Hello! If you have any ideas about what you think should happen next, PLEASE REVIEW! Here's chapter 5 which I own nothing except certain characters from!
I woke up after a very disturbing dream (I'm sorry, but I don't exactly know what's going to happen later on, so I can't describe the dream!) and packed up all my stuff very quickly. I was so fast because I only had a few pairs of clothes, my iPod, the charger, my fake iHome, and some snacks; definitely not a lot of things.
Lauren woke up about five minutes later after Thalia came in to tell us we were going to be leaving in ten minutes. The sun wasn't up yet, so I wonder if that signified anything important.
We left the tent and found Taelor talking with a few of her half-sisters. Zack was hiding trying not to get spotted by any of the other Hunters; which I think is hilarious! He's scared of a bunch of girls that look younger than 16; but since they could all probably kill him in under two seconds with one hand tied behind their back, he has good reason to be scared!
All of the hunters gathered around near the cliffs I've spent so much time at over the past two days. When we got there, the sun was just starting to rise and Lady Artemis joined us to watch its progress.
As it slowly rose through the sky, it looked more like a red convertible than anything. That's when I finally realized that Apollo actually drove this thing through the sky every day and that we were most likely going to catch a ride with him. Wow, I didn't think that Lady Artemis and Lord Apollo got along well enough to ask favors of each other like this.
"Little sis! What's up?" Lord Apollo was talking like a "cool" fifteen-year old in high school. I never expected a god to speak like that, I guess I was ready for more words like shall or shan't or some other old English words like that.
"We found a son and daughter of Demeter, and they need to be transported to Camp Half-Blood. Normally I wouldn't bother, but Demeter is a good friend of mine and I believe that a game of Capture the Flag is in order." The Hunters all cheered at the last statement, and I guessed that Capture the Flag gets very brutal and ugly.
"No problem! I do feel a haiku coming on though" Everyone except Apollo himself groaned at that, so I think that this might not be the kind of haiku that I love, or he just murders the poetry.
"I'm the one driving
We can get to Camp quickly
I love poetry"
Oh my gosh! That had to be one of the worst poems I have ever heard in my life! I can't believe that he's actually the god of poetry with a haiku like that. I normally love poems, but that was just plain pathetic.
"Brother, your haikus still haven't improved, and it's been ten years since you went to Japan." Ha, I completely agree with Lady Artemis on that subject. His haikus need some serious work.
"That's because you can't improve upon perfection! So the Hunters and two demigods need a lift, I think I can help with that." He clicked his car keys and his amazing car turned into a charter bus. We could now all fit, but the convertible looked so much cooler!
Thalia started giving instructions on how to load up our bags into the bus and we all scurried to follow her directions. I grabbed my iPod out of my backpack before putting it on my back and climbing the stairs. As I passed by Lord Apollo who was already sitting in the driver's seat, he glanced up and looked at me. He eyed my iPod and then waved his hand over it.
I freaked and immediately checked to see what he had done to it while he just chuckled. I glared at him while Lauren walked up behind me and glanced between me and Lord Apollo.
"Chill, I just added a longer battery life and more songs! Now it should have an infinite battery length and all of your favorite songs will add themselves automatically." I glanced down at my iPod and checked the little sign along the bottom where the battery life was signified to see it replied with the infinity symbol.
Glancing back up at Lord Apollo, I smiled and thanked him before walking to the back of the bus with Lauren. I started flipping through my songs and noticed that there were now one hundred more songs than there was before I got onto the bus. Scrolling through them, I noticed one song that stuck out to me.
"Hey, the song Walking on Sunshine is on here now!" The Aly and AJ version, of course. I selected it and heard the song start to play. Walking to the seats where the rest of the Hunters were, I noticed that I was, once again, marking time. I wonder if I'll always do that, even though the Hunt doesn't have its own marching band.
"What did you and Apollo talk about up there?" As soon as I passed Thalia, she asked me that question.
"Oh, he pimped out my iPod so that its battery doesn't die and it has more songs." Thalia looked from me, to Lord Apollo, to my iPod that was in my hand, and then back again.
"Okay, but be careful, he loves to flirt with the Huntresses." Again with the blunt statements! What is wrong with us, we can't ever cushion something no matter what we were talking about. I nodded and continued on to my seat. I sat down and started to nod my head to the beat.
The bus took off, and I noticed Thalia was adamantly refusing to look out of the windows. I wonder if she's afraid of heights or something; although I did hear something somewhere that people weren't afraid of heights, they were afraid of falling.
The song switched over to Something about the Sunshine and I started singing along quietly. Pretty soon, I think I got the whole Hunt belting out the lyrics that they knew. I had a lot of solos in the song, because most of the Huntresses didn't know anything except the chorus; but I really didn't mind.
Occasionally I would catch Lord Apollo watching us out of the rearview mirror and smiling every time that we would all sing so loud that I'm pretty sure the mortals in the town we were flying over could hear us. I don't know why he's watching us so much, but with Thalia's warning about his flirting still fresh in my mind, I decided to focus on my music; which was now playing the song Dynamite.
That song was a lot easier for me to sing just because of they way the song was. It was faster, and it was more of a rap song in between the choruses. By the time that song had finished, we were at Camp Half-Blood. I wonder what's so bad about this place.
Sorry it's so short! I just didn't have anything else to write about their bus ride, and I really want the scene where they arrive at camp to start off the next chapter! If you have any ideas, PLEASE REVIEW! Thank you!
~monkeypicklez