Christina:
We wandered the streets of Las Vegas, looking for some nice hotels that we could spend the night in without surprisingly getting robbed or attacked by gangs. Logan said this and that probably because I looked so dangerous and like I could kill someone. I told him to shut up or I'd kill him if he jinxed us.
As we strolled along, Kyra thought we were walking in a complete circle because to her, everything looked the same. Finally after walking for what seemed like hours, Logan spotted a hotel that looked interesting and actually pretty nice. It was called Hilton Hotel on 3000 Paradise Road.
"Oh wow. This is a nice hotel," I said. It was shaped like a 'y' with the longer line being curved backwards a bit. A/N: Actually link to picture at bottom of page #1. On one side of the Hilton hotel, there was a huge pool and I mean huge pool. We walked in, paid for our rooms that I was surprised we even had money for and then took the nice elevator up to our floor.
Entering our room, we realized we actually had a quite a nice view. The room had two queen size beds with a leather couch at the end that had no head or armrests. Then next to one of the beds was a low but long white gate and on the other side of the gate was a small red couch and then a white run on the other wall with a desk across it on the other wall. A/N: Picture link at bottom #2 and a second one for a different view.
"Oh my gods. This place looks so comfy and amazing!" exclaimed Lillian. I nodded an agreement.
"Wow," Logan said. "We should head down to the pool though."
Everyone's eyes brightened at that suggestion. Once everyone was changed into bathing suits (I can't believe we actually packed our bathing suit and Kyra, Alec and Acacia actually just pulled on some shorts and shirts that we bought them) we went down to the pool that no one was at which was kind of weird. Either they were all at the snack bar or they were chilling in the hotel. Anyways, we all got in the pool and hung out for a bit until Logan decided to hit the snack bar. The others got out and started heading for it.
"Aren't you coming Christina?" Kyra asked with a curious gleam in her eyes. The others stopped and looked back.
"Nah. It's ok," I replied.
"Are you sure?" Alec asked.
"Yeah." The others didn't leave.
"You sure you ok?" Logan asked, cocking his head slightly to one side.
"Yeah. Seriously. Go. I'm fine. It's not like I'm going to drown. I can't, remember?" I said. They smiled and started walking.
I tried to think but with all the cars passing by outside the hotel area, it was impossible. I sank beneath the calm, chlorinated, blue water were it would be easier to clear my mind and focus on things I needed to. I sat at the bottom, my eyes closed as I thought about my dream that I had been meaning to tell Chiron when he Iris-messaged me, Hades message to me when I was with Artemis, and I thought about Alethia.
You will fail to save her. You will fight and be at one another's throat, tearing yourselves apart. Join us and live to see her instead seeing her destroyed. I know your feelings for your brother and parents, your jealousy, your disbelief, your hatred for them. Kill the other powerful one and you'll be rewarded. If you decide not to then you'll see him die painfully and all your friends, echoed part of Hades message. I sat remembering all the dreams about Alethia, trying to fit them together. But nothing, seemed to right.
I opened my eyes finally, staring around me when I noticed a movement above me. I looked up and saw Logan standing at the edge of the pool holding a glass in his hand and looking down at me. I swam up and burst through the surface, spraying water droplets around me. Logan sat down on the edge as I pulled myself out. I was dry of course being the daughter of Poseidon.
"Here," Logan said, handing me the glass that was filled with thick, green liquid with brown chunks that looked suspiciously like chocolate. "I thought you would like a mint chocolate chip ice cream shake."
I smiled.
"Thanks Logan."
"Are you definitely sure that you're ok?" Logan asked. "You look disturbed." I was about to lie and say I was fine but I realized that if I didn't share it with someone, it was all going to build up and I was going lose it completely. I shook my head.
"Christina what happened. Tell me. Don't think you can figure this entire thing out by yourself. I mean, I know you're pretty darn smart. Probably the smartest person I know besides Lillian. But you can't figure this out without our help," Logan reasoned. I looked him in the eyes.
"I guess but there is one thing I've been keeping from all of you guys. You know when Hades came to us when we were with Artemis and then later you asked me what he had said. I explained it to you right? Well I only explained half of it."
"You what? Christina!" he said in disbelief.
"Don't you get snappy with me Logan. I didn't tell you guys the other half because it would only scare you guys and you wouldn't focus. Also it wasn't time yet until I was sure that I had most of the stuff figured," I growled. Logan put his hands up in surrender, with a surprised look on his face.
"I'm sorry. It's just…," his voice trailed off. He probably couldn't believe I basically lied to everyone, including Lillian. But then again, what else had I been keeping from him also? I mean, Lillian didn't know anything and pretty much, I was keeping a few things from her; information that only I knew about from my past that only the gods knew and possibly Chiron.
"I don't know but I want to help because I think you are about to crack under stress. Anyways, what's the other half," Logan finally finished.
"Hades said that I would fail to save her and that we would fight and be at one another's throat, tearing ourselves apart."
"You almost said that when you were trying to shut me and Lillian up," Logan remembered. I nodded.
"After that he said I either join him and live to see Alethia or see her destroyed before I would be killed. He said that I know your feelings for your parents and your brother. My jealousy, my disbelief, and my hatred. And I don't hate you and I'm not jealous of you. I hate my parents and that's all. But after that h-he…," I stopped, swallowing hard.
"Christina. This is important. What was the rest of it?" Logan said sympathetically.
"He told me, 'Kill the other powerful one and you'll be rewarded. If you decide not to then see him die painfully along with all your other friends.' Those were his exact words Logan. He meant you. You Logan. And now I don't know what to do. I can't stand the fact if I lost you," I cried. I was trying as hard as I could to not to lose it. Logan could sense it probably and he hugged me, trying to calm me (and no its not gross that he was hugging me. If you were me and had gone through everything I had, then it wouldn't matter because your brave yet somewhat stupid brother when it comes to obvious things is trying to comfort you and help you).
"You won't lose me, I promise you," he said.
"How could you promise such a thing. You don't know what could happen!" I asked.
"Because I know you're going to do the best you can. I know that you can do this and pull us through. Not resting the weight of the world on your shoulders but I know you'll protect us all." I locked eyes with him and saw that he was telling the truth.
"I guess. Now let's go and get the others so we can all fool around in the pool," I said smiling a bit. We both got up and headed for the snack bar.
Two hours later, we were in our hotel room all dressed and relaxing, watching TV. Logan and I had told the others the rest of Hades' message and to our surprise, they had taken the information calmly. Logan and I told them not to worry until we had figured out some other things. After quite an amount of time watching TV, Alec got up, went over and looked at the beautiful nighttime view. He moved the red couch over to the white one and watched TV from there until he finally fell asleep. Logan moved the leather couch at our end of the bed over to the one by the gate, connecting them and making a makeshift bed. He didn't go to bed yet but he did stay up and talk with me Lillian and Acacia while Kyra slept in the bed by the gate.
"That was amazing what you did today," Logan said.
"Yeah," Lillian agreed. Acacia blushed then cocked her head to one side.
"I have a question," she said. "Don't your powers explain who your godly parent is?"
"Most of the time. Why?" Lillian asked.
"Because, I've been wondering who my godly parent is," she said. Lillian, Logan and I exchanged looks.
"Well the thing is, your godly parent has to claim you but sometimes, it doesn't happen. And we can't tell who your parent is," Logan said.
"Confession time," I murmured. The Lillian and Logan stared at me.
"What?" they said in unison.
"I have a confession to make. I kind of figured out who her godly parent is," I confessed. They waited for an answer. I looked at Acacia who nodded.
"I'm pretty sure that her godly parent is Hestia." Lillian and Logan looked at me with strange looks on their faces.
"Excuse me?" Logan asked.
"Yeah, you heard me. Hestia. The goddess of fire. Hearth. Home," I answered.
"And how would be so sure that it is?" Logan challenged.
"Gee, I don't know," I said sarcastically. "She used the power of fire today and she looks like Hestia."
"Anyone could look like Hestia," Logan argued.
"Unless you're a demigod. Look at the Athena cabin for an example. Blond hair. Gray eyes. And athletic."
"That's not you," he said.
"That's a totally different matter and you know it," I replied giving him a cold stare. He held my gaze confidently. "Anyways. Another example is the children of Hephaestus. Fingers never stop moving. Always creating things without thinking about it much. I mean they use fire also but there hasn't been a fire user from the Hephaestus cabin in like forever. Besides, Acacia and I talked and she can't necessarily build things. So there goes Hephaestus. And then, look at the Ares cabin. Mean. Always looking for a fight. Like weapons like crazy. Annoying. Bu-," but Lillian cut me off.
"Christina, stop being negative about them. You know better."
"What? It's true!" I exclaimed. Lillian smiled slightly, shaking her head.
"However, that's beside the point," I continued. "I'm quite sure that Hestia is her mother. But never mind that. We'll find out soon enough. We've got more important matters to discuss."
"Does it include me," asked Acacia, yawning. The others looked at me. I shook my head.
"Nah," Logan answered.
"Then I'm off to bed," she confirmed, standing up and stretching. She got into the bed next to the gate with Kyra crashed out next to her (and no, that's not disgusting. If you think it is, then you think quite wrong). We could tell that Acacia had fallen asleep rapidly because her breath steadied out as soon as her head touched the pillow. After moments of silence between us, Lillian spoke up.
"So what do we know?"
"Well let's see," Logan started. He paused and raised an eyebrow at me. "Did you write everything we know down?"
"Ha-ha very funny. No we did not. Why you would, I don't know," I answered.
"Because then we could keep track of everything we know so we wouldn't…," his voice trailed off because Lillian and I were looking at him with raised eyebrows.
"I don't know. It's just a suggestion!" Logan said in defense. Lillian and I looked at one another and shrugged but we came to a silent agreement. We would not let Logan remember pieces of information because for all we know, he would write it down. Athena children always remembered important pieces of information anyways.
"Ok stop. We're getting off topic. We know the person who took Lynch and Alethia has recruited Hades who has already hunted us down, trying to engage us to his side. We can't contact them either. Alethia tried to escape but didn't make it. The enemy told her we would fall for the bait and then they'd overrun us," I decided.
"Then the person was telling Hades that he'll be stronger if he joins them. After that, when I had my dream about the throne of Hades, the ghosts told me to beware because he would rise and will come to power so he can be king of the gods. Then he would overthrow the others and have his revenge. They said someone was controlling him. Then when Hades consulted me in my dream, he told me that we can't stop him. He said he had suffered for three millennia and that when he does rise, we'll be the first to feel his wrath," Logan added.
"Also, Hades is probably playing with our minds by saying Lynch is behind it so we can believe Hades and then turn around and kill Lynch," Lillian said, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "Oh yeah, and our deadline to save Alethia also," she put in. I nodded.
"Right. And when he came looking for us when we were with Artemis, he said that if we joined, we would have so much power that we wouldn't have to worry about training at Camp Half-Blood. Then Lillian and I would have enough wisdom to overthrow our mother while Logan and I also would have enough power over the sea to overthrow Poseidon," I said. We sat in uncomfortable silence.
"Hold up one sec. If Lynch went looking for Alethia and was captured, why didn't they kill him then? And if Hades is planning to overthrow Zeus, then why is he planning to overthrow Athena and Poseidon only?" Logan asked. I was kind of expecting these questions.
"They wouldn't kill him because they could put him somewhere else in California and then they'd try to split us up, dividing us so they can kill us easily. He probably planning to overthrow Athena and Poseidon only because those are our parents. But how do we know that he's not planning to overthrow the others gods?" I answered almost immediately.
"True Christina but maybe he's only trying to overthrow our parents because it will hurt us and then he'll make the other gods obey him out of fear," Lillian responded, looking at me with a twinge of sympathy in her eyes. I knew what she was thinking. I may hate my parents but I would be chaos if they overthrew our parents. I nodded.
"That's another possibility. So now that we definitely know what were dealing with and what they're trying to do, let's get some sleep," I suggested, standing up. Logan and Lillian nodded and I went to the bathroom, throwing on a tank top and some sweat shorts. Lillian followed my exact lead afterwards. Logan meanwhile had grabbed some blankets in the closet and took to the leather couches. Lillian and I crawled into the other bed and Lillian was out. I tried going to sleep but no such luck. I could tell that Logan was too. For some reason, I could almost read his mind, like we were connected. He was thinking about Poseidon's reaction when we would see the gods on Mount Olympus. However, slowly he began to drift into sleep with me right behind him.
I got out of bed bleary-eyed, being the last one to rise and walked over to the area where the white and red couch was.
"Good morning Christina," Logan greeted. The others said there 'good mornings' and I repeated mine back in a dazed, sleepy way. I sat down and rubbed my eyes. They were dressed and had been talking about random and funny things.
"We were planning on going out to a restaurant to get breakfast after you woke up," Alec said.
"Ok. But first let me get dressed before we go anywhere, thank you very much," I agreed, smiling. Few minutes later, I was dressed and we were ready to go. As we took the elevator down, Alec, Acacia and Kyra explained the details of what their past three months had been like before we found them. They finished their stories just as the elevator doors 'dinged' open. We found on 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard a restaurant called Grand Lux Café. We ordered our breakfast and ate, telling jokes and funny things. Once we had finished, we walked back down the street and back up to the Hilton hotel where we packed our bags, checked out and left. We hailed a taxi from the Hilton hotel but we had some trouble because the driver spoke Spanish.
"Hola. Cómo está?" The driver said.
"Do you speak and understand English?" Logan asked.
"Qué?" the driver answered.
"Obviously not. Anybody know Spanish?" Logan questioned, looking around. I glanced at Lillian who nodded and I stepped up to the driver.
"Hola. Cómo está usted?" I asked in Spanish. The driver looked pleased that someone was speaking his language. The others were looking at me in awe.
"Muy bien, gracias. Y tú?" the driver told me
"Muy bien tambíen. ¿Puede manejar nos usted fuera de Las Vegas y a la próxima ciudad que usted puede ir a?" I asked politely.
"Sí!" exclaimed the driver.
"Gracias!" I thanked. We got in and soon we were on highway 160. A/N: Translation at bottom.
"Wow Christina. I didn't know that you could speak Spanish," Logan said impressed. The others agreed except for Lillian who also knew Spanish like me.
"My step mom use to talk in Spanish. She would switch back and forth when she got mad," I explained bitterly. "So when she was cussing at us, we knew what she was saying because for once, me and my brothers decided to look it up and see what it meant. Then we got the hang of Spanish because she began to use it a lot," I finished.
"Still, that's amazing," Kyra said. As we rode along, we discussed what Lillian, Logan and I had talked about last night. We didn't have to be careful about what we said around the driver since he didn't understand a word. Then I mentioned what we had talked about with Acacia last night. We rode for a good hour until we had reached Pahrump.
"Esto es por lo que le pueda tomar pierde," the driver told me, turning around. "Lo siento."
"Su visto bueno. Gracias," I responded in the same tongue. "Cuánto haga le debemos?"
"Eso será ochenta-cinco dolares." I dug out the exact amount and handed it over. He counted it.
"Gracias, señorita," he said.
"De nada. Adios!" I replied.
"Adios!" Then we got out and the cab left us in a cloud of dust. I looked around and sighed heavily. A/N: Translation at bottom #2
"What is it?" Logan asked.
"Almost half the day is gone and we're stuck in Pahrump near the border of California. And we still have to figure out if Alethia is in Los Angeles, San Francisco City or The Bay Area," I growled.
"Hey, don't worry. I'm sure we'll figure it out as soon as we get to California," Logan reassured.
"Fine then. But if we're going to get there faster…," I responded, my voice trailing off. I handed my bag to Logan and he realized what I was going to do before I did so.
"Oh no Christina. I think this is a bad idea," Logan said.
"We need to get there faster before the deadline ends," I reasoned.
"You travel the way you do, you'll get heat sickness," Logan argued.
"It's the only way," I growled.
"Christina, you've been traveling in animal form for almost half of this quest. You need to take a break."
"Logan listen to me! I haven't been in animal form for three days now," I snapped. "You think I'm going to be able to sleep if Alethia dies? If we want to get to her before it's too late, this will be the only way!" Logan looked back at Lillian who nodded.
"Fine," he growled. I gave him one last look and changed. The others climbed onto my back and I started into a light sprint. Somehow, I managed to find our way out of the Pahrump without being spotted by mortals. As we rode, the others decided to tell a few cheesy jokes.
"Knock, knock," Logan said.
"Who's there?" they others answered.
"Who," Logan replied.
"Who who?" they said.
"Who who, you're hooting like an owl!" Logan laughed. The others laughed. Few minutes later.
"What did the hat say to the hat rack?" Alec questioned, trying hard to not suppress a smile.
"What?" the others said in unison.
"You hang out here, and I'll go on a-head!" Everyone started cracking up.
"How much is a skunk worth," Kyra said. We looked at her for an answer.
"One scent!" she finished.
"I've got one," I said in Logan's mind.
"Ok. Go ahead," he said to me. Everyone fell silent. I told him. He laughed.
"All right. Here's one of Christina's. What feathered creature is the most sarcastic of all flying beasts," Logan asked. The others shrugged. He smiled. "The mockingbird." Everyone laughed really hard.
"Good one Christina," I told her.
"Ha. I have one," Acacia said. We waited. "Why don't snakes use utensils?"
"Because they have forked tongues," Alec said.
"Dang it. How did you know!" she exclaimed.
"You've told that joke before."
"Oh." I flicked my ears at Logan.
"Hey, Christina got a riddle," I announced. I told him each line.
"A team of little animals and a team of big animals decided to play a game of football against one another," he recited. He listened some more.
"During the first half of the game, the big animal were winning. But," he stopped and listened some more.
"But during the second half, the little animals began to catch and they won thanks to the centipede that scored every touchdown," he said. He frowned as I told him the next part.
"When the game finished, the skunk, no, the chipmunk asked the centipede, 'where were you during the first half of the game?' Then the centipede," Logan trailed off, smiling.
"Then the centipede looked at the chipmunk and said, 'putting on my shoes!'" he finished. The others laughed harder this time.
"I've got two," Logan said after the others finished laughing.
"Go ahead," urged Lillian.
"What do you call a sleeping bull?" No one answered.
"A bulldozer!" Logan said. "And here's the second one. Why are fish easier to weigh than humans?"
"Why?" Kyra asked.
"Because they come with their own scales!" Everyone smiled.
"Are there any sorcerer athletes?" Kyra questioned. Everyone else just looked at her. Even I flicked my ears twice.
"Yes! Ma-mag-magic," Kyra stuttered a she tried to catch her breath because she was laughing. "Magic Johnson," she finished laughing. She kept laughing while we stared at her in silence. She noticed no one was laughing. "Ah-haha-ha, that's not funny obviously. Ok what vegetable is named after its own recipe?" she asked instead. We stared, hoping it wasn't a bad joke. "Squash!" We smiled at the joke instead. That's when I saw something appear in front of me that made me jolt to a stop, nearly throwing everyone off.
"Christina?" Logan asked, a little peeved. "What's wrong?"
I snarled, lashing my tail back and forth. Logan understood and his anger faded.
"Everyone, get off her back right now," Logan told everyone, his voice deadly serious. They jumped off. They didn't seem to notice what was in front of us. I changed into human and my hunting knives appeared in my hand.
"Christina, what is going on," Lillian demanded furiously.
"The Keres are here. This is bad," I growled.
"The what? Ker-," her voice trailed off, when she saw a dozen daimones in front of us. They were part humanoid and part bat. They were pug-nosed, and they had fangs and big, bulging eyes. Disheveled gray fur hung to their bodies and little by little armor covered each of their disgusting bodies. Their arms were shriveled and they had claws instead of hands. Then on their backs sprouted leathery, gray wings. But their legs were stubby so hopefully if they tried to run instead of fly, they would be slow. And worse of all, each of them had a murderous, scary look in their eyes along with foamy mouths.
"Oh my gods Christina," Lillian finished. She took out her sword. Everyone seemed to noticed the monsters and had their weapons ready.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Alec said. "Let's kill them!" He ran forward with my sword. I had let him hold on to it throughout most of the quest because he didn't have any other weapons.
"No!" I screamed as he sprinted pass me. I leaped like 10 feet forward (which is kind of far but I'm part animal so it's different) and grabbed a hold of Alec. I pulled him back just as the daimones slashed the air with its horrible claws. "Don't attack Alec!"
"Why? They're just monsters!" he yelled.
"Alec they're battlefield spirits and they feed on violent death. They usually stay in the Underworld but them being here is very, very bad," I answered. They hissed.
"Let him attack and learn a lesson from us. That will teach him if he were to live," one of them said. He stared at them.
"Christina, you know what will happen if they scratch you right?" Lillian questioned frightening. My face darkened.
"Yeah. I do. Let's just hope if we have to fight them, none of us will end up scratched," I answered. I turned around.
"Don't let them scratch you or your dead meat," I told everyone seriously.
"Why?" Kyra asked.
"I won't tell you because it will just distract you," I told her. Everyone nodded. Then Acacia's eyes widened. I turned around just in time to see one of daimones about to attack me. I threw my silver dagger at the daimones and pierced her. She let out a horrible wail and I picked up my silver dagger.
"You will die!" hissed a daimones. I took my bronze dagger out and turned it to Acacia. Lillian had given her dagger to Kyra.
"Use them well," I advised both of them. They nodded apprehensively. I turned, holding my daggers at my side.
"Good luck with that," I retorted. I nodded to the others and we charged the monsters. I stabbed as many daimones as I could but just as many appeared. I stabbed one and one of my daggers dropped. Before I could pick it up, another lunged and I sidestepped, quickly sticking my arm out and hitting it in the stomach. I hit just right and it flipped. I picked up my fallen dagger and stabbed it just as one attacked my from the back. I stabbed that one without looking.
"Die you ugly pug-faced bat!" I heard Alec scream.
"Hiyah!" Kyra yelled somewhere off to my right. I looked over and saw that she kept slashing one of the daimones. It would jump back and hesitate, as if deciding to attack or not. It was like she was taming the daimones with a dagger.
"You little-," I heard some colorful language from Acacia as one hissed at her which kind of shocked me considering her age. She stabbed other daimones, using some more colorful language.
"Die!" screeched a daimones behind me. It lunged at me. Luckily I spun around a split second before it could slash me, bringing my daggers with me. As I spun, I slashed its stomach.
"More like the other way around," I murmured as it evaporated.
Then I heard a yell and looked over to Logan in trouble. He was completely surrounded. He slashed a wide arch and disintegrated most of the daimones. However three had ducked. One leaped and he stabbed it. He slashed another arch to the one in front of him and it backed up. He spun around and got rid of the second one but that was his flaw. The one behind tensed and I could tell it was about to leap. Thank the gods I was close to him. I got there just as it did. Logan whirled around, but before he could raise his sword, I jumped in front of him, knowing that if I hadn't, he would've been in trouble. I raised my dagger thinking I could deflect its attack.
"Christina, no!" Logan yelled.
Too late. He watched in horror as the daimones slashed. It raked its claws down my right arm and I screamed in agony, collapsing as my right side seem to go burst into one thing only: pain. But I had managed to cut the daimones. Logan yelled in rage and slashed his sword through the daimones. The battle ended and the others rushed to my side. Logan knelt next to me, cradling my head as I yelled cursed.
"OH MY GODS! I looked at my arm and saw the blood. I screamed, "OH SHIT!"
"Holy Father Zeus…Christina," Lillian gasped as soon as she saw my arm. Logan shot her a look.
"Well come one! Give me some nectar and ambrosia!"
"That's not really going to do anything," Lillian murmured. Logan stared at her in complete disbelief.
"What? Wh-what do you mean nectar and ambrosia won't help her? It's the drink and food of the gods!"
"Logan, the Keres are the spirits of disease and pestilence which is highly contagious or infectious diseases. The thing is, nectar and ambrosia will only slow the infection down. In order to heal that, we need some serious healing," Lillian replied.
"Like what kind of serious healing?" Logan urged.
"A god's power," I murmured. "Or else, I will slowly die of infection."
Logan cursed in Greek.
"Anybody got a god handy?" he said sarcastically.
"Wait. Won't water heal her since she's the daughter of Poseidon?" Kyra asked. Lillian thought for a second.
"I don't think so. I mean water has always healed her but I think it won't this time. She has to have a gods touch in order to heal it."
"Oh, just an idea," she muttered half to herself.
"Someone go and get my backpack," Logan commanded. Acacia left and came running back with it. He opened the canteen of nectar.
"Logan," warned Lillian. "This is dangerous. Just a sip of that stuff is usually what most demigods can stand. Pouring it on her arm, it's like swallowing more than a sip."
"I know Lillian, but this is the only way we can slow the infection!" Logan snapped. He poured some on my arm and I clenched my jaw out in pain. The pain began to ease and I sat up and felt nauseous. Then I passed out. But it didn't seem like it because I had a vision. I saw Hades and a kid that looked familiar. Then with shock, I realized it was Dominick Martin, the son of Ares and he seemed to be in the middle of a conversation.
"My lord, the spies have reported that they are outside of Pahrump, Nevada. In one day, they have moved from Las Vegas to Pahrump. They're moving quickly.
"Oh they won't make it far," Hades answered.
"But my lord they've destroyed your Fu-," Dominick started to protest. Hades raised his hand.
"They'll never make it, not while the Keres have them distracted. They'll slow down so much when I send more surprises that they'll fail," Hades said calmly.
"You've sent the Keres?" Dominick questioned in surprise.
"Is there a problem with that?" Hades asked with a steely voice, regarding him with those cold eyes.
"N-no my lord," he stammered.
"Then go." Hades flicked his hand dismissively and my vision shut off. I opened my eyes.
"How long was I out?" I demanded.
"A few minutes," Acacia, Alec and Kyra replied off to my right. I sat up and a wave of nauseous rolled over me.
"Christina, you're not ready," Logan told me who was standing up now.
"Logan. We need to get to Alethia right now," I said firmly. Now I knew for sure who had taken Alethia and Lynch. Dominick was the enemy.
"What do you mean?" Logan said. "We've got two days."
"Yeah. Two days for Hades to try and make us fail," I said. I explained my vision and when I was done I said, "But what weird is the fact that the Ares cabin didn't say he was missing when I asked."
Lillian frowned.
"But then why was he here at the same time Alethia disappeared."
I thought for a second.
"I don't know," I admitted, feeling frustrated. I tried to stand up but I stumbled as another fresh wave of nausea washed over me. Logan caught me.
"Christina…," he warned. I managed to take a step forward without barfing, leaning on Logan heavily. As I slowly walked, the others gathered their stuff and followed. After a while, the nausea had passed but I was still weak. I was leaning less on Logan shoulder.
"Why did you jump in front of daimones when it attacked?" Logan asked.
"Because, you would've been injured worse than me if I hadn't. Besides, better me than you," I answered. I winced as I stumbled a bit.
"Why better you than me? We're the same," Logan said, steadying me.
"I told you, I wasn't meant to be born, so if I were to die, it wouldn't really matter," I confessed.
"But Hades wouldn't give you fair trail! And besides, everyone was meant to be born. If not, what would we be? What would we live for?" Logan replied almost immediately.
"Logan, it's true. A daughter of Athena and Poseidon? They're both rivals," I answered.
"Why are they rivals?" Logan asked.
I shook my head angrily, not answering as I pushed past him. We continued walking west, with very little hope left in us and no real sense of direction.
A/N: I just realized I can't exactly put the links on here so I'll post them under on the next page by itself. If you can't see the pics even when you put the link in, PM me and I'll figure something out. Also, on my bio, I said I was learning Spanish and I'm only in Spanish III so I don't know if it was right or not. So sorry if it's wrong.
But here's a translation of it:
#1:
"Hello. How are you?" (driver)
Logan speaks.
"What?" (driver)
"Hello. How are you?" (Christina)
"Very well, thank you. And you?" (driver)
"Well too. Can you drive us out of Las Vegas and to the next town you can go?" (Christina)
"Yes." (driver)
"Thank you." (Christina)
#2:
"This is as far as I can go. I'm sorry." (driver)
"It's ok. [Basic translation of 'su visto bueno'] Thank you. How much do we owe?" (Christina)
"That will be 85$ [ochenta-cinco dolares]." (driver)
(Christina pays.)
"Thank you ma'am." (driver)
"You're welcome." (Christina)
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