Chapter Seven – Unconscious on a table.
"Look. I know what I saw! Kat is in trouble!" I slammed my hand down on the table. Around the table was Chiron and all the head councillors of the cabins. They all looked at me with bewildered and amused faces, though Chiron seemed calm enough.
"Liz, calm down." Chiron said, "Demigod dreams normally deceive us, making us believe one thing when, really, the truth is entirely different."
"I. Don't. Care." I said through gritted teeth. "I saw her! We can't just stand by!"
"We don't have enough information to just throw ourselves into an unknown situation." Marcus Bane, filling in for Reece Cameron in the Athena cabin, reasoned. I was about to yell at him when a cool hand touched my shoulder.
"Calm down, Liz." Aya Igneous, from the Poseidon cabin, told me gently. "I'm sure Kat is fine."
With th at I calmed down. Slightly. Ever so slightly. Aya had been the one to call this meeting after I woke up from my 'dream' about Kat. She was the only one who seemed to understand, even if she did side with the others.
"She'll be fine as long as she's with Reece." Cleo Ranford, from the Ares cabin, huffed.
"Yeah, Reece is an excellent fighter! And not a bad strategist, either." Marcus said thoughtfully, causing Cleo to huff again. Everyone tensed, ready for a fight.
"Anyway, Liz. Don't worry. Kat will be fine." Raina Sevi said airily, breaking the ice. Raina was co-captains of the Dementer cabin with Justin McAce. Both had dirt brown hair, though Raina had grass green eyes and Justin's had more of a dark tone.
"Still," Mufaro Talnakhite, Hypnos cabin, countered sleepily. "Demigod dreams do hold truth, a lot of it. This stuff could be happening."
"We don't have enough evidence to prove that!" Marcus insisted, his grey eyes shining through his glasses. The dude was really starting to get on my nerves. I smiled sweetly.
"Oh, how's Harry doing?" I exclaimed in a sing-song voice, to no one in particular.
Everyone around the table except Aya and I paled dramatically. Yesterday, when walking me to the Hermes cabin, Harry had gotten on my nerves so much that I ended punching him in the nose. Breaking said nose. I hoped reminding them of him would help them back off.
"Anyway, I'm going to Kat whether you guys like it or not. So, if I were you, I'd hop right on the 'Like it' train." I stated stubbornly. It looked like I persuaded them.
"L-Liz has a point." Sebastian Copper, Aphrodite, stuttered. His face was as white as a sheet.
"But…" Marcus Bane argued meekly. Even the smart kid was at lost for words, funny, I never knew I had this effect on people. I needed to use that to my advantage.
"The chances of this succeeding are very slim." Kaylee Williams, daughter of Tyche, said thoughtfully, oblivious to the threat hanging in the air. I sighed. I felt like just sitting down and giving up. But I couldn't. Kat was my sister. Step or no, we were family. And, as Stitch once said, family means no one gets left behind. Kat was left behind, and it was my job to find her.
"I don't care about the stinking chances!" I exclaimed, "Now, who's with me?"
I looked around the table, my eyes narrowed, as hands started to raise. Charlie Downer, captain of the Nike cabin, was the first to put his hand up. Then, Katelyn Bell from the Hebe cabin. Raina and Justin had a small conversation before raised their hands in sync. Mufaro was snoring in the corner, but I was certain that she would've supported me. Sebastian looked from me to Marcus, unsure of who to support. Aya also looked unsure, her sense of duty surely confusing her. I gave her a pleading look.
Around the room more hands shot up. Rumesha Sallson from Apollo. Michael Johnson from Hecate. Jimmy Stevenson from Dionysus. Alexandro Delmar from the Hades cabin, hesitating for half a second in the shadows. Then Chuck Daisy from Iris. And finally, Aya, her hand slowly raising into the air.
The only captains that were against us were Marcus Bane, Sebastian Copper, Cleo Ranford, Kayden James (Hephaestus), Tom Kelly (Hermes) and Zoe Grayson (Nemesis). Huh, ten to six. I liked my chances. At the back of the room, Chiron sighed.
"I guess we have to rescue Katja now…" Chiron made his way up to me, captains parting to give him passage. "Liz, what did you see in this dream?"
I opened my mouth to reply, but something stopped me. It was this feeling, a deep tugging sensation in my gut. It wasn't good, it was like some sort of balance had been upset.
"Somethings wrong!" I hastily yelled, I was met with confused looks. Why couldn't they feel it? All of a sudden, a raging wind whipped up in the room, only in that one room. Darkness swelled around with the ferocious wind. The others were screaming, yelling at each other and me. But I couldn't move or respond to them. There was something almost… familiar about this strange windy – blackness. Kat, I realised with a jolt, it was Kat. How could this crazy swirling blackness remind me of Kat?
Then, as suddenly as it started, it stopped. You'd think a wind that strong would leave a mess behind, but it didn't. It only left one thing in its wake, or two if you think about it. It was Kat, standing on the table, with a bleeding boy in her arms. Everyone looked at her, mouths hanging open.
"What're-you- looking at?" Kat slurred, her flickering shut. Just before she collapsed, and Aya, moving like water, was the only one quick enough to catch her before she hit the floor.