Chapter 9
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!…ahahahahaha!…hi… It's been snowing like crazy over here. So far it started snowing for a couple of days(like 3 or 4) and we have around 3 feet of snow not including the layer of ice you can find in some places. My power went out actually. I've also been playing a lot of Fallout 3 lately and I know that it is a somewhat old game but I love it. I love Charon and can't wait to meet Fawkes but I can't keep Charon or Dogmeat with me, if they're not dying then they are either getting in the way of my shots, setting off traps, or in Charon's case killing every fricken person before I can even pull my gun out, overprotective jerk. I just want some experience points and this is exactly what happens. I hear Charon give some warning about this area not being safe, I see an enemy and start to pull out my gun and then I hear a shotgun shot and that enemy goes flying away from me dead while Charon puts away his gun like nothing happened you goddam kill stealer. The first time I ever saw a Yao guai(a very big mutated bear) I go to kill it and just as a manage to shoot it Charon shot at it and it made my game go crazy and launched the Yao guai across the map somewhere. Not only that but I've been testing at my school and had to do a speech in front of hundreds of people. So I've been busy, and I know I have a swearing problem so I'll go put a warning on the other chapters just in case.
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And thanks to everyone else who has read and reviewed so far and I'm glad you like my story so much.
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Engineer4Ever- Percy is not going to appear in this story, Azalea is the combination of Percy and Harry.
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BlizzardDragon- I can't wait to reveal my traitor and I really hope it's a surprise for some people. It's impossible to be completely original without pulling some random person in but I hope I can surprise you.
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D-M-F- You request has been done and I hadn't planned to add in the reaction so I hope you like it because it wouldn't have been written if you hadn't asked.
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Booklover19- I know the grammars not that great and I'm going to try and go back to fix some obvious mistakes that I've done mostly missing words. After I've read this ten times in a row looking for them I sometimes just mentally add the words or rearrange the sentence in my head without thinking about it. And yes I'm going to tie it in more I just want to do that after Azalea goes to Hogwarts then she'll really mix the words together.
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Warning: I have a potty mouth and so does Azalea in other words swearing will happen
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Disclaimer: I own nothing.
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We were pretty miserable that night.
We camped in the woods, a hundred yards from the main road, in a clearing that looked like it was used for partying. The ground was littered with flattened cans and fast-food wrappers.
We'd taken some food and blankets from Aunty Em's, but we didn't dare to light a fire. We didn't want to attract anything else, Medusa and the Furies were enough excitement for one day.
We decided to sleep in shifts, and I volunteered to take first watch.
Anna curled up in her blankets and went to sleep, her snores filling the camp. Grover climbed up into the lowest bough of a tree, put his back to the trunk, and stared into the night sky.
"Go to sleep G-man, I'll wake you if there's trouble."
Grover let out a sigh staring up at the night sky, "Nah, Liz how about I take first watch, huh? You get some sleep."
Before I could protest, I was already fast asleep.
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In my dreams, I stood in a dark cavern before a gaping pit. Grey mist creatures churned all around me, whispering rags of smoke that I somehow knew were the spirits of the dead.
They tugged at my clothes, trying to pull me back, and I moved backwards with their pulls, away from the edge of the dark chasm.
The ground blurred under my feet as the space between me and the chasm's edge disappeared till I was standing right at the edge.
Looking down made my head spin.
The pit was huge and I could barely see the other side. It was completely black and I just knew that it was bottomless. But there was a feeling of something trying to rise from the abyss, something huge, something evil.
The little hero, an amused voice echoed far down in the darkness. So young, and smart for your age, perhaps you will do.
The voice felt ancient-cold and heavy. It wrapped around me like a sheet of ice.
I could feel another presence suddenly it crept along the edges of my mind.
Ah, what's this? It seems like you're not that alone in that head of yours, the voice murmured thoughtfully.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see cold red eyes showing through the mist, they were looking around in confusion, like they were trying to figure out where they were. For a second the red eyes looked at me, meeting my eyes. They widened slightly in surprise before narrowing.
Then with a sudden jerking feeling in my head like a door slamming shut, the eyes disappeared.
You do have good mind defensive's for your age, if only they weren't so focused on protecting you all the time.
An invisible force started to pull me forward, trying to drag me into the pit.
Help me rise, girl. The voice growled. Bring me the bolt. Strike a blow against the traitorous gods!
Riptide growled in my mind threateningly, turning itself into two heavy spiked iron balls that were attached by a chain. Both iron balls on their own shot behind me, each end wrapping around a stalagmite. The chain dug into me stomach as it held me from flying into the pit.
The thing pulling me into the pit tightened its unseen grip around me
I realized then that it wasn't interested in pulling me in. It was using me to pull itself out.
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Someone was shaking me.
My eyes opened up, and it was daylight.
"Well," Anna said, "Rise and shine."
I was trembling from the dream. I could still feel the phantom pain from the chain digging into my stomach as I was pulled by the unseen force.
Riptide purred comfortingly to me wrapping itself around my mind, making me feel a rush of warmth and safety flow through me.
"I will rise, but I refuse to shine." I mumbled back hiding that I had a nightmare from them. "How long was I asleep?"
"Long enough for me to cook breakfast." Anna tossed me a bag of Doritos from Aunty Em's snack bar. "And Grover went exploring. Look he found a friend."
Across from me Grover was sitting cross-legged with a dirty pink stuff poodle in his lap.
The stuff animals head turned to look at me as Grover petted its back.
…okay never mind…
Let me correct myself a living pink poodle was sitting in Grover's lap.
The poodle yapped looking at me and then up at Grover. Grover said, "No, she's not."
…and Grover was talking to it, 'sigh' why not…
"Liz, meet Gladiola." Grover said. "Gladiola, Liz."
"Uuh hi…" I said waving at the poodle who barked back at me.
"He said it's a pleasure to meet you Princess of The Fish." Grover translated.
Do all animals call me that? I really hope not.
Grover explained that he'd come across Gladiola in the woods and they'd struck up a conversation. The poodle had run away from a local rich family, who'd posted a $200 reward for his return. Gladiola didn't want to return but he would for Grover.
"So we turn in Gladiola," Anna explained in her best strategy voice," we get money, and we buy tickets to Los Angeles, simple."
She pointed downhill, towards train tracks I hadn't been able to see last night in the dark. "There's an Amtrack station half a mile that way. According to Gladiola, the west-bound train leaves at noon."
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We spent two days on the Amtrak train, two fricken days. You know what happened? Nothing, because there is nothing to do on a train.
I ended up staring out the window most of the time. I did spot a family of centaurs galloping across a wheat field, bows at the ready, as they hunted for lunch. The little boy centaur, who was the size of a second-grader on a pony, caught my eye and waved. So me being the polite human being I am waved back.
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Our reward money was only enough to purchase us all tickets to Denver. Yeah I still had my money from the beginning of the quest but we were trying to save that just in case. Anything can happen when you have a god trying to kill you.
We were all stuck in one cart. Grover was snoring on the bench across me muttering things about vegetables in his sleep.
Anna was sitting beside me fingering the bead on her camp necklace that had a pine tree on it.
"You okay Anna?" I asked softly glancing at her from the corner of my eye.
"Yeah…I'm fine it's just…" she sighed blowing some hair out of her face. "We ran into some familiar monsters, the Furies, and I… it just reminded me of when I ran from home."
"Ran from home…" I mumbled.
Anna fixed her eyes on me, she wore the same expression she'd worn back at camp, the moment she drew her sword against the hell hound. "My dad's resented me since the day I was born, Liz," she said. "He never wanted a baby. When he got me, he asked Athena to take me back and raise me on Olympus because he was too busy with work. She wasn't happy about that. She told him heroes had to be raised by their mortal parents."
"I appeared on my father's doorstep in a golden cradle, carried down from Olympus by Zephyr the West Wind. You'd think my dad would remember that as a miracle, right? Like, maybe he'd take some pictures or something. But he always talked about my arrival as if it were the most inconvenient thing that ever happened to him. When I was five he got married and totally forgot about Athena. He got a 'regular' mortal wife, and had two 'regular' mortal kids, and tried to pretend I didn't exist."
Anna kept worrying at her necklace. She was messing with the gold college ring that hung with the beads. I figured that it must be her father's, but I had to wonder why she wore it if she hated him so much.
"He doesn't care about me," she said. "His wife- my stepmother- treated me like a freak. She wouldn't let me play with her children. My dad went along with her. Whenever something dangerous happened- you know something with monsters- they would both look at me resentfully, like, 'How dare you put our family at risk.' Finally, I took the hint. I wasn't wanted. I ran away."
"You know," I said with a sigh. "I never knew my mother or father. My relatives were the people I grew up with, well till the age of four, that was when I ran away… well is wasn't really running more escaping them really." I smiled over at Anna who was looking at me in confusion.
"I didn't even know my name till I was three, and if my relatives had it their way I never would of never learned it. They were too fond of calling me freak or girl."
Anna's eyes widened in horror, "Liz I…"
I raised my hand stopping her,"I'm not telling you this to make you feel bad owl girl. I'm telling you this so I can get my point across and make you listen to what I'm going to tell you next. You should try to talk to your dad or at least send him a letter, try to have a conversation with him. People change or in some cases they might have had a reason to act the way they did. I'm not saying it was right, but you deserve it to yourself to find out. The worst thing in life is having something you regret because it will follow you forever. You did keep his ring right? That means something, just think about it."
Anna looked at me thoughtfully frowning, she turned and stared out the window conflicted emotions running across her face.
…Just call me Dr. Potter...
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Near the end of our second day on the train we passed over the Mississippi River and into St. Louis. Anna craned her neck to see the Gateway Arch.
"I want to do that," she sighed.
"What," I asked.
"Build something like that. You ever see the Parthenon, Lizzy?"
"No, sorry I'm not that well traveled."
"Someday, I'm going to see it in person. I'm going to build the greatest monument to the gods, ever. Something that'll last a thousand years."
"With your brain blondie I'm sure you'll create something great." Anna took a swipe at me.
We rode into the city, Anna watching as the Arch disappeared behind a hotel.
We pulled into the Amtrak station downtown. The intercom told us we'd have a three-hour layover before departing for Denver.
Grover stretched as he woke up saying, "food."
"Come on goat boy," Anna said. "Sightseeing."
"Sightseeing?"
"The Gateway Arch," she said. "This may be my only chance to ride to the top. Are you coming or not?"
"Come on Grover!" I said cheerfully patting him on the back. "We get to be the annoying tourist, it'll be fun!"
Grover shrugged. "As long as there's a snack bar without monsters."
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The Arch was about a mile from the train station. And the lines for the Arch weren't that long this late in the day. We threaded our way through the underground museum, looking at all the historical objects and all that jazz. Anna was enjoying herself at least, she kept telling us all these interesting facts about how the Arch was built… well interesting to her. How she knew the exact amount of steel used in building the Arch was beyond me. Grover was beside me munching on jelly beans as I ate M&M's so we both didn't mind that much, hey it was like having a free tour guide.
I was scanning the crowd constantly for anything monster like, and besides from someone who decided it would be a good idea to pierce every available surface on their face and ware nothing but tight leather nothing struck me as particularly odd. "You smell anything?" I whispered to Grover.
He took his noise from his jelly bean bag long enough for a quick sniff. "Underground," he said distastefully around the jelly beans in his mouth. "Underground air always smells like monsters. Probably doesn't mean anything."
We all soon had clambered onto a tiny little elevator car that we were going to ride to the top of the Arch, and I just knew this was going to go wrong in some way.
With us was this rather large lady and her dog, a Chihuahua with a rhinestone collar.
"No parents?" the lady asked us.
She had beady eyes with coffee-stained teeth a floppy denim hat with a denim dress that bulged so much it looked like it was going to explode, like a balloon filled with too much air.
"They're below," Anna told her. "Scared of heights."
"Oh, the poor darlings."
The Chihuahua growled. The women said, "Now, now, sonny. Behave."
We finally reached the top of the Arch, the observation deck was tinny with tin walls and carpeted floors. Glass windows lined the walls showing the city in one side and the river on the other. It was nice you know in a small metal-death-box-trap kind of way. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the view but being six hundred feet up in the air in a metal box when you have a pissed of god of thunder wanting you dead is not the best situation to find yourself in.
Anna didn't seem to mind though, she kept talking about structural supports, and how she would've made the windows bigger, and yada yada yada. I'm sure she would've pulled a new-and-improved blue print out of thin air and started to construct it if she could.
She probably would've stayed up there for hour's maybe even days if she could have convinced us to bring her food. But luck was with Grover and me and the park ranger announced that the observation deck would be closing in a few minutes.
I quickly steered Anna and Grover towards the exit. Anna didn't even notice since she was talking a mile a minute while she sketched out a building design on a note. Grover was in the same boat it seemed or it maybe it was the fact he couldn't even see right now since the empty jelly bean bag was stuck over his head. How he did this I have no fricken idea but he seemed to be slowly eating a hole through it. Thank the gods for the mist.
I loaded them both into the elevator, and was about to get on myself when I realized there were already two other tourist inside.
The park ranger said, "Next car, Miss."
Anna and from what I could see of Grover's face both looked nervous but they let the elevator door slide shut when I told them it was fine.
The only people that were left now were me, a little boy with his parents, the park ranger, and the lady with her Taco Bell dog.
I smiled nervously at the lady. She smiled back, her forked tongue flickering between her teeth.
….well shit….
'Sigh' why me?
Her overgrown rat then decided to jump down and start yapping at me then.
"Now, now, sonny," the lady said. "Does this look like a good time? We have all these nice people here"
"Doggie!" said the little boy. "Look, a doggie!"
His parents pulled him back.
The rat bared his teeth at me, foam dripping from his black lips.
"Well, son," the lady sighed. "If you insist."
"Hahaha," I laughed nervously, "son?"
"Yes dear, Chimera is his name. My darling baby." The lady said.
She rolled up her denim sleeves, revealing that the skin of her arms was scaly green. When she smiled, I saw that her teeth were fangs. The pupils of her eyes were sideways slits, like a reptile.
Taco dog barked louder, and with each bark, it grew. First the size of a Doberman, then to a lion. The bark became a roar.
The little boy screamed. His parents pulled him back towards the exit, straight into the park ranger, who stood, paralyzed, gaping at the monster..
The Chimera was so tall its back rubbed against the ceiling. It had the head of a lion with a blood-caked mane, the body and hooves of a goat, and a serpent for a tail, a ten-foot-long diamondback growing right out of its shaggy behind. Just great. The rhinestone dog collar still hung round its neck, and the plate size dog tag was now easy to read: CHIMERA- RABID, FIRE-BREATHING, POISONOUS- IF FOUND, PLEASE CALL TARTARUS- EXIT. 954.
I realized through all this I hadn't even transformed Riptide into a weapon. It was just, I mean, COME ON! Really!? Was my luck that bad? All I did was go to a land mark, ride on an elevator, and go sightseeing. Thousands of people have done it and I'm the one person who managed to attract Chimera and what I'm guessing is Echidna, the fricken Mother of Monsters. Damn it all to Hades.
The snake lady made a hissing noise that might have been laughter. "Be honored, Azalea Potter. Lord Zeus rarely allows me to test a hero with one of my brood. For I am the Mother of Monsters, the terrible Echidna!"
Gee thanks oh Uncle of mine I appreciate the sentiment, because at this point I wish you'd drop dead to.
The family and park ranger were all screaming now, trying to pry open the emergency exit doors.
I couldn't let them get hurt, at my thoughts Riptide grew becoming my double bladed scythe. Running to the other side of the deck I yelled, "Hey Taco Bell dog!" The Chimera turned faster then I would've thought possible… maybe it doesn't like being called that.
Before I could swing my scythe, it opened its mouth, emitting a stench like burning tar, and shot a column of flames straight at me.
I dove through the explosion. The carpet burst into flames; the heat was unbelievable making my skin almost blister.
Where I had been standing a moment before was a ragged hole in the side of the Arch, with melted metal steaming around the edges.
Great, I thought. I just shish kabobed a national monument.
Anna is going to kill me.
I swung my scythe at the Chimera, but it only glanced harmlessly off the dog collar. I only was able to move my arm in time to escape the serpent tail's bite when I heard it hiss, "I've got you now."
Great its tail talks why was that never in the legends?
I backed away from it and then threw Riptide.
"Ha, foolish demigod you missed us." Echidna taunted.
"I wasn't aiming for you, you overgrown iguana!"
Riptide sailed past both of them and sliced straight through the handle of the emergency doors, making them swing open as Riptide impaled into the wall.
The family and ranger scrambled out the doors, waving at me to join them and continuing when I motioned at them to go on.
Echidna cackled, "You're completely weaponless now Azalea Potter, now it's time to die little hero."
""Yeah yeah lizard lady," I said. "I'm going to die blah blah blah, That's the most original thing I've ever heard."
"Why you little bra-"
"You know what how was Chimera even born because he has a face only a mother can love and well you… I'm just assuming he was blind or you had a bag over your head the whole time you knew his father."
Echidna snarled, "That's it I'm going to-"
"And with those words I must be going." I smiled at Echidna and Chimera.
"But let this be the day forever known as the day you almost caught Azalea E. Potter daughter of-"
With a roar of rage Chimera spat another stream of flames at me. With a yelp I turned and jumped out the giant hole falling towards the Mississippi River. I really hope that the love water had for me wasn't just limited to sea water.
As I fell out the hole I waved my hand and with a happy growl Riptide slide out of the wall and to my hand. Conveniently slicing through Echidna's side and Chimera's legs making them both burst into golden dust.
Holy crap the was awesome I-... I mean ahh my plan worked perfectly... I glanced down at the water… I hope so.
…aww shit this is going to hurt… to death, hahaha… get because I'm most likely going to die and… okay I'll stop now.
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Miles away in an island floating in the sky we find a room full of immature people …erm excuse me gods… fighting.
A tall thirty foot tall woman sat regally in her chair glaring at another woman, that was indescribably beautiful, who was sitting in the chair across from her.
"All I'm saying darling is to give it a try who knows maybe you'll like true love. I have some very Adonis like men lined up for you to choose from." The very beautiful woman said as she winked at the regal women.
"I swear Aphrodite's even with the threat of war, must insist with this tom foolery! It is completely ridicules that you focus on mach making when such a crisis is happening. Father's bolt is missing with Lord Poseidon's daughter being the lead suspect this is no time to mess around. And besides Adonis like men Aphrodite? Adonis was a muscle bound moron who couldn't figure out how to light a candle and who thought fire was witch craft. I would never waste my time on such a man. I need a man with brains and looks." The regal woman replied.
"And since that will never happen I guess that I will forever be alone."
With those words from Athena two men beside her burst out laughing.
Scowling Athena glared at them, "Honestly Hermes, Apollo why must you two laugh about the oddest things? Ever since you created that Internet as you call it Hermes you and Apollo laugh at nearly everything that happens. You both still won't tell us why Apollo burst out laughing, and you Hermes slap your face with your hand, the oddest jester by the way, when Ares talks about his most recent wound."
Aphrodite nodded in agreement saying, "She is right you know I don't see the reason behind your reactions either. Why you both acted in such ways when Ares came in last month talking about how Artemis got angry at him for hunting one of her deer. And then shot him in the knee with an arrow."
At those words Apollo burst out laughing while Hermes let out a long suffering sigh and face palmed again.
Both women scowled at Apollo and Hermes.
Aphrodite sighed rolling her eyes turning back to Athena, "Anyways as I was going to say, Athena there are men like that but your standards are just set to ridiculously godly levels, excuse the pun. If you would just give dating another try I'm sure you'll enjoy it. I promise it won't be like the last date I set you up on."
Both of Apollo and Hermes eyes widen in shock when Aphrodite uttered those words to the forbidden subject that no one, NO ONE, was suppose to talk about.
Athena's eyes turned a deep storm cloud grey as her power began to leak out around her in her anger. "Don't you dare mention that pathetic excuse of a male around me." Athena hissed out.
"Be reasonable Athena he only spilled wine on a book in front of you. You went a little over board in your punishment of him when you destroyed him from history." Aphrodite said.
"I'm sorry who are you talking about?" Athena asked.
"You know exactly who I'm talking about Athena, I'm talking about K-," Aphrodite started to say.
"Don't you dare say it!" Athena snarled.
"You act as if destroying a book is some great blasphemy, but I've destroyed hundreds of books through my life and-,"
"How dare you do such a thing to think my very own sister! I don't even know who you are anymore!"
"Oh, yes Athena and I might be thinking that a random plague of book lice will spring up soon."
Athena's eyes narrowed, "You wouldn't dare."
"Try me dear sister."
"This will mean war darling sister of mine, you know this, yes?" Athena growled out.
"Aww does daddies little girl want to play with the big kids." Aphrodite sneered back.
Both goddesses where standing a foot from each other glaring angrily with their powers flooding the room, a distraction was very much needed.
"Ah a distraction, thank us, me in particularly." Hermes muttered and with a quick wave of his hand a box popped into existence in front of Athena pushing the two goddesses apart. The conversation around the room silence at the odd occurrence.
With a sniff of annoyance directed at Aphrodite Athena picked the box from the air. Written on the front was…
Athena
Mount Olympus
600th Floor,
Empire State Building
New York, NY
Thought you might enjoy this,
Azalea E. Potter
"Hmm… a gift from Poseidon's only daughter." Athena muttered forgetting about one of the many arguments she has had with Aphrodite.
Everyone watched in interest as she opened it.
Athena froze in surprise, before smirking, "That scarlet women gets what she deserves again it seems. She deserves it after trying to, as people say now in days, 'get it on' in my temple. I think I might keep it how do you think it would look hanging over my fire place Aphrodite?"
"Hmm," Aphrodite muttered from where she was looking over Athena's shoulder. "It would give your fire place a certain to-horrid-to-look at-feel."
Apollo rushed over looking over Athena's other shoulder, "What is it…" His face immediately paled as he backed up quickly. "That is just… I'm at a loss for words I just can't..." Apollo went in sat down in his seat, holding his head, completely silent.
Athena grinned gleefully, "Oh I'm defiantly keeping it now."
Aphrodite looked between the head and Apollo. "Athena if you give me that head I will never bring up HIM again."
"And give up the miracle of making Apollo silent, never."
And with those words another fight broke out.
"Well, the peace was nice while it lasted." Hermes sighed
Looking beside him at the shell shocked silent Apollo and the other gods who were all standing silently in confusion at what had just happened, he grinned.
"I suppose the affects where nice though, hmm maybe I should get her a gift." Hermes muttered thoughtfully.
"Ohh, get her a rat! Everyone loves rats!" a voice yelled from Hermes pocket.
Letting out an annoyed sigh Hermes said, "What is it with you and rats! And besides she's a human, humans don't eat rats! Especially ten year old girls."
"Don't eat rats!" the voice said in horror. "Why's that!? Does she know how heavenly they taste? Has she ever tried one, we should get her one to try just in case. You never know if you like something till you try it."
"No! I am not getting a rat for-" Hermes started to say.
"Lord Hermes," another voice from his pocket said interrupting him, this one sounding more feminine. "You've missed 45,069 call and have 123,532,430 unopened texts since the last 20 minutes."
Hermes groaned, "Why me?" he sighed as he held his head in his hands mirroring Apollo.
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Author's Note: Well there you go D-M-F I hope you like it! And also I'm slowly making Anna and Liz get along, Anna is one of those people that Liz doesn't like that much and it will take her more time to be friends with her. And I did leave you with a cliff hanger there didn't I? You know with Liz falling through the air hundreds of feet above ground but eh she'll be fine. So goodbye till next time!
