FINALLY CHAPTER 5!

Ok, so, I know ur all anxious for chapter 5, and ur all gonna kill me from anxiety for chapter 6!

Annabeth: why is that?

Me: you shall SEE

Annabeth: ok….

Apollo: she doesn't own the Percy Jackson books, or I would be her happy hostage, but THIS time, I would be buying her a puppy… a magical puppy! (inside joke, Zoey should kno wut im talking about).

Annabeth: movin' on….

Me: ok, so, at the end of this chapter… REMEMBER POSEIDON'S ADVICE! You have to consider every possibility, no matter how unlikely!

ENJOY!

CHAPTER FIVE: MY DREAM COME TRUE… BY SOME FREAKY TWINS?

Just when I was ready to faint from being so happy, Apollo did something so weird and unexpected. Quite honestly, I thought I might die. Not from something bad, but something unbelievable. He took my hand in his and kissed it every so lightly. I didn't breath. I didn't move. My heart didn't beat for just half a second.

"Well, then I expect to see you soon, Vadetta," he said as he released my hand and stood up from his seat. I stared at my hand. I was getting redder and redder every minute.

"Uhm… b-bye Apollo…" I replied, hardly able to speak. I waved lightly as he left. I watched him close the door. I was in shock. I just stared at my hand until Annabeth and Percy came in to see what was taking me so long. They saw me red as an apple, staring at my hand blankly. Annabeth shook me and shook me. Percy got the funny idea to poor ice down my back. I screamed and kicked him. Chiron ran (or maybe galloped) in and saw me emptying ice from my shirt. I was kicking and hitting Percy really hard, missing most of my shots. I didn't get the chance the empty out all the ice before he ran for the door. I chased him out, throwing the ice cubes I had dug out at him. A couple hit him in the head. I saw the gods and goddesses looking at me with a stare that said, "What in the name of Hades did he do to her?" or maybe "What on earth is wrong with her?" It was a mix of both. I chased his out the door, until I finally caught up with him and pushed him into a fountain. When I noticed that he was perfectly dry, I crossed my arms.

"That's not FAIR!" I cried. "Being the son of Poseidon isn't fair!"

He laughed. "Sorry, Vadetta, but I can't get wet unless I really want to. But of course…" he eyed me. I knew something bad was coming. He picked me up and dumped me into the fountain. Of course I was going to get wet, but he had made the water warm. My hair covered my eyes, and all the gods and Annabeth ran out to see what the noise was. Annabeth gasped when she saw me in the fountain, sopping wet, hair over my eyes. But I slapped Percy with my wet hand and burst out laughing. He punched me lightly on the back and joined me. It looked like we were friends again. He helped me out of the fountain, and I flipped my dripping hair back. Someone threw a towel at me, and it landed right on my face. I lifted it off myself. It was a beach towel with a smiling sun that said FUN IN THE SUN. I looked around, and saw Apollo wink and go back with the other gods. Annabeth hurried over to make sure I wasn't hurt or anything.

"Are you ok, Vadetta!" she gasped. I was still laughing.

"Great!" I replied happily.

"She's fine, I heated up the water," Percy said while stifling more laughs. Annabeth's jaw dropped.

"Wow… I'm not sure if this is a good thing of a bad thing…" Annabeth muttered. We stopped laughing for a moment and just smiled. As we went down the elevator, I dried myself off.

"Well, this had certainly been an interesting day," Percy pointed out, still not wet.

"Yeah… in a good way…" I said dreamily, remembering what happened with Apollo. My ears turned pink, and the other looked at me. I turned away, smiling happily. I just set the towel on my head after I was all dry. When we came out of the elevator, the doorman sure looked surprised to see us all smiling and giggly, especially when he saw that I was still a little wet with a towel on my head. As we walked through the streets of New York City, it didn't take long for our ride back to camp to hunt us down. We were happy and merry as we rode back, smiling and laughing. When we pulled back up to camp, we climbed up and rolled down the hill a couple of times. We finally got all the way up just as Chiron was signaling dinner. We all ran to our tables. All the Hermes people were staring at me, some asking how it went and what exactly had happened. Before I gave them any answers, Chiron pounded his hoof.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, the suspenseful day has come to a close. And our friend Vadetta had safely returned from her meeting with the Gods!" Chiron announced. Some clapping, a few cheers. Everyone was looking at me again.

"Vadetta, why don't you tell everyone how it went?" he invited. I nodded, and stood up where I was.

"Well, it was really scary at first. I was alone with each god, and I have to admit, some of them weren't too nice…" I began. "But by the end, it was totally worth it. Unfortunately, Zeus and Poseidon got into an argument and left before I got the chance to talk to them…"

Everyone "awwwed" and went back to their conversations. I was about to sit down when Percy spoke up.

"So, did any of the other gods admit to being you parent?" he asked. Everyone looked at me again.

"Nope," I said simply. Everyone was silent. We picked up our goblets and got our drinks. Chiron raised his.

"To the Gods!" he roared.

"To the Gods!" everyone echoed. After we scraped our food into the fire and ate, I once again went down to the beach. It had been a hugely busy day, and I wondered why Zeus and Poseidon had left. I also wondered why I hadn't seen that girl by the hearth like in my dream. I was absentmindedly nibbling my food for a while until Annabeth tapped me on the shoulder.

"We've been excused early. Chiron says he needs to speak with us down at the beach," she whispered in my ear. I nodded and took one last large bite and followed. I chewed as we walked, and I was done by the time we got to the beach. Chiron was waiting for us there.

"Ah, welcome children. Now, as you probably know, Vadetta didn't get the chance to speak with either Zeus or Poseidon, as they both left after an argument. Now, do either of you know what this argument was about?" he said. He looked at each other and shook out heads.

"Well, I wasn't trying to eavesdrop, but I did catch a few things. Poseidon said something like, 'She asked me and you had no right to interfere', and then Zeus said 'Well if she was smart she would have asked me!' and so on and so forth. Apollo finally butted in. He demanded to know who they were talking about and why they wouldn't see Vadetta, and after a while they just left. I wish I knew what they were arguing about, but I'm afraid that no one will let me in on the secret," Chiron continued. We all sighed.

"I'm sorry. I do think that there is something fishy, though. Whoever they were talking about obviously asked one of them to do a favor, and it must have been important if they left a promised meeting. If they were not at the head of council, the other Gods would me angrier. I'm sure not too many of them actually wanted to see you…" he sighed again

"Well, no offense on that, but they're just really busy, you know?" Annabeth added. I frowned. When Chiron had said 'not too many', I wondered why he hadn't said all. I was fairly certain that not one of the gods was looking forward to a solo meeting with some stupid little mortal kid. But the tiniest spark in my heart hoped that Apollo wanted to see me, though it wasn't likely. I looked out at the horizon, at the sun. It was barely even there anymore. Apollo would have finished his crossing, and be back wherever he lives. My heart sank as I realized something. If Apollo had all these kids, that meant he fell in love with tons of mortal women. And I was only 8, and he was what, a trillion years old? But I didn't really care, because I still liked him way too much. If I was a normal 8-year-old little girl I would think boys had kooties and be afraid to touch them, and I would keep a diary and have play dates after school. But not me. I didn't really care about boys either way (except for Apollo of course) and I thought diaries were sort of stupid. I had one when I was 6... But I could hardly write. Come to think of it, keeping a diary now would be interesting. I could keep track of everything that happened at camp. I wondered if anyone had a spare diary anywhere. When I turned back, I saw Annabeth and Chiron had went back to camp. I stayed, like usual. I must have jumped to Olympus with how scared I was when I heard her voice.

"Hello," said a girl with beautiful silvery-blonde hair. She had eyes that… that looked multi-colored. I saw some lavender toward the center, some pale yellow on the outside, and a mix of green and blue in-between. They were amazing. When I landed, a boy helped me up. He had some reddish-silvery hair, which was kind of weird, but cool all the same. He had multi-colored eyes as well, but they had a lot more red. After he helped me up, he stood next to the girl. I noticed that next to each other, they looked remarkably similar. Their faces were shaped the exact same way, and their hair looked soft and flowing on both. They were beautiful (cute/hot for the boy) and they looked to be about 14. I realized that they were twins. When they smiled, I felt myself feeling… happy for some reason.

"Who are you?" I asked happily.

"I'm Chrysanthos," said the boy.

"And I'm Chrysanthe. Sorry for scaring you," said she girl. Weird names. I scarcely remembered something similar to those names meaning "Golden Flower". I noticed that Chrysanthe had on a pale golden yellow sun dress and Chrysanthos had on a golden yellow t-shirt with a musical note on it and shorts. Well, the golden part fit, and the girl also had one of those cool Hawaiian flowers in her hair, so I guess the flower part fit, too.

"Oh, uh, it's fine. So, um, are you guys half-bloods?" I asked. They smiled and chuckled.

"No, Vadetta," Chrysanthe replied gently. I raised an eyebrow. I was used to random people I didn't know knowing my name.

"We're the Emotion Twins," Chrysanthos finished. I stared at them.

"The who?" I asked finally. They sighed.

"I guess our word hasn't been spread as the gods promised. We are two new gods in Olympus - just appointed in the last century, so not many people know us. We're minor gods, as well. And since we weren't in the ancient mythology, people won't know of us. And that's alright," Chrysanthe was still smiling. I was too.

"But isn't Disdain the goddess of emotion?" I didn't have any idea how I knew that. They nodded.

"But at the moment she has decided to take a… ah, leave of absence. In other words she disappeared. And some of the other gods think she might have even died," Chrysanthos explained.

"Some even think she died. Now I know gods are immortal, but if a god loses their will to live, they will slowly fade away. After she was reported missing, emotions all across the world were haywire, so the gods assumed she was gone. She always kept emotions balanced to help prevent social tragedies. But since her disappearance, it's been chaos," his sister added.

"Which is why they found us. As mortals we were able to see through the Mist, and always seemed to have a way with emotions. Not to mention our parents…" he said. I was somehow following all this.

"Ok… so, being all-mighty beings and all, I won't even ask how you knew me."

They laughed.

"Well, of course, we were there in Olympus today. But we are not your parents, we promise. You see, we were this age when we became immortal gods, so we don't have any kids. And we won't," Chrysanthe giggled. I was getting used to their almost the same voices, and that they spoke one after another.

"Oh, and, about your friend the Sun God…" said the other twin quietly. They both sighed in unison.

"Well, we could sense your very strong feelings, and being the Emotion Twins, we just wanted to help you out, so…"

"So you used your godly powers to mess with Apollo's feelings to make him do that?" I finished flatly. They nodded stiffly.

"But do not think badly of us. That is why he took so long to enter the meeting with you. You see, we were talking with him about you. He said that he felt strongly for you, and we said the same for you, though we understated it quite a bit. He said he wouldn't mind a bit," Chrysanthe explain sympathetically. I just stared at them. So, the best moment of my life had just been the work of some tricky twins? I was sure I could cry, as I felt a boulder in my throat that was barely allowing air to pass.

"We're sorry; we shouldn't have interfered. But it made you happy, and that's all we really wanted."

I wasn't sure if I really cared. My dream come true had been the cause of some freaky twins. I felt a tear welling up in my eye, and I didn't hesitate to let It drip. I turned around and stomped down the beach towards my cabin. I heard them try to follow me, and I turned around.

"Ok, look, I don't care if you only wanted me happy! If Apollo doesn't like me, I don't want you messing with his head to make him think he does!" I cried. They stopped and frowned. I continued back to camp, feeling my amulet getting heavier and heavier. I stopped and looked at it. The sun winked at me. I was sure I had been imagining things, because I thought that Percy had come and led me to my cabin and said goodnight to me, but that obviously hadn't happened. When I remember finally waking out of my trance, I was in my cabin, everyone in bed. A few concerned eyes were on me. I looked down and saw my pillow had a huge wet spot. I felt my face. There was a waterfall of uncontrollable tears pouring down it. Why was I crying so much? I also saw Apollo's gift lying on the floor, its string snapped. I carefully picked it up and examined it. The necklace itself wasn't damaged, thank the gods. But I didn't have any extra string anywhere. I curled the amulet to my body and lay down. I fell asleep with it like that, and a strange dream crept into my mind.

I was back in Olympus, and it was right before my meeting with Artemis. I saw myself sitting alone in the little room. I also saw Apollo talking with Chrysanthe and Chrysanthos outside.

"It's clear that she has taken an unusual liking to you, Lord Apollo," Chrysanthos was saying.

"Huh. What do you mean by 'unusual liking'?" Apollo replied, studying his face.

"She seems to like you a bit more than average, if you can see what I'm getting at," Chrysanthe explained. He nodded and smiled.

"Well, I'm not going to deny that I like her as well. You have my permission to do what you wish. I just wish for her happiness, especially with the horrors her life is going to see…" he told them. They smiled and nodded. The dream shifted. I was in a meeting with me, but from someone else's point of view. I was thinking something. I sure hope those crazy twins know what they're doing… I don't want her to go into shock or anything…

I realized that I was in Apollo's head. This is what he had been seeing. And thinking. I watched myself as I blushed and fidgeted. I looked pretty pathetic. I saw Apollo's hand (or rather mine) reach out and grab mine.

Well, this is interesting. I can't seem to control my own body… but I can control my words… he thought. He kissed my hand lightly, and from his own will, said those words that had punctured me forever.

"Well, I expect to see you soon, Vadetta," he said soothingly.

Even I can think of something better to say than that… maybe, 'Well, my dear, I'll see you soon. And dress well,' or something a little nicer… but man, she is something else…

I couldn't believe what he was thinking. Which is why I automatically assumed that my dreams were lying and playing dirty tricks on me. But I could feel himself straining back his hand to keep it from moving and doing more, and he was clearly no longer under the twin's control. He finally threw his hand down and left. As he walked out, everyone was staring at him, wondering why his cheeks had some color. The twins were smirking. And I was back in that little room, looking like a retard. But I was smiling. Apollo hadn't just done that because he wasn't in control. He had done that because… because he had almost wanted to. I exhaled deeply, and drifted off into the rest of the night, happy, in colorful but meaningless dreams.

I woke up not by any sounds, not by sunlight, either. I woke up and sat bolt upright. I was stiff and nervous. My nostrils were flared. People around the cabin had similar looks. There was something outside. And with our luck, it was probably a monster or something. Of course, Annabeth had explained to me that monsters aren't supposed to be able to get past the borders unless summoned blah, blah, blah. But this was either a monster, or something that had the exact 100% same presence and smell as a monster. No one moved. An occasional murmur or two, and a few shifting bodies of those fools who were still sleeping. I was the only one to make a move. I silently climbed up and out a window with my little knife.

I felt the presence of the monster in front of our cabin only, none of the others. I peeked inside the window of the cabin next to ours, and they were snoozing happily. I cursed silently, and looked at the monster. But it was just a really pretty, preppy-looking cheerleader. She looked lost and confused, but I could see right through her veil.

"Hey, hey, girlfriend!" she said peppily, turning to me, her eyes glowing red. She smiled, baring a pair of fangs. Her blonde hair suddenly exploded into flames, and where here legs were there was a donkey and a metal leg. I stared at her. So, a half-vampire, half-donkey, half-cyborg cheerleader? That was so wrong. I charged at her with my little knife, and she charged at me with her fangs. She took a good swipe at me and I ducked. I swirled around to stab her, but she was clearly skilled. She did a Matrix thing and dodged it what seemed to be slow-motion, and took a swipe at my head. My head was about to become a pom-pom, when she burst into flames. When I saw who had killed her, my jaw dropped to Hades.