Alpha: WHATS UP EVERYBODY?! We've finally reached it! The twentieth chapter to Eyes of the Mediterranean! I'M SO PUMPED! I AM SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY THAT IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO UPDATE! I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO TYPE AT SCHOOL BECAUSE I HAVE HAD SO MUCH SCHOOL WORK AND MY LAPTOP WASN'T WORKING AND I'M SO SORRY! A lot has happened in the last few weeks, I went to Disney world and met Stitch (I freaked out and had a fanboy moment. I didn't stop smiling the entire day) and when I got back to school I had A LOT to catch up on! But now I'm back!
I have a VERY important message for whoever that guest was who typed that AMAZING character description! I would LOVE to try your idea out! It sounds like you have put a lot of thought into it and that shouldn't go to waste! I would be more than happy too! I would like to talk to you more about to it. If you have any way for me to contact you online that would be awesome! Or you could contact me. I have tumblr account, UltimateVegeta368, and you can send me a message through there. Or you could send me a message through my deviantArt account, UltimateVegeta368.
Omega: Why are they both UltimateVegeta368?
Alpha: Because I want it to.
Omega: Okaaay
Alpha: Anyway, if you could find a way for us to get in contact that would be awesome! I would love to talk more about your idea. (Which is AMAZING, I know I've said it about a thousand times by now but that's how awesome it is!)
Alpha: Anyway I had so much fun typing this chapter. It took a while but I finally finished it!
Omega: Yeah so stop explaining it and GET TO THE STORY!
Alpha: Jeez, didn't know you liked it that much.
Omega: What? No I never said that!
Alpha: Ignoring! Anyway on to the story!
Disclaimer:
Marik: Hey Bakura!
Bakura: What is it now Marik?
Marik: Did you know that Alpha does not own the original Percy Jackson character or story.
Bakura: Yes…
Marik: And that he only owns his characters and story?
Bakura: Marik what are you…
Marik: And that Piper-Weasley owns James?
Bakura: YES! Now please tell me what does any of this have to do with defeating Yugi?
Marik: Nothing. I just like the story
CHAPTER 20!
Kal's POV
It wasn't a dream like The Nightmare, it was just strange. I saw a big skyscraper with lightning flashing around it, and then I saw a lot of demigods, nymphs, and satyrs fighting against monsters and other demigods. I saw several thrones and I saw Percy fighting an older guy with sandy blonde hair. I saw all of these things as if it were a bunch of random clips just stitched together. I saw the blonde guy again and when he opened his eyes they were gold.
I jolted awake. I was breathing heavily. That was a weird dream.
"Hey you okay?"
I looked and saw that Elizabeth was up and looking at me. Her hair was like wild red fiery mess. For second I wondered what my hair looked like. My hair was a lot longer than hers due to my hatred of haircuts, right now it probably looked like it's a monster.
"Yeah I'm fine. Just a strange dream that's all." I told her, rubbing my eyes.
She shrugged. "Demigods get all sorts of strange dreams. It gets annoying sometimes."
She started wrapping something around her snapped bow. It looks like she had been working on it for a while now.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
She held up a roll of duct tape. "Fixing my bow with this." She said.
"Oh. Well duct tape should work I guess. And if it doesn't…"
"Then I'm not using enough duct tape." She finished.
We laughed. It felt good to actually just laugh and talk to my friend instead of worrying about the quest. I looked around us. The forest trees blocked out a lot of the moonlight so it was dark all around where the light from the fire couldn't reach, it made everything look pretty creepy.
"So I'm guessing it's your turn to take watch now?" I asked Elizabeth, trying to get my mind off of the creepy forest.
"Yeah, Nathan looked drop dead tired when he woke me up. Glad he woke me up when he did. Any later and he might have passed out." She joked.
I looked over to where Nathan was sleeping. He looked like he literally just dropped there.
I sighed. "Yeah that sounds like him. He doesn't like asking others for help."
"So I'm guessing he's a bit anti-social?" She said, while she strapped some sort of strange tape I didn't recognize. Probably made by someone from the Hephaestus cabin, like some sort of tape made especially for fixing bows or something.
"No…..well maybe a little. But really he just doesn't like to bother others." I responded.
"Ah, I get it."
I laughed a little. "I remember when I first met him; he used to hate it when I helped him out. After awhile he figured out that he could stop me from helping."
Elizabeth laughed. "Yeah well he needs learn that he isn't alone, he's got friends who can help him now."
"You are so right, Elizabeth the Philosopher." I joked.
"Oh shut up!"
We both started to laugh. I had almost forgotten what it was like to have a normal conversation.
"So," Elizabeth started, a sly smile forming on her face. "Did you enjoy having James help you walk?"
"I…uh…yeah it made it easier to walk." I said lamely, I knew what she was implying this time.
"Yeah I bet it helped a lot huh? Having your knight in shining armor—"
"It's not like that at all!" I blurted out, blushing.
"Is that why your face is red?" She grinned.
"Okay changing the subject now!"
She laughed.
I hurriedly just whipped out my journal and started to draw. Elizabeth laughing started to die down. I heard some noises coming from Elizabeth's direction and looked up. She was working on her bow again. A few minutes later and she had fixed it. She held it up like a trophy. "Ta-da!" She presented.
"So you got it fixed huh? That's good!" I said. There was actually not much duct tape on it, and it looked like it was sturdy…at least I think it did. I don't know much about bows. I saw some of that strange tape in some places as well.
"Yeah I know! I'll be able to shoot down monsters like a boss!" She boasted.
We talked for a while and then I said she can go to sleep and I'll keep watch. She argued that I should go to sleep instead. In the end we ended up waking up James with our arguing and he took his shift.
"Yes! Just as we planned!" Elizabeth joked and I threw in an evil laugh as well.
James rolled his eyes. "Yeah of course you did, now get some sleep."
As I laid down I heard, him mumbling some things in French. I laughed silently.
"I think we should head west." James said looking at the map. Now that we were all rested we had decided we needed to get moving as fast as possible. Which of course lead to the discussion of which way we needed to go.
"Why west?" I asked.
"Because California is west of Nebraska, so at least we know we'll be headed in the right direction." He explained.
"That's not the smartest idea," Nathan put in. "If we just head west we could easily get lost as well, not to mention there are many monsters in forests. I say we find the closest town to us that is on the map and we head there."
"But then we'd be left in the open as we traveled there, monsters would be able to spot us easily. In the forest at least we'd have some cover." James argued.
"But that also gives our enemies cover as well. It would be safer traveling to the town in the open than it would in the forest." Nathan countered.
James and Nathan kept arguing back and forth about which way we should go. I took the map from James's hand to look at it myself. I couldn't read any of the names of things on there because they were in English, and I didn't know how to read a map as it is, but I did know what a river looked like on a map.
"Hey guys?"
"What?" They both said simultaneously.
"Why don't we just follow the river west? There are some dots near it and those are the cities and towns right?" I suggested.
I handed Nathan the map and he looked it over. "You're right, there are some towns along the river west of here."
James looked at the map. "And we can keep to the forest for a while as well giving us cover." He looked at me and grinned. "Nice work Kal!"
I smiled back. "Thanks!" Silently in my head I thanked the gods I was right.
"Well I think we should get going then!" Elizabeth said, grabbing her pack.
"Elizabeth is right, it's a long walk, and unless any of us has a car or boat handy we better start walking." Nathan agreed.
So I never realized my idea had a huge flaw. We would be walking for about seven hours. Way to have a brilliant idea Kal. A part of my brain said sarcastically. Shut up, at least we're getting somewhere. I argued back. Just think about something else. I told myself. I thought about Camp Half-Blood. I wonder if Percy was still worrying about me? Maybe Annabeth has had to fuss him about worrying. I got a funny mental image of Annabeth wagging her finger at Percy. I laughed a little at that thought.
"What's got you laughing?" James asked, snapping me out of thoughts.
"Oh uh just wondering how Percy and the others are doing back at camp." I told him.
"Eh, don't worry about them. Percy's got Annabeth to keep him out of trouble. All though," He chuckled. "I am wondering how much trouble my brothers and sisters have gotten into by now."
"I doubt they could have gotten into much trouble." I said.
"Ha! You don't know them to well then!" He laughed.
"Hey I was only there for about a week!" I responded in defense.
James blinked. "Oh wow your right. It felt much longer than that!" He remarked.
"I guess it did huh?" I thought about it. It did seem like I was there for longer than a week. Then again, that week was full of surprises. Me being a demigod, riding a Pegasus, discovering that the person from my nightmare is real, finding out that my dad is Poseidon.
I frowned at that thought.
"Uh-oh, what's with the frown?" James asked. I guess my frown was a little more noticeable than I thought.
"Oh its nothing." I lied.
He rolled his eyes. "Yeah right, people don't frown at nothing. Come on." He flashed a goofy smile. "Tell Uncle James what's wrong." He said in a silly old man voice.
I laughed. Why does he always find a way to make me smile?
"Well, I was just wondering about my dad, you know?"
James grin faded. "Yeah, I understand, most demigods never even meet their godly parent. We always get claimed now, thanks to Percy, but we still never see them." He said.
I looked at him curiously. "Did you ever meet yours?" I asked.
"Nah, but I'm cool with that. I mean my dad's the messenger of the gods; I doubt he ever gets a break for his own time much less time to visit his kids." He answered nonchalantly.
"That's probably true," I agreed.
"So what about you? You want to meet Poseidon?" He asked me.
I looked at the ground. "I don't know. I do, but I don't. I want to meet him so he can explain why he or my mom never told me I was a demigod, and I why did he have a daughter he knew was going to be Greek and have powers she can't control. But on the other hand I don't want to know if I want to know, and I don't know if I want to know why he didn't save mom when that sea monster attacked, and if it was a sea monster why couldn't he stop it and—and…" I was tearing up and I just kept talking hoping it would make things easier but it didn't. I started crying.
Suddenly James pulled me into a hug. "Hey, it's going to be okay alright?" We just stood there hugging. He was warm, and he started to make me feel better. I was still crying, though some of the pain I had been feeling had disappeared. James kept reassuring me that everything would be okay. We hugged for a little while longer and then I let go.
"Better?" James smiled.
"Yeah," I sniffed. I wiped my eyes.
"We should probably catch up with the others." James said looking around. "Wait a minute….where are they?"
I looked around as well. I couldn't see them. Maybe James and I had hugged longer than I thought. No, that couldn't be it; we should still be able to see them.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." James mumbled.
I heard some rustling in the bushes. I immediately squeezed my trident charm, turning it into Tidal and James unsheathed his sword.
A black figure rushed out of the bushes and looked right at me. I couldn't see his or her face because it was shielded by a black hood. But I did see his eyes…I knew it was a he now. His eyes were gold.
Alpha: OHHHH NOOOOOO! ANOTHER BIG SCARY CLIFFHANGER! Hahahaha! If you're wondering if I enjoy keeping you guys in suspense the answer is YES! HAHAHAHA!
Omega: Someone's feeling villainous today.
Alpha: A little yes. Anyway guys I hoped you enjoyed it and I hope it was worth the wait! (AGAIN I AM SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY FOR!) I put a very sweet Kal and James moment! I hope you guys liked that part as much as I did. I was fanboying the entire time I was typing that part. YES I can fanboy over my own story! So again I am SO sorry I made you guys wait that long and I hope you don't hate me for it! As for that guest with the really long and amazing character description, please find a way to contact me online. Like I said you can contact me through my tumblr account UltimateVegeta368, or through my deviantart account UltimateVegeta368. Anyway guys I will see you soon (I WILL THIS TIME!) And until then….WAFFLES AND PANCAKES!(I bet you were just dying to see that message again weren't you?)