Chapter 8

~A MESSAGE FROM ISABEL...AGAIN~

HIYA FOLKS! jk...what was I even thinking when I said that? Ok, anyway, I wanted to tell y'all that I am surely alive and I have just been busy lately and I will be posting more now since its summer :)

~Isabel

~Nicos POV~

(The night that Leo ran away)

I usually have strange dreams, but this one is the weirdest and most dark I had ever experienced.

I was in a dark, fiery place which I soon recognized as the Underworld. A large cavern formed above me.

I heard someone screaming.

I walked towards the screams, coming from outside the cavern.

Suddenly, a woman in black robes brushed past me. I recognized her as Ariana's mother, Eris. I started to follow her, but suddenly the dream changed. I was in pitch black darkness.

I couldn't see anything.

"You're mine now," a deep voice called out to me. And suddenly, I could see. It was like I was watching a video of Camp Half Blood. I saw myself, being avoided by people and my friends betraying me. I could see Ariana, as she was scolding me about making Leo leave.

I didn't need them.

~Vanessa's POV~

"Ummm...Ariana? Who was that?" I said as the creepy woman faded away.

"M-My mom," she said.

I blushed. "Oh," I said quietly.

Suddenly, she was shaken out of her trance. "But we have to go. You heard her- we have three days. Let's just get Leo back."

With a flick of her wrist, she summoned a tornado and jumped on it. "Hop on," she said.

Reluctantly, I climbed the small tornado. It surprisingly held me up, even though tornadoes are literally just air.

We flew through the water until we came to dry land. She slowly made the tornado smaller. We walked to the city and luckily, I had money to get a taxi to take us to the Empire State Building where Olympus was.

As we stood outside the building in the pitch black, I thought of something. "How are we going to get in?!"

"I'm trying to figure that out." Ariana sat down against the side of the building, flustered.

I slumped against the building, too. I put my hands in my pockets and found my phone and earbuds. I turned some music on and I must've fallen asleep, because the next thing I knew, a woman in white robes was in front of me. "Mom?!" Ariana was still there, but she couldn't see Harmonia. She was just sitting and thinking frustratingly.

"My dear Vanessa, you can't give the apple to Eris. It's wrong. She will use it to release evil into the world. Get the apple and when you do, destroy it. Eris' power is too strong. She is the goddess of chaos and cannot be trusted. To get the apple, you must use your power."

"Power? What power? Wait!" I tried to finish as she faded away.

I awoke with a deep breath. I opened my eyes and took out my earbuds. Ariana looked over. "What's wrong?" She said.

"N-nothing," I said. "Just a bad dream,"

"Okay," she muttered.

I pulled up my chill playlist. It was mostly composed of classical meditation music so I could relax when I was stressed out. I set it on shuffle and a new song came up. I had never downloaded it, but somehow I knew it. It was in another language-Greek. I didn't know how I knew, but I did.

I sang along to it.

"akoúsei na tragoudíso na akoúsete tin klísi mou ptósi ypó ton élenchó mou"

Ariana immediately turned toward me. Her eyes were glassy.

"Ariana!" I put my hand on her shoulder. My hand suddenly glowed white.

"Wake up! Can you hear me? Get up!"

She followed my commands.

"Whoa," I said in awe. I could control people.

The greek song. It had triggered this. My power. Harmonia. She was the goddess of harmony. Music must've been my power.

"afypnízo." Instantly, she was taken out of the trance.

I fell back on the brick wall of the building. I was suddenly tired. The magic must've been too much for me.

Once I felt a little better, I told Ariana about my power, who was still standing over me in confusion.

"We could use it to get past the security guard."

"Brilliant!" She said.

We were to sneak in at 6:00 AM.

~Leo's POV~

I woke up in a cage in a dark, hot cavern. I was all alone. I was thirsty, hungry and exhausted.

I didn't even know who I was. I just woke up in a cage. I didn't have a name, for all I knew. I didn't know about who my parents must've been. Or how old I was. Or why I was in a cage.

All I knew was this dark cavern.

I was suddenly angry. Why did I have to be here? Was this where I lived? Why couldn't I be living a normal life, not in a cage?

My hand suddenly sparked. I freaked out. I raised it to see a ball of fire in it.

I was a freak. Maybe that was why I was in a cage. I could make fire. That was certainly weird.

I suddenly heard footsteps. A woman in black robes approached me with a scrawny kid in a black t-shirt beside her. His eyes were gold and it looked like he was half asleep.

"Oh, they're going to love this!" The woman said to the boy.

I was confused, but in the five minutes of my life that I remembered, that was what I had always been.

~A message from Isabel~

Hi guys! It's me with another chapter. I'm so so so sorry that I haven't posted in a while. I have been busy and kind of forgotten about this Fanfiction. I hope you'll be happy to hear that I've been working on other fanfics though. I'm thinking about writing them first, then publishing them chapter by chapter so I have more time.

With love and fangirlishness,

ISABEL