A/N: I, Halimeda, have decided to update again because of my brother. So enjoy.
Celeste
Portals and the world
What was it like, jumping through a portal, you ask? My stomach felt like it was doing cartwheels up and down my body, and you know when you're arms are in water, and you have to strain, just a bit against the force? It was the complete opposite in the portal. When you move your arms a tiny bit, it felt like they were getting ripped off.
In other words, it was the best experience I had ever had. I heard Calantha scream(or was it me?) as we headed down the bright corridors of the portal, and didn't land on our feet when we shot out horizontally into a sand dune. I sat up, coughing up sand and salt. Calantha groaned, and rolled over. Halimeda on the other hand, was already trying to figure out what city we were in. She had landed in the water, where her father had been cushioning her fall.
"San Diego," she said to me as she helped Calantha up.
"What?" I asked stupidly.
"We are in San Diego," she said slowly. I nodded.
"What test is this?" I asked.
"NOT the place of sorrows, or the room without doors. Which leaves the monster we can't kill," Halimeda replied, I nodded again. We all decided to look around town, and see if there was a monster lurking about. I, personally didn't want to go and find a monster, but apparently, it was a "good idea", so we all went along with it. But it wasn't long before we spotted our first wave of enemies.
"Look, Skeletons," I whispered, trying to wave my friends over. There was an army of undead, marching across the city landscape. They were armed with rifles and celestial bronze weapons, and we didn't have a thing.
"How are we supposed to defeat THEM?" Calantha asked, voicing my very thoughts. I thought about what Calantha said earlier, talking about imagination. I imagined a dagger in my hand, and I thought so hard about them I nearly forgot what they looked like. A dagger never appeared in my hand. I half prayed to Hecate, because I really needed some awesome magical powers that I could shoot at the enemy, just like how Halimeda could summon acid rain and such, and also like how Calantha could rain arrows on them. I tried to summon huge magical atmospheres that would make the enemy go to sleep or something. I tried to to shoot out magical stuff out of my hands, but it didn't work. I was so busy trying to figure out how to use hecate's power, I didn't even notice a skeleton creep behind me. I turned around, and the skeleton got ready to stab, and I held out my hand, ready to get killed. But after a few minutes, I realized I wasn't dead. Instead, there was a pile of ashes, and I immediately knew Hecate had gone through. Quickly swinging the bow and arrows onto my back, I ran towards Calantha, who was trying to defeat a near by skeleton with a cardboard box. I quickly handed her the weapon, then made my way to Halimeda. She was making Acid pour onto the Skeletons, making the army melt right before us.
I yelled, "THEY CAN'T BE KILLED BECAUSE THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD!" Halimeda shouted something back, something like, "I… these! … are… okay?" I didn't know exactly what she said, and I was confused, but I got it when she made hand motions to go away. We slashed through the undead, until only bones and ashes remained.
"Wow!" Halimeda said, amazed.
"I know, right!" Calantha answered.
"How are we supposed to get back home?" I asked, confused.
"Same thing as before." We all imagined ourselves back in the throne room, and what popped up was… Not the throne room.
