I had the watch until dawn so I was thinking about what Belle had said. The quest is not the quest? What the Hades does that mean? I meant to ask her about it later.
I then looked and saw some mortals coming down to beach. Lucky everyone was waking up and putting the tents away. I wonder what the mortals would have thought if they had seen all the tents and Pegasus. I guess to them they looked like normal horses.
The mortals settled down on the beach with their stuff a few yards away from us.
Suddenly I knew something was off. And I was right. The six mortals, or whom I had thought were mortals changed into three Scythian Dracaena and three giants. I drawed my daggers.
"We got monsters!" I shouted to everyone else. They all dropped what they were doing and got their weapons ready.
And then from about we were getting hit by sharp feathers. I glanced up, feather-shooting birds.
The rest of the hunters shot them down and I glanced back to the monsters. They were making their way towards us now.
"Uh…we got more!" Chris said looking at things behind us. I realized them as more giants. I groaned this was going to be so much fun.
"Becca" Belle whispered in my ear and I looked at her.
"The quest isn't the quest. It was just a set up to get you four here" Belle said. "The real thing we had to find was-"she got cut off as an arrow went through her chest. She fell to the ground dead.
"Belle?" I gasped. Then I looked around I saw that a giant hiding had shot her. I angel threw my dagger at it and it died instantly.
Everyone else had got into battle mode and everyone was attacking. This was going to be a bad battle.
I had one dagger left so I charged at one of the other giants and slashed and it rolling out of its way of its club and hands. I jabbed it in the knee and then just managed to get out of the way as it swung its club at me.
Suddenly I was hit aside by the dracaena. It knocked my dagger out of my hand and it was tossed into the ocean. It swung its sword at my head and then I barbecued it with lightning. I had a brief moment to see how everyone else was doing.
Clare was easily fighting off a giant with her sword. Kayla seemed to be having fun whipping a dracaena with her whip and then creating a crack in the earth with her earthquake powers and it went down. I then saw Chris next to the water with a giant and he seemed to be having no trouble at all.
I then almost got my head taken off by a giant but I rolled out of the way quickly. I took my sword out and started to attack the giant again. I slashed at its knee again and it let out a roar of pain. I then jumped and jabbed it in the heart and it died again.
More and more monsters kept coming and we were getting tired out.
"Everyone! Stay close to me!" Kayla shouted and we all finished up our monsters and ran over to her. She held her hand out, concentrating. Suddenly the earth around us shook and then it happened. She created a giant rift that caught all of the monsters and they all feel through until she closed them up. She slipped down onto her knees, having used a lot of power.
Then everything was quiet. No more monsters, just the quiet lapping of the sea.
"Belle!" One of the hunters had yelled seeing Belle motionless body. I then glanced at Nathan.
"You have to bring her back to life!" I shouted at him.
"What? No! I can't" Nathan said.
"You have to!" I shouted. "She was about the tell me why we were here! Why we had to coming to San Francisco!"
"I…I can't!" Nathan shouted back. "I've got orders not to"
"Orders? From who?" Clare asked. Nathan said nothing. "Nathan.."
"I got orders not to bring anyone back but the person I wanted to!" Nathan said.
"From who?" I asked this time.
"Hades!" Nathan finally said. Belle was right, Nathan was the traitor. "He gave me the power to bring one person back as long as I did as he wished."
"And what was that?" I asked.
"Lead you astray, make you never make it to San Francisco." He said.
"But you failed." I said.
Suddenly Clare slapped Nathan. "You lying backstabbing jerk!"
"Clar" He started before Nathan cut him off.
"You never wanted to bring back your sister!" Clare shouted. "She always she was going to get reborn if she died! And you of all people knew that! You wanted to bring back Veronica!" Nathan said nothing confirming the truth. Clare slapped him again before walking away to the other side of the group.
"I don't care what Hades said!" I yelled at Nathan. "Bring Belle back or I will end you myself and you will get the feel the wrath of Hades sooner than you think." He sighed.
"Fine." He said and then pulled out a black cloak from his bag. "Bring my Belle."
Two hunters dragged her body over to him and he placed the cloak over her. He then started chanting something in a language I didn't know.
Suddenly the cloak caught on fire but Belle's body wasn't burning. I watched as the cloak burned away. Then it looked like a dark aura had surrounded Belle.
Belle suddenly sat up gasping.
"Belle!" I said. She was looking around with wide eyes.
"But…I was dead…" she said.
"We brought you back" I told her.
"Right…I was telling you what the quest was about right?" Belle asked and I nodded.
"We are suppose to find Hades sword" Belle said.
"Hades sword?" I asked.
"Let me explain…"Belle said. "First of all the Gods are trapped in Olympus by Hades himself. He trapped them there wanting to control all of Olympus. It was either is trapped there or stay in the underworld with him…Artemis is stuck there now. But that is why we need the sword. He thought it would be better if he hid it somewhere, that place was San Francisco. His sword is the only way to release the Gods from Olympus. We have to go up in the elevator and slice through. He made it so that only his sword could only open it."
"So we need the sword?" I said and Belle nodded. She took the monster tracking map from Kayla that also showed the city of San Francisco.
"Okay here is a museum. I think that it might be there, or it might be in this antique shop. But it could also be in this abandoned house, they all have Hades power around them," Belle explained.
"We should split up." I suggested and Belle nodded.
"I'll take the hunters to the museum." Belle said.
"Okay I'll be with Clare and Nathan at the house and Chris and Kayla you two together at the shop."
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I pushed the door open of the abonended house. It fell to the ground and a cloud of dust rose in the air. I coughed and stepped into the house. We then started to look for the sword.
After about an hour of searching we came up with a broken pole, a moldy half eaten sandwich, and an old stuffed animal. I sighed and then stepped outside. I saw that there was a rainbow being reflected from a small puddle of water.
I reached into my pocket and pulled out a coin. I tossed it into the Rainbow.
"Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow accept my offering" I said and though of Belle. Soon her face appheared.
"Any luck?" I asked and she shook her head. I sighed. "Let me try Kayla hang on." I tossed another coin into another rainbow and repeated the words Kayla soon appeared.
"Kayla? Did you find it?" I asked her and she shook her head. Then I saw something black behind her.
"Kayla…what's that?" She turned around and grabbed the black object. It responded to her touch and became a double-egged sword. "You found it!"
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We all met up with Kayla at the shop. We decided to go to Olympus straight away. Kayla, Chris, Clare and I would be going. Nathan would stay with the hunters (and serve his punishment ^^), oh that would be fun.
After a few minutes we were up in the air and making our way across the country. We had given the pegasi about a gallon of caffeine each so they flew very, very fast. In just about an hour we were at the Empire State Building. We then took the elevator to the top, to Olympus. As the door opened there was a large chain in front of it.
Kayla grasped Hades sword and swung at the chain. Sure enough it broke and we ran into Olympus.
The Gods were locked up in looked like a giant celestial bronze cage. Kayla swung at the cage with the sword again and it broke.
"Thank-you young heroes for saving us!" Zeus said. "I am feeling generous today, so I shall grant each of you one item of your choice, whatever it is choose it!"
"Can I have a sharper end on my whip?" Kayla asked and held out her whip. Zeus looked at her a little weird and then snapped his fingers and sure enough the whips' end got sharper.
"Can I have a blue scarf?" Chris asked. Soon a scarf appeared in his hands.
"I would like a weapon that I can't lose." I told my father only half joking. But in my hand appeared a dagger with a silver handle with a purple rhinestone on it.
"This dagger is electric and will reappear in your bag if you ever lose it." He said and then looked at Clare. "Now what is it that you want?" Clare rummaged through her bag for something and pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Zeus.
"Okay then…" he said and in front of Clare appeared a medium sized beagle. But it opened it mouth and a puff of smoke came out. Fire breathing dog, great.
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We flew back to camp in silence when we arrived that was where I left them.
"I guess this is good bye." I told me three friends. "I'm going to join the hunt again."
"Bye Becca" Clare said and hugged me. I smiled and then took off into the sky.
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