Okay, guys, this is chapter 32! I think I should stop around 50 or something. Well, that contest I've been having well we got a winner. 2 of them! SunshineTails and FireRed-Rose won! They're the winners. You guys can still try to guess my name, though. I also edited chapter 26 a little. I only edited Hera's 'curse,' so that it's better. If you want to check it out go ahead. I only slightly changed one paragraph. I might mention it later in the story, though.


Chapter 32

Dawn's POV

I felt my eyes flutter open. My head was pounding and my feet felt like they were on fire. My muscles were sore. What had happened? Then the memories came back, I wish they hadn't. Grizelda was not 'fun'. I tried to sit up, but my body wouldn't respond. I groaned.

"Where am I?" I managed to speak, but my voice was dry. I needed water, desperately. I tried to sit up again, but with the same results except my body seemed to have woken up and I was sore all over.

"Ugh, can someone get me water?" I asked not really expecting an answer.

"You're finally awake, huh?" It was Paul, I think. My mind was groggy. I looked at what I was wearing. Someone changed my clothes! It better have been a girl! I saw Paul through the side of my eye. It looked like he'd changed clothes too. He was in a dark blue T-shirt, a black jacket with gray swirls all over it that resembled flames, and baggy blue jeans. He looked good. I could see his abs through his thin shirt. I blushed when I noticed he was looking back at me.

"Staring's not your thing. You look like a demented cow." Paul replied.

"Hey!" I sat up, but a sudden pain jerked through my whole body. I immediately laid back down groaning.

"Relax or the bandages would've been for nothing. I'll go get the others" After a moment he added, "and that water." After a moment the others came in except for Simon and Adrian.

"Dawn!" Leaf gave me a death hug. The others-as in the girls, not the guys-joined in the painful bear hug. "Are you feeling well", "How are you doing?", and "I'm so glad you're alright!" could be heard.

"Oww." I groaned in pain.

"Oops, sorry. Are you feeling better?" Leaf said in a concerned voice.

"Water." I hissed.

"Oh, right. Here." Paul handed me a bottle of water. I gulped it hungrily as if drinking water for the first time in 10 years. I probably chugged all of it down in five minutes.

"Wow that felt great!" I jumped up and felt a sharp jolt of pain. I moaned.

"Okay, I might need some help to walk and stuff, but no need to worry." I said in the most positive voice I could. Paul grabbed my arm and put it behind his neck and over his shoulder. I blushed by the closeness.

"Let's go. I can't wait to get out of this place." Paul replied.

"Well, I can't wait for you to leave, either." Adrian snorted. He was just outside of the tent. I guess I was wrong.

"We can't wait to get away from you!" May yelled.

"Is that so? Well, good. You were just causing Simon and me trouble, right Simon?" Adrian looked to his left, but no one was there.

"Simon, where'd you go this time?" Adrian growled and left in search of Simon.

"Well, should we go? We've got the mirror, so let's go help May find that dog thing." I said.

"You sure you're okay?" Misty said with concern in her voice.

"Yeah, let's just go plus you've got Paul holding me up, right?" Leaf gave me a wink. I flushed and gave her a glare.

"Let's just go." Gary said.


Lisa's POV

I took a glance at the stranger that was holding onto my mouth. It was a guy. A spark of anger lighted. I elbowed him and pressed my right butterfly earring. I took off the earring and it flashed into a silver bow and I pressed my left earring. I took it off and it flashed into a quiver of arrows.

"Don't touch my hair!" I growled.

"That's what you elbowed me for?" He was grasping his stomach where I elbowed him.

"Duh, and the fact that you're a total freaking stranger!" I gave him a sarcastic look.

"Well, I happened to be doing my job. I'm supposed to keep the alive out of Elysium."

"Good job. I can see them, you know? I'm not blind. I'm just close to blind." I pointed at the tents.

"Well, how do you know they're not dead?" He retorted.

"I'm not retarded, either." I rolled my eyes.

"Touché." He said.

"Well, whatever." I sighed.

"You know you're not exactly how I imagined an archer to look like." I noticed his face. He had tousled brown hair and dark brown eyes.

"Well, you're not how I imagine Underworld guards to look like. I imagine them to look dark and wear way too much black." I replied.

"If you're going to be stereotypical about it, then yes, my brother does dress like a buff Goth zombie." The brown haired boy said.

"You're talking about me being stereotypical, then you should look at yourself. You're the one who started this dumb conversation." I grabbed some rope out and started to unwind it.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"Since I doubt you're going to let me stay I'm going tie you up." I said.

"Go ahead. I'm tired, anyway." He shrugged.

"Seriously? You're an idiot. What if you're boss or whatever decides to punish you?" I was kind of baffled by his calm expression.

"Are you trying to persuade me to fight you or something? Or maybe you think I'm attractive. I don't blame you I am a good looking guy." He smirked. I rolled my eyes. I punched his head and tied his arms and legs.

"What it up with arrogant guys? They all think they're 'good looking.'" I said angrily.

"That's because we are smoking hot." He made a sizzling sound.

"Yeah, and I'm a dog." I said sarcastically. I returned to my post of spying.

"No, but you're as cute as one." I raised my eyebrow at him.

"No offence, but flattery doesn't work on me and if you want to get untied, fat chance." I snorted.

"Well, I don't need to try to escape. I bet my brother's already realized I'm gone."

"You do realize you warned me about your brother, right?" I turned back to spying.

"Well, I'm bored, so it's no fun to see my new friend getting killed by my dear merciless brother."

"You're such a weirdo." I sighed. I saw May and the others walking out of the tent.

"Finally!" I mentally cheered.

"What? I want to see!" He complained.

"Shush, we're going to get spotted!" I shushed him.

"Lalalalalalalala….!" He started screaming. I put my hand over his mouth.

"Be quiet." I hissed. He gave me a flirtatious look.

"Are you serious?" I sighed. I thought about kicking him into the river Styx, but I'm not sure that was the good option. I decided to ditch him as soon as the others moved far enough. I watched as they moved slowly. I squinted and saw that Dawn was wrapped in bandages. Oh my gosh! What happened to her?

"Are you stalking Drew and the others?" I heard the annoying boy say.

"Be quiet." I was surprised no one's noticed me yet. How soundproof is this place? The others still haven't moved far enough for me to ditch the ignoramus yet.

"What if I say no?" He said.

"Well, I could kick you into Styx." I offered.

"I think I'm good actually." He said.

"Okay, not shush. I'm trying to see what in the world those idiots are doing." I watched them intently.

"You know you could just walk up to them." He said.

"Yeah, but that's dumb." I replied.

"Well, you never know till you try plus do you even know them?" He asked.

"You're an idiot and yes, I do know them." I sighed.

"Well, I do too. Well, the guys."

"Are you close with them?" I asked.

"The two guys Gary and Drew, why?"

"Just curious." I pondered why I've never seen him with the others.

"Are you close with them?" He asked.

"Well, I don't see her, but I'm closest with Marina. I'm not sure where she is and I don't see Jimmy, either." I walked a few more steps away from him.

"Now that you mention it I didn't see Jimmy when I was talking with them."

"You actually let them in, huh?" I asked.

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Who are you, anyway?" I asked.

"I'm Simon. I'm not exactly tempted to tell you my last name since I doubt you're going to tell me yours." Simon said.

"Well, you're right about that. I would, but there's no use is there, Simon?"

"I guess, but then am I supposed to just call you a random name?" Simon replied.

"Pretty much." I said.


Drew's POV

We were slowly heading toward the entrance. Gary and I had uncapped our swords in case some monster attacked us.

We slipped through the entrance with ease and I had a feeling something was watching us. I kept looking to my left and right, but didn't see anyone. I shrugged off the feeling and continued.

"Paul, which way to Cerberus? I want to get out of this place as soon as I can." Gary asked.

"We're close. It's just a few miles away." Paul replied.

"At least Adrian's gone. He was such a buzz kill." Gary said.

"Let's just go. We're trying to get through as fast as we can, right?" I said.

"Yeah, because I love stealing whiskers from three headed dogs that could probably rip me to shreds. Oh, wait I do!" Gary said.

"You are a pretty messed up guy." Leaf replied.

"Everyone loves me, anyway, so does it matter?" I gave him an 'are you serious?' look.

"Yeah, because everyone thinks conceited boys are sexy." Misty said sarcastically.

"See, even the tomboys love me." Misty gave him a whack to the head.

"Let's go or I'll personally shove you into a pit of fire." Misty said.

"Hey, look! It's a princess castle!" Ash pointed at a castle that was far off into the distance.

"That's Hades' castle. It doesn't look like a princess castle nor is it a princess castle." I shook my head. The castle even gave off an ominous feel.

"Is that where we're going?" Ash asked.

"No, we're just dropping by to say 'Hi' to Hades and then we're going to get a whisker from Cerberus." I said sarcastically.

"Really?"

"No, we're going to the castle because Cerberus is there. Drew's just being sarcastic." May said.


I'm going to end this here because I'm really sad, sorry. I've had a rough two days. It's shorter than I like, but I'll try to make the next one longer, okay bye.

~LoveFanGirl~