Hey all. It's been quite a while since I updated, but this is the last flashback chapter! We can finally get some action stuff! I know Deoxys will be happy about that, right? Haha, anyways, sorry about the lateness but as I said in The Time-Travelling Lions, Anaklusmos14 is the literal God of Writing.
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Chaos' Right Hand Woman
Chapter Ten: Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid … They're Sweeter That Way.
~PERCY'S POV~
I made a face at the wall as I sank into a beanbag chair. "Why are we having a meeting now?" I whined and stole another glance at the clock. "It's 1 in the morning! I just fell asleep three hours ago! I'm not a freaking Vampire! I need my z's!"
"Her z's," Mike snorted tiredly, collapsing into a chair across the table from where I was sitting. "Someone get the girl her z's."
"It's official, they've gone mad." Gamma sighed, making everyone else smile lightly.
"Oh please, hun, we've been mad for quite some time now, you just … haven't noticed." I yawned, resting my head on the table.
"Night," Tango murmured as he closed his eyes and fell face-first into empty space, where a tangle of plush, soft plants and vines. He was asleep before he landed.
"This is why we don't have meetings at I A.M," Silena agreed and rubbed her eyes, leaning on Charlie as they entered. When they got to their chairs the couple somehow had them merge into one so they cuddled on a loveseat.
Sierra walked in next, looking alert. I supposed it was because it was dark, and she liked dark things [as one does when they're a child of Hades and a Champion of Tartarus]. Everyone that was awake made faces at her as Echo staggered in after her, looking like a zombie skeleton following his master. (For some reason that thought made my Aphrodite's-daughter side squeal loudly.
Foxtrot was following them, talking with Yankee about why they had been 'summoned', and discussing possible battle plans. My eyes rolled of their own accord. The Aphrodite part of me was having a freaking field day.
About five minutes later, why I was still awake, I had no idea, but Bravo was being dragged in by Oscar. "Do I have to ki-ll you?" I yawned again. "What did you – do to my – cousin?" my eyelids drooped and my head dropped slightly.
"There is an important matter to be discussed." Oscar told us – well, me and Gamma and Mike and Foxtrot and a Yankee [I think].
"At one in the morning?" Foxtrot asked with a raised eyebrow. Yankee nodded in an agreeing manner behind her.
"Yes, and Omega, remind me to never try to wake Tidal up ever again … he's quite vicious when sleeping." I grinned tiredly.
"That's my brother," I murmured tiredly. "That's Tid-" and with that I fell asleep.
~WHAT'CHA GONNA DO WHEN THE FLASHBACKS COME FOR YOU?~
I rolled my eyes as Gamma and Tango flirted shamelessly. It was a little more than disturbing. Apparently Bravo thought so as well. "SHUT UP AND MAKE OUT ALREADY!" she yelled annoyed and the two turned so red I would have though Tango used his powers to make them tomatoes.
"What Bravo said, I'm tired of hearing you two flirt and see you try to seduce-" the duo made odd sounds in the back of their throats and glared at me, "each other, leave me in peace! I have to do this stupid paperwork! Why can't you do this again, Oscar?"
"I'm simply too awesome,"
"Sometimes I really hate you."
"As long as it's not when you're holding a deadly weapon, I can live with that."
"Anything can be a deadly weapon. Especially a pen that turns into a sword."
Oscar looked up confused. "What?"
"You didn't think I wouldn't use my powers to make it so I can write with Ataktos, did you? I couldn't with Riptide so I thought I might make it so I could with Mischief." [A/N: why do you lie so heavily, Omega? Oh, right, I make you, sorry. Continue.]
"Oh yay," Oscar said, his eyes zoomed in on Ataktos, he sounded quite faint. "I think I'll just be leaving you to your paperwork."
"I don't think so,"
And with that Bravo and I tied Oscar to a chair and made him do the paperwork while we lounged around playing video games. Mom walked in while we were playing Mario Kart and sighed.
"I don't want to know, do I?"
- (THIS IS A LINE BREAK OF POTENTIAL AWESOMENESS.)
"YOU MUST BE AS SWIFT AS THE COURSING RIVER!" I sang at the top of my lungs with the warriors on the TV.
"SHUT UP!" everyone yelled back.
"WITH ALL THE FORCE OF A GREAT TYPHOON!" I continued, ignoring their pleas for mercy.
"KILL HER!" Bravo screamed and leapt over a chair, headed my way.
"GAHHH! BRAVO!"
And the day ended with me being stuck in solitary confinement by my best friend.
Yay.
"You know I could escape this easy as Styx right?"
That was a lie … and there was also no answer.
"Guys? Guuuuuuuys? Hello? Anybody there? SOMEONE HELP ME!"
And across the city, there were eleven people enjoying the day off with Disney movies … while I was left all alone in a room there was no way I could escape from.
Sounds like fun, yeah?
- (THAT WAS SUPER SHORT, SORRY; IT'S MY MUSE'S FAULT. BLAME IT ON THE LAUREN.)
I glared at the wall across from me, imagining that it was Sierra and I had laser eyes. Yeah, so basically I was imagining death, but hey. I had gotten my memories of being a daughter of Hades' back last week, so … You can't blame me.
Blame it on that annoying daughter of Hades, who won't take off the STUPID HOOD. I swear, if I have to see Echo following her like a kicked puppy one more time I will rip that thrice-damned jacket into millions of pieces. I swear it on the universe. If one can do that, that is. Is that possible? I mean – NO! You will not be distracted from your righteous anger! Sierra will pay for these annoying happenings!
She will pay.
But not in cash, dear Gods I have enough of that to last me an Immortal lifetime. Especially since if I want to I can conjure up some more. So yeah, unlimited monies. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Sierra will pay. Why? ECHO WAS ACING SO FREAKING MISERABLE AND IT HAD BEEN 500 YEARS, DAMMIT. I was going to rip that stupid hood off of her head and throw her to the wolves – well, the golden fox. But it's basically the same thing! A little, no, it's really not.
Echo walked in the room after Sierra, and I decided to turn my glare on the real thing. "What?" she asked oblivious, almost as oblivious as I was … am, whatever! My glare increased and my eyes flicked over to Echo for a second, and she scrunched her eyebrows.
"Do I need to freaking spell it out?" I yelled in frustration. "Seriously?"
"Spell what out?"
"ARGHH! I give up!" I flung my hands up and scowled at the wall in front of me. "Sierra, why do you hate me?"
"I don't hate you, Omega," Sierra looked extremely confused.
"Then why" – I gestured to Echo's pathetic look and back to her – "are you still pulling this crap. Just take off the stupid hood."
"I did, like ten years ago."
"What?"
"Yeah, I did, Echo just got kicked out of the archery place because he told off a girl who was saying she was better than I was."
"B-but, I didn't notice." I pouted and crossed my arms. "Ten extra years of not noticing. Dear Gods, Omega, how stupid can you get?"
'Maybe because you could see past the hoods in the first place,' Chaos smirked.
'You knew, didn't you?' I asked with narrowed eyes.
'Yes, I did. Your reaction was hilarious, so I couldn't tell you.'
I took a calming breath so I didn't try to kill the Creator. That wouldn't turn out well. Just trust me.
"Yeah, she did … and then she laughed at my reaction for nearly fifteen minutes." Echo grinned.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought you noticed," Sierra shrugged and I made a distressed noise.
"I would have said something about it if I did!"
"Whoops, my bad."
"Jerks."
"Thank you, anyways; what was this about you being a child of Hades once?"
"Actually twice; I was also Persephone's daughter once."
"Seriously? So you're my sister twice over?"
"Yeah, I'm also Echo's sister. And about everyone else's, except for Charlie and Mom and Papa."
"I kind of guessed those last two."
"So we really are sisters?"
I turned to see Bravo at the door holding – SQUEE! – Oscar's hand. They had been together for about two months but we were all so freaking relieved. I don't think I could have taken any more of it.
They had gotten together when Oscar was almost killed in a fight against the Nott's. Bravo was practically sobbing her heart out – which sounds extremely painful now that I think about it. Is that even possible? That would be a terrible way to die. I guess depression really would kill. Wow.
Anyways, Bravo flung out a "You can't die on me, Oscar! I love you!" and he has the nerve to freaking say "You'd better." Ooh, we were so pissed. To make him suffer she waited an extra month before going out with him. It was sort of a punishment for her, too, so she didn't wait any longer.
"Yeah, B, we are sisters. But it wasn't like we weren't already."
- (THIS IS A POSSIBLE LOVE INTEREST OF THE ANNOYING WAIT BETWEEN BOOKS WRITTEN BY RICK I-AM-A-TROLL RIORDAN.)
I took a deep breath as I peered around the corner to make sure that there was no one there. My head immediately retracted behind the safety of the wall as a bullet ripped out some of my hair. Oh Styx, I almost died. I almost died. Ialmost died. I ALMOST DIED. I sucked in a breath and turned to see Tango looking at me worriedly. I sent him a small shaky smile and closed my eyes.
I used my fire powers as a heat sensor. I felt a human's normal body temperature about a building away; bent over what I was guessing was a table. There was a fireplace a little bit away, so the table was slightly heated up. I frowned, if there wasn't a person firing arrows who was? I concentrated more heavily on my earth powers (I hadn't used them in a while) and felt a sensor in a wall to shoot any kinds of movement. Using my water powers as well I created a person out of water to walk in front of me. I solidified it into water and willed it to walk forwards. Sweat dripped down my cheeks, I had never used water and earth at the same time and it was showing.
Just as I thought, an arrow came zooming out of the wall and it crashed into my ice person, but 'he' held firm and moved closer to it, allowing Tango and I to creep forwards. Another arrow came out of the wall to my right and my eyes widened before a root snagged it a few feet away from my forehead. I felt myself grow a little unfocused as I summoned a two men of fire to guard us on our right and left and a man of the earth to guard us in the back. I was slightly aware of Tango sending me a worried look and I tried to smile reassuringly at him, but it came out more of a grimace. I'm sure that was a real confidence boost, Omega, I thought to myself as I willed myself forwards.
As we approached the first sensor it started firing more rapidly. It was probably trying to protect itself. The first sensor was supposed to be tied to the other ones, and if it was broken, they would be as well. Tango put a hand on my back to steady me as I had almost tripped on an upturned stone. "Thanks," I mumbled, and took a steadying breath, trying to gather up my nerves for what I was about to do.
"Να φύγει από αυτόν τον ιερό τόπο, με τη θέληση του Χάους και της διατριβής. Έτσι Mote πει τόσο Mote είναι." Tango gasped from behind me as I collapsed as the sensors were destroyed and so the elemental guards. [A/N: That roughly means: "Be gone from this sacred place, by the will of Chaos and Thesis. So mote it said so mote it be."]
When I woke up, I was in my room in the ship. I looked around confused until I saw Mike sitting beside my bed with a worried look on his face even in sleep. I blinked and suddenly a tremendous amount of pain, fatigue, headaches, and something that made me close my eyes launched a full scale attack on me. I moaned weakly in pain and curled into a ball. Mike was up in a second and yelling for everyone to get in because I had woken up. I whimpered and curled into a tighter ball.
Bravo's eyes locked with mine and I must have looked pretty pathetic because she turned to Mike and slapped him with a lightning bolt. "Idiot," she hissed quietly, "she's exceeded her amount of elemental use. She is in all the pain imaginable right now. She hasn't trained enough to use all of those yet. And then you go and scream in front of her while she has the equivalent of the universe's biggest hangover not only in her head but everywhere in her body!"
Mike was practically pure white by now and I felt my vision turning black. Delta turned to me worriedly only to see me falling unconscious.
- (UGH, ANOTHER ONE SO SOON? WHY MUSE, WHY?)
I grinned weakly at Mom as I pushed myself into Juliet's Bakery. "Hey Mom, how's everything going?"
Mom's eyes went as wide as the plates she handed out her confections on. "Omega! What happened to you?" India and her friends – a daughter of Helios and a daughter of Asteria, I had brought them to either Camp's before they came here – turned to me and India lost all coloring.
"Omega, oh my Gods of the Void! What happened?!" she yelled, her voice sounding extremely scared for me. I was in a wheelchair, my right arm was broken, three of my ribs were bruised, my left wrist fractured, I had a scar going from the end of my right eyebrow to the bottom of my cheekbone, I had a black eye (right), my left leg's femur bone had been popped out, and all the bones in my right foot had been shattered.
I winced slightly and Mom and India's eyes only grew more anxious. "I went up against a literal person made of lava and he was roughly the size of the Soldier's full housing areas stacked one on top of another, and as wide as thirty of them." Papa burst out of the back room.
"And who can I kill for that?"
"Don't worry, Papa," I snorted, "Yankee got him good for that, with Foxtrot right behind him – but don't tell her I said it that way. She'll kill me."
"Not if you're already nearly a meter away from death already, Omega." Foxtrot's voice sounded from behind me and I groaned.
"But I'm going to pay for it when I'm healed, won't I?"
"Dearly," she promised.
"Oh great," I muttered, "happily no longer at the brink of death only to be brought back."
Papa frowned, "What do you mean 'nearly a meter away from death'? She doesn't look that bad."
"Remember, she is Hecate's champion. She is a slight bit magical, though most of the gift given to her was knowledge or the ability to manipulate the mist to an extent – which witches and wizards call magic." Foxtrot snapped her fingers and immediately my family saw the extent of the damage on me. Mom paled dramatically and rushed to the back of my chair.
"Papa, you take watch over the shop!" she yelled as she pushed me back to my prison – also known as the Medical Bay. 'Hallelujah,' I though annoyed, 'praise the Gods.'
'Why thank you,' Chaos sniffed, making me almost fall out of the wheelchair, which definitely would not have been deferential to my health.
'Chaos! Stop that!' I took a deep breath and cringed when my ribs were sucked in. Shallow breaths will do for now, I thought, my bruised ribs aching. Mom practically threw us into the Medical Bay and Sanderson looked up from where he was soothingly talking to a little girl who had what looked like a really bad cut on her foot when Mom slammed the doors open with the front of my wheelchair. When his eyes fell on me they widened and he mouthed random words, apparently incoherent at the moment.
"If you're going to get drunk," I remarked as casually as I could, "at least tell your superior's that you won't be able to make it to work."
"I am not drunk! Omega! There are children in the room!"
I snorted, and made a distressed noise when my ribs acted up again. "Ow," I complained.
Mike practically ripped the door out of the wall when he rushed into the room. "We have a missing patient; apparently Omega can't deal with her ADHD for two hours and left – in critical condition. She could kill herself!"
"Such little faith, wolf-man," I grumbled and Sanderson rolled his eyes.
"I can see that, Healer Mike, her mother looks annoyed and concerned as well."
Mike spun around when his eyes landed on me they narrowed, and when they went up to Mom they softened and he smiled. "Thank you for bringing the delinquent back, Miss Juliet."
"Delinquent?!" I yelled in anger and sucked in a deep breath of pain, which only gave me more pain. "Ow, ow, ow, bad idea Omega! No yelling right now," I groaned and basically turned into a pile of mush.
Mom handed my wheelchair over to Mike and he pushed me through the halls until we got to my room, where he pushed my chair in an empty space in the bed, and it automatically fixed itself into a bed and pillows fell from a vent in the ceiling to support me before I fell on my back fully. "Hopefully all the agony you just went through will make you realize it's a bad idea to try and escape the Medical Bay."
"Nope, it just made me realize to not run into either Foxtrot or Mom." I replied and settled back into my pillows. "You're lucky I'm tired, or I'd of been out of here five minutes ago." I yawned and mentally I was wondering why I was so tired. I had been wide awake a few minutes ago; the pain should have kept me awake.
"Well, if you try and escape again, we'll just have to tell the people on the watch shift to automatically fill your room with sleeping gas again." Mike smiled – a little sleepily himself – and walked out. I was asleep before he took his second step.
My last thought was: "Michael Yew, you no good ass."
- (WHENEVER YOU'RE IN TROUBLE WON'T YOU STAND BY ME.)
I yawned, bored, as Delta went on and on and on about how well her recruits were doing as part of her weekly statement. I was jolted back to awareness when Gamma slapped me on the back of my head. "Ow! I yelped, my hands going up to cover up the back of my head protectively. "Gamma!"
"Bravo had called your name like five times already, so I simply sped up the process of making you say your speech."
"Jerk," I mumbled, and frowned. "So, it's that time of week again, where we get to listen to everyone go on about how well everyone's doing and how we're 'so proud' and they're such great soldiers and blah blah-ty freaking blah. Well, my speech isn't like that. I don't train anyone, sad really. I sort of do paperwork and train myself and try to help Tidal with weapons or hang out with you guys or go on missions. The last mission was a success, as you all now and all that matters is that we resolved the conflict between the two planets, and that we only lost five soldiers! Woohoo, go us. I'm done." I closed my eyes bored, and waited for the next snooze-fest to start.
Instead, I heard quiet laughter.
I cracked my eyes open, feeling slightly miffed that someone laughed at my perfect speech. Charlie and Sierra were laughing nearly silently. "What?"
Sierra wiped a tear off her cheek. "You seriously literally summed up these meetings and how absolutely boring they are right then. We should all just say short things like you did and then – boom – we have however many minutes left to just talk."
I made a face, "Could we play a game?" I asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"I nominate Four Corners!"
Bravo's face lit up. "Aw yeah!"
Yankee fist pumped the air while Foxtrot frowned. "What is this 'Four Corners' thy speaks of?"
When Foxtrot didn't understand something, she would revert back to how she would speak on Earth.
"Oh my Gods of the Void, you haven't lived," Echo said excitedly, "Four Corners is an amazing game that is completely underrated when you grow up. Basically you count out the corners and say which one is which. Then you pick someone to be 'it' and have them face a wall away from the four corners of the room. Everyone else picks a corner to stay in for a turn and if you call their corner they're out! You keep going like that until one person remains, and after it gets to four there can only be one per corner. The person 'it' usually counts to about twenty so everyone has time to get somewhere. If the person 'it' chooses a corner nobody's at, they have to choose a different one."
And that's the story of how we all got Foxtrot obsessed with the game 'Four Corners'.
- (IT'S NOT OVER! WAIT – ACTUALLY, THAT SECTION IS.)
I was currently freaking out. I was on a mission with Sierra, Bravo, and Oscar (yes, it was that important) but Sierra had gone missing. Someone tapped on my shoulder and I turned to see Bravo with a crushed expression. "What?" I sounded extremely worried, even to myself.
"We just received a notice," she spoke quietly, "from the Army of Zaandam; they have Sierra as hostage so they can get what they want."
My vision tinted red, "And what do they want?"
Bravo took a deep breath, "You," at my confused look she explained. "Well, more specifically, they want your powers over the elements."
My vision grew even redder, "If they wanted 'em, all they had to do was ask," I snarled and leapt out of my chair, storming over to the door before yanking it open. I saw two smirking Zaandam over at the boundary line and suddenly everything was in shades of red. Before I knew what I was doing, I used my powers over water to summon all of the water from the 'woman's' body. She was dead before a millisecond had passed. Her partner – a male – looked up shocked, and when he saw me he bared his teeth and pressed a button on his dagger.
Footsteps soon sounded and ten more Zaandam came into sight. The one in front – who I took to be the leader – was dragging something behind him. "What do you want? Why did you tell Damensoina to bring the prisoner?" he asked with a raspy voice, and I just understood it – Chaos and Thesis worked together to make me learn all the languages of the universe, I was barely halfway through.
The male Zaandam whose partner I had killed pointed to me. "She has killed Zaferinet," he hissed, "with some sort of elemental power."
The leader got a greedy look on his face as he looked at me, "Have you accepted our regulations?"
"Don't – do it – Omega," a rough voice pleaded and I heard a sickening crunch and a cry of pain as one of the unknown Zaandam kicked the mass behind the leader.
I realized almost instantly that they were talking about me giving them my powers – ha, as if – and the thing behind the leader was Sierra. My vision quickly returned to its red state. I sensed someone messing with the wind and traced the energy back to Bravo, who was trying to fly Sierra over to us. Unfortunately, the Zaandam also sensed it and the one who had kicked Sierra hissed and their claws extracted before they slashed Sierra with them.
She cried out and they all laughed. I felt the ground shake angrily under my feet and the Zaandam stumbled. Their eyes flicked over to me and widened almost imperceptibly. Bravo put a hand on my back and that's when everything exploded.
"YOU WANT MY POWERS?" I roared. "THEN COME AND GET THEM! UNLESS YOU'RE TOO COWARDLY!" I felt the air shift beneath me and I was suddenly flying through the air to meet the Zaandam who had kicked and slashed Sierra. Ataktos was in my hand in a second and the Zaandam's head was at the feet of his leader. "BRING IT ON, YOU MONSTERS!"
The battle was a relatively short one until the leader stepped forward after I had killed all his comrades – showing absolutely no mercy – and flicked his wrist. Shadow crept towards me and I paled as I realized what that meant.
"I'LL KILL YOU! YOU STOLE HER POWERS YOU SICK, TWISTED SON OF A BITCH!" I bellowed, and the earth exploded around me, water shooting up with the ground and I instinctively knew that my eyes were on fire and so was every single molecule he was made of. The earth swirled around me and rain pounded down as reinforcement Zaandam came running out, nearly stopping short when they saw me. There was a mini-tornado going on around me and I made it head towards Sierra and gently toss her over to Bravo, who caught her. I ordered the water and fire to torture the other Zaandam while my sights were set on the leader.
I lowered myself from my spot in the sky and watched at the male writhed in pure unadultured agony on the ground. "Εγώ, Omega Void, κληρονόμος του Χάους, βρίζουν όλο το Zaandam με τον πόνο από ένα εκατομμύριο θανάτους. Δεν θα είναι ασφαλείς σε κανένα από τα στοιχεία και θα κυνηγηθεί ειδικά στις σκιές. Το σύμπαν και όλα σε αυτό θα γνωρίζουν για την προδοσία σας, όπως σας έχουν κλέψει την αδελφή μου και τις δυνάμεις της που της δόθηκε δικαίως από τον προστάτη και τον πατέρα της, και θα είναι μια μισητή αγώνα. Κάθε και όλοι σας θα πρέπει να σκοτωθεί επί τόπου, έτσι Mote το είπε, έτσι Mote είναι αυτό!" [A/N: This roughly means – in Greek, by the way: "I, Omega Void, heir of Chaos, curse all the Zaandam with the pain of a million deaths. You will not be safe in any of the elements and you will be especially hunted in the shadows. The universe and all in it will know of your treachery, as you have stolen my sister and her powers given to her rightfully by her patron and father, and you will be a hated race. Any and all of you will be killed on sight, so mote it said, so mote it is!"]
A brilliant white light exploded out of me and I suddenly felt very, very drained. The hurricane had stopped and the earth had stopped flinging itself at the enemies. Actually, I couldn't see any enemies. "Hey," I slurred happily, "it worked! I didn't think it would. Haha, that's what you de-deserved!" I saw someone walk up to me, their expression seemingly worried. "Oh, Grouch-o! My man! My main man! Oh, you should have se-seen it! The look on his face, haha, it was pricele-"and that was when my unconscious body hit the ground.
~FLASHBACKS ARE HAPPILY OVER! CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!~
~LEO'S POV~
I surveyed the demigods/demititans with concern. They had returned from their usual trip to a place of everyone's consent, but they looked bad. Like, 'we've just been in a super tough battle' bad. And I couldn't see Sally anywhere. Sally was a seven year old daughter of Athena. She was the sweetest girl you would ever meet and everyone knew that she was practically my adopted daughter.
It had been about 200 years since Hazel, Frank, Nico, and I had started this Camp and I had learned nearly 180 years ago what Chiron felt like when he was alone. It was miserable, raising these guys and then if and when they died, we would feel so much unimaginable loss because we had seen them as unofficial children – even though most of them grow to be taller than us – and then they're just … gone. No longer with the land of the living. It was like a horror story in real life.
We had become partially immortal [we had the same immortality as the Hunter's], when all the Gods and Goddesses that were on Percy's side gathered together to mourn and thought of us. They found us in a clearing in the woods of Canada – Frank's idea that I surprisingly agreed to – trying to build a useful Camp. Hera was the one that granted us the immortality – and we got a little of her powers because of it. If the need arose, we could read surface layer thoughts – something with strong emotions tied to it, or recently thought. We could teleport [which was so unbelievably badass, you have no idea]. We could even sort of fly [her 'husband' was Zeus, which meant she had a little power over the sky]. Jason needed no help with that last one [it just increased his flying ability and power over the wind].
Hazel laughed when I pouted at that.
But anyways, back to the group of injured kids.
"What happened?" I demanded.
A son of Tyche stepped forwards with a sad look. "Luck was not on our side today. Something popped out of the shadows at us. It was definitely a person – but they seemed to gain power from the shadows, like Counselor Nico, but also not. The person seemed evil, and it felt like it emanated from their very being." Finn shivered and I blinked in shock.
"Where's Sally,"
I heard a slight sob and my eyes found Sally's older sister – May Cornwall. Her eyes were red and puffy and I immediately knew what had happened. "It came out of nowhere and grabbed her and-and-" she burst into tears and I felt my heart tear into two.
"Not Sally, please," I whispered, but I knew it was much too late. Judging by the sad look on Nico's face as he walked into the square – he had been on his way to tell me now.
Yay, another chapter down! I hope that the updating will be smoother from now on as the horrid flashback's are now behind this. I hope the chapter made up for the wait. I wasn't originally going to add the end, but I figured you guise deserved it after all the waiting you have done.
So there's a definite difference between this story and my other one. This one is slow going and The Time-Travelling Lions just throws you right in by your pinky toe. I won't ask you to check out my other story, but it would be nice if you did. I'm proud of it, but I'm pretty sure the readers of it already hate me for the truly awful cliffhanger I left them with.
I recently [not recent at all, really] Beta-d a story for my friend, Lauren [also known as my Muse, and she can be found in some of my Disclaimers] that I dubbed 'Disappearing Act' and it stuck. So if you like Doctor Who, it's by LaurenRenee12, her only story she's uploaded so far. It's really good and it's a Rose/Doctor [real one] pairing, so if you don't like that ... it wouldn't be for you.
Anyways:
Signing Off,
TheFourEyedWonder