A/N: I don't have school today! So expect an update! So if I don't, nag me. Nag me a lot.
Chapter 9
POV Jezebelle (Head Girl of Camp Half-Blood, Daughter of Hera)
The next morning, I brave heading toward the Poseidon cabin. It is at the crack of dawn so no one is awake yet. She peers into the cabin and walks toward where Flin is sleeping. Why does she always come now? It always seems like it. Probably because no one will hear and it is safer than in the daytime. "Flin," Jezebelle says, shaking his shoulder.
"What?" Flin moans, slowly sitting up.
"I just wanted to tell you something about me going to Russia. I may not exactly make it the whole way," Jezebelle says, nervously looking at the ground.
"What do you mean, not make it the whole way?" Flin says, now completely awake and is looking quite scared.
I lead him toward the edge of the cabin where we sit on the edge of the cabin, me in a white t-shirt and jeans and him in just jeans. I can't help but blush as I watch the water ripple. "I have to follow the Path of Hera. My mother sent me on it two nights ago," I whisper.
"Okay. Do you know what you have to do?" Flin asks me. Good question, I think.
"I have to recover something of Hera's. That's all I know. But I do know who I have to face," Jezebelle says quietly, looking into the water and reaching down and touching it.
"Who is it?" Flin asks worriedly. Here comes the bomb shell I think.
"You're not going to like it. It's…Hercules." I say wincing, looking at his face. Several emotions play on his face. First there is shock, replaced by anger, then by sadness.
"Jezebelle. You can't do it. You'll be destroyed," Flin whispers, and I fall against him, my head resting on his shoulder.
"I have to do it Flin. I have to. No one cares about me. It's not like anybody will be destroyed because I'm gone," I say, my tears falling down onto his chest.
"I will. I will be destroyed if you're gone," Flin says, touching my blonde hair.
"I have to do it. There will be awful consequences if I don't do it. It may cost me my life, but trust me I do have a plan," Jezebelle smiles at him.
"I hope that plan works," He whispers. The sun is almost in the sky prominently, so Jezebelle gets up. "Me too. Me too." Jezebelle says.
POV Janice (Co-Praetor of Camp Jupiter, Daughter of Venus)
I see Jezebelle walking out of the Poseidon cabin in the morning and I don't approach her. I decide that today we will be going and they can do whatever they want. "What are you doing?" A voice hisses behind me. The Praetor.
"I am walking, what does it look like?" I shoot him a loathing look. At one point, I had been in love with him, but now, he seems like a cold person.
"You have conspired with the Greeks, Janice. I know you have. The Hera girl will be out of this equation. I am asking you one last time to join our cause, Janice." Greene whispers softly in my ear.
"Rome and the gods should be ashamed that you are one of them," Janice spits.
POV Jezebelle (Head Girl of Camp Half-Blood, Daughter of Hera)
She sees the Praetor and his assistant, Janice up ahead. Jezebelle turns toward them and begins her trek towards them. "No!" She screams, her voice piercing the air. A crackle of lightning is all Jezebelle heard before Janice's scream silenced her own.
The Praetor whipped his head around to see that Hera's daughter stood there. She just watched as the Praetor gained altitude and flew away. She fires an angry arrow straight into the sky, hoping to hit him, but she knows it is a long shot. Now who is going to lead the quest to the Underworld?
"Janice!" Jezebelle cries, racing forward to help the Daughter of Venus.
Janice appears to have been electrocuted, but she isn't dead. Yet. "Medic!" Jezebelle shrieks in hysteria as Flin and the Apollo cabin come running.
"What happened?" Amber says, crouching near the Venus girl, whose clothes are charred and smoldering.
"It was the Praetor. I told everybody that he would betray us, and here is my living proof!" Jezebelle snaps at them.
"Let's get her to the Hospital Wing!" Amber shouts, motioning for the Apollo kids to help her carry Janice. They completely ignored what she said, Jezebelle realizes with a start.
"What did he do?" Flin asks softly behind her.
"Electrocuted her. I think she turned down a request or something from him. I wasn't that far away, but I still couldn't have done anything to help," Jezebelle says defensively.
"Ah. Lightning? It's a wonder that girl is still alive," Flin says, looking to where they were attending the girl.
"I'm going to go talk to Chiron and arrange the new leader to go to the Underworld," Flin says.
"Wait! You mean that Janice is still leading a crew to Vatican City?" Jezebelle asks, confused.
"Yeah. If she isn't dead, than she has to do it, otherwise it won't work to the best of our abilities. It's bad enough we have to do it without the Praetor's help," Flin says, already racing off in the direction of the Big House.
That poor girl, Jezebelle thinks, looking at the purple cloaked Praetor. She has to be exhausted and she has to take a trip halfway across the world and she was almost killed. None of this was supposed to happen. None of it.
POV Amber Grace (Daughter of Apollo, Head of Apollo Cabin)
Slowly, after an hour of working on Janice, her eyes begin to flutter open. "Janice, are you alright?" I ask her, and she just glares at the rest of us.
"I was just electrocuted, do you think I'm alright?" She snaps, trying to sit up.
"Go tell Fallon she's the new head of the Underworld activation," I order one of the Apollo kids, Hana. She nods quickly and dashes away, towards the Hephaestus cabin.
"That's not your call," Janice mutters.
"I just made it my call, don't you think?" I say sweetly.
A/N:
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