Chapter 39
Marina's POV
Gary had told me Lisa was here, so I decided to find out for myself. I was at the camp, but I really didn't have a single clue to where she was. The only thing I knew about her was she was kind of a down to earth person. At least that's what I think. I tried the mess hall, but I grabbed an apple on the way out, the guest room that was 'reserved' for us, and lastly the forest. I gave up after a while.
I was exhausted. All this demigod and god stuff was way too overwhelming! I walked to the guest room and flopped on the plain white bed. I don't really get why everything in here was white, but at least I knew it was clean and not covered in blood. May was somehow still asleep and snoring, quite loudly to be specific. I got up and went to the communal bathroom, which was a little disturbing to me. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. There were a few scratches here and there, but other than that I was fine.
I took my lip gloss out of my white skinny jeans. I twisted the cap and applied the cotton candy flavored gloss on. I then took out my mascara that was strangely colored 'blackest black' and applied a thick layer onto my top lashes. I took a look at my reflection again. A teal tank top with a thin white cardigan over it and I was clean. Perfect.
"Who are you?" A snobbish tone scoffed. I looked over and saw a girl about my age with light brown hair, just a shade lighter than May's. She was wearing everything designer. If this girl didn't have a scary vibe to her then she'd be Dawn. She was wearing a spaghetti strap black dress that went her mid-ankles, a furry pink jacket on top, black flats, a silver necklace with the initials 'VD,' a charm bracelet with heart charms, a black coin purse with a silver chain, and her hair was curled perfectly around her perfect face. Her gray eyes gave a 'back off!' signal, though.
"Um, I'm Marina. You?" I asked in a friendly tone. She took out a ruby red tube of lipstick and put about 10 layers on before answering.
"I'm Veronica Dixon, part of the Aphrodite force, you?" She said it in an almighty way.
"I'm not part of any force. I guess I would be in Apollo, though." I answered truthfully.
"Oh, you're an outsider. How pleasant, so who's the moron who brought you here?" This time she took a black tube of mascara out and started putting it on her already thick eyelashes.
"That's not nice! They aren't morons either!" I retorted. I was usually calm, but she just gave off a bad vibe that made you want to bite her perfectly sculpted head off.
"Tsk. Tsk. Such an unmannered one aren't you? If you aren't going to tell me you might as well just leave. As you can see I need to reapply my makeup already. It's been an hour already. I can't go outside looking like a hobo in totally chic clothes." She flipped back her long hair and took a look at her manicured black nails. I calmed myself down. Violence is NEVER the answer. No matter how much you wanted it.
"I was brought here by Jimmy, Drew, Paul, Gary, and Ash. Do you know them?" I asked calmly.
"Know them? They're practically legends here. Are they here? I got to make sure I look good first. You. Mary, get out of my sight! Can't you see my makeup's already falling off? Look at that! That eyelash doesn't even have mascara on! Get out! NOW!" She gave me a shove and before I knew it I was kicked out of a bathroom by a vicious, little brat. Her stupid sentences made no sense since any creature could take a sniff and find her from a continent away. She practically bathed in her gingerbread perfume that smelled more like vomit because of her ridiculous amount of makeup!
I was practically seething! All those years of yoga were breaking away in one bathroom break. I took out one of my Poke balls. My precious Misdreavous. I took her out and hugged her.
"Little Miss, want to go take a walk or in your case float around the park?" I giggled. She was already making me feel better already!
"Mis." She nodded and to the forest we went.
Leaf's POV
This was how last night went:
Okay, so the fact that the person across me is Artemis' daughter made no sense. She was a goddess that despised men. My brain tried to figure out a reasonable way, but it wasn't possible. No matter what I did it didn't make any sense!
"Um, Leaf? Is your brain going to explode or something? Or do you want me to explain?" Lisa asked nervously. I probably did look like I was freaking out. I stopped doing what I was doing and nodded.
"Okay, so one day Artemis was watching a demigod camp. She saw how Apollo's children had so many of his attributes, how Aphrodite's children were so attractive, and Athena's were natural geniuses. Artemis had her group of huntresses, but she yearned for her own child, so she tried to figure out a way to stay a virgin goddess without dating a wretched male. Her words not mine. It took her years to find a way, but she did it. It was completely disgusting, but she did it." Lisa took a pause here and shuddered.
"She secretly drew her own blood and went down to visit a pregnant mortal with dyslexia. Artemis asked if she would drink it, but of course she declined without fully aware of what it was. Artemis grew angry and every day she would secretly put five drops of her blood in her food for nine months. When the baby was born the baby had slightly shimmered skin and the dyslexic mortal knew her baby was a demigod." Lisa finished. I had a feeling she was hiding more, but I let it go.
"That's so disturbing and disgusting and why did the woman have to be dyslexic?" I asked immediately.
"For some reason anyone born with dyslexia, schizophrenia, and other diseases that mess with the brain and eyes gives the sight to mortals, thankfully I wasn't born with any health problems." Lisa explained.
"Okay, well how about you come to the tent I share with my friends? We've got an extra two beds." I tempted.
"That sounds tempting, but I'm going to take your offer on that. I don't exactly want to sleep on the floor." Lisa said. We walked back to the campsite in the dark, but when we got to the camp Lisa told me she had to go get something. I told her to hurry and went inside completely exhausted from my kidnapping.
I woke up and saw Lisa sleeping on one of the extra beds with a bag lying lazily on the ground next to her with a bow and a quiver of arrows hanging out. Looks, like she got what she needed. I guess she was an archer, like Marina. I wonder if I was meant to be an archer. I shrugged. Maybe I'll try later.
My mind thought back to the conversation last night. When she said huntress that made the gears in my brain go crazy, where did I hear that word? The prophecy!
When the foremost of the Undertakings have been fulfilled
The moon shall bring a mighty huntress unto the stars
Her trials will be hard and her decisions tough,
But she shall get through until the end.
The moon shall guide you to resurrection.
Your life you shall give up
Save your life by moon's full
Hunt with it,
But she shall get through until the end.
Did the prophecy have to do with Lisa too?
The moon shall bring a mighty huntress unto the stars. How about I replace it with Lisa?
The moon shall bring Lisa unto the stars. It sounded lame, but it was nighttime! Stars! Huntress! My brain and I did a victory dance! Who could sleep when you're this close to figuring out the prophecy?
'Just the rest left.' I thought, but everything was coming into place. I thought about everything Lisa's already told me that had to do with May, but that was only one thing. She needed May to join Artemis' group of huntresses…
I went over the prophecy over and over. Her joining perfectly fit the words, but my mind didn't want to believe it. NO! It practically screamed the word at me. May just couldn't join the group. She was one of my friends and I wasn't about to give her up. Maybe I was wrong! Maybe I was just over thinking it, but the line 'Your life you shall give up' doesn't sound promising, either, but that could also mean anything, like giving up the life you have now and joining the hunters…
I almost screamed! I decided to not think about the prophecy anymore unless I could have more clues, but Lisa showing up right after our first task wasn't promising me any chance of me being wrong. For once in my life I hoped I was wrong with all my heart. I got out of bed and changed into clean clothes. A thin green V-neck sweater, light wash blue jeans, brown boots that went up to my mid-knee, and my hair was brushed straight down.
I decided to go light on the makeup and find Marina, who for some reason thought it was actually human possible to get up early, which she proved pretty much every day. Maybe she could help me with the prophecy.
Lisa's POV
I got up and went to shower and change. I got out of the shower and changed into a black tank top with lace trimmings, a black and white plaid shirt over it, white jeans, black converse, a Pegasus necklace, and a charm bracelet with the initials, 'HA,' which stood for 'Hunters of Artemis,' but it ironically spelled 'Ha.'
As soon as I left the bathroom I was greeted by none other than my stalker, Simon.
"Hey, Simon." I greeted.
"Hey, didn't see you there, Li-sa." He said putting emphasis on my name again for some odd reason.
"Are you always going to say my name like that?" I asked.
"Yep, or until it gets boring, so what's up?" He was in a purple shirt and some baggy dark jeans. Usually a guy couldn't pull purple off, but I guess he and Drew were exceptions.
"I'm wondering if I can go get some food since I didn't get to eat yesterday." I raked my fingers through my hair in case of tangles.
"Oh, yeah. You completely ditched me! You better have an apology ready for me." He said immediately.
"Okay, I'm sorry for ditching you. Now can we go get some food?" It felt like my stomach was eating itself!
"Okay, apology accepted, but only because I'm going to make you give me a decent apology after breakfast." Simon said.
"You can try, but good luck. Hey, where did you sleep?" I asked suddenly.
"The Hades force. I swear everyone in there's like Paul and my brother. Complete bores! It's why I prefer Drew, Gary, Ash, and Jimmy over them any day, but I'm sort of related to those Goths, so whatever." He shrugged. I walked inside the cafeteria again. I grabbed a plate of hash browns and chocolate chip pancakes with white and milk chocolate for the chocolate chips. For a beverage I grabbed a strawberry-kiwi smoothie I've been craving since yesterday.
I saw Marina and Leaf sitting down and went to join them.
"Lisa! You are here! I thought they were pranking me or something. Wait, why are you here? Who's the guy?" Marina asked rapidly. I gave her a quick explanation of what I told Leaf.
"That's so weird. Wait, what about the guy?" Marina asked again.
"You don't know him? How come Leaf knew?" I asked.
"Marina and Jimmy were supposed to be on watch duty, but ditched their positions and went to see a movie." Leaf quickly explained.
"I can see why." Marina gave Leaf an 'I-told-you-so' look.
"Wait, why does Simon have black hair? Did he dye it?" Leaf asked.
"Nope, I was born with awesome hair that changes colors, jealous?" He said conceitedly.
"Not really. I think I would die if my hair constantly changed colors." Leaf said admittedly.
"Me too. Could you really imagine me with blond hair?" I joked.
"Okay, point taken, but it just proves that I look great with whatever hair color."
"No one ever said you were attractive." Leaf retorted.
"Yeah, but you were all thinking it." He gave us a creeper smile.
"You." Marina said giving the next word to me.
"Freaking." I said and motioned toward Leaf.
"Wish." She finished.
"Okay, so maybe you guys weren't thinking of it. Okay, so where's everyone else? I think Drew's training like the egomaniac he is, Ash is sleeping, Paul's probably sulking for whatever reason, Gary's being a pervert, and Jimmy's probably sleeping too. At least that's what I think." Simon hypothesized.
After lunch I decided to do a little exploring, but of course Simon had to follow me too.
"Okay, back to our subject! You should give me a kiss as an apology." Simon smirked.
"That's not a good idea." I said immediately. He didn't listen and gave me a light peck. My eyes widened. This is so bad! I need to go get help!
"Simon, you shouldn't have done that! You're going to lose your memory!" I shook my head. Stupid people should try listening next time!
This is where I shall end! Review! I might also be posting the first chapter of The Models of Petalburg as a little teaser for the story until summer, so Review cause I'm going to work! BYE!
~TheDisguisedFairy~
