Well, there's only 4 more chapters and I'm going on vacation on July 1, so I may or may not update on the Saturday after this one because, frankly I'm going to be packing… It also seems like everyone else is on vacation…

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Chapter 46

Gary's POV

Today was November 2nd and we were finally going to do the second task, which is going through the labyrinth…

For all I know it could take us months to get through that thing and that means we're going to have to split up to finish before May's curse turns the girls to stone. The curse said that all of her loved ones would turn to stone, but I wasn't exactly close with May, either. Now, that I think about it I'm only doing this for Leaf, probably or maybe I really am nicer than I thought.

"Hey, ready to stop daydreaming." Leaf's voice surprised me.

"Yeah, but I can't say I'll miss this place. I'm going to wound up back here afterwards anyway." I said.

"Or you could go back to school." Leaf suggested.

"Uh huh, that sounds like you want me to." I smirked.

"And what if I do?" Leaf took a step toward me.

"Then I'd do this." I took a step closer and leaned in to kiss her. The kiss was like our first, full of emotion and it had everything I could ever want and more. That sounded cheesy, so thank god no one could read my mind.

"Stop kissing and get going." A gruff voice interrupted us. Paul.

I broke the kiss and saw a flushed Leaf. I guess she was embarrassed, how cute.

"Let's go…" She said. I smirked while Leaf shoved me toward the exit. Wow, this is the 3rd time we're leaving. Oh, and look this time everyone's here! Hm, no event, no missing person, no purple space alien being eaten by Ash, so that means we're finally ready to go.

"We're going to have to split up to complete the tasks." I said. Drew agreed.

"I already thought of that. That's why I brought these." Drew held up 7 things that looked like black Bluetooth headsets, but I knew they were communication devices with a magical enchantment on them. They could work under any condition, including magical ones like, curses.

"If we find out something we'll just use these." Drew explained.

"Okay, but who's taking which tasks?" Leaf asked.

"That's what we're deciding." Drew scoffed. Which task should I get? The easiest? The hardest? Hmm… Maybe, I should get one in the middle with Leaf. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

There was four left, go through the labyrinth, get a scale from a hydra, eat the food of the gods, and make someone bathe in Styx.

Hydra would've been the easiest and labyrinth would've been the hardest, so shall I trick someone into becoming invulnerable or making someone drink golden liquid that could kill you. Although, becoming immortal may or may not be bad, May's going to have to drink the food of the gods. I choose on getting the Styx bath if I can persuade my way into it.

"I call dibs on the Styx one!" I offered.

"Then get some teammates. I really doubt you're going to be able to sneak into the Underworld by yourself." Paul said. I looked around, Jimmy, Ash, Paul, Drew, Leaf, May, Dawn, Marina, Misty, Simon, Lisa, and Felicity. I needed to pick 2 people, so that every task could have 3 or 4 people. Yes, I could do simple math! I'm not the son of a professor for nothing.

"Hmm, I want Leaf and Paul." I said. Paul was the Underworld boy after all and Simon was a little, well, dumb at the moment plus Adrian wasn't going to be happy with Lisa if he found out he lost his memories.

"Fine with me, as long as you guys don't make out the whole time." Paul grumbled. I rolled my eyes, how could he just say these type of things so bluntly?

"Wait, we have to go back to the Underworld?" Leaf complained. I guess she didn't want to visit the eerie green lake again. Well, at least I didn't pick sneaking onto the land of the gods. That place was filled with traps, curses, and the works. At least if we go back to the Underworld we could get through safely with Underworld boy guiding us through.

"Yes, we do unless you want to be with someone else." I teased, but she remained quiet. "I'll take that as a no."

"Okay, so who else wants to volunteer for a quest?" Drew asked. An awkward silence fell on us until Misty opened her mouth, but then closed it again.

"I'll do the hydra one." Misty finally offered. I wasn't surprised. She was a good swimmer after all.

"Then who are your teammates?" Jimmy asked. Misty's face scrunched up into a confused state.

"Um, Dawn and Ash." Misty sighed. I was frankly a little surprised Dawn could swim or else Misty wouldn't have chosen her. Well, at least I think she knows that hydras live in water.

"Aren't hydras those water monsters that could rip me to shreds?" Dawn squirmed.

"Hey, all I need you for is for distraction. Ash and I will rip out the scale from the beast." Misty pat Dawn on the back as if what she said was 'reassuring.'

"Thanks, that makes me feel so much better." Dawn rolled her eyes. 2 tasks down, 2 more to go.

"Okay, let's just assign the other tasks. I'll take the labyrinth with May, Marina and Jimmy since this is the hardest one." Drew offered.

"Then I guess we get the ambrosia one." Lisa said. Heh, sucker! Sneaking into the land of the gods wasn't exactly what I described as easy. Sure, the land of the gods was described as 'gorgeous,' 'breathtaking,' or 'heavenly,' but that place is dangerous to demigods. Mortals don't usually ever end up in the land of the gods unless it's by accident, but when they do let's just say they don't come back sane.

Ambrosia was said to give you immortality, but if you weren't strong enough you could suffer from death. I wonder if a novice demigod was able to survive eating ambrosia. The whole thing about demigods eating ambrosia was a myth. Let's just say someone tested out the myth and didn't survive…

Luckily, he was let into Elysium for being a hero and saving a bunch of Pichu from a forest fire. Nice guy.

"Okay, let's split up. Here." Drew handed Jimmy, Lisa, Ash, Paul, Felicity, and me a black communication device or as I like to call, BCD. I clipped my BCD onto my ear as well as the others who had any.

"Okay, once we finish a task we'll try to meet any others." Drew said. Honestly, I thought he was being a bit bossy, but he is the leader after all and he was right, so I guess I really shouldn't be thinking any of these thoughts.

We split up with the labyrinth group heading to somewhere called, Pacifidlog because they heard someone there knew where the labyrinth was at. I almost scoffed when I heard about this since no one was ever sure about the labyrinth.

My group was headed to the Underworld again. Man, if it weren't for my optimism I'd be complaining about going back to such a gloomy and dark place like, Paul. I have no idea where the others were headed, but I'm pretty sure they know where they're headed. Actually, I wasn't really that sure about Ash's group. Maybe, Drew told them their location.

"Time to go back to the Underworld. Yep, this is just my dream come true." Leaf sighed. I guess she didn't want to go back to the Underworld either.

We were headed to the Underworld entrance again. What a pain. My group was headed back to the outskirts. I was carrying a sleeping bag, some nonperishable food, my sword, and some extra clothes. I wasn't sure what Leaf and Paul were carrying, but whatever it was Paul was either carrying nothing or very little. Leaf on the other hand had about as much as me.

Next stop, the outskirts.


Felicity's POV

It was honestly a relief to be out of the camp, but I wasn't sure I would be of any useful help. I didn't have Apollo's or Artemis's archery skills, Ares's battle skills, Athena's wisdom, or Hermes's stealth. I just had a natural talent to attract doves and plan weddings.

"Hey, can you watch him? He's got a curse on him, which is making him have permanent amnesia." The girl said. I think her name was Lisa and I think the boy's name was Simon. Simple enough.

"Uh huh, sure. My name's Felicity by the way." I introduced.

"Yep, you prefer Fliss, right? I heard Ash call you that, so I'm just assuming that's how it is, but I'm Lisa and that's Simon." Lisa greeted. I smiled, at least I was partnered with someone nice.

"Yep, you're right. If you don't mind I'd much rather have you call me, Fliss." I said.

"Dude, you sure are polite. My dad would love you." Lisa stated.

"Thanks, I guess?" I answered in a questioning way. We were headed to the land of the gods, which was in Sootopolis. That wasn't actually surprising since, well, that place is old and it was known for history and whatnot. Not only was this place famous for 'slumbering history' it was where Wallace and Juan lived. The famous coordinators and gym leaders.

I was a Pokémon Trainer, so challenging a gym sounded like fun. I honestly didn't have a clue about the land of the gods since I've been stuck in the demigod camp ever since I was little. It's not like my dad wanted me around when he was buying his illegal demon drugs. He was one of those people born with schizophrenia, so he could see all the craziness, but he also saw a bunch of excess things. He once told me that he saw dancing Cheetos.

The drugs helped him skip out on the excess things, but after a while he stopped taking the drugs because he didn't like the side effects, which included vomiting, nausea, and an attraction to creatures such as, nymphs, centaurs, Cyclopes, etc. That also included gods like, Hera…

That's how it all started. He gave the drugs to Hera and while she was drugged he took advantage of her by taking a pint of her blood. I still don't know what he needed that for, but I do know he plans on keeping that in a secret compartment. I've already told the officers everything I knew, but they've said my father was going to stay locked up forever, which was just fine with me. I didn't plan on giving my will to my father anytime soon.

"Hey, do you want to have a tag battle with me once we get the ambrosia?" Lisa asked. I snapped out of my thoughts.

"Sure, but let's make sure we actually survive getting through the land of the gods." I said.

"Want to know a little secret? Ambrosia and a blood pact is what it takes to be in the Hunters of Artemis." Lisa said. My mouth faltered.


May's POV

We were heading to Pacifidlog. I've always heard that Pacifidlog was surrounded by water. Hopefully I don't have to send out my Blaziken since he absolutely loathed water. It's not like I could blame him since I loathed Tentacool.

"Where's Pacifidlog?" Jimmy asked. Now that he's mentioned it I don't know either. I could feel Drew roll his eyes as he held up a map and pointed to a red dot that was labeled, Pacifidlog.

"It's in the middle of nowhere." Jimmy remarked. I agreed. It really was just surrounded by lots of water.

"That's why we're flying there." Drew released out a green Pokémon with red lensed eyes, rhombus shaped wings, sharp claws, and it was 4 times the size of Drew. It was his Flygon.

"Who else has another flying-type?" Drew asked. Jimmy got out a Poke ball and summoned a Tropius. The Pokémon resembled a stegosaurus, somewhat. It had large leaf-like wings, bananas hanging from its head, and a leaf collar on its large brown body.

"Did you really forget I had a Tropius?" Jimmy said. Drew flicked his bangs. I still wasn't sure why he did that, but it was kind of enchanting…

"I just didn't want my poor Flygon to collapse from May's weight." Anger rose into me. That jerk!

"Hayden, who said I was riding on your Flygon?" I retorted. I balled up my fists.

"I assumed those two would want the close contact, so I was just being generous." Drew smirked. Marina and Jimmy blushed.

"I would not!" Jimmy yelled back.

"Sure you wouldn't…" Drew gave him a knowing look while Marina tried to hide her blush. I on the other hand was a little lost. Was I still arguing with Drew?

"Well, I wouldn't." Jimmy huffed.

Drew rolled his eyes, "Let's just go. May hold on tight. We all know how much of a klutz you are." Drew hopped onto Flygon and Jimmy hopped onto Tropius. Jimmy offered his hand to Marina as she got on and grabbed onto his him.

Drew on the other hand gave me nothing, but a smirk as I clumsily got on his Flygon and wrapped my arms around him. As we lifted off the ground I held tighter. Okay, I admit I did slightly enjoy it, but only because it was really cold outside. I could feel his warmth and warmth in my cheeks too…

"Do you mind? Try not to suffocate me." Drew said. I loosened my arms and looked down, but regretting it immediately. I didn't know I had acrophobia, but apparently I did. I also didn't know I knew the term for the fear of heights. My arms hugged tightly around Drew again, but this time for dear life.

"Again? I know I'm irresistible and all, but this is seriously ridiculous. I need to do something called breathing. As amazing as I am I still need to do that simple necessity for life." Drew said. This time I loosened my arms and shut my eyes shut, hard.

"I, uh, have acrophobia…" I said awkwardly.

"I'm not surprised, but I am a little shocked that you knew a word longer than 5 letters." Drew said. I was tempted to let go and shove him off, but that may have been a little harsh…

"Shut up! Why'd I have to get stuck with you! You, you jerk!" I said hotly. If there was anyone who knew how to rub me in the wrong way it'd be Drew.

"Look who's talking. At least I'm not the one who's yelling into someone's ear." Drew snorted.

"You're just a jerk! You meanie!" I said angrily.

"Just calm down. We're here." Drew flicked his hair and got off Flygon. This time he actually offered me his hand.

"Wow, you're heavy." Drew smirked. Again?

"Relax, I'm joking." Drew said afterward. Jimmy and Marina landed.

Drew walked past me and whispered, "Plus you weren't scared, right?"


Aw, wasn't that last part sweet? Heh, yeah, I'm pretty cheesy, sorry. Okay, well, I'm sorry for updating late blah, blah, blah. REVIEW!

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