Disclaimer: If I was Rick Riordan, would I be writing fanfiction? Yea, thought so. I only own tht plot, the school, and SOME of the characters in the school.
Rachel's POV
I can't believe that just happened. We had all pre-decided silently that I would give a fake dare and send him on a wild goose chase. But then all of a sudden, I zoned out. It all turned green. It felt as if I was being dragged into midair. Then I collapsed and my head felt like someone turned it into a tilt-a-world. Then I saw the familiar looks of sadness and fear and confusion all staring me in the face. That moment I knew, the truth or dare game had just ended, and it wouldn't be starting again any time soon.
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Jason's POV
Everyone just stared at me as if they were counting on me to figure things out. I started looking at Piper as she is usually the one who rescues me in my times of confusion. But she was too busy braiding part of her hair. I looked at Rachel, but she was still trying to figure herself out. I didn't even know the guy sitting next to me, so I decided that was a good place to start.
"Hi, I'm Jason." I said.
"Yeah... I'm Xander..."
"Just so you know, that wasn't supposed to happen. This is Rachel, Oracle of Delphi. And that's Piper, Daughter of Aphrodite, Hero of Olympus, and Head Counselor of Cabin Ten." I said, pointing to the correct person as I spoke their name.
"Since we're doing titles, I'm Xander, Son of Apollo, Blessed by Ares, and Friend of Camp Jupiter. Wait, your name is Jason right? Everyone was always talking about you. I asked this one guy if I can meet you, and he just look at me like I was the dumbest person he ever saw...?" Xander said, slowing down at the end. Obviously he's asking "What the heck did that mean?". I'd get to that later.
I just realized I hadn't said my own title yet, so I started with that.
"That's a story for another time. Well, I'm Jason, as you know, Son of Jupiter, Hero of Olympus, Head Counseler of Cabin One, Brother of Artemis's Lieutenant in the Hunters of Artemis, oh and Pipes is my girlfriend." I couldn't hide my smile after that. I thought O saw some... was that sadness in his eyes? I put that in the back of my head for later and continued.
"Then there's Champion of Juno, former Praetor of the Fifth Cohort/ First/ Twelfth Legion, and Pontifex Maximus."
"WOAH! You're a Pontifex Maximus?! That's so cool..." said Xander with a look of amazement on his face. Then he added, "What's a Pontifex Maximus?" I smiled at him with a little chuckle.
"Well you only get promoted to it in emergency situations. This one guy, Octavian, he promoted himself when the praetor wasn't around, and that's basically like saying he's the emperor."
"He made himself Pontifex Maximus? That's messed up dude..." He said with astonishment.
I looked over at Piper to see if she was sober enough to help me figure out what to do, but she must have fallen asleep, because she was snoring into tomorrow. Rachel was a mortal so she didn't really know much about what to do in these situations. I made the split-second decision to go back to the room with everyone and ask what to do. Annabeth will probably have an idea.
"Ok, I have an idea. Rachel, go back to our dorm room with Xander. Don't tell anyone anything. Just say that the game is over and when Jason comes back, he'll tell you why. Okay? Got it?" I said to Rachel. I might need some alone time to wake Piper up... she tends to get nightmares a lot more now.
"Okay, got it. Hurry though, okay?" I replied back with fake confidence.
After they had left, I worked on waking up Piper.
After being with her for so long, I realized that she still had dreams about her dad being kidnapped, and most of the time they included our friends. But these ones she couldn't do anything. Sometimes the nightmares included me. My Piper had to stand there, watching the people who she loved the most, slowly die in front of her, not being able to do anything. The only weird part was that she never woke up screaming like the rest of us. Or even with a hard time breathing. She woke up like normal (which isn't normal for us) and acted like she never got nightmares. But that was when we were with others. When we were alone, she would completly break apart. She would say how she never wanted that to happen, how she could do nothing and how much that killed her from the inside. We would sit for hours on end, just talking and cuddling.
I talked about my dreams too. But it was about being separated. About us not being together for a long time, then later when we could see each other again she would be kissing Percy. Everytime I had a nightmare it was almost always that one. Yes, okay fine, I was jealous of Percy Jackson. But he managed to go through TWO Great Prophecies, survive both camps while somehow remembering the other, go to Tartarus WITH Annabeth and back, got named the Sea Prince, and girls swoon if he even glances at them.
But back to Piper. There was only one way that I've learned to pull her out of a nightmare. I pressed my lips to hers, and held them there for a while. Eventually, she started kissing back. We parted, and I helped her sit up on the bed.
"You okay?" I asked softly. She probably had a massive hangover.
"Huh?" Yup, definitely a big one. "Oh uh yea I'm fine. I was waiting for my head to start hurting like crazy, but I feel perfectly normal. Not like wanting to throw up. I guess after your body gets used to the alcohol, as in day after day, you start feeling normal." She started to yawn and get up.
I am extremely confused at this point. As far as I knew, this was her first time drinking at all. I made a mental note to ask her about that later.
"Okay, well come on Pipes lets go. Truth or Dare is over and its time to stop the party."
We walked together, hand-in-hand, back to the dorm room with Xander and Rachel trailing behind us, as they had waited outside the door while I was waking up Piper.
Piper and I burst into the room first, ready to tell them the truth. But it might take a while to get them to listen, as everyone was tangled up in a game of twister. All of a sudden, Hazel, who is standing, yells, "Right hand green!" After a lot of groans, everyone fell down in this big lump of limbs.
The four of us carefully walked into the room so we didn't step on anyone and fall ourselves. We made our way over the lump of limbs amd bodies, sat down, and watched as they untangled themselves. Eventually, after a lot of cursing and yelling and embarrassment, we all ended up in a circle again. It looked like Frank and Hazel's clothes were switched, and Connor was wearing only a diaper made out of... was that toilet paper? I had heard Leo talking earlier, but every sentence rhymed. Wow, we missed a lot.
Before anyone started the game again, I blurt out, "TruthorDareisoverwehaveaanotherprophecybutnoneofusareinit."
"What?!" Everyone said simultaneously. I took a deep breath a said again, slower, "Truth or Dare is over. We have another prophecy, but none of us are in it." It stayed quiet as they all pondered over my words for a bit. In a few seconds, everyone realized that the random kid we walked in with was the Child of the Prophecy.
PRESENT TIME (I started writing in present tense, and I didn't want to have to change all of it, so I just made it present time. Basically, it's the same time, just different tenses.)
"What was the prophecy?" Percy asks after a while. We all look at Rachel as she takes a deep breath and starts again. She had gotten good at going into that oracle type state on her own when people wanted to hear a prophecy again.
The silence deepened when she started. Her eyes turned green, and she would have floated into the air if it wasn't for Drew and Nyssa holding her arms down. She started speaking the prophecy for the second time:
Born of Sun and blessed by Flame,
Must save two doves known by name,
Forced to walk through Crete,
For the three to make ends meet.
Rachel started to collapse again, but Drew and Nyssa once again helped her from falling and hitting her head. They layed her down as everyone processed what the oracle had said in their brains quietly.
"What do we do?" Travis asks, breaking the heavy silence. "I mean, obviously Xander is going on the quest, but...when? With who? And Xander, what does it mean when it says, 'two doves known by name?'"
Everyone's eyes focus on Xander, waiting for his answer. After taking a few deep breaths, he starts:
"I had two best friends, they were both daughters of Aphrodite, hence the two doves part. But I had never really met them in person. My other friend, who is also currently my roommate, added me to a group chat once so I could meet them. He said he wanted all his friends to know each other so he didn't have to pick at times who to hang out with. Eventually, the three of us really got to know each other. We became really good friends, best friends. The thought never occurred to any of us to send a picture of what we looked like. You could say we were kind of like pen pals, but better. We would instantly know each other if we met, but by the personality, not by appearance. We were friends for all of summer, about two months. They didn't live at Camp Half-Blood. Chiron had let them stay at their dad's house, he just put a mini barrier around it so they were safe. Then, the day I got here to start the school year, they disappeared. They stopped texting me, calling me, everything. I thought they had just lost their phones, got them taken away, or changed phone numbers or something. I didn't really think much of it. That was two days ago. Obviously I'm worried now.
"Travis, I'm going alone. This is something I have to do by myself. I'm going to go pack my things and leave. I know where to go. I've trained for these things. We've trained for these things. I have to save them." He finishes.
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