Chapter Four: Hydras in Idaho
A/N: Title says it all. After stopping for lunch in Idaho, the iCarly crew gets attacked by a Hydra. Whole chapter is told in Sam's POV. If you're reading, please review.
Sam's POV
You know what I love about my mom? The fact that she can get anything she wants and when I say anything, I do mean anything. If she wanted free food, she would flirt with some guy at a restaurant. If she wanted free stuff, she'd flirt with some guy at the mall. The point is that mom could get anything she wanted. Here we were eating free snacks all thanks to my mom. One thing I hated about my mom was that she was insane!
Freddie was actually beginning to believe that we were half gods or whatever. It was sickening me inside. Until I actually saw a monster, nothing was going to change my mind.
We drove for about another two hours and stopped at some diner. That's when I realized how hungry I was. But then again, when wasn't I hungry? Freddie, my mom and I stepped out of the car and so did his insane mother. Carly and Spencer were right behind us.
"Were gonna eat?" Freddie asked.
"No, we stopped in front of a diner because we wanna dance," I said sarcastically. Freddie frowned at me.
"Let's go inside," Spencer suggested. We walked in all at once. Inside, the air was welcoming and it smelled so damn good! We sat at a table near the door and I quickly made a beeline for the menu.
"I'm gonna have the steak, the fried chic ken, the lobster and the apple pie!" I said. They all gave me a weird look.
"What?" I haven't eaten since I ate that fatcake in the car," I replied defensively. Carly smiled. Freddie shook his head. My mom grabbed a menu.
"I'll have the chicken salad, I'm on a diet," she said. Freddie's mom grabbed the menu.
"Mmm, the beef stew sounds good," she said. Carly and Spencer both ordered chicken salads and Freddie ordered tacos. Yup, the place had it all. As we waited for our food, we began to have the 'crazy talk' again.
"Mom, who's my Olympic father?" Freddie asked. Freddie's mother shook her head.
"You'll have to be claimed to know," she replied.
"Claimed?" Carly asked.
"It's when your Olympic parent claims you as his or her child. We are not allowed to tell you who your parent is," Freddie's mom replied. I was going to go mad just listening.
"They're all lying!" I screamed, "There are no such things as the Gods!"
"Sam," Carly said, trying to get me to calm down. I couldn't calm down when my two smartest friends were actually buying all this crap. Well, my smartest friend and Freddie. Freddie was NOT my friend or anything close. He was my peer at best.
"Carly how can you actually believe this!" I shrieked.
"I really fought a monster, Sam," Carly replied. My mom got up.
"Samantha Puckett sit down!" she said.
"I will not sit down!" I yelled. Just then I heard the glass behind me shatter. I turned around to see what looked like a giant three-headed snake.
"What the fuck!" I barely managed to dodge as it spat some green liquid from its mouth. I rolled on the ground and I got up. Everybody from our table got up. People around us were screaming.
"What is that thing!" I yelled as I again jumped out of the way before I was shot at.
"I think it's the Hydra. Be careful, it shoots acid," Spencer called. Carly took out what looked like Spencer's fencing sword. She began to run towards me, but the Hydra knocked her away with its tail. Carly landed about 20 feet away, but she got up. The Hydra had just hurt my best friend, and now it was going to pay. I yelled my usual battle cry and charged.
"Sam, no!" Spencer warned, but I didn't care. As I ran towards it, I dodged a couple of acid shots. I jumped when I was close enough and landed on one of its head. The monster shook its head trying to get me off, but I had a good grip. My mom reached into her purse and tossed me something. It looked like a bronze nail clipper. I caught it then gave my mom a weird look.
"What am I going to do with this?" I called.
"Flip it!" she yelled. I tried to flip it, but I couldn't do it while I was balancing myself on the monster's head. Carly ran towards the Hydra at full speed. She had her sword raised as she ran. The Hydra became distracted so I took the chance to flip the nail clipper. To my surprise, it grew into a sword about 2 feet long. Carly sliced at the Hydra with her fencing sword but nothing happened. I took my sword and sliced off one of the heads. I smiled as it cleanly came off, but frowned when I saw two more grow in its place. Carly dodged as one of the new heads spat acid.
"You can't defeat it that way! Every time you cut off a head, more heads grow!" Spencer called. I turned and frowned at him.
"Thanks for telling me that now!" I yelled angrily. Freddie's mom handed Freddie what looked like a pair of high tops, but when I looked closer, I saw that they had wings. No fair! I thought, Freddie got flying sneakers and I got a nail clipper sword? Well, I guess it was better than Carly's fencing sword. Freddie quickly kicked off the sneakers he was wearing and put on his new ones.
"How do they work?" Freddie asked.
"Say the word "Maia!" Freddie's mom said.
"Ok, Maia!" As soon as Freddie said that, he began to fly.
"Oh, this is awesome!" he said as he flew in a circle.
"They gave you those to help!" Carly yelled as she dodged yet another shot of acid.
"Right," Freddie flew towards me. He held out his arm and I took it and we both flew off of the Hydra.
"How do we beat this thing?" Freddie asked. Carly ran over to us.
"You'll have to find a way to cut all of the heads off at the same time," Spencer said. I gave him a look.
"How is that possible? It has five heads and there are only three of us, by the way, why aren't you guys helping?" I said.
"We're mortals! What are we gonna do?" Spencer replied. He ducked as one of the Hydra's heads spat at him. It landed on our table and it began to melt. I looked around and saw that everywhere the Hydra had spat on was melting. I wondered what it would do to Freddie's face.
"So how are we gonna do this?" I asked Carly. She had her fencing sword raised.
"Maybe we can blow it up," she suggested. It was a good idea, but how were we going to do that?
"How are we going to do that?" I asked, my sword raised and my eyes never leaving the Hydra. Freddie was hovering above Carly and I.
"This is a diner. It must have a boiler room. We could blow it up using that," Freddie suggested. That was a great idea.
"Carly, you find the boiler room. Freddie and I will lure him to it when you find it," I said. Carly nodded. She ran off towards the many screaming people to find the boiler room. I glanced at Freddie who gave me a nod. We were ready.
"Found it!" Carly exclaimed. Freddie and I got to work. Freddie got the Hydra's attention and he flew towards Carly. I followed behind making sure it didn't turn back. We lured it into a room filled with gas tanks. Perfect.
"So how are we gonna do this?" I asked. Freddie flew towards a small red table where there was a gallon of gasoline.
"How convenient," Carly said with a smile. Freddie dove down and picked it up the Hydra sent a pool of acid towards him, but he luckily dodged it.
"We're going to need a match," he said. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a box of matches.
"Sam, you promised you quit smoking!" Carly said. I rolled my eyes.
"I did. These are just leftovers," I said. I tossed the box to Freddie and he caught it.
"Warn everybody to get out; this place is going to blow!" Freddie said.
Carly and I ran outside.
"Everyone out!" We yelled. The people all fled without question. Freddie poured gasoline all over the Hydra while dodging acid shots. Then, he proceeded into pouring gasoline all over the room. He lit the match and instantly the place went BOOM! The last thing I remembered seeing was that everything was a mixture of red, orange and yellow and wondering if Freddie had made it out.
A/N: A spoiler on who Freddie's parent is. Did Freddie make it out? Is Sam in love with Freddie? Will you please review? I hope you will
