I own plot and Magi and the demigods' kids. That's it.
October 31 2016: New York 7:34 a m
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. CRASH! The alarm clock was thrown across the room. Today's the day. Magi lifted her head up. It was hard to leave the warm bed… maybe five more-
"Margret Sorcellerie, get up!"
Magi fell out of the bed and onto the floor. She ran to her closet. "Arise, my army of clothes!" In a second, Magi was wearing black jeans and a white-shirt with black letters that said: FREASH COOKIES MADE FROM SCRATCH. Next to the words was a headstone that said Scratch. She had black boots and black fingerless gloves that came to her elbows. She was, also, wearing a black leather jacket, a red belt, and a black witch's hat.
Suddenly, her phone rang. Brick by Boring Brick began:
She lives in a fairytale, somewhere too far for us to find. Forgotten the taste and smell of a world that she left behind. It's all about the exposure, the lens I told her. The angles were all wrong, now she's ripping wings off of butterflies. Keep your feet on the ground-
"Hello?"
"What has the amazing Margret decided to wear on this no uniform day?" Magi knew it Esper by the ringtone. She claimed the Magi was the kind of person that may spend the day ripping off butterfly wings. It happens once and you're labeled for life.
"Hey, ESP. I'm just wearing my old witch's costume." Esperanza got her nickname because she claimed to have extrasensory perception and because it was the first three letters of her name. Everyone other then family called her Hope because that the English translation.
"I knew that… I'm tellin' ya… it was my sixth sense."
"Sure, I'll see you in five minute."
"How'd you know I'm 5 minutes away?"
Magi had grabbed her notebook and walked down stairs during the conversation. Now she was put it in the pack. "To quote a daughter of a famous Greek hero, "I'm tellin' ya… it was my sixth sense."'
"Hate you. Bye… the way. Get it? Bye… the way, like by the way." Magi hung up. Cadmus sat at the counter reading. Magi looked at the cover. "Spiderman? Really? The world is messing up. Next you'll be telling me that Clark Kent is Superman. It's just plain crazy." She walked out.
"Good morning to you too." He muttered.
Goode High School, New York City 7:50 a m
Esperanza Valdez drove her purple sports car in to the parking lot. Technically, Esperanza didn't turn 16 until February; she got it drive to drive because of her uncle being Percy Jackson. Esperanza and Maggie walked in to school and heads turned. Due to the GPSC (Goode Popular Status Chart), people's social status depended on one thing: parents had the most money/the best job. Since the Valdez, Sorcellerie, Stoll, Jackson, Grace, and Zhang names had power; the teenagers were at the top of the social pyramid. Freddie Jackson was student council president and Emily Zhang was vice-president. Tristan Grace was quarterback. Ethan Jackson was the best swimmer since Percy Jackson. (Wonder why.) Michael Zhang was the best hockey player at Goode. (Also on the hockey team is Luke J, Ethan J, Maia R, Mark R, Phoebus S.) Flora Stoll was a track and field star. Amore Grace is a cheerleader. And Luke and Maia were already voted as the school's King and Queen. (Guess who Mark, Maia and Phoebus are. Or the better question being who their parents are)
Skip to lunch
They had lunch detention. At least, that's what lunch is when Mrs. Stoll was on lunch patrol. Every food had to be checked on the health status before it could enter the cafeteria. But once you get past that, lunch was fine. Halfway through, the cheerleaders went up to the stage. The head cheerleader spoke, "And now we say the winners of the costume contest. In most creative is Tristan Grace, a roman soldier. We also have most inspiring is Flora Stoll as a flower as well as Rachel Jackson as a Fortune Teller." Really Tristan just asked his did if he could wear his armor to school. Rachel had really borrowed some of her namesake's old clothes. They walked up to the stage and got a plastic trophy each. "Next is most cliché is Ethan Jackson as a pirate." Ethan walked up to the stage. He actually dressed as his namesake but only the demigods knew. "Last is most fashionable is Maggie Sora-Sorc- Maggie Claymore as a Black-is-the-new-black model." Maggie hated cheerleaders. They could never say her name and gave up. And couldn't even tell she was a witch. They just thought that if she knew Piper Grace, than she had to be dressed up a one of her models. Most of the cafeteria laughed when she said Maggie was dressed as a model. She was wearing one those cliché hats. But she took the trophy anyway.
This is boring. How can some people just write story were just this happens? We're going to skip to the Jackson Halloween Ball.
Maggie, Flora, and Esperanza stood to the side. Esperanza smirked as the boys kept staring at her. She wanted to go and dance, but only the adults were dancing, and none of the teenagers wanted to be the first ones to dance. Finally, Esper saw her parents waltzing a few feet away. She walked over and tapped her mother on the shoulder. "Mine if I cut in?"
Leo smirked, "I told you so."
Charity smiled as he twirled her. "Now Leo, your exact words were, and I quote, 'I think Esper will be the first to dance. Festus would be second.' I said vice versa. So I win."
"Festus isn't dancing."
"You were betting us, dad?" The ten year old had walked up after his sister.
"Yes, he was." Charity and Festus began a waltz. "And I won." Esper and Leo exchanged a look.
After the Valdez family broke the ice, Luke walked up to his parents. "Andy's in the corner, dad." He and Annabeth began a waltz. Percy walked over to Andy and her date. "I'll bring her back in one piece, Eric"
"Take all the time you need, Meda was just comparing Romanesque and Gothic."
"At least she wasn't telling you about the Great Wall of China. Annabeth will not stop talking about it since her trip 6 months ago."
"That's terrible. Architecture is so boring."
Andy slapped his head, "Eric."
Percy laughed, "You know, I like you. We should spend together before I make you two get married."
Andy slapped his head, "Daddy." She stormed off, Percy and Eric following her laughing.
Now that all the teenagers were dancing, Annabeth told everyone to sit down. Percy walked up to the center of the room. "You know, I can give a battle plan off the top of my head, but I need my girls to write me a speech." Everyone laughed. "I'd like to thank Red for setting this up. You know, I was talking with Travis, Connor, and Katie early about how Rachel has so much time since she doesn't have a prophecy to say or kids at camp to teach." That was true the last prophecy was in June when Luke, Maggie and Michael went to find the Golden Apples of Atalanta in Atlanta. "But, I'm not complaining. Now, since I know I'm boring you, I'm going to force Dinah Lance up here."
Dinah got up from Table 7. (All the tables correlate to the immortal you have the most connection to.) She walked to the center, but before she could speak, someone yelled, "How's life up in space, bird-brain?"
"Leo," Nyssa smacked him on the head. "I know you're mad that you didn't think of a space HQ first, but Dinah wasn't in the JL then."
Dinah nodded, "We have a problem with the Justice League. I'd like to call to the stage Oliver Queen and Margret Sorcellerie."
The two got up. Maggie muttered, "Why do I feel like I'm on trial?"
"Batman has… what the word I'm looking for?"
"Forced, made, terrified us into, required, enforced, made it mandatory, made it vital… any of these work." Maggie was not enjoying this.
"Batman has some of the Team study teamwork by working together and study a "freak storm" from 25 years ago. We did get some luck; Maggie is in the group that is studying it. Any questions?"
Most everybody's hands went up.
"Any questions other than why Maggie became a superhero and not you."
Most of the hands went down.
Annabeth was called. "Is it true the Wonder Girl is a demigod?"
"Yes, before continue, I'd like the younger generation to leave."
Everyone under 30 left. The teenagers all departed for home. It wasn't uncommon for the grown-ups to send them away to talk about danger. Maggie, Maia, Helia, and Esper, actually, were sitting 100 floors above their parents on the roof of the Jackson Headquarters. The roof was shaped in a star with a point heading up and five in different angles. Esper walked on one of the points which were above the streets of New York, but they had faith that Annabeth and Leo made the roof safe. "So, has he asked you yet?"
Maggie played with her hat. "Define asked."
Maia sighed, "Have you even talked to him?"
"Well…"
10/27/16 1:30 a m New York
Magi was sitting on the apartment roof. Suddenly, she saw a shadow over her. She thought it was Cade or Alabaster, but she was wrong. The voice that spoke nearly made her heart stop. "It's 1:30 in the morning. Shouldn't you be in bed, young lady?"
Standing there was Nightwing. The magi stood up. "What's the honor that one of the Bats is on my rooftop?"
"I'm not a Bat now, I'm on a break."
"So, who are you?"
"I'm a person that needs a homo magi's help."
"Why not Zatanna, 'cause from what Canary's told, you two are fine?"
"I need someone who can hide a secret for me."
"What's in it for me?"
"I'll keep your secret and I'll pay you."
"Keep talking, but I'll have you know that I am not a woman who agrees to blackmail easily. I'll find a way out."
Sorry about the long break. I was at my great-aunt's 95 birthday in Savannah, Georgia and she gave me this cool necklace. Then, my cousin Cera (It's pronounced Sarah.) got married in Athens (GA not Greece). I'm doing this real quick because I'm leaving at 5:30 tomorrow morning for "cousin bonding time". We just saw each at the wedding and Aunt Mary's birthday. I will basically spend most of the trip shielding my brother and sister from our cousins' influences. You know that cousin that no one in your family likes? Well, the five of them are like that. These are not the people you want with an 11 year old girl and a 7 year old boy. You wanna know somethin' funny: there's me and my hermanos, Jason, Grace, Hazel, Nick and Jackson. The irony would be funny if I didn't hate them. I'm going to try and do the next chapter while we're on this trip, but I will probably be forced to do it when I come back. I'm sorry again. Sorry you have to listen to me rant. I felt really bad I'm raging about it to you guys.
-Kassandra
