Hey guys, I know what your gonna say, This isn't an update, I'm a tease, I'm sorry. But I thought you guys deserved an explanation as to why I've kinda dropped off the face of the earth for the last few months or so.

Honestly, the next update is coming, I swear, I have, like, half of it written, I've just literally been so swamped you wouldn't believe. First off, I'm in my junior year of high school, so there's that, but I'm also taking an AP English Literature class, and let me tell you, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Wuthering Hieghts aren't exactly Percy Jackson and Harry Potter. So literally more than half of my time right now is dedicated to just not failing that class.

In addition, I got one of the lead roles in my school's drama club performance. Which is great, except I have never been cast in anything before, ever, and now I have 78 lines to memorize by, like, yesterday, so I'm going from 0 to 100 real quick. So basically all of my precious free time is going into that right now.

So between writing about metaphors until my fingers hurt, summarizing chapters of the most boring books imaginable, memorizing lines, getting into character, and a shit ton of anxiety, Fanfiction has fallen to the wayside, I'm afraid. But I swear I will get you ur update as soon as things cool down a little, just wanted you guys to get an idea of my fun life so that you could understand why I might not be posting recently.

Anywho, I promise I'm not dropping Raven's story, and if I ever do (fat chance) I'll let you guys know, and put this story up for adoption and see to it that someone capable finishes what I started. I won't leave y'all hanging, don't worry. Anyway, I'll see y'all soon, hopefully with an update. In the meantime, I've decided, I should probably be a little less of a tease than usual, so here's a sneak peek at the upcoming chapter for Raven's Story. Enjoy:

Jason

Jason groaned internally for the millionth time in the last half an hour. He was going to have to finish this quest alone, wasn't he. Yes, he was most definitely going to have finish it alone because he was, like, 90% sure Raven and Octavian had killed each other. It had been an hour since he'd sent Octavian to go find Raven and apologize and he had not seen or heard from either of them since, which was, you know, probably not a good sign.

About forty minutes after Raven had stormed off to go pout, or whatever Raven did when she was angry, Jason had decided he'd better go see how Octavian was doing. And, ya know, smack him upside the head.

"Seriously!?" Jason chided the older Roman in utter disgust and disappointment, "that's what you can flirting? That was pathetic! I didn't think there was an opposite of flirting, but congratulations! You found it! Holy Roman Empire, no wonder she hates you! You have absolutely no idea how to get a girl. Go. Apologize. Now!"

Octavian had tried to argue but Jason wasn't in the mood to hear it, instead the boy had settled for glaring mercilessly at Jason and stalking off like a kicked puppy.

Now, it being an hour later, Jason was pretty sure he had sent Octavian to his death because Jason was pretty sure that even Octavian and Raven couldn't pull off an hour long screaming match without it devolving into a fist fight. And now that Jason thought about it, since Arion ate Octavian's dagger, the augur was unarmed. Unarmed and recovering. Oh boy. Raven have mercy on that poor idiotic boy's soul, Jason thought to himself in a silent prayer.

A little after sending Octavian off to fix the mess he made for himself with Raven, he'd been informed by Camilla that a car was ready and waiting to take the three questors to Florida whenever they were ready to leave. Jason had thanked the Amazon queen and asked her to inform the others if she saw them, before going to load the car and prepare for the rest of their journey. Jason would be lying if he said that he wasn't kind of glad to be leaving the amazon base.

Well, anyway, it had been awhile since Jason had finished loading the car and he was actually starting to get pretty bored waiting his two quest mates to show up but it wasn't like Jason could do much about it. Even if he wanted to continue on without the others, Octavian was the only one in their group that was old enough to drive, not to mention the only one who knew how, so Jason was stuck, staring up at the night sky, right outside the Amazon warehouse's loading dock, the humid night air making him feel sticky.

"Um, excuse me," Jason hadn't even heard anyone walk over but a small voice pulled him out of his thoughts.