Of Evil Plot Bunnies and Hot Characters Part VIII
By: xXxDaughteroftheKingxXx/musiclover99
©-Rick Riordan
BeginningTheREVOLUTION
Writer's block sucks arse. Seriously.
In case you haven't guessed, I have writer's block. Yippee. Not. That would explain why none of us have updated the Mansion, and why it's been like a week since we've updated this story.
Writer's block really, really sucks.
So, I apologize ahead of time if this is shizzy, because everything I seem to be writing right now is.
-L
HOLA PERSONAS! YOUR DAY JUST GOT AWESOMER! Okay, so Lex started this, and because of WB, I will finish it, thank ya! WHOO! So, I tried writing like the end, but turns out I couldn't either. So, fail. And now I must write! . . . m'kay, ON WITH THE STORY!
"91 bottles of nectar on the wall, 91 bottles of nectar, take one down, pass it around, 90 bottles of nectar on the wall." Percy, Nico, and Rjay all sang in unison.
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Those three are so immature."
Gel scoffed. "At least you don't have to live in the same house as one of them."
Thalia raised an eyebrow, glancing at Rjay, then back at Gel. "You two are siblings?"
"No," Lex explained. "None of us are related, but you know that mansion you guys popped into?"
"Yeah..."
"We all live there together." Max finished. "The seven of us."
"Ah," Thalia said, nodding. "I see what you mean. So Rjay's the only guy in the entire house?"
Terra smirked. "Yup. It's fun torturing him."
"No, no, no," Tallie corrected, grinning. "It's fun torturing him and Lex."
"Lex and him," Annabeth corrected.
"Whatever!"
"84 bottles of nectar on the wall, 84 bottles of nectar, take one down pass it around, 84 bottles of nectar on the wall!" The surrounding passengers all looked up, glaring at the three boys, who ignored them and continued to sing.
Max pressed her hands to her ears. "Make it stop, make it stop, MAKE IT STOP! It's been like . . . five hours already!"
Tallie rolled her eyes. "It's only been one hour."
"Same difference! I need to get outta this train!"
"I SWEAR, you have ADHD or something." Gel said.
"I am praying to the gods that they don't finish that song." Gigi muttered.
"I'm praying to the gods that they send us our iPods or something." Lex said, shaking her head. "I need music to block out that . . . sound."
"Heh . . . uh, right." Max said, still blocking her ears. Lex looked at her oddly, but said nothing.
Thalia rolled her eyes. "We're on a quest. There's no time for luxuries like music or texting or whatever." She paused. "By the way, where are we even going?"
Gel, Max, and Lex turned to each other.
"Should we follow the book?" Gel hissed.
"Well, technically," Max whispered. "They only went to Quebec to get advice from Boreas . . ."
"But what about the whole Khione situation?" Lex argued.
"True," Gel muttered. "Some things are going to change though. Like the fact that the Hunters won't be there to rescue Hera."
"And would Tristan McLean still need rescuing?" Max added. "And how would we get him home?"
"Whisper, whisper, whisper," Terra butted in. The three girls looked at her oddly. "Sorry, I felt left out."
"That's because we're trying not to let Annabeth, Thalia, Percy, Nico, and the mortals on this train know about this." Tallie reminded.
"What Tallie said," Gigi agreed. "But another thing, most quests have a—crap What's the word?—let's just go with due date. When is ours?"
"Winter solstice?" Terra suggested.
Lex shook her head. "No, the point of this quest is to stop or at least put off the Greeks and Romans from meeting each other." she mused. "The day that Percy and Jason both went missing would be—"
"The fifteenth," Max supplied. "On the 21st, Jason, Piper, and Leo rescued Hera. On the 18th, they began their quest, and Percy had been missing for three days. That makes the day he went missing the fifteenth of December."
Terra looked at her oddly. "How do you-"
"Repeat after me: MAX LOVES PERCY JACKSON. Got it?" Max replied. All the girls sent her a smirk, and Max quickly added, "The book series. Not the movie, at all, and not the person. I value living no matter how I may seem, thank you very much. The freaking book series."
"Whatever you say," Gigi smirked.
"THE FRICKIN BOOK SERIES. Need I remind you, I know have a weapon?" Max retorted. The other girl's smirk faded a bit, and Gigi's eyes showed she was a bit nervous. Now, it was Max's turn to smirk.
That gives us two weeks to rescue Hera." Gel concluded, ignoring the two odd girls. "Two weeks to get across the country."
"And since we already know where to go and where not to go, this quest will be easy!" Tallie grinned.
"Aw," Max pouted. "But that's no fun. I was hoping for something more exciting."
Lex raised an eyebrow. "Would you rather have all of us die?"
"Well . . ." Max started.
"Forget I asked," Lex said, rolling her eyes. "Anyone else think we should start decoding this prophecy?"
"78 bottles of nectar on the wall, 78 bottles of nectar, take one down, pass it around, 77 bottles of nectar on the wall!"
"SHUDDUP ALREADY!" Thalia and Annabeth yelled in unison.
"I think we should analyze the prophecy," Terra agreed.
"Forgotten maze," Gigi started. "What could that mean?"
"It's not the Labyrinth, is it? Wasn't it, you know, destroyed?" Tallie asked.
"Yeah," Max said, nodding. "It was when Daedalus die."
"Ok then," Gel said. "What's the forgotten maze then?"
"Well, maybe it's not a literal maze," Lex suggested. "Maybe it's like metaphorical..."
"Maybe it's the Greek and the Roman's crazy history with each other," Max offered.
The others looked at her with their mouths dropped.
"That was . . . smart . . ." Gigi said.
Max rolled her eyes then glared. "Oh come on, just because a person's weird, psycho, kinda violent, crazy, . . . wait, what was my point? Oh yeah, doesn't mean they can't be smart!"
"You just talked about yourself in third person." Lex pointed out.
"Should I care?" Max replied.
"Whatever! We're getting off topic," Gel said. "Let's just get back to the prophecy. Okay, next line's easy. We'll save Percy and Jason from ever having their memory stolen. Next?"
"Well, seven unlikely heroes from far away- that's us, obviously- shall rise up to save the day. Self explanatory." Max said.
Terra gasped. "Max said a big word!"
"Oh ha ha, very funny. Grow up would you?" Max replied.
"Stop the Greeks from seeking the empire . . . well, we gotta figure out what's the empire." Terra said.
Everyone looked at her like she was an idiot.
"What?" she asked defensively.
"Think, what is Jason?" Gigi asked.
"Son of Jupiter."
"And who is Jupiter?"
"The Roman . . . OH! OH, I knew that!" Terra said.
Max rolled her eyes. "You totally did. Anyway, the final line's self explanatory again. Soo . . . yeah, we just gotta figure out how to stop Gaea from waking up, and stop the giants who almost overthrew Olympus and it's gods. Yeah, this'll be a breeze." Max paused for a second, then chuckled.
"What's so funny?" Lex asked.
"Heh, breeze. Boreas, breeze? Ya geddit? It's punny!" Max said.
Lex just facepalmed, and shook her head. Max pretended to do that drum shot thing and said, "Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week!" She paused again, then got serious.
"Hey wait," Max said. "Do you guys hear something?"
Tallie rolled her eyes. "Very funny Max."
"No, I'm serious! I hear something . . ."
"Not all of us have 'sensitive hearing' like you do, so what?" Terra asked sarcastically.
"Umm . . . guys?" Rjay said.
They ignored him and went back to arguing.
"Guys?" They still ignored him.
"WE'RE BEING ATTACKED!" Rjay yelled.
Immediately everyone stopped talking.
"By who?" Tallie asked.
"Umm guys . . . get a loada this." Max said, wiping the fog off the window. "We got company."
The others looked out the window to see a girl whose skin is unnaturally white and pale, like snow. The girl's dark black hair was flying around, her cold coffee brown eyes flashing. She was standing in the middle of a mini blizzard.
"Is that . . "
"No way . . ."
"Not now . . ."
"It can't be . . ."
"This isn't supposed to happen. . . "
"What? Who is that?" Annabeth asked, annoyed. She hated not knowing stuff.
"Not now," Lex kept muttering, shaking her head. "Not now. This isn't supposed to happen."
"What? Who is she?"" Annabeth asked, more irritated now.
"Khione? The goddess of snow?" Max said in shock. "But why's she here? Isn't she in Quebec with Boreas?"
"Wait- what?" Percy asked.
"Nothing, nothing!" Rjay said, while taking off his watch and turning it back into a sword. "For now, let's take down the ice princess."
"Right." Percy replied. "Let's go see what she wants."
"I have a feeling this isn't gonna be pretty." Gigi muttered.
"Let's go." Annabeth interrupted. "EXCUSE ME!" she yelled loudly. All the passengers turned to them. "WE NEED TO GET OUTTA HERE RIGHT NOW!"
"Does that include those three boys?" a random passenger asked warily, pointing at said boys. Annabeth nodded.
"STOP THE TRAIN!" all the passengers(minus the 11 of them) shouted loudly in unison.
"Were we that annoying?" Percy asked Annabeth, pouting.
"YES!" the other girls answered for her.
"Soooo . . . Khione . . . how's it going?" Tallie said nervously. They were all outta the train now, a couple feet away from Khione.
"Quiet, mortal." Khione snapped coldly (well obviously). "I am not here on a vacation, nor am I your friend. I am here to stop you from changing the future!"
"But why? Gaea will just play you like a puppet on strings!" Gel said.
"No she won't. She can't possibly do this without me." Khione replied. "Now . . " She trailed off, but the implied message was heard: I will kill you. She emphasized that silent statement by quickly freezing Rjay into an . . . Rjay-sicle, before anyone knew what she was doing.
"Hey! You can't do that!" Lex cried.
"Yes I can. Why, are you worried about your boyfriend?" Khione taunted.
"Even the ice princess knows she likes him . . ." Max muttered, as Lex began to blush.
"Not the time or place," Annabeth hissed. She turned to the snow goddess. "Listen, Lady Khione, these 7," she explained, motioning to the seven authors.
"Be quiet, daughter of Athena," Khione snapped, glaring coldly at her. She smirked at Percy. "A son of Poseidon," Khione mused. "Hm. You look so much like your father."
"Why do I get the sudden sense of deja vu?" Percy muttered.
A half-smile quirked Khione's face. "What would you do, son of Poseidon," she chuckled. "If your girlfriend over there ended up like that mortal's boyfriend?"
"He's not my boyfriend!" Of course, everyone ignored Lex's (very weak, I might add) protest.
Percy narrowed his eyes at the goddess. "Don't even think about it."
Khione laughed coldly, lifting her hand up. "Oh, I would." she smirked, pointing her hand at Annabeth. Percy's eyes widened, and he pushed the daughter of Athena out at the last moment.
"Well there goes my idea," Nico muttered.
"Percy!" Annabeth yelled, laying on her back. She got up and ran over to the Percy-sicle.
"Daughter of Zeus," the snow goddess smirked.
Thalia glared at Khione, spear in hand. "Listen lady," she spat. "That's two of my friends, one being my cousin, one being . . . ya know, I don't really know. I'm not sure if I even like him . . . but either way, he's my friends' friend, and that is not okay." They all heard a vague grunt from the Rjay-sicle, and realized that the two people-sicles were able to hear everything. But they still ignored them.
"Save it, daughter of Zeus." Then she turned to the 11 quest-members. "You will be smart to turn back on this quest, and do not return. If not, we shall meet again. And I will do worse than just freeze your precious little boyfriends." She turned around and faded away with the rest of the snow.
Max blinked. "That reminds me of a dramatic movie exit where the bad guy would wrap their cape around and turn in a circle and suddenly disappear mysteriously into a black orb."
Lex glared at the younger girl. "Shut up, little girl. This is no time for jokes."
"Oh, I beg to differ. The grimness of this mood is making me feel down."
"You sound like a hippie." Terra pointed out, shaking her head.
Max shrugged. "I don't really care." With that said, the remaining quest members sheathed their weapons, the authors changing theirs back. Afterwards, Annabeth got up and let out a huff of air. "We should be lucky this is all she did. Let's get these boys defrosted."
"Maybe some hot chocolate?" Gel suggested.
Annabeth just rolled her eyes and ignored her.
"Hey, I think it's a good idea!" Gigi defended. "I mean, nothing feels warmer than hot chocolate!"
Needless to say, Annabeth was not amused.
After they got the frozen boys . . . well, unfrozen, they all sat down to have an explanation. Don't ask how they unfroze 'em; let's just say that it took a lotta hairdryers, a match, a flamethrower (don't ask about that either), hot chocolate (whaddya know, it helped), a couple hot dogs (don't), and a laser (PLEASE don't). But the boys were still wrapped in blankets because of the aftereffects of the cold.
"Ab-bout that c-comment you said . . . what exactly did you mean b-by that?" Rjay asked Thalia. Terra patted his slightly frosted shoulder.
"Let it go man, let it go." she said.
"S-s-s-so . . . wanna explain?" Percy stuttered, trying to get closer to the campfire they made. They all made a campsite to stop for the night.
"Explain what?" Max asked innocently.
"Explain everything. Why're we on this quest? How'd you know who Khione was before Annabeth figured it out? We need to know." Thalia stated.
The seven authors looked at each other with worried looks.
"Y-you don't n-need to know." Rjay argued weakly.
"If we're gonna survive this quest," Nico said coolly, "You're gonna have to tell us."
The seven looked at each other again, but this time they all nodded slowly, one by one.
"It's . . . . a long, long story." Gigi warned. "Long enough for a 500 over paged book."
Thalia just sighed. "We got time."
MAN, writer's block sucks BS(Watch your language, young lady! I didn't say anything! And you agreed with me!)! Well . . . I wouldn't know 100% but sorta 60%. SMH. How'd I do? Pretty good, I say. That was probably bad English, but eh, I don't care right now. Hehe, I REALLY REALLY love the long list of things the questers did to unfreeze the boys. But now you've got me curious:how? As I have said before, don't ask. I have a very creative mind . . . I just thought about how to unfreeze them. And then this whole series of ideas came and . . . yeah. And sorry if this isn't allowed, but PLEASE READ MY STORY, "Carved in Stone", IF YOU LIKE MY WRITING HERE! THANKS!
