" . . . This is where you live?" Jake asked after he eyeballed the place. It was nothing more than sleeping bags strung all across the forest floor. Laughing Gas, plague of laughing to death, whatever you want to call him, laughed softly as he gently ran his claws through the overgrown dog, petting him and turned around, smiling, amusement showing ever so slightly. "Yes my dear boy . . . We don't normally stay in one place too long, we're always going from one place to the next."
Jake nodded, "So we're basically hobos."
Laughing Gas chuckled as his eyes danced playfully. "If that is the way you see it than yes."
Jake was just letting the idea that his family were bobo monsters sink in . . .
Wasn't the weirdest thing that's happened to him so he shrugged it off.
"Jakie, come on! I have to show you a tour of all the different activities we do here and maybe we can try some of them."
Try as he may Jake couldn't say no to a pouty lipped chicken lady, harpie. You also wouldn't be able to if you saw Ravin's puppy dog eyes. Jake smiled happily for the first time in months. "Yeah, coming."
Raven flew down from the sky and transformed into his chocolate brown silver eyed self.
Jake jumped and nearly got a heart attack from seeing his bird friend turn into a 18 year old boy. "What? . . . How? How?" He trailed off, at a loss of words. Ravin Boy chuckled and lightly started giving Jake a noogie. Jake swatted his hand away before Bird Brain could do any real damage. Raven laughed again and then turned to the boy.
"You know how the Gods of Olympus are still around today?"
Jake cut him off before he could say more. "Yes yes. I already got that lecture from some old Latin Teacher of mine. Mr. Sizzle . . . Mr Burns. I don't remember."
He threw his hands up in aspiration.
"That was four years ago, when I was twelve, young, and stupid. I'm 16 now and know all I need to about those shit heads. What I want to know is how you can do that transformation from monster to human thingie. Can all monsters do it?"
Raven smiled amusedly,"I hate to bring up the shit heads but I will . . . well, the gods can take whatever shape they want. So can monsters, but you'd never know if it's one of us because most monsters like to walk around wearing human faces."
That hit Jake hard, his gaze dropped.
"Yeah . . . I can believe that." Jake started chewing his bottom lip. Raven smiled apollogetically then looked at the harpy that had stayed quietly at their side the whole time.
"It's time." Ravin said, his voice cracked but he didn't look away fast enough for the boy to look up and see the pain on his face. Bella the harpie nodded and she changed into a typical teenage girl with coco brown hair and sad green eyes, her face was crestfallen when she looked at Jake. "Jakie . . . You can't stay here."
Pain and sadness was washed over his face. He wasn't aware of it but all of the hurt he had went through his whole life showed to.
"W-w-w-what? I-I-I-I thought we were friends. I thought we were a family. Does family mean nothing to you?!" Everyone in his life had either left him or betrayed him. These guys said they were different. They said they wouldn't hurt him. They said they were his family . . .
But they were just as bad as the rest.
"No, of course not and you know that. Of course you can become part of the family and stay with us. But you have to do something first."
Jake has never felt so relieved in his life. His sky blue eyes filled with tears and ran down his face. These guys were his family whether it was official or not, his first and only real family. He couldn't believe he was willing to let go of it so easily.
"Yes, please anything. You're my family and I'm not about to leave you. And I don't want you guys abandoning me either."
Bella and Raven smiled soft and warmly. She held her hand out to him.
"Let's go then. Let's officially make you one of us."
~Jakes POV (Point of View)~
Turning my back on the gods and mortals was easy. All they ever did was break and cause me more pain than anyone ever should feel . . . When I swore them off . . . I don't know but my friends were looking at me sad and disappointed, as if I'd just killed my own puppy.
But they quickly brushed it off as if it didn't happen . . . Maybe I'm just over thinking too much. Yeah that's probably it. It's been a long day and I'm pooped. Good night.
~Bella's POV~
When Jakie swore off the gods by saying those bone chilling words the air around us grew below freezing and all the sunlight faded from the sky. The light behind his eyes was gone and replaced by a cold dark fire burning where one wasn't before . . . Family is suppose to build you up and pick up the pieces of your broken heart 'til you're whole again.
But I know this family will only teach him to be hateful and hard hearted . . .
Well, not if I have anything to do with it. Now, where are my boys? It's time we talk . . .
To be continued . . .
Authors Note:
I know Bella is really close to Ella, the harpy from the Hoo stories. Welp guess what, that was a total quienwinkadant because I named her after Bella Thorne, the girl that used to play
CC Jones on the show Shake it Up on Disney Channel. It was the first name that popped into my head and I liked it so I went with it. XD So now you know why. (;p)
How about . . . 5 favs and seven comments on DA STORY NOOOOT SPAM (never happened to me but just in case . . . (;p) ) and once I get that I'll write and upload the story as soon as I can. Love chu me bunnies and blue cupcakes with all me heart. (^3^)3 ~Katie :)
