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Chapter 12
Eli's Purification Problem Solution
Time seems to go by faster when you're just staring out of the window.
"Hey, said Eli from behind me as he sat down next to me, "Are you alright?"
"Never better," I said.
"So what's bugging you?" He asked as he put Sunshine's cage by his feet.
"Nothing."
"That's not what Christian said."
"Why," I looked away from the window, "What did he say?"
"Nothing really. He just said that you're mad that Violet likes someone from the roman camp."
"That's not true."
"Please, everyone knows you like her. And everyone thought she liked you."
"Really …Well I don't."
"Because she likes someone else."
"Gods, I never liked her."
"Okay."
"Really? 'Okay'? Just like that?"
"Yea."
"Well alright then."
We sat in silence for a while.
"We're not going to successfully complete this quest are we? Not in two days," said Eli.
"We just have to hope for the best."
"What will happen to me if we don't succeed?"
"Hold up! We don't have to succeed we just have to complete it."
"What?"
"Apollo never said we had to succeed in order for you to be purified. But it'll be best if we do, but anyway, if we get to the underworld and help out even in the smallest way, you're purified."
"Okay but we'd still have to stop Kronos from rising. We'll need to be perfect in strategy. There are going to be many titans down there."
"Well," I said, "We don't need to defeat him. If we can drive the other titans from the underworld before he leaves Tartarus, we should be okay for the time being."
"And if he rises?" Eli asked.
"Then we have to do our best to make him leave the underworld. And stop him before he gets the giants awake. And once he's done with that, Gaea will awaken. If that happens… well then we would have lost. We just need to focus on keeping the underworld safe."
"But what about the other titans?"
"Hopefully enough Roman Demigods will help us. We can get much more strength and numbers most defiantly help with that."
"Man…" Eli sighed, "Why didn't we just send the whole camp."
"Because we didn't know it was going to be this big." I said. But we could have brought the whole camp. We would have had a lot more time to call them if I didn't decide to go by land. I felt like a complete moron. It was a selfish act and I should have just decided to fly. I would have still seen the landscapes if I did. However, I knew I wanted to do more than just view it from afar; I wanted to see it up-close and personal. Again, it was very selfish of me. Plus I couldn't rely on an old myth to tell me what will happen next. This is something new.
"Don't worry," He said as though he had read my mind, "It'll all turn out fine."
"I hope," I muttered under my breath.
Once again we sat in silence. After half an hour the train had finally reached San Francisco. We got of and I fed everyone to a deserted park. There I explained my plan to the others.
"Are you sure this will work?" asked Eli.
"Why wouldn't it work? It's the same way the Greeks beat the Trojans in the Trojan War." said John.
"Okay," Eli said.
"Alice," I said, "I need you to stay here and help Lucas any way you can."
"Okay," said Alice.
"While you guys work on that, John and I will teach the rest of you guys our strategy." I concluded.
By the time John and I were done explaining everything Lucas was already one forth of the way done building our master object. We all grabbed our armor and Eli lent Violet his bow and arrow, so she left her shield as a bracelet. We seemed to be all prepared. The Romans won't know what hit them. Of course, it was already part of the plan for them to win.
"Don't be long." Lucas said.
"We won't," Eli replied.
With that we left thee park and headed toward the bay area.
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