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Chapter 37

Leaf's POV

My heart was beating extremely fast. Sweat was dripping down across the side of my face and my hands and feet were aching from the tightly wound ropes. I had just barely regained my consciousness, but Gary was still out. I was lying on my side in a white truck. It was hot and the only thing other than people in here was boxes. The bumpiness of the road was seriously hurting me. I sat up with extreme difficulty thanks to the stupid kidnappers, who I still don't know why they kidnapped Gary and me.

"Gary." I hissed. I inched closer to him worm-style.

"Ungh…" Gary groaned out.

"Gary!" I hissed again. I tried to bump him with my foot, but ended up kicking him. Whoops.

"Ow, what'd you do that for?" Gary said. He did the same thing as me. He did a strange wiggle fit and sat up with great effort.

"Hey, can you untie my hands?" I said in a whisper, not really knowing if the stupid people driving in the front could hear or not. I took precaution moving towards Gary while he sat straight up, so he could try to untie my hands and vice versa. I wiggled along the hot metal floor of the truck. It seemingly got hotter with every movement I made. With my hands tied behind my back I scooted closer to Gary's back. As soon as I felt out backs meet I stopped inching closer as he started to untie my hands.

Some kind of stupid robbers they were. They didn't even bother to check up on us every hour or so, but their knots were so tight! As Gary pulled on the rope it silently burned against my skin. Why was it so hot in here? Did these guys ever hear about air conditioning? I silently seethed as Gary continuingly yanked and pulled against the rope. It was getting looser, though. Or maybe it was my imagination and I just really wanted to get this rope off! My hands were slowly losing their blood circulation!

I don't know about Gary, but I really needed my precious hands! I wouldn't be able to live with pale, lifeless hands. How would I take exams! I'd fail! I couldn't do that. On the inside I was hyperventilating from either the possible loss of my hands or the current situation of being kidnapped! I'm pretty sure it was both! My felt more drops of sweat trickle down my forehead. I needed to think of something else. Okay, how about the prophecy? When we were in the Underworld I didn't have much time to think about that, so that's a good topic.

What was it again? Oh, yeah. It went something like this:

When the foremost of the Undertakings have been fulfilled

The moon shall bring a mighty huntress unto the stars

Her trials will be hard and her decisions tough,

But she shall get through until the end.

The moon shall guide you to resurrection.

Your life you shall give up

Save your life by moon's full

Hunt with it,

But she shall get through until the bend.

No, the last part was 'end' not 'bend.' The problem was what in the world did this even mean? Okay, I calmed. I decided to go line by line. I thanked my memory for letting me remember this. Okay, When the foremost of the undertakings have been fulfilled. What was the supposed to mean. Bad plan, I might as well start with word by word. 'Foremost' meant primary, leading, etc., but those words didn't make sense, but it could mean first! The next word was 'undertakings.' That meant activities, responsibilities, tasks…..tasks! That's it!

When the first of the tasks have been fulfilled

I muttered a 'yes!' I would've gone on to the next line, but I felt something fall off of my hands. I brought my hands to my face as if not believing they were mine. There were red rope burns on the wrists, but other than that they were fine even the lime green nail polish I had applied on.

"If you could untie me too, then that'd be great." Gary said quietly. I dug my nails into the rope on my feet and untied the extremely tight rope. When it gave I crept almost silently-Gary apparently said I was about as silent as a hyperactive monkey, whatever-to Gary and started untying. I don't know why it seemed so hard at first, but the knots were just simple knots tied over and over tightly. Gary stretched his arms when the rope finally came off.

"That feels so good." Gary said in a normal voice. I shushed him. He gave an innocent look and started untying his feet. I crept to the most inner part of the truck and put my ear up against the….cold metal? I heard bits of conversation, "Yeah…..I…Brendan…..Shut…..We." I heard a second voice that was definitely male, "Let's…..Oh?...You…..Man."

The first one was feminine and the second was familiar. I'm pretty sure it was that Brendan guy May was talking about the first day when she and he got paired up for combinations. I racked my brain for any memories of Brendan I had. None. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to ask May as soon as we bust out. Wow, I've got quite the confidence haven't I? Gary must be slowly rubbing off on me! I dusted off residue from whatever was on the truck's flooring and went to a box. I carefully peeled off the tape on the box keeping it shut.

"Leaf, I can't open the latch. They locked it. Got any ideas?" Gary asked loudly from the back of the truck. I didn't shush him this time. My face had a wicked grin on it.

"Would explosives work?" I held up a red tube of TNT and a little round green grenade.

"That could work." Gary smirked.

May's POV

We sent out a search party for Gary and Leaf. The last person who saw them said they went through the forest together. The only good thing about that was that they were together. Wait, is that a good thing? I shrugged and continued to look through the forest with a lone flashlight through the dark. I had to squint to see a little bit farther than the light, but it was getting to be a pain. Wait, what about Hera's peacock feather? I looked at the bracelet curiously with the flashlight's light helping me.

When I saw a little button I pressed it, but nothing happened for a bit. "This thing's rigged." I complained. Then it started to glow, really brightly. The next thing I knew it exploded, but I couldn't feel it. I was whisked away into a heavenly place. The only thing I could see was Hera. Her hair was braided neatly and she was wearing a flowing white gown. I felt an abnormal amount of confusion.

"What's going on?" I finally asked.

"Did you really think I was going to help you?" She cackled.

"I'm so confused. What's going on?" I asked.

"You're so adorable. If only Zeus accepted my offer when I told him to give you to me as an apology gift. That fool! I hope what I do next will finally teach him a lesson! All those years of having affairs with other women!" Her hands started to create some kind of glowing ball that resembled a white aura sphere. I stared at it frozen with fear.

"May, watch out!" I felt someone tackle me to safety while the glowing ball was thrown where I was just moments ago. The heavenly place dispersed and I was back in the damp and dark forest with Drew on top of me.

"Missed!" Hera cursed. "Just you wait. The next time we meet I won't miss. Until next time daughter of lightning." My heart was racing. Not only was I about to die, but Drew was on top of me. A dark blush was clearly on my face, but the dark probably covered most of it. The moon was only in a waxing crescent phase, so its glow was faint.

"Nice going, Maple. You almost died, but you didn't because you were lucky enough to have me get you to safety." Drew said smugly. I opened my mouth to say something, but I closed it when I had nothing to say back. I could feel the anger in me threatening to explode. Explode. I looked at my hand. It was fine, phew. When I finally managed to say something I said lamely, "We should go find Leaf and Gary."

Drew got off of me and I silently got up. I'm not sure if it was the adrenaline pumping through me or if it were the close to death experience, but I felt content right now. I sent out my Blaziken. Its hands flared with flames causing the forest to glow.

"That's better. Blaziken, how would you like to help us find Gary and Leaf?" I asked. Blaziken nodded his head. I smiled, "C'mon let's go. We have to find them soon. I'm really tired." I yawned.

"Blaze." It responded as if saying, "Okay!"

"Let's go! I said energetically as if the Hera incident didn't happen just moments ago. Blaziken picked Drew and me up and jumped from tree branch to tree branch.

"Hey, I never agreed to this!" Drew protested as he held on to Blaziken. I giggled at his expression.

"Oh, relax! It's not like he's going to kill you!" I joked. Drew gave me a sarcastic glance.

"Very funny." He replied. We lit up every spot we were at for the moment, brightly. I liked it. It gave the forest a nice warm glow. Out of me there was a group of random demigods looking for them-even a group of rainbow colored boys were looking-, Drew, Paul, Misty, Marina, Jimmy, and a few of the older demigods were looking. I'm kind of glad Leaf was with Gary when she went missing or else the demigods I didn't know would probably not even be looking.

My thoughts drifted to Hera. I wonder if we were ever going to meet again and if Drew was going to be there to save me again. I looked at my now bare wrist. What if Drew hadn't tackled me?

Simon's POV

I felt something warm on my lap. A Torchic. I was kind of hoping it were the girl (She still won't tell me her name!). Wait, there's something on my shoulder! My eyes darted to my shoulder and sleeping on it was the girl! SCORE! I almost whooped, but if I did she might elbow me again. She has rock hard elbows. I really didn't want that happening again. I'm still a little sore from the last time. I looked over on a path. I saw a white truck drive by, but then when it was almost out of my view the back exploded!

"Holy, crap! Wake up!" I shook her shoulder violently. Her eyes shot open.

"What is it? And stop that! It hurts!" She rubbed her shoulder.

"Just look!" She looked over at the exploded truck. "Oh. My. God. What'd you do?" She asked.

"It wasn't me! I swear!" I said back.

"Okay, I believe you, but what the freak happened?"

"I don't know. I woke up and that white truck started driving past us, but then the back part exploded." I said truthfully leaving out the beginning. I saw two familiar figures run toward us. I grabbed her hand, not caring if I get elbowed and the Torchic and ran to hide. She started running along with me, but I had to slow down remembering that I ran faster than most people. We even out our pace and hid behind a couple of trees a little too late.

"Was that you Simon?" Gary's voice sounded out. I didn't answer hoping he'd think it was a hallucination.

"Lisa? Was that you?" The brunette that was next to Gary asked.

"I don't know, Leaf, but we need to get out of here. I bet those guys are after us now." Gary said to the girl I figured was Leaf.

"Okay, let's hide over there." Leaf pointed to the exact trees we were hiding behind. Oh, well. I could only help for oh so long. Well, I guess I could always just jump out of the trees long enough for her to escape, but after hearing about the people Gary said were chasing I decided against it. When they came over right in front of us I wasn't surprised from the gasp. Gary mouthed me, 'later.' I nodded. I guess this little adventure I joined for fun wasn't going to be as fun anymore.

I'm going to end this here because I have to start cleaning up after my sister. She's such a pig and refuses to clean herself and my parents blame me because I'm the oldest, so until next time! REVIEW! POLL! BYE!

~TheDisguisedFairy~