A/N: Sorry it's been so long! Honestly, my life has been soooo busy lately, so I haven't had much time for an update. If you were hoping that this was a LOVE-EVOL update, sorry. BUT, I have been working on the next chapter for it, I swear! It should be done soon, too. I would be working on it right now, but I'm at the Public Library typing this right now, because my mom works here and I had to come with her today. She has to drop me off at my Softball game at 3:30. =/
So, anyway, here's the next chapter in Epic Fail!
I don't own PJO.
Lilah's P.O.V.
A cold breeze swept out of the Jaguar XF.
I was almost positive of two things: A) Milliken nor Diana had a driver's license, and B) This was most definitely not their car.
Diana gently laid me down in the backseat of the car, then slammed the door. A cute boy, about Diana and mine's age, with semi-shaggy brown hair and green eyes craned his neck around the front driver's seat. Milliken.
"Hey." He said, with a slight grin on his face. His eyes had a bit of a mischevious glint in them. I managed a weak smile back. "You must be the new kid, right?"
Diana got in the passenger seat and slammed the door shut. "No, Milliken. She's just some random, bleeding girl I decided to pick up." She said, rolling her eyes and voice dripping with sarcasm.
Milliken's grin got a bit bigger, then he turned back around and started up the car. In mere seconds, we were shooting down the road at nearly 80 miles per hour.
"Woah!" I croaked, my hands gripping the seat. Milliken chukled, but just accelerated. "Slow down!" I called hoarsely.
Diana turned her head aroun to face me. "Calm down, Lilah. Everything's okay." She tried to sooth me.
"No!" I replied, feeling a stinging in my eyes. "Nothing is okay! My dad practically abandoned me this week, I nearly died, I had this crazy dream about my mother who I've never even met, I magically heal terrible wounds, two delusional strangers scoop me up and whisk me away from everything and everyone I've ever known, and kidnapped me!" I shrieked at her. My throat burned from talking and yelling so much, and the tears that have been pent up in me for so long spilled down my cheeks.
Diana's face turned into a frown, with her eyebrows all crinkled together like she was confused. I couldn't see Milliken's face in the rearview mirror, but his hands gripped the stearing wheel hard, and his knuckles turned white.
"Let me out." My voice was cold and hard, shocking even me. I tried not to show it. There was no trace of the pitiful, weeping girl from seconds ago. "Now."
Diana let out a sigh. "I'm sorry, Lilah. I can't."
"Stop the car." I demanded, my voice hard like before.
"No." Diana said. It was clear she was getting frustrated.
"Stop. The. Car." I demanded through gritted teeth. "Now." I was losing my patience, fast.
Diana simply turned around. Nobody spoke a word. I grit my teeth hard and glared so hard at her seat, I wouldn't have ben surprised if it burst into flames.
Something in me broke. Who were these kids, no older than me, to think that they suddenly called the shots and took me away from my familly and friends? I didn't even know them. They didn't know me.
A cold, dark feeling twisted around in my gut . A wave of chills spread throughout my body. Something yanked hard on my gut.
Suddenly, the car lurched to a halt.
"Milliken, what the Hell? Drive!" Diana ordered.
"I'm trying!" He exclaimed. He reapeatedly slammed his foot on the gas petal. I heard the engine groan, as if it wanted to move, but couldn't we were stuck, like something was holding us down. I sat up slowly.
"What? Come on." Diana groaned. She turned to the door, as if to get out of it, and suddenly stopped. A loud gasp emitted from her as she looked out and down the window. "Oh my gods."
"What?" Milliken asked. He climbed over the seat to where Diana was and looked down. "Holy..." He swore and stared wide-eyed out the window.
Something was still yanking on my gut. I wrapped my hands around my stomach, trying to ease the pain. I looked over to the window and began to try to scoot closer, so I could see what Diana and Milliken were looking at, but there was no need.
Long, thick, green, thorny vines curled up ward around the car on all sides. One particually large vines wrapped it's end around another vine, which was coming from the other side of the car. The vines kept growing, thicker and thicker, when suddenly:
Crash!
A vine crashed through the passenger side window, shattering the glass. It reached inside and curled up around Diana, squeezing her hard and tight. Diana screamed as glass bits and thorns dug into her.
Milliken shot acroos the car, back to his side, to escape the vines. Unfortunately for him, a vine crashed through his window as soon as he got back over to his seat. It wrapped around his mouth before he got a chance to scream.
More vines crashed through the windshield and dented the roof. I vaugely heard someone screaming, then quickly realized it was me. Thicker and thicker, the vines wrapped around the car so tight that barley any light filtered through them.
By now, my arms were wrapped around my knees, which were at my chest. My head was tucked down, as if that were the only way to stay safe. I tentivley looked up, to see that nothing was happening. Everything was still.
"Oh my God." Was all I could manage. I whispered it so lightly, I'm not sure anyone heard me.
Suddenly, the vines began to move again- this time, however, they were receding. They let go of Milliken aand Diana, unwrapped themselves from the dashboard, and untangled themselves from each other.
As soon as it had started, it had stopped.
And nothing in the backseat had even been touched.
~P*A~G*E~B*R~E*A~K*!~
The cool, night air felt amazing against my skin.
My head still pounded from my encounter with Randy, and cuts and bruises were still visable on my skin. But Diana and Milliken were worse off than I was.
Diana's arms were a bloody mess, her hair tangled and gross from being snagged on the thorns. Milliken's cheeks had been scratched raw from the vines wrapping around his mouth.
But the worst thing in shape was the Jaguar. Broken glass was all over the seats, the roof was dented down deep, and every window except those in the back seat were smashed to smitherens. There wasn't a place on the exterior that wasn't dented or scratched.
"What even happened?" Milliken asked Diana, wide-eyed.
Diana shrugged, then winced. "No clue."
Currently, we were sitting a feet feet to the side of the road, on moist grass in a small cluster of trees. The ruined car was still on the road, looking as if someone had just crushed it with a monster truck.
Diana threw her head back to look at the sky. She blinked, then slowly lloked over at me. "Actually..." She inspected me from head to toe. "Lilah, who did you say your mom was?"
I blinked, bewildered. What did that have to do with this? I blinked again, struggling to remember her name.
You'd think that I would have remembered, seeing as I've never seen her before, but, t was like someone had stolen all of my memories of that dream and was holding them up in the air, just out of reach, taunting me. "Um...uh...uh..." I said oh-so-intelligentley.
Diana gave me a bewildered look. "What? You don't remember?"
"Uh...no." I replied. I fished around in my brian a bit more, trying to snag a piece of memory.
"Maybe we should jog your memory." Milliken suggested.
Diana looked over at him. "And just how would be do that?" She asked.
"Um...say somethings that some goddesses might say." He suggested.
"Okay, well...how about this..."Oh! This dress would look fabulous on you!" Diana said, imatating a high-pitched, squealy voice near the end.
I blinked at her, confused. "Whaa?"
"Okay, no, how about: I am sooo wise, you should bow down before me." Milliken mocked.
Thunfder rumbled overhead and an owl hooted dangerously near by.
"Sorry." Milliken mumbled.
Diana laughed. "Ha, you really don't like them, do you?" She questioned him.
"No!" He exclaimed. "If they all disapeared, Camp would be my own little slice of Heaven."
Slice of Heaven.
And just like that, I remembered something: My mother appeared before me in a lush garden of sorts in the middle of some Hell-Hole.
"A garden." I said slowly. "I was in a garden. Everything else was all red and black and creepy."
Diana and Milliken exchanged a look.
"We need to get you to camp."
~P*A~G*E~B*R~E*A~K*!~
Soon enough, I found myself in a silver chariot, soraing past the moon.
A little girl, no more than 10, by her looks, was driving the chariot across the sky, expertly.
Every time I saw her, I smiled a bit, remembering what happened to get us to this point in time.
Diana looked back up at the moon. "I'm going to use my turn." She announced.
Milliken's eyes widened. "Are you serious? Every Apollo kid only gets one."
"I know." She snapped back at Milliken.
I looked back and forth between the two of them. "What are you talking about?"
"Every child of Apollo gets one chance to call Artemis, Apollo's twin sister, and ask for a favor, mostly a chariot ride." Diana explained to me. "But only one. Once they use it, they can never use it again."
"Oh."
Diana looked back at the sky and closed her eyes. "It's an emergency. I need to use it."
Milliken and I sat quietly as Diana hummed a short tune and muttered a few words under her breath.
Everything seemed to stand still for a moment. Then, a beam of moonlight near us got brighter and brighter, when suddenly a chariot appeared. It was silver, with intricate designs swirled around it and four large deer acting as the horses. A little girl in a silver tunic sat in the front, holding the reins.
"Yes, niece?" The girl asked.
I gaped at her. "That's Artemis?" I whispered into Milliken's ear as we all scrambled to our feet.
Milliken chuckled. "Yup. In the flesh."
I continued to stare.
"Well, um, Artemis, I'm sorry to disturb you, but could you take us to camp? We got a new demigod who was giving off this strong signal, and Iris is busy, so she couldn't take my drachma, and Lilah's really, really, hurt, and we are too, kind of." Diana said a little nervously.
Artemis inspected us all. "Wow. You are hurt. Hop in." She narrowed her eyes at Milliken. "Except you." She said, pointing at him. "I don't give boys rides."
"But Artemis!" Diana said, eyes wide. "Dad gives you and your hunters rides all the time! And I was even named after you!"
Artemis sighed and glared at Milliken some more. "Perhaps..."
"C'mon, babe. You know you want to." Milliken said with a lazy grin.
And that's how I ended up sitting next to my new favorite goddess (besdies my mom), driving past the moon, on our way to New York, Diana in back, and a little tiny Wren flapping pitifully next to us, trying to keep up.
"That's what you get, boy!" Artemis called to the bird, noting its struggle. "Never call Thee 'babe'!"
~P*A~G*E~B*R~E*A~K*!~
We touched down in a dark wood.
"Careful, Niece. I belive you are your fathers favorite daughter. And I can clearly see why. You used up your only call to save someone you barely know, instead of using it for your own selfish purposes." Artemis said witha nod and a smile. "Though your company is questionable." She eyed the sky as a little bird exhaustedly plummeted out of the sky.
Diana basked in Artemis' praise. It was clear that Diana looked up to her. "Look away!" She warned.
I barely had time to close my eyes before everything got warm and I saw a flash through my eyelids.
Then, everything got quiet and normal.
I opened my eyes to see Diana grinning at me, holding Milliken-as-a-bird in her hand.
"Welcome to Camp Half-Blood, Lilah."
A/N: Ta-daaaa! How was it? Tell me in the form of a REVIEW! =D Please?
Anyway, I bet lots of you are wondering if Lilah caused those vines to appear. Want a hint? Here it is: No.
The chapter's name, Goddesses Gone Wild, is because of two things: One that will be explained in the next chapter (but it has to do with those pesky vines) and the other because Artemis turned Milliken into a wild bird. Yeah. So now you know.
My Playlist for This Chapter:
1. How To Save a Life- The Fray
2. Alison- Elvis Costelllo (This will be explained in the very last chapter ;))
3. You and I- Lady Gaga (Has nothing to do with the chapter, but I listented to it while writing)
4. Stacy's Mom- (Same as above.)
5. E.T.- Katy Perry (Have I used that already? Oh, well. Anyway, did you know that the version with Kanye is The Nine Lives of Chloe King official theme song? It is! Even though I like the original version better...The Nines Lives is amazing! Watch it Tuesdays, right after Pretty Little Liars! Which is also good! On ABC Family!)
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