Okay, so no one has guessed my name, so how about you guess what my favorite Pokémon are? The legendary and normal. If anyone can guess them both they get a story dedicated to them. They both start with 'M'. If you can guess my name that's an automatic win, though, so good luck! Okay, so last chapter I lied. It didn't have anything about May's tasks, so this is that chapter, 'kay? ;)
Chapter 28
May's POV
It was lunch time. I made sure all of my friends were gathered, even the guys.
"Okay, I don't know if Drew's told you about the whole 5 tasks thing, but if you don't I'll tell you." I said.
"We know, but I'm not so sure about Ash." Gary said pointing towards Ash.
"I do too! It's that one thing about that one other thing with the five, you know?" Ash held out his hand making all of his fingers spread out.
"Wow, great explanation." Misty said sarcastically.
"Anyway, it's kind of what Ash mentioned." Ash said 'Ha!' then got a glare from Misty.
I continued, "Yesterday, Drew and I met Hera. She told me this story about how I had a prophecy and these five tasks." I rummaged through my yellow fanny pack for the crumpled sheet of paper. I grabbed it out and tried to make it as unwrinkled as possible. I handed it to Leaf and then continued to look for the prophecy.
"How about you just continue the story?" Paul said obviously annoyed by the rummaging
I told them the rest of my story.
"Okay, I knew about the five tasks, but not about the whole stone staircase thing." Jimmy said.
"Yeah, no one knew about that except for me, but I'm going to need help. Will you guys do it?" I asked hopefully.
"I'm in." Leaf said immediately.
"I'm in." Misty said.
"I'm in, but only if you help me find a mirror too." Dawn said.
"How are we going to ditch school unnoticed?" Marina said.
"Good point." Leaf said.
"It's easy. We'll just put up glamour on one of our Pokémon for each person." Jimmy said.
"Oh, okay. Then I'll go!" Marina said.
"I already agreed." Drew flipped his hair.
"Troublesome's mom's going to kill me if I don't help her." Paul grumbled. Dawn gave a glare.
"If Marina's going I'm going." Marina blushed and looked away from Jimmy.
"Well, I need to protect all of the damsels in distress, right?" Gary said causing all the girls, but Leaf to roll their eyes at him.
"Yeah, I'll go, but only if Pikachu can come with me." Ash said.
"Don't worry we won't leave until tomorrow, so after school we need to pack up whatever we need. Wait, what do we need anyway?" I said.
"That's right. They can't fight." Drew sighed.
"What'd you say?" Misty gave him a whack with her mallet.
"Okay, all the girls, but Misty can't fight." This time I gave him a glare.
"We'll meet up at the park tomorrow morning, okay?" Leaf said.
"Okay, now let's get through the rest of this school day." Marina said.
The rest of the school day passed like blur. When I got home I wondered what I should bring to impossible tasks anyway. Clothes? Pokémon? Weapons?
"What in the Hades are you supposed to bring on these dumb tasks anyway?" I screamed.
"May, honey, what are you yelling about?" My mom screamed.
"Um, nothing, mom." I yelled back. I started packing my clothes and Pokémon. I heard footsteps come near my room.
"May, what are you doing." I heard a stern voice.
"Uhh, mom, I'm going to a friend's for a sleepover." I lied horribly.
"Right, now what are you doing?" She said tapping her foot impatiently.
"Oh, I''tevenknowwhatI'msupposedtobring." I said quickly.
"In English, May." She folded her arms.
"Okay, fine. I'm going on this impossible adventure and I don't even know what I'm supposed to bring." I said.
"You are not going! That's an absolute N-O!" She said.
"But mom that's unfair!" I protested.
"It's going to be dangerous!" She said.
"That's why my friends are coming with me!" I screamed back.
"Fine, but if you're going, I need to give you something." She walked into the hallway and I followed her. She went into the living room and lifted a painting. Behind the painting was a bunch of buttons and switched. She pressed a red button that was on the bottom. A crumbling noise started and then the house was shaking.
"M-man, I h-hope, M-max isn't h-home r-right n-n-now." I gripped the arm of a chair for dear life.
"Relax, May. It's over." I opened my eyes that I didn't even know were closed. I sighed.
"Follow me." She said. She grabbed a torch off a step and lit it. I followed her. The stairwell was cold and damp and if you listened you could hear it was filled with mice, rats, or some kind of thing that squeaks.
"Mom, this is creepy." I held onto her. We kept on walking down what seemed like endless stairwell. She stopped and I almost ran into her. She held up the light and pushed a slightly darker stone. The shaking started again. I held on to my mom for dear life. This time it was a lot stronger and almost knocked both of us down.
"May, let go." She stumbled. I let go and dropped onto my rear.
"Owww." I groaned. I looked at where she had pushed the brick. There was a hallway. The ground was paved with blue mosaic tiles and the walls were paved with green wallpaper. Greek paintings adorned the walls. Next to the paintings were gold engraved torches for light.
"How long did it take to build this?" I asked feeling the smooth texture of the wall.
"It took me a few years to just have the cave dug up. I had to have some special help to make this, though." My mom winked at me.
"Well, why are we here?" I asked.
"I thought you might want the stuff that randomly appeared when you were born." She said.
"What stuff? Oh, right." I said. We walked through the elegant hallway to a door. Mom put a hand on the door. Her hand started to glow.
"Uhh, mom?"
"Oh, stop worrying. I'm fine. It's just a security caution." She waved me off with her free hand at me. The door creaked open. Inside was even more elegant than the halls. The carpet was plush, the walls were red-my favorite!-, and there were a bunch of display cases. In each display case was an item that seemed to be luminescent. There was also a horse stable.
"Do all of these belong to me?" I asked.
"Well, I guess. All of these flashed in the house when you were born." She said. I went to a display case with a ruby necklace.
"This is Hephaestus' gift." The display case had a button on the stand. I pushed the button and my finger started to glow. I heard a BEEP! Then the display case's glass started to roll down like a car window. I took out the ruby necklace. The necklace was in the shape of a circle. The chain was pure gold. The ruby also had gold lining. It was heavier than I expected, so I almost dropped it.
"Hera said it would hold anything I wanted it to, so how does it work?" I tried to push the middle, but nothing happened.
"Open." Nothing happened.
"May, what are you trying to do?"
"Well, this necklace is supposed to be able to hold stuff, but I can't even get it open!"
"Well, did you trying holding something in front of it or saying open in Greek?" She said. I took off my bandana and held it in front of the necklace, nothing.
"Uh, mom how do you say open in Greek?" I asked.
"I don't know. Why don't you ask one of your friends?" She shrugged. I put the necklace on the ground.
"I want to look at stuff first." I said. I went to the next display case. It was a long one, inside was a suit of armor. It was somehow a dress too. The breastplates were gold and white. There weren't any sleeves and the bottom was gold and white, but it looked like a gold and white feathers. It looked like a princess dress, but in armor form.
"You know that dress grew with you."
"It did?" I asked.
"Yeah, when you were a baby it was the size for a baby, but as you grew it grew."
"That's so weird." I replied. I pressed the button again and a now familiar BEEP! sounded. I felt the smooth, cold metal of the dress' feathers.
"This'll be the coldest thing I would wear." I said. I closed the display case and I went to the next display case. It was a sword. The handle was white and the blade was gold, but I'm guessing it was actually the celestial bronze stuff that Ares gave me. I opened it tried to lift the sword. It was actually perfect! It wasn't too heavy and it wasn't too light! I slashed the air.
"This is fun!" If the air were sliceable it'd be into a million pieces by now.
"May, that's dangerous!" My mom's voice stopped me, for now.
"Okay, I'll go look at the other stuff." I placed the sword next the necklace lying on the floor. The next case was a staff. It was wooden, but the top had a blue orb. The wood surrounded the orb making it look majestic.
"I really wouldn't know what to do with this." I said. I took it out nonetheless. I really didn't know how to use a sword well, so I really couldn't use this! I set it down next to the sword. The next was a bright light? No, it was the lightning bolt.
"I wonder if this is going to hurt." I opened the case and tried to grab the bolt of lightning. It actually had a feel. It was kind of like water. You really couldn't describe it unless you grabbed it, so my best answer was lightningy? I put it back into the case and want over to the only thing left. The horse stable.
"Hello, horsey horsey. Is anyone here?" I looked inside to see a winged horse. It was white and had white wings to match. The eyes were seemingly black.
'I'm not a horse! I'm a Pegasus! Have some respect for our kind!' A voice rang in my head.
"Mom did you say something?" I asked.
"No, did you want me to? Well, I have to go. When you're done go get me in the kitchen." I heard footsteps running up the stone stairs.
'It was me. I'm the Pegasus.' I looked at the Pegasus with a confused look.
'Don't give me that look! You're not crazy, a little dense, but not crazy. I'm speaking to you telepathically' the voice had a snobbish tone to it.
"Hey, that's not nice! Wait, you can talk!" I said.
'Let me spell it out for you. Tel-epath-ic-ally.' The voice was almost as arrogant as Drew!
"You don't have to be mean about it." I pouted. He did something that sounded like a snort.
'Fine, I'm oh-so sorry for hurting your petty human feelings.' The voice sounded sarcastic.
"You know what? I'm not going to fight with a mean horse!" I stomped off and grabbed the three things that lay on the ground. I stomped upstairs and into the kitchen.
"Mom, I'm done." I said angrily.
"What happened, dear?" She said.
"The stupid, mean horse was being a meanie!" I said childishly.
"Maybe he's just teasing." She said. She wiped her hands and pressed the button behind the painting. The house started shaking again. This time I was prepared and grabbed the kitchen counter before the shaking started. The moment the shaking stopped I heard a voice.
"Mom, May, are you guys okay?" Max screamed.
"Yeah, it was just a minor earthquake, honey." My mom lied.
Leaf's POV
I was standing at the park with my small, green suitcase. All that was in there was the book and some of my clothes. Everyone was already here, but Dawn. How long does it seriously take to pack up a few things and get to the park?
"Is she here yet?" May complained.
"For the last freaking time, NO!" An angry Misty yelled. My phone buzzed. It was a text from Dawn.
Sorry im late I need to pack things k ;)
-Dawn
P.S. We needed to pack the necessary things rite?
"Don't worry guys. She's almost here." I said. May cheered. In about five minutes Dawn came running up to us with an industrial amount of bags.
"Dawn, we only need the necessary things!" Misty said.
"I needed my clothes, makeup, accessories, and shoes! I also needed shampoo and conditioner!" She said.
"Dawn, you only needed a few pairs of clothes." Marina said.
"I'm not carrying those." Paul said.
"Leaf, do you know what Aphrodite's mirror looks like?" She huffed.
"I think there's a picture in the book. Just wait a minute." I leafed through the book for the page about Aphrodite. I opened it and showed it to Dawn.
"Is that good? It's probably not an exact picture, but it's good enough, right?" I said.
"Yeah, thanks." Dawn got out a ball that looked like one of those fortune telling glass balls except it was black. She closed her eyes and a picture appeared. She opened one eye.
"Yes!" She said. The picture disappeared.
"Stay on focus, Troublesome." He said. Dawn gave him a glare and closed her eyes again. The same scene appeared. She opened her eyes. The mirror was reflecting a woman. She was sitting in a field of flowers.
"Leaf; do you know where this is?" She said.
"No, not that I know of." I said.
"I do. It's Elysium." Paul said.
"You have to go the Underworld? Good luck." Drew scoffed.
"Very enthusiastic." Gary said.
"Thanks, you know I try." Drew said.
"Let's use that ball before they start to have a bromance." Misty said. She took the ball and handed it to me.
"How do you use this?" I said.
"You just picture the thing you're looking for." Dawn said.
"I don't know what the Labyrinth looks like." I frowned.
"No one does. It's always changing. The best you could do is picturing the Underworld's entrance for now." Drew said.
"I don't think we could do that either." I said.
"Well, I can't. Hades isn't exactly the welcoming type, even if he's my father." Paul said.
"Hey, Leaf what's open in Greek?" May asked suddenly.
"I'm not really great at Greek." I said.
"It's ανοίξτε." Jimmy said.
"Oh, thanks." She said.
"Ανοίξτε" May said holding a ruby necklace. The necklace started to glow. The middle of it sent out a yellow circle with runes all over it.
"What'd you do, May?" I asked.
"Well, it's one of the gifts." May said. The glowing yellow circle spelled out:
Τι επιθυμείτε να θέσει σε?
"What do you wish to put in?" Drew translated.
"Oh, um, do I have to say it in Greek?" I asked.
"Why don't you try?" Gary said.
"Okay, I want to put in this armor and this sword." She said holding out the items in a pile. The pile glowed and went into the circle. In another moment the circle was back in the necklace.
"That was awesome!" Ash said.
"I know right?" May exclaimed.
"As awesome as that was, we need to start looking." I said.
"What do Underworld entrances look like?" May asked.
"They look like holes in the ground. There's one in every city, so Charon doesn't have to travel everywhere to give the dead rides." Paul said.
"Well, do you know where the one in Larousse is?" I asked.
"Yeah, but we have to have some obolus'." Paul said.
"Well, I have some, but I only have enough for two." Drew said.
"I have enough for one." Gary declared.
"I have none." Ash chimed in.
"I have three." Jimmy said.
"I have one." Paul grumbled.
"That's only seven." I frowned.
"There are ten of us." Marina uttered.
"How are we going to get three more?" Dawn replied.
"I don't know. We just found them kicking monster butts." Gary said.
"Hey have any of you read those letters we got with the sword?" Drew said taking out an envelope.
"I already did." Paul said.
"Me too." Jimmy said.
"I completely forgot about that." Gary said.
"These were the same clothes I was wearing that day, though." He reached into his pants pocket and took out a wrinkled envelope.
"You don't wash your clothes?" I said disgusted.
"Well, I only wash clothes that need to be washed." Gary shrugged.
"Ew." I said.
"If I did, I wouldn't be able to read this baby." He waved the crinkled envelope.
"I don't have mine, but it had too many words. They were too hard. I counted some words that had seven letters!" Ash put up seven fingers with both of his hands.
"Was Ketchum, one?" Gary said.
"I don't know, but one started with a 'K' and ended with an 'M'." Ash said.
"You're lucky you're good at fighting." Jimmy sighed.
"Here, I'll read the letter." Gary said.
"Dear Gary Amazing Oak,
We are pleased to announce that you are awesome." I snatched the letter.
"That's not even what it says. I'll read it.
Gary Oak, we inform you that it is not allowed to go to nymph only areas. The next time this happens we will severely hurt you. Now, onto important business, the nymphs don't like you, Oak. The thing you need to know is that Kane has escaped and we're leaving it up to you and your friends to recapture him.
Sincerely, the Warden.
P.S. The swords were from me and not Crystal."
I finished reading the letter. "Interesting letter."
"I told Gary that he shouldn't have tried to sneak into the hot tubs with the nymphs." Jimmy sighed.
"Wait, who's Kane?" Misty asked as if ignoring Jimmy.
"He's this demigod that hates other demigods. He thinks he's the best. He's arrogant, conceited, and strange freak. One day he snapped and went into this massacre killing as many demigods as he could. The wardens captured him and threw him into Tarturus. The wardens are these guys who find people to throw into Tarturus because they have a twisted hobby of being 'justified'." Drew flipped his hair.
"Kane sounds a lot like you, Drew." May said.
"I'm nothing like him." He protested.
"You did say arrogant and conceited, right?" May retorted.
"What makes you think I'm arrogant and conceited?" Drew said.
"Stop arguing like a married couple! We have work to do!" Misty yelled. They both looked away blushing.
Misty's POV
We were going to the outskirts of town, where Paul mentioned the entrance was. A thought struck me.
"Wait, we don't have any weapons except for the guys and May." I said.
"That's not completely true." Jimmy said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Gary knew you guys didn't have any swords, so he brought five swords he thought were the easiest the use." Ash finished.
"Which one do I get?" I piped.
"The heaviest one we packed." Drew opened his suitcase. There were five swords like Ash said, but they were daggers. He tossed me one that was the biggest looking one. I slashed it into the air.
"This is lame." I complained.
"Deal with it." Drew said. He handed the other blades to the other girls. Dawn got the smallest, Marina got the next smallest, and Leaf got the next one. May refused hers.
"May, I'll trade you." I said.
"I think I'm good." She said.
"Fine." I gave a pout.
"You can have this, though." May unzipped her bag and took out a wooden staff with a blue orb on the top.
"What is this?" I said picking it up.
"It's a staff. I don't really know how to use it, so you can have it." May shrugged.
"You're supposed to say ενεργοποιήσετε." Drew said.
"Why does there have to be so many cursed Greek! Ενεργοποιήσετε!" I said. The wood turned to silver and the blue orb started to glow.
"Sweet!" I said.
Okay, I'm going to stop here. The last word in Greek means activate. Review, my pretties.
~LoveFanGirl~
P.S. Don't forget to guess my favorite Pokémon!
