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"Okay, that's it!" Angel screamed, reaching for the necklace. "I've waited for this wish way too long, guys!"
Angel jumped for the necklace, but Flygrrl raised it up in the air. Since Angel hadn't been using her wings, she didn't get the necklace.
"No! No!" Angel screamed.
Apollo grabbed the necklace. "It is my turn, little girl. How about you go next?" he asked Angel.
"No! I want to go now!"
Max sighed. "Jeez, Angel," she said, shrugging, "you can wait one more person, can't you? Everybody except Apollo and you have wished, so chill." Max looked up to look for confirmation from Flygrrl, except…she was gone. Max did a double-take, then shrugged once more. Flygrrl got what she wanted.
"Angel, you got that?"
"Annabeth in a bikini!" and "YEOW!" was all Max got in response.
Fangs smiled at Angel. "Just wait a little while longer."
"Fine," Angel huffed.
Apollo closed his eyes in concentration. Oh boy, oh boy, what do I wish for? Playboy bunnies? No, wait, no.
Aphrodite began tapping her foot. But immediately she stopped, because then she'd ruin her Versace heels.
"Apollo, hurry, please, dear! The sky…it's darkening."
And she was right. The entire sky was the color of Annabeth's eyes, and Max knew that that wasn't a good thing. Gazzy began to get nervous.
"Max, you remember that time you told us to run a way when we get this weird sinking feeling in our stomachs?" His voice came out as a really high squeak.
Max gulped, feeling exactly like that too. "Yeah."
Gazzy's wide blue eyes widened even more. "I'm having that feeling right now. Max, I'm scared."
Clarisse just wanted to get this over with. She felt anger emanating from the clouds, and that could only mean one thing: A very important god was really, really pissed.
"I…I wish…" Apollo began.
Percy guessed he would say that I was the hottest god on Olympian Idol!
Annabeth thought he would say something like that Hebe would finally notice me!
Clarisse really didn't care what the pervert god wished, but she found herself thinking he's probably going to wish for a private concert with Lady Gaga or something.
"…that Daphne had never turned into a laurel tree."
What?
What did he just say?
Who the heck is Daphne?
A golden yellow light shined bright and soared above everyone. As soon as it hit the atmosphere, it simply disappeared.
Dylan frowned. "Maybe that wish couldn't come true?"
But Apollo just smiled. "No, it came true. You guys just can't see it." And that's all he said.
"Booooriiiiiing!" Connor yawned. "I thought you were going to wish for hot babes!"
"Yeah, man! What happened?" Travis added, imitating the frown that was on Dylan's face moments ago.
Annabeth began sweating. Why was she sweating? She was feeling like something bad was about to happen.
She looked up into the sky and as soon as she did, a huge lightning bolt exploded out of the clouds and hit the ground.
The group scattered, demigods and mythical creatures going one way, and bird kids going another.
Holy crap, Thalia thought as she dodged the lightning bolt. That was one of Zeus' bolts.
Angel screamed. "No! The necklace! Where is it?!" She began searching through the uprooted flowers, crawling on her knees looking for the piece of jewelry.
Annabeth began looking for her necklace, too. It was bad news. She knew that now. She had to destroy it, quick. Zeus was angry with them for messing with the order, and now he was trying to kill them.
Lying five feet away was the necklace. Annabeth ran to pick it up, but someone beat her to it.
It's freaking Catwoman! That was her first thought. A humanoid cat had the necklace. Her ivory skin distracted Annabeth for a little bit, but with a shake of her head, she got her concentration back.
She scrambled to her feet. "You! Give it back! It's dangerous!" She screamed, but the girl didn't seem to hear, or even care.
"This necklace…it….feels different," the girl said.
"Yes! It holds the power to make anything you want come true! But I have to destroy it!" Annabeth responded, inching her way towards the girl.
Catgirl noticed Annabeth, and clamped her had around the necklace. She shook her head, making her short blue hair swish around. "My name is Melody, and I can't give this back to you." She stuck the necklace in her fishnet stockings. "Do you know what this could do? It could cure cancer, for Pete's sake! We could end world hunger and get rid of evil dictators!" As she said this, Percy noted that she sounded like an insane person.
Max stepped closer. "The School created you, huh? How 'bout handing that over to a fellow mutant before you get your butt whupped, eh?"
Melody shook her head again. "No, sorry, you've been corrupted."
Corupted? Tyson thought. What does that mean?
Nico started muttering to himself, and Clarisse knew that meant he was summoning the dead to take back the necklace.
"Epíthesi, stratiótes tou Káto Kósmou!" he yelled, and armed soldiers of the dead came up from the ground and promptly attacked he insane cat/human hybrid.
Max took that as her que to attack, too. They needed to get rid of that thing!
"Fang! Gazzy! Let's go!" she commanded, leading them to the psycho.
Meanwhile, Angel was spitting out every word that Max had ever warned her not to say. She'd had just about enough. She's been a good little girl, patiently waiting her turn just like everybody else. But she kept getting interrupted by someone obviously lacking in the patience department.
"That's it! I quit this! I quit the Flock, I quit at making a wish! I QUIT!"
Unfortunately for her, nobody heard her at all. They were too busy getting the necklace back from a crazy cat lady.
Melody giggled. "Time for my wish!" she said as she ran.
"No! Percy, splash her with something before she makes her wish! Gag her with water!" Annabeth hissed.
"We're very freaking far away from water, Annabeth! Even that's beyond me!"
Melody screamed behind her "I wish…that I was a part of the Flock, and I was their leader!"
Grover managed to close his eyes and scream "No!" before a light the color of a nuclear explosion burst out of the necklace, slamming into every member of the Flock.
Max fell to her knees, as did the rest of the bird kids.
Annabeth switched course and ran to Max. "Max! Max! You ok? Get up, we have to beat Melody up and get the necklace!" She shook Max's shoulder, but Max would't respond.
Max was on her knees, head down, huffing like she just ran a marathon.
Annabeth knew something was wrong when Max raised her head. There was something in her eyes that told her move, move away from her! And she was glad she did, because Max pulled back her fist and tried to punch her.
"Melody is part of the Flock. She is our leader. You are the enemy."
NO! Not Max!
Clarisse grabbed Fang by the shirt, trying not to show fear at what he might answer. "Yo! Are you out of whack, too?"
Fang grabbed Clarisse's hand and judo flipped her. Still holding her by the hand, Fang said "Don't touch me. You are the enemy. That's what Melody taught us."
Melody had a smug smirk on her face. "Let's go, Flock. They're not worth out time."
Apollo spoke up. "Bind!" he said as his hand shot up, making a net materialize in the air to stop Melody. But Iggy got in the way, protecting his "leader". He waved it off like nothing. "Puh. A god like you and all you can do is throw a net?"
"Flock! Out!" Melody yelled, and together, Max and Fang carried Melody up to the Empire State Building, with Iggy, Nudge, and Gazzy right behind them. "Later, losers!" To add effect, she dropped a gas bomb on top of the people on the ground.
The bomb exploded, and Thalia's eyes watered. Tear gas! No!
Once the smoke cleared, and everyone was finished coughing and wiping their tears, they all looked up. They were gone.
Thalia turned to Aphrodite. "Why didn't you do anything?"
Aphrodite just shook her head. Thalia looked at Apollo. "Bind?! Really? That's all you could do?"
"The whole flock is insane!" Percy cried out while comforting a crying Tyson. "What are we going to do?"
Tyson wiped his eye. "We should stop bad guys, big brother!" Then he looked behind Percy and gasped.
Everyone turned, and saw Angel just standing there.
"Don't move, guys, remember, Melody—" Percy began, unsheathing Riptide.
"No! I'm…I'm still normal!" Angel interrupted, raising her hands in the air.
Clarisse studied her. "Yeah, she is. She wasn't affected, guys."
The group huddled around Angel. "How come you're normal? You're part of the Flock, so you should've been affected by her wish, too," Nico said, biting his lip once he was done talking.
Angel thought for a second. "Maybe it's because…before Melody came, I'd screamed out that I didn't want to be part of the Flock anymore," she said, raising her left hand to stop anyone from asking her anything. "That's why I'm not crazy."
"You can really just quit being part of the Flock, just like that?" Connor asked.
"I really don't know. I guess so."
Or maybe, she never really was part of the Flock, Nico thought.
Sorry if you don't like how this is turning out. I had no idea how to finish the story, so I thought that I should continue it a little bit more and make them lose he necklace to an insane cat girl. Sunsets, your OC will be the next and LAST OC. She'll appear in the next chapter.