I'm baaaaack!
Guys, I am SO sorry! I couldn't post on fanfic, then I was posting my Harry Potter one (please read if you haven't) and I couldn't do this one…
…Please don't hate me!
But now, I'm going to try to update again! :)
And, good news! We have a worthy winner for the Veronica award! There were loads of excellent attempts, SodaIsAwesome and Sunset, especially. But the amazing ChildOfWisdom – who Veronica is BASED on – came, and blew me away. This was her excellent entry:
"I was in all Honors classes, recently moved to a Gifted and Talented Program. I'm going to one of the biggest academies in New York and the principal was SO impressed with my F-Cat scores, she's thinking of putting me in a harder program (or skipping me two grades ahead).
I have never gotten anything lower than a 90. My report cards are perfect scores and I have gone into many contests and gotten many certificates (there were mathatons, science fairs, stuff like that).
If you were to ask any of my friends they would always say that I am 10 steps ahead of you with 7 back-up plans. I am known for wisdom in school, also for my intelligence, knowledge and the way that I can remember everything.
I love history and Math, Science and Reading but mostly writing. I love using my knowledge to make twist and turns in my writing (an example is 'She's Mine'.)
There is nothing in the world I like doing more than learning. I have a 4 book cases (the big size) full of books. I always turn in my homework on time or even earlier.
When I see a person, I analyze them. I notice the littlest things, like the way my brothers eyebrow twitches when he lies. Or the way my mom's hand wiggles when she rights with her right hand (she's left handed).
I am very patient, very clever, and always determined."
Wow! She wins!
-Silverhand9028
Lilly's POV
Magenta advanced from the shadows, her arrow nocked in her bow.
"What? What's going on?" Percy looked between us, and Magenta, like he was watching a tennis match.
"Magenta," Leon snarled, drawing his huge sword.
"Traitor, thief, liar," I agreed, pointing my knife towards her chin.
"Magenta is a guest here, she was attacked by a sea monster beside the coast – so Annabeth and I took her in." Percy told us, but I saw him take a ballpoint pen out of his pocket… a pen? What for?
"I don't think you understand, Mr Jackson," Magenta's black-rimmed eyes glared at us. "I am here to find an item specified in the prophecy – the Helm of Shadows – and I believe your daughter has it. Now, for the good of camp, and the Western world, may I-"
"Bull," Leon spat, "she's trying to raise a crazy god who's been trying to kill us!"
"Chronos has not been trying to kill you!"
"Oh yeah," I retorted, "then who has?"
"You good-for-nothing little-"
Suddenly, a bronze blade appeared between us. Percy was holding a sword where his pen once was, separating us.
"If you're going to fight here, then you can explain what's going on."
"Magenta here is trying to raise an evil old god," I said.
"He's not evil!" she interrupted.
"He's been sending creatures to attack us! There were Cyclopes in New York, and they said something about a hunter girl telling us where we were…"
"That wasn't me!" Magenta growled.
"Magenta, your side of the story," Annabeth was glaring at us like naughty children, Ellie standing beside her, terrified.
"Aston, Jack and I received dreams from Chronos, telling us to wake him from his 'casual slumber'. Basically, when he's asleep, time passes normally. But we need to wake him up to help him stop a great evil from rising."
"Really?" I scowled sarcastically, "You said his sleep means time passes normally, so if Chronos is raised, he will disrupt time!"
"How is that possible?" Annabeth murmured "Like, the space-time continuum will be disrupted, meaning… the possibility of wormholes? No… there could possibly be-"
"Annie, enough," Percy put a hand on her shoulder. "This isn't Dr Who, okay?"
As Annabeth grumbled something about not being realistic, Magenta smirked.
"That's not a good look," I snarled, but Magenta reached into her back pocket… and that was when all hell broke loose.
Magenta dropped her bow and arrows, just dropped them on the floor, and grabbed a knife from her back pocket.
"No!" I screamed. I didn't want her to hurt Percy, Annabeth or little Ellie.
Well, I tried to scream 'no', but it came out as 'nooooooo!'
I tried to run forwards with my knife, but I realised I couldn't!
My leg slowly moved up, and although I tried to move faster, I couldn't. That's when I saw the glowing pendant in her fist.
I was in slow motion, as if my limbs were encased in treacle. I saw Percy, Annabeth and Leon running in slow-motion too. As the pendant glowed, Magenta ran at normal speed unlike the rest of us. Of course: a time-manipulator of some sort from Chronos! I growled as Magenta ducked under Percy's arm and ran… towards Ellie!
Annabeth tried to grab Ellie, who was also moving in slow-mo, but Magenta got there first. She swiped the hat from the child's hands and placed it on her head… and disappeared.
At that moment, we were jolted back to real time.
Disorientated, I stumbled forwards, but felt Leon's strong arms grab me just in time.
"Thanks," I smiled.
"Where's Magenta?" Percy asked.
"With the hat she could be anywhere," Annabeth nodded
"Annie, go check on the baby," Percy decided, as his wife approached the house.
"She took my hide-and-seek hat," moaned Ellie miserably.
"I know, poppet," Percy put an arm round her. "We'll get it back though."
I was just about to start talking to Leon when four figures suddenly appeared in the shadow of the house.
We grabbed our weapons as they stepped into the sunlight.
"Tom!" Leon and I smiled, running towards him. I gave him a hug, and Leon clapped him on the shoulder.
"Who's this with you?" I asked.
"How did you get there?" inquired Leon.
"We shadow-travelled here," he replied, "the man is Nico, demigod son of Hades. And Bella… his daughter."
"Not a child of Hades," I greeted the girl from Eddie's I-M.
"Yeah," murmured Bella, brushing back a lock of black hair.
"Wait…" my eyes widened. "Where's Summer?"
Tom looked like he was about to cry, as Bella and Nico developed an interest in the floor.
"No…" I gasped. "No, no no no no no…" I shook my head, unable to comprehend what I was hearing. "No, not Summer…"
I felt a breakdown coming on. "Why?" I sobbed.
"Lilly, I…" Leon put his large arm around me.
"WHY?" I screamed, breaking down into Leon's chest, literally crying on his shoulder.
His hand stroked my head softly.
"She's in Elysium now," he whispered.
Sobbing, I turned to Tom, who I hadn't noticed crying himself.
"We've got more important things to focus on," he nodded shakily.
I patted his shoulder sympathetically.
"Magenta's got the helm of shadows," I nodded.
"And we got an I-M from Veronica and Toby in Chicago," Tom added, "Aston has the arrows of love."
"Great," Leon muttered sarcastically.
"Then there was the other part of the prophecy."
We looked up and saw Bella standing by the house. Behind us, Percy, Annabeth and Nico were talking like old friends. I wondered if, due to their age, they were friends at camp when they were kids.
"What other part?" I asked.
"You know, 'Hades' debtor', 'brother of night'."
"What does that mean?" Leon prompted.
"Tartarus. Not the pit – the primeval god. It's alive, and being risen by a traitor in camp."
"How does the prophecy show that?"
"According to mythology, Nyx, goddess of night, is Tartarus' brother. He was the embodiment of the Underworld before Hades came along, so it's kind of like Hades rents the entire Underworld off of him. That's where the 'Hades' debtor' thing comes from."
"So how do we stop him?" asked Tom.
"You don't…" laughed a voice.
We looked up to see Magenta, standing on a crest of a hill. On either side of her were Jack, bow nocked, and Aston, clutching Eros' quiver.
"…we do!" Magenta laughed.
Thanks for not hating me after the long gap!
This is for ChildOfWisdom, my new beta-reader, and for everyone reading this. Thanks for reading – oh, and please read my Harry Potter fanfic, Ravenclaw Misadventures, if you're a potter fan! Review :)
-Silverhand9028
