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Here's the next (and last) chapter for my first story on Fan Fiction! This time it didn't take me another 9 months to update it. I'm so proud of myself.
I'm thinking of doing a ClarissexChris fanfiction next. What do you guys think?
Thank you to everyone who reviewed this story. It really helps motivate me to write another chapter :P
Here's the final chapter, Chapter 3!
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I made my way into the clearing right outside of where Juniper's bush grew. I took a couple deep breaths.
I can do this, I thought to myself, I can get Juniper to believe me. After all, 87% of all relationships have major fights, and 85% of those relationships fix it and are in fact, a stronger couple.
Knowing my luck, Juniper and I would be the 2% who crashed and burned, and broke up with each other, leaving the other horribly devastated and emotionally scarred for life.
I would be the scarred for life one.
"So like I was saying, I was completely joking around. Nothing I said meant anything."
"Are you sure? You're not just saying this because Grover asked you too, are you?"
"No, I'm not. I can't believe you guys can't take a joke around here."
What was going on? The voices sounded like Clarisse's and Juniper's, but it couldn't be. Clarisse was still in a bad mood, right? Of course, Clarisse always seems to be in a bad mood..
"Clarisse?" I asked. I was still a little too scared to confront Juniper by saying her name. I walked out of the clearing and found the two standing right beside Juniper's bush.
"Grover!" Juniper exclaimed and rushed to hug me. I accepted the hug – and it felt so much better than the one this morning, "Clarisse explained what had happened. I'm so glad! I was so worried that we were over for good!"
"Juniper, I'm glad too, really I am, but.." I looked at Clarisse, trying to decide what her motives were. She grinned like she knew a deadly secret.
"Oh hello Grover," Clarisse said, "Now what are you doing here?"
"I came to get my girlfriend back," I said simply. I didn't like being around Clarisse without anyone else. Sure we had all the different nymphs and naiads, but they didn't really care to help out in satyr affairs. Even though I had Juniper with me, I still didn't feel like they would help me out.
"And you did!" Juniper said excitedly, "I'm so sorry I ever doubted you Grover."
"Yeah, that's nice, but Clarisse, why did you do this?" I asked. Maybe it had been out of the kindness of her heart, but I wasn't exactly sure that was the motivation. Clarisse had a hard time being nice on purpose.
"I thought about what Annabeth had said. And what you had said. You were right, it wasn't you and Juniper I was mad at. It was Annabeth." Clarisse said. I had a bad feeling about this.
"Did you, perhaps, do anything that might've caused her harm?" I asked carefully.
"Not any real harm. I just showed her what it's like to have a crazy boyfriend."
And with that sentence, I raced towards the camp. I had to find Percy.
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"Percy!" I yelled, "Percy!" I was running towards the Poseidon cabin, not knowing what I would see when I got there. I had left Clarisse laughing with triumph. Juniper had tried to follow, but it was a little out of reach for her.
I swung open the door and ran in. Percy was nowhere to be found. I ran out and then headed towards the Athena cabin, where Annabeth lived.
"Percy! Annabeth!" I yelled as I raced inside. The different campers looked at me strangely. I guessed I looked strange – I was out of breath and probably looked a little crazy.
"They're out on the lake," Someone told me. I ran out without even saying thanks. I needed to make sure that Percy was okay.
Finally reaching the lake, I saw an epic battle going on. Not epic as in 'extremely awesome' but epic as in 'huge, big, giant'.
A wave was rising from the lake – but it was abnormal. It was big, way too big to be happening naturally. And it wasn't.
I could see a figure in the middle of the wave, concentrating on raising the water higher and higher. It was Percy. I couldn't see him all that well, but there weren't any other kids in camp who could raise an entire lake to form a wave.
It was over 40 feet tall, and I was worried for Percy. I mean, 1st of all this was a lot of water. He must be getting tired. What if he fainted? And 2nd of all what in the world had Clarisse done to him to make him do this? The last time Percy had raised this much water was the Titan War.
"Grover!" Someone yelled, faintly. I looked frantically for the voice. It was Annabeth's, and she sounded in pain.
Finally, I saw her. She was laying on the sand. Why wasn't she getting up? Couldn't she see that Percy was about to hit her with a wave the size of a 4-story building?
"Annabeth get up!" I yelled, rushing over, "Get up!"
She looked at me, with incredible pain and sadness in her face.
"I can't," she said.
"What do you mean?" I asked. The roar of the water was getting louder, though how that was possible escaped me.
"My leg is hurt. Broken," she said.
"How?" I asked nervously. Please don't tell me that Percy hurt you, I prayed in my head. Well, not actually prayed, since it was to Annabeth, not the gods.
"Percy hurt me," she said quietly.
Suddenly the water was released and the wave crashed down over us.
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I woke up to the chirping of birds and the light of morning. I looked around not really sure where I was.
"Wait a second…" I said to myself. The place did look familiar. These were same trees I had slept by for the past 4 months. The same stream that I always drank from. And there was the neighborhood, where recycling was such a problem.
"What in the world?" I asked myself. Had it really been just a dream? It had seemed so real…
"That was just one possibility," said a voice behind me. I turned, startled. He looked like a regular man, but there were two things different. For one, his clothes were old-fashioned, like a Greek god's would be. And second, he had two faces.
"Janus," I said. I had been visited by him once before. Well, okay, he had really only come to talk to Annabeth, but he was still associated with bad memories. The cramped darkness, the feeling that you're either trapped or lost, forever and ever. The Labrynth.
"Yes, I am one of the great Greek gods. Listen to me. That was just one possibility. If you go back to camp right now, this will happen to you."
"Then how do I avoid it?" I asked, terrified. This was no future I wanted.
Suddenly, the other face animated, "I said listen, didn't I?" He said harshly.
"I'm sorry," I said, now even more terrified.
"Don't mind him, he lives just lives to be mean," said the other face. I looked down at the ground. I considered kneeling, but even though I was so scared I knew that I couldn't give Janus this kind of leverage. I needed to be strong or I might never be able to change my future.
Now if this was one of the Olympian gods, that would be completely different.
"One of the gods above must be looking out for you. He-"
"Or she-"
"Yes, or she," said the nice face, pointedly. The two faces must really hate each other, I thought.
"Has requested that I bring you back in time, to 1 month earlier. If I do this and you leave immediately, you can make it back to Camp Half-Blood without giving Juniper too much of a fright."
I couldn't believe my ears. This was incredible, an amazing chance!
"Wow, I-I don't know how to thank you," I said, finally looking up.
"Yeah, there really is no way to thank us. We're a god," said the mean face. Meanly.
"There is one thing," said the nice face.
"Yes?" I asked timidly. Great! Now I was going to need to go on some quest! How could I do that? I couldn't do that. There goes my chance at having a good life.
"You must never tell anyone what you have seen here." Janus said simply. I waited, my head down, expecting more to be said. But there was only silence.
"Is that all?" I asked, awkwardly. Still nothing. I looked up.
Janus was gone.
All of sudden, time froze. I could see, but I couldn't move. Nothing else moved either. And then time started going backwards. Leaves flew back into trees, people drove backwards , and I even went backwards.
It was a month. A month of backwardness. I couldn't hear anyone, and I couldn't move myself. But I relived that month backwards. As it turns out, time doesn't speed up when going backwards. It's the same speed as going forward.
And then I was sleeping, under the same tree as when Janus had visited me. And then I could hear. I could move myself.
I got up quickly, "Thank you!" I yelled, hoping that Janus would hear me. The trip would take me about 7 weeks on foot, if I really hurried. But that was too long.
I opened my backpack, and saw a plane ticket sitting right on top, one that hadn't been there before. I was little nervous to be on a plane, but I figured that since Percy wasn't with me I should be safe. After all, I wasn't the son of the sea god.
Two hours later, I was on my way to New York.
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I got home to Camp Half-blood just in time for dinner, andas I was scraping off a sacrifice of my food for the gods, I made sure to include Janus. I thanked him for the incredible opportunity, and chance. I also made sure to thank the other gods, because one of them had told Janus to give me that incredible chance.
When I reunited with Juniper (as soon as dinner was done. I didn't even stay for the campfire singing) nothing was wrong. She smiled and gave me a hug. And it wasn't awkward at all.
