Hey! My brother was using the computer so this was the only story file I had access to since it's on my iPod. This chapter is more explanation; I'm saving the whole meeting part for the next chapter I think. As much as I want to it won't normally be updated so quickly.
I've got a new Mtn Dew flavor! Also, I got the computer back because my brother is temporarily my slave until my mom gets back in a few minutes! Mwahaha!
Holly's POV
Ah, the rubber apple never gets old!
Not that I was spying...
"Anyway, didn't you have something important to tell us?" Percy asked. Important? This could be good.
"Oh yeah! You're not going to believe this!" Grover told them.
"We might if you tell us." Annabeth said.
"Chiron told me this earlier. You know those Titan guys? Kronos and them?" Grover started.
"They guys we totally ownedin August?" Percy asked with a triumphant smirk.
"Yeah them. Have you ever thought about how gods have kids with mortals, maybe Titans did too." Grover explained. I'd heard about them. Was Grover saying that there were like... Demi-titans?
"But how? Their kids would be dead by now." Annabeth protested.
"Nico's still alive and he was born before World War two." Grover countered. Nico? That goth kid from the Hades cabin?I'd always just assumed that Hades broke the oath like his brothers.
"The Lotus hotel!" Percy exclaimed. The what?
Grover nodded.
"Wait, so you're telling me that Kronos had mortal children in the Lotus for millions of years?" Annabeth asked in disbelief.
Grover nodded again. "It was smart actually. So if he was ever defeated they could continue his work."
"So... We have a new problem." Percy noted. "Do we know where they are?"
"Chiron thinks some are nearby. No one's sure though." Grover said.
"Then why isn't anyone doing anything?" Percy shouted "What if they attack the camp?"
"Chiron doesn't want to do anything until he's positive. He doesn't want to panic everyone." Grover explained. "I shouldn't even be telling you."
"This is bad..." Annabeth stated.
"Very bad." Percy agreed.
I had so many questions. What was the Lotus hotel? Were the Titan Decedents nearby? What were we going to do?
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Amy's POV
Ian and Natalie Kabra were our co-agents. Great.I thought sarcastically. The two people I hated most in the world (other than their mother of course) could possibly be the difference between Dan and mine's life or death.
"Ian, stop talking to yourself!" I heard Natalie whisper to her brother as they walked over to us.
"I'm fine." Ian whispered back, sounding more like he was telling himself.
"Hello, Cahills. It's been a while." Natalie said.
"Y-you're Cahills t-too..."I stuttered quietly. I noticed a small smile on Ian's face as I said that.
"Still stuttering, Amy? I would think you'd have gotten over that." Natalie asked with a smirk.
"You guysare our co-agents? We'd work better with a pair of snakes! Not that there's a difference." Dan growled.
"And Daniel's still annoying." Ian noted, finally saying something.
Dan muttered something about Ian that I didn't hear.
"I told you!" Natalie exclaimed, turning to her brother who was looking at her with a confused look.
"Told me what?" he asked.
"Daniel just said that you're-" Ian covered her mouth.
"That's quite enough, sister." Ian told her, looking a little bit panicked "But I think you're forgetting why we're here. No time for... socializing."
"R-right." I said. Dang stutter!I thought. "We're h-h-here to search f-for V-V-Vespers. Th-the sooner we g-get it done the s-s-sooner w-we can g-get away from e-each other."
Dan's eyes widened. "Right! So let's go!" he said eagerly "Let's not waste anymore time!"
With that he grabbed mine and Natalie's arms and pulled us outside, Ian following behind.
Natalie's POV
"Daniel Cahill, let go of me!" I demanded.
"Nope. Got to hurry!" he replied.
"Are we really that horrible to be around?" Ian asked.
"Yes, but that's not why we're running! I saw something!" Daniel told us.
"What exactly did you see?" Amy asked. Wow, no stutter this time. Interesting.
"Explain later!" Daniel said, wild-eyed.
When he dragged us out to the parking lot we made him explain what he saw.
"Snake lady!" he exclaimed.
"Isabel?" Amy asked.
"No," Daniel shook his head "a lady with a snake body! She had two tails where her legs should be and she was all green and scaly!"
Ian and Amy looked at him like he was mad, which he very well might have been. I wasn't going to tell them but I'd seen it too. When he was pulling us out I saw the green snake thing. I thought it was just a trick of the light but Daniel saw it too.
"Dan, are you feeling okay?" Amy asked, putting her hand to his forehead.
"I'm fine, dork, I know I saw it!" he told her, pushing her hand away.
"Do you remember what the doctor said about playing too many video games when you were ten?" Amy asked gently.
"Of course I do! He said I'd start seeing things from the games. But that wasn't from the games! I've never played a game with a snake lady in it!"
"Daniel, are you referring to a Scythian Dracaena?" Ian asked, sounding a little worried himself. How did he know what it's called?
"I don't know! I just know that it was a lady with green scales and two snake tails!" he repeated. Then he turned to me. "Natalie… why aren't you teasing me about this?"
"Because… I believe you…" I answered quietly.
Now the weird looks were on me.
"That's not something you see every day." Amy said "Natalie and Dan agreeing on something virtually insane."
"Well I think it's clear that something was there if they both saw it. Maybe we simply missed it?" Ian suggested.
"I-I guess…" Amy said slowly "but those don't exist. How could they see it?"
"I don't know! I just know that. It. Was. There." Daniel told his sister "There it is again!" he said pointing behind us.
We turned around and sure enough, there was the scathed dragon – or whatever Ian called it.
"Oh my God…" Ian whispered.
"What's everybody looking at?" Amy asked "I don't see anything!"
"Love, how can you not see it?" Ian asked.
"D-don't call me l-l-love! I just can't see it!"
She blinked and rubbed her eyes, trying to clear her vision or something. Then she gasped. "I see it now." She whispered.
"How didn't you see it before?" Daniel asked in disbelief.
"I don't know! Maybe it's the glittery stuff around her?" Amy asked.
"What glittery stuff?" I asked.
"There's glitter around it." Daniel said "It makes it a little harder to see."
"I don't see glitter." Ian said, shaking his head.
"Nor do I." I agreed.
There was silence while we all thought about the mythological creature in front of us.
"You know what I just thought of?" Daniel asked "Why are we just standing here? That thing has a huge sword. We should be running away in terror."
"You have a point." I noted "But instead, how about we just walk away and act like we don't see anything."
~~~~~~~After they rent a car and leave the airport~~~~~~~
Amy's POV
That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. I thought. There had to be a more logical explanation for this. Maybe it was just a costume? Special effects?
"Amy? Amy!" Dan said, waving his hands in my face.
"What?" I asked him.
"Have you seen things like that before?" he whispered.
I wasn't sure what I should tell him. I knew Dan had seen things before but we always assumed it was because of him playing video games. But I had too. I saw creatures like that sometimes. And I don't play video games. I always just assumed it was because I read too much or something because they'd disappear a second later and they were fuzzy and glittery most times.
"Yeah… sometimes." I confessed. "You too right?"
Dan nodded. "It was weird. Why were the four of us the only ones who saw it?"
"I wish I knew." Natalie butted in. Was she eavesdropping? "I've been seeing things like that my whole life. I think Ian has too. No one else ever sees it but we do. Sometimes we see things like a swordfight on the news but everyone insists that it's a gun fight. Or we see things like really, really big dogs – which really freak Ian out – but everyone says they're just, like, poodles or something."
"I am not afraid of dogs!" Ian added from the driver's seat. "It was just a very big dog!"
"Anyway, the point is, no one else saw it. Do you think it has something to do with Cahill stuff?" Dan asked.
"Don't know. All I know is it's weird." Ian said."We're here."
We stopped near a beach with some woods next to it. "This is where the Vespers are building their stronghold?" Dan asked "At least they have good sense to build it near a beach."
We got out of the car and took a look around. "We should split up." Ian suggested "We'll cover more area. Meet back here at six?"
"W-we should do two g-g-groups. That way if one of us g-g-gets i-injured or something the other c-can help." I suggested.
"Good idea, love." Ian said "How about Daniel and Natalie and you and I?"
"Why do you want to be with Amy?" Dan teased. I blushed.
"Because it's important that we learn to trust each other so I paired each of us with the person we have the most… issues with." Ian explained.
"I think I have more issues with you than Natalie." Dan protested.
"Yes but I fear that if the two of us were together for six hours we'd end up murdering each other." Ian told him "It's just better this way."
"If you try anything I'd get my sister hurt again, Cobra, I swear-"
"Daniel, I'm not going to hurt her." Ian said rolling his eyes.
"You've been warned." Dan said, walking off, Natalie following reluctantly behind.
"W-would you really k-k-kill Dan?" I asked Ian.
He shrugged. "Not intentionally but he's rather annoying."
"Y-you know, y-y-you're a-annoying too sometimes." I informed him.
"Am I? Good to know. Anyway, we should start looking around."
"W-we should." I agreed.
"Why do you stutter?" Ian asked as we started walking.
"I-I d-don't know..."
"It's only me. You can talk to anyone else. Why is that?" he asked, looking into my eyes now.
"I-I d-d-don't know... I-it's just... I always f-f-feel so awkward around y-you..." I confessed, blushing.
He sighed. "Aren't you over that? It was so long ago. I'm truly, truly, trulysorry for what I've done. Honestly, I hate myself for it. I'm sorry for trying to kill you, stealing from you and, most importantly, for breaking your heart."
We'd stopped walking now. We were standing on a cliff. Ian was facing me, looking straight into my eyes. I could see so much guilt and regret in his eyes. He really meant what he was saying.
"I-I-Ian, of c-course I'm over I-I-it but... I-I still c-can't t-t-trust y-you completely. Y-you hurt me..."
"And you have no idea how much I regret it." he told me, his voice think with emotions. "I would take it back if I could but you know I can't."
Ian seemed really upset about this. But if he was so sorry, why hadn't he said anything before?
"D-did it take y-y-you two yearsto r-realize th-that you hurt me?" I asked him.
"No! I just never got a chance to tell you. You always runaway. I knew soon as I pulled out that gun that I'd hurt you." He was silent for a second "And... I also realized something else at that moment." Ian looked a bit uncomfortable.
At that moment, a dart came flying and hit my arm. I started feeling dizzy and collapsed but Ian caught me. "Amy! Love, are you-"
Another dart flew by and hit his neck. He passed out immediately, falling off the cliff.
The last fuzzy image I saw before passing out was a Pegasus.
Okay, long chapter. Don't worry; they're not going to die! It was a tranquilizer. The guy who shot it was planning to knock them out and kidnap them but they fell. The next chapter will be with Dan and Natalie. Sorry, but they'll be frenemies at best. No Natan.
Sharz long: Good. I was afraid I'd confuse people. Is it? Well, then, thank you! I wish I could update it more too but the others have readers too. You are? Well as long as you don't stalk me, that's cool. It is going to be the most interesting. It's the only story so far that I have all planned out. The others I've just been writing as I go.
Interview:
Me: How was that?
Annabeth: I don't think that would be possible.
Me: In this story it is :p
Amy: So… why do I always have awkward conversations with Ian?
Dan: They aren't awkward, you just make them awkward.
Percy: I've noticed that. Does she stutter all the time?
Me: Is she stuttering now?
Percy: No…
Annabeth: Wow, Percy…
Percy: That was a stupid question wasn't it?
Natalie: Very stupid. She only stutters around my brother.
Amy: No!
Me: Speaking of which, where is Ian?
Ian: *raises hand*
Me: You're not talking!
Ian: *shakes head*
Dan: THE WORLD IS ENDING!
Amy: Shut up, dweeb.
Natalie: He's right. Ian always talks.
Dan: She's just defending her boyfriend.
Amy: He's not my boyfriend!
Annabeth: Just wait. I said that too. *puts head on Percy's shoulder*
Dan Amy and Natalie: Gross!
Me: Aww!
Annabeth and Percy: :P
Ian: …
Me: Ian's freaking me out… just tell me your opinions.
Amy: Awkward.
Dan: I do have problems with Ian.
Natalie: I don't understand all this "gods" and "titans" and "dragons"
Annabeth: I don't understand the "Cahills" "Vespers" and "branches"
Percy: Are we supposed to understand each other's stories?
Me: No. Ian?
Ian: *shakes head*
Me: WHATS WRONG WITH YOU!
Director dude: I glued his mouth shut.
Everyone else: WHY?
Director dude: He was annoying. CUT!