Hello, chums and chumettes.

CAUUUUUULIFLOWER

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Good book. Kinda super sketchy, though. I recommend it, if you don't mind serious subjects and 650 pages.

Here is Warner! It's kind of short, but READ THE BOLD PRINT AT THE END WHEN YOU ARE DONE. VERRRRY IMPORTANT.

We were all speechless, staring at the purple haired girl like she as a zombie. She leaned forward on her toes with a sword twirling in her hand, looking quite casual. I couldn't help but think two things; that she was completely rude in what she just said, and that she looked a bit too hyperactive to be trusted with a sword.

"So… I just supposed to leave my best friend who could be getting tortured by insane kidnappers?" Lory asked angrily. I was with her; we couldn't just leave Suze. The danger she was in was probably monumental.

She looked up at the sky curiously, tapping her chin. "Yep," she said, popping the 'p'.

Drake stared back and forth between a seething Lory and the indifferent girl, wide eyed. "Well, this is enlightening," he said sarcastically. He probably was completely confused by what was going on.

"Who are you, telling us what to do?" Lory snapped.

She smiled deviously. "I'm Macy Evans, and you're going to want to listen to me if you and your friends want to live."

Chiron huffed. I'd almost forgotten he was there, which was weird seeing as he was about a foot taller than me. And he's a horse. "Macy, stop with the dramatic entrances."

She seemed to deflate a little. "Fiiiiine. Chiron, do you want me to take them to the others?" Chiron nodded and trotted away. "Okay, little midgets, follow me." I was about to point out that Drake and I were much taller than her, but she was already running off, so we had to choice but to follow her. She ran to a strange looking cabin surrounded by multicolored fans, all blowing air in different directions. It was so strong that it felt like I was walking through water. The resistance didn't seem to bother Macy- she hopped up the path to the cabin, knocked on the frame of the open door, and skipped inside.

The three of us followed. Inside were four demigods. They all looked like they should be in college, or already graduated. There was Macy, of course, and three others. One guy lit up the room with a blue glow that seemed to be coming from under his skin, another girl had silvery-colored hair that was cut so choppily that it seemed like someone did it with a sword, and the last guy had piercing icy eyes and a long, fresh-looking scar across his cheek.

"Midgets," Macy announced, addressing us, "These are my buddies, Jack, KP, and Ian." She said Ian's name with a slight blush. The boy with the icy eyes winked at her. The effect was quite chilling with the menacing partially-healed cut across his face.

A light bulb went off in my head. "You're the Calypso guys," I said. "You're the people that saved Percy, right?"

"Well, duh," Ian said, rolling his eyes. Macy giggled.

Lory scrutinized them with narrowed eyes. "You look nothing like the pictures," she said. I'd seen those before, on the Olympian News site. (What, you didn't think we have our own electronic paper? Available online and on Kindle.) They did look significantly different, now that I thought about it. They were all taller, much more mature-looking. KP's hair was completely different, Ian looked much more intimidating, Macy was taller, and Jack was… bluer. I didn't read the whole article. I kind of skimmed and looked at the pictures.

The glowing boy's eyes lit up. He looked like he was radioactive or something. I made a mental note to wear a hazmat suit if I needed to touch him. "There are pictures of us? Wow, guys, we're famous! Quick!" He dove under a bunk. "The paparazzi will be here any minute!"

"… Is he on drugs?" Drake asked skeptically. The girl with the silvery hair shook her head as she pulled him out from the bunk by his ankles.

"Nope, he's always like that," she said calmly. "And you'd expect us to be different; it's been like, six years since then."

"I can drive now!" Macy chirped. "Well, legally anyway."

I shook my head, trying to clear my brain and focus. "We're on a mission here, guys." I turned to Macy. "Why can't we go find Suze?"

It was KP that spoke up. "You can't go find her because that's what they want you to do. Calypso, the goddess-slash-titaness-slash-really-powerful-being is behind this."

Drake held up his hand, pausing her. "I heard she was dead. Defeated. Vanished or something."

KP sighed. "I thought so too. When we defeated her, I managed to inject her with a poison I'd been working on. Fury tears mixed with a boiled hair of Echidna, plus gorgon blood." Her eyes grew stormy. "Mixed together, it usually spontaneously combusts. Funny story, a more basic version caused Jack to turn blue… anyway, if that poison was injected into an immortal's ichor, it would slowly eat away at their immortal being."

"It didn't work," Ian summed up, spinning around in an office chair.

"No. Calypso should've had one year to exist, 2 years tops. But it's been six years, and some of our… informants have told us that she's slowly but surely getting stronger."

Lory crossed her arms. "That sucks and all, but what does that have to do with leaving Suze with a bunch of insane kidnappers?"

KP bit her lip. "How do I put this kindly… they didn't really want her in the first place."

"What's the point of kidnapping her, then?"

"According to our informant, when we defeated her, something inside her, something ancient and evil, awoke. Now she's more powerful, more intelligent, and much more evil. Apparently, they haven't interrogated Suze since they brought her in. They've hurt her, of course-" It felt like someone took my stomach and tied it in a knot. "- but other than that, they haven't touched her. So the only thing that really makes sense is that they're using her as bait to get to one of you guys. It's all a well-orchestrated plan. And if any of you manage to find her-"

Ian made a motion like a fishing pole. "Hook, line, and sinker."

"Exactly."

The three of us were silent.

"So you want us to just go home?" Lory asked in a tiny voice.

Macy seemed to ponder this. "Yep."

Suddenly I remembered something absolutely horrible. "It's a bit too late for that," I whispered.

KP's eyes widened. "What?"

I gulped and mumbled. "We have other people looking for her, too."

Ian banged is head against a desk, and Macy muttered, "Shiiiiitake mushrooms."

"You have other people looking for her?" KP asked, slowly and deliberately.

"Maybe. Possibly. Plausibly. Yes."

KP stood up abruptly. "You have to stop them. If you go, and Calypso gets what she wants… well, honestly, I have no idea what will happen."

"It won't be good," Jack added.

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That was another short one… because… I NEED YOU TO TAKE A VOTE! PLEASE!

Which WoC character do you want to accompany them?

-Jack

-KP

-Ian

-Macy

-Scott

-NONE OF THE ABOVE

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