I'm back, with the new chapter, hurrah! J Also I want to that everyone who has reviewed, I really appreciate it. Now next up is Leo and well… he's not very happy.
Leo
I watched as Frank the happy eagle flew over my head with Nico in his arms, seriously why he gets to run away and not me. The battle wasn't going well; Percy and Annabeth seemed to have been kidnapped for some awful sacrifice and was nowhere to be seen. Carter and Jason looked like they had gone twenty rounds with Chuck Norris, Piper was tending to the boys wounds, Zia was fighting Setne with such rage I could feel the steam of hatred pouring out of her from a mile away. Setne was dodging her attacks almost cockily, Zia threw down her staff (Seriously isn't that like surrendering?) It transformed into a she-lion and bolted after the ghost.
Sadie had been back to back with Walt fighting a nasty looking monster, a Minotaur, and that left Bast to fight Gaea, who just kept throwing boulders and stuff at her. A green light incased the goddess and Bast thrust her knifes into Gaea's back. Gaea screamed and tumble backwards, she threw a boulder the size of a truck and left a Hephaestus size dent in the floor before rolling into the wall. I ran through the crossfire to a boulder cluster and broken tile, welcome to fort Leo, I thought to myself as I ducked into the shelter. A hand darted out, and then another, they looked like they came from two different people, they pushed me inside just as I realized they saved my sorry hide from a huge peace of roof that finally gave way.
I gulped in the dim light of cave Leo, I could see two girls, one was Hazel with a huge gash across her face, another was… Skye, she was tending to Hazel's wounds with some glaze that smelled of honeysuckle and jasmine. Her gash immediately started to mend, until all that was left was fresh new skin. Skye herself looked as if she fell off of Mount Olympus and climbed back up. Her jeans were ripped in the knees and her shirt was in tatters, she had her arm wrapped in a linen bandage, but it was no longer green. Her golden hair was covered in ash, but her eyes sparkled with such confidence and anger that I realized that I would never want to get a fight with this girl, and not because she was half a head taller either.
Skye turned to me and her eyes caught my hand witch was all scraped up, "Do you need that fixed up?" She asked,, her voice had some foreign accent as if she was carted all over the world when she was young.
"Nah, I'm fine." I said trying to sound all macho touch.
Skye rolled her golden eyes and turned back to Hazel, "So what's the plan?"
"'Wait, hold up!" I said quickly. "How did you get her, and how are you guys in my Leo cave?"
"The Leo cave?" Skye asked without humor. "I was under here in one of the ancient tunnels lost when I meet up with Hazel and she led me here. Now we were trying to figure out a plan, but I'm only good at fighting not with planning that was always Aqua's area of expertise..." Her voice trailed off sadly. Then her eyes grew cloudy again. "Gaea will pay for what she has done, first she destroys my home, then she killed off my people and forced us into hiding, then she gets together with other deity's and cause mass panic and chaos and finally if that wasn't enough she pushed me into Tarturus."
"You survived Tarturus?" I asked amazed, nobody could survive that fall… at least not demi-gods.
"I grabbed a ledge before I hit the bottom, then it was a very difficult climb back up." Skye fiddled with her daggers. "But about this plan Hazel, what were you thinking?"
Hazel managed a forced smile, "Well Gaea has been keeping us divided forcing us to only fight her in groups of three or one, but never all of us at once."
I nodded in agreement "Yah that's right but then everyone is fighting for their lives, its bad upstairs." A sound like a cannon sounded overhead, then Zia's voice called out.
"Setne you vial despicable ghost." Her insults where muffled out.
Hazel continued. "I know but Bast might be able to help and maybe some of the Olympians, Skye you and Ava could keep Gaea distracted as I get everyone together, we would have to wait for Gaea to get cocky… We need to make it seem like she is winning."
"But she is winning!" I said. Skye shot me an evil eye that would have made Thalia Grace jealous.
"Leo!" Hazel fanned her face. "It's an old tactic, but it might be able to work, Skye do you think that you would be able to manage your powers?"
"I'm very angry, and I might be able to call on my mother for help, you guys just focus on your task. "
"What does anger have to do with it?" I asked.
"Believe me son of Hephaestus; anger has everything to do with it. "
With that she ran outside yelling "GAEA COME AND FIGHT ME YOUR COWARD!" I must say it was pretty impressive; I would have been all like. "Don't kill me!"
"Hazel took my hand. "Ready?" She asked.
I nodded. "Let's go beat up dirt face. "
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