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Door knocks
I open it, Tiara, Annabeth, Thalia, and Leo are standing there
Tiara, Annabeth, Thalia, and Leo: Happy Birthday
wmbsk17: How did you know
Annabeth: You wrote it
wmbsk17: Ohh
so yeh, it's my Birthday and in case you didn't already know this, i'm not Rick and i don't own Percy Jackson
Well anyway here's a knew chapter as a present enjoy; oh and see who can spot the theme in this and the knew chapter of my other story HTTYD: What if?
(Annabeth's P.O.V.)
"What does your cousin have to do with the prophecy" said Thalia
"My family has had dealings with the gods for centuries" I paused, thinking of how to describe it "My brother is an Einherjar, a warrior of the honored dead and the demigod son of Frey"
Tiara looked confused saying "but Frey is a Norse god and they can't be real, can they"
I said before saying "Hey Seaweed brain, we have had run-ins with the Roman and Egyptian gods, as well as our own Greek Gods" I looked at her expecting for her to understand what I was saying, but as usual she still looked confused so I continued "So, is it so unlikely that there are more gods out there from the ancient pantheons"
All Tiara said was "Oh" as she realized that, and I shook my head in exasperation.
"Um" Thalia said "has anyone thought of how we are going to get to Boston"
"Walk" Tiara suggested, which earned her a slap over the head from me.
Laughing I started walking down the road, thinking if we could walk to the nearest town then we could get a train.
(Tiara's P.O.V.)
We had been walking down the same road for nearly an hour, it was too quiet and I was half expecting a monster to jump out of a ditch, and I suppose slightly hoping for it, I, was, bored.
I caught up with Annabeth and said "How much longer"
She replied somewhat confused "we should have arrived at a town, around ten minutes ago and there's absolutely know cars or people and this place is normally quite busy"
I looked around and saw a clearing leading to a hill, I ran to as I looked at it I stopped dead on my feet, shocked I said "That's not possible, is it" I turned and seeing Annabeth's questioning look, I pointed up at the top, were beside a pine tree stood, Chiron? Standing exactly where he had been when we left, she looked up and gasped, stammering something like "bu-but". For some reason I felt that I had to go to him, so I started walking up I could hear the others moving with me. And then.
(Annabeth's P.O.V.)
I was still standing shocked, looking at the hill where Chiron stood frozen. I kept standing there looking at him until I saw a movement in front of me, looking down I saw Tiara and the others moving towards the hill with dreamy, glazed expression on their face. I was about to stop them, but then they reached the hill as they step onto the bass of it I saw a wave ripple out from where they stood and they moved no more.
It soon grew cold, the silence greater without my companions. Looking around I saw the trees which would normally be shivering in the wind stand, still, the leaves flying in the air trapped in a breeze it was as if time itself was standing still.
The eerie silence was at last cracked, but not by a friend. A hoarse laughter rang throw the clearing, as the air rippled and a man appeared. A man with two heads. Janus.
"You" I said accusingly
"Well done, daughter of Athena" one of the heads said smirking
"What did you do to my friends?" I barked at him
"Nothing" said the second of Janus' heads, the other head looking me right in the eyes said "Yet"
"What do you want?" I asked staring to get annoyed.
"What do we want" said one head, "What do we always want" the other said, the first head said "We are Janus", the second head continued "God of Doorways, and choices", looking at each other then turning towards me again the heads said in unison "We want a choice"
I looked at them starting to get worried, whilst Janus never did anything his coming had always for me, heralded pain and despair.
His first head continued "What will you choose", the second one said "love or sacrifice, eternal death or hellish life"
"What does that mean" I snapped at them, but my words were useless, Janus bowed his heads and disappeared in a spiraling tower of smoke, which hung in the air. I screamed in anger and ran at the smoke but it was pointless, he was gone and everyone was still frozen.
I yelled into the smoke "but what about everyone, how am I supposed to make a decision if I'm stuck in here", they clearly heard me because the pillar of smoke spiraled out, spreading across the clearing. As it spread out the point where it started cleared and as it did a warm brilliant light burst throw the air and revealed a fantastic blue sky, clear of the clouds. When the smoke had cleared I looked over, Chiron was still frozen, but Tiara who had been the first to freeze shook her head and looked at me confused I looked at her just as confused. The others started to look around as whatever had affected them wore off.
"Ok so all we have to do is find the neari-" I started but was interrupted when a pulse of energy burst from the centre of the clearing pushing out and dissolving the clearing around us. As the clearing dissolved we found ourselves on a forest road, and ahead I saw a sign it read 'Welcome to Port Jefferson', I smiled we had reached a town and I knew that now we were hear it would be easy to get to the other side of the water. But still I was worried, not by the death prophesised by Janus but by the Life he spoke of.
Well that's it for this chapter, sorry about the delay i wanted this chapter and chapter 2 of 'What if?' published at the same time and the computer wasnt working properly so i had to make most updates on my kindle which takes ages, also sorry if its a bit boring but i have a Music Prelum comming up so I'm a little bit pressed for time.
Please Comment and I look forward to next time
