Chapter 10

Percy

Hello people of the internet! I'm sorry I haven't posted sooner. I've had the busiest week and none of my family members would proofread my story. My BFF finally came over and proofread it, so here it is! okay, I'll stop blabbering on so you can read!

As soon as the house burst into flames, I knew we were screwed.

Since I was surrounded by fire, I couldn't summon water. Nobody had brought in any liquids, except a glass of chocolate milk, which was strangely still intact.

The flames started to close in.

I was about to suggest that we just jump through the flames, and we would hopefully survive, but then something weird happened.

Sadie pointed at the door and said something like, "Maw!" and several gallons of water appeared out of nowhere and doused the flames. As soon as the passageway was clear, we all ran out.

Outside, everyone was gathering around the Big House, which was now completely engulfed in fire. They all looked relieved as we walked out, but it didn't last long.

All of the Magicians ran toward the border, trying to escape. Of course, they ran right into twenty or so fully-armed campers.

"You have to let us go!" Zia shouted.

"We can stop this!" Carter put in.

"How can you?" Annabeth asked.

"We just can!" Sadie shouted. "If you don't believe us, then come with us! We'll show you!"

Chiron and I looked at each other for a moment, and we both came to a silent agreement.

"We will come with you," I said. Everyone looked confused, so I explained further.

"I along with three other demigods will come with you, while all other demigods make sure the disaster caused by the gods aren't killing people. Rescue those who are trapped, and make safe houses away from the danger zones." Everyone nodded in agreement.

Everyone dispersed, heading to their separate cabins to get supplies and prepare. I picked Annabeth (of course!), Nico, and Thalia (who was still here with her Hunters. How long can it take for a goddess to kill one monster?) to come with us.

We took the magicians and headed to the stables. We rounded up about ten pegasi, and after listening to Shelby begging, whining and crying for ten minutes, we also brought her unicorn out.

I rode Blackjack, Annabeth rode Guido, Nico rode Porkpie, and Thalia rode Pandora, a young white female.

The Egyptians mounted the remaining Pegasi. Shelby rode on her unicorn, which could apparently fly, and everyone else was on their own pegasi, except for Walt and Sadie, who had doubled up on one pegasi.

The Egyptians were in front, but we followed closely behind, in case they tried to ditch us and escape.

We rode in silence. Shelby kept doing loopy-loops on her unicorn, but other than that, the only noise came from the thunder in the distance.

Several times we had to avoid random thing dropping from the sky, like a sword that was bigger than Clarisse, a huge ball of fire, and a few giant feathers. What in the Hades is going on up there? I thought as we flew on.

We headed toward Brooklyn, and after a few more minutes, we landed beside a huge abandon warehouse. It didn't look that significant, but the Egyptians walked up to it happily.

"What exactly are we looking at?" Thalia grumbled.

"Oh," Sadie said. "I forgot you couldn't see it. Everyone, look really, really, really hard at the spot just above the warehouse."

Everyone gave her weird looks, but id so anyway. At first I couldn't see anything, but after a moment, a huge house came into view.

"Whoa!" Nico said. "How could I have not seen that before?"

"Well, you are as blind as a bat," Thalia said.

"You couldn't see it either!" Nico pointed out.

"Guys, stop it!" Annabeth said loudly. Nico and Thalia shut up immediately.

"Okay then," Sadie said. "Get back on those pegasi, and fly to the roof. And whatever you do, don't provoke the griffin. He gets offended easily."

We all nodded, and then got back on our pegasi and flew to the roof. Sitting in the corner was a giant lion with golden fur and razor-sharp wings that could slice a pegasi in half.

I don't like that thing, Boss, Blackjack said.

Don't worry, buddy, I told him. Just don't touch the wings.

Gotcha, he said back.

We all dismounted, and I noticed several teenagers walking up to the roof. They all stared in shock at us, but they made no move to attack us.

After a minute, three six-year-olds ran up to Shelby, and hauled her away, chattering the entire time. That got things going, because several more of the kids ran up to the Egyptians, and gave them hugs.

These kids must have been magicians like Carter and Sadie were. They couldn't have been regular mortals, and it would make sense. But there were so many of them, they kind of intimidated me.

After about ten minutes, they finally noticed us, standing in the corner next to the Pegasi.

"Who are they?" a small boy asked.

"Jaz will explain, while we take them inside," Sadie said quickly, and then pushed us inside the giant house.

"Welcome to Brooklyn House," Sadie said, with a dramatic sweep of her arm.

"Where exactly are we?" Thalia asked.

"Brooklyn House, the 21st Nome, in Brooklyn, New York. We've trained young magicians for about a year." Felix looked happy with the answer, but everyone was still confused.

"We'll explain," Zia said, then led us to a large boardroom. Carter, Sadie, Zia, and Walt sat down on one side of the large table, and we sat on the other side.

The room was completely silent until Carter finally spoke. "Well, I guess you found the way we can stop the war," he said.

"But how can all of those kids do anything?" Thalia asked.

"They can channel the gods' powers, so they might be able to convince the gods to stop fighting. If you could help as well…" Sadie's voice trailed off.

"Well, if you really think if it would work, then of course we would help," Annabeth told her. "But we just need to come up with a plan…"

We talked for who knows how long, coming up with a plan for how we would stop the gods from destroying the earth. We eventually decided to take one demigod child of each god, and one magician that were studying each god.

We were disturbed by a loud screaming coming from the roof. Everyone hurried out, and we found a huge fire blazing only feet away from the pegasi.

"Sammy! What happened?" Sadie asked a girl who was watching.

"A huge bolt of lightning hit the roof and it started a fire," she said quickly.

I heard Thalia cursing her father, and the thunder got a little louder.

I did the only thing I could think of doing, since the Egyptians were just standing there looking like idiots.

I felt a tug in my gut, and a huge wave of water drenched the roof, and everyone on it. I was the only one not spitting out water, but at least the fire was out. I could hear Thalia and Nico cursing me, Poseidon, and pretty much water in general.

After everyone got over the shock of freezing water hitting them without warning, they started to look at me suspiciously.

The roof was completely silent until about eight six-year-olds started yelling at me.

"How in the world could you get Sparkle wet? She can't get wet or her fire breath stops working for a week! And her fur will get all fluffy, so it'll take forever to make it lay flat again!"

I was almost attacked by the angry mob, and that would have been interesting, but Sadie yelled, "N-dah!" and the kids immediately bumped into an invisible shield.

"Cleo!" Sadie yelled. "Can you get the ankle-biters some ice cream?"

"ICE CREAM!" they all screamed in unison, and then battled to get down the stairs first.

Everyone was still silent, staring at me with interest and fear. I can't say I haven't been looked at that way before, but when fifty kids that could blast me to pieces in a matter of seconds were, it sort of freaked me out.

"Well," Zia said, still coughing up some water. "Let's get everyone inside so we can get dry clothes."

Everyone silently walked down the stairs. We followed, but I noticed several people staring back at us.

Sadie led us to two spare bedrooms, one for the girls and one for the boys, and said that there would be clothes our sizes in the closet.

I was a little skeptical at first, but when Nico and I opened the closet door, there were two separate groups of clothes, both in our favorite colors and they fit us perfectly.

We quickly changed, then went back into the hall.

The girls were already waiting for us, looking annoyed. Annabeth was wearing her regular clothes; a green t-shirt and jeans. Thalia was wearing something similar.

Carter led us downstairs, and we found almost every initiate waiting for us at the foot of the stairs. They all stared at us expectantly.

"Initiates!" Carter said loudly. "The gods are fighting each other. Felix and Seth will explain everything. You, along with all other Nomes in the north-east area will be working together to save all civilians. Move everyone you can out of the area. Jaz will split everyone into groups."

Everyone looked terrified, but nodded enthusiastically. Seth and Felix started explaining their adventure, while Carter and Sadie gathered a few initiates that were coming with us, and we all headed to the roof.

When we had just made it when the ground started shaking violently, and everything underneath us started to crumble.

That was it! I have no plans for the next chapter, but I'll try to get it written and post it ASAP! Okay, that is all. Thank you for reading and please review! World peace!