Previously on 'Last Battle'
"Annabeth!" I heard my name being called from outside. So I put the pillow back on the bed and made my way out door. But something caused me to stop and freeze.
Something had fallen on the floor a few feet from the unoccupied bunk where Bella used to sleep. A necklace. And not just any necklace. A camper necklace who's owner was not here. Percy.
Gasping I picked it up and rushed outside with tars threatening to fall as I made my way to the Big House. Hoping that I would make it in time so we could go save Percy. But deep down a voice was nagging and teasing me that i might be already to late.
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NICOLE P.O.V (night Percy got kidnapped)
"Nicole what are you doing here it's so late?" Annabeth's voice asked sleepily from behind. Freezing I quickly hid my mobile phone in my jacket pocket.
"I couldn't go to sleep. I just needed fresh air" I lied.
"Well you should get back in now, before Mr.D hears you" she yawned rubbing her eyes.
"Ya, your right. But I'm going to go the washroom's first. Goodnight see you in the morning" I answered walking away.
Great now I have to call Maggie in the washrooms. So much for a peaceful night without any disturbances.
Not that I was blaming Annabeth. She was actually nice, plus it was her responsibility to watch over her cabin mates. But there was something that was very different from Annabeth and I.
Our MOTHER did help HER, giving her anything she needed to stay alive when she wasn't at camp. Including an invisibility cap. But did she help Maggie and me when we were a few steps to death? No, she didn't.
She just stood by and watched. The more I think about it the more I think that Maggie is right. The gods don't car about us. We're just a result of their entertainment with mortals.
But then again there MUST be some gods out there that do actually care. It would be like saying that all Russians are involved with the mafia and that all the Middle east people are terrorist. There might be some but certainly not all! Right?
Like Lord Poseidon. He has given his children -that i know of- help thought their quest. Like the sword Percy has and the assistance he gave Bella when she lived in the mortal world. He must've done SOMETHING for her so that monsters didn't disturbed her until she was eighteen.
Dialing the number Maggie gave me I held my breath as I heard the phone ringing.
"Sweet and Sour Smoothies how can I help you?" a voice asked from the line.
"Hi. I'll like to have a lemon cappuccino with immortal blood?" I said hesitantly.
"Who is this?" now another voice asked this time male.
"I'm looking for Magaska Petrovov" I stated. Maggie specifically said NOT to give them my name and to use a fake last name for her.
"Who is this?" they asked again.
I didn't reply. Instead I kept quiet.
I then heard the person sigh, "Very well" before I heard the phone ringing again.
"Hello?" a familiar voice answered this time.
"Maggie? It's me" I answered.
"Oh good I thought you weren't going to call me" she sounded relieved. I wonder why? Didn't she trust me?
"Ya, well people change" I murmured. It was true. I would've laughed at you and told you that you were delusional if you would've told me a few weeks ago that I would be planning to plot against the gods.
"Okay. I'm outside the border. How fast can you get here?" she asked.
"Five minutes. Maybe less." I told her already walking towards the border line.
"okay I'll be here" she assured before the lines went dead. I shoved the mobile into my jacket pocket and started to walk faster.
Bitting my lip I made a drastic decision. One that I would of never thought of if it wasn't for Annabeth who reminded me that many would give their lives for Olympus, at the last minute. Pulling the phone back out I texted six simple words. Thinking that a threat will warn them.
BLOOD WILL SPILL ON OLYMPUS'S BELOVED
Hopefully the will get the motto soon enough and act quickly before it all goes down.
BETH (BELLA) P.O.V
"I. Don't. Care" I warned Apollo.
"But that's unreasonable Beth! Please reconsider" he pleaded.
"He threatened my daughter! How would your feel if Hades tried to kill your music mojo? Huh. You wouldn't like it would you?" I taunted.
"Beth... You know he wouldn't do that" he tried to reason.
"Really? Because your just a minor god compared to Zeus . And didn't he try to take Zues's lighting bolt away?" I smirked knowing I was getting in his head. I get what I want no matter what. I will move every spec of dust in heaven and earth until I get it. And what. Want right now is a full put war to show Hades you really is in charge.
"I'm not so sure Beth. You just pulled that stunt a few years ago. He wouldn't do another one so fast" he said unsure. Probably trying to convince himself.
And that when it happened. Apollo's mobile phone started ringing. Shooting a curious glance at him I watched him shrug and take it out. I was just going to continue (or perhaps laugh at him how it was funny that a godly being using such a mortal device is beyond even me) but I didn't when I saw his face lose it's color and it seemed that he had aged a few years in a matter of seconds.
"What?" I asked trying to sneak a glance at his phone.
"You got what you wanted. A full out war. But not the one you wanted. We have to call the council" he took a deep breath and explained, showing me his phone.
In bold letters it clearly stated:
BLOOD WILL SPILL ON OLYMPUS'S BELOVED
Giving the phone back to Apollo I commanded him, "This is beyond the council. Call you-know-who and Chiron besides the ENTIRE council. Oh, and tell Aphro that I don't give a sh*t if she is h*rny with Ares right now. I want everyone in the throne room in fifteen minutes EXACTLY. No excuses."
He nodded his head and started making calls while running away, probably to find someone else.
Meanwhile I traveled to my chamber's with my godly power's. Letting out a breath I did not know I had held, I picked up A.J. and wrapped her in a sturdy blanket.
"Annalise !" i called A.J.'s nanny who was downstairs making A.J. a bottle. She soon came rushing up next to me to see what was wrong. "Her take her and make sure she's safe. You know we're to hide"
Annalise nodded taking A.J. into her arms before disappearing.
Now that A.J. was no longer in sudden danger I felt like the weight of the sky was lifted from my shoulder's.
I rushed back to the throne room were everyone was already there. Some pacing other's in deep thought. To grab their attention I whistled loudly.
They froze and went to sit down on their thrones. Hades and Persephone were brought some silver thrones for them to sit on along with Aunty Hestia.
"Why was this meeting so urgent HE had to come?" Dad asked glaring at Hades. He still hasn't gotten over that he tried to kill Percy and then sent hellhound to chase me, when I went to camp. A bit overprotective much?
"We received this text message" Apollo explained bring up an image for everyone to see in the middle of the room. Everyone had a good view since no matter where you sat in the seating row that resemedled an 'U' the image looked like it was turned for you specifically to see it.
Several gasp's and murmurs were heard through out the room.
"Hades...did you have anything to do with this?" I inquired.
"What do you think?" he sneered in my direction.
"I don't know what to think of you anymore" I shot back.
"Well I think your-" he began before he got cut off.
"HADES! EZABETH! Silence. Now Hades did you or did you not have a say in this?" Uncle Z asked.
"No" Hades admitted.
"When was this sent?" Persephone asked, shooting a glare to her husband to keep quiet.
"Around fifteen minutes ago" Apollo answered.
"Well has anything happened since then?" Mother asked stepping closer to the projection.
"No. Not that we know of" Apollo shook his head.
"Dionysus, has there been anything strange happening in camp lately?" Mother asked D.
He in response shot her the 'are-you-f*cking-kidding-me' look. "The camp is filled with Demi-gods and a horse man plus a very angered god that doesn't deserved to be stuck there. Don't you think that is 'strange' for the mortal world?" he rolled his eyes. "But aside from that... no. Nothing unusual has occurred"
"Then how do we know if this threat is actually a threat and not a prank?" She sighed.
"Because...it isn't" Macaria strolled into the room holding up a scroll.
"Macaria! What are you doing here!" Hades jumped form his seat and glared at his daughter.
"Oh don't worry old man I just came cause i thought you folks would want to see this" she threw the scroll to the middle of the room and it quickly replaced the text int the projection.
I was expecting a normal scroll. The old ones that no one wants to read anymore, but this wasn't like that, AT ALL. Instead of words there was a picture.
"this was delivered soon after you left" she explained.
I gasped for air and my eyes soon became watery. It was Edward. But not like the picture they had sent before but this one he was in a dark room strapped to a chair looking devilish. It was quite clear that he was drugged.
"But that's not all. It moves" she shot me a pity look before waving her hand and the picture started moving.
Edward's screams of agony were filling the room and I couldn't talk it anymore.
"Turn it off please!" I begged. Tears streaming down my face.
"I'm sorry but there's a message at the end" Macaria apologized. And after what seemed like forever it stopped and a figure replaced Edward's you couldn't see them since the were hidden by the shadows but you could hear them. It was a female. She warned that what they had done to Edward was only the beginning and there was going to be much worse before the screen turned black.
"Do you see who delivered it?" Hermes asked. He looked annoyed, my guess was that he was annoyed that someone took his job of messenger of the gods. Hey, I don't blame him. If it were me I would me majorly pissed.
"No. That's the problem. No one was seen going in or out of the castle...Except for Lady Ezabeth of course" Macaria bowed her head.
"How's that possible? Weren't the guards doing their jobs?" Persephone asked her daughter, looking confused.
Macaria shrugged. "I don't know. But that's not the worst of our problem's."
"Then what is?" Hephustus asked.
"Percy Jackson has just entered the realms of limbo"
Oh gods. May the fates be in our favor, since it seems that our luck is not.
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Fun fact about Macaria:
Macaria was the goddess of (blessed) death, a minion of her parents Hades and Persephone.
She may have been a more merciful counterpart of the death-god Thanatos; or was perhaps somehow connected with the passage of souls to the Nesoi Makarioi (Islands of the Blest).
(There is also a Macarica daughter of Hercules but that one isn't the one I'm referring to. I am referring to the goddess)
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