Victoria Jackson Chronicles

Chapter 10

Victoria woke with a pain seizing through her body. She gave a moan and brought a hand up to pinch the bridge of her nose and slowly opened her eyes to see Annabeth staring down at her.

"Mom, what happened," She asked as Annabeth helped her sit up and gave her some more ambrosia. "The last thing I remebered was standing with James by the campfire and the the flames surrounded us and then I passed out."

Annabeth didn't answer but only took Victoria's hand and led her out of the hospital ward and into the Big House, where Chiron, Percy, James, and Grover were all standing. A worried expression on all their faces.

"What's going on?" Victoria asked breaking the silence as she entered the room and sat one of the benches that surronded Chiron's room that was full of 70s junk. On one wall there were T-shirts that read, I go centaurs for you. On another wall there was a bunch of old records and CDs tapped to the wall.

Chiron's room pretty much looked like a rock-and-rollers room; centaur addition.

"Victoria, the gods are angry," Percy said as he came over to his daughter. "Someone has stolen their most prized possesions and now, since like last time, they think a Jackson member did it."

Victoria thought that her father meant him or mom, or even Chance, but when all the pieces came together she realized that he meant, her.

"They think I stole their-" She exclaimed as the Big House door slammed open and in walked, clothed in Greek togas, the twelve Olympian gods.

"VICTORIA JACKSON!" Zeus shouted as he strutted into the room, the other gods and goddesses following behind them, all glaring at Victoria who was now hiding behind Percy.

"WHERE'S THE LIGHTNING BOLT?"

"MY WINE!"

"MY LYRE!"

"MY MIRROR!"

"MY SPEAR!"

"MY TRIDENT!"

Half the gods shouted at Victoria, asking where thier items were. Victoria, being the minor demigod she was, didn't know about half the stuff they were shouting about. The doors flung open again and in walked Ares, god of war, in a biker jacket that had flames rising from the bottom. His black hair was tied up in a black and fiery red bandana. Ares also had on sunglasses that covered his eyes.

"I see you made it past my minator." He said as he stalked into the room, coming to halt at the battle table.

"That was your minator?" Victoria shouted as she jumped up from the bench and made he way to the otherside of the table from where Ares was. He smirked and nodded, taking off his sunglasses, showing a pit of fire in his eyes. Victoria smirked back. "It's dead now."

Ares gave a look that was between shock and rage and walked over to Victoria "What?" He asked as James cleared his throat. Ares looked over to James and gave what kinda looked like a smile, and walked over to James, developing him in an akaward hug.

"My boy killed a minator! My boy," Ares shouted looking at the other gods, but Grover snapped Ares out of his happiness.

"Actually, she, killed your minator." He said, pointing over to Victoria as Ares's eyes grew inflamed and a snarl replaced his smile. Ares walked back over to where the other gods and goddesses were and sat down on one of the chairs, letting his feet rest on the table.

"Well," Ares finally said. "you should know that that was just a warning, give me back my war chariot and you won't get attacked anymore."

"I didn't steal anything!" Victoria shouted but quickly shut her mouth when she remembered it was dangerous to anger the gods.

"Considering that your father was the one who brought back the lighting bolt after he was the one considered stealing it," Hera said folding her arms across her chest. "You have until the summer solstice to bring back every item, and if not..."

"Earth will become a battlefield." Ares finished, cleaning the dirt from underneath his fingernail with a small dagger.

With that all the gods started to shine and everyone averted their eyes as the gods dissapeared, leaving behind a very confused Victoria.

Victoria was at a lost for words and tried to form words, but couldn't. James finally asked her question. "What just happened?"

"Well, apparently the gods must prized possesions are gone and wether or not I stole them or not, we have to get them back." Victoria snapped as she slumped in to one of the chairs. "Chiron, can you hand me a pencil and a piece of paper.

Chiron shuffled through all of his junk and found a pen that had a centaur in a bikini. "Why does this have a centaur in a bikini?"

Annabeth shouted and covered her daughters eyes as Percy took the pen away and gave it back to Chiron who, in return, gave him a regular pencil.

Victoria shoved her moms' hands off with a moan and saw a slightly crumpled piece of paper lying infront of her. "Okay," Victoria said as she rested a hand on her cheek. "what is important to each of the gods?"

"Well, its obvious for Zeus; his lightning bolt." Percy said as he sat next Victoria. "Poseidon; trident"

It took ten minutes to name everything important. This is what the list looked like.

Zeus: Lightning Bolt

Poseidon: Trident

Hades: Helmet of Invisibilty

Hera: Peacock

Ares: War Chariot

Athena: Spear

Artemis: Silver arrows

Apollo: Lyre

Aphodite: Mirror

Hepheatus: Hammer

Hermes: Winged Sandels

Dioynosus: Wine

"So the next step is for us to actually find all these objects and deliever them to the gods." Victoria said to James as he and her sat together on the blue bedsheet of the Poseidon cabin, leaning their heads against the headboard.

James nodded as he looked at the list in front of him. He glanced over at Victoria and watched as her blonde hair fell into her face again. He gave a silent chuckle as she furiously pushed the hair behind her ear.

"Um, Victoria," James said in a light voice. She looked over to him with questioning eyes as she set the piece of paper down on the side table. "I w-was. I was wondering i-i-f you would go the fireworks with me, tonight?" James rushed all the words out at once.

"Sure," Victoria replied calmly, but on the inside she was screaming her nerve cells off. She wanted James to ask her to the fireworks ever since Chiron announced it a couple weeks ago.

A horn blared loudly through the camp and that sounded that the campers should get washed up for the fireworks. Victoria said goodbye to James as he left and he unknowingly placed a small kiss on her cheek as he left.

She let out a girlish giggle as he left, but then made a disgusted look in the mirror as she walked in to the bathroom.

"Did I just give a girly giggle," She asked herself as started to turn on the shower. Victoria sucked in a deep breath and gave a small laugh. "Not a daughter of Aphrodite, not a daughter of Aphrodite." She reassured herself over and over again as she peeled off her grimy camp-half blood t-shirt and shorts and jumped into the shower.

A few minutes later she came out, using her powers to dry herself clean. The campers were aloud to wear anything they wanted to the fireworks, so Victoria settled on a dark blue shirt with a chest high grey jacket and black cut-off capris with sandels.

Victoria raked a brush through her tangled hair and put it in a braid as a knock came to her door and she walked over to see James in a dark red shirt with black jeans and converse. His hair was brushed out and he spiked it up with some gel.

Victoria gave out a small laugh and James gave her a questioning look. "Are you sure your a son of Ares? You look more like a son of Aphrodite." He gave her a fake glare and together they set off to the beach to watch the fireworks.

When they both got there, everyone was having fun and laughing. Victoria saw her parents dancing around a bonfire, Grover and Juniper were dancing with Billy, Chance was talking to a few members of the Hephaestus cabin.

James and Victoria decided to get away from the loud music and went and sat at the edge of the dock, facing the moon, high in the sky.

"This is nice," Victoria said as she enterwined her fingers with his. "No loud noises, no Aphrodite girls' loud, obnoxious laughs. Just silence."

James nodded in agreement and they both turned to each other at the same time, very closely too. Victoria looked at his lightly pink, full lips and leant in slightly. James looked at her deep sea-green eyes and leant in too.

Their lips met in a spark as the fireworks began to shoot upward, lighting the sky in an aray of many different colors.

Chance cheered with some of his friends as the fireworks went up. He wondered where his sister and James ran off to, but found them not to far-away, sitting down at the dock, sucking each others face off.

Rage boiled inside Chance and he was about to break up their lip-lock when he stopped. He saw a flock of Aphrodite girls making their way to Victoria and James. Chance walked up closer to them and saw as they brought apart the two.

Okay, Chance thought. Maybe their not so bad.

But the thought quickly flew from his head when he saw his sister being shoved into the lake by the girls. Shock came over him and he ran over to the dock, yelling at the girls 'till they got scared and ran away.

"Victoria! Victoria," James and Chance shouted in unsion. Victoria didn't come up at all and their shouting drew over the attention of Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Chiron.

"What happened," Annabeth asked as arrived, her blonde hair falling out of its' clip and her flowery print dress blowing in the window that came.

Chance looked up as his mom came and his whole body shook with fear, afraid of what she would say. "Victoria was pushed into the lake and she hasn't come out yet!" He said quickly.

Everyone shouted a 'what' and started shouting out her name, Percy and Chance jumping into the river to try and find her.

Percy came up five minutes later. "This isn't possible, she should be able to breath underwater well and make her way back to the surface."

The sudden impact of the water was to much for Victora to handle and she chocked on some water as she went down. She lost concusness for a few minutes, back soon woke. She looked around and saw she was at the bottom of the lake.

She stood, the muddy, gray ground beneath her shifted with the disturbence. Victoria looked up to the top of the water and saw she was a long ways down. Something glowing to her right distracted her as she pushed off the ground and swam toward the glow.

She stopped at a small cave, big enough for a human to fit through, the glowing increasing as she poked her head through the cave. It gave a dim green glow at the end of the cave and she swam back to it.

At the very back of the cave, resting in the mud, was the one and only; trident of Poseidon. She gave a gasp and sucked in lake water, but it didn't choke her.

Thank you Poseidon powers, she said as she started pulling the trident out of the mud, but it wouldn't budge. She needed more muscle, so she started to swim out of the cave and back to the surface.

Everyone gave an excited gasp as Victoria rose from the water, but she didn't care. All she said was two words. "Poseidon's trident." And dove back under the water leaving everyone in confusion.

There is chapter 10. FINISHED!

Okay, some of you are probably wondering why I'm using the plot from Rick Roridon's 'The Lightning Thief' well I'm kinda have the same plot yes, but there is going to be a surprise twist in the end.

Well, I hope you like the romance kinda of ish?

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