SORRY FOR MY PROCRASTINATION! I AM TRULY, TRULY SORRY! I JUST WANT TO READ KANE CHRONICLES BOOKS, OKAY? (Completely off-topic, but just a comparison: Did you know that One Direction sponsors junk food, and Imagine Dragons sponsors the Tyler Robinson Foundation for Cancer? Just had to put that out there. I LUV IMAGINE DRAGONS!)
You guys know that Vivian is real, right? She reviewed on March 20 under the names Vivian Armentrou, Amberbob, and Demigod. I'm not sure if Dragon and quaz was her, but it might've been. (Sorry I couldn't respond sooner, but your reviews appeared only a couple days later.)
WARNING: The A/N is your friend. Listen to it. (Also, this is gonna contain the lyrics of a certain song by a certain band named Imagine Dragons. YAYZ!
RESPONSE TO REVIEWS:
peaceloveandmooshrooms: I AGREE WITH THE NICO THING! :( I just had to put it, because all my friends, even the ones who don't read PJO and HoO, know about the whole House of Hades incident. Also, it would be kind of funny watching someone be beat up by Nico, wouldn't it? :)
Vivian Armentrou: YOU EVEN ADMITTED THAT YOU FRICKIN TOOK IT! FRICKIN SHUDDAP, VIVIAN! I'M GONNA GET YOU!
Amberbob: I know it's you, Vivian. Only one person in this universe would use that name.
Demigod: VIVIAN. FRICKIN SHUDDAP.
Dragon and quaz: Yes, demigods are real. And they always will be. (And if you are Vivian in disguise, I'M GONNA KILL YOU ON MONDAY.)
DISCLAIMER
QuazDren: Everyone say hello to one of my future characters (DRUMROLL PLEEZE!) Wendigo! He's a former bad dude from Native American mythology!
Wendigo: Ummmm…hi? *walks out from my closet, wearing all black clothes*
QuazDren: Wendigo, have you gone emo?
Wendigo: What's emo?
QuazDren: As you can see, he still has a lot of learning to do. *drags Wendigo back into closet*
Piper: DID I JUST SEE A WENDIGO?
QuazDren: Yeah.
Piper: THOSE THINGS ARE EVIL CANNIBALS THAT LIVE IN ALASKA!
QuazDren: So?
Piper: KILL IT!
Wendigo: NO KILLING! *Goes into full-out beast mode, and starts chasing Piper*
QuazDren: Ummmmm…that didn't go as planned…SEARCH WENDIGO ON GOOGLE IMAGES! YOU WILL HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT THEM THAT ARE WORTHY OF TARTARUS! Hawkfrost, say the disclaimer.
Hawkfrost: QuazDren doesn't own me, Warriors, PJO, HoO, Minecraft, or Demons by Imagine Dragons.
Leo: YOU DIDN'T SAY IT RIGHT!
QuazDren and Hawkfrost: *ignores Leo*
Chapter 4: Demons
Llano, Texas. Nico's POV.
I just passed by the demigods that got attacked, and the cat spirit was still chasing me. I don't know why the cat was chasing me, usually animals run away from me. I'm pretty sure the cat was talking, and it was yelling things like: The Dark Forest has risen again! You think that you can escape, pesky twoleg? I will rip you to shreds, for I am Tigerstar of ShadowClan! Gods, this cat was crazy. I kept on spinning around, trying to attack it, but it had no effect. I finally just punched it in the face, sending the cat tumbling back to wherever it came from. The demigods started yelling at me, and I thought, Oh crap, and started running again. If those demigods saw me, they would ask too many questions, and it was best to wait until Kayla and Percy got here. I jumped over the fence that surrounded the school, just as the normal students started running out of the building.
Still March 19, 2014. Llano Elementary, Fifth Grade. Raven's POV.
When I was watching Nico di Angelo running past us, I thought of that song by Imagine Dragons…what was it called? OH MAH GOSH, HOW COULD I FORGET THE NAME, EVEN FOR JUST A SECOND?! It was called Demons, and I just kind of think that it's Nico's song. The starting lyrics played themselves self-consciously in my head, and I paused to just savor the moment.
When the days are cold
And the cards all fold
And the saints we see
Are all made of gold
I watched as Nico punched the crap out of the cat, and I smiled. I'm pretty sure he just knocked out Tigerstar.
When your dreams all fail
And the ones we hail
Are the worst of all
And the blood's run stale
Vivian was silent, and I'm sure that it's because of me horribly humming/slightly singing Demons.
I wanna hide the truth
I wanna shelter you
But with the beast inside
There's nowhere we can hide
Callie never heard this song before, and she was still stunned by the previous events, so when she said, "W-what a-a-are you s-singing?" I just smiled, watching as Nico jumped over the fence and the other students were passing by. Maya and Faith caught up to us, and they started singing along with me.
No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom, come.
This is my kingdom, come.
Kaleb was walking past us, and gave an exasperated sigh, saying, "I've already heard this song, don't want to hear it again."
When you feel my heat, look into my eyes
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide
Don't get too close, it's dark inside
It's where my demons hide
It's where my demons hide
Callie snapped out of her daze, and said, "The heck is going on? And don't say anything stupid, like stuff about Percy Jackson and Herobrine. Percy Jackson is make-believe, and Herobrine's a Minecraft glitch. Right, guys?" But nobody was looking at her. We were all looking at the surprised-looking teenager in the baseball fields, who just appeared. No explanation. He was running around, yelling random stuff, and all of a sudden, two other teenagers appeared. One was a guy with shades on, and he was stumbling around, but when the other one, who was a girl, tried to help him and…hehissed at her? Weird. It was hard to tell, but the guy had bluish shaggy hair, and the girl had straight black hair. The teachers hadn't noticed us yet, so I grabbed Maya and Faith's arms and motioned for Vivian and Callie to hold on to Kit and Lexus's arms. I always had a suspicion that Maya was a daughter of Hades, and I told the other guys to hold on to Maya, and I said to her, "Focus on the shadows, and imagine Camp Half-Blood." She tried her best, but it wasn't worth it. Then, and THIS FRICKIN SCARED ME TO FRICKIN DEATH -not exactly to death, but you get my point- Nico di freaking Angelo appeared in front of us, and he said, "Don't panic, just hold on to each other and don't let go." I tightened my grip on Maya and Faith, while Nico said to Maya, "Hate to break it to you, but you're a daughter of Hades. I'm going to need some of your strength to Shadow Travel this many demigods. Understand?" Maya nodded, and I saw the fear in her eyes. I'd told her about Nico before, and all she would do was make fun of him. Now that she found out that he was her half-bro, I could –sort of, not really- understand her confusion and fear. Nico held out his hand, and Maya hesitantly placed her hand on top of his. Suddenly, we were all enveloped in darkness, and I can remember thinking: OH FRICK OH FRICK THIS IS MUCH MORE REALISTIC THAN THE BOOKS! And I'm pretty sure I looked a bit crazy. Not Ra right after Carter and Sadie from the Kane Chronicles awakened him crazy; I wasn't yelling stupid things like Weasels are sick! And Wheee! Zebras! Wheee! I was just terrified-looking crazy. My self-consciousness tried and failed to calm me down by singing Demons, but I almost immediately shut it out.
We popped up in the shadows in front of the Big House, and Maya looked like she just saw a ghost. Well, she might of, you never know. Suddenly I remembered that we left Lyndsey behind. Oh frick. WE FREAKING LEFT A VERY POSSIBLE DEMIGOD BEHIND. (Just to remind anyone who's reading this, I have many panic attacks like this all the time. Don't worry 'bout me, it's the people around me that suffer.) Callie shook my shoulders and said, "'Ya know about the camp that you say has the gigantic climbing wall with lava on it? Well, we're here. Oh, and there's a freaking pegasus behind you." Vivian looked up when she heard Callie say that, and gasped in surprise. I whirled around, and standing before me WAS THE FRICKIN AWESOME HORSE NAMED BLACKJACK. I just stood there, looking amazed, while Vivian was petting him and saying things to it, like: Hi, my name's Vivian. Can you tell me yours? Blackjack, I assume, was probably saying stuff that horses would say. The Big House door opened, and out rolled a man in a wheelchair. All my friends, even the ones who haven't read the books, knew who this was. This is Chiron. Let me rephrase that: THIS IS THE FRICKIN AWESOME CHIRON. Chiron thanked Nico for bringing us, and what happened next was PURE AWESOMENESS. A thunderbolt symbol appeared over Callie's head. She looked up, and said angrily, "Why is the lightning stalking me? THE THUNDER IS A STALKER!" A dove appeared over Lexus's head, and so forth. Kit was claimed by Hermes, Vivian was claimed by Poseidon (immediate response: 'I KNEW IT!'), and Maya was claimed by Hades. A group of kids of all ages were passing by, and all of them, except for one, looked like they walked through a small wildfire. They were all in a conversation that involved a lot of yelling and pointing, but when they saw me, they all stopped and stared. I looked up, and thought, Holy Mother of Kool-Aid… because above me, was a glowing hammer on fire, except this one wasn't exactly a perfect symbol of the fire god. THE FIRE WAS PURPLE. Chiron was kind of tired of saying the usual, but he said it to me anyways: "Hail Raven Fireheart, daughter of Hephaestus and legacy of Dionysus."
Llano, Texas. Lyndsey's POV.
I wasn't at school today; I was at the awesomeness known as Port Aransas. We were on the barge to the island, watching the dolphins, but when I looked to the side, I saw something that shocked me into fainting. There were two kids on that weird-water-horse-thingamajiggers from the Sea of Monsters movie heading straight for me.
Oh, the cliffiness…how I just love torturing you people.
(I'M LISTENING TO DEMONS RIGHT NOW, AND I JUST CAN'T GET THE LYRICS OUT OF MY HEAD. Kind of a win-lose situation, isn't it?)