This chapter is going to jump POVs a lot. Try and keep up!

Also, I decided: I don't really care. If you're reading this, great! Please keep reading! If not, oh well! You just happen to be missing out!

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Ella: Because I wanted to have Polybotes there, and I thought Gaea was too important not to mention especially if I had her son in there.

Somewhere in that twisted mind of mine, I thought of shipping Polybotes and Khione (in this story context). What.

I also sort of imagined Khione with the spacey qualities of Luna Lovegood (but still super evil) (to all you Luna fans out there, no, I don't mean Luna is evil, I love Luna Lovegood, but I mean that's sort of what Khione's like) (in an evil sort of way).

Disclaimer: Me no ownie.

Ch 11

ALL THIRD PERSON POV

LEO

Getting bought by some creepy cold lady was not Leo's idea of a surface vacation. In fact, getting bought wasn't Leo's idea of a surface vacation.

"Take its gag off," she said once they had entered her estate and her henchmen had set him down in the middle of a grand entrance. They unlocked his gag. The lady stood there expectantly, as if she expected him to start screaming or crying or whatever.

"Hello Snowflake," was the first thing that came out of Leo's mouth. He smiled seductively. Maybe he could weasel his way into her heart then out to the sea?

She just studied him with cold eyes. "Interesting." She looked up. "I must draw him while he is still full and healthy. Then my studies may begin."

"Studies?" Leo asked as they carried him out of the room. "But I hate school!"

Khione smiled coldly. "Studies on you, my fireball."

They dumped him in a tank that was barely tall enough for him to straighten out in, and just wide enough for him to sit in if he scrunched his tail together.

"Stay still, fireball," Khione ordered as she grabbed a pad of paper and a pen, "so I might draw you."

The water was freezing. All Leo wanted to do was curl up in a little ball and breath breaths of fire to warm up. Leo started shivering.

Khione frowned. "Stop moving, fireball."

Leo tried to stop shivering, but couldn't.

"Fine. I shall draw you tomorrow." Khione turned to her guards. "Turn the temperature of his water down as cold as possible without freezing him. It shall punish him well enough."

The water did the impossible to Leo: it got colder. As the lights went out, all Leo could do was curl up in a little ball and hope he didn't freeze to death.

o.O.o

NICO

"Bring me back!" was the first thing Nico yelled when Kahale took his gag off.

Kahale looked confused. "Why?"

Nico just glared at him. After being carried through the streets of Jupiter City, then dumped in the entrance hall of Kahale's home, Nico decided he had a right to be angry. As if he wasn't already.

"That was a stupid question," Kahale muttered. "Look, I'm sorry for what Luke and his crew did to you. I was just following orders."

Nico was taken aback. He didn't even expect a response, much less an apology.

o.O.o

PIPER

"Nice and plump," Ma Gasket said, pinching Piper's tail. Piper squirmed away from her pinch. Ma Gasket frowned. "Of course, you could be plumper."

Piper didn't like Ma Gasket or her menacing tone. She didn't like the fact that Ma Gasket brought her into a kitchen. Piper didn't like the fact that she was lying on a kitchen counter, or the number of sharpened cooking knives hanging above her. Piper absolutely hated the island in the middle of the kitchen, though. For that island had straps for two wrists and a tail, and mysterious stains on it. Actually, saying Piper hated the island was an understatement.

"Reyna!" Ma Gasket roared. "Reyna! Get your sorry behind over here before I chop off your hand and make it into souffle!"

A girl with black hair came racing into the room. She wore kitchen rags, but still managed to look regal. "I'm here, don't fret," she grumbled.

Ma Gasket grunted. "Get this thing strapped down on the island and start prepping it. These people are hungry for tail fin sushi." She lumbered away.

Reyna studied Piper carefully. "I'm sorry," she whispered. Then she picked Piper up, and put her on the island, strapping her tail down. "I don't agree with this," she said as she unlocked the chains around Piper's forearms. Reyna placed Piper's hands flat against the table, and strapped them there. She unlocked Piper's gag, and sighed. "But I have to do this."

"No you don't!" Piper cried.

Reyna sighed again. "I do! I'm Ma Gasket's slave!"

o.O.o

HAZEL

"Lady Hylla!"

Lady Hylla inclined her head as she entered the room.

A manservant hurried forward. "The mermaid is ready."

"Place Arion in the tank with her," she said. "He requires company."

The manservant scurried off. Lady Hylla approached the tank Hazel was in. The minute the manservant slammed the doors shut, Lady Hylla's cool and collected facade dropped.

"Are you alright? Did they mistreat you in any way?" she asked.

Hazel was extremely confused. "You care?"

Lady Hylla nodded. "I swear, I am going to do everything I can to help you escape."

Hazel crossed her arms. "Then let me go right now."

"I can't." Lady Hylla faltered. "My step-sister, Lady Otera, she will seize my title as heir to my father's fortune if I show the slightest bit of weakness. I would be cast onto the streets, like…" Lady Hylla trailed off, biting her lip.

"Like who?"

"Like my sister. She was just a baby, but that was Otera's mother's decision. My baby sister wasn't good enough. She cried too much."

"Oh."

The doors clanged open. Lady Hylla composed her face back to its composed look as the manservants carried a tank with a hippocampus inside. Except this hippocampus wasn't colored like the hippocampus Hazel was used to. This one was brown, with black eyes. Its tank wasn't much larger than Hazel's tank, and it looked like all it wanted to do was get out and swim.

"Put Arion in with her," Lady Hylla ordered. The manservants complied. Arion was dumped in the tank.

Just before walking out, Lady Hylla slipped her gold bracelet into the tank. "He eats gold," she whispered to Hazel. "I hope you become friends." Then she left.

Hazel used her powers to pick up the bracelet. She held it out. Arion sniffed it, distrustful.

"Here you go," Hazel said softly.

Arion ate it, and whinnied. He nuzzled her hand.

"Don't worry," Hazel said. "We'll return to the sea. Eventually."

Writers block officially gone! Yay!

I'm going to be updating much less frequently now, because it's almost finals! So school is important.

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