I did not realize that it would take so long to write a page long chapter. But I think that it's pretty good. So don't give up on me and read on. And I'm not really sure what I'm disclaiming so I won't put that unless there's a reference to a work by Rick Riordan.
Jake-
I'm so glad Chariclo said to get there by pegasi. The look on Danni's face was totally worth it when we took off. If I knew she was afraid of flying I would tricked her into flying yesterday just so I could take a picture. But the effect of flying being payback to Danni wore of really fast. It had only been ten minutes but Danni was screaming to come down. "I'm afraid of flying. Did I tell your was afraid of flying? Well you should of asked whether I'm afraid because I am afraid of flying. Did I mention that I'm afraid of FLYING!" This went on for a while. Until even her Pegasus got tired of it. Ginger gave an irritated whinny. "No I will not shut up until a have made it a know fact that I'm afraid of flying." she replied. It like she knew what Ginger said. Did she? Ginger whinnied again. "Don't you talk to me like that. I'm the one whose riding you." she did it again and this time she noticed. She froze in place. "Did I just…"
"uh huh."
"to a…"
"yup."
"I can…"
"yeah." What she said next was exactly what I was thinking. "Mind. Blown." Danni is the daughter of Poseidon right? "Danni I think you can understand horses because your father Poseidon made horses. Which means you've inherited some other abilities. What else can you do?"
"This" out of nowhere i was shot with a blast of water I the face. I was dripping wet and the pegasi snorted. "Awww. The pegasi found that funny too." she laughed. When she was done, she closed her eyes. Suddenly water was drawn from my clothes and brought together in a sphere of water. Danni opened eyes and mouthed "ha". "Now what do I do with it? I can't drop it or it will hit someone and I can't carry it with me the rest of the way." i wondered what to do with the sphere and suddenly it came to me. "So what happened with Jeff last night?" there was a big ruckuss that everyone heard. Danni looked like all her happiness was drained out if her. She turned to me with this cold expression. "He tried to kill ONLY me, which wouldn't of HAPPENED if you hadn't left me FOR DEAD!" Okay, clearly she was still sore about me abandoning her with the Minotaur. Suddenly there was a hiss and the sphere was gone. Danni cocked her head to one side. "huh. That's new." She didn't question how she did it. All the better for me. "How long till we reach wherever in hades were headed?" I noticed she was no longer terrified to death of flying Ginger.
"Argos, and not much further now." does she do this all the time? Not pay attention that is, not being a total pain in the butt, oh wait she is. She's right, she rubbing off on me.
We flew in silence for a while (which was unbelievably hard for Danni, every time she wanted to talk instead she would do flips on Ginger, so that was like every two minutes. Ginger is so dizzy shes not even flying straight, she dipping up and down like she's was on a carasol ride. Anyways, point of this message, Danni needs to talk) until the strangest thing happened. There was an upcoming cloud of mist, or so I thought. The mist made strange noises like moans of pain. My first question was- "What kind of mist makes noise?" Danni questioned as we approached it. I looked down to the pegasi and started to notice their reactions. We were flying slower and we were starting to back up. I will not forget what happened next. The mist lunged towards us. That's when I could see that it was not mist but ghosts. The pegasi neighed and bucked so high, Danni and I fell off them. We were free falling towards our death and I was not enjoying it. "what were those things?" I yelled at Danni.
"Taraxippi, horses are scared to death by them." she yelled back.
"And how do you know that?" we were only we were a few hundred feet from making contact with the ground. I started to mentally write my will. "Ginger told me." To my dad, I leave my tools, to my mom i leave my library, to Ben I leave- thats when two shadows collided with us (and there was a definate crack) stopping our fall and carried us the rest of the way down. Danni and I rolled off the shadows- which turned out to be Ginger and Chase. I got shakily but Danni was moaning in pain. Turns out that's crack was her back snapping when she landed on Ginger. I immidietly went over to her bag and pulled the ambrosia, breaking a small bit off. Then I heard yelling. "This was a RACE to you guys?! I nearly died. This is the third time in TWO days that I nearly died! This CANNOT be healthy!" turns out that that the two winged horses were racing to see who could resuce their rider and make it to the ground first. Turns out Chase won. "Im with Danni on this one. Not cool guys." they both whimpered. "Yeah you better be." Danni replied. "Seems like you're just fine." I smirked.
"My back may be broken." she emphasized on 'back'. I handed her the ambrosia and with whatever strength she had, she stuffed in into her mouth. A few minutes later she was getting up and dusting herself off. "How far are we from Argos? Hey I remembered." she really does deserve an award for that.
"About ten kilometers away." she gave me a confused look.
"What are those?" I raised my eyebrow at her for a second. That's when it came to me. "Your American."
"What did you think I was, Egyptian?" I sighed.
"in your measurement of travel, we're about six miles away."
"Yay." she said SO enthusiastically. I looked up and the Taraxippi were still there. Great. "Well we can't fly the pegasi until we're a safe enough distance away." I pointed up.
"We have to walk?" she whined.
"Yes cry baby now let's get a move on." she raised her eyebrow at me.
"Call me that again and you will be walking with out legs." she turned so I could see her hand on her dagger and I can say without a doubt that in two seconds flat I would be leg less. We started our trek with Chase and Ginger following up behind us.
a/n: updating is a weakness of mine. I'll try to update sooner but I like to write more than one chapter before I post.
