A/N: So... I went a little too much... and I wrote another POV. And I finished it, so you guys can check it out! (::) ;p
Kace's POV
The dance was going great, but Amanda HAD to interrupt Abigail and me with the troublesome news. Then that other weird girl, Kriss, showed up as well. "There's something you have to see," Kriss said to Abigail. Abigail replied, "Ok. Sure." Kriss noticed our linked hands and said, "Your boyfriend can come along and Amanda definitely needs to." I glanced at Abigail and was surprised that she wasn't flushing silver that much. She just nodded and Kriss ran across the gym with us behind her.
We went into a warehouse that was nearby the school. Abigail never released my hand which made me kind of giddy. The door was locked, so Abigail had to sneak in invisible. It was a while before she opened the door. Her skin tone was back to its normal pale color, but her eyes were slightly unfocused. "Abigail?" I asked. "What happened?" She bit her lip and said, "There's something really disturbing down there." We walked as fast as we could to where Abigail saw whatever she saw. My mouth dropped open, and even Amanda couldn't hide her shock. There were around two dozen dead bodies hanging from the ceiling, dead. But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that their limbs were hanging off by a few inches of skin and their eyes were completely gouged out. "Wait. How is terminator disgusted by that?" I asked. Amanda immediately facepalmed and turned around. "We're all disgusted, idiot." "No. Not the bodies, that." Ray said and gestured to the corner. We looked where he was pointing and there, was a dead baby's body hanging up by a chain of cut off limbs. Amanda looked actually afraid and Abigail was literally going to go insane. That's when I noticed something.
"Hey! Is that a note taped onto the body?!" I asked. "Please tell me I'm wrong." Kriss approached cautiously and snatched the note. "It says, I knew you demigods would fall for the bait. Better luck next time!"Kriss cursed. "Holy Styx. I'm so sorry. We have to get back to that dance." Before she could move one step, however, Amanda tsked. "Screw running, just take the freaking portal!" We arrived back at the gym to find everything normal. Except for one thing. I couldn't shake the feeling that something big was going to happen. Well, just as I thought that, in the middle of the gym, walking towards us, was Rachel Elizabeth Dare. With green smoke coming out of her mouth. She chanted:
Seven new heroes newly met, one of more than half, and one not at all
Traveling by mentor, who is not to expect, and if six don't survive, the safe havens shall fall.
What before had been pieces, shall now become queens, unless the new seven can trick them to death
And shall they find in their city, by last of their means, that what will be lost is more than blood, mind, and breath
The brood of an artist is invited to either side and whichever she does will result in more than her fate,
The one yet to find where his last power lies may be lost, found, or on an evil one's plate
A mortal, but silver, and the mad one before, have the key to the center of the illusion of nature,
The optimistic one may not be any more, and the streaked one has to make the choice that will make her.
Then Rachel dropped to the ground, and we all rushed over to her, including Percy, Annabeth, and the others. Annabeth was pale. "That prophecy… The new seven… Percy, it's them." she gestured to Ray, Amanda, Abigail, Kriss, Jameson, and I. "But there were seven in the prophecy!" said Percy uncertainly. "Um, it said 'newly met'... what about Asha?" asked Amanda. Percy was now as white as Annabeth. Abigail sighed. "Let's at least finish the dance," I said. Everyone grumbled and went back to what they were doing, and Rachel was starting to come to consciousness again. I put my arm around Abigail's shoulder (thank goodness she didn't hit me this time) and we went back to dancing. "What do you think it all means?" I asked her. She shook her head. "I don't know," she replied, regretfully.