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We Hitch a Ride to the Moon.
We all stared in awe as a woman with dark brown hair, green eyes, and a laurel stepped out of the dark. She didn't look like my great grandmother… more like my older sister.
"Percy. I have been awaiting you." I felt a tingle run down my spine when she said my name.
"Why do you need us?" Asked Annabeth sharply.
"You have received a special quest…correct?"
"Yup." Answered Audria.
"Well… like you've heard… Oranos and I have no longer together."
"But why…" asked Cade.
"Your great grandfather has cheated so many times…UGH! So one day, I decided I needed some time without him, and had to teach him a lesson. So I sent your grandfather to send HIM to Tartarus. He formed again when Kronos formed… and he was still the same dirty rotten scum bag he always was!! He isn't even caring about his job anymore! He's letting all this pollution comes into the air…"
"Calm down!" Said Grover. "Tell us after this…"
"Well… Kronos was utterly evil… so I helped ground him to Tatarus." I wanted to laugh." Anyways… when he escaped, and I left Oranos, he took over our main palace. The Forest in the sky. Yes… Oranos gave it to me on our anniversary." She looked really dreamy for a second… then continued.
"Now they're using it as an aerial base. A BIG advantage in the war." She gave each of us a serious gaze.
"Demigods… they captured him! In his own palace! They have magic on him that's preventing him to use his powers… and they took over the forest in the sky!!" I felt dumbfounded. Kronos was going to win if we didn't get the forest in the sky back…
After Gaea gave us a 'in depth report' of the forest in the sky… she teleported us outside, and left us to ponder. We made an agreement… If we won back the forest in the sky, she and Oranos would help us fight the war. A HUGE advantage. If not… she would turn us into trees in the middle of the Savannah desert… so we HAD to win this one.
We chose a nice little tourist trail, and followed it to our new camp.
"Okay..." I said positively. "We need to hitch a ride on a rocket ship, and ask it to land on something it can't even see. Sounds easy!" Grover moaned.
"It's not like it would be different for me if I died…" Said a sad Grover.
"Maybe we don't need a ship…" said Cade.
"Yeah…" Agreed Audria. "You told me about that teleportation thing you did over the summer."
"Well, that will only work inside of the Universe." Said Annabeth matter-of-factly.
We sat down and thought.
Grover sighed. "We haven't even seen this place! Percy and Audria have dreamed about it, but…" I cut him off.
"Grover that's it!! Audria and I could fell everything in that dream!! Maybe if we all had that dream, we could go there!!"
"How do we do that?" Asked Annabeth.
"We could all do the same exact thing for a day, and see what happens…" suggested Audria. Cade was looking off into space again… which meant any second now a plan would pop up in his mind. PING!!
"Audria!" He said. "You told me Percy and you communicated through those shells…"
"Sand dollars." I corrected. "Sorry, go on."
"Well how did you get them there?"
"I just held on to it…" Annabeth's face lit up.
"That's it!! If we all hold hands, we'll all dream of the forest!!" She said happily.
I heard Cade mumble. "This will be interesting…"
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Night came and we were finally all tired. I commanded some water to put out the fire, and went to the others.
"Time to save the world…" I whispered. I felt Annabeth grab my hand. I control myself to stop smiling. Then Cade said.
"Not bad…" Looking at our hands.
"Look who's talking." I countered. He looked down and noticed Audria was holding his hand. He blushed and narrowed his eyes at me.
Grover connected us, and we all laid down making ourselves comfortorable.
I'll tell you… keeping your hands together and trying to sleep is VERY hard to do. But finally we all closed our eyes. FLASH!! I looked all around. To one side there was a sunny land of rare flowers, and twisting trees. Then to the other side was a palace surrounded with storm clouds, and guarded by five laistrygonians. How pleasant…
I was worried the plan didn't work for a second, but then Cade and Audria appeared. Annabeth popped up to, still holding my hand. Grover then appeared.
"Let's go kick some titan as-…" I started.
"We need a plan!" Cade and Annabeth scowled at the same time.
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