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Travis's POV
"Hurry up Percy! Alexis isn't going to last that long!" I whispered. We were currently running down random hallways, looking for all the guards.
"Are you sure you're just underestimating her?" he asked. He was all paranoid, stopping now and then to look around whether or not something might attack as or kill us.
"I don't think that Alexis can keep Gaea distracted for a while, but we need to hurry up so she doesn't have to keep that psycho occupied." We bumped into a set of guards and we took out a bomb from each of our belts. Attached to our belts were bombs, containing knock out gas. We needed all the guards to be unconscious so that we could easily save Annabeth without having to trick Gaea. We were really trying our best not to trick her because of the prophecy, warning us of what might happen. "Throw," I whispered, as we simaltenously threw the bombs and ducked behind the wall. After the gas cleared up, we ran through to find my guards. We repeated the process every time we found new guards. We finally cleared out the cave and went back to one of the rooms. It was where most of the guards who weren't on watch stayed. In that same room. We found a vine ladder attached securely to the wall, and we figured Katie must've done it.
"I'll keep watch, you need to be sneaky to get up that ladder, so I suggest you go." Percy offered.
"You're just scared, right?" I taunted.
"NO, now just go up there and get Annabeth, or I'm going to smash you to a pulp." he threatened. I laughed and he was astonished. "I threaten you and you laugh? Do you find that amusing?"
"Of course I would laugh, wouldn't you?" I said, holding in my laughter.
"We're trying to save my girlfriend here, can we PLEASE focus?" he urged. I sighed and climbed up the ladder, hoping it would'nt fall. I had a couple squares of Ambrosia in my pocket. Just in case Annabeth was hurt. Our plan was that I take her out and get her on the ladder, as I cut off the rope holding it to the ceiling. Gaea's form was so happened to be UNDER the container, therefore getting her distracted with a container on her, and as soon as we're about to escape, I throw all the possible bombs that I could. The bombs of the exploding kind, bombs of the knock out kind, bombs of the stink kind, anything.
"Annabeth," I called. I try my best to squeeze her through the tiny opening of her cell. She finally got out and she looked beaten up.
"Do you have any Ambro-" she started to ask, when I pushed a square in her mouth. She thanked me and I motioned her towards the ladder. She obliged and started to climb down. I was doing all I could trying to cut it, when I gave up, I started to swing the container, hoping I could get the rope to go thinner and thinner every time. I started to get dizzy, so I focused on the scene going on down below.
"Gaea, why are you doing this to us?" Katie asked. Alexis laid unconscious next to her, while Will was struggling. They were all stuck to the ground.
"Why NOT destroy a bunch of the demigods to cause more feud between the Greeks and the Romans so that they cannot stand a chance against my forces? Hmm, that's a hard question." she answered.
"I'm serious, let us go." Katie growled.
"Why should I?" Gaea asked.
"Would you prefer to see us die in battle, a very gruesome, horrible, bloody death? We would be in more pain that way. And we'll have broken form if we die instead of this, where we'll remain whole. Don't you just want to destroy our entire being?" Katie replied.
"That DOES sound good," Gaea said, sounding as if she's considering the option.
"If I give myself to you, will you let my friends go?" she asked. WHAT THE HADES IS SHE DOING?
"What do you have to offer?" Gaea questioned.
"I'm close friends with everyone at camp. By having me as your captive, that shall make them want to surrender, making YOU the winner without breaking a sweat." she answered. WHY IS SHE DOING THIS?
"Hmm," Katie looked up, as Gaea stayed silent. She winked and mouthed, "I have a plan" She was planning to risk herself to trick Gaea.
"I'll consider your offer young lady but right no-" she got cut off, when I realized the string broke. I jumped off and held on for dear life to the ladder as it fell on her. Everyone was distracted, and everyone's bonds were loosened. I climbed down as fast as I could and finally got back to Percy. He and Annabeth had my bag ready as I slung it over my shoulder.
"LET'S GO ALREADY!" I ordered. Will picked up Alexis and Percy got her stuff and we ran out. As soon as I was about to set off the bombs, someone pushed me out of the way. A huge rock fell on Tatiana, and I was staring, shocked at what just happened.
"Win for the gods," she whispered with her last breath and she was gone. I grew angry and threw all the bombs into the room. I started using my very colorful language when I felt someone pulling me back.
"TRAVIS, LET'S GO!" Katie yelled.
"How about Tatiana?" I shouted.
"TRAVIS, SHE'S GONE. WE HAVE TO GO!" she demanded.
"Kate, if we bring her to Lord Apollo, we could save her!" I growled.
"She's gone Trav, please, can we just go? We'll avenge her, I promise." she whispered, her face lowered into my back, as her arms were around me.
I felt her tears, and I finally calmed down. "Fine, let's go," I whispered, as I turned around and hugged her.
She kissed me and murmured, "We'll make it through," I nodded and we started to run out the cave. While we were running, rocks kept trying to fall on us, but we're lucky enough to survive. We dove out and when we reached the ground, the cave collapsed behind us.
"That was so close," I gasped.
"I know right," Katie smiled, as she was catching her breath. We sat and waited until our adrenaline lowered.
"Katie, Travis?" we turned and saw Alexis standing there.
"Alexis, where's everyone else?" I asked.
"We hid while we were waiting for you guys, what happened in there?" she questioned.
I was about to answer, when Katie cut me off, "Can we talk in the RV? I'm hungry,"
"Uh sure," Alexis said, as she walked over to Katie and helped her up. I got up as well and we followed her to their little camp. The others were just sitting around a fire, eating sandwiches.
"Nice to know you guys ate while we were escaping for our lives." I joked.
"We wanted to do something productive while you guys weren't here yet." Annabeth answered. She changed into a white turtleneck, black tights, and combat boots.
"Eat and then we should hurry up and go back to the RV." Percy informed.
"Of course," Katie sighed, as she sat down against a tree. I sat down next to her and quickly ate our sandwiches. Once we finished, we slung on our backpacks and we were forced to jog all the way back to the RV.
"Percy, can we walk for a little bit?" I asked, as I started to slow down.
"Alexis, can we PLEASE take a water break?" Will pleaded. We were all exhausted.
"I MUST BEAT PERCY BACK TO THE RV!" Alexis yelled.
"I'M SOO GONNA WIN!" Percy yelled back. The rest of us finally gave up on trying to keep up with them and stopped for a water break. We all jogged together until we stopped when we heard a scream.
"ALEXIS!" Will called, as he started to run ahead of us. We sprinted to where the scream came from and found Alexis and Percy being held in an awkward position by the ground.
"How is that even possible?" Katie questioned. Alexis and Percy were held upside down, BY THE GROUND.
"The restrain was soil, stretched out to hold them in place." Annabeth analyzed.
"And that's why YOU'RE the daughter of Athena, so can you PLEASE get us down?" Alexis asked, as she started to wave her arms in random directions.
Annabeth turned to Katie and asked, "Can you do something about this?"
"Annabeth, I'm a daughter of DEMETER, as in I could control plants and trees." she answered.
"Oh yeah,"
"Let's just go you guys," I joked.
"NO!" Will and Annabeth yelled in unison.
"ALRIGHT, I was just kidding! Let the MASTER deal with this," I laughed as I pushed them aside. I grabbed my sword and started to cut through.
"It's THE GROUND." Will sighed. "It won't cut."
"Then I know what to do," I grinned.
"No, Travis, no," Alexis started to say nervously.
"I think I'm fine being held in this position." Percy smiled.
"Yeah, me too," she agreed.
"No, no, you guys want down, I'll give you down," I said mischievously, as I started to dig through my backpack. Then I found the item in mind. "GOT IT!" I yelled victoriously. I jumped down and hid behind a really big tree and announced, "If you don't want to explode, I suggest you hide behind a very big tree!"
"NO TRAVIS NO!" Percy and Alexis yelled. I laughed psychotically as I threw my bombs at the prisoners. I heard thuds and got out of my hiding place. I saw Alexis and Percy on the ground, coughing.
"TRAVIS, YOU'RE DEAD!" she yelled.
"You wanted to get down, didn't you?" I asked, as she started to chase me.
"You guys, WE GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE, before something like this happens again!" Katie yelled. We all stopped in our tracks, got our stuff, and ran the rest of the way back to the RV.
We threw our stuff down and we fought over who drove first. We all didn't want to drive. "I'll just drive first, I owe Alexis and Percy anyway." I volunteered. No one objected and started to walk away. "No one's gonna object?"
"NO," they all mumbled. I sighed and started the RV. This was gonna be a long drive back.
AHH, So, sorry if this was a really slow chapter! I'll try my best to update to my normal speed again :3 Review if you believe I should get my laptop back so I could give you guys your chapters! Or you can just review to tell me your opinion of the story, either way works.