, probably do the talking because you know, she's my urm friend" nervously says Orion
"oh really? are you sure? because I was going to do it seeing as me and this girl are such good friends, but if you insist, you go on right ahead captain paedophile"
"Ariadne, urm I think you mean captain obvious"
"I meant what I said Jason," retorts Ariadne glaring at Cassandra
"I'm not a baby, you bitch" says Cassandra looking as though she were trying to blow Ariadne up with her mind.
"Oh I know, darling. How old must you be now? About 6 and a half?" replies Ariadne smirking like a Cheshire cat. Cassandra attempts to attack Ariadne but is stopped by Lucas. "Ok, that's enough. Orion, hurry up and knock on the door!" he says. Orion takes a deep breath and then slowly and gently knocks on the door 3 times. The door opens and a girl dressed in a black empire waist dress and black vans is standing by the door. She looks Orion up and down showing feelings of shock and anger. She finally says,"what the fuck are you doing here?"