Shout out to angell12345 You're awesome :) and your PM made me smile.
Oh and Gwen's part is kind of weird and short... Sorry still have a writers' block on that end of it.
This chapter is going to move the POVs a bunch. It might be confusing and I'm sorry for that
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Gwen woke up in a freaking cage. Really, a cage.
She first rolled a bit slightly, feeling something uncomfortable, like a bunch of hay and sticks. She opened her eyes slightly to see nothing but the dark. It took less than ten second to get used to the dark and another two to see she was in a cage. It was a one of those stereotypical zoo cages, that they would have kept tigers or something. The people who put her in their was pretty stupid too since they placed her in a cage where her head could squeeze through. They at least took her sword or maybe she left it with Frank, but left a dagger and a pair of hunting knives, which were tucked away safely in her boots.
She could easily slip through the cage bars but first she stuffed her hand in her pocket. Sucker! They left her phone, she quickly turned it on and shielded her eyes from the sudden brightness before she started to scrolled through her phone for GPS. It showed she was in another state, in the middle of Utah. She sent a signal to Frank and sighed. No wonder so many demigods die on quests they don't have a Leo to whip up magical phone.
The door creaked opened slightly and Gwen silently went limp and flopped on the ground. Her shoulder made impact with the hard dried hay, poking her in the neck as well.
"Come let's grab her." A male voice said. There were two people, most likely dudes, as they had really low voices, they opened the cage and one of them carried her out on their back. She quietly opened her eyes slightly to see a dark hair boy walking behind her, she of course couldn't see the person dragging her, since she had to turn her head.
The boys stepped into another room where there was much more light. She had to shut her eyes, as the brightness now burns her eyes. She kept her face netrual the entire time.
"Hey Boss, we got her." One of them said.
"Her? It was supposed to be a boy but alright." Another low voice said, it was another male said, where are the females? "Just lower her down on the chair, and chain her." Gwen felt herself being lowered to the ground, not to gracefully when her butt hit the ground and she was shocked with the sense of pain. Before she could move and open her eyes she felt a chain handcuff clamped on her left arm. Dam it.
The boys walked away judging by their loud footfall.
"Miss, it's quite obvious that you're awake." Gwen silently curse and opened her eyes, to see a floating man. He was translucent a bit like a lare but more ghostly.
"Who the Heck are you? Why are you floating?" She said looking him up and down, trying to see maybe a chain or something holding him up. There was no chain or rope so the man was really floating mid-air.
"Hush hush, I'm going to determined your fate when you die," He waved his hand. "If you're extra good, I'll be nice and give you an easy punishment in the fields of punishments." He frowned slightly. "That just sounds weird." Gwen nodded in agreement before asking.
"So who are you?" Gwen asked confused.
"I'm king Minos." He said, she frowned at him. "You know the king with the fancy labyrinth?" She shrugged at him.
"That's more Greek and I'm Roman..." Minos looked confused before groaning loudly.
"The idiots got me a Roman, not a Greek." He sighed looking at Gwen. "Umm. I don't know what to do with you."
"I know about Greeks, I grew up with them." She said, Minos frowned.
"I going to have to keep you here." He said, turning to the same two boys and yelled at them. "You idiots got the wrong person! Lock her up and find that child of Nemesis." He waved her off and floated away as the two boys ran forward to try and lock her up.
It didn't work, since Gwen smacked the first one on the cheek before kneeing the other where it hurts before running off down a long bending hallway. Minos' voice was suddenly there laughing.
Gwen ran down the long bending hallways. Laughter followed as she ran. "Silly girl, you're in the labyrinth, there's no way for you to get back." Minos' voice carried through the endless halls. of stone. "There's no need to even hunt you, the maze with kill you first." It boomed in all directions, hitting everywhere around Gwen, leaving her no escape. She random a hallway to get away from the crazy laughter of a mad man.
"You're in the maze, even if you find an exit, you will be far from your destination." Gwen ran down random halls as she pulled out her phone. There was no connection. Leo's phones work supposedly everywhere. She switched on the flashlight mode.
Gwen sigh and started to walk down one direction, her fingertips lightly running along the smooth stone walls. She took a turn and the walls closed behind her, she already expected this, Annabeth already explain what the labyrinth can do. She quickened her pace and started traveling the maze. Already, she was thirsty and tired. She walked around for minutes going with the same pattern. Two rights and a left then straight three times. She prefered this method of travel. it usually worked in most mazes she had worked through. Albeit it was always on paper. It was another minute before she realized she in the same spot from earlier. There was a change in the stone where it went from smooth stone of rough concrete. SHe repeated her patterned and it happened again. She changed her pattern going straight then a left and right before the two right, a left and straight three times.
She ended up near an old wall covered with ancient vines. A pair of foot print faintly laid on the ground where it suddenly disappeared. She spun on her heel, turned back and took a left.
There was a mirror on a wall, the ground and walls were a smooth even stone, marble. It swirled around the mirror, she peeked in seeing a throne. She stuck her hand in the reflection and instead of feeling the smooth surface she was feeling the breeze, not trusting it she pulled her hand back. She stuck her head in there slowly seeing a throne. Pulling herself from the mirror she looked down the hallways of the maze and listened.
There were footsteps.
It was faint but they were footsteps growing louder as the seconds past. Turning flashlight mode off she watch carefully. There was a growing light, before she heard someone speaking.
"Come on how hard is it to find some string." She froze and looked both ways, before seeing the mirror. "I mean why is Luke so keen on getting this?" This basically told her it was enemies. She saw a turf of brown hair before she jumped into the mirror.
It was an escape plan.
Not a good one apparently
She turned around and placed her hand back, she couldn't find the mirror anywhere. The mirror had disappear. Of course the universe wouldn't make it easy.
She sighed and turned her flashlight back on the throne was still there, she walked closer and saw the words 'Minos' throne - year (Blank) to (Blank)' written in ancient Greek. It was dated back to several thousand years ago, back in the day ancient Greece. She walked down a hallway and stumble into a room. A slight flash appeared making her cover her eyes, since it was so used to the darkness now.
"Well hello there missy." She jumped and turn to see a god with two faces
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Percy woke first.
He saw the bright blue sky and the blinding sun, he gently tilted his head slightly to see a girl tending to Leo who was next to him. Leo shuffled slightly beside him and the girl and Percy both sighed both in relief, before the girl's eyes snapped back to him. Percy could see Almond eyes and a caramel coloured hair braided over one shoulder.
"Sleep," She said, in a kind voice. "You are too weak to rise." At this point Percy stopped listening to commands or requests by people he doesn't know.
Of course Percy has a special ability to defy odd.
He sat up and stretched his unused limbs, obviously he has been a few days or so. The girl stared at him surprised.
"I'm Percy," He said slowly twitching his toes as he looked at his burnt clothes. He realized he forgot about Leo, he got to his feet as fast as he could and wobbled to the nearest source of water which just so happens to be a fountain. He remember about his ability to concentrate water, right as he dumped a bunch of water on Leo's third degree burnt body. Using the water he tried to treat the wounds, Leo's anger red and kind of char skin lighten slightly to a throbbing pink.
Leo groaned and shuffled slightly. Percy smiled that was all he could do, he looked back at the girl who had her mouth opened.
"A son of Poseidon." She mumbled, before smiling at him. "I am Calypso." That name was familiar.
"Calypso.. Calypso.. Calypso.. Oh! I remember you!" He said, before frowning. "I may have hit your father in a fight."
Calypso bit her lip. "Come help me lift your friend to my cave and we will talk." She said grabbed Leo's shoulders gingerly careful not to touch is arms where most of the burn damage happened. Percy instead of grabbing Leo's feet instead chose to grab Leo's butt err hips, no it's butt, and hoisted him on his own back. Calypso dropped her hands right before Percy made Leo head butt her then she would fall to the ground. Calypso stumbled a bit and dropped to the ground avoiding another hit from Leo's curly hair.
"Oops sorry," Percy said, looking down at her. "So where to go?" Calypso sighed and got up before walking in one direction. Percy followed her careful not to touch Leo too much, they entered a cave where Percy had to dodge some crystals curtains. One of the crystals on the chains ended up lightly hit Leo's arms, making him groan softly.
"Lay him on this." She said pointing to a point of the floor that had a risen surface, it was surrounded by jars and weird ointments. Percy set Leo down gently before Calypso came with with floating spoons of amber syrup which was Nectar.
"Tell me how you got here." She instructed wiping some ash off his face, as the floating spoons fed Leo Nectar, his burn marks started to fade even more. Memories came back to Percy as he told her.
"We were in the labyrinth helping Hephaestus, who is Leo's dad with a favour, we went to Saint Helens where there were monsters rebuilding the king of Titan's scythe. So they threw lava on me and my friend Leo, see Leo is immune to fire and he ended up I think consuming the fire and I think we blew up the volcano." Percy said quickly, before groaning. "That Typhoon was under." Calypso nodded.
"Do you know how you two manage to get on my island?" She asked, dripping some oil on a rag, she gently rubbed it all over Leo's bare arms, legs and his face, Leo groaned quietly in relief.
"I don't know," Percy said shrugging. "My friend Annabeth once told me about your curse." Claypso smiled sadly.
"I am not sure how you two managed to get on my island, there has never been a case where two males have came." She sighed, ignoring the last part of what Percy said. "You should leave, your friend Leo won't be coming back soon for a while."
"How long as it been?" Percy asked.
"Time does not flow that same on my island." She said softly. "There should be a small raft that will lead you where you want." Percy nodded.
"I'm sorry about your heartbreak," Giving Calypso a soft kiss on the cheek, he smiled softly as he left the cave.
He walked around the apparent island before he came to a beach. He watched as a small raft appear out of now where on a beach near Calypso's cave. Stepping on it he told it the first thing he thought of. 'Home."
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Jason ran after them, Gwen suddenly limp in the boy's arms. Frank was yelling curses trying to ready a boy that just appeared in his arms. Reyna was trying to throw her knives, but they all seem to nick them. The boys jumped over a large stone and something silvery gold from their wrist caught Jason's eye. THe two boys, who were barely any older than them, hid behind a tree, where they tugged on something on their wrist.
A bright light occurred and Jason had to cover his eyes, they were gone when he opened them.
"Dam it!" Reyna snarled throwing her last knife at the dirt in anger. Jason lightly placed a hand on her shoulder to acknowledge he was there. She knocked his hand away and stormed away.
"What was that?" Cassie asked, Jason turned around to see Frank already on the ground, furiously typing away on his phone, Cassie who was kicking a rock back and forth with her feet, was standing beside him.
"That was the enemy demigods." Frank said. "Did you see that thing on their wrist? It was a scythe."
"Was it kind of gold in color?" Jason couldn't resist asking. Reyna nodded her head, apparently back with several knives in her hands, she shoved them in her ankle sheaths.
"The time lord is back." She said ominously with a grim face, there was something in her eyes that said she wasn't all that surprised. "I was working on a project with Leo before he disappeared, it was kind of a way to creep everyone else by putting bugs on everyone's phones so he could track them." She said, frowning slightly at the thought of her friend.
Frank nodded taking Reyna's phone and going through her apps. "She's not in area, or state, She's not in the 500 kilometer range." HE said, looking at the blank faces. "Eleven football fields can fit in one kilometer."
"We should keep going to Colorado." Jason suggested, Frank drew his lips into a thin line and nodded. They started going back to get the bikes and supplies.
Cassie started leading, Frank and Reyna right behind her, with Frank carrying Gwen's stuff. (He's like an over protective brother to Gwen.)
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Nico left Camp half-blood with a note on his bed. It was midnight, he knew everyone was asleep at that time.
"I'm sorry, but I found Percy and I have to go.
I'm going to be gone for a few weeks, Bianca please don't be mad. I love you.
I'm safe don't worry, you know I'm alive
I'll send IMs and text you guys."
He signed it with his messy scrawl, and looked up with determination.
He turned away and shadow traveled to the underworld with a mission.
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Percy laid down on the raft, watching the sky slowly started to streak with colour. It was beautiful.
He slowly realized he ended up on the banks of BC. Muttering a curse he got up and dusted himself off the raft. He waved it goodbye as the raft started to mindlessly float away until it disappear. He could stop at Camp Elysium for a quick refill of supplies before he makes his way to Camp half-blood. He searched his pockets before realizes his phone had most likely melted during the explosion. He swiped the first newspaper he saw.
"Mount Saint Helens eruptions: Millions evacuated" Minotaur dung, he is so screwed when he comes back.
He tried to travel to the camp until he realized he didn't have enough energy to travel there, sighing he started to walk there by foot.
It was several hours and his legs were tense and sore. He finally saw a familiar looking neighbourhood and followed a route he knew by heart to his home. He jogged in the camp, not seeing the parents he started looking.
"Mom!" He yelled loudly, entering the gate, he past a familiar feeling force field and entered the camp. Behind a empty field before stood a proud little camp, he started jogging towards a mess hall.
"Percy is that you?" A familiar voice asked, Percy turned back and saw his mother. He ran forward and entered the embrace of his mother.
"Mom!" He said giving her a tight hug as he inhaled the scent of sweets and cookies.
"You're alive!" She asked noticing the newspaper still stuck in his hands. She swiped it. "Does this have to deal with you?" She asked. Percy sighed and nodded giving a small sheepish smile. "It's fine, come with me we found another demigod, he's in the infirmary."
Percy and Sally rushed to the infirmary to see, Fredrick gently dabbing a napkin a boy's face, looking like he wasn't sure what to do. He was slightly older than Percy, with blond hair, on his body were cleaned cuts most likely from an empousa or two.
"Percy! You're alive!" Fredrick said, Percy smiled and said.
"Of course, why do you think I'm dead?" Fredrick frowned.
"You have been gone for a week disappeared." Sally said. "Where's Leo? He disappeared with you." Percy shook his head, Sally's face dropped.
"He's alive don't worry, but he'll need another few weeks to come back, I left him in good hands." Percy promised.
Sally frowned at him, it was such a weird thing to see his mom without a smile. "Why don't you tell us what happened?" She said, Percy nodded taking a seat on a nearby bed.
"So during the quest in the Labyrinth, we came across Hepheastus how told us that by custom terms we would have to do a favour and he would help us. Since we knew him he gave us an easy one find out who's using his forge in the Saint Helens, Then we found out that the monsters were reforging my dad's father's scythe.. So we tried to destroy it. So then after that the monsters somehow threw lava and since he threw it on Leo and I and we don't burn the well it gave me a bit of time. Leo somehow absorbed the pain and we might have made the volcano explode." Percy summerized.
"Then we ended on an island by Calypso, and I could leave but Leo's injuries were too bad so he had to stay behind. I came back and here I am." he finished.
"You made a volcano explode?" Fredrick asked, Percy shrugged sheepishly.
"Yeah sorry," Percy said, Sally smiled at her son and wrapped him in another hug. "How bout I wake up blondie here?" Percy mumbled, dis-tangling himself from his mother. He grabbed a bottle of water near the infirmary and dumped it on the boy. He probably dumped too much but eh.
"Perfect." Percy grinned. He did his magic thing where the water started to shimmer in the slightest, the wounds of the blonde boy started to fade, until they were closed scabs.
Slowly the boy's eyes opened and he rubbed his head.
"Urg, my head." He said, slowly pulling himself to a sitting position. "Who are you? And why am I soaking wet?" He commanded, Percy already wasn't all to fond of him. The boy scrabbled and searched for something.
"I'm Percy." Percy gave him a smile, he opened his mouth again but the boy beaten him.
"Where's my dagger?" He said, under his breath he mumbled. "Lacy gave me that." (You know who he is now,)
"Oh, do you know who you are?" Sally asked, the blonde looked up his features softening.
"Yeah, I'm a legacy." The boy said, Percy had no idea what that was, but Sally did.
"So you're not a demigod? Who is your godly father of your legacy?" Sally asked. It was probably a Roman, Percy had never heard of a Greek demigod having a child, in all honesty.
"Yeah, Apollo, Roman god of prophecies." He said, Percy nodded, so he's a Roman! Frank would be glad for a fellow male Roman Legionnaire thingy.
"What's your name?" Sally asked, the boy was hesitant, but spoke after he saw Sally's knd face. No one would be able to resist Sally.
"Octavian, after Augustus Caesar." The boy looked at Percy. "Now where's my dagger Lacy gave me that."
Percy looked confused before realising something. "You were traveling with a little girl named Lacy didn't you?" Octavian glanced around wildly in the infirmary the only people there were Percy him and Sally, since Fredrick had left earlier.
"Calm down, you nearly died from a monster." Sally said to him sternly.
"She's here?" He said relief on his face, before he schooled it into a blank look.
"No, but first off, I should explain some things." Percy said taking a deep breath. "Have you ever heard about Greek AND Roman gods?"
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Somewhere in New York
Rachel gasped as she shot out of her bed. Her hands clutching her head, as a flash of colours formed in her head for a second before disappearing.
She stumbled forwards, swiping a card off her paint covered desk she started pressing number.
A flash of a green eyed, black haired boy and a blue eyes, blond hair boy were fighting something. Something dangerous, and made from the earth itself, went through her mind.
She grunted in impatiences as it went to voicemail, determinedly she picked up a paintbrush and took out a box of water-colour paints.
She started paint the scene. Working on every detail of the monster which was made from jewels and the two boys' grim facial expressions. Satisfied and content with her work she placed it next to a painting of the same green eyes boy next to a boy with curly hair and glowing redish brown eyes, with water and molten lava surrounding them. Next to another sketch of a blonde girl, and the same two boy the green eyes and the curly hair boy standing next to a god with a large forge behind him.
She sat down and decided to do some research about the card. Pulling out a cheap laptop she brought with her own money, she searched up the address.
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Somewhere in Camp Half-Blood
Lacy woke up crying. Her face was in her small hands. Piper shot forwards to comfort the seven year old girl in the cabin, Lacy was after all part of Camp Elysium. Piper sat next to her and pulled Lacy into a one armed hug as she rubbed circles on the girl's shoulders.
"What happened?" Piper asked gently wiping away the tears from her cheek with her finger. A bead of cloudy liquid feel when Piper shook her hand away.
"I had a dream." She hiccuped, Piper glanced up and saw Bianca also up and looking at her with a concerned face, it was probably 5 in the morning.
"Yeah? And what happened in that dream?" Piper asked softly.
"I saw Percy, and not Leo." Lacy said taking a napkin Bianca handed and started blowing her nose. "But I saw Octavian." Piper nodded at her rubbing circles on Lacy's back so she would fall asleep. She was worried about Leo and Percy suddenly but she forced it down and focused on comforting Lacy.
Piper looked over to Bianca and didn't see her brother. "Where's Nico?" She mouthed to her. Lacy was already asleep in her arms so Piper stood up and gently laid her on her bed. She turned back to Bianca.
"Nico was trying to raise our mom from the dead. He and Lou Ellen are working together, at the moment I don't know." Piper sighed and looked at Lacy.
"Poor girl she has been trying to find Octavian for months."
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"You're kidding me." Octavian said, Percy shook his head.
"Yes for the last time there are both Greek gods and Roman gods, we just so happen to fight that's why." Percy sighed, Sally and Fredrick had left earlier, leaving Percy and Octavian to argue.
"We are fighting." Octavian pointed out, Percy sigh.
"That's because you don't believe me." Percy said. "how did you ended up in Canada when your friend ended up in New York?" Percy asked.
"I had a dream." Octavian said suddenly guarded. "I was supposed to go up even more north."
"And?" Percy said, gently.
"There was a voice telling me if her sons failed she had others, and I was supposed to sacrifice myself if I wanted Lacy to live." Octavian said, he looked down.
"Vee-" Percy started
"Vee?!" Octavian looked at Percy. "Why are you calling me Vee?" Percy shrugged
"Octavian is such a long nammmmmmeeeee." Percy dragged the last word out. "Plus Octa-VEE-an."
Vee/Octavian scowled. "Don't call me that."
"Fine Octavian do you know what her sons were?" Percy asked, back to a more serious mood.
"Yeah, she called them titans." Percy waved his hands randomly at Ovtavian.
"We are soo doom." Percy said out loud. "If even if we defeat titans we have mother earth and her giants!" Percy paced around in a circle, Octavian just watched blankly at Percy. Percy whipped his head to Octavian. "Where did she want you to go? WHo are you going to sacrificed for?" Percy asked.
"The last past the gods, and her eldest." Percy nodded.
"How about this, we go to where ever that place is located at, do what ever magic we got defeat it, you can bring a spoil, go to your Roman camp, get respected because a god brought you there, get acquainted with my fellow Roman friends?" Percy said, Octavian didn't looked convinced.
"And the catch..." He said, Percy shrugged sheepishly.
"Be a part of Camp Elysium, the camp you're in. There more than a dozen people." Percy said, as a slight afterthought he added. "Including Lacy." Octavian shrugged and nodded.
"Alright, shouldn't you tell the others that you just got another... Roman demigod?" He asked before mumbled. "That just sounds weird."
Percy shrugged like it was no big deal. "I just came back from exploding a volcano and all my friends think me and another are dead when we are alive and our phones died, so I'mma let my mom deal with the screaming so then I can deal with the pain afterwards." Octavian looked at Percy.
"Who's your dad?" He asked.
"Poseiden, it's kind of obvious when you know, I have a weird salty breeze aroma." Percy looked at Octavian for any sighs of emotion nothing but a slightly jealous look. "Being powerful kinda sucks, you know." Percy said, turning away from Octavian. "I'm going to tell my mom and I'll pack us some bags." Percy ran off, leaving Octavian to sit there.
"Vee." He muttered. "That's a girl name." He grumbled.
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"Understand?" Nico said, the girl acrossed from him crossed her arms and nodded.
"I'm not some call-girl, I understand." She said, Nico looked blankly at her.
"Um call-girl?" Nico asked the cocoa skinned girl, who was his kind of half sister.
"Ya know, those girls that do bad things for a cost." She scowled when Nico nodded with and slowly tilt of his head. "Why ya seems so edgey?" She said. Nico sighed, he had to do a lot of work with her slang.
"Hazel we got some work to do."
The chapter is done!
Warning long AN:
Yay finally after three weeks of no posting, I'm sorry. I somehow manage to make this series have a bunch of mult-storylines now, I'm not sure what I have done.
Anyway I'm finally on Summer break! So I can write more, hopefully actually fill the two week updating thing. Atlast I have Summer school, and I taking English too.
So in all honestly your review are nice, some of them help with the story line, but I mostly had to get help from friends. I'm not sure on your view of Octavian being good (hehehe you don't know what I'm planning yet!) Or the fact about Hazel being revived.
I'm slowly changing Nico's personality so it fit more so he's a bit less cheerful, and more gloomy since he's only realizing now, how he is confused about his interests.
Leo's and Calypso's part in hopefully in the next chapter. Yeah it's really short deal with it.
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Words: 5,000 Date: June 24, 2017