Sup people. I'm sure by now, you're really mad at me. So here's the next chapter.
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Olympus: No one's POV
The gods were sitting in the throne room chatting about the quest.
What they thought would happen next, what they thought about what was happening. That kind of stuff.
Hephaestus turned on the Demigod News. Leo, Nico, Will, and Amara were in the woods now.
The channel changed to Idalia laying, strapped on her bed.
"What?!" Apollo practically yelled. Everyone shushed him.
They watched as two guards walked in. One had a gun-looking thing. The other had a syringe.
"I'm going to enjoy this." Niobe said. Apollo was mad. You could see him breathing hard, and trying not to scream at the screen.
The gun was pointing at Idalia's face now. After a few seconds, he took the gun away from her eyes. The other guard inserted something into her eyes with the syringe.
They saw her blink, and then look confused.
"You see. I decided that taking your vision would be enough to make your father mad. He wouldn't want one of his best healers and archers not to be just that." Niobe said.
The Television turned off after that. All the gods' eyes were on Apollo. He was fuming. He stood up, but was stopped by Poseidon.
"Apollo. We can't be rash here. You said you would see them when they found Idalia, they haven't found her yet. You must not interfere directly." Apollo sat back down, his arms folded.
"Well how would you like it if someone took Percy's sight away?" He asked.
"I would be really mad. Probably like you, but someone would stop me from interfering." He said. No one wanted to admit that only Zeus and Hera would be able to stop him, and even then, it would be hard.
"Be calm." Athena said. "Everything will play out like it's supposed to."
Hephaestus turned the T.V back on to the group of demigods.
They were walking through the forest. A twig snapped. They instantly had their weapons out.
They waited a few seconds, then kept walking, weapons still out.
Nico stopped dead in his tracks.
"What?" Will asked.
"Hellhounds." He replied. They stood stock-still for a minute. Then a Hellhound burst from a tree.
Everyone scrambled in different directions. The hound chased after Amara. Aphrodite gasped.
Amara summersaulted as it jumped over her. She recovered, and stabbed it in the back. It exploded into golden dust.
Everyone grouped back up. They were panting slightly.
"C'mon. Let's keep going before-you know what I'm leaving that blank." Leo said.
They started walking again. They walked into a clearing.
"Get some sleep. I'll take first watch." Leo said. He sat down, and everyone laid somewhat close to each other. Nico and Will a little closer than everyone else.
The fell asleep kind of fast.
Leo sat there, tinkering with some gadgets. After an hour, he looked triumphant.
He set it on the ground and pressed a button. It made a dome around them.
Leo, looking happy and relieved, laid down and fell asleep.
"That's my boy." Everyone looked at Hephaestus. "What? He made a gadget that wards monsters off, in under an hour." They looked away and back at the T.V.
It switched back to Idalia.
The guards had unstrapped her and were dragging her down a hallway.
If you looked in Apollo's direction, you could see him fidgeting and see that his knuckles were white from holding onto his chair.
Niobe was walking briskly in front of them. She stopped at a door for a second, and told the guards to hide Idalia.
She opened the door and five kids popped their heads out of it.
"Where's Idalia?" The oldest said.
"She left to go home. Said it was a family emergency." Their faces fell when they heard this. "We can do something as a family later."
"Yeah." They all muttered.
As soon as the door closed, she rounded on the guards. With a gesture of her hands, she said she wanted to speak to Idalia.
They parted and set her on the ground.
Niobe pulled out a dagger and put it at her throat.
"What did you do with my kids all day?" She asked.
"I did what they wanted to do." Idalia choked out. Niobe dropped her and started walking again.
One of the guards picked her back up, and started following Niobe. They walked until they got to another door.
Niobe threw the door open, and walked through it. The guards followed. They were outside now. They walked down steps going down the mountain.
When they reached the bottom, they crossed a river. They walked past a forest and started to walk up a mountain.
When they got to the top, there was a cave. It had some food in it, and it had chains.
Niobe took Idalia, and chained her up. She explained how there was food. That was the only food so she can't eat it too fast.
Apollo had decided to try and fidget with some mechanical stuff, but gave that up. He decided instead to take apart and put back together a clarinet.
Niobe and the guards left.
Idalia sighed and leaned against the wall. Trying not to cry.
"Ah." Apollo said. "I can go now. I said I would be there when they found her. The prophecy said she would be in a cave, so I'm going. See ya."
Apollo flashed out of the throne room, and into the cave.
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