THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR THE REVIEWS,FOLLOWS AND FAVORITES! ILY ;)
And sorry for the cliffhanger.
I really hesitated on it, whether or not I was going to make Artemis find out so soon. Anyways, here it is!
Percy POV
Previously on Lost and Found… (LOL I've always wanted to do that)
She reaches up, towards my face, and pulls my hood.
She pulls my hood. Forwards. My face leans forwards, only inches away from hers. She whispers.
"Who are you, Genesis? Who are you?" Her face crinkles a little. I fight the urge to close the space between us. I try to act calm and controlled.
"I'll answer your questions… if you let me go." She does, and looks at me expectantly. I sigh in relief. I don't know what would have happened if she had pulled it back. Would it have come off? I don't want to think about it. Noticing she's still staring, I grab her arm and lead her to a tree. We sit on the roots.
"Go ahead, ask me something. I'll answer the best I can." I hope I'm not making a mistake doing this. I feel like I can open up to her, even a little. She hesitates for a few seconds before asking me a question.
"What's your name?" I chuckle. Let's play a little.
"Genesis."
"I mean your real name."
"Genesis." She looks annoyed.
"Fine. Don't answer that. How about this: How long have you been in Chaos's army?"
"Oh, about… 5000 years?" It's true. Just not in this planet. But there is no way I'm telling her that I meant 5000 years in Chaos time. She might start connecting the dots. I don't want my cover to blow so soon.
"Oh… ok." She sounds a little disappointed. I wonder why? "Where were you born?"
I hesitate. Should I tell her? Wouldn't hurt…right? Right.
"Here." She looks surprised.
"Here? Really? Were you a mortal?"
"No, a demigod." I'm going to tell her what I can, maybe drop a few hints here and there, to see if she figures it out.
"Who was your godly parent?" She seems really into this now.
"Sorry… can't tell you that."
"Alright then… last question. How did Chaos find you?" She's almost as bad as Athena, with all her questions.
"I… was going through a really hard time in my life. So I decided to end it, not realizing that I still had great friends and family left. But I guess in the rush of the moment, I could only focus on the… incident. So I was about to end my life when Chaos came out of nowhere and stopped me. He offered to join his army, so I accepted." When I finish my little story, Artemis has a strange look in her eyes. I can't quite figure out what it is. She opens her mouth, about to say something, when the lunch horn blows. She shrugs and stands up. I follow her, stretching my wings to their full extent. With one last look, she flashes away, and I soar away.
When I get to the mess hall, the campers are already there, and I spot a few of my soldiers, including Breeze and Quicksand. They're standing at the edge of the mess hall, looking unsure of where to go. I inwardly face palm. Quickly, I snap my fingers and a few extra tables appear. The soldiers go sit; I notice some have taken their armor off. I head to a random table, where my friends are sitting, and start eating.
I get three pepperoni pizza slices, a blue chocolate chip cookie, and blue soda. I munch on everything slowly, talking at the same time. I take a sip of the blue soda when the devil herself appears.
"What's with the blue food?" Her eyes are narrowed. I try to think of an excuse, when my lieutenant, Deft, saves me.
"Oh, that? It's nothing much. It's just that while we were on a mission on a completely blue planet called Thalassia, we had to eat only blue food. They were good, though. Anyways, when it was time for us to leave, the planet's ruler asked him to remember them always. This is the way he remembers. Blue food. Why do you ask?"
Annabeth shrugs a little and walks away, shooting me suspicious looks.
"Thanks man, I owe you one." I whisper once she's out of earshot.
"No worries, commander. Anyways, I didn't make up the story. Most of it is true." Good old Deft. As my second in command, he knows of my past here.
For the rest of the meal, nothing really interesting happens. I talk with Mark and Alex, and there might have been one or two small food fights. Either way, nothing really happened. A few soldiers come up to me, asking where they should put their stuff. Right. I forgot entirely about the sleeping arrangements. I lead the way to the cabins, followed by the army, and curious campers. I spot some gods along the way. Finally, I stop right in the middle of the u-shaped arrangement. After telling everyone to back off, I raise my hands and concentrate. After a few seconds of awkward silence, there's a loud POP as a huge cabin (or should I say mansion) appears. Its 4 stories high and the walls are just like Chaos's skin: starry black, with planets and orbits floating around.
Ignoring the goggling campers, I open the door and walk in. It's awesome. The inside is well- lit and furnished, and there's even a plasma TV. One by one, the soldiers come in. Somehow, the 7500 people fit. I guess it's expandable from the inside.
I climb to the fourth floor, where the commanders' headquarters are. I locate my room, open the door, and fling myself onto the bed without taking my armor and hood off. My wings surround me, enveloping me in a soft cocoon. Finally, I can rest.
Eric's POV (Let's get inside the enemy's head)
I follow the crowd to the cabins, along with Annabeth and my posse, as I like to call them. We're at the back, so I can't see anything. I push through people to get a clear view. Ugh. It's that Genesis commander who humiliated me earlier. He also managed to break my beautiful nose in the process. I'll make him pay for that. He's probably all talk. I'm sure I can beat him.
Genesis raises his arms. He looks ridiculous. I'm tempted to make fun of him, but before I can get a word out, there's a really loud POP. Surprised, I stumble back, and I would have fallen, had it not been for Annabeth. I try to kiss her, but she dodges. Okay, fine. She doesn't want to kiss in public. I mean, what could be the other explanation? She's so lucky I'm her boyfriend, instead of that weakling Percy Jackson. I mean, I'm hot, powerful, awesome, and smart. Who would prefer that coward instead of me? Weirdly enough, everyone seems to miss him, even my father. Well, not me. I say we're all better off without him.
I search for what made the noise. It's not hard. A super cool looking cabin is now standing in the middle of the cabin clump. I should have that cabin! I look at my father. He has a jealous look on his face. He's right. Zeus' cabin should be like that! What's so great about Chaos?
The soldiers stream into the cabin. Pretty soon, I'm not squeezed between thousands of people anymore. I stalk off to the Zeus cabin with Annabeth. I have to plan my revenge on Genesis, and Annabeth might have a few ideas. When I'm done with him, that commander will regret ever coming here.
Breeze (Jyma) POV
Once in the cabin, Tempest and I go to my room to chat. She's my best friend, since we're the only girls of the Guardians. We tell each other everything, like normal best friends would. She knows about my crush on Flame, and I know about hers. My room's just like the one in Chaos' place, only smaller. I sit on the bed, while Tempest lies on a beanbag chair. We start talking about everything that's happened today, when someone knocks on the door.
Flame's fiery red head pokes in, his red eyes bursting with mischief. Suppressing the flutter in my stomach, I ask the obvious question.
"What's up?" He grins, the wide, crooked grin I fell for a long time ago.
"Percy's sleeping, and we're supposed to train the campers in five minutes. We're gonna wake him up… Chaos style. Wanna join?"
"I don't feel like getting my head blown off today, thank you very much. I'd much rather stay here, safe and sound." Typical Tempest. Well, at the same time, she did get in the infirmary because she woke Percy up at a bad time. I shrug at her. I'm willing to take the risk.
"Fine, I'll go. But you're the one who does it! I want the bucket."
"'Kay. Come on, then! Alex is waiting for us!" With that, he runs off, probably to Percy's room. I wave at Tempest and follow Flame.
In front of Percy's door, Quicksand is waiting for us with a bucket, a camera, and a sword. He hands the bucket to me and the sword to Flame. We open the door and creep inside, where Percy is sleeping in his usual position, his enormous black wings wrapping around him. Flame goes to the bedside, while I stand further in the back, and Quicksand positions himself as far away as possible, against a wall. Flame raises the sword, finds a gap between the two wings, and plunges it into Percy's body.
Our commander's eyes immediately open, and energy surrounds his body. Immediately, Flame removes the sword and I fling the contents of the buckets at Percy. The ice-cold water hits him, but of course, he's dry. His furious expression turns into one of realization, then exaggerated annoyance. He turns to us, obviously trying not to burst out laughing.
"Really, guys? You know I could have disemboweled every one of you without meaning to! This was irresponsible and risky! I expected better from you! Do you realize what consequences there could have been?" At the last word, he doesn't seem able to hold himself and bursts out laughing, and we soon join him, rolling on the floor. Flame manages a few words.
"Your- face- priceless- irresponsible- risky- consequences- nice-one!"
After we're all done laughing our heads off, Flame speaks again.
"But seriously, man. Nice words this time. Although you already used risky."
"Did I? Doesn't matter. Did you get it on camera?"
"Yep!" Quicksand shakes the camera.
"Where did you get the celestial bronze?"
"Armory. They have a bunch there."
"No matter how many times you guys have done this, I still hate the feeling of the sword. It's like a numbing ice-cold sensation! And the cold water doesn't help make matters better."
"At least we didn't use a deadly sword!"
"Yeah, I guess. But why did you wake me, anyways?"
"Oh, right. We're supposed to go train the campers in… 1 minute." All four of us realize what is being implied and rush off to get into our training armor. I alert Tempest. 30 seconds later, we've changed in record time and as one, we run to the arena, where the campers are already waiting. From under my hood, I sigh. This is going to be sooo entertaining. (Note the sarcasm)
This is more of a filler, so yeah. Please review, and I'll try to update soon. Thanks!
