Author's Note: Hey guys! I'm glad you liked my last chapter, for those of you who reviewed, and here are the winners for the last chapter's contest! Kal306! Apollo's Child! EshMsh! The answer was Ascelpius! The winners are amazing! So, on with the fifth and awesome chapter of the story:
Zoe's POV
I slid across the icy terrain in the middle of the Arena. I saw a figure which I recognized as Zeus crawling on top of the far off sand dune and wondered how he survived being stabbed at the Cornucopia. I decided to head for the lake. It was a long ways away but I should reach it before nightfall. I ate a cracker and thought of Lady Artemis. Funny, apparently only Nico had died last night, but last I had seen, Artemis was tumbling through the mountain river. Hmm. I started to shiver. The clouds above had stopped being a loose scramble of fluff and turned into a solid mass of thick, gray cloud above me. It wasn't long before it started to rain. My teeth started to chatter but I continued on. There was no place to shelter here, anyway. After a few minutes, snow had started to fall. It steadily got thicker and thicker until I could hardly see my hand in front of my face. The wind lashed at my face and my lips turned blue with cold. I trekked on, unphased. Torrents of water dropped alongside the snow, but still I pushed on. After half an hour a tornado had joined the ruckus. I walked forward confidently. I saw nothing in front of me. My entire body was numb. Chunks of ice fell from the sky. One piece hit me on the head. It bounced off harmlessly. It seemed as though the Gamemakers were getting desperate.
"Gods, it's raining cats and dogs out here!" I said. I meant it. A fat little bulldog dropped to the ground and started to tear at my pants with its teeth. A Himalayan kitten pounced on my neck. All kinds of cats and dogs fell from the sky and started attacking me. I jogged through the blizzard.
"The hail is the size of golf balls!" I remarked. The hail really was golf balls. A dozen or so golf balls hit me in the head but I ignored it. Finally the Gamemakers gave up and made the sky clear again. The animals left. The tornado dispersed. I could see the lake now. I started to sprint. Suddenly I slipped on the ice and fell. I lay there, encased in ice. That's how deep I crunched through the ground.
(3rd person)
From the sky a lonely-looking package drifted towards the earth, attached to a bright blue parachute. The package landed right in front of Zoe's outstretched arm. The package read, "Band aids"
Poseidon's POV
I sat in my makeshift camp, eating some berries. Yes, I had tons of fish right here in the stream, but I refused to hunt my fishy-friends. I took a look in the river at my reflection. My face was covered in red berry juice. I burped. Hey, I thought suddenly, I wonder if these berries are edible? Before I had a chance to ponder this, however, I heard a loud cannon being shot. "Another one down" I whispered. I wondered who it was that had died. Suddenly I felt a little woozy. I swayed back over to my tent-ish thing made out of sticks. I started to see things. Nico, who I knew had died yesterday, shimmered into existence right before my eyes. He was wearing a button-down shirt that really didn't suit him, some overalls, and a floppy sun hat. He was carrying a flamingo garden thingy. No, it was a firefighters hat. No, it was a rake. Nico smiled at me. He leaned forward and kissed me on the cheek. Then he disappeared. I rubbed my cheek. This was weird. Then, all my fishy-friends literally swam before my eyes. Then I noticed that each one was a fishy-friend that had been killed my seafood restaurants and old fishermen. I recognized them all. I started tearing up.
"Mina? Ralph? Salt ? Fin? Nemo? Dory? Jaws? Atlantis? Mr. Bubbles? Mrs. Bubbles? Murphy? Mr. Bigglesworth? Pacific? Popsicle? Quazymoto? Squirt? Squishy? Sushi? Uncle Fred? Vern? Victoria?"
Each fish waggled it's fins appreciatively. I burst into tears. I lunged forward to hug each and every dearly departed fish, but they disappeared. I sat hopelessly in my tent , seeing strange things from spiders on my nose to Harry Potter shaking hands with Voldemort. At that point I tried to get their autographs, but they ignored me. Finally the hallucinations stopped. Then a tracker jacker got into my tent and stung me four times. I groaned as the faint outline of Nico's overalls returned.
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The Twilight series
The Lord of the Rings series
The Harry Potter series
The Pirates of the Caribbean series
The Star Wars series
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