Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson and the Olympians, or Heroes of Olympus, all rights to Rick Riordan.
Author's Note: (Guess who forgot to put a disclaimer…)
Evelyn was on top of Sicomba, pinning him down, one hand over his mouth and the other holding a knife to his throat. He swung his fists, trying to hit her, but she didn't budge.
"Honestly Sicomba, will you shut up?!" Evelyn hissed yet another time. Sicomba glared at her, his eyes crackling.
"Oh don't look at me like that." She said. He began to thrash again. She pressed the knife deeper into his neck.
"Shut up!" she hissed. His eyes dared her to do it, they told her to plunge the knife deeper. She pointed the knife at Louise's sleeping form.
"Shut up." She said quietly again. His form became still, his eyes full of anger, hate, betrayal, and disbelief. Well… the disbelief was fading. But anger, hate and betrayal? There was plenty of that.
"I'm going to remove my hand now… just… don't do anything, kay?" Evelyn said, slowly removing her hands and leaning back on her heels, unpinning him. He stared at her with glaring eyes.
"Traitor." He spat, his words full of venom. Evelyn winced, his words cutting into her like a knife. She sighed:
"Sicomba… listen I-"
"No. Words are lies. You're a lie. I can't believe it… actually I can. At first I couldn't though. I thought it was some sort of plan, to get Kronos' information. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized. You're the perfect spy. Everyone trusts you. No one would even suspect you! That's why Kronos never asked you to join him… isn't it? You were already on his side. We thought it was because he knew you'd never join him! And look at you now. And the best part is that you are completely willing to kill us. You could slit our throats without blinking an eye. But no matter how much we convince ourselves you're the enemy, none of us could ever bring ourselves to hurt you." Sicomba said, his words laced with anger.
Evelyn stared at him, her stomach feeling empty and her heart heavy in her chest.
"You don't understand…"
"No, I don't. I don't understand how you could just leave your friends, your brother!"
Evelyn clenched her jaw.
"He's half the reason I did this."
Sicomba scoffed.
"It must be so hard for you to be the second most powerful Demigod in the world. I can't imagine your sacrifice. Grow up Evelyn!"
"Don't you tell me to grow up!"
Sicomba just stared at the wall.
"You know what you are Evelyn? You know what you've become? You're a sith. You are a freaking sith. I hope you're happy with yourself." He said. He then crawled back to the others and laid on his back.
"Aren't you going to rat me out?" Evelyn asked.
"No." he said, then closed his eyes, not even looking at her. Evelyn then stood up and left, using the scythe charm to get out of the room. She walked around, fuming, until she ran into someone. She looked up.
"Ben."
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"What in the name of Hades are you doing?" he hissed at her.
She shrugged and spread her arms:
"Taking a walk."
"What if… he catches you?"
"If you're talking about Luke, then I suppose we'll just have a nice pleasant chat about how the weather is just so nice for killing people today."
"What?!"
"Honestly, Ben. Don't be a hypocrite."
His eyes went wide, and his jaw dropped.
"No. No way…"
"Ben you can't honestly be-"
"Think about how mad you were at me! Think about how betrayed you felt! Now everyone, EVERYONE will feel that way. How could you do that?"
"Oh I am SORRY! I am SO sorry we're on the same side now. I'm sorry that I betrayed my brother and my parents and all my friends for you. That must be so hard for you!" she said, trying to block her tears.
He stopped.
"You… you did it for me?"
"Yes you idiot."
They stood there looking at each other for a few seconds, and then Ben wrapped his arms around her, and they hugged each other, trying not to think about what they had done.
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A little before dawn Evelyn crept back into the dirt-floored room. Ben was still mad at her, no matter what she said or did. She looked at Sicomba sadly, but he was sleeping now. She shoved the charm deep into her pocket and sat down. Now that she had time to think about it, she couldn't believe it. What was she doing? Her stomach was filled with… she didn't even know what emotion it was but sure it didn't feel good. She thought of who she had been before, the stubborn girl who always did what was right and was always there for her friends.
Well now you're the back-stabbing traitor who's going to kill her friends. I hope you have fun with that!
Evelyn sighed and laid her face in the dirt. She stayed that way until she heard someone moving. She looked up and saw Elizabeth looking at her.
"Were you crying?" she asked, examining her face.
"No, of course not." Evelyn said stubbornly.
Elizabeth smiled a bit.
"Yeah sure." She said, smirking. But then her eyes went out of focus and her expression turned a bit sad.
"Liz? You okay?" Evelyn asked quietly, honestly concerned.
"Yeah… I miss Sam." She said quietly. Evelyn was puzzled for a moment, then remembered. Sam had been her super cool dork date to Dalia's wedding. She had forgotten in all the mess that had happened afterward. Now that Evelyn thought about it, she had seen Elizabeth with him a lot.
"I'm sorry… are you guys…?"
"Sort of." Elizabeth said. "I didn't get to say goodbye to him."
If she dies…
Shut up mind!
Evelyn sighed.
"You'll see him again."
Elizabeth looked up at her.
"You really think so?"
Evelyn just looked at her. What could she say? She then looked back down. Suddenly Louise moved.
"Ugh!" she said with a moan. "I hate mornings."
Elizabeth laughed.
"Well hello Sunshine." She said in a cheery voice. Louise sat up and glared at her. Elizabeth just laughed again. This made Sicomba stir and get up. When he saw Evelyn he met her eye and they had a silent stare down. It went a little something like this:
Sicomba: Oh hello traitor. I see you haven't killed anyone yet.
Evelyn: You won't let me explain so… how can I explain?!
Sicomba: You threatened to kill Louise right after I told you I wanted to ask her out, I don't need your false explanations!
Evelyn: I never would've actually killed her!
Sicomba: No, I'm sure you only meant to maim or seriously injure!
Evelyn: Stop with the freaking references! You know it's my weakness…
Sicomba: I'll be sure to quote a movie when you're about to kill me.
Evelyn: …
Sicomba: …
Evelyn: ...
Sicomba: …
Louise: Why are you staring at each other?
And with that, they're silent grudge match ended, and they looked at the others, steaming. Evelyn then realized stubbornness was her fatal flaw. She would do nearly anything to prove she was right, even if she wasn't. Oops.
Dalia suddenly sat up.
"Today. They'll be done today."
No one questioned what she was talking about. They just stared at each other in horror.
"We need a plan." Louise said.
"When do our plans actually work?" Sicomba asked, "we plan, we get there, and all Hades breaks loose."
Evelyn: Screw you and your evil referencing powers!
"Still… we should make a plan." Evelyn suggested.
"I completely disagree." Sicomba said, fuming.
"Did we miss something?" Louise asked.
"Yeah… you guys are seriously tense." Elizabeth remarked.
"We're FINE!" Evelyn and Sicomba said at the same time, which caused them to look at each other, then angrily look away.
"Right…" Louise said, "Dalia, you wake up Mary and we'll plan this thing."
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"This is not working!" Mary said in exasperation. They had been sitting there for two hours and accomplished absolutely nothing plan-wise.
"We can't stop the seeds growing and we can't kill Kronos!" Elizabeth said. Louise sighed.
"There has to be a way!" she said. Suddenly Dalia, who had hardly spoken the entire time spoke up. The others had noticed she'd been a little withdrawn.
"There is… one way to stop the seeds." She said. The others looked at her.
"Wait… Dalia," Evelyn said, "it's not…"
"If a Demigod's blood is spilt on the seeds…"
"NO." the others said together.
"It's the only way." She said calmly.
Sicomba stared at Evelyn and she looked away, her heart heavy.
"None of us are going to die." She said. Saying that made it sound like she was on Kronos' side to Sicomba, but she wasn't going to suggest they kill Dalia or anyone else.
"Well what else-" Elizabeth started, but her sentence was cut off by the door opening. In walked Steven, their favorite white haired helper of Kronos.
"Hello," Elizabeth said, "did you have fun getting out of that van?" she asked with a small smirk.
The boy gazed at her cooly.
"You soon won't be smirking." He said, walking to the wall. He pressed a certain tile and a button appeared. He pressed it and the ground began to hum. An opening appeared above them and they blinked at the sunlight. Suddenly the opening was getting closer. Then they realized that they, in fact, were raising higher and higher. They were on a platform.
They looked around when they reached the top and realized they were on a giant cliff that they hadn't seen from the front of the building. Apparently they'd been in a weird basement type room. Around them were many un-familiar people… well mostly. But two of them were very familiar. Very familiar indeed.
"Ben?!" Mary said, gasping. Evelyn looked at her. She'd forgotten Mary was Ben's sister. That was going to be heartbreaking to watch.
"Kronos." Sicomba said with a much more serious and hateful tone.
"Ah, our guests of honor." Kronos/Luke said with a chuckle. "I'm glad they'll be here to see me take over the gods!"
"It won't work," Sicomba said, glaring, "you forget that the prophecy has to come true. If you take over the gods now, it never will."
Kronos laughed.
"As your friend Evelyn might say," he said, emphasizing the word 'friend', "time can be re-written."
Why do these people love references so much?!
Evelyn glared at everyone.
"Dalia my dear, if you would please step forward." Kronos said.
"Why is Ben here?!" Mary asked, still staring at him.
"He betrayed you, get over it." The boy, Steven said.
Mary stared at Ben.
"What?" she said quietly. Evelyn could almost feel her heart breaking at Mary's betrayed and un-believing voice.
Ben looked at her sadly then looked back ahead like a true soldier.
"Moving on!" Kronos said, "Dalia, please come forward."
Dalia stepped forward calmly.
"If you would do the honors." He said, gesturing at the dirt, which was obviously glowing even in the daylight.
Dalia knelt down, about to put her hands into the dirt.
"Not if I can help it!" Louise yelled, kicking one of their guards in the gut and grabbing his sword."
Suddenly, Sicomba had knocked two guards down and taken their swords as well. He tossed one to Elizabeth and Mary took off her earrings, transforming them into her bow and arrow. Feeling weaponless, Evelyn punched a guard and took his sword. Kronos only laughed.
"Fools. You think you can beat me? Try beating this!" Suddenly, the ground shook.
"Guys…" Evelyn said, not knowing what was going on. Suddenly, a giant serpent burst over the side of the cliff, blocking the sun and casting a giant, horrifying shadow on them.
"What is that?!" Elizabeth screamed.
"Jormungand." Sicomba muttered.
"Excuse me?" Evelyn asked.
"The Midgard Serpent… SPLIT!" he cried as the serpent came flying down toward them. They jumped apart as he hit, sending dirt everywhere.
"It's venom is lethal, even to gods! Don't get near its mouth!" Sicomba yelled, his black hair flying around.
"Oh thanks for that advice, I was planning on giving it a dental check-up!" Evelyn screamed sarcastically.
"Finish the seeds, NOW!" Kronos screamed at Dalia, and she slowly lowered her hands into the dirt.
"Guys!" Mary screamed, turning to look at them. Suddenly, the serpent's tail came flying toward her.
"MARY!" Elizabeth yelled, but suddenly, Ben came flying out of nowhere, knocking her out of the way.
You go Ben.
"ATTACK!" Kronos yelled to his stunned guards. Suddenly, they sprang into action. Suddenly, everyone seemed to be fighting off at least three guards, except Evelyn, of course. She started running toward Dalia and Kronos.
That's when she heard a scream. She turned and saw Elizabeth screaming at Sicomba, and she could see why. The serpent's head was right behind him, its glowing eyes staring at him. Sicomba slowly turned around, backing up in fear. Just then, Louise's voice rang out:
"YO SERPENT! COME AT ME BRO!" she shouted, hefting up her sword. The Serpent turned its eyes on her and she lifted her sword higher, then charged. Evelyn watched in horror as Louise jumped onto the beast, shoving her sword into its eye. It reared up, throwing her off, and she landed with a thud on the grassy ground. Sicomba stared at her in amazement while fighting off a guard. Louise got up and dusted herself off.
"WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME?" Sicomba yelled, his voice carrying despite the wind. She looked over in surprise then grinned and gave a thumbs up. She then charged at the serpent again.
"GIVE ME MY SWORD BACK!"
Evelyn grinned, but suddenly there was a giant burst of blue light. Everyone stopped and looked at Dalia. The dirt below her was glowing brighter than ever and Kronos had a huge smile on his face.
"It is almost done!" he said.
Dalia looked up, and Evelyn could see what she was saying in her eyes. Evelyn knew what she had to do. She gripped her sword. Ben ran up to her.
"What are you doing?"
"There's only one way to stop those seeds."
He stared at her.
"No."
"Yes."
The battle roared on around them.
"There's nothing else to be done." She said, looking at him with sad eyes.
Suddenly two screams erupted from behind them. They turned and say Elizabeth and Mary being over-whelmed by guards.
"You get them, I'll try to slow down Dalia." Ben said to her, with a strange look in his eye.
Evelyn nodded and ran over to Elizabeth and Mary, drawing her sword. She swiped, jabbed and parried her way through the guards until she reached them.
"You okay?" she asked. They nodded. She looked at them.
"I'm sorry… There's something I need to do." She said, turning just in time to see Ben slit his own throat over the glowing dirt.
"BEN!" she screamed, the world around her stopping. All sound disappeared, and she felt her heart crumble. She didn't realize she was running until she was kneeling next to him. She put her hand over his throat, trying to make it disappear.
"Perhaps I've repaid my debt." He choked out, before becoming still. A drop of his blood rolled down his neck and hit the dirt. Suddenly, Evelyn was thrown through the air and blinded by blue light. She hit the ground with a thud. She saw the serpent disappear in the light quickly dug the scythe charm out of her pocket, then tossed it into the source of the light. That was the last thing she remembered before the world went black.
Author's Note: So… it's been like a month. I'm sorry! I've just had tons of homework and been super busy. But I do hope you liked this chapter, and if you liked Ben or shipped Bevelyn (worst ship name ever) I'm sorry. He died. Yup. Well please review what you thought and wait for the next chapter!