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The New Guardian:Percy Jackson/The LibrariansPercy's been betrayed by camp and the gods, but when a letter from the Library comes, with a job that lets him start a new life, Percy goes not knowing what to expect. Now his forced to protect the Librarians along with Eve Baird, while trying not to get in the eyes of the gods. But with a new enemy on the rise it's up to the Librarians and the demigods to join forces.
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Chapter 4: Talking and Stealing
Flynn turned to look at us again; "Well I got nothing." "So that leaves the question of why you've been chosen Mr Jackson," said Jenkins, looking at me closely…"Time for a bit of breaking and entering," Thalia said, rubbing her hands together and crackly evilly. Rachel and I looked at each other mirroring the same look. Were Doomed
Percy's POV:
Flynn led the tour.
I had to admit some of this stuff was interesting. All these years these people had been collecting magical artefacts to keep them out of the wrong hands, and no one noticed.
They were like super spies. But without all the secret agencies, and awesome cars.
"Fountain of Youth."
Flynn announced.
I looked up at the fountain.
"Is it bad that I thought it would be bigger," I said. It was quite big in size, it was quite high –it could fit all of us height ways-, and it was wide about a metre or two.
"Don't worry I thought that too," Ezekiel said, coming to stand next to me.
"The other room was cooler," he continued. I smiled; I knew which room he was talking about. The one that housed the large artefacts and Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. Though Jenkins had a go at some of us for calling him 'monster'. [1]
I nodded and we continued on.
They were all older than me, Ezekiel being the only one who was close to my age. He was twenty-five.
Cassandra and Stone were in there 30's. Cassandra being 32 and Stone being 34. Eve was also in her 30's, but she was 38. Flynn was the second oldest, being 41; and Jenkins… We'll no one told me his age, just that he was really old. [2]
They explained to me how the Library existed in its own pocket dimension. I didn't understand what Flynn and Cassandra said, so I nodded along when it seemed fit.
When we got back to the Annex, Jenkins asked me for a word. He led me into another room, which was filled with tools and reminded me a bit of Bunker 9.
I smiled sadly before masking my face back to a goofy smile.
"Who are you?" he asked.
I cocked my head to the side, playing dumb. "I'm Percy Jackson."
Jenkins narrowed his eyes, "demigod."
I stiffened and snuck a look around. Names had power and I didn't what to get in the gods eyes.
Jenkins frowned. "Traitor or betrayed?"
"Last one," I answered. I looked down, the feeling of tears prickling at my eyes becoming stronger. I sniffled.
"Big Three or not?"
"Big Three." I didn't look up.
"Pos-Sea God?"
I nodded. I looked up and saw Jenkins looking at me with a pity in his eyes.
"I understand if you wish to not tell them. But you will end up having to."
I nodded again and walked out. I wiped my eyes with my jacket sleeve and plastered a goofy grin on my face again. Part of me wanted to tell them, but I didn't know them well enough so I decided not to.
I walked through the doorway to see them sitting down like they had when I had arrived, except this time Flynn was sitting in a chair to my right, head in hands and glaring at a piece of paper that was resting on the desk in front of him. Colonel Baird was leaning over him and patting his back.
Jenkins walked in behind me and Flynn jumped up, causing Colonel Baird to jump back.
"Jenkins I need you to fire up the back door?" Flynn asked.
Jenkins sighed, "Mr Carsen, you understand that you can do that yourself."
Flynn nodded, "yes but you never let anyone touch it."
Jenkins nodded and walked over to the world globe that sat next to a set of doors. Jumpstart cables connected the two together. Jenkins spun the globe, and then stopped it. I didn't see where it landed but when it stopped the door flipped a couple of times.
It stopped and a white light glowed faintly around the edges. Flynn thanked Jenkins, kissed Colonel Baird –apparently they were dating- and said goodbye to the rest of us.
He opened the door to reveal an alley way, and walked through. Jenkins closed the door.
"Was that a portal?" I asked. My eyes were wide-opened and my mouth touched the floor.
"Yes Mr Jackson a portal," Jenkins answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Granted it was but still a portal!
"We call it the back door," Stone said.
"Ok." The famous Percy answer. 'Nice job me.'
"Everyone sit down," Colonel Baird commanded. Ezekiel, Stone and Cassandra looked at her, they were already sitting.
I sat down while Jenkins went back to where he was when I arrived, Colonel Baird remained standing.
"Ok first of we need to get things organised around here," Colonel Baird announced. I wondered what they were talking about until I remembered how they had skipped over some of the rooms. Had someone broken in?
"Jones, I need you to go and fix the security system, Cassandra help him and make sure he doesn't steal anything," Colonel Baird said giving a pointed looked to Ezekiel.
Ezekiel in return smirked.
"Stone, go around with Jenkins and record any missing artefacts."
Stone nodded, and Jenkins got pieces of paper out. Actually a pile of paper.
"Jackson," Colonel Baird said turning to me now, "your with me, we go around and make sure no animals or anything else remotely dangerous has gotten out."
I nodded and we all went our separate ways.
"So Jackson, what do you think about your knew job?" Colonel Baird asked.
"Do I get payed?" I asked. Something tells me this job is gonna take up most of my time, and that means my other job is down the drain.
Colonel Baird laughed. "Yes you get payed."
"Question, do we get payed by the building?"
"No, The Metropolitan Library pays us."
I laughed, but upon seeing Colonel Baird's serious look, I stopped.
"You're not joking."
"No."
"Ok. Next question, how much?"
"You'll find out," she smirked.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Prospero," she answered sternly.
"Ok," I said, "who's that."
"Fictional."
"OK what!"
Colonel Baird laughed, "I'm so used to people already knowing, sorry Jackson. Fictionals are people from stories that have come to life. Prospero's one of them, he's from Shakespeare's 'Tempest'."
"Ok," I said wrapping my head around the new found information, "you know I failed English each year."
Colonel Baird looked at me for more information.
"Dyslexic and ADHD are the worst things to have at times," I said.
Colonel Baird nodded, "Prospero's looking to take over the world, and currently he's looking for a new staff as his old one broke. He broke in here to get to the Tree of Knowledge, but he left when we tricked him."
I nodded and we walked on looking left and right in case something dangerous got out.
I asked questions about Prospero and the Library. And Colonel Baird asked questions about me –manly how good of a fighter I was- and about told me about the rest of the team.
Oh the embarrassing stories she told me about them. Something told me she knew about the amount of blackmail she was giving me.
I was already feeling like I was a part of this team –or family- and it hadn't even been a day. A Couple of hours at least.
(The New Guardian)
Coral's POV:
I slipped into the shadows behind the Athena Cabin. I heard rustling from the bushes and jumped into them tackling the person to the ground.
I saw a flash of red curls and I was on the ground, dirt in my mouth and eyes. I groaned and turned over only to see Rachel staring down at me.
"Ouch," I moaned.
Rachel offered me her hand and I took it. I brushed the dirt of me and spit it out of my mouth. Rachel beckoned me forward, and I looked around before quickly running towards her.
She looked at me, "no one's here."
"So," I hissed, "someone could come around."
She rolled her eyes and walked around the cabin. I followed.
A couple of people were playing on the courts but we wouldn't be seen, everyone was off doing an activity.
Rachel opened the door and together the two of us snuck in. I flicked the light switch and light flooded the room. The Athena cabin was much bigger on the inside then on the out, it looked never ending.
"How the Hades are we supposed to find anything in here?" I hissed, waving my arms around.
Rachel shrugged and we walked forward only to bump into something. The sound of four things hitting the floor filled my ears. I raised my head to see Rachel, Thalia and Nico on the ground. I stood up and glared.
"Did you shadow travel?" I asked.
Nico nodded and Thalia smirked.
"You know what I-let's just look for what we came here for," Rachel sighed.
We nodded and set of in different directions.
"Could this be useful!"
Someone called. I lifted my head from a book and headed towards the voice.
Nico was standing in front of a laptop. Thalia and Rachel walked out of different pathways and saw him too.
"It's a catalogue," he said.
He typed up some words in Ancient Greek and a list of titles appeared after.
We all looked over his shoulder.
"The Tempest?" Thalia said in Ancient Greek, we all looked at the title she was looking at.
"William Shakespeare?"
Rachel looked at us, "speak English please, not all of us can understand Ancient Greek." Thalia repeated what she had said again but this time in English.
Rachel's eyes widened, "The Tempest, we had to read that in English once. I remember one of the character's names was Prospero, but it would be impossible for it to be him."
"We just learnt that there was more magic in the world then we originally thought and we live in a world were gods exists, I don't think we should be surprised if we found out that fictional characters could come to life," Nico deadpanned.
"So our evil villain is possibly from a fictional story?" I said. Nico shrugged and typed up more words.
"Ok there's nothing about Librarians," Nico said.
"Then what are all those?" Rachel asked pointing to all the titles that referenced how Libraries work.
"Just about how Libraries work," Thalia answered.
Rachel blushed, "Oh."
"So," Nico said closing the laptop, "we've found out that our villain might be from a fictional story and nothing else."
We sighed and headed out before the Athena's children could come back from there activity.
I walked and looked at the ground, hugging my arms close to me. Rachel brought a comforting arm around me.
"We've still got the Big House," Rachel said trying to make me happy.
"Yeah so. Someone's always in there, it'll be impossible to find what we need," I said grimly. My hope was fading fast, there was no way I could get my family back, stop Prospero, and at least try to explain things to Percy.
"Yes," Thalia said her eyes sparkling much like how they were hours ago, "but at night Dionysus is always in his room getting drunk, and Chiron's asleep."
Nico looked at Thalia, "How do you know that?"
"When I stopped being a tree and got out of the infirmary, I stayed at the Big House for a while," Thalia answered like it had been the most obvious thing in the world.
She turned so that she could look at all of us, "meet me at the back of the Big House at eleven p.m."
We nodded and Thalia ran off and so did Nico, both to go to their activities.
"I think this is the first time I've ever appreciated that the Harpies are on strike after the war," Rachel said. I nodded along my hope coming back.
"Come on," Rachel said tugging my arm, "you want ice-cream? The Hermes cabin always has some."
(The New Guardian)
I leaned against the back wall of the Big House. Thalia was trying to get the window opened.
I heard a click and turned to see Thalia climbing through the window.
We followed after her. I landed with a Thump and looked around. It was impossible to see anything. Rachel brought out a slim circular metallic object –a touch- and flicked it on. The touch gave off a soft light, which thankfully still allowed me to see where I was going so that I didn't trip.
We moved towards the bookcase and started scanning it for anything Prospero or Library related.
My hand skimmed over the titles, the soft light making my eyes strain to read. I stopped over a book that seemed to draw me in. I grasped it and pulled it out.
Part of me expected it to be like those old books in movies which you had to blow dust off, and had cobwebs stuck to it. This book was exactly like that, it looked like it had never been opened.
"Guys," I hissed, "might have found something."
I placed the book on a table and Rachel shone the touch on it.
I could make out the words now.
'Bibliothecam'
"The Library," Thalia said.
I moved my hand to open up the book when the sound of something crashing echoed through the house. We all looked at each other understanding what we had to do.
Run.
I scooped up the book and we ran towards the window and jumped. We landed sprawled out on the ground, Nico being the first one up closed the window quietly and once again we all ran towards Rachel's cave.
The adrenaline made the running a whole lot easier, and it was only when I came to a stop outside Rachel's cave that I felt it ebbing away.
With my hands on my knees I sucked lungful's of air in, and dropped the book to the ground. I heard a rustle of clothes next to me and saw a pale hand grab the book. I looked up to see Nico holding it at his side, looking as if the running had been nothing but a short walk.
I stood up gripping my side, and turned back towards the Big House. It was small now, and I realised how far we had run.
"We gonna find out what what's in that book or not?" Thalia asked. I turned around to see Thalia holding the curtain open, just like Nico she looked perfectly fine.
I nodded and walked towards the cave.
[1] I know in season 2 it said that Nessie was in the Animal section, but in 'The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice' Nessie was in the large artefacts section, and something tells me it would be hard to movie Nessie from one exhibit to another.
[2] The ages are never said, so I'm making them up. It was said that Ezekiel got his letter in his teens so I guessed. Stone and Cassandra got there letters in their twenties, manly cause they look around 20-30's. Eve's in her late 30's, and Flynn's the only one who had his age given and his in his early 40's in this. In 'The Librarian: Quest for the Spear' it states that his in his 30's.
Now vote thing, I won't put it on my profile page because apparently you have to have an account on this site to vote and I find that unfair to those who don't have an account. So instead review what you want.
Know the vote is;
Should Percy go back to Annabeth or not.
No longer in love with her but the stay friends-5
Percy goes with an OC-2
Goes with someone else (not OC)-2
-Cassandra- 4
Not together and no longer friends-2
Go back to being a couple-4