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Chapter 11 ~ Ellie
I let Lily go on the quest officially, she would be disappointed and wouldn't have the guts to leave camp without permission. I plan on sneaking out. Lily needs help on this quest.
Chiron spoke, "Lily, Liam, and Ryan will be our quest members. They shall leave this evening after eating early. You are dismissed."
I left the Big House, pulling Lily to the side. "Do you need help training your new quest members?" I asked.
Lily smiled and replied, "Sure." So together we walked over to Liam and Ryan who looked unsure of what to do. When we reached them, I stepped off to the side and let Lily do the talking. At first.
"Hi. I'm Lily Black and this is Ellie Weasley. We are going to give you last minute training for the quest we are going on," Lily began.
I nodded in agreement and got everyone moving by saying, "Yup, now let's get moving, you need weapons. And you need to learn how to use them. Normally you would make your own Ryan, but under the circumstances I don't think you have enough time. What do you think Lily? And Liam, you should ask your siblings about magic you can do. I can do a bit of magic and Lily can do a bit more but the magics aren't quite the same. Anywho the armory is over there."
"Wow, El, not even letting me answer your question. Some friend you are." Lily said jokingly.
"Thanks, now I know I'm loved." I replied sarcastically.
"Woah, wait. Weasley. As in Ron Weasley. And Harry Potter," Liam asked.
"Yup. I'm a distant Weasley cousin," I told him.
"Wow," was Liam's only reply.
"You don't even care that Sirius Black is like, my great uncle? Lily asked, annoyed.
"Oh my god, no way!" Liam said jumping up and down like a kangaroo.
"Gods," I corrected, "It's what demigods say."
"Ok then," Liam said. "But what's Hogwarts like?"
"Yeah anyway, like Ellie said, we need to get you guys weapons and hope you are good enough with them," Lily said trying to change the subject "but FYI, Pigfarts is better."
"I'm not even going to argue with you that you will never get there because you don't have a rocket ship so, to the armory!" I announced.
"Of course I have a rocketship! I tricked Voldemort into giving me one. And make him my personal slave for a whole day!" Lily retorted.
"Voldemort is dead! The only way you could do that would be to go to the Underworld and find him! You have been watching too much AVPM," I argued
Liam and Ryan were watching us argue like a tennis match.
"Oh my Garfield, I cornered Quirrell, ripped off his turban, and
forced Voldemort into it!"
"Fine! You win! But we need to get to the armory so we can get them weapons," I relented because of the short amount of time we had. "But we will finish this later!"
"We can go as soon as you say 'Andrew Garfield is hot!'" Lily said with a smirk.
"Andrew Garfield is hot!" I told her.
"Yay! Lets go!" Lily exclaimed.
"Race ya," I told Lily. And we were off. "I won! Victory is mine!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know how much I hate running," Lily said, obviously annoyed.
Liam and Ryan then ran up to us. "How'd you get over that argument so fast?" Ryan asked.
"We're girls, we're naturally awesome!" Lily said.
"Yup! Now come on, we don't have all day," I told them, entering the room full of weapons. I walked among them looking for weapons that would fit them. I picked up a sword off the shelf. "This is a sword, obviously. Why don't we take a few of each weapon out to the practice arena so they can try them out." I suggested.
"Sure," Lily agreed. Lily and I each grabbed a few deadly weapons including: swords, daggers, spears, bow and arrows, and shields. "If one of you ends up with bow and arrow, you shall forever be known as Katniss! Or Gale... what do you think El?"
"Yup! But why Gale?" I asked with a weird look on my face.
"Oh. My. Garfield! I thought you loved Gale! you should know that he uses a bow and arrow to hunt" Lily said.
"Dearest Lily, you have brought me to the dark side. Consider yourself succeeded," I told her.
"What dark side? Do you mean the Peeta side? Where everything is beautiful and perfect and not murderous?" Lily asked.
"Yes, that side. Now we need to go outside. Ryan and Liam look bored out of their minds," I told Lily.
"But we're talking about books! How could anyone be bored?" Lily asked, appalled.
"Can we try the weapons now?" Ryan asked, looking annoyed.
"See Lily! Ryan agrees with me!" I told her.
"Liam likes books, don't you Liam?"Lily asked.
"Uh, sorta... but can we try the weapons?" Liam replied sharing an annoyed look with Ryan.
"Ugh, Come on Lily!" I said grabbing her wrist and pulling her out the door.
"Fine, Fine, I'm going. No need to pull!" Lily said.
"Sorry about that," I told Ryan and Liam. "We can get a bit carried away with our arguments."
"A bit?" I heard Liam mutter to Ryan.
"Well, perhaps more than a bit, but neither of us back down so they can last a while, until eventually one of us backs down," Lily replied, obviously hearing them. "It's usually Ellie." Lily added with a smirk.
"Whatever," I told her.
"Ok," I said dropping the weapons in my hands, letting them scatter across the ground, "Take your pick and find one that feels right in your hand or whatever, and we'll go from there." Lily set her weapons on the ground too and stepped back to give Ryan and Liam room to choose.
Ryan and Liam shifted through the weapons, searching. They both decided on a sword.
"Ok, so now that you have your weapons, we can let Lily here teach you how to use them because I have absolutely no idea how!" I told them cheerfully.
"Great!" Ryan groaned.
"Hey! I know how to use a sword. It's Ellie who can't swing one without someone getting hurt," Lily told them. I nodded my head in agreement.
"So, you hold the sword like this..." I heard Lily say as I walked away.
I wasn't going to let them go on the quest without me. I walked to my cabin, thinking about what I would need. Three different pairs of clothes, ambrosia and nectar, some drachmas, normal weapons...
I grabbed everything I needed and put it in my backpack then went to the armory to find some arrows that would hurt mortals. I made my way to the back of the shed and dug around, I found a knife and 24 arrows. I left the armory, briefly ducking behind a bush to the side when Lily approached with Liam and Ryan, probably looking for the same thing I was.
I ran back to my cabin and shoved my backpack and weapons under a bed so if someone came looking for me, they wouldn't realize that I was leaving. So they leave around 5... I should go 10 minutes after them, so they won't see me. I can hang around the pegasus and say goodbye to them there, then leave.
I left to find Lily so we can hang out before she 'leaves me behind at camp while she goes on a quest'. Because this needs to be believable.
I walked around camp, looking for Lily. Where could she have gotten to? I thought.
I finally found her in the Zeus's cabin.
"Hey Lil! Excited for the quest?" I asked.
"Yeah! But I wish you could come too, best friend!" she said.
"Yeah me too!" I told her. "Make sure you keep Ryan and Liam in their place."
"K, I will, don't worry, I'm tough." Lily said with a smile.
"Do you think you can survive without books?" I asked. Lily and I love to read.
"Got them all up here." She said tapping her head.
"You memorized all the books?" I asked in disbelief.
"Haha! Gotcha! No, but I remember what happens, and my favorite quotes, so I should be fine." She replied with a smile, giggling slightly.
I rolled my eyes and asked, "So, do you need any help?"
"Ummm..." she said, looking around. "I have clothes, ambrosia and nectar, drachmas, weapons... Do I need anything else?"
"No, that's about it... So what should we do now?" I asked.
"Erm..." Lily replied, thinking. "I dunno. Just, uh... Um... I dunno, we could, I dunno, we could uh... Or we could do something else, or we could, with no... We, like, we could..."
"SPIDERMAN! Ok, Great! Let's go!" I said, grabbing Lily and pulling her out the door.
"Where are we going? And I told you to stop pulling me!" Lily said indignantly.
"That was earlier, and you just told me!" I said, joking around with her.
"I meant no more pulling ever." Lily said angrily, "and I did not tell you where we're going!"
"Ok! No more pulling!" I said letting go, "and I know you didn't tell me where to go, I was joking, cause in Spiderman, Peter said that and then Gwen agreed, so... And I'm not telling you where we're going. You'll find out in a minute," I said laughing.
"I don't like surprises! Or jokes, unless they're funny, otherwise they irritate me!" Lily said, frustrated with me.
"Whatever, now let's go or I'll pull you again!" I said taking off.
"You promised you'd never pull me again! Don't make promises you can't keep!" Lily said warningly.
"But those are the best kind!" I replied, looking over my shoulder, "plus I was threatening you. Now let's go!" I headed in the direction of my cabin, even though we were going to the beach. I wanted to throw her off. Where should I go now... The training arena! Mental pat on the back.
"Ellie, where are we going?!" Lily whined.
"You'll see!" I called teasingly.
"Ugh! Don't make me maul you!" she replied.
"I hope your joking." I said seriously.
"Nope! You know I hate joking," She said.
"We'll get there eventually!" I told her, heading to our final destination, the beach.
"You are not throwing me in." She said, flat out when she realized the beach was our final destination.
I just smirked at her and turned into my animagus, a snow leopard, and pushing her into the water. But at the last minute, she turned into a white tiger, and... fell into the water. I followed, purring. All of the sudden she leaped at me, claws sheathed, and grabbed my head with her huge paws, growling in my face.
"Haha, you're in the water!" I said, laughing a bit, transforming back into a human.
"So are you! And now..." Lily said, dunking her and transforming, "You're as wet as I am!"
"So?" I asked, "I was going to get in the water anyways, you didn't want to be wet. I did."
"Whatever. How in Tartarus am I supposed to dry off in time for my quest?" She asked, with a glare that could kill.
"Easy!" I said. "Now get out of the water and follow me to my cabin."
"All wet. What's her problem I told her I didn't want to get wet." I heard Lily mutter to herself, following me to my cabin.
"I heard that you know!" I told her cheerfully.
"You can be really annoying sometimes, you know that, right?" She asked, irritated.
"Yup!" I told her as we reached my cabin. "Now wait here."
"You know I don't like water!" She shouted after me. "Do you remember who my father is? Zeus. And his brother is Poseidon, the King of the Sea and they don't exactly get along."
I grabbed my wand off the table and flicked it to dry myself off. Then went outside and said, "Don't care." And I flicked my wand at her, drying her off too.
"You should care! If you don't want me to murder you." She said threateningly, but smiled in thanks. "Anyway, since you led me all over camp, then threw me in the ocean, I have to go get ready if I'm going to go on this quest!" She said, and stomped off. "Oh, one more thing, YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO USE MAGIC OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL! DO YOU WANT TO GET EXPELLED?"
"Lily, Darling, I'm not gonna be kicked out. We are in America. Hogwarts is in Scotland. They can't trace magic over here. Plus we're in camp with magic borders, so they couldn't trace it anyways. I dried you off, you should be happy!"
"I guess I am, but the ministry is in London, they trace you, duh! Anyway, I really have to go, see you before we leave, ok?" Lily asked.
"Yeah! And I won't be kicked out for doing magic! I do it all the time and haven't gotten one letter."I said happily.
"You truly are Fred and George's relative," She replied. "See you!" turned into a tiger, and ran towards her cabin, tail streaming behind her.
"Yeah, but you won't just see me when you leave." I said to myself with a smirk. I turned towards my cabin and walked towards it, thinking. I can say that I'm practicing flying. I'm not amazing at it, so they'll buy it, then I'll leave.
I entered my cabin and slipped my quiver of arrows over my back and grabbed my backpack, pulling that over the arrows. I slid my knife up my sleeve and headed to the stables. I wonder what pegasi they're going to use, I hope they don't take Snowfire, she's my favorite. I know Lily likes Sarge...
I dropped my bag and bow and arrows under a bush nearby and continued on my way. I entered the stable and found Lily talking to Liam and Ryan about riding a Pegasus. They both looked nervous. I jumped up onto the nearest stall door and walked over to them, standing taller than them because I was elevated.
"Hey El! You're tall for once!" Lily teased.
"Yeah, yeah I'm short, whatever. Now. Don't worry, flying Pegasus is easy, they're really nice and never let you fall," I said.
"You're ok with flying, yet I can't even joke about putting you on Bella..." Lily said, shaking her head. "Have either of you ever ridden a rollercoaster?" She asked Ryan and Liam.
"Yeah, of course." Ryan said and Liam nodded.
"Well, flying is like that, but smoother, and of course there's no seatbelts, but you can hold on to the Pegasus's mane, instead." She explained, "Let me show you." Lily led Sarge out of his stall and jumped on his back, just in front on the wings.
"Now, the Pegasus will do everything for you..." Lily was saying before I zoned out. I already know these things.
"Ellie! Ellie!" Someone was saying and snapping in front of my face.
"What?! What?!" I shouted, pulling my wand out of my pocket ready to hex whoever broke my thoughts. Lily was standing in front of me. I sighed and put my wand away. "Lily, you know not to do that," I told her.
"Well you did so many things to me today that I don't like," she replied coldly.
"Fine, I'll give you that, but I could have hexed you..." I said.
"And then I would have killed you," she reasoned. "I need you to help me get these two wimps on Steele and Macho."
"Ugh, fine. YOU TWO GET ON STEELE AND MACHO NOW OR I WILL HEX YOU!" I shouted. They scrambled to get on the Pegasi, but couldn't.
"That's not what I meant, I could have done that. They can't reach, do you know where the mounting block is?" She asked.
"Um, no. I jump on," I told her, but pulled my wand out and transfigured a shoe that was laying around into a mounting block.
"Why couldn't you just summon it? Now someone will never find they're shoe." Lily said, and put the mounting block next to Steele. "I know he's big, but you don't have to be nervous, he's really sweet." She said to Ryan. "Put your left foot on it and swing your right foot over his back. There you go!" She said happily as Ryan got on. Then she did the same with Liam saying, "I know Macho's bigger than Steele, but he's nice too."
Once they were both on and secure, Lily hopped back on Sarge. "Well, I guess I'll see you when we get back." She said with a sad smile. "Happy Hunger Games!" Lily said.
"And may the odds be ever in your favor!" I replied, waving as the Pegasi left camp.
As soon as they were out of sight, I ran and grabbed my stuff from behind the bush. I ran back into the stable and got Snowfire and jumped on. And we were off. Soon we looked like a white speck. Flying high in the sky.
A/N: And that's chapter 11! It's like, really long. New characters have been introduced. We had tons of fun writing this chapter! Lily and Ellie are really fun to write about. FYI, the chapters get longer as the story goes on because we got more into it. That's it for today!