Me: Wow, it's been so long. I'm so sorry. School started and before that I couldn't get on. The last month before summer was so busy. And then I couldn't log in to Google because I forgot my password before I finally figured it out… Also I messed up on Hazel's age, she's actually around eleven with Frank and such… sorry.
Percy: Do you have an excuse for everything.
Me: *scowls* There might be a few BOO Spoilers, but not to the point that it will be a huge spoiler.
Percy: Just checking, author owns nothing but her OC's.
3rd Person POV
It had been a few days since Kara and Maya joined their little group. Kara had yet to wake up and Maya refused to leave her side, for a four year old she was pretty stubborn. Percy was healed enough that he could move around again, even if he was a bit sore. Aine's wrist was still wrapped up, and would be until Will deemed it unnecessary.
"Are you sure that she is going to be fine Will?" Annabeth asked looking at the unconscious sixteen year old girl, "I don't think Maya, or anyone else for that matter, will be able to handle the death."
"It would be like Bianca all over again," Will agreed watching Maya lay her head down on Kara's stomach.
A small tear made it's way down Maya's face and Percy went over to her. Aine watched this from her position on the other side of the room near Nico. The other kids wandered around, a few wincing from the bruises on their body. Thalia walked over as Percy comforted Maya and knelt down next to the older girl. Kronos hadn't had the group's come up recently, but Gabe came down almost every day and injured a different child. He hadn't hurt Maya or Percy yet, possibly because Maya was so young and Percy was still healing from the other beating.
A gasp came from Thalia, "I think she's waking up."
Maya jumped up from her position in Percy's arms and looked at Kara carefully. By Will's guess, Kara had hit her head on something while she was getting lugged around and that's why she hadn't woken up yet. It was either that or they had overdosed her.
A groan came from the direction of the sixteen year old girl and she rolled over. There wasn't enough light in the room that she would be blinded when she woke up, which was probably a good thing. Her eyes fluttered open, showing a dull gray color. Maya looked like she was going to cry, and Kara looked around. Percy and the others moved closer, with Luke coming the closest.
"Welcome to the Dungeons," Luke said, "Or as we like to call it, Hell. I'm Luke, I've been here the longest."
Kara sat up and pulled Maya onto her lap, "Why are we here? What have you done to us?"
"You're here because Kronos is a maniac who likes to kidnap children. As for what we've done to you, nothing other than healing you," Will answered, "I'm Will by the way."
"Hi," Kara whispered, "I believe Maya might have told you my name."
Everyone grinned at Kara before jumping as the light filtered in from upstairs. They all covered their eyes as Gabe came downstairs. The fat pig like man grinned nastily when he saw Kara awake and started over there. Kara got up and pushed her step-sister behind her and glared at Gabe. Everyone moved away to make room as Gabe stood in front of Kara. Thalia grabbed Maya and pulled the struggling four year old away. Gabe lifted Kara up in the air by the front of her brown shirt.
"How nice to see you awake, Kronos wouldn't let me hurt you while you were unconscious, but now you aren't," Gabe whispered in her ear.
Kara struggled a bit, biting down on her lip, and met Gabe's eyes.
"I demand to meet this Kronos," she spat down at his face.
Gabe wiped away the spit with his free hand, glaring at her all the while.
"Kronos doesn't give into demands," Gabe said.
Everyone watched this fearfully, as Kara kicked Gabe in the stomach. Gabe released Kara and she fell to the ground. She tried to land rolling but it didn't work. The older girl twisted her ankle as she fell and let out a strangled cry. Maya strained against Thalia and Aine, but couldn't get anywhere. Gabe growled and kicked the fallen girl in the stomach and Percy glared at him with all his might. Kara curled in on herself and a cleared throat interrupted the beating.
"Gabe, Kronos has called for you. As well as Luke," one of the other guards said.
Gabe glared at him, "I'll be up in a moment."
"He said now."
Gabe glared before kicking Kara one last time. Luke was grabbed harshly on the shoulder before being taken upstairs with Gabe and the guard. Maya was released and she ran straight towards Kara. Sobs wracked the four year olds body and Kara began to calm her down. Will watched them for a moment before leaving. The other's returned to what they were doing, but Aine and Percy as well as Thalia and Nico stayed nearby the siblings.
*Near the Professor's School*
Poseidon had interviewed the teachers at the school, and they had all been adamant that the girls had not shown up there. One guy, Logan if he was right, looked generally worried about them before kicking them out. Hades and Zeus started to search around nearby the school, with Poseidon and Simp further out. It was Simp to find the first piece of evidence, a little blue dress shoe that looked to belong to the younger Channing.
"I found something!" Simp called into his radio, "The youngest Channing's dress shoe."
"Look around some more Simp, we're heading that way. See if you can find more evidence," Zeus replied into the radio.
Poseidon found the blue ribbon from Maya's hair, as well as a slip of paper that fell out of Kara's pocket. He put the blue ribbon in an evidence bag while carefully opening up the slip of paper. A page full of neatly cursive written words covered the page, with a few sketches of people without faces. He read the words careful to make sure that he didn't miss a thing.
Lately, Maya and I have been having nightmares. Maya's so young that she can't remember them, but I do. I see people, their faces so blurry I can't see them. Dad ignores me whenever I say that I have a bad feeling. People have been following me, I know it. I can't even go to school without feeling that someone is following me. Maya doesn't think that there is, but sometimes she thinks that there is someone. Dad wouldn't listen to Maya though. Mother agrees with Dad on this, she thinks that I'm just being paranoid. Now, maybe I am. But my dreams always come true. Everything that I dream ends up coming true. I keep dreaming that people are kidnapping Maya and I. I can never see their faces, nor can I figure out exactly where we are. My drawings are of the little I can make out of the people that kidnapped us. I also see a group of kids, some of them I recognize from faces on the Milk Cartons in the past. One of the kids I recognize from school, Percy I believe his name was. Another from when I was nine. I think his name was Nico. Those were the two I remember completely. They were in a dungeon, it was dimly lit. The only light came from the cracks in a locked door at the top of the stairs. Sometimes they went through it, only to return beaten. Percy was always the most beaten and less fed then them all. I can never hear them, I wish I could. Maybe even be able to talk to them. I want to help them, they look so bad. I want to do something. But no one believes me when I mention my dreams. They blow me off, even more so when I talk about Percy and Nico. Dad is planning to take me to a therapist. I don't need one. A few nights ago I overheard him talking about talking me to an asylum. I'm not crazy, all my dreams come out true. Does that make me crazy? Maya likes to hear my dreams, I always tone them down for her though. Sometimes I watch the kids being beaten. I don't like it. Professor Xavier believes me, he says that the mind is a complicated thing. Something that no one understands. He's a smart guy, saying that my mind might be a great one. I just wish I knew what these dreams meant. I really hope Maya and I don't end up with the group of kids.
The words ended there, and Poseidon added it into an evidence bag before meeting up with Simp.
"I found a blue hair ribbon and a slip of paper. The paper came from Kara," Poseidon said as Zeus and Hades entered the clearing.
"I found a syringe," Hades admitted holding up an evidence bag.
Zeus rubbed the bridge of his nose, "It sounds exactly like the other site, just with another kid. A struggle, a syringe found, the kids kidnapped."
"There's more," Poseidon said, "Apparently the older Channing had been having nightmares about being kidnapped and feeling like she was being followed, she wrote it down on the paper I found."
The group looked between each other before returning to the police station.
Me: So, review?
