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SeaweedBrainGirl11 and Hammerwammer! Yup the song was: If I Die Young, I thought it would be ironic, but the 2nd choice was: MEAN! by T. Swift. You're sneak peek will become soon, I just have to write it. XD lazy me!
Okay, so I'm getting some people asking for pairings, but no matches. I'll give you some names and, if you will be so kind, you will go into the review for chapter 1 (really the people who have come in) and look up a nice match. PLEASE? I seriously need some help. So here are the names:
Arabella
Kaliegh/Derek (Psh, they're already paired)
Anabella (maybe a magician?)
Andrew (Perhaps a daughter of Hermes?)
Erin (Whoever...)
Xavier (whoever, but maybe Anabella, course SHE might be the hardest...) [I've actually gotten a lot of requests for Xavier, I think. look who has some fans]
So if you luv me and this story and you want romance, PLEASE help! Pwease? I've gotten some suggestions which is GREAT but I was too lazy today to go back and put them here, so if I'm missing some, I'm sorry for my laziness.
Shana Rose's POV
As we were leaving Xavier's room, Darcy and I cornered Arabella and decided to interrogate her about what that whole flirty scene was. She never acts like that, even when she has a crush on a guy.
"Okay, spill, what was that all about?" said Darcy. Arabella raised her eyebrows so much it kind of looked like they were going to jump off her face.
"What's the matter with you, Darcy? I didn't do anything! We've just been walking to the tennis courts." That's weird, she doesn't remember what happened 5 minutes ago.
"You were the devil of flirtiness in Xavier's room, Arabella, don't you remember ANY of that?"
"We never went into his room, are you feeling alright Shana Rose? I'm going to the tennis courts, meet you there? You should take a minute and grab some water. You are having wild hallucinations!" Arabella stalked off, muttering to herself about How some people seriously need to watch themselves, and it's not healthy...why was I being accused of such things?
"Darcy," I said, "Looks like we're going to need to take a detour to the Aphrodite chick."
"Ick, I hate most of them, they're all stupid and sweet and wear too much pink!" I laughed, agreeing and we headed straight into one of the fights between the twins and the trio.
"We know it was you, Kaleigh! Give it up!" 5 confused pairs of eyes met our own.
"Maybe we should explain. A few minutes ago, we were heading to the tennis courts, yes? We heard Xavier crying out in his sleep so we decided to investigate. Well, when we were there, Arabella acted...weird. She acted all flirty and it was...well, extremely weird and out of character. We would like to know if Kaleigh had anything to do with it."
"Please...I have bigger problem dealing with my boyfriend, and his fights between Anabella and Andrew. Who knows where Jacob went? And, I can't charm people into loving each other. I can only change my appearance, but I was never with you, so it wasn't me. Now, if you'll excuse me."
"Grr. Prissy Aphrodite chick, why I outta..."
"Darcy! Come on, we'll ask some people if they've noticed an odd change in Arabella lately around Xavier, later, right now, we have a tennis match."
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When we got there, Arabella was already there, acting normally – thank, Zeus! – and warming up with her tennis racquet.
"Ha, ha! Took you guys long enough! We only have like 15 more minutes to play before we have to head in for dinner! Let's get it started in here!"
"You aren't going to start singing, are you?" joked Alex over to a side, ready to keep score. Or climb trees depending on how hard Lexi was going to hit the tennis balls today.
"No, although, face it, you'd love to hear my singing voice." I gripped my staff, which was always strapped to my back, just incase there was a fight that occurred.
"Oh, yes, I'd love to have my ears bleed out," said Alex sarcastically because he, above everyone else knew that Arabella could sing probably better than some children of Apollo could. I held my racquet and tennis ball and served over the net, hitting Alex in the eye.
"Mark that down for my team, because you were in bounds!"
"What? Hitting people doesn't count!"
"And your parent isn't supposed to exist – deal with it!" shouted Darcy!
"We're half siblings!" shouted Arabella "Yours wouldn't exist either!" Wow, we go from going to have a nice game of tennis to a full out shouting match. I wonder how far it's going to go.
"Hey," said Jake, breathless with Jrek coming out right behind him. "What's new?"
"Eh...I'm considering exploding the tree over there to see if they'll stop shouting, what about you?"
"Oh, nothing we just found out that the previous instructors were extreme stalkers."
"Oh...cool...wait, what? Guys! Quit fighting, Jake and Jrek just found out that the previous instructors were stalkers!"
"I knew I hated their very existence! They put me in the training room so much!"
"What happened?" asked Alex, jumping down from the scoreboard. The two explained, slightly fast, but I could still understand it.
"Do you want me to make it explode? I'd be happy to!" I said, "And I wouldn't mind checking it out, myself, just to see if you're messing with me."
"I don't really want to go back," said Jake slowly, "It kind of freaked me out, the stalkers."
"Oh, shut it, you big wimp," said Lexi. "Let's go and check it out, we still have a good 7 minutes!"
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"This is it," said Jrek, "Except..."
"Except, what?" asked Alex. Jrek swallowed, and said "It wasn't this big." We exchanged glances.
"W...what? Y...you're lying." Jacob shook his head and said, "No, this was the place, same exterior, but...bigger. It grew in 15 minutes! Could you explode it into a million pieces, Shana Rose?" I nodded and drew my wand and staff. I focused and concentrated and spoke the word for explode: Ha di! Nothing happened, but, slowly the building began to rumble and we hugged the trees, for dear life. When the dust cleared and the earth righted itself, what we saw was shocking. The building had at least multiplied itself x3.
"Um...obviously that didn't work. What do we do now? What do we do?" We took a few steps backwards, but then, huge, gigantic cords of metal came spiraling out of the front door. And a chilling voice that sounded worse than nails on a chalkboard, and almost made me scream in agony, said "You foolish, foolish children, did you really think you could get rid of me? I – AM – INVINCIBLE!
"No!" The metal cords wrapped around us, the more we struggled, the more it burned. I could feel my lungs crunch, deep in my chest. My breathing was slowing, my head, throbbing like I was at a wild party and you could hear the music three states away.
"I'm not scared of you!" I screamed, even though it hurt horribly. I was lying, I was scared especially since that voice was the voice that we had heard every day since we had come to the school. It was the voice of the: I.n.s.t.r.u.c.t.o.r.s. What no one would tell people is that 'Instructors' was actually an acrostic phrase that went like this:
In the mind of the students, drill in the fact to
Never live a happy life,
Simply be a weapon,
The family you know will
Rather die that spend time with
U. The
Catastrophic was are the best
Treat us with dignity we are your teachers never be
Open minded,
Rather think like
Soldiers, the minute you walk into the door. You are our weapon.
They were always true to their world, although we didn't listen, they tried to get the demigods to hate their parents, magicians too. It was painful, and the acrostic poem was recited everyday to us. The 'instructors' made our lives miserable. If they want us back...it's not a good thing.
I actually HATE poetry so tell me what you think. Was it foreboding, did you like the chapter? TELL ME, PLEASE!
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