[AN] Herro dare peoples! I am in a writing mood right now but this still took forever...sorry!
Disclaimer: Sarah? Why don't you do th-
Sarah: But...I was reading...
Me: Uhuh...sure...
Sarah: No really! *holds up the first book in the Hunger Games series*
Me: Well...do the disclaimer anyway!
Sarah: Ugh...fine...Kat doesn't own Percy Jackson and The Olympians or Kane Chronicles...good?
Me: Fine...now go back to reading!
Sarah: *raises an eyebrow* But you just s-
Me: Don't even!
Sarah: Fine...I found it in Greek so whatever...*goes back to reading*
(Sorry...I just...couldn't live with myself if Sarah never read anything for fun...and Hunger Games just seemed like something she would love...)
SARAH POV
I toss and turn, trying to sleep...it doesn't work...Jordan walks over and I close my eyes, pretending to sleep. I feel his eyes on me for a few moments and then hear footsteps walking away. I open an eye slightly and watch him walk away. I almost call to him but decide against it and turn over to look at the wall behind me.
"Is it true...?" I ask myself. What Khione said...would it be better if I was gone...? If I disappeared would life be easier...? I start to think harder but immediately shoot the thought down, knowing that if I get thinking about it I'll never stop...
I sigh and stand up, grabbing my iPod and walking toward the other wall where nobody was sitting so that I cpuld hum alpng without disturbing anyone else. As I walked o quicly press shuffle and Perfect by Simple Plan starts playing in my ears. I lay down on the freezing ground amd realize I forgot the blanket. I look back over and notice that Leo has already grabbed it and wrapped it around himself. The only others are one for Jordan when he gets back and one for Samantha. I don't go back over. I don't plan on sleeping anyway so I lay against the wall, singing along quietly to the music in my ears. Ignoring any other thoughts that come to mind by singing a tad louder. I close my eyes and lean against the wall. Not quite asleep but losing consciousness. I curl up a little, the cold finally getting to me. My hair falls over my shoulder and onto my freezing face. I pull my jacket around me tighter and shiver before falling into a deep, dreamless sleep.
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JORDAN POV
After talking to Samantha I walk back to where Sarah and Leo were supposedly sleeping. But I knew better. Leo never sleeps and Sarah was probably up, playing on her iPod or something...but when I get to where they were Leo is dead asleep on the ground, wrapped in his and another blanket. I look up amd spot Sarah over by the other wall. I walk over quietly and sit down next to her on the ground, pulling a blanket on top of me.
Sarah snores lightly and I let out a quiet chuckle. I'd never known her to be someone who snores...but I guess she does...?
She shivers a little abd I lay my blanket across her. Leaving none for myself I settle for laying my hoodie over my legs. I close my eyes and lean against the wall when I suddenly feel something on my legs and open an eye slightly and see Sarah pulling away from me, the blanket resting on my legs.
"Sarah, take the blanket..." I say but she ignores me. I put the blanket back on top of her and she sighs.
"Jordan, keep it..." she throws it back at me.
"But y-"
"Shut up..." she cuts me off.
But I gently put it back on top of her and she sighs again and hands me a corner.
"Share?" She asks quietly and I nod.
"Fine..." I take a half of it and lean against the wall again, closing my eyes.
Sarah does the same but puts her head on the ground and presses a button on her iPod.
She starts to hum along to whatever song is playing in her headphones and I nod off.
LEO POV
I was woken from a slightly peaceful sleep when Samantha came over and shook my arm.
"Your turn for watch, Leo." She says softly.
I open my eyes and blink. In the area where I expect Jordan or Sarah to be I see nothing. I turn over and find them immediately.
They're both against the icy wall, sharing a blanket. Jordan looks as if he's trying to use the least amount if blanket as he can but Sarah is dead asleep, peaceful, her lips moving just a little but, no doubt to some music.
I suddenly feel guilty. Those two are over there trying to keep warm while I slept over here, all cozy. I stand up and walk over, carrying my blanket and Sarah's. I nudge Jordan and he opens an eye slightly to look at me. I hold up the blankets and he smiles a little. He slips out from under the one he had been trying to share with Sarah and I hand him the two blankets. He takes them and thanks me then gently places one on Sarah and uses the other for himself. He closes his eyes again and I turn around and walk back toward where I was before.
Samantha has already laid down on the ground but her eyes are wide open. Calculating and confused looking. I sit down next to her.
"Hey, you okay?" I ask and she sighs.
"Yeah...fine..." she replies and I look at her closely.
"You sure?" I ask and she sends me a glare.
"Yes I'm sure!" her face suddenly softens, "I'm fine, just thinking about things is all..."
I nod, "Alright...but...if you need someone to talk to, I'm here..." I don't know why I felt like saying this but I figured it's true...I like helping people, it's what I do best, making others feel better...(This is sort of true for me...I guess...you'd have to ask others...I enjoy comforting people though...that's gotta count for something..right?)
She doesn't say anything and looks away.
I stand slowly and walk quietly, pacing around, watching for something to come out of the shadows...and unfortunately, I'm not watching upward.
Something flies down behind Samantha quickly and I realize it's a person. Or a person form. The dark hair was unmistakable though...Khione.
"Samantha! Look out!" I call to her and she spins around quickly, her dagger already in her hand. She slashes at Khione and backs away quickly then stands.
I look at Jordan and Sarah but they aren't where they had been anymore. Jordan has his sword drawn and Sarah has her knife ready. Neither of them advance to Khione, both seem to be thinking the same thing I am.
"One slip up and I could kill Samantha instead of hurting Khione..." And I wasn't risking that...neither were they apparently.
I watch them fight, Khione with her samurai sword and Samantha with her dagger. Khione slashes at Samantha but she dodges and makes a swipe at Khione's face. I see it hit her but she isn't fazed. Samantha jumps back as Khione swipes at her but falls to the ground. Khione smirks and leaps on top of her but doesn't cut her quite yet. Samantha is holding her knife up as close to Khione's head as she can get. Khione smirks again and touches the tip of her blade to Samantha's stomach and begins to cut her. Samantha screams and her body shakes and I'm suddenly extremely angry. My hands catch fire and I run at Khione angrily. Just as she gets to where Samantha's heart is I leap on top of her, sending her flying the other way, my hands caught in her hair. No longer on fire. Khione screams in outrage and throws me aside.
I put my hand in my tool belt to pull out a hammer or something to defend myself and...
"BREATH MINTS?! ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS?!" I scream and throw the mints to the ground.
I try again to no avail and Khione makes her way swiftly toward me. I pull my hands out and they catch fire but the ice goddess only smirks. I send a look to Jordan and he nods then looks to Sarah. She blinks but smiles, as if she's already got a plan.
That scares me...
Jordan puts three fingers up and counts them down. As he gets to one I leap out of the way and he and Sarah lunge for Khione. I don't stay long enough to see what happens and run to Samantha's limp body. I quickly check her pulse; it's very faint. I look at her shirt but there is no blood like I expected there to be. Her eyes are closed.
"Samantha!" I yell in her face and she opens her eyes just slightly. They're glazed over and unfocused. I shake her shoulders and she cries out so I stop.
"Where is it hurting?" I ask frantically and she puts a hand on her stomach and lifts her shirt just enough for me to see a long, icy scratch, the ice is quickly moving away from the scratch and toward her heart.
"Oh my gods! Samantha...I need you to stay awake, okay?"
She only nods. My hands blaze again and I put them just above her stomach. She winces and stares at my hands fearfully.
"Sorry..." I don't put out the flames though. No matter how scared she is this is the only way to keep her from dying. She stares at me angrily, fear shining in her eyes and I look away, turning my attention back to the icy wound. The ice begins to melt away, very slowly, and it has stopped moving towards her heart. But suddenly it starts again and I quickly continue. My hands are very bright. Samantha's eyes close again.
"No no no! Say awake, Sammie!" She opens her eyes again and looks at me.
She doesn't say anything but only gives me an odd look and I smile goofily at her. She attempts a laugh but it fails and she screams.
"Shh, it's okay, just stay awake, I'm almost done..." I say, trying to comfort her. She nods, tears glistening in her eyes but not falling.
I turn my attention back to the ice. I melt it away but it only comes back. I try again and again but I'm only keeping it away from her heart, not stopping it, and my strength was fading, fast.
Sarah POV
I lunge at Khione and Jordan does the same. Leo jumps out of the way and runs toward Samantha. I turn my attention back to the goddess of snow. She has a long, samurai sword in her hands, sparkling with magic. She points it at Jordan for a second but then then lowers it.
"I can't believe you two..." She says, smirking evilly.
I glare at her, "What do you mean?"
"Well,"she starts, "You both are so different, I mean, I would expect you to be fighting..."
"Why would we be f-" I suddenly stop. I know that sound in her voice...magic...charmspeak...I look at Jordan, his face is full of confusion and he's muttering to himself.
His face suddenly hardens, "Yeah...why...why wouldn't I be fighting her?"
I stare at him for a second before yelling to him, "Jordan! I'm your best friend! That's why!"
He doesn't seem to hear me. He levels his sword but he isn't pointing it at Khione.
He's aiming at me...
"Jordan, think about this!"
He charges at me and I jump out of the way, landing on the ground several feet away. I quickly stand and level my knife.
"Jordan? This isn't you! It's Khione! She's messing with you!" He doesn't listen and advances toward me. I take a step backward but he's faster. He slashes with his sword and catches me in the stomach, I grunt in pain and swipe at his face, catching his cheek just slightly, keeping him away as well as I can but trying not to hurt him too badly.
"I don't want to hurt you, you idiot! Stop!" He takes another step toward me and swipes again, but this time I'm ready. I duck his blow and run at him, headbutting him in the stomach. He falls to the ground but quickly stands again.
His eyes are confused, he sends me an odd look and starts to speak, "Sarah! Why did you do tha-" his eyes glaze over again and he charges at me. I roll out of the way and come up standing a few feet away from him.
"Jordan listen to me!" I say, trying to use some charmspeak, but mine isn't quite as strong as Khione's. "She's messing with you, using charmspeak to make you do this!"
He blinks, "What do you m-" he shakes his head and swipes at me. I block his strike and leap to the left, landing a little less than a yard away. I feel the cut on my stomach bleeding and look down. My t-shirt is coated in blood, dripping. I realize I shouldn't have bothered looking at the gash. I barely have the time to look up as Jordan rams his elbow into my shoulder then swiftly kicks my feet out from under me.
I cry out in pain and fall to the ground. Putting a hand to my shoulder I look up at Jordan. His face is hard and void of emotion. He puts the tip of his sword to my throat and I gulp.
"Jordan! Oh my gods would you just listen?! I'M YOUR FRIEND! Yeah I probably deserve a few blows or something but dude! DON'T KILL ME! I'D RATHER BE KILLED BY HER!" I point at Khione, who's watching us as if this is the most entertaining thing in the world. (AN: She's from the Capitol! Sorry...I'm still stuck on Hunger Games at the moment...but it's true! No wonder I'm acting so stupid...I'm going to shut up now and let you keep reading...)
Jordan stares at me and blinks.
"Jordan! Listen to me, I've known you since we were seven! You hate hurting people! Please! Stop this!"
He blinks and his eyes focus again, "Wait...Sarah? What are you doing on the ground? And why aren't we fighting Khione?"
"Thank the gods! I'll tell you later! Right now we have to defeat Khione before she gets t-" I look over and see the goddess of ice making her way toward Leo and Samantha.
"No!" I lunge at her and she turns to me.
"I have had enough of you! You're no fun! Charmspeak won't affect you and for some reason you wouldn't be killed either!" she angrily strikes me but I jump back. I look at Jordan and then at Khione. He nods and slowly makes his way behind her.
"Well, I guess I'm not done yet...I have things to do you know..." She seems confused that I had the guts to reply but that quickly fades and she smirks. I wink at Jordan and he starts running towards her.
She narrows her eyes, "Well, you might have to cancel your plans you little-" Jordan leaps onto her back before she can finish her sentence, driving his sword all the way through her chest.
She screams and falls to the ground. Jordan pulls his sword out and looks at me, "You okay?"
I roll my eyes, "Never been better..." I look over at Leo and Samantha and notice the fearful look on Leo's face and run over.
"What the flip?! Guys what happened?!" Samantha's eyes have closed and her breathing is ragged.
Leo looks up worriedly, "I don't know! Khione touched her and then...AGH! I can't get the ice to stop!"
Khione laughs evilly but then coughs, golden ichor dribbling from the corner of her mouth.
"WHAT?!" Leo screams at her, "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
Khione laughs again and I stand, walking briskly toward her, "What did you do to Sam?" I say angrily but she makes no attempt to answer the question. I lean down and slam my knife into her palm, she screams in pain but I don't flinch at her cry.
"What did you do?" I glare at her.
"Fine...you need a magical item to stop the ice..." she huffs and I twist the knife.
"What item?"
"The hammer! Gods!" she says, her face twisted in pain.
I pull my knife out and walk back over to the others, "We need to find that hammer..."
Leo POV
I look down at Samantha. Her face is contorted in pain and her eyes are closed. I continue trying to melt the ice and it continues to make its way toward her heart. I look up as Sarah walks back over from talking to Khione.
"We need to find that hammer," she says.
"NO FREAKING DUH! That's what we came here for ain't it Sherlock?" I yell and she glares at me.
"Well if we want to save Samantha's life then we'll have to find it faster!" She hisses in reply.
"O-Oh...Well, I'm not leaving her! She needs someone to keep the ice from her heart!"
Jordan sends me a fierce look, "Well would you continue?! 'Cuz it's getting pretty close!"
I look down and see that the ice is moving faster than before, "Oh gods! Guys, go find that hammer! GET OFF YOUR LAZY BUTTS AND GO YOU IDIOTS!"
They both run off.
Sarah POV
We run silently down the hallway and Jordan turns a corner quickly. I run to follow him, trying to keep up. Things are slightly blurry and I blink and my sight returns to normal.
"Sarah, go lo-" He turns a corner and stops talking suddenly and I race after him. But he's stopped running and I smash into him.
Jordan somehow stays standing but I fall to the ground and grunt painfully as my stomach hits the icy floor, hard, "WHAT THE HECK JORDAN?! WHY DID Y-oh..." I look up and notice what Jordan is staring at.
There's a huge, icy pedestal, standing at about 15 feet tall. At the top there's a glowing, fiery hammer...I stand and shake myself out, ignoring the ever growing pain in my midsection.
"You okay?" Jordan asks lightly, not seeming entirely focused but he glances at my waist.
I attempt a smile and reply, "Yeah, I'm good..."
He nods, his face is calculating, like he's figuring something out, so I decide to leave him alone until he says he has a plan.
I look down at my bloody t-shirt and realize that the gash is still bleeding, "I need a stick or something..." I plan on making a tourniquet, I look around but see absolutely nothing.
"Ugh..." I'm bleeding heavier and I begin to feel extremely lightheaded but I keep myself from falling over by leaning on the wall. I look down and notice something near my foot. It's not a stick exactly but it'll do. The hilt of a broken sword. I pick it up and quickly create a tourniquet around my waist with my dark hoodie. The bleeding is held back and I walk over to Jordan again.
"I've got it!" he exclaims and I exhale.
"What is it?"
"Well, if we can't reach up there and there's probably something keeping it up there so...what if we...knocked it down?"
"Jordan...that may be the stupidest plan I've ever heard come out of your mouth but...it's still good enough to try..."
He rolls his eyes, "Like you could come up with a better plan..."
"Never said I could...now, to find th-" He opens his backpack before I can finish and pulls out a long rope.
"Oh...well...that'll work..."
He laughs a little, "Have anything to tie to the end?" I look down and take off one of my shoes then hand it to him.
"Here, this'll work...I've got some boots with me just in case Leo burned those..."
He grins and ties the rope to the the tattered grey converse, "You really thought he would?"
I roll my eyes, "Not exactly, just an odd precaution...plus...they're easier to run in..."
He smiles, "Good to know then..." he swings the rope up to the pedestal but my shoe ie bounced back and thrown to he ground, sizzling, before it reaches the hammer...
"Oh gods..." Jordan mutters, "I'm glad that wasn't one of us hit with that thing..."
"Wait..." he looks at me oddly and I continue, "Try something that isn't magical...those may have something godly in them...they appeared in the Aphrodite cabin the other day by my bed...maybe it can sense godly magic..."
Jordan sighs and hands me back the shoe that now has a nice sized hole in the toe. I put it on anyway.
"What then?"
"Well...my jacket is...sort of in use right now...would you be willing to use yours?"
He nods and takes off his flannel hoodie then balls it up and ties the rope around it. He throws it up to the top and the force field basically ignores it, but he misses the hammer. He pulls it down again and tries once more. He gets closer and the hammer edges closer to the side. He pulls the rope down and once again throws the balled up hoodie and the hammer falls to the ground with a loud CRACK leaving a huge dent in the ice.
We walk to it and Jordan lifts it up as well as he can, "Gods this is heavy..." he mutters but continues walking as I gather the rope and hoodie.
I stick them back in his backpack and throw it over my shoulder then follow him back to Leo and Samantha.
Leo POV
"Come on Sammie, stay awake! You've gotta keep your eyes open!" her breath is fading fast and her eyes are closed. I clap in her face and they flicker open once again.
"Stay awake! Jordan and Sarah will be here soon..." but it doesn't matter, her eyes close again anyway. I keep burning away the ice, keeping it from her heart, but I don't think it matters much anymore...
"Samantha...please...you have to stay awake! They're almost h-" I stop myself as I hear something behind me. I quickly turn away from Samantha's cold body, ready to strike something with my...mints...
But, to my luck, and Samantha's, it's only Sarah. She's holding a hoodie and a rope, right behind her is Jordan carrying the godly hammer. (Gosh that sounds weird...)
I stand quickly, rushing to Jordan, "Hand me the hammer" I say and he looks hesitant but nods and hands it over to me.
I lift it with ease and walk back over to Sam. I don't know how this is supposed to work or why, but I try my best. I put one hand on the hammer and rest the other on Samantha's forehead and look at the hammer.
It's covering in Greek text. I start to read it.
Heal from this magic
The person beneath me
Heal them from sickness
With the power within me
Take all their pain and course it through myself
I could give up my life to save somebody else
I realize, its a spell and start to read it aloud.
"Heal από αυτό το μαγικό
Το άτομο κάτω από μένα
Θεραπεύστε τους από την ασθένεια
Με τη δύναμη μέσα μου
Πάρτε όλες τις πόνο και την πορεία τους μέσα από τον εαυτό μου
Θα μπορούσα να δώσω τη ζωή μου για να σώσει κάποιον άλλο"
Her eyes flutter open and I smile a little before a sudden pain in my gut makes me lurch forward. I cry out in pain and she sits up.
"Leo? Hey! Are you okay? What did you do?!"
I try to ignore the pain but it feels like searing hot poison is bubbling in my stomach, and slowly making its way through my veins as it spreads to the rest of my body. Hot tears spring from my eyes and I find myself unable to answer her question.
"Leo!" Samantha puts a hand to my forehead then quickly pulls away, "Ouch! Hot!" She takes the balled up hoodie from Sarah and starts to wipe some sweat from my face.
Sarah leans down beside me and hands some ambrosia to Samantha who gently places it in my mouth. I try to chew but I'm too weak to even move my mouth. The pain is spreading like a wildfire and it's taking all my energy not to scream in pain. I thought about the last lines of the spell.
"Give up my life to save somebody else..."
My eyes widen as it dawns on me what I may have just done...
I may die because I saved Samantha's life...although, I oddly don't regret it anyway...
Samantha snaps me out of my thoughts by placing her hand on my chin and forcing me to chew and swallow the ambrosia and dribbling some nectar into my mouth.
The pain slowly begins to recede but not enough for me to speak or move yet so I just lay on the ground, staring.
"Is it getting any better?" Samantha asks, looking worried.
I do my best to nod but nothing more and she seems a little relieved but still very worried.
Everyone is silent for a while longer and the pain slowly recedes until I am able to speak again.
Samantha pushes me down when I try to sit up, "No, you can't move yet...can you speak?"
"Y-yes..." I reply.
She seems to relax a little more, "Oh joy...now we've got two motormouths again..." she chuckles then turns serious again, "Just...stay down, okay? Don't move yet..."
And, although I hate following instructions, I can't really do anything else...
[AN] This...took...forever...sorry guys! I think you'll all be lucky for a once a month update from me and Pinkiepie...we're both kinda slow lately with school and all...but I hope you liked it!
1) My attempt at "fluff" wasn't...bad was it? (I hope not!)
2) I CAN'T BELIEVE I ALMOST KILLED LEO! Which character would you first kill off? Leo or Nico? (Nico...sorry Nikki but...you're too depressed...I like Leo better...)
3) Do you think geeky glasses are stupid? (I have geeky glasses...so be careful...)
4) Can you swim well?
Okay, sorry again for such an extremely late update but, here it is!
~ Kat