Wow, for once I'm actually starting a chapter early! Hopefully, I actually finish on time.


Chapter 41

Drew's POV

"Roselia, use solarbeam!" I directed. The rose Pokémon's hands started glowing and when it was ready it twirled on the ground while shooting the bright, yellow beam at the sky creating a sort of wavy beam instead of a straight one.

"Okay, now use petal dance! I smirked. My forehead was plastered with beads of sweat from the intense training I've been doing despite the crisp fall air being slightly breezy. Roselia stopped using solarbeam with one of her flower buds and used petal dance at the sky with her free red hand. The petal dance circled the solarbeam creating a yellow beam imbedded with elegant pink rose petals.

"Okay, now use stun spore!" Roselia stopped twirling and emitted shiny yellow powder that sprinkled all over the petal beam (solarbeam and petal dance combined) giving it a dazzling glow while scattering the powder all over the ground.

Roselia stopped swirling with swirled eyes and unbalanced. I kept my calm, but I was slightly angry at my most prized Pokémon. "Roselia, that's enough training for today. Get some rest and we'll try it again tomorrow."

I took out my poke ball and shot the red beam at her. Before I did, though, she gave me a guilty look, which made my stomach lurch. I sighed; maybe there was a certain brunette with a feisty temper to annoy. Not because I liked her or anything, of course, but for the fun of it.

The ground was covered with fallen leaves that were decaying by the brownness on them. I heard crunching noises caused by my foot as I walked past the cool autumn morning. My hair was being blown by the wind, which was bothering me, badly. I saw May and a pale, skinny girl I recognized as the daughter of Kane, Felicity.

What was Maple doing with her? Curiosity got the best of me and I started eavesdropping on their conversation. I stayed behind trees, bushes, and other natural things to hear snippets of the conversation.

"So why are you here? You don't typically see outsiders here unless there's a reason." Felicity said happily.

"I already told you right? I'm here because of those weird 5 tasks. I'm also here because two of my friends are injured, but one of them isn't an outsider, but he's recovered and the one that is an outsider is really injured with this poison stuff." I couldn't believe she just told that to a complete stranger. Well, I guess that's May for you…

She was certainly an interesting one. I decided to stalk the daughter of Kane and the feistiest, klutzy, strange, and innocent girl. I was in my black shirt; purple vest on top, and my light green jeans, so blending in wasn't exactly an option. Luckily, for me, though, May was the densest person in the world. She probably couldn't tell the difference between a chicken and a brick.

The leaves beneath me crunched as I carefully stepped through the forest. May and Felicity were talking about the most stupid things, like shoes, shopping, clothes, and whatnot. It was boring me to death because for a second I thought eating my hand sounded like fun. How juvenile! I flicked my hair out of habit and watched the two girls. Maybe, one more than the other…

One sentence did catch my eye, though, "Fliss, what god did your dad drug?"

Drugs? Was that why Kane got locked up? I thought he tried to do one of those cliché plans, like ruling the world. Some hero I am. I didn't even bother to look up what he did wrong. For all I know, he could be completely innocent. Too bad he looks like a demented squirrel.

Felicity didn't look anything like Kane, though. Kane had white blond hair, a cold expression, and he was tall. 8 feet tall to be specific. Felicity was about 5 feet tall. She had a worried expression and brown hair, but the thing that didn't match up was that meant Kane had to have dated a goddess, which was still unknown. Felicity didn't show any of the gods' talents, so she's had to stay in the guest tents for as long as I could remember.

Man, if anyone knew I knew any of this, they'd think I was a major stalker. Well, news to everyone, Drew Hayden is not a stalker. I just made it a simple goal to know which force everyone belonged to. Was it such a crime?

I flicked my hair once again out of habit and continued to hear them drone on and on. This was seriously cramping my style, so I decided to go out into the opening. You know, after I came up with an excuse of course. I couldn't possibly let them know about me observing them.

"Hey, May, who's that you're talking to?" I said casually. May gave me a surprised look.

"This is Felicity, but she prefers Fliss." May introduced, even though I really did know who she was. Too bad I wasn't going to let her know that. Felicity's face was bright red, like May's when she got angry. Well, May's looked angry while Felicity's looked embarrassed.

"Well, then pleasure to meet you Felicity. I'm not sure why you're talking to someone as dense as May,"-May gave a glare-"but you really should try making friends with much more talented people who don't eat like pigs." I smirked and flipped my hair.

"Hey!" May's face scrunched up angrily. She was just too entertaining. I saw Felicity in the corner of my eye. She looked uncomfortable.

"Um, guys? It's not good to, uh, you know, fight?" Felicity said nervously. I smirked while May blushed.

"I wasn't fighting. I was just stating the facts." I said smugly.

"Why you little…piece…of…" May clamped her mouth before she could say the next word, which was probably a cuss.

"Tsk. Tsk. It's not nice to swear, Maple." I wiggled my finger.

"Why you…! Fliss, come on! We're going since Drew's being a jerk!" May grabbed Felicity by the wrist and dragged her to who knows where. I smirked. May was just too entertaining.


Dawn's POV

I woke up with an oxygen mask over my mouth. What in the world had happened? The memories slowly came back to me and I remembered Grizela exploding into a million disgusting pieces. I shuddered, but I couldn't. My whole body was numb and sore. My vision was fine, but all I could see was a white ceiling of a building. I'm guessing I was in a hospital or something.

I used an unnecessary amount of force to lift my head up. My whole body was bandaged and Paul was sleeping in a chair with his head on the same bed…

Did he really stay here all night? How sweet! If I could move I would do some kind of happy dance. Hm, I wonder if anyone changed my clothes. If so, then hopefully they were all females! I really couldn't look at anyone the same way again if it were a guy. I tried to sit up, but I couldn't force myself up. Instead I sort of made a grunting noise, waking up Paul.

"You know you shouldn't be moving, right? The fact that you're awake is amazing." Paul snorted. Even when I'm a mummy he still makes it a mission to annoy me! How irritating can he be? But still, he stayed with me the whole time, so that means he cares, right?

"Okay, thanks. For staying, I mean." I lay back down, but a moment later I heard the door burst open. My friends. Leaf, Marina, May, Misty, and an unknown girl…

"Dawn, you're awake!" Leaf smiled with tears threatening to spill in her eyes. I looked at May and Misty. They looked like they were trying not to laugh.

"What are you two laughing at?" I asked.

"Nothing. You just look like a mummy!" Misty started giggling.

"I'd like to see you guys pull this off." I joked.

"Really, because I think you'd prefer this." May held out my favorite pink and black dress.

"You guys are so mean! You're just trying to torture me aren't you?" I complained.

"Oh, relax! The doctor's said you could wear it as long as you keep wearing the bandages on your legs." Marina soothed.

"Really, that's awesome! I can finally take these ugly things off!" I cheered in delight.

"I'm leaving." Paul shut the door behind him leaving an awkward silence. Leaf was the first to recover.

"Did he stay with you all night long?" Leaf cooed.

"I don't know. I was unconscious until now. I'm not even sure how you guys found out so soon?" I admitted.

"Some unknown number texted me." Marina said.

"Same here!" May and Misty said in unison.

"Dawn, do you know 405-930-1563?" Leaf asked without taking a peek at her phone. Did she really take the liberty of remembering an unknown number?

"I don't know. Could you go check my phone?" I requested.

"Yeah, where is it?" Marina asked.

"It was in my bag, I think." I thought of all the places I've used my phone since we started this weird task business. I almost fainted. None. I haven't used my phone once since this crazy shenanigan started. I also don't know how I knew that ancient word. Well, if I haven't used my phone once then it should be in my pink bag.

"Okay, I'll go get it." Misty offered and ran out of the building.

"I texted back asking who this was, but no one answered. People are so creepy. Why can't they just say 'Hi, we stalk your friend Dawn!' People are just so weird." Leaf sighed.

"I don't think I would ever want to know that kind of info." I said a little freaked out.

"I'm back!" Misty announced. She was holding my pink purse with pink rhinestones.

"Here. I can't even stand holding this pink girly bomb any longer." Misty tossed it to Leaf, who caught it easily. She opened it and rummaged through my stuff.

"I can't find it." She said. May took it from her and dumped everything out.

"May, my makeup is in there!" I protested. I looked through the mess on the floor and didn't see my phone.

"Where's my phone?" I wailed.

"It's right here." Misty said holding out her hand. In her hand was my pink iPhone.

"You're so mean. You just made May spill about half of Dawn's makeup." Leaf said.

"My makeup! Misty, you're so going to die once I get out of here!" I said hotly.

"Oh, chill. You have like a ton of it back home." Misty shrugged.

"You better be right." I murmured. Leaf was scrolling through my contacts list, but after a while she stopped.

"Geez, Dawn, how many people do you text?" Leaf complained and started to look through it again. After a few more moments Leaf shook her head.

"There's no one by that number." Leaf admitted. I sighed in frustration. I looked around the room, but then I finally noticed the unknown girl again.

"Who are you?" I asked. She gave a squeak in surprise.

"I'm, uh, Felicity, but you can call my, Fliss." She said nervously.

"Do you have any idea who that number belongs to?" I asked.

"…No." She said hesitantly.

"Are you sure?" I pressured.

"Yes." She said more confidently this time.

"Okay, so Fliss what force or whatever do you belong to?" I asked.

"I don't know. I don't belong to any, I guess." She said shyly.

"Then why are you here?" Marina piped up.

"It's because I'm a demigod." She said.

"Okay, but how'd you get here?" Leaf asked.

"My dad got arrested for getting a god addicted to drugs." She said simply.

"Oh." It was all I could say. If my dad had done that I don't think I could just admit it so easily.

"What god?" Misty asked.

"I'm not sure. My dad wouldn't tell me." She answered.

"Okay, then who's your dad?" Misty asked.

"His name is Christopher, but most people call him Kane." Kane, that name sounded familiar. Wait, wasn't it that guy that went crazy and killed a bunch of people?

"Wasn't that the guy who massacred a lot of demigods?" Leaf asked as if reading my mind.

"Well, yes, but that was only after someone found out he had drugged a god. You see that number you just mentioned. It was my father's number and the person he drugged was my mom, Hera." She answered.


You guys have no idea how much writer's block I had to get through just to write this chapter! It was harder than getting through the labyrinth! Okay, review because I'm going to watch Kodocha like crazy!

~TheDisguisedFairy~