Vanilla Twilight: Part I
~Percy's POV~
"Everyone ready?" Chiron called as we readied ourselves on the pegasi with our quest stuff.
"Ready!" Me, Thalia, Nico, and Kyron called.
"Go then! What are you waiting for?" He chuckled in response. We soared off as our fellow campers waved goodbye. They threw me a Snicker's bar too. Weirdos.
It was mostly quiet on our way there. Katniss couldn't make it—since we can't control this screwed time travel thing. I saw her two days ago—after we arrived back in NYC. I faded on the core's balcony, talking to Peeta. Who now—as we all voted—knows about this. "This" as in me, time travel, Greek Mythology, and what the others are. He was a bit shaken from all the blood loss (according to Katniss) but he seemed better. Then, I had an awkward conversation with Peeta afterward . . .
"So how long have you and Katniss been in contact?" He asked as he drank his mocha. The snow settled slowly on the ledge. I stared blankly into my mocha.
"Since August. She landed in my room. Not the nicest girl when you first meet her and she's thinking you're going to kidnap her." Heh, Disneyland. In your dreams, Kat.
"And all this time she was screwed up with all the information, huh?" He chuckled.
"Oh yes. Hit it spot on." It's true! She was all over the place trying to get a concrete answer.
"She's beautiful, anyway. No matter where and how . . . in and out. She's my everything. So . . . thanks, for protecting her. I owe you my life. . ." He said as he chugged down the last drops of mocha. I looked at him. She's more than beautiful, Peeta.
"Yeah, it's all in a day's work, Peeta." I slowly crushed the cup. What's happening to me?
I shake the flashback out of my head. Peeta is good guy and all but still . . . There's something there I dislike. Gods, Yoli! What the Hades did you implement on me?
"Dude, you okay?" Kyron called from my right. I nodded. He shrugged afterward and continued soaring through the sky.
The sunrise was beautiful.
~Katniss's POV~
"You do realize you all could get suspended and hung for your selfish actions, right?" Haymitch growled into our ears. They found out we came back and as soon as they did. They sent soldiers to tranquilize us and retrieve us. So here we are. Me, Mitzuki, Sora, Peeta, and Oran.
We were in a more formal room, compared to any other rooms here. The walls were planked with wood. Dew drops violently hit the floor every now and then. Making the drops resound through my ears tenfold.
"Yes. But it was for the greater good, commander." Mitzuki said. Kiss-up.
"Look they retrieved Peeta and me! Now they have no one to risk!" Sora growled back.
"What about Annie? Huh?" Finnick spoke forth, finally. "Doesn't she matter?" Now that I notice, Annie wasn't over there.
"Finnick," I call, "Annie wasn't over there, so—"
"So how can you expect us to save her, fishbrain?" Sora interrupted. Finnick went up and hit Sora. Mitzuki made a noise while Sora suffered from a nosebleed.
"I've always disliked you, Sora. You have an ill-temper and that's going to interfere severly with our good willed intentions!" Finnick called as he sat on his chair-like throne. Sora snorted and chuckled for a second.
"Sora. You are to be suspended—from duty and all power—for a month." That got Sora's attention as Plutarch hit the hammer on the wood—as if this were a real court. The only differences are: We are shackled, we are allowed to be hit, no jury, and we are guilty until proven innocent. Smells like Capitol influence all over the place.
"You can't do that!" Sora yelled in his slithery voice.
"Oh but we can, and we will." Haymitch spat. "As for the rest of you, you are all sentenced to hard labor for a month. Peeta only for a week." You should've seen the look on Sora's face.
"Wait, wait, wait! How come Peeta gets the least punishment and I get the greatest considering we were both in the same damn situation?" Sora snarled.
Haymitch smirked. "Because you violated the rule of treason. You went off with your plan into the Capitol. Plus you stole some cash from our savings! What do you want us to expect? Peeta just got captured after the Quarter Quell!" He then turned to us and empowered his voice like when he used to inform me of life and death situations. When he was on my side. And this goes for all of you! You all left without notifying us first and disturbed our bond of unity! And then stole from the organization!" Pfft, what unity? What organization?
I then balled my fist. Haymitch, there are some things in this world you may never comprehend, and that includes me.
"You would have rejected our request! And they," I spit, pointing at Sora and Peeta, "would be dead. D. E. A. D. And then who would you blame? Not the Capitol, but us. You would have blamed Peeta getting captured on me and Sora's death by his own hand and on the side, Oran and Mitzuki." I pant. I am mad. Haymitch comes up to me and slaps me. I don't want to yell, but that hurt. It hurt more than any blow the tributes in the field ever gave me. I feel somewhat . . . betrayed . . . by the man I thought did everything for —the greater good.
"You are all traitors to our cause. Not heroes." Plutarch calls in our faces. "Take them away to sleep in the dungeon tonight. Explore their 'place of stay', bring back what you can," he told some soldiers and they went off.
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"They can't search the core. We'll probably be murdered plus suspended from U.K.E for getting revealed!" Oran called desperately from his cell. Yes, we were honored enough to have our own cells.
"Look, what's done is done. We did what we had to do." Sora called from the shadows of his cell.
"Sora, no. We can't just—" Mitzuki began.
"Mitzuki you shouldn't have come for me. Our feelings for each other interrupted our goal." I would have gasped or expressed an exaggerated move for basically hearing Sora express his feelings but I wasn't in the mood.
Silence surrounded us for hours.
"Oh, Artemis. If you can hear me . . . Help me." I whispered selfishly. Getting a glance from Oran and a raised eyebrow from Sora.
Paggos Fotia then began to spin in a technicolored whirl, until another charm appeared on it. It was a small ball. It was a boiling red and it had the Alpha symbol. It was a bomb. I smiled as I silently thanked Artemis.
I took the fiery charm into my hand and I threw it at my wall. It exploded. I heard my comrades saying something to me but I purposely drowned them out. Alarms went off everywhere. And eventually the jail cells were drowned in a mean red color. But that didn't stop me . . . because I ran. And cowardly. . .
I didn't look back.
I ran toward the woods. And eventually I heard a voice on a microphone telling me to stop or I will be shot. I tripped over my shackles eventually.
"We have you surrounded! One step and we pull the trigger!" I saw my troops—my very team—around me. Even Gale. I get up and stand, dragging the burden of my shackles. "Put your hands up!" They kept ordering but I didn't, and I took a few steps toward Gale.
"Protect my family, 'cause I'm not coming back for a long time." I told him. Then a gunshot was heard behind me. I shut my eyes. And I . . . teleported.
I don't know how or why but I'm glad I did. The only thing that would drag me down would be that I didn't help the people who helped me. Oran, Peeta, Mitzuki . . . or even Sora. I just ran. I promised myself I wouldn't run like that anymore, and yet I failed that. I bet they're gonna hate me when I return. They will probably kick me out and take Peeta in. He'll probably save the world better, he saved me, so why not the world . . .?
God I want to dream again. Take me where I've never been.
~Percy's POV~
We saw Alacraez in the distance. Yes, they had enough imagination to keep Annabeth in a shut down prison in the city where she lives. Yes, I felt stupid too when they told me.
That's when a déjà vu happened to me, only that I wasn't in my room, or on my bed.
Katniss landed on Blackjack. Unconscious as per usual.
"Blackjack, land where ever you can!" I mentally told him.
"You got it, boss!" He thought back. I rolled my eyes and mentally reminded him not to call me boss anymore.
We landed on a Taco Tote. I'm surprised they have one in San Francisco.
"Who is that?" Thalia called as she landed next to me.
"Well, well, well! Look what the cat dragged in!" Kyron called as he landed with Nico. "Get it? Cat is like Kat but you know—Geez! Never mind! You guys have no humor!" That's when I started feeling something wet coming from Kat's leg. I look at my hand and realize it's blood. Thalia's eyes grow.
"We do, just not yours." Thalia told him off. We flew off almost immediately. "Should we set up camp near Alacreaz?" I nod frantically. The cold winter air hit us in the face more fiercely now.
Memories surface us . . . This is where Zoe died and we thought Luke was gone for sure. But no. . .
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"Dang, it's cold!" Thalia threw her blanket to Kyron. He mouthed thanks. Thalia circled to my side where I was with Katniss.
"She gonna be fine?" She asks. I shrug. "She was shot and Kyron managed to get the bullet out but she's still bleeding." I get another cloth to absorb more of her blood.
"Get some water, I'll watch her." Thalia told me. She got Katniss and I had no choice but to set off.
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I get on a dock. The water smells saltier than usual. As if the small grains accumulated right in my face, like a drug. Too salty that I feel myself falling toward the water. Slowly—gently. My eyes shut and I undergo a dream, under the sea.
X-X
"Wake up, boy." I hear a sharp feminine voice calling at me. My eyes flicker open and I see her. Aminta. The obnoxious eleven year old with a heart shaped face and gleaming velvet eyes. There's something about her—right now—that gives off a calm and peaceful aura. But I'll never give into the likes of her.
I stand up. "Oh . . . What do you want?" I rub my blurry eyes.
"Nothing. Just warning you." Her face turned stern yet so innocent looking. "Look I don't have much time but I need you to not rescue Annabeth. I mean it. Please do not go. You'll rule it in the future." I ball my fist. It's a trap. Her face turned sad. "Please, Perseus. Everything is going according to Kronos's plan. You saving Annabeth is a major step. The gears to this plan are clicking on with each wrong choice you make. And so far, the gears are clicking as we speak." Her red velvet eyes seemed so sad. But I would never give in to that. "Please . . . Please I beg you. As a friend." I ball my fists.
"Yeah sure! I just traveled across the country for her! I'm not going back!" She cast her head down. I still don't know what's gotten into me after I told Holt off the other day. It's as if I acquired Katniss's amazing gift to never shut up and give in without a fight.
"When we meet—which I'm sure we will—don't say I didn't warn you." A tear streamed down her face.
The image blurs and I have a small delicate rose in my hand. Now I see Annabeth. Her eyes flicker open.
"Percy . . .?" I run to her side, dropping the rose.
"I'm here, I'm here." Her gray eyes almost seemed white. Her skin beyond pale. "I'm going to get you out of here." she coughs.
"Get those keys on the other side of my cell and the passcode to enter. Quick, you don't have a lot of time in the comatose." I blink in surprise. So wait, now I'M in a comatose? Just lovely. Just gotta love fate. Just kidding.
I ran to the cell entrance and I went through the gate—like a ghost. I ran and retrieved the passcode and the keys. Then I went running back to Annabeth with some water. Then I took out the Snicker's bar that the campers threw at me earlier.
"Here eat this, and drink this. We're coming. I promise you." I was about to get up before she pulled me into her until our lips were locked.
"Please, hurry." She whispered into my ear. "Also, Percy, a girl came to me and told me to . . . tell you . . . " I never got to find out what she said because she fell unconscious.
The image blurred and I was now on a tropical island. Oh joy. I see two figures talking and I think one of them is me.
"You don't understand! They—" My other "I" started saying.
"No, no! I understand perfectly!" A female voice rang through the air. Her tone was urgent and imperative. "Look, we're both going through tough times! We'll get through! At least Stephanie is alive! Doesn't that matter at least?" The girl—whose face I still can't see—had small tears running down her face. Her voice is so familiar that it's severely killing me for not knowing whose it belongs to. "I have to get back . . ." she said faintly. She started coming to where I was and I saw her distressed and puffy face. Katniss.
"But he's dead. You have no reason to go back." "I" say. She turns around and faces future me. Glares. How unusual.
"I didn't mean for him. Look, now I know the truth." She says sternly but eventually casts her head down when she says those last five words.
"I" go to her side. And let's just say, I'm glad the image blurred. I don't need to see the future, much the less, that future. With killings. It's too much.
I open my eyes to see I'm underwater. Dark blue bubbles surround me as I swim up to surface. What just happened . . .? And why is there light . . .? Oh, great it's day. How long have I been in the comatose?
I run back to the camp to see only Nico there. His eyebrow furrows.
"We've been looking for you since last night!" He came down to see if it was really me.
"I know. I was in a—um—comatose. But I know how to get into Alacraez!" I said.
"Wait! Comatose?"
"I cant explain now. Where are the others?" I ask.
"Right here." Thalia called from behind me. Next to her were a healthy Katniss and Kyron.
"And we heard all of that." Katniss said, she had one of Thalia's Paramore shirts on and some of her torn jeans. Wasn't Katniss's style, her style was more . . . graceful. "So I'm ready to repay a favor." Her voice rang through my ears. Repay a favor? Oh, she means Peeta. I smile and nod.
"I would hope so, Kat." I called back. Thalia's eyes reverted from both of us.
"Just a reminder, while you two flirt, Annabeth dies. Just an FYI." Kyron called as he examined his reflection on his infamous sword. Katniss glared at Kyron for a while.
"We should go . . ." Nico called from the side. I almost forgot he was here. We all nod and head for Alacraez.
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"Thalia!" Nico warns Thalia as huge spider clawed Thalia. Nico ran to her side and helped her up as blood drupes down her whole arm.
Of course Annabeth wasn't going to be unprotected. Of course! I had told them I had everything to get in and out without a scratch, but Annabeth never mentioned this! This, as in, a family reunion of all the spiders known to mankind plus enlarged to 5th high each!
"Katniss take the right!" Kyron yells at her and she runs there pulling off a new charm. A red charm. She threw it and it exploded, lots of spiders flew off with the explosion. Kyron flew in the air shooting random balls of green poison energy. Exactly like Oran's. At one point he switched to red and threw fire out of his mouth. It looked freaking awesome.
Thalia and Katniss paired up and began throwing volleys of arrows at spiders. Nico cracked the earth various times to gain support from his dead friends but there were still too many spiders. I went cutting the spiders swiftly in half with Riptide. But like I said, too many. We all got surrounded and we had our backs to each other.
"Well it was nice knowing you all. Nico, I want to tell you that I was the one who whip creamed your underwear, not the Stoll brothers." Kyron called cheerfully.
"You what?" Nico turned to him, angrily. "I lasted weeks getting tha—!"
"Shut up!" Thalia growled. "I don't want to hear about this on my deathbed."
Almost immediately Riptide started shaking in my hands. It also started glowing all neon blue and stuff. I look over to Katniss, whose bow is shaking like crazy with a golden aura.
"Whoa. Now that is cool." Kyron cried out. He started shaking his sword but no aura came out. All the spiders fled in horror. But then mama Spider came out. It wasn't pretty especially since she was a good 50ft high.
So this is how it all ends, with mama spider.
~Katniss's POV~
"Oh fuck." Nico whispered, but we all heard since we're packed together.
"Well someone has a colorful multipurpose vocabulary . . ." Kyron mumbled. Thalia kicked them both.
"Stay serious, you two. You give me a headache." She called annoyed. In the meantime, Paggos Fotia kept shaking in my hand, as did Riptide. Which wasn't helping, at all.
Kyron then flew off with purple crackling electric energy off his finger tips. His eyes and aura became that color, as usual. Yet somehow I'm always stricken when I see it. The huge arthropod only had small spasms with the energy. So he switched to green and at one point, black. But that was plain creepy. In the meantime Thalia shot arrows and Nico skid around it with his sword, slashing at it every chance Kyron gave him.
All that happened while Percy and Iremained useless. Our weapons refused to react. That's when I saw that the blue and gold aura of our weapons attracted to each other. I looked at Percy who was observing the battle with great interest. So I walked and pushed Paggos Fotia with me toward Riptide. And the auras' began blazing beautifully. It gave off the feeling of peace and balance. Like Yin Yang. Percy noticed me getting closer and saw what was happening.
"What . . . what is this?" He asked. I shrugged as I saw the most eerily thing. The weapons started morphing together. I let go of Paggos Fotia and Percy did the same with Riptide. They floated there and I could see my reflection against the metals.
But I was different. I had a huge gash coming from my right eye to my chin. It looked to be throbbing and it started hurting like fire surging through my whole body. My eyes were a golden color. I touched my face but there was no gash on it, but I could still see it and it still burned. I yelped quietly various times when I touched it.
I looked at Percy who seemed to be in the same trance, tracing around his left eye and down. He looked in pain also. He looked up and gave me a questioning look, flinching in pain every once in a while.
"Guys! Look out!" Nico yelled at us. We looked up to see a huge piece of the ceiling was falling on us. I put my hands up over my head in defense, still managing to look at myself in the metals. I awaited my death or a serious injury but no.
Paggos Fotia and Riptide created a force field around us. So the rocks slid around it. I looked at the weapons that just caused me pain yet saved my life. They were one now. It was an automated bow.
"What are you waiting for? Use it!" Kyron growled as he used his power to keep the arthropod hanging against the wall.
Percy got—um, Paggos-Rip-Fotia-Tide?—and made a clean shot at the arthropod, it disintegrated disgustingly. I had to turn away, and I'm used to this stuff. I saw Thalia and the others turning away in disgust as well. I can't even describe it. How its eyes overflowed themselves as they popped out with blood and . . . ugh. Just gross. I feel so vulnerable.
We all pant and Kyron falls from his flying. His power drained. I fell as well and so did Percy. I felt so drained as well, as if my aura was the one used to power that weapon we created.
Thalia examined the weapon. She whistled. "Well this is a sexy weapon." She squinted to read something on it. "Its name is Ripfotia. So like clashing flames, in Greek . . .?"
I could barely make out the other words she said because I blanked out and eventually blacked out into the darkness of this cell.
So yeah! HERE ITS IS ;DDDDDDDD IM going on vacation for about two weeks today (uploading this as fast as I can -.- my flight leaves in a few hours) So yeah :D but since the plane ride is kinda long I guarantee I wil have done a good 2 or 3 chappies ;D so when I come back…. CHAPPIE FRENZY! 8D so yeah, enjoy and review! Tell me what you think of the plot so far! LOVE YOU ALL :D
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