HK: ah, summers finally here :3 now we can update!
TT: o_o and go to the beach
RW: and go to junior Olympics
TV: and change my initials to TB.
HK and TT: NO!
Disclaimer: Dx
Shawn's POV
Dylan continued to kiss Tia, and the rage coming from Zack is almost visible in the air.
"Alright, LISTEN YO-" he started, but then Annabeth clamped her hand over his mouth and looked around in that paranoid way that we had all learned to accept.
"Quiet. I heard someone." she whispered to all of us. We all looked around, hands edging towards our weapons.
"Well, Miss Super-Hearing, you got that right." a voice called out. We all drew our weapons.
But only to have them fly out of our hands. My sword skidded across the asphalt. "What the hell!"
Three girls stepped into the alley, accompanied by one boy around our age.
One of the girls, the one with black eyes and black hair, probably Asian, snapped her fingers. The sound rippled through the narrow alley. Tia tried to talk, but everything came out like this: "BARK! RUFF! WOOF!"
What the hell?
Everyone around the girl laughed. Even I had to bite my tongue. Tia was barking mad. It showed on her face (HK: Barking mad? Get it? XD)
The girl laughed and snapped her fingers once more. Tia coughed.
"Who the HELL are you? What do you want?" she demanded.
The girl's hand snapped out. "I'm Kris, daughter of Hecate." Tia cautiously shook her hand. She then quickly pulled her hand away and wiped it off on the back of her shirt so no one could see. But we all saw, naturally. Percy snickered.
The boy and one girl both stepped forward. With blonde hair and green eyes, it was hard to tell what god they were children of. Then they told us.
"We're twins. And godlings." the girl began. The boy finished what she started.
"Children of Poseidon and Athena."
Dead silence.
"This is a JOKE!" Annabeth cried.
"Are you KIDDING ME?" Percy stared at them in wonder.
"We're our parents DRUNK?" I exclaimed. They nodded happily.
"That's our theory!"
"Wo-o-owww..." Zack mused, "That's a first."
Finally, the last girl stepped forward. She had chestnut hair with champagne highlights, which was shoulder-length, and she had bright green eyes. "I'm Anna. Daughter of Aphrodite."
Now Tia's happy. "You're my half sis! I'm a daughter of Aphrodite too!" she cheered. Derek grinned, "Oh yes you are..." until Sam pulled his ear, and Dylan and Zack growled at him.
"Really?"
"Yeah!" Tia nodded quickly. "I'm not alone anymore!"
We all rolled our eyes. As if she had been alone to start with.
"So what do you want?" Dylan's eyebrows narrowed suspiciously.
Kris shrugged. "Saw you guys here, thought 'Probably demigods,' and here we are. We're trying to start a rebellion. But... We haven't had enough recruits."
"So what you're trying to say is," I asked, "...that you want us to help you form a rebellion?"
"Yeah, pretty much." Sam grinned.
"You expect us to walk away from here, with some strange demigods we just met, into the open, and risk our lives to try to fix what we tried to stop in the past? And what we failed at?" Tia raised an eyebrow.
"Do you want to stay in this hellhole for the rest of your life? Without food? Or much of a shelter? Where the Titans can find you? In the middle of the City of Time?" Derek brought up some good points.
"Uh... Guys, let's talk about this." Tia pulled me and Dylan by the arms over to a corner, and the rest followed.
"What do we do?" she asked.
"Doesn't seem like a bad deal." I shrug.
"Maybe it'll help us take our minds off everything."
"Maybe. But we might die..." Annabeth thought aloud.
"That's the kind of excitement I need right now."
That made us all ears. We perked up and nodded. "Let's do it."
We went back over to them.
"So, you up for it?" Sam asked. I nodded.
"Yeah."
"Now, take us to your leader earthlings!" Tia said in a weird voice.
That seemed to break all the tension that held us apart.
HK: SHORTNESS!
TT: yeah D,:
TV: write more 3:
HK: fine... Oh yeah, and Derek, happy now? XD
Tia's POV
Kris, who I soon learned was sometimes called Magic Girl by Derek, did some crazy spell thing where she managed to teleport all of us into a dimly lit basement. Of course, Anna had to catch her from the lack of energy. She had just transported 9 people plus herself. Sam handed her a candy bar, and Kris ate it happily. She got up shakily and walked into another room.
"There's a whole bunch of mattresses in there." Anna explained, "Normally we sleep in there, but Kris could use that place all day long. She uses so much energy with magic that she forgets that it totally wears her out."
"Her best record for sleeping is a week and 5 hours!" Derek chimed in. Our jaws dropped at various levels.
"That's REALLY sleeping in..." Dylan said in awe. Then our little tour continued.
They showed us the main room. "This is just where we hang out and talk, and strategize. There's a fridge over there, and a few coolers and cabinets. Even a little mini grill!" Derek grinned. Oh, I knew there was a good side to agreeing to this...
"And over there to the left, that door leads to a room we use for training. We got a bunch of home-made dummies and weights. We also sink in there. That's for you Poseidon kids." Anna pointed out.
"And finally, down that hallway, there's a few spare rooms filled with a bunch of random things. This place just keeps expanding. And I think I know why." Sam's eyebrows scrunched together. "I think the Labyrinth is rebuilding itself."
Once again, we have discovered something so amazing we can't speak.
After a while, I couldn't stand it. "How? That's impossible! The labyrinth died with Daedalus!"
"Yeah, but maybe he went for rebirth." Derek suggested, "And since Hades isn't there, everything in the underworld isn't working properly. We've met a few mortals who claim to have memory from their past life. They say they had just chosen rebirth mere months ago, but they were around the same age they were as they had died. And some of them seemed familiar. Maybe Daedalus chose rebirth, and the ruins of the Labyrinth knew he was back to life. So it came back to life too. It had created this place. Come look!" Derek showed us a marking on the door. I examined it closely. There was no way...
But it was. I saw the Greek Delta. I pressed my index finger to it, and it flickered blue. And the wall crumbled, revealing a staircase leading down.
"$h*t."
The wall reformed, and we all went into the living room. We told them about ourselves and a bit of our story. At parts they held their breath, like it was a horrible thing. Well, in a way it was.
At the end, they were speechless.
"Yep. Well that's basically it. Hey, do ya mind if I crash right now? Thanks..." I got up and went into the room where Kris was sleeping. There was really a lot of mattresses. I collapsed on one of mattresses, and fell into a deep sleep.
The gods know I needed it just as much as Kris.
HK: I'm done. Your turn.
TT: I kinda wanna write it now…
HK: go ahead. You're on my computer anyway. By the way, how'd you get in my house?
TT: … STAY TUNED!
