Authors Note:i loved all the reviews! you guys are too sweet! :) you guys are the best people in the world! * gives you a hug* thanks for all the support. also, i just wanted to day, I DO TAKE SUGGESTIONS! PLEASE TELL ME YOUR IDEAS AND I MIGHT PUT THEM IN THE STORY! Also, i will update my other stories soon but my writing SOL is coming up and i have to get ready so no promises. Anyway,so this is the next chapter. enjoy! Also, from now on i'll do a song of the chapter thing.
Song of the chapter: The ballad of Mona Lisa by Panic! At the disco
a lonely speaker in a conversation
her words are swimming through his ears again
there's nothing wrong with just a taste of what you paid for
Say what you meeeean
Tell me i'm riiight
AND LET THE SUN RAIN DOWN ON MEEE!
Disclaimer: although i love Percy Jackson to death, sadly the characters do not belong to me. :(
Chapter 2: BRAINFREEZE!
Leo looked in awe at the ice sculpted ice doors in front of him. They would'velooked like a normal( ha! Nothing was ever normal in the life of a demigod!) pair of doors except for the fact that they were in the middle of the woods and made of ice. As he looked closely at the doors, he saw that it was a little bit open, sending a bit of cold air into Camp Half doors towered over his small figure and he could've sworn they were glowing a little. His first thought was, I wonder if i could melt this thing and turn it into a gigantic lake. Man, that would be totally worth wasting my energy to see the look on Percy's face!, but then he thought, wait. Why the Hades is there a door made of ice in the middle of the woods?!. Deciding that Clarissa wouldn't find him, he took a few tentative steps closer to the ice death traps( yes, that was what he was calling the now.), and when it seemed that they wouldn't kill him, he took a few more steps until he was directly in front of them. He breathed out and watched fascinated as he saw his breath appear, and then disappear just as quickly as it had come. He looked around him cautiously before stopping when he realized that nobody would dare come this far into the woods. Looking at the gap between the two doors, he pondered on the idea of going inside. He thought about it for awhile before stepping forward. He could've sworn he saw the doors glow brighter before quickly fading. He frowned at the weird( oh what was he talking about! He himself was weird!) action and wondered if he should really do this. Eventually his curiosity won over him and he stepped through the icy doors.
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The first thing that he saw: ice. Everywhere. Literally! Leo gawked at the strange place he had enter and couldn't help but think, Is this what Narnia looks like? He shook his head and tried to concentrate on where he was. There were trees, lakes, and hills covered in ice and snow. Leo wrapped his arms around his thin frame and shivered. People always thought that because he had fire powers, he couldn't get cold. Well news flash buddy; HE WAS COLD! His body shook with shivers and his teeth threatend to break by how hard they looked down at his outfit and grimaced. His brown shorts came up to his scrawny knees and his too big red t-shirt was short sleeved. In conclusion, he was not dressed for icy weather. Look on the bright side, he chided himself, maybe you'll get to build a snowman! The thought of building a snowman brought his spirits up a bit and he took a few steps into the icy wasteland. A shape in the distance caught his attention and he narrowed his eyes in an attempt to see what it was.
It was... it was...
A person?
No way, he thought. But unless he was blind( and he wasn't!), there was a person in this place! He was about to start walking towards them ( and no, he was not going to stalk them to see who they were! What makes you say that?) when he saw a bluish glow coming from... him? He looked around himself trying to figure out the source of the light before finding out that it was coming from his head. He furrowed his eyebrows and hoped that an alien hadn't planted her eggs in him, or something like that., 'cause that would just suck. He hesitantly pulled out the thing and silently prayed that it wasn't those the-boy-pulled-out-a-mysterious-item-out-of-box( or hair, whatever)-and-then-dies he found out the source, he fearfully put it in front of his face thinking If this is a prank by the Stolls, I'm gonna kill them. However, he was surprised when he finally managed to pull out the glowing thingy from his curls.
It was a piece of hair.
A piece of freaking glowing hair.
Well, not exactly. Leo had never noticed it, but somewhere in his mass of curls was a lone icy blue piece of hair. He wondered how in Zeus he had managed to miss it in his brown curls. He waved the thought away and his eyes traveled to the figure in the distance. His body tensed up when he saw that the figure appeared to be looking at his. The ADHD part of his brain wondered if to them he looked like an ant, but the normal part ( which wasn't much) thought that he should probably go over to the mystery person when a voice shook him out of his thoughts.
" LEO!"
He turned around surprised and saw Chiron standing by the ice doors that he himself had traveled through, his face full of worry. Well i guess this means I'm not in Narnia, he thought to himself. He shook his tried and looked back at Chiron and noted how he didn't come past the doors.
" Hi Chiron!" he shouted back before wincing when he realized how casual he sounded. He nervously ran a hand through his messy brown curls and tried to look natural. However, he probably didn't succeed seeing how he was in the middle of a freaking place made of ice. If Chiron noticed his casualty, he didn't mention it, which Leo was thankful for.
" LEO! COME BACK HERE!" Chiron roared over the wind that Leo had just noticed, his horse tail swishing side to side nervously. The panic and fear in his voice made him frown and he was about to ask him why, but the look on his face made him stop short. He decided it would be best to just listen to him. He jogged over to the old centaur, almost tripping when he started to move his stiff tan legs. When he reached the doors and was within arms reach of Chiron, the old man shot out an arm, wrapped it around Leo's own, and practically hauled him through the doors ,earning a surprised yelp from the young fire-boy. He turned around, about to give Chiron a piece of his mind when a wave of pain washed over him. He stumbled and would've fell to the ground if Chiron hadn't caught him. In the back of his mind, he knew that Chiron was gently laying him down on the ground while muttering " Not again... not again... how on earth did he find it?!", but he didn't really have the strength to pay attention. Suddenly, something was forced down his throat and Leo almost chocked on the liquid before he realized it was nectar. He eagerly gulped down the nectar and when it was pulled away, he sighed in relief. He opened his eyes( when had he closed them?!) and was met with Chiron's concerned face. His chocolate brown eyes traveled to his gold sword and he almost gasped at his reflection.
No wonder Chiron looked worried. He looked terrible.
His brown eyes seemed darker on his unnaturally pale face( which was paler than Nicos, and that was saying something!) and looked wide and scared. His cheeks were red and his small lips were a blue color that reminded him of a smurf. His scrawny body shook and it took Leo a moment to realize that he was freezing. He wondered if this was how it would've felt if Khione had freezed him on his first quest with Piper and Jason. He quickly out that thought away because he really didn't want to find out the hard way. When he absorbed his appearance, he flickered his eyes back to the centaur who seemed to be studying him. Leo shifted uncomfortably under his eye and blurted out " Is there something on my face?"
Chiron seemed surprised by the outburst and he was quick to explain. " It's just that you were staring at me and I thought there was something on my face. So, yeah." he finished lamely. Leo nervously watched him, blinking surprised when he just smiled.
" No, child. There is nothing on your face-"
" Yay!
" However-"
" Oh, come on!"
" I just saw how pale you were. We must get to the Big House immediately before you- i mean the sickness gets worse."
Leo furrowed his eyebrows and frowned as a thought struck him- and that didn't happen often!
" What- what was that place?"
Chiron didn't answer, only helping him stand up. When it was clear he wouldn't be able to walk, he lifted him up into the air as if he weighed nothing- which he probably didn't- and plopped him down on his back so that he was sitting on the horse part of him. Leo frowned when he got no response and decided to try a different approach.
" If you don't tell what that place was, I'll go back."
That sure got a response out of him. As he slowly began galloping towards the Big House so he wouldn't fall off, Chiron responded, " Leo. You must realize that the place you just discovered is very dangerous and a place where no demigod should ever go. Do you understand?"
"Why can't we go there? It didn't seem so-"
Leo's sentence was cut short as a shot of pain went threw his head and it took all he had not to scream. He gripped his head tightly and let out a low moan of pain. Red started to cloud his vision and he slowly felt himself becoming unconscious. He felt himself slowly fall out of Chiron's backside and land on the hard ground adding more pain to what he was already felt Chiron pick him up in his arms and carried him to the camp, now going full speed. He faintly heard Chiron yelling for help and gasps from shocked campers. The last thing he saw was the sevens( Piper, Jason, Frank, Hazel, Percy, and Annabeth) horrified faces before everything went black.
EXTRA AUTHORS NOTE!: did you like the chapter?! I felt bad for making you guys wait and decided that since you guys made such lovely reviews, i'd give you an extra long chapter. :) i worked FOREVER on this. please review! i want to know what you think. also, just a heads up, I'm going to try to update my other stories this week. If its not updated tomorrow, don't worry! All of my stories will be updated this week. NOW REVIEW!
