Sahara's POV
So, as Trivia, Morpheus, Serqet, and Nerthus were preparing to send us off, kids were running around, giving hugs to all their friends, and wishing the quest members good luck. I was really hoping I made it back alive.
"Hey, Morpheus?" I spoke up. "Who's the first god we're going to find?"
"Goddess." He corrected. "And it's your mother, Abrainna, goddess of roads."
"Oh. Cool." I murmured, and then a flash of bright light clouded my vision. When my vision cleared, we were in a dense evergreen forest, where there were no roads. It was horrible.
"So, where do you think we should look first? I mean, there's no way to find her." Harry said.
We all discussed it, and I was stuck with Harry, his sister Ivy, Xavier, son of Visolela, and Joy in my group.
We all started to wander off, and my group wandered for a long time until we heard a dog barking loudly.
"How about we run?" I asked, and we ran as fast as we could, but everywhere we went, the dog's barking seemed like it was right behind us.
Xavier cursed. "I know what it is, and why it's always behind us! It's Laelaps! Laelaps-" He started, but we saw a huge black dog running towards us, with a person in blue ninja clothes. We all climbed a huge tree and stared down as the person and the dog right under us.
The person swore. "Oh Styx, Laelaps! I thought you were supposed to catch anything!" I realized the person was feminine because of her girlish voice. She took off her hood and long, caramel hair tumbled out.
She took out a cell phone and dialed some number. She put it on speaker, and then said, "Hey! Have you trapped the others?"
A deep voice came out of the cell phone "We only got one. Some daughter of Martin. She almost took my head off with her spear."
Joy gasped. "Izzy!" She hissed a little too loudly, and the girl looked up. She took out a black bow and notched a hydra arrow.
"Come down here, or I'm knocking you out of the tree!" She shouted.
Xavier laughed. "As if, girly!"
The girl drew back the string and fired. It missed. She fired another hydra arrow, and it knocked Joy out of the tree. Harry tried to grab her, and he went down with her. I turned around to look back at the girl, and a heavy arrow hit me in the chest, knocking me off the tree branch. Ivy and Xavier were knocked to the ground pretty soon. This girl had really good aim. I got up and tried to sprint away, but the dog, Laps or something, raced after me. I turned into a black horse, but it leaped on my back and brought me down. I turned back to a human, and my last glimpse before I passed out was being dragged away by the girl and the dog.
Izzy's POV
Cages are not fun.
Let me explain myself. I was sitting in a cage, in an abandoned warehouse in the middle of a forest sitting next to an unconscious goddess. Not fun. The cage was like a giant bird's cage, hanging from the ceiling, being guarded by really short, African men, who were riding goats. They called themselves pygmies.
An extra short pygmy in a creepy skull crown strode up to the cage. "New guests. Hope have fun." He said, and then threw 5 teenagers in the cage with me. I recognized all of them. Harry and Ivy, Xavier and Sahara, and Joy. They were all unconscious except for Joy, who was blindfolded and gagged. I ripped off Joy's blindfold and gag and the first thing she did was spew some very creative curse words. She stood up and hugged me.
"Hey! Where are we? Who's that lady on the floor?" She asked, and I smiled.
"Well, we're in some abandoned warehouse in the forest, and that lady is Abrainna, Sahara's mother and goddess of roads." I told her. She smiled, and then went and slapped Harry. He didn't wake up, so Joy called a pygmy over and it poked Harry with it's spear. Harry immediately woke up and yelled, Donec turpis pumilio parvus!
I, being the master of languages that I am, knew it was Latin, so I translated it to: You ugly little dwarf!
Joy proceeded to walk around, waking people up, and when Sahara woke up, she immediately went and woke up her mother.
"Where am I? Oh, and hello Sahara." Abrainna said, and Xavier replied, saying, "We're in an abandoned warehouse. Oh, and it looks like the cavalry has arrived." Just as he said that, the whole wall collapsed, and I saw Jake and Satet standing there, with all the others. The pygmies hopped on their goats and charged. Tommy, Jake's half-brother, took out his sword and sliced a pygmy in two. Jake flew towards another pygmy and flew upwards, then dropped it, where it landed on another pygmy's spear and disintegrated.
He flew up to the cage and started to slice it with his sword, but it didn't work. "Το κακό κλουβί! Γιατί δεν θα σας σπάσει;" He yelled, which in English is "Evil cage! Why won't you break?"
Jake kept slicing at the bars, Abrainna sighed. "Here you go, boy." She said, an d a key appeared in Jake's hand. He smiled and opened the cage door.
"Close your eyes, children!" Abrainna yelled after she got out of the cage. She started to glow, and everybody closed their eyes. She was revealing her true form.
When I opened my eyes, I looked around. The warehouse had been reduced to ruins, the pygmies had all disintegrated, we were all safely on the ground.
My mouth dropped open, and Abrainna smiled. "I must go now, children. But here is a gift." She said, and pulled out a little glass bottle, and tossed it to Satet. Then, she pulled out a credit-card like thing and inserted it into nothing, and then disappeared, leaving a scent I recognized from the stables in Thebes II: the scent of freshly washed horses.
"Guys? Where are we going now?" I asked, and then I blacked out. When I woke up, we were all at a river, with a centaur with a black stallion's body and legs where his legs would be, and he had long, black hair that fell down to his shoulders. He was eyeing Joy, Ivy, and I carefully, like he wanted to grab us. He had pale, white skin, and he carried a boat oar. He was standing right next to a large boat docked in the water.
"Greetings, children." The centaur said. "I am Nessus"
A.N.- Like it? Hate it? Review!
And btw, I have nothing against dwarves or short people. Just saying.
