A/N: Soooooooooooo continuing where we left off! Time to reveal some more truth baby! Also, this is my longest chapter ever. It was a beast to write. Literally. Enjoy! (Also I don't know if this is still T rated, but oh well, T rating is techinically PG-13 rating...right? *sigh, I'm such a reliable person... Well I still think it's PG-13... I mean, T rating, you tell me. Okay, so enjoy!
(P.S. It's a shocker. Beware!)
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"My dear wretched traitor…." he growled.
"What are you talking about?" I said steadily.
"Lady of Peace, Keeper of Order….. What a lie, if they truly knew who you actually are…. My dear niece..." Tartarus growled
"No, there's no way…" I muttered as I stepped back.
"Oh! Why yes, I forgot, well my brother is your old man! Now I won't tell you who, to be exact, because I don't want any spoilers for you, because at least I can keep secrets. Now I'll let you do the rest!" Tartarus said in a fake excited voice.
"You're lying…. You're a liar!" I roared
"Yes well, I told my brother to kill you if he had any children, yet you lived because of his softness… He was always the weakest out of us…. Too disobedient, reckless, always the peacemaker, always the winner in every single fight…" growled Tartarus.
He seized me from the throat and shoved me into the hard metal bed. The Dark Virgins pinned my arms and legs down. I struggled to set myself free.
"Oh, dear! Don't make it harder for you…." Tartarus cooed as he tied a rope across my throat and hooked my chains underneath the bed.
"Hybrid Copper, Olympian Platinum….Sound familiar?" he asked.
I growled. Hybrid Copper, Olympian Platinum….. Those were metals mined in the Valley.
"How did you get those!" I growled
"You see, I have another spy amongst the hybrids, and it's not you, obviously, but he is doing his job and not even your Chief knows he works for me…." Tartarus replied
"You-will-ne-ver-get-a-way-with-this!" I choked.
"I just did." he said.
He grabbed out a syringe and my eyes widened.
"Not again! Please not again! NO!" I screamed.
As he stabbed the syringe straight into the right side of my neck. The same place where that claw had been stuck at a long time ago? Remember? Well that was where he stabbed me, because that was where I had his mark permanently burned to my skin.
Tartarus removed the straps of my overalls and smirked at my shirt.
"Filthy Half-Caste, way too reckless, stubborn, disobedient….although they are better than demigods in some ways…. Tell me how's your exile?" he asked as he stabbed me in the gut.
I screamed.
The Dark Virgins laughed as Tartarus slashed my skin, scarred my hands and stabbed me. Tears flowed down my already scarred cheeks, making my face burn even more as the salt water mixed in with my blood. Then one of the Dark Virgins punched my nose.
Tartarus slashed my skin, stabbed my gut and bruised my body trying to remove as much blood as possible and collected it all in different vials. I screamed in pain and cried as he striked with his dagger. My blood is streaming and oozing out of my body, causing puddles and rivers of blood. He began to experiment with my blood and test it all out.
"You can't extract that serum, hybrid blood is too potent, it's like acid against the serum.." I gasped.
"It's not the serum I want you wretched monster! It's your power! The more of your blood I put on myself, the more powerful I get!" he roared.
"Well it won't work…" I said feebly. "Our magic is too potent,"
One of the Dark Virgins came towards me. She had glowing green eyes with slitted pupils and glowing blonde hair. She grabbed a huge stick and whacked it across my stomach. I cringed and she punched me in the face.
As Tartarus injected my blood into him, I just watched as my blood repelled with his and it didn't mingle.
"NO! You wretched bitch! You asshole! What did you do!?" he yelled at me.
I shrugged.
"I mean, how is a wittle girl like me supposed to know? I mean, I know that you're definitely screwed." I replied.
"Your stupid magic isn't in your blood!" he screeched. "WHERE IS IT!?"
I shrugged once more
"I don't know? Seriously dear, have you considered something called therapy? Too much anger isn't good for you!" I said in a fake girlish voice.
He screamed in desperation and took out his whip and lashed it across my upper body. I screamed as the whip hit my skin, and burned it. That was the thing I most feared, …..his whip. The marks that whip caused, could never be removed….. Ever… He dropped his whip and snapped his fingers. I got tossed to the other side of the tent and he dragged me towards the bed as he tightly wrapped his hand around my throat. I choked and sputtered. He set me face down on the hard metal bed and my chains snapped back to the bottom. I turned my head around and he held a dagger.
"No, no, no, no, no, no!" I screeched as I tried to free myself.
He placed his hand against the back of my head and pressed hard. And he brought down his dagger. I screamed as the dagger pierced my neck. He laughed as he wrote across my neck. And then he began to extract my spinal fluid..
A terrible flashback came back at me. I tried to breathe in and out as I felt my powers begin to overwhelm me and concentrate on maintaining my powers stable…..
I was back, back at that horrible place. I was tied to a chair and he was right in front of me.
"Answer my question! Where is it?!"
"I won't say!" I choked. The Boss turned around and slapped me across the face with his left hand as my head turned left.
"Answer me!" he roared.
I smirked.
"No."
"It's him, right?" he replied
"No, but I'm not telling you…" I said.
He screamed in desperation and slapped me again, my face turned to the right this time. I groaned. I turned my head around and scowled at him in disgust.
"You're so pathetic, don't you know anything?! I'm used to this!" I growled.
The Boss clenched his fists and punched me in the face. I felt blood and tears collide and stream down my face,
"Kill me then." I muttered.
"No, you're too valuable." he said.
He grabbed a syringe from a tray and stabbed me on the side of the neck with it…..
He pulled me back up and told the Dark Virgins
"Injure her, don't kill her…" he said with a smug smile.
The Dark Virgins nodded and I grabbed a nearby staff and they all pounced on me. I dodged their moves, but their strikes hurt, they kicked me, punched me, and slapped me. I tried to concentrate and let my instincts take over. I collapsed and tried to cover my face as they kicked me around, blood was spilling out of my mouth and body, and I checked the ground and I saw it was all covered in blood. My blood. The Dark Virgins laughed as I tried to stand back up and fight. One of them kicked me so hard in the face that I toppled against one of the other Dark Virgins, she shoved me to the ground and I remembered the words to Lana Del Rey's Born To Die and sang it inside my head. I tried to remember the lovely orchestra arrangement which was another reason why I love Lana so much.
I was back at Camp Half-Blood. I was six years old and I was fighting against Luke. I was significantly shorter than him, but I kept trying to attack him, no matter how many times he beat me. I charged and went to strike and as Luke went to block. Luke barely lifted his sword as my batons struck him on both sides in the ribs. Unlike other demigods, I used weapons for both hands. Due to being ambidextrous, it helped me to keep equal ability with both hands. I liked using a staff, two batons, and two daggers instead of a sword, a spear and one dagger. I turned around and entwined my batons, against Luke's sword. I pulled and disarmed him. Luke's sword went flying and THWACK! It dug itself on the ground. Everyone paused and stared at me.
I turned red.
"Sorry, I should've-" I began
"That was amazing Atty!" Luke exclaimed
"I swear, your senses, stamina, reflexes, agility, they're better than ours, you just need to effort yourself.." Luke added.
I sighed. Effort myself, yeah, sure…. If it was only that easy…. We went to the cooler to get water. I hung back as always and instead fought against a dummy. I striked and moved around the dummy as I lashed out with my batons. I striked it's legs, ribs and even reached its throat. I sighed. There was always something that made me different from the other demigods and I had found out that I was a hybrid. In the Valley, we fought against each other and used automatons, the size and looking like the realistic interbreed monsters we fight against in the real world in the Valley. When I found out I was a hybrid, I realized I had other abilities, like: I had Night Vision, Enhanced Sharper Senses, a Better Healing Factor, more endurance, stamina, agility and reflexes, being able to strike or block seconds before my opponent. Yet somehow, I kept losing against Luke and teased/bullied by other campers. But one day, I was going to prove them wrong, and today was that day.
"Hey! Midget, we're about to start!" yelled one of the Ares kids.
The others smirked and laughed along. I chucked a dagger from my waist in between two of the Ares kids. They all stopped laughing and stared at me in shock.
"Shut up." I replied sternly.
I was once again partnered with Luke. I tried to focus on myself this time.
Use your abilities, your senses, stamina, endurance, reflexes, agility, they're given to a hybrid for a reason, you're an excellent fighter and I'm sure you'll become the best hybrid warrior ever if you use what you have… Hemera's voice rang in my head.
I let my instincts take over me. I closed my eyes and breathed in and striked. I began to feel more faster and agile. With every strike I poured in my anger, my pain and my sadness. Until I became so fast and agile, that even Luke had a hard time blocking my strikes. Until soon enough Luke got the upper hand, I blocked every single one of his strikes until I felt a hard push and I crashed into the creek. I let loose a small scream as I crashed against the water. The same Ares kid that had called me a midget, he smirked and laughed at me.
"Seriously Luke, you think this is going to be the next great win? More like the next great failure." he spat as some Ares kids roared with laughter alongside him.
"Shut up! You cheated! You shouldn't have pushed her!" Luke yelled.
Anger was boiling inside me. I concentrated deeply on my targets.
Remember, concentrate on your opponent, never let him or her distract you… the Chief had said.
We're hybrids! We don't run away from fights! I heard Bowles' voice ring inside my head.
I decided to push and test my limits as I shot my right hand and a huge wave of water hit the gang of Ares kids and they were all pushed down by the force of the wave. Everyone stared at me in shock and Chiron came forward.
"Come, it's time for you to go where you truly belong and stay there…" he said as he lifted me onto his back and we rode to the Big House.
I stood up and I felt my power course through my veins and words starting ringing inside my head "Don't say it, never say anything unless you have too, always keep your mouth shut.
Don't feel it, don't feel anything, ignore the pain and deal with it, deal with the bad you have brought, because no one cares.
Don't do it, if you don't want anything bad to happen to you then don't do it,...or in fact don't do anything because you won't be able to do anything. If you cry then deal with it and stop because no one has the time to deal with an idiot girl like you, no one cares. In fact I don't care...you don't matter to me just stop asking questions and get to work… If someone pushes you, you push them back, you fight back! You're a monster! No one cares!" rang Tartarus' voice.
I screamed and sent a huge blast of power and knocked out all of the Dark Virgins.
Tartarus laughed
"YES! So… you get your power from anger… oh! Dear!..." he said in a mocking voice as he grabbed me from the throat and tossed me outside the tent. Where I crashed into some boulders.
(Nico)
I shoved the MP3 inside my pocket and waited for Andy to come out. A while had passed and Andy's screams had settled, but now there were new yells, and this time they were from the "Boss". I smirked. So I was right, she had become resistant to it. I muttered a prayer to Hestia in thanks. But then more screams rang out, Andy's screams. Soon enough, Andy was expelled out of the tent and crashed into a nearby pile of boulders. Polybotes picked her up from the arm, opened the cage and tossed her inside.
"Andy!" I said in relief.
There were cuts, burns and bruises all over her body. I noticed that a lot of blood had gushed out of her body and she was quickly losing even more blood. She had no bandages as the blood streamed and seeped away from her, trickling down her body. I also sensed her soul beginning to leave her body.
"What did he do to her?" I asked.
Alcyoneus smirked and left. I scooted towards her and placed her head on my lap and stroked her hair. I usually didn't show that much affection, but by the look of Andy, she had gone through hell.
"Hey, look, I'm so, so sorry okay! I'm sorry for what I said. But you have to hold on, you have to fight through it, okay?" I reassured her as Bob and Damasen entered the tent.
Addie squirmed and whimpered as she rolled around and tried to settle in a spot to sleep/rest.
"Look, you want to hear my story? Well here it goes: Me, my mom and Bianca moved to Washington D.C. from Italy and it was during World War II. The Big Three had made an oath to not spawn any offspring, obviously Zeus and Poseidon broke it, except Hades. My mom had gone upstairs, and Zeus struck the hotel my family was staying at with lightning, Hades, he made a darkness shield to protect me and Bianca, but he was too late when it came to save my mom-" I explained as my voice broke and tears started to dwell inside my eyes.
"After that, me and Bianca-" I faltered "we got our memory erased by the river Lethe….." I said as I tried to fight back the tears inside my eyes.
Andy moved her head slightly and whimpered.
"The things we do will always have consequences, they'll always bite back at us! But, whatever you do, promise me to not feel remorse or regret over it. Those feelings are curses, many people, warriors and older ones have felt so much remorse and regret and got stuck in the past, they sunk into their own trap. Believe me when I say this: A snake always bites its own tail! It always does!" An croaked in a raspy voice.
"Ok, An, I will.." I muttered.
"Look, I'll tell you something, did- did...oh gods! I'm sounding like Annabeth…." I mumbled to myself.
I sighed and decided to continue speaking
"Did you know that in Greek Mythology, humans originally had four arms, legs and a head with two faces? Zeus feared their power and strength and he split them into two, so that way they spend their lives in search of their other halves. And when I think about it, it's kind of true…. I mean everyone's out there looking for their other half, some search for it, others just randomly come across it and it's sort of heart warming I guess…." I muttered.
"Continue...speaking…" mumbled Andy.
I smiled slightly.
I continued to stroke her hair and she gave me her left hand. She opened it and revealed the thing that was clenched inside her hand. It was a small, bulging bag of ambrosia. And stuck to her hand was the biggest shard of metal, stuck to her hand. I saw that her hand was scarred and bloody. I took the blood stained bag and turned my back against the cold, metal bars of the cage. I silently opened it and gave some to her.
"Need to get out.." she bleated.
I carefully took out the shard of metal as I felt her weight press against my leg. She whimpered in pain as I removed it. Once I removed it, I threw it aside. She still had some fight inside after all.
"I'm sorry for not-not telling the-truth, I wanted you to-be-safe.."she whispered.
"I accept your apology..." I replied.
"We're going home An, we're going home...okay?" I whispered as I stroked locks of her dark reddish brown hair, with silvery streaks.
"Think about home, you talked about Mexico, right? Think about home, don't give up on me okay, not today… I-I can't have you dying today, not today, today, today we're going to go home…" I told her
"Home, home…." An croaked
"Yeah, home…." I repeated….
(Andy)
I tried to remember home, mi lindo y querido Edomex. Intenté recordar una canción de los Ángeles Azules.
Amor no quisiera herirte pues tu bien sabes cuanto te quiero
Necesitamos darle tiempo al tiempo
Porque no quiero que empecemos mal
Pero bien que lo primordial de nuestra unión es el amor
Y por ello hay que hacerlo bien para tener un bonito hogar
Por eso ahora no puede ser, enfrentar la vida es madurez
Y nos falta poco para contemplar las maravillas de la vida
Por eso ahora no puede ser, enfrentar la vida es madurez
Y nos falta poco para contemplar las maravillas de la vida
Amor no quisiera herirte pues tu bien sabes cuanto te quiero
Necesitamos darle tiempo al tiempo
Porque no quiero que empecemos mal
Pero bien que lo primordial de nuestra unión es el amor
Y por ello hay que hacerlo bien para tener un bonito hogar
Por eso ahora no puede ser, enfrentar la vida es madurez
Y nos falta poco para contemplar las maravillas de la vida
Por eso ahora no puede ser, enfrentar la vida es madurez
Y nos falta poco para contemplar las maravillas de la vida
I quietly sang along to the song Las Maravillas de la Vida (The Wonders of Life) por Los Ángeles Azules. I tried to remember the dance parties in the Valley, where every hybrid was together, dancing to the music, no matter what language or place it was, no matter what genre, we were just there…. Having fun and enjoying the day…. I missed Mexico, more than what people thought, when I was younger I used to hate Mexican music or anything related to it. But as I grew older I began to be more fond of the music and where I came from. I began to listen to cumbias and be more fond of the place I am now happy to call….. home. Home isn't just a place, (it's a people…. Nah, jk!) it's also the place where you feel comfortable, where you feel a connection, a warmth, a fuzzy feeling, knowing that you're there, you just know where you belong. You don't need to ask if you belong, because you already know. Because you know it's your home…. And no one else's, just yours…...
(Nico)
I heard An quietly singing along to a song and I listened to the melody. I didn't know much of what it said, but it was a beautiful song. It was something about the wonders of life, confronting life and not wanting to start with the wrong foot on love and let time take care of it. (I think?)
I pulled out the bag of ambrosia and gave some to Andy. Andy took a piece and ate it. By the end of it Andy ate at least five huge chunks of ambrosia, but she still looked horrible.
"Hey look, it wasn't your fault, okay?" I whispered into her ear, Andy cringed.
"Look, he, he made you do it, you never meant it, you're a victim, everyone else might not know it, but I do so does Bob and Damasen, okay?" I reassured her.
"I can't hide the truth, but I can keep it…" she muttered.
"When the serum was implanted on me, I-I was put into a trance and I'd kill mindlessly. Once I finished the job,the serum's effect would wear off, then I'd be standing in front of one or two lifeless corpses. I would stay there and cry and bury them, give them a proper funeral and tell their families the lie that they died in an accident…" she whispered as tears flowed down her eyes.
"The worst regret I have is not just the things I did, but the billions of wrong things I did for the wrong person…" she added.
I wiped the tears streaming down her cheeks.
"But you regret it and you mourned for the innocent person you killed, and that's what makes you an even better person, that you felt the pain and you felt sorry and that's what makes you an amazing person! Look if we die here, I'm happy to have you as a friend…" I whispered to her as I gave a small peck on top of her head.
Like I mentioned, I don't show this much affection or worry, but Andy needed some care and I was there to give it to her.
"He, bad people do bad things for three reasons, love, money and power, and all he wants is power, power and power only…" muttered An
If you have a scar, it's because you were stronger than what hit you….
And it was true, Addie was indeed stronger than what she looked…..
"We, the hybrids, we helped you guys out, unknowingly, of course..." Andy croaked after a while
"What do you mean?" I asked
"we helped you guys out in your wars..." she explained.
"You shouldn't have..." I muttered.
"But we did, we were happy too, we had the same enemies, so it was like helping allies..." she added
"You're too kind Andy, we don't deserve you..." I said
"That's what everyone thinks..." she replied
"Why did you change your mind?" croaked Addie
She still looked terrible, the ambrosia had healed her, but she was still very, very, very weak, yet her soul was still clinging on.
"What?" I asked her quietly
"With Porphyrion…" she added feebly
"Oh, because I can't keep grudges, it's my fatal flaw as a Son of Hades.." I told her
"Oh," Addie whispered.
"What about you?" I asked
"My anger, my pain, my regret…. it's my biggest flaw.." she croaked.
"Emotions, negative...emotions….."
"It'll get better…" I whispered as I continued to stroke her hair
"I promise.."
"Water.." she croaked a while later. "Water…" I stuffed the bag of ambrosia and looked around. "Hey! Can I have some water?" I yelled.
"No, no water for you…" growled Porphyrion as he kneeled by my cage.
The giants stinked, a lot!
"Oh, c'mon! Don't you want to give her water? That way she goes to full strength and then one of you can fight an epic battle against her where you can see the light disappear out of her eyes kind of thing? Why let your 'Boss' take all of the fun?" I asked.
"He's right!" said Arachne "I will kill her!"
"No! I'll kill her!" shouted Dr. Thorn
"None of you will because I will!" roared Lycaon.
"I will kill her!" yelled Lamia
"No, I will kill her!" shouted Polybotes.
"Enough!" yelled a voice as the cloaked figure walked towards our cage and glanced at Andy.
"Poor little one…" he said in a mocking baby voice.
"Useful she was when she killed for me, I thought the serum wasn't going to work on my practice run, but it did! Until the traitor became resistant to it and left me! But now with her blood and spinal fluid, I'll get more power than ever before!"
"What?!" I exclaimed "Don't you care about her?!"
The "Boss" began to laugh. His dark, cold laugh rang across the abyss.
"Me! Care about her! She's a useless asshole to me now! I don't want her anymore!" he exclaimed.
"Just give the disgraceful monster some water…" he spat as he walked back to the tent.
"What did you do to her!?" I yelled.
The Boss turned around
"Oooh! Some strong spirit! I love it!" he exclaimed with false cheeriness.
"Well I took as much blood and spinal fluid as she could handle, but of course, I can always take her for more…" he added.
"You disgraceful-" I began.
"Now, now, you'd want to watch your tongue, Son of Hades…" he said as he waved his hand and I felt my face burn.
He smirked and he left.
I had never felt so much hatred against someone, but this man is indeed the definition of cruel. I realized that he was a new type of villain, he was no player. An was right, he just wanted power, power and power only.
Porphyrion stood up and grabbed a bowl of Phlegethon water and handed it to Polybotes who glanced at it longingly and I knew that he was tempted to poison it.
"Hey!" I barked.
Polybotes groaned and shoved the water in a cat flap. I scooted towards it and drank some myself and I gave the rest to Andy. Once Andy drank it all and (groaned about the water) I ate a few bits of ambrosia, we felt much better.
We saw Bob and Damasen leave the tent, in chains and all beat up. The Giants smirked and laughed and even a few threw rocks at them. I growled. Once everyone fell asleep I helped Andy up (I had to be careful and it was very painful for her) and glanced at the chains.
"They can't harm us much because of the Mark, it's daytime now, since most monsters sleep during daytime, because they're down here" she whispered.
"The chains are made out of pure darkness, so the only way to break them is by summoning pure light, or having an extremely powerful weapon."
"How are we going to do that?" I whispered back.
"Don't you remember? I have Cut-Throater, remember?! I got this!" Andy reassured me
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"Look at me, You think you can shadow travel by the tent and get Cut-Throater? They separated it so It's confined beside the tent." Andy whispered.
"Uh, yeah, I guess so," I replied
"If you can't, that's okay, I'll try to break these chains with pure light, okay?" An reassured me.
"Ok, I'll try 'Ro, but please don't drain yourself..." I said as I carefully stood up.
She sat down with her legs spread apart and concentrated.
"Hemera, goddess of light and day, give me strength and reinforcements to reach my full power, help me free myself from these chains!" Andy began to chant quietly….
I shadow traveled beside the tent. I sneaked past the Dark Virgins and saw Cut-Throater and Astrallum. They were in the form of two batons (Cut-Throater) and a discus (Astrallum). I hovered my hands over the chains and snatched the weapons.
(Andy)
Meanwhile, I was trying to break the chains of darkness. I concentrated and tried to remember the Sun, the Sun hitting against my face, bringing a warm, fuzzy heat to my body.
Soon enough the chains started to glow, more and more until-
Shink! My left hand chain semi-disintegrated itself. I sighed in relief. I began to breathe heavily and my eyesight was getting blurry. I slumped against the cage and breathed in deeply. The magic I had done drained me heavily. I glanced around and saw Nico right beside me. I jumped and almost screamed.
"Skull Head! Don't scare me like that!" I whispered, meanwhile I clenched my teeth.
"Sorry, here they are.." Nico said as he passed me two batons and a discus.
(Nico)
I gaped at her in shock.
"How?" I began.
"Magic!" she whispered excitedly.
"I thought I wasn't going to make it!" she said eagerly as she grabbed her baton and it morphed into a dagger. She handed it to me as I sliced the chain.
Shink! The chain was fully sliced. I gasped in shock.
"Oh my gods! Andy, how powerful is your weapon!?" I cried quietly.
Andy smiled
"More than what ya' think.." she said with a smirk.
I handed her the dagger and she cut off the other chain, she looked a little groggy, but otherwise, alive. I saw that her eyes looked more...cold, fierce, wild. She looked very gaunt, or it was probably just me. Her hands and arms were heavily scarred, and they hadn't fully healed was still in a terrible and weak state, yet she still had strength and willpower. I made a mental note that once we get back above I'll bring her to Camp Half-Blood to get her checked at.
Once An finished cutting off her right hand chain and her chains in her feet. In which she had to pick lock the lock with the tip of her dagger. Once the covered handcuffs over hands were removed, she removed the chains around her ankles and stood up. She straightened her back and she cut off the chains around my hands.
Once the chains were removed and carefully set on a corner of the cage. An glanced at the cage and covered the metal bars with water and froze them with her hands. She picklocked the lock with her dagger and she pocketed the discus I went forward and I carefully removed the door hinges. Andy removed the metal door and carefully set it on the ground. She set the door to one side and crawled towards Porphyrion and lashed out some type of spell on his eyes, which made them be blindfolded and dark. She gestured at me to quietly follow her. As Andy continued to crawl around the campsite and evaded the monsters. She glanced at the Dark Virgins and blinded them as well. She sneakily walked towards where Bob and Damasen lay and broke off their chains with Cut-Throater as a double axe. I stood up and grabbed my sword and her satchel, which were right by the tent entrance.
Soon enough we were half walking/half jogging towards the Doors of Death. Bob was carrying Addie, since she was still weak. We were so close, so, so close. Until…. BAM! We glanced around and saw all of the monsters around us. Bob set Andy down, who was still weak, and she collapsed beside a boulder.
"Welp, we're all doomed…" At croaked gloomily.
"Addie! 'Ro! At!" Me, Bob and Damasen said in unison.
"What!?" At replied defensively as she tried to stand up, but failed "It's true! We're all going to die someday!"
"You're not helping Adara!" Bob muttered.
Me, Bob and Damasen took out our weapons and surrounded her. And the attack hit. Andy (painfully) dragged herself towards her stachel and grabbed her satchel as we dodged and fought the monsters. I saw from the corner of my eye, Andy taking out her violin case. She set up her violin and held it by her ear as she messed around with the fine tuners, (I think?) or so they were called.
(Andy)
I glanced around and continued to tune my violin. Once it was in tune, I tightened the bow and placed rosin onto it. I placed my violin and bow on the boulder and set the case underneath. I did my best to sit up straight and in position as I winced in pain as I straightened my back. I grabbed the violin and bow and sat down on the boulder and I began to play Nearer My God To Thee. I started on fourth position on my violin as I continued to play, the fighting ceased and everyone stared at me. I closed my eyes to avert the stares (since stares make me feel uncomfortable) as I continued playing the song and a memory came to me…..
"I'm sorry to hear that you're leaving Ms. Lopez…" said my 6th grade orchestra teacher, Mr. Lee. He had been the nicest teacher I've ever had in my whole life. He would give us rewards like one day he brought kolaches for the whole class and we had an End of the Year party and Christmas party (In which he gave us a bag of goodies in the end) in his class. He even let us play songs we liked on his computer (as long as they were school appropriate of course). He was a super-duper-duper patient teacher (the totally opposite of me). He never yelled at any student and he never gave out detention slips unless he really had too. (Which is why he was an amazing teacher, because I hate those teachers that scream and try to get the class silent so in the end they just make it worse. As well as when they punish the whole entire motherfucking class for some disruption three kids made. Gds, I hate those types of teachers! Ugh!)
"Yeah, me too Mr. Lee, you were the best teacher I've ever had." I replied.
"Why thank you, Ms. Lopez," he said.
"I really mean it, every student you have in your class is lucky, because they have the best teacher in the world!" I said quietly as I placed my school-rented violin in the storage room.
"I hope you continue Orchestra in your new school, in fact I'll be switching schools here in this county. Where will you go?" asked.
"I'm going to Dalick Middle School," I responded.
"Well, I hope to see you there Ms. Lopez, because that's the school I'm going to." he replied.
A smile lit up my face.
"Really!?" I said eagerly.
Mr. Lee smiled and nodded. He grabbed out a thick music book with some pages sticking out and a medium-sized box with kolaches, donuts and a few bags of chips.
"You have a really bright future with music Agatha," he said as I came back from the storage room and packed my backpack.
He handed me the box and since I didn't have my karate uniform or any of my book that I had taken out of my locker and set at home, my backpack was empty. It only had the yearbook, some pencils and a few bags of goodies. I took the box and set the box inside my backpack and I closed it. I put on my backpack over my shoulders and he handed me the book.
I took it and glanced at the cover. Top Pop Songs of the 2000's.
"I included some music from this year, and I will keep filling the book with more music that you like Andy, There's some Led Zeppelin, Queen, AC/DC, Green Day and I even included some of the Mexican artists you listen to, I hope you enjoy it…. You'll go to far places in life Andy, I have faith that you'll become an amazing musician." Mr. Lee said.
I opened the book and saw that there were spare sheets of music from many bands including but not limited to: Los Angeles Azules, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Fall Out Boy and Coldplay.
I smiled.
"Thank you, really, thank you so much!" I replied.
smiled and winked.
"I'll see you next year, … and don't forget to practice, I do not want to replace my first chair second violin..." he said with a smile as I left the Orchestra room…
I opened my eyes and I finished the song. Every monster had sat down and fallen asleep, crying. Bob, Damasen, and Nico glanced at me in shock. I smiled.
"Wow! It's like magic!" rang Nico's voice inside my head.
I smirked to myself. It sure is magic... I carefully placed my violin and bow inside my case. I glanced behind me, with my violin case on my left hand and smirked.
"What's wrong gentlemen? Too hard?" she implied with a smirk.
Damasen rolled his eyes and shook his head
"You've always been a sucker for dramatic stuff… Ad," he said.
"What can I say? It's me!" I said.
(Nico)
Andy had shrunken her violin case and stowed it inside her satchel as we kept on walking. We didn't talk at all, because we were so shocked. The tune was so mournful and so sad and melancholy, it had left us all with our mouths hanging open. Andy pulled out a roll of duct tape and handed it to Damasen and said
"Here's a note, read it once we're inside the Doors of Death…" she said with a feeble voice and collapsed.
I walked towards her and I placed her satchel around my shoulder and picked her up. We were at least 50 feet away from the Doors, until something stopped us. There he was: the Boss…
I carefully set Andy down on the ground and stepped in front of her as I pulled out my Stygian Iron sword. Damasen and Bob, (whom Andy had healed with magic and almost passed out for that) pulled out their weapons (a drakon bone sword and a broom respectively). The Boss laughed.
"Your pathetic little weapons won't work here," he said as he waved his hand and our weapons were removed.
One of the Dark Virgins (who miraculously made it through Andy's spell, but Andy was weak at the time, so her magic probably wasn't even strong enough) came towards us holding a spear and was about to attack us when... a barrier stopped her from going far. I looked around and there she was…..
Andy, she was standing beside Aither and Hemera. She looked a bit weak and was struggling to stand up. Her willpower was taking over her and the Mark of Hemera on her forehead glowed. The Boss yelled at her in a grumbling strange language, and I recognized it as Tongue of The Old Times. Andy spoke back in the same language and she spoke it fluently. When had Andy learned the Tongue of the Old Times? Was it because she was a polyglot? Was it because she knew Nyx and Hemera? Had they taught her to speak the language? If they did she spoke it as if she had spoken it her whole life... Aither interjected and spoke back in the same language.
"You heard him, not today, sir.." she growled in English.
She sent the wall of force again and we caught our weapons. The Boss lunged towards Aither and Hemera as Andy ducked as she dodged the strike. I had to say that she had an incredible amount of endurance, stamina, agility, and reflexes. Her fighting style was a mix of martial arts, kickboxing, and a little bit of ballet and gymnastics. Both graceful and lethal at the same time. But it was probably because she was a hybrid. As she scrambled towards the Doors of Death, the Dark Virgin stopped her, her spear out in front of her. Andy groaned and pulled out Cut-Throater and it morphed into a staff. She ran and charged towards the Dark Virgin as she yelled a battle cry. Me, Bob and Damasen dodged the magic spells and strikes coming from Aither, Hemera and the Boss and stopped at the Doors of Death. We engaged in a bit of combat as some of the Boss' minions (a.k.a. Porphyrion, Alcyoneus and Lamia) came towards us and ambushed us. As I dodged Alcyoneus's strike, I looked around and saw Hemera, fighting against the Boss herself as Aither helped Damasen out in killing Porphyrion.
We saw the progress Andy was doing and she was clearly winning. She dodged the Dark Virgin's strike and instead impaled her staff in her stomach. She blocked and striked seconds before the Dark Virgin blocked or striked herself. Andy disarmed her and divided her staff so it was now two batons. She striked against the Dark Virgin until she kicked her in the stomach and dropped her batons as they continued hand-to-hand combat. They were both fighting for the kill. Andy knee-struck her in the stomach and turned her around and struck her knee against her back, in which she screamed and she dropped her.
I dodged another of Alcyoneus's strikes and stabbed him in the foot. Aither came towards me and said
"Let's finish him together, shall we?"
I nodded and together we beat Alcyoneus and he and Porphyrion lay dead on the ground. The Boss screamed in anger. Bob, who was still in combat with Lamia, stabbed her with his broom as Andy blocked her next spell with a force shield.
"That's my girl!" yelled Hemera as she, Damasen, Aither and Bob fought against the Boss.
I went towards Andy and we both began to fight Lamia. Andy blocked her strikes with Astrallum and I striked Lamia. I did offense and she did defense. As Addie blocked a strike she shot out a spell and passed me her shield.
"Your turn!" she said hurriedly.
So now I was defense and she was offense. At dodged her strikes as she blocked some with her batons and others, I blocked with Astrallum. An and Lamia striked and hit for the kill.
Andy morphed and deflected all of Lamia's strikes and spells. Soon enough I dropped Astrallum and charged against her along with Addie. We inflicted many blows against her. Lamia grabbed me from the throat and pushed me away. I crashed on the ground and groaned. I lifted my head up and saw Agatha fight against her. Agatha twirled and hit with very sharp blows against Lamia with her batons. She penetrated her baton painfully across Lamia's stomach and turned around and gave her a sharp elbow strike to the side of the head. An afflicted her left foot and wicked Lamia with a back kick. Lamia was pushed back and Andy grabbed her shield and penetrated her shield (Astrallum) against Lamia's head.
Agatha ran towards me and helped me up and said "We gotta go, Aither and Hemera will deal with him."
"Are you sure?" I asked
"Yeah, I'm sure. Bob! Damasen!" she called out
Bob and Damasen turned around and gave the Boss a last sharp blow and ran towards us.
Andy ran towards the Doors as I closely followed her.
"Damasen! Give me the duct tape!" she yelled.
" 'Alanta! Heads up!" Damasen yelled as he threw the duct tape and Andy caught it.
She pressed the button and shoved Bob and Damasen in.
"What are you doing?!" I yelled as Aither and Hemera continued to fight against the Boss
"You need to go!" Hemera yelled.
Andy grabbed me from the arm and pulled me towards the elevator and said
"You must go, all three of you-"
"Not without you!" I replied.
There was a blast and both of us got blasted towards Tartarus' empty eye socket. The roll of Duct tape flew off Andy's hands...
I held on to Andy's arm as she was holding on to the cliff. Underneath her was the pit of Chaos. The pit of Chaos radiated an energy of force, like if it was pulling on Andy's ankles, as if trying to bring her to the bottom of the abyss and become into nothingness…
"You gotta let go!" she cried.
"You'll get killed! You won't come back!" I yelled at her.
"You gotta let go…" she cried.
"Not without you, you're my friend!" I cried.
"This thing is very dangerous and I need to give it to someone, okay? That note, keep it if I don't come back!"she replied as she pulled out an orb from her right pocket.
"I won't let you go!" I cried.
"Trust me! I know what I'm doing!" Andy cried.
"I can't let you go! If you disappear it will be my fault!" I cried.
"There's always another way!" I added
"I didn't ask…" she said and exchanged the orb for her left hand and she let go…..
"NO! AT!" I yelled.
I felt a hard push and Hemera threw me into the elevator.
"Take care all of you!" she said as she wrapped the duct tape tightly around the button.
"Bring her back!" I roared.
Hemera shook her head, tears brimming in her eyes.
"You must go and promise me to take care of yourselves…" she muttered.
"At-" I began
"Promise me!" she cried.
We all nodded, she gave me At's satchel and tossed the roll of Duct tape to Damasen. She pressed the button and the Doors closed….
A/N: AAAAAAAH! I know I'm so cruel! Yeah, but don't worry, this isn't the end, yet...
Both Parts, Part I and Part II were almost 25/26 ish pages on Google Docs, holy cow! I can't believe it, also I might not be able to update as often because I'm starting hell (I mean school) next week. AAAAAHHHHH! :_( But don't worry, I will write more stories, just not as often... Thank you!
Update, I just realized that this chapter (Both Part I and Part II) make a total of 11,525 words! WOW! For some reson Chapter 14 (both Part I and II is my favorite chapter.)
Also please review, I'd like to see what you guys think... ❦ Love y'all!
P.S. So...this is kinda late, but I actually ment for the truth to leak out later, but then I thought, the title is called The Dark Virgin, why not just leak out the truth a little early? So yeah.