The smile Hermes gave Jude was the biggest smile I'd ever seen on him. To my side, Jude gave his own tentative smile.
"Welcome back, kids." Apollo greeted us, his smile lessening as he glanced at Aphrodite, who sighed and looked at him with a worried expression, tilting her head towards us. He shook his head, his eyebrows drawing together somewhat, and she nodded and shrugged with an it's-not-up-to-us sort of look.
"Geez… I'll tell them." Hermes said, looking slightly annoyed at the other two's antics. He turned to us, and then looked slightly drawn back as he faced us.
Meanwhile, I was wondering what the Hades was going on. Did this have something to do with why the citizens of Olympus were acting all weird?
"You three… Plethora, Jude, Markus… you have to leave." Hermes said, looking like the most uncomfortable god I'd ever seen.
"Uh…" I looked at Will, then at Jessie, thoroughly confused. Did we not just travel tens of thousands of miles to find these three demigods? Just so they can leave?
"Zeus demanded it. We've been trying to sway his decision the past week, since I told him about your quest, but he's sure. All of the god's have been increasingly irritable from the fights we've had, which is the cause for the quietness of Olympus, which you may or may not have noticed. They fear we'll act rashly if they annoy us." Aphrodite said, her voice tinged with annoyance, acting as if she'd never once acted rashly in her life.
"You can stay a few days first, of course! … but, then we must send you back to your own time." Apollo added, his voice quieting at the end slightly.
"Back to our own time? What of us when we reappear in Olympus with no book, and you remember us not?" Plethora demanded, always the logical one. Well, I'm guessing she's always the logical one. I've known her for less then a week…
"We'll take care of this all, Plethora. You have no reason to worry." Apollo answered his daughter, and I wondered where all the care free spirit you'd expect Plethora to have inherited from her father had disappeared to.
Suddenly, a nymph floated into the room. She gestured for us to follow her, and Aphrodite nodded us on.
"Cameron, you stay." Apollo said, and I glanced at Will, who raised an eyebrow at me. I shrugged, and then gestured to my arm, and he nodded. He left with the other four, and I turned to face the three gods.
Or one god. Hermes and Aphrodite seemed to have disappeared to do whatever they do. I tried to hide my disappointment at missing my father.
Apollo shrank to normal size as he walked over to me, and I tried not to shrink back from him.
"Uh… I forgot to mention, Khione cursed me with snowflakes…" I said, and he nodded, pushing the sleeve of my sweater up after he looked at me for approval. I nodded, though I'm pretty sure he was just being polite.
"I could tell. It's a minor curse, should be easy to remove, though a little painful for you due to the nature of the curse. Khione is foolish to think she could poison me with it…" He said, and I felt a little bewildered, but he answered me before I could ask any question, "To heal you, I'll have to absorb the curse myself, but it won't affect me. The ichor in my veins will burn all poison away."
"Oh…" I said, and he applied a slightly pressure to my arm, and I swore that I could feel all the poison moving to the original infected site. I winced at the burning sensation I got in my arm, and was sure that if I were to look at my arm, I'd see a rather large bump.
Then, it was gone, and Apollo pulled back, a gleaming smile on his face.
"She's much less clever then I thought… much less."
-Line Breakando!-
Will and Jessie found themselves sitting alone in a sort of mess hall, as most didn't eat at the unusual hour. On the opposite side of the hall, sat the only other person in the room, a creature that neither Will nor Jessie could quite identify.
"So, when are you going to ask her?" Jessie asked, picking pieces of diced green pepper off of a slice of pizza.
"Ask who what?" Will asked, already half way finished with his own slice. He shook his head to move an annoying piece of hair from the center of his forehead, where it seemed to find the only ticklish place on his whole head. As he swallowed another mouthful of the cheese pizza, he decided he was getting a haircut as soon as he got home to Rhode Island, in a month and a half or so.
"When are you asking Cameron to go out?" Jessie asked, her tone implying that it should be obvious, finally beginning her own pizza. Were Will to still have anything in his mouth, he would have spit it out.
"What? Cameron?" He asked, giving Jessie an incredulous look.
"Oh. My. Gosh. Don't you dare deny it!" Jessie gave him a look that said 'There-will-be-consequences'.
"I don't-" Will stopped, since he wasn't about to test Jessie, "Uh… no, I wasn't planning on it."
"Why not?" She asked irritably. Will cleared his throat, standing up and shoving the rest his pizza into his mouth.
Between a mouthful of dough, cheese and marinara sauce, he told Jessie that he was going to go take a nap. Jessie watched him suspiciously as he left, before muttering something under her breath that had a few things to do with boys, Eros, an arrow in the butt, and blindness.
A/N
I'm definitely going to be finished with this story in a couple of chapters. This'll be the only story I've ever finished, so I'm proud of myself ^_~
Anyways, because this is a "WillxOc" story, I decided to FINALLY introduce some sort of romance. No… I'm not about to include any thing that will change the rating to M., they're only 14/15…
I loved the reviews that I got, and I'm looking forward to whatever you have to say about this chapter! Be blunt, be… not quite rude, but don't be afraid to say what you feel! I want to hear (or read?) it.
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-Ash Colored Wings