Sup people. Here's the new chapter. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I own the plot and a couple of characters. The rest belong to Rick Riordan.
After about, oh, twenty minutes or so, Tom came back. Except this time, he had an unconscious Raiden and Percy hung over his shoulders.
In one quick movement, he, whoever he is, had my arms behind my back, and a knife pointing into the small of my back.
"Walk." He said, venomously. I started walking.
After another twenty minutes of walking, we ended up in a room.
It was filled with paintings. I looked at them and did a double take.
These are the paintings from the museum.
"You're watching the people at the museum?"
"Shut up and keep walking." Ted walked up to another cage and dumped the boys into it.
We walked twenty more steps and stopped. We were standing next to another cage. This one had a bed in it.
"Well, until I decide when, you are staying here." Then he threw me into the cage.
I landed on the floor. Hard. Boy did that hurt. I restrained from yelping, though.
"See ya." Then he left.
I waited about thirty minutes, checking my watch multiple times, until Percy and Raiden started to stir.
"Percy. Raiden. Wake up." I practically yelled. Percy was immediately alert.
"What? What's going on?" Then his face fell. "Oh. We were fighting that guy. Then I blacked out." He smacked his head. "What is wrong with me?"
"Wha…?" Was all Raiden said.
'Did he hit his head?' I asked not wanting to say it out loud.
'No. He's just disoriented. Hasn't had as much training.'
"Raiden. Are you okay?" I asked. He looked up. His face contorted into a scowl.
"No. I'm not okay. This big guy comes and knocks us unconscious, just for me to wake up in a cell. So no. I wouldn't count that as okay." He responded.
"Well." Percy said. Then his face turned serious. "How are we going to get out?" I thought for a moment. Then I tried to pull water towards me. Let's just say, there was no water in the vicinity. So much for that plan.
"Well. There's no water." Percy said. I chuckled.
"Great minds think alike." I said "Do you think Nico has tried to Shadow Travel, yet?"
"Maybe. They might be too busy talking for him to put in that he's there." We looked at each other and burst out laughing. The thing was, I could see that image perfectly.
"What are you two laughing about?" Raiden grumbled.
Well-." I started to say, but was cut off by the door opening.
That guy walked in again, swinging his dagger, intimidatingly. Well it didn't work. I wasn't scared of him.
"Jerry. Zeus' child please." We couldn't help it, me and Percy burst out laughing, again.
"What? What's so funny?" The guy asked.
"You have guards named Tom and Jerry?" He nodded then mad an o shape with his mouth. Annoyed as he was, he hurried the guard along.
Jerry opened the cell, and Percy sprang into action. The guard threw him against the cage. My back started to hurt. Then he grabbed Raiden, and got the heck out of there.
'Percy? Percy, are you okay?'
'Yeah.' He responded.
'I think we share the same response to stimuli.'
'Okay. I don't get it.'
'It means, Idiot, that if you get hurt, I can feel it, but on a smaller level. And same for you."
Realization dawned on his face. We turned back to what was happening.
Raiden was in a heated conversation with Guy. That's what I decided to call him.
I was surprised. Who has a two-sided conversation with your captor? When they noticed us, they stopped talking. Percy and I gave each other side-long glances. Okay, then.
"Now. I am Eternal." Eternal said.
"You're Eternal?" He sighed, disgusted, examining his fingernails.
"Well, Tom, Jerry. Escort this teenager to my private quarters. It's time for a chat." He said smiling evilly. My heart stopped. What if they hurt Raiden?
As they were leaving, Eternal snapped his fingers, and a gate appeared in between mine and Percy's cells. It opened, and he ran in.
"Are you okay? Did he do anything to you?"
"No. The only way he hurt me was by hurting you. So, what do we do now?"
Percy got a faraway look in his eyes. Then he snapped back into reality.
"I don't know. Look, I already failed you." He slid down onto the ground. I slid down next to him.
"You could never fail me." Then, we kissed. Ew gross. Did you actually think we kissed? We're brother and sister.
I did, however, give him a big hug.
We didn't really have anything to do. We thought of ways to get out, but none of them worked.
One idea included Percy running into the door. I'm gonna tell you now, it hurts.
After we tried everything, we just laid on the bed and talked. Percy told me about his quests. In turn, I told him about my life. By now, I was really worried about Raiden.
Ten minutes later, Eternal brought Raiden in. He had a lot of cuts on his arms. Eternal came over to us, and threw Raiden into the cage.
I waited until the room was empty, then ran up to him.
"Raiden. Are you okay? How bad does it hurt?" I asked. He sat up.
"I'm fine." He responded. When I heard that, I threw my arms around him.
He winced a little bit, but hugged me back.
"What did he do to you?" Percy asked.
"He interrogated me. When I didn't talk, he tried to intimidate me with his knife." I probably had an angry face on because Raiden chuckled.
"How could he do that to another person? That's just rude." I stated.
"We should get some sleep." Percy said.
I suggested we could sleep on the bed the short way, to have enough room. Let's just say, I was a bit squished with Percy and Raiden right beside me.
I decided to sleep on the floor. The boys were already sleeping, so I was really quiet.
I laid down and fell asleep.
Janus was standing in front of me.
"It's coming soon. Are you ready?"
"No."
"Too bad. Choose or we will."
"I'm not choosing between them."
"Suit yourself. You might not like what we pick though."
"I don't want either to happen."
"Fair point. Here's a preview."
Suddenly I was in a bird's eye view of the room that we were in. Eternal was taking Percy with him. I protested, but Raiden held me back so I wouldn't hurt myself.
Once Percy was gone, I fell into Raiden's arms and cried into his shoulder. Then, I felt pain in my back. Someone was hurting Percy.
Hope you liked the chapter. The plot is unravelling. Slowly, but it is.
Peace out.
