Chapter IX
AN: Chapter 9…wow three months of college go by quick XD almost forgot to finish making this chappy. Anyways, I do not own the Total Drama Series, blah, blah, blah you know the drill, review. :3
Courtney's (Infinity) POV
"Okay, okay, I believe you! Just tell it to PUT, ME, DOWN!" I yelled to Ms. Willow.
She earlier introduced me to talking animals; Of course, I simply explained they could be animatronics like the old headless man I ran into earlier. Then she showed me the island life itself, it had the most unnatural plants and landscape I have ever seen, but the land designers could have just set the island up that way.
"Do you believe that is Poseidon holding you there?" She asked. "Because if you don't I'll just tell him to surface and-
"I believe in all this stuff, just make him put me down, please!" I shouted.
Last, she took me to this cave of chakras where I was to contact the 'Gods and Goddesses of Mt Olympus'. I simply told her Mt. Olympus does not exist, but now I am taking it all back because I have no explanations for pure water. Moreover, I do not want to go through the wave attack again.
"Finally child, mercy, if it took that to convince you, I would've done that in first place…put her down." I heard her say; the wave dropped me into the shallow area of ocean with a big splash. I stomped out of the water, drenched.
"That was totally, uncalled for." I sneered at her.
She rolled her eyes. "Can we move on please?" She asked.
I rolled my eyes back at her. "No way, after you- ack!" She interrupted me by pinching my throat.
My mouth moved, but no words came out.
'No, no way she did not just mute me.' I thought.
"Yes, I did, apparently to get through to you is silencing you're outbursts. Now follow me, I have to show you many things, about your real past…and wipe that cranky frown off your face or it will stick like that." She said in a motherly tone as she turned and walked back into the forest.
I sighed in defeat, and then followed.
When we arrived at the cave again, it actually did look homely, sort of. Despite of course, the stalagmites everywhere, the floating colorful bottles of who knows what those are and the cave beds made of giant leaves and a quilt.
"Get used to this place Infinity; you're going to live in here for a while." The elderly woman said.
I tried to talk, but once again, silence.
I focused on my thoughts. 'What do you mean a while?'
"Three hundred days." She said, and then sat in front of an unlit bonfire that was the centerpiece of the cave. "Don't stand there all confused, child, come sit, sit."
I sat down in front of the bonfire as Ms. Willow grabbed one of those strange floating bottles and threw it into the wood causing it to explode and form a giant cloud that when I looked at it had a visual of two babies.
Now this was confusing. 'Babies?'
"Those two bundles of joy are you and Apeiron just born." She finished.
"Who's Apeiron?" I asked.
"I'll explain him later." She replied as the smoke of the babies disappeared and the smoke spread all around us, and more figures began to appear.
I raised an eyebrow, but ushered Ms. Willow to go on. "Let me explain, many eons ago the day of unwanted warmth was dark, cold …and cruel…"
AN: Yay another flashback!
Flashback…
"Persephone, my love, the three of us will find a way to stay together, and then our happiness shall be completed." Hades said placing his hands on his wife's shoulders.
Persephone remained silent and was constantly rubbing her stomach.
She had the same complexion as Courtney only her hair came down to her thighs and she wore long black dress with a golden sash around her waist.
"Something wrong my dear?" He asked.
Persephone sighed. "As long as my mother doesn't interfere with us again, even though I see her most of the year, she still doesn't want us…"she trailed off looking up at her husband.
"Here, she doesn't want you here, with me." Hades finished looking down at his wife.
"I don't care what my mother says, I love you, and that will always be true." Persephone assured him as she ran a hand through his long black hair.
"But Demeter had other plans for Persephone on this particular day…"
"I don't want to discuss this conversation anymore! If you interfere with Persephone's decisions with my brother again, I will have your legs turn into a fish tail, lungs into gills; you will live the rest of your eternity at the bottom of the sea!" Zeus spat as lightning crashed through the clouds of Mt. Olympus. "Now away with you, our daughter I blessed you to have at all, is coming home today, and I want everything to be perfect." He finished.
He then turned to another goddess with blonde hair and a group of women behind her giggling and acting bubbly. "Calypso, you and your maidens are in charge of tending to every whim of Persephone and make sure she is happy. I expect nothing less."
"Of course great Zeus," She Replied as she and the other women behind her bowed.
'She looks familiar to me.'I thought.
Ms. Willow changed the scene to another group of people. "I'll explain her to you later…"
"I have had enough of this rubbish! Every year it is the same thing. My daughter goes off with that gloomy excuse of a god for four months, comes back, and is constantly waiting to go back, she doesn't talk to me anymore, every conversation just leads to 'Hades this, and Hades that…' and I have had enough of it!" Demeter shouted as the wind blew in accord with her anger.
"Don't ya think your jealousy is just going a bit, overboard?" Hermes said flying next to her.
"No! I do not care about what Zeus's agreement with Hades, I will separate Hades from my beloved Persephone, and it is for her own good." She declared as she turned into a crane and flew off to greet Persephone in the flowery fields.
"Well this is going to get ugly…I'll go get some star fruit and watch!" Hermes laughed as he followed.
Demeter landed in the field just in time as a dark portal opened and a skeleton horse with Hades and Persephone on it came out. Hades got off first, picked up Persephone, spun her around causing her to laugh, before gently lowering her down and pulling her close for a strong embrace.
Demeter transformed back into human form and glared at the two.
"Hope I'm not interrupting." She said dryly.
"Hope you would at least try to smile for once when greeting me." Hades joked not taking his eyes off Persephone.
"Settle, both of you." Persephone said, finally coming out of her embrace with Hades, only to end up in a painful embrace with her mother. "Too…tight…"
"I'm sorry my dear, I'm just so happy to finally rejoice your return home again." Demeter cooed squeezing her daughter tighter. "Not to mention eight months with me, and not him, Hades, who can go back to ruling souls now?" She asked narrowing her eyes at Hades.
"Not before I give Persephone a special gift," Hades said as he took out a necklace from under his cloak and placed it around her neck. "For you, my love."
It was a purple ruby necklace; the ruby cut and melted down to the shape of a rose, and was held together with a pink ribbon and sparkled in the sun.
"Hades, its beautiful," She said in awe. "I love it."
"Yes well, time for you to come home, now." Demeter piped in, grabbing Persephone's hand.
Hades gave her one last embrace, but just as he nearly let go of his wife, he whispered into her ear. "Never remove this necklace; for it is a symbol of our love." He finally released her.
Persephone simply smiled and nodded.
"Oh those two were true lovers, if only her mother would have just let the cycle take its normal course, and simmer down her jealousy, otherwise Eris, wouldn't have advance on it.
"You finally came back without miss perfect so I can finally stop gagging." Eris said, upon Hades entrance.
The gloomy god hoped off his skeleton horse as it ran off annually into the dark realm. Hades, not paying attention to the female, began to walk off, as Eris clumsily followed, not too far behind.
"What are you doing here Eris?" He snarled not so much as giving a passing glance at the villainous goddess. "I only needed you here to make the necklace for me; afterwards you were supposed to be gone by time I returned."
"Can't a friend visit another friend…and do friendly things together- oof, stupid rocks!" She complained after tripping over a stalagmite.
"I wish you would keep that horrid dream tucked away in that empty skull of yours." The god snapped back.
"Oh come on Hades can't I stay for a litt-
"No, you've done your part, now leave me." Hades said with a glare sent to Eris.
She froze and returned the glare. "Fine I'll go," She started as she turned and made her way to the boat but turned around just as the fairy man held his hand out for a coin. "But you picking a naïve child as your wife over me will be the most regretful decision you ever made."
"Wait, so Eris was in love with Hades?" I thought.
"Try in "love" with his power over the dead, Eris can only cause chaos; she has no control of what happens in the afterlife if someone dies from it. Hades is a lot of things but he's not a cheat or a fool." She explained. "You see, she wanted control because she knew about Persephone being pregnant…"
"So? What's the point of knowing about me…er I mean this baby, concern her so much?" I was not very sure if this was real, but that woman with 'Hades', she looked exactly like me, only a year or two older and had longer hair.
"She grew jealous that an innocent young woman bared the child of one of the three most powerful gods of the Olympians and she wanted all that attention, all that power that Persephone has yet to even begin to understand." She slowly trailed off.
At a wave of her hand, two figures walking appeared in the smoky cloud, they were Demeter and Persephone.
Ms. Willow continued. "Persephone was still young and…slightly naïve to the ugliness of life, hate and war, then, even though she's been to the underworld that wasn't enough..."
"Persephone, darling, today is your 1800th birthday, oh how time goes by… aren't you excited?" Demeter asked with a smile as she walked with her daughter who had absolutely no enthusiasm at all.
"I wanted to celebrate it with my husband, today just had to be the day I came back home." Persephone said in a slightly harsh tone. "I miss him already."
"Persephone I am trying to give you a best day ever right here at home and yet all you can think about is-
"Hades, is that so wrong?" The young goddess question angrily. "I have to go through this cycle every year! Mother, I am practically an adult and yet you constantly treat me like a child. You nearly killed the Earth when I am so much as two yards away, and you never approved of my love towards Hades! Being locked in this cycle, will do nothing but keep me in a rut, if I could come and go as a pleased, I wouldn't have to worry about how this would affect my chi-"She widen her eyes as she realized that she almost exposed a secret.
Demeter narrowed her eyes. "How the cycle will affect whom, Persephone?"
Persephone opened her mouth but immediately closed it and returned her mother's expression, before taking off running.
As she did, she yelled over her shoulder. "I don't want to celebrate another year of this stupid cycle, and I don't care if that's okay with anyone."
"Wow, what an attitude." I thought.
'You should talk' My continence rebutted.
"She means well, she was just sick of being the symbol of the seasons, having to come and go on que every year to balance the seasons can aggravate anyone."
"Persephone, come back here this instant!" Demeter yelled but her daughter ran until she was out of her sight. Normally she would go after her, but not this time; she was actually starting to reconsider her judgment on her daughter's decisions. "Maybe I should just accept her growing up."
"Now, now, isn't that something…your daughter has become the real rebel hmm?" A sly voice hissed.
Demeter looked down and saw a black snake with red eyes and grey stripes going down its back. She rolled her eyes at the creäture.
"What do you want, Eris?" She snarled.
The snake slowly molded itself into a female form, long black hair that flowed constantly like an ocean wave, pale skin that would make pure snow look plain, and eyes redder than blood, and a body on an hourglass. She wore her signature long violent dress and instead of her feet, she had a smoky tail, and topping it off she had a sly smirk placed on her face.
"Oh why do you assume that I always want something when I'm around? That really hurts Demeter." She said sarcastically, placing a hand over her heart.
"Please, the only reason you would dare show your face to any of us is if you come with some horrid news or stifle related schemes to pull on the humans." She stated.
She faked a surprising gasps. "Well, I'm so offended, and to think I would be nice enough to tell you about that necklace I made, that Hades gave her as a birthday present."
Demeter raised an eyebrow. "What about that necklace?"
Blaineley's POV
Phew, Hermes makes flying with these shoes look like a cinch. I am finally almost to the lost island of the Bermuda Triangle. I had to keep cover by diving into the ocean, hiding in fog and clouds, for when any mortal boats or mortal warships were to notice me…not the mention the extreme constant change in altitude is wrecking my hair!
I landed on the sandy beach and began to walk towards the forest when I heard a loud rumbling sound coming from the ocean. I whirled around to see Poseidon himself in the form of a wave; he looked pissed.
"Calypso you know that you are going against my brother's word, correct?" He said before the wave crashed down and another one formed with his face.
"Well yeah, he didn't give his word when I did my part to send Infinity off in the first place so it's whatever's." I tried to play off. It was true, but I can tell he did buy it.
"Why are you really going against the word of Zeus Calypso, I know you; you don't break the rules unless it involves someone you really care about… the truth this time..." He demanded calmly as the wave crashed down again.
I sighed. "Fine I want to help Infinity so I get my best friend's memory back, so ya happy now? I'm surprised you didn't even stop me; heck I used the ocean as cover up like 29 times, not counting when I feel in on accident when I lost control of these winged shoes and now my hair smells like salty sea!"
"I did not stop you, because I am here to send you a message, Zeus found out from Hermes that you not only stole his winged shoes…but you were about to go and join the chosen one on her journey…"
I frowned. "Damn that little bastard is quick." I muttered.
Poseidon continued. "Infinity will need guidance when she is a fully realized goddess, encouragement, a friend, and unto her…we've agreed to send…you.
"What? No-no way! You are only sending me to do your work for you again," My blood started to rush through my veins in anger. "You've chosen the wrong person anyhow, she won't believe me hell she won't even listen; I don't know what made me fly my ass here, for all I know this is another hopeless chance I'll slip up and ruin everything again-
"WHO WAS THE GOD THAT GAVE YOU THE CHANCE TO PROVE THY SELF ALL THOSE YEARS …DID NOT I?" He voice boomed as the waves grew and so did the tides. "YOU ARE TO PROVE YOURSELF WITH THE ULTAMAITE TEST OF BEING INFINITY'S MENTOR…NOW GO!" He boomed as a wave crashed over me, causing me to stumble backwards and land in the wet sand in a fetal position, shivering in fear. Hey, you would be scared too if you were back talking the god of the sea.
Then I heard him sigh. "Oh Calypso," he began as water surrounded me. "You may be the only one who can truly guild Infinity to the goal of the truth, love, and freedom, you've done the same for her mother, so we will be here with you on this journey…we shall free Persephone, prove my brother's innocence…and smite Eris's unholy order of the underworld…with all our WONDERS!" He said as the water lifted me to my feet then turned into a shining mist that swelled around me in a warm blissful hug then quickly retreated itself to the ocean. "We shall never abandon you Calypso…" He ended as he disappeared echoing my name.
I stood there baffled with my jaw dropped if possible to the ground. Damn he is good at motivating speeches. No wonder he and Athena married, they are both too wise for their own good.
I turned on my heel and began to walk to the forest, and then branch just snapped in the back of my head in realization. "Aww he walked me into it again! Damn it Poseidon!" I shouted towards the ocean then made a run for the grotto.
AN: Well sucks to be Blaineley
Blaineley: What the hell? Now I have to team up with Courtney?
Me: Yes o.o
Courtney: When am I going to punch her for almost drowning me in this story?
Persephone: -and when do I feature?
Me: Next chapter and next chapter.
Trent: and me?
Thomas: and me?
All the other castmates: and us?!
Me: You're all demanding! Sheesh :P I'll get to you when I get to you, anyways review so these people will stop complaining
