Like I promised, here is that chapter I said I was going to post this weekend, so hope it meets expectations. But like I said, I need characters, and soon. If you got one, PM me your characters. Make it as detailed as you want, and I can fill in the blanks from there if you want.
Sadly, I don't own PJatO, HoO, or any of Rick Riordan's characters, or the ones you send me, Just mine and Zoo of Olympus.
Enjoy, or not. I can't make you do anything. Read on and decide!
I turn to Athena, who is standing smugly in the doorway. She just waves and slams the door shut. I pale greatly, then I slap my forehead for being a Seaweed Brain. I could just IM Artemis so I could ask her my questions without all the arrow holes in my body that would be shot by some silver preteens in the woods..
I will a fist full of water from the nearby fountain to be flung in front of Apollo's chariot that's floating in the sky, and a turn it to mist. A rainbow appears and swish my Olympian Credit Card which I fused with my Lotus Hotel and Casino card so it's practically unlimited in drachma, and is unlimited in any mortal currency, through it and it shows that I need to speak for my message to go through.
"Oh Lady Iris, show me Lady Artimes, in her Hunters Camp… Probably." I shout. Suddenly, the misty rainbow turns into a screen and I see Artemis pinning up another pelt to her collection. I cough, and she turns.
"Ah, Perseus, what is it that you need?" She states, obviously uncomfortable talking to a male, especially in her own camp.
"Lady Artemis, I need to ask a few things." I reply politely, because I don't want to be a Jackalope. She waves her hand and sits in a smaller version of her throne that appeared behind her.
"I wish to know if there any monsters that you would consider more of an animal" I inquire, which she raises an eyebrow "I just don't want to put humanoid like monsters in a cage and then Animal Rights coming up and slamming on my door at two in the morning."
She nods her head "Well, obviously the Hellhound is a first that comes to mind. Then there is the Catoblepas, a Boar headed bull, the Chimera, the Crocotta, Drakons, Dragons, then Gryphons, Hippalectryons, Hippocampus, Hippogriff, Hydra, Perhaps the Manicore, Jackalopes" I shudder, ", Not Cerberus, but maybe Orthrus, Phoenixes, Skolopendra, Stymphalian Birds, Monocerata (Unicorns), Pegasuses, The Erymanthian Boar, the Nemean Lions, and the Karkinos are a few just off the top of my head." She lists.
I nod "Ok, now, can I convince you to capture a few of the, alive and relevantly unharmed?" I semi-plead.
"Hm… very well, you as a bit from us with that, but it is a new challenge and the girls are a bit bored with just killing them. This may satisfy that boredom. But you will pay them fifteen drachma a week, and I get double. Think you can handle that?" She grins, as if she won a fight. I slash the card through the IM, and she gets a notice. Her eyes bulge at the sight of the cash I gave her.
"Thats for the first few months. Now, do we have a deal?" I ask, trying to wrap this up. All I get is a nod and the message disappears. Now on to the zoo site… wait, where the hell is it anyway?
I sigh in defeat as I walk up to Athena's Temple. Again. I go to open it, and see a note on the door. I tear it off and read it.
'Perseus,
I am going to assume you came back to ask where is the location of your zoo, well, I put a small stone that will transport you to there as soon as you touch it. It's in the bush to the right when you walk down the steps.
Good luck!'
I crumble up the note, and follow its instruction till I dig a blueish grey stone with an owl painted in silver from a thorny rose bush… which was quite painful. I rub my thumb over the marking and suddenly there is a flash of light and I am gone from Olympus.
I look around after the light fades back to normal. I see that I am on a field, and everywhere I look is a great place to hold a monster of some type. A small amount of mountain foothills with a few caves into it on its far left is to my right, a temperate forest next to it, and the field I am standing in next to them, to my left is a cliff with a waterfall running down it into a pool, and more clift all the way back to a few meter behind me, the waterfall is about four miles from me, and the clift is probably seven miles long. Directly in front of me is a mostly enclosed bay. Behind me is a highway, not even two miles away, but its view is blocked by a thick pine forest.
I place a small square box in front of me, and press the top of it, and watch it expand in front of me. Soon a monument rises from the box. As soon as it finishes building itself, a circular pavilion with a hegde circling it has risen, with only four walkways in. Before each walkway, a statue has risen. To the North and the highway, a statue of Zeus, to the South and the sea, a statue of Poseidon, my father, and to the East and the mountains, a statue of Hades, and to the East and the waterfall, a statue of me. All of the statues are in full battle gear made of Imperial gold for Zeus, Emerald for my father, Stygian Iron for Hades, and Celestial Bronze for me and we are all in some sort of striking position. In the center of the pavilion is a pedestal made of marble with a grey granite trim and rising from it is a sword that is triple the size of the original. Around the base of the pedestal is the names of those died in the Giant War and the Titan War. The sword is Annabeth's Drakon Bone Sword and it is made of diorite, giving it a steel like feel to it. This was going to be a monument to me, with Riptide in the center, but I had Athena modify it so it was a monument to Annabeth. I kind of find it fitting that it is one of her creations that becomes her monument.
Suddenly Hermes flashes in, with a long box in hand.
"Hey Hephaestus told me that it's done." He says, sounding a bit hyper. I look in and see a sort of net launcher, but it is reinforced with steel woven with celestial bronze and imperial gold on the netting, and it looks like it reloads automatically.
"Tell him thanks, and can you ask him to send four more to me?" I thank him, while imputing my extra order. He nods, then extends his hand for his payment. I had him my O.C.C. and he swipes it and takes the cash he needs. Then he flashes off, leaving me with the newly grown monument and base of my zoo. Now all I need is some people to help me with it…
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And I will post another over the weekend. So don't worry about waiting for long.
