A/N: Okay, so someone sent me a review asking for a dress up game with Olivia and I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about so if you could tell me what you mean, that would be great. Someone also asked me what Black Veil Brides is and it is a band. Somebody else asked me to get the word out about them and their stories. They're thinking about calling themselves The Big Three, so look out for them. Onto the story!
Kenz and I were running through a dark tunnel. Every now and then, we stopped to kill a monster. Our clothes were ripped, and droplets of sweat were rolling off of our faces. I had never been more scared in my life, but I wasn't completely sure why. The main question running through my mind was, Where are the others? Eventually, we came to a large room, bigger than the one where we had set up camp. Adrenaline was making its way through my body, the only thing that was keeping me upright.
The room was much like the room that Rachel described from her prophecy. Many monsters of all varieties, blocking something important at the back. We started hacking our way through the monsters, their golden dust often obscuring our view, but we never stopped. Right before we made it to the hidden object, I was shaken awake.
"Liv, sh. We need to talk." Kenz was kneeling beside me, tears streaming down her unnaturally pale face. I nodded, getting up wordlessly, and following her to the entrance way that we had come through.
"You were dreaming something. Something bad," she stated, wiping the tear tracks off of her face, now that the tears had stopped.
"Yeah. I had a dream that we were hacking our way through monsters, but we didn't know where Luke, Faith, Nico, or Connor were. I think we were in the room that Rachel saw. It scared me." I felt kind of bad for being so scared, seeing as how her dream must have been worse.
"My dream was that someone had kidnapped us, and they were torturing you and Nico. It was terrible. You were so... helpless. They had you two chained to a wall and they were making me watch." I pulled her into a hug because she looked so upset. I think that these dreams might have had something to do with the prophecy but I wasn't about to discuss it with my close-to-tears-again sister.
"It's okay. Nico and I are right here with you. We're not going anywhere." I said comfortingly. She nodded into my shoulder and pulled back sniffling. We made a silent agreement to go back to bed, heading back to our separate sleeping bags.
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After our talk last night, Kenz and me agreed not to tell anybody about the dreams. No need to worry anyone about something that might not even mean anything. We were the last ones up, the others letting us sleep in late because, apparently, we looked like crap when they first meant to wake us up. Of course, we all looked like we had just come out of the Fields of Punishment (over-exaggeration people), but we were sweaty, had dark bags under our eyes (which no one else did), and were clutching onto our sleeping bags for dear life. They kept on begging us to tell them what was wrong but we were adamant.
"Hey, what does everyone want for breakfast?" Faith asked, sitting down beside her bag.
"I want French toast." Kenz said, yawning and sitting beside Faith. Nico followed her. Soon, we were all in a circle around the bag, eating French toast.
"Okay, so what were you two dreaming about?" Connor tried, again, to get us to spill. We just shook our heads and nibbled on the toast.
"It's okay, you don't have to tell us if you don't want to." Luke said, already having downed five pieces of the bread sliced sized food and reaching for another.
"Do you ever stop eating?" I asked. I figured that Kenz should be asking Nico the same question because he was going back for his sixth.
"Sometimes, but only for really important stuff." He said, stuffing the whole piece of toast into his mouth.
"Dude, little bites! You're going to choke!" I exclaimed, worried that if he did start choking we wouldn't be able to give him the Heimlich because of his invincibility.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine." He said, swallowing the thing whole. How that boy could eat so much, I will never know.
We finished off our toast, packed up our stuff, and headed into the hallway thing at the far end of the room. It was wider than the one that we had went through the night before so we didn't have to walk like crabs the whole way through. It was about an hour later before we came to the other side. You want to know what was great about the other side? Notice that I said that in the utmost sarcasm. There was a five headed hydra on the other side. Just what we needed.
Its ten eyes stared at us for a moment and then roared loudly, the sound reverberating around the room, making it that much louder. We quickly drew out our weapons and got ready for battle. It made it's way toward us. This room was considerably bigger than the other one, about the size of a football field, and I would bet that if you put the Statue of Liberty in there, the torch would barely reach the top. We scattered around, all yelling something or other, but doing the same thing. Trying to find a way to kill it.
"How do we kill this thing?" Faith yelled from the other side of the hydra. Then, an idea hit me.
"Guys, distract the heads! I've got a plan!" I yelled. I presume that everyone heard because they all scattered, finding their own separate head to distract.
If what Annabeth had told me was true, I could kill the Hydra by stabbing it right in the middle of the chest where its huge heart was. It was supposedly about as half as tall as me. I managed to sneak my way under the hydra's heads, which made me considerably nervous, without the hydra noticing me. However, Luke did. He mouthed, 'What are you doing?' to me. He made a jab for his head's eyes and came back with a huge, bloodshot eye. It roared in anger and kept Luke occupied. I found the middle of its chest, prayed to the gods that it would work, and stabbed with every ounce of strength I had.
The clanking metal sounds stopped, as did the hydra's various sounds of rage. Within moments, the hydra burst into gold dust, the most I had ever seen off one creature. Somebody yanked me around and enveloped me into a bone-crushing hug. I soon discovered it to be Luke.
"Luke... I can't breathe." I said, gasping for air. He finally loosened his grip.
"Olivia, you are so stupid. Please don't ever do something like that again." He mumbled into my hair.
"I can't promise that, seeing as how if we ever have a hydra encounter again I'll probably do the same thing." I said, trying to make a joke. He just sighed and kissed the top of my head.
"You are so stupid sometimes." He breathed. I laughed and pulled away.
"Okay, so now that we've established that I'm stupid, what do we do now?" I asked, looking at the entrance way at the end of the incredibly huge room.
"I guess we just keep on going." Faith said, grabbed Connor's hand, and walked into the hole in the wall. The rest of us followed them.
Again, we walked in silence. About a half hour later, the lights vanished completely.
"Guys, why did the torches stop torching?" Nico asked worriedly.
"I don't know. Is everybody here?" I called out, reaching for Luke's hand. I didn't find it and the only person who responded to my question was Kenzie.
"Olivia? You there?" She called out from in front of me. I felt my way forward and finally bumped into her. I grabbed her hand and she pulled me closer.
"Where did everybody go?" I asked, seriously starting to worry. They wouldn't play this men of a prank on us right?
"I don't know." The fire lit up the hallway again, albeit dimly. It was bright enough for me to see that me and my sister were the only ones in the vicinity.
"Hello!" Our yell echoed throughout the long corridor.
"Olivia? What's going on?" She asked, worry and fear showing clearly in her voice. I refused to look at her, afraid that her face would reflect the same expression that I knew mine had.
"I don't know. Come on, we have to go." I said, stepping in front of her, and dragging her through the wide hall. It was about five minutes before we were encountered.
It was another dracaenae. It was like they were the only thing in this accursed place. Kenzie stepped in front of me this time and cut off the snake lady's head so fast, she never saw it coming. Neither did I for that matter.
"Come on, we have to get out of here." She said. We started running, stopping every now and then when a monster showed up out of nowhere. With a pang, I realized that this was exactly like my dream. If this went out like my dream, we were about to enter the room filled with monsters and the person chained at the end.
As much as I hate to admit it, I was right. We soon came to a room that was filled to the brim with monsters of all kinds: dracaenae, empousai, and many others. I saw the Minotaur in the back. The smaller monsters split to let the ugly bull-man through. Kenz and I drew our weapons and shields, gulping.
"Okay, if Percy killed this thing once by himself then we can most certainly kill him together." I said. She nodded silently.
The Minotaur charged at us, roaring like there was no tomorrow. We split from each other, jumping in separate directions as the monster ran right through where we were just a second before. The thing was huge, had a runny nose, and was wearing Hanes underwear, which I found rather odd.
"Yo, ugly, that all you got?" Kenz yelled tauntingly. When teaching us about facing this thing, Percy said that it was incredibly stupid and could basically only run in a straight line.
I stepped in front of a large group of empousai, a plan forming in my head. It screamed in range, stamping its feet, and finally charged at me. I jumped out of the way at the last second, causing the beast to trample all over the vampire cheerleaders, sending them up in flames. Kenzie picked up on what I was doing pretty fast.
"Hey, stupid! You're not that scary! I've eaten hamburgers scarier than you!" It did the same to her, but this trampled a bunch of snake ladies. It tripped over one, succeeding in falling on top of some more of the green snake women.
"You know what? It's really sad when you can't take out two sixteen year old girls half your size! Come on, try a little bit harder!" I yelled at it. It charged me again, but this time it ran into the wall, horns first.
"Okay, you're a genius." Kenz said as I ran back over to her. The Minotaur was still trying to get his horns out of the wall.
"Thanks. Okay, so I distract the ugly thing and you stab it in the back. Got it?" I said. She nodded. When the ugly thing came back up, he was without his horns.
"Hey! Did you lose your horns? Guess there's nothing else to distract people from your ugly face!" I said, watching as Kenz edged along the wall, trying to get behind it. It started walking toward me, a little disoriented, and Kenz ran behind him.
It stopped suddenly, exploding into golden dust, and revealing Kenzie holding a raised sword. There weren't a whole lot of monsters left. There were only a couple snake ladies, a few hellhounds, and a small group of vampire cheerleaders.
"You take the empousai and I take the dracaenae? Then, we can do Nico's pet dogs." Kenz suggested. I nodded in agreement.
It took all of twenty minutes for us to finish off the monsters. When all the monster dust finally settled, we walked to the chained figures at the end of the room. Their heads were down, but the hair was unmistakeable. It was Luke, Nico, Faith, and Connor. Then, there was another figure that we didn't recognize.
"Guys, guys, guys! Hey, wake up!" Kenz exclaimed, picking up Nico's head. All of their eyes fluttered and they picked up their own heads. Kenz hugged Nico like she would never see him again, as I did with Luke.
"Hey, where are the keys?" I asked, ignoring the figure in the middle who was groaning.
"There aren't any keys. They didn't leave any. However, there's a bobby pin in my pocket which I keep in case of emergencies." Luke said to me. I put my hand in his pocket, feeling very awkward about it, and found the bobby pin.
I pulled it out and started working on his chains. It was a slow process, but once I got him out, he took the pin and worked expertly on the other chains. He went for the other guy's chains, but his head snapped up.
"It won't work. If these were simple mortal locks, I would've gotten out already." He said. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. He was very attractive and was wearing red skinny jeans and a white t-shirt that had LOVE written across it.
"Okay, so how do we get you out?" Luke asked, depositing the pin back into his pocket.
"Are any of you children of the Big Three?" He asked. Faith, Nico, Kenz, and I stepped forward.
"Okay. You need to summon your powers and use them to break the chains." He said. Kenz, Faith, and I smiled.
"Break the chains and now we'll show them all." We sang. It was a lyric to Set The World On Fire by Black Veil Brides. The dude glared at us.
"Sorry." I apologized. We all concentrated and focused our powers on his bindings. Soon enough, his chains broke.
"Thanks. I'm Eros." He said, stepping away from the wall and rubbing his wrists where the chains were wrapped.
"Who did this to you?" Kenz asked sympathetically.
"Not now. We need to get you all back to camp. You'll find out soon enough." He muttered. He bunched us all together. He muttered a few words, and then we were standing on the borders of camp.
"We need to go and talk to Chiron." Luke said. We ran to the Big House and into the room where Chiron, Mr. D, and a nervous looking satyr were playing pinochle.
"Children, you're back. We must talk about the quest." After we finished telling him, he rubbed his chin with his free hand.
"This isn't good. You may go now."
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That night at dinner, Chiron stepped up to make an announcement. I assumed that he was going to announce that Capture the Flag was canceled or something. Nothing could have prepared me for what he said.
"The minor gods have started a rebellion."
A/N: So many cliffhangers. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I think the next chapter is going to be the last and then the sequel. Everything about the prophecies will be explained in the next chapter. I had something that I was going to say but I forgot what it was. Well, ta ta for now!
