Okay sorry about the wait but it's been hectic, what with school starting again – I'm in grade nine now! (Yes people I live in Australia where we start our new school year at the start of the actual year... anyway) so that's been hectic but now here's a new chapter where hopefully something will happen... I honestly have no idea. Also I'm sure I already said it but I have had to change when this story is set... it is no longer before Percy goes missing but in the months between TLH and SoN so yes Percy is missing.
Disclaimer: "I own nothing! I own nothing, please give me back my copy of Mark of Athena!
"Hey Carter?"
"Mmm?"
"Can I borrow Freak?"
"Mmm,"
"Cool! Wait your just going to let me borrow your monster without question?"
"Mmm,"
"Carter? Carter are you asleep? … Oh well technically he said yes soo..."
Lacy was walking home from school... by herself … which she knew was wrong but she was just so fed up with Drew and Katie's constant bickering so she had walked home via the ice-cream shop where she had gotten an ice-cream (surprise!) and a call from Drew who had gotten home and demanded Lacy get home at once! So Lacy had started walking home again.
Suddenly she heard a noise behind her, and not a normal noise either, not like a car or something but a really loud screech, like a giant chicken or … a harpy? Lacy grabbed her hair clip and turned it into a sword then turned to face the monster, only to discover that it was not a harpy but something that Lacy had never seen before but looked like descriptions she'd read of … gryphons?
"Well in any case it's a monster," she muttered to herself as she charged towards the monster. Before Lacy could even raise her sword a voice yelled from on top of the gryphon
"Si-Kebib!" (sorry if I spelt it wrong but I don't have any of Rick's books on me at the moment) and a blast of blue stuff came flying down and suddenly Lacy was encased in a block of ice, but somehow she could still see and think and breath and stuff. Sadie climbed down off the gryphon and smiled a little maniac-ley,
"I'm sorry Lacy but this is for your own good, I tried the formal approach, and the informal approach and nothing worked, I'm sorry but if I'd left you be then you could have gotten the whole school destroyed!" Sadie then set to work strapping Lacy to the gryphon and after that climbed on herself and flew off, back to Brooklyn house.
When Lacy didn't arrive home half an hour after Drew called her and when she didn't respond to any more phone calls they went looking. After walking all the way to the ice-cream bar and asking around as to when Lacy had last been seen there and getting nothing since forty five minuets ago they started getting worried and heading back to the apartment but on the way they noticed that there was a section of the pavement that was covered in water, they hadn't thought anything of it on the way up but now they wondered if it had something to do with Lacy's disappearance. As Katie went to talk to some nymphs living in trees across the road Drew looked around for clues.
When Katie eventually got the nymphs attention (these nymphs seemed especially upset about the fact that their trees were next to a road and their trees were getting abused and at first refused to talk to her) she asked them about anything they had seen across the road recently and the nymphs started to talk about the commotion.
"There was a girl walking down the street..." at this all the nymphs started talking
"She was really pretty,"
"Yeah! She had nice hair..."
"It kind of reminded me of Aphrodite..."
"CAN I PLEASE CONTINUE THE STORY!?" the first nymph to talk yelled and all the others shut up "and then there was this big screech and the girl turned around and this gryphon flew down and then she pulled out one of her hair clips and it turned into a sword and she charged at the gryphon but then some Egyptian Spawn" she said the word like a major insult "calls down something and next thing we know the girl is in a block of ice, then the Egyptian straps her to the gryphon and flies off." before Katie could say anything Drew called out in a really shrill voice (even for Drew)
"KATIE! COME HERE NOW!" Katie hurriedly thanked the Nymphs and crossed the road to Drew.
"What is it Drew?" she asked
"Look!" Drew cried holding something up for Katie to see "It's Lacy's hairclip! The one that turns into a sword! What does it mean?" Drew looked at Katie
"It means we need to get to camp right away! Come on! The nymphs told me some stuff to I'll explain on the way!" Katie started running, drew turned to follow then paused,
"Um Katie? Camp's that-a-way" she pointed in the other direction to the one Katie had been heading in.
"Yeah but or apartment is in this direction and we probably want our gear don't we?" Katie had hardly paused in her run and now Drew started to follow her.
"Good point."
half an hour after arriving back at Brooklyn house Sadie was sat on the couch in the lounge room with Carter standing over her while Zia helped Lacy through a warm shower and found her some dry clothes.
"... Stole my gryphon … Froze an innocent girl … probably caused a massive disruption in town! What where you thinking?!" Carter paused half to catch his breath and half to give Sadie a chance to respond which she did,
"I was thinking that I should get the untrained descendant of the Pharaohs to Brooklyn House so she could be trained or at least not be a danger to others, and seeing as she wasn't going to come the conventional way I had no other choice,"
"But freezing her Sadie? Really?"
"I'm sorry about that honestly I didn't intend to freeze her but in the heat of the moment … you know?"
"What about stealing Freak huh?"
"I asked you and you said yes but when I think about it maybe you were asleep?" Sadie was feeling kind of sheepish but kind of indignant as well so she did one silly thing? Carter did stupid things all the time and nobody told him off for it! Just then Zia walked in,
"Carter? You want to go do your welcome speech?" she asked
"Sure, where is she?" Carter responded
"The third room on the left, third floor," Zia said then yelled "THIRD FLOOR" after him when Carter left the room.
"Look Zia if Your going to tell me off please don't, Carter's been going on and on about it and I'm pretty sure he's said everything that's to be said," Sadie started
"I have only one thing to say then I'll leave you alone," Zia replied "And I can assure you that carter wont have said this," Sadie rolled her hand in a go-on gesture "Look, Sadie throughout my life I have put up with many things, you think you've had it rough? Try fighting two mythological wars at once, keeping both wars secret from the other armies, and having your boyfriend leave you to work for and later be possessed by the Greek equivalent of Apophis all at once!" Zia exclaimed, "Now from all this I've learnt to be very lenient among other things but kidnapping one of m- an innocent person on a whim is to much! I'm sorry, but I cant put up with it, so I'm going to go visit my dad's side of the family for a while, while this gets sorted out, I'll be back in a while but I'm sorry I just need a break for a while, tell Carter I'm really sorry but I need some time to myself." Zia turned and ran upstairs to her room, Sadie close on her heels
"Zia, I'm sorry, seriously, don't go please-" she broke of when Zia who had picked up a case that was lying on her bed turned to look at her
"I'm sorry Sadie but I really need some time alone right now." She turned and jumped onto the window edge.
"Zia! Stop what are you doing!?" Sadie cried running forward,
Zia turned to look at Sadie and yelled
"I'M GOING TO FUFILL MY DESTINY AS MY FATHER'S DAUGHTER!" then she jumped.
MWA HA HA I'M EVIL, but we learnt a lot this chapter, and it was a long one too, I've compiled a list of things we learnt:
Carter mumbles in his sleep
Drew actually cares about Lacy
Zia was not only in the war against Apophis but another war at the same time where her then boyfriend pulled a Luke
For Zia fulfilling her destiny includes jumping out of high-up windows.
Now some questions – who is Zia's dad and why is he so important? What's going to happen to Lacy? What's going to happen to Zia? Who is Zia's boyfriend? Who is Lacy's boyfriend? How is Carter going to react to Sadie telling him that Zia just jumped out a window? Think you know an answer? Comment and tell me! Also tell me who you want to appear in this story and I will try to make it happen! - NicoCheesediPizzaAngelo is out Peace!