I saw the lightening thief movie yesterday for the umpteenth time (yay!)and I found some things in the movie that annoyed me.
1. Mr.D, Clarisse , Beckendorf, Thalia, etc etc are missing. They don't even mention Thalia!
2. The Gods are not allowed to meet their children, but sometimes they speak to their kids. Are you serious!
3. The demigods except for Percy, Luke and some of the others live in tents. They've got awesome cabins for gods sake! And all the children of a God live together then why did Luke have a cabin to himself?
4. Percy's sword turns into a pen, then why does he carry it in a sheath as shown at the end? Also the pen is supposed to be uncapped instead of clicking it!
I'm sorry to bore you, but I just had to say this or I'm sure I'd explode!
I do not own PJATO *sighs*. Have fun reading!
Chapter 7 -Surprisingly Terrifying Visits
It was obvious.
Rohan is my brother. Well, it was so obvious all along that I felt like an idiot, that I was surprised when I found out he was my brother. With the whole 'same features' and 'twin timing' thing, at least I should have understood. It was just so obvious!
When I first entered the cabin it was so messy it looked like the whole Hades had broken lose in here. There were clothes and chocolate wrappers everywhere, there was mud on the floor(I still don't know how it got here),the bed was not made and the bathroom was...let's just say unsanitary. Infact the whole cabin was unsanitary, it was just outright crazy!
So for the next six hours, Rohan and I had a brother-sister cleaning session, during which Rohan continuosly kept whining. We had the day off because of the rain storm and we spent most of it in cleaning. Soon it was as clean as the Athena cabin (those guys have a reputation for it) and livable. Life's good! Or atleast I thought.
At the daybreak I was awakened by awful screams of someone. They weren't the cries you'd expect from a man, these were like the shrieks that only the girly girls can possibly make.
"Aarghhhhhhh!"
Rohan screamed, which made me sit up in shock and hit my head on the upper bunk, where he was sleeping.
Boink!
I slammed back on my bed clutching my forehead. Ouch!
It's awful to see and hear a strong half blood, especially the child of the Big Three, scream suddenly in the cabin at daybreak.
I jumped to see what the matter was. Beck was sitting on Rohan's chest, with one hand twisted in Rohan's hair. In other hand he had a sharp knife and it looked like he was very carefully trying to take the skin and hair off Rohan's head.
"What the Hades is your problem?" Rohan and I yelled. Rohan was yelling at Beck while I was screaming at him. What? I get angry when someone disturbs me while I'm sleeping!
Beck climbed off the bunk and spoke while looking away from us.
"Jeez! Relax. I had a super fast recovery so I got released today. I just wanted to give you guys a surprise."
"A surprise? More like a shock you mean!" Rohan said angrily, "What were you even trying to do with that knife?"
"Nothing, I swear! Alex wouldn't wake up and neither would you so... I just did that so you'd wake up." Beck said, looking hurt. Instantly my BFF instincts kicked in and I enveloped him in a bear hug.
"I missed you!" I told him, strangling him to death. It's not been too long to miss him as he's just been in the infirmary for only four or five days. But so much had happened in these few days that they seemed like weeks. And also this sounded the most appropriate so.
"I missed you too." he grinned.
"That was so filmy!" Rohan said sarcastically, tapping his feet with his arms crossed. Beck and I broke apart and he walked over to Rohan, who was being all guy-ish like I'm-too-cool-for-school guyish.
"Oh come here!" Beck and Rohan did a hand shake thingy and hugged.
"Who's being filmy now?" I asked.
"No need to be jealous, you can join us too!" Both of them hugged me from either side, crushing me like bug.
"Need...air...need...to breathe." I croaked. They didn't seem to hear me.
"Oh let the girl go. She needs to breathe." Nico said, standing at the door. He must have heard us and came to see what had caused all this commotion. The cabins of the big three are situated in a circle, more like a triangle, with the doors facing each other in a small common ground. So things like sudden commotion and appearances tend to happen.
The boys let me go and I fell on my knees clutching my throat. As soon as I was back to normal, I stood up and walked over to Nico and gave him a bear hug.
"Thank you thank you thank you...!" I told him.
"Now I...need...air...can't...breathe." he squeaked.
"Oh, sorry!" I stepped back and blushed as I realized what I'd done in the spur of the moment. Luckily, no body saw. Nico was rubbing his neck, trying to breathe normally while the other two were laughing their dumb butts off.
"It's okay. No blood no foul." he smiled at me.
"How do you even manage to divert happy conversations to emo-ish conversations?" I asked in awe. "No blood no foul?"
"It's just a proverb." he snapped, going back into his gloomy state.
Awkward silence filled our cabin. Which was broken by the sound of the flush of the toilets. Thinking of toilet,
"I need to use the washroom. So guys if you don't mind..." I said gesturing at Nico and Beck.
"We still have to go and surprise Jess." Beck whined. All of us raised our eyebrows questioningly.
"What?" He seemed puzzled.
"You haven't told Jess yet?" I asked. After all Jess is his five-minutes small twin sister. He should have first told her. I mean why would he even come to us first?
"Your cabins were the nearest." he said matter of factly. Oh, That's why.
"Uh right...so we'll be right outside." Nico told me, pointing at the door.
"Okey dokey," I replied. Nico rolled his eyes and rumaged Beck outside with him.
After Rohan and I got ready, in just fifteen minutes which is not a small feat (atleast not for a girl), we headed to the Apollo cabin along with Nico and Beck.
We didn't bother to knock and went right in. Some manners we've got, eh? There was no one in the cabin except Jess. Children of Apollo normally wake up early when the sun rises, but this is Jess we are talking about, we all know she's not normal. Jess was curled up, soundly sleeping on her bunk. Beck walked over to her, while we just stood there at the door.
Beck bent down, and spoke something in Jess's ears. She didn't stir so Beck took out a guitar and started playing it. Nothing. He tickled her on her belly, under her arms, on her feet. Nothing. He took out his iPod dock , turned the music to full and played a hard rock song. Snores.
Beck sighed in frustration. Suddenly I heard a ting and Beck seemed to have gotten an idea. Weird.
"Jess look, the Aphrodite girls are here to give you a makeover!" he spoke loudly.
Jess bolted upright, horror written all over her face. She ran inside the bathroom in full speed. After a while she peeped from the between door in panic and only saw the four of us laughing like mad. Immediately the horror was washed off anger. She was ticked off.
She walked over to Beck and slapped him on his cheeks.
"DON'T YOU EVER DARE DO THAT AGAIN!"
"Jeez, relax! I just wanted to give you a surprise. You were not waking up." he told her. Ya notice a pattern forming there? Cuz I sure do.
Jess' eyes softened and she hugged her brother.
"I am happy to have my punching bag back but I need my beauty sleep." she sounded so much like an Aphrodite girl.
"I love you too sis." Beck laughed as they broke apart.
"That was so-" Rohan started.
"Filmy" I said.
"Dramatic." Nico continued.
"And cliche." Rohan added.
They gave us the evil eye and gestured us to leave.
"Oh that's just rude!" I exclaimed sarcastically.
Jess and Beck started pushing us when we didn't budge. That made us say-
"Now this is very very rude."
"-and cruel!"
"Stop touching me!"
"You just wait till I get my hands on both of you."
"Im going I'm going, sheesh!"
"You're the most rude set of twins I've ever seen!"
"Get off me get off me get off me!"
"I'm gonna send you to my dad!"
In a matter of minutes we were outside. The three of us looked at each other, hung our heads and walked off to attend the camp activities.
We were heading towards the archery range when suddenly a little girl of about 6-7 years of age crashed into me. The blonde haired kid fell down from the impact.
She started crying as I picked her up in my arms.
"Are you hurt?" I asked the girl softly as she wiped her face on my tee and shook her head. Rohan scrunched up his face but it was Nico who came to help us. Hmm... the emo boy's actually nice.
He took the girl from me and tried to hush her. He even told her dumbest jokes possible, but in vain. He's so sweet, helping that kid. Whoa! Wait...what? Alex, control yourself... Control...control...control... Since when did Nico become sweet? Ugh!
"What's the matter, sweety?" I asked her sweetly.
"If this goes on for a long time, Im soon gonna have diabetes." Rohan muttered 'sweetly'.
"Yeah. What's the matter sweety?" Nico asked, glaring at Rohan. Rohan just shrugged and stared at his shoes.
"Rheumatism." The blonde girl told us.
"Oh I'm so sorry dear." I said and Nico nodded.
"Yeah, but Rheumatism at this age?" he asked.
"No that's not the problem," the girl croaked,"I can't spell it."
Nico and I stared at each other stunned at what we'd heard. Why would a six year old girl even bother about getting the right spelling of rheumat-...ohhh blonde hair, grey eyes. Daughter of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and the mother of geeks. Figures.
"Daughter of-" Nico started.
"Athena." I nodded as an understanding passed between us.
Ooh ooh and let's not forget my bro, eh? Well he was happily having laughter festival rolling on the ground. Don't worry, I'll take care of him later.
"Sweety, why don't you tell us where your siblings are. We'll take you to them."
"There's no need for that." Rohan said simply.
"What do you mean?" Why did I pick this day to be dumb, oh why? Like seriously, it's just six in the morning and look at how many questions I've already asked. I feel so dumb.
He simply pointed in front of us. Chiron was galloping towards us with Percy and Annabeth sitting on his back. Hey, I want one piggy back ride too!
"There's been a new prophecy. Call all the cabin leaders for an immidiate meeting in the big house. And, kindly go to your cabin."
Soon all the camp leaders were seated in the 'big' room in the 'big' house. If you're wondering about me, then let me tell you that when I entered no one objected so, doesn't really matter. Some of the other camp leaders have brought some company too so like I said, doesn't really matter.
"We've all gathered here to discuss about a new prophecy regarding a quest." Chiron told us.
"Who's going on the quest?" Katie Garner of the Demeter cabin asked.
"Percy and Annabeth have volunteered for the quest. And according to the prophecy only two half bloods are supposed to go on this quest."
"What's the prophecy?" Connor Asked.
"Annabeth if you will." Chiron gestured Annabeth.
Annabeth walked over to the centre of the room and started-
Two will go on the most dangerous quest
From the last war except it no lest
To complete the business left unfinished
They'll unknowingly do what the leader wished
For success, they'll have to do their best
At the end both will have to face a test
To find the estranged children of the gods
They would get hurt against all odds
There was eery silence in the room as everyone took in what Annabeth had just said. As always I broke the silence,
"Wow,that was creepy."
Daba daba daba dum! (how'd ya like my alternative?)
How was the prophecy? I know it's not that good but I had to make one as the plot changed because I changed the title of this story.
The scarcity of reviews is making me sad...so how about you give me five reviews for this chapter and I'll show you a tinsy little fluff in the next chapter. It wont be straight forward, just like a hint that 'something's' going on between 'some' people. I won't tell you who these characters are till you review and till the next chapter. Mwahahahaha! *evil music*
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