A/N: Happy April Fool's Day everybody! Still sick with a respiratory infection so I can get you guys some more chapters! This chapter is going to be action packed c:
Chapter 21
(Juliana is written by Fairy Lori) POV Juliana (Daughter of Somnia, Head of Somnia Cabin)
It was interesting spending the night at Camp Half-Blood. Someone from the Hypnos Cabin actually managed to suck me into his dream.
Tartarus will freeze over before I listen to the Piña Colada song again.
I made my way to the Big House as Greeks whispered back and forth. I sighed. They will just keep at it. It's not like I had anything to do with that girl's attack. I bet it was Greene.
Man! I want to destroy him! I admired him! Trusted him! And the he turns traitor?! He is going down! When I find him, I'm giving him a living nightmare!
I walked into seeing Joey and Willow sitting by each other. Those two looked awfully cozy.
"Hi, uh... Juliana," Willow said with a nervous tone.
Heh. Even if you save the world together, people fear you. Well, I was censoring my personality a bit. Just so we didn't have conflict. The moment we got back, me and Janice were at odds again. Guess instead of pure disgust for each other, it's now a frenemies deal.
"Hello, Willow. Nice to see you again, Joey." I said, fixing my black circlet. "Where is Janice and Flin?"
Joey shrugged. "No idea.
I raised an eyebrow, blue eyes piercing through those two. "You sure? Cause I can make you listen to Piña Colada until they get here."
Joey looked at me. "Did Reed from Hypnos get you?"
I glared. "So that's his name. That insane kid drove me nuts in his dream! He even managed to find me when I turned into a cat!"
Willow gave me a strange look.
I sighed. "Somnia thing," I said. "Anyway, we need to get a game plan going and I would hate to find out that our leaders are sleeping on the job."
"Who is sleeping?"
I turned and saw Janice. Flin was behind her with a few other Greeks with him.
"Ok. Glad you guys could make it. Now, may we please get on with this?"
POV Janice (Daughter of Venus, Praetor of Camp Jupiter)
The meeting began like they usually have at Camp Half-Blood. There were six delegates from both camps, from Rome is myself, Eboni, Juliana, Jason, Rafiki and Skylar. For Greece, Flin, Willow, Joey, Stash, Blake and Evan. "Jezebelle, Asher and Amber are all over in Rome, dealing with the Mark of Athena, so we cannot expect their help. We need to bring down Gaea, we have heard that they are rallying in Greece, once again, and then planning an assault on Olympus," Flin says, and everyone gasps, they didn't think that it would get this far.
"We will almost need to vacate the camps, trying to stop them at both places." Eboni points out, and I am proud of my choice.
"The matter is of which camp goes where, isn't it?" Willow asks.
"Rome will deal with them in Greece, and if we cannot stop them there, we will retreat to Olympus," I say and everyone nods.
"We've got ourselves a deal!" Stash says, grinning from ear to ear and shaking peoples' hands.
"We leave for Greece tomorrow," I tell my people and they nod.
"Go back and get the rest of the camp, use all of the hellhounds we have to shadow travel to Greece," I whisper in Eboni's ear and she nods, and walks away towards one of the Greeks' hellhounds.
POV Flin (Son of Poseidon, Head Boy of Camp Half-Blood)
"We leave for Olympus in the morning! Take only what you need!" I direct all of the campers and they all scatter to pick up food, water and weapons to take with them. We may need to wait a few hours, a few days or a few weeks, depending on how well the Romans delay them.
I walk to my cabin and lay down in the covers, wondering where Jezebelle is and when she will be back.
POV Jezebelle (Head Girl of Camp Half-Blood, Daughter of Hera)
Amber and I walk along uneasily when we hear the place start to rumble. "Run!" I shout, and we start dashing forward, the place is coming down. I see a crowd of ghosts wailing ahead, and Asher has a sword in the wall. There is an opening of rock, and he goes in. I jump to get in, forgetting about Amber for just a moment. I make it, but I am unsure she will, so I stretch out a hand, and she grabs it, and luckily I can hold on. I somehow get her up on the dusty floor.
"Look!" I say, and see several packages from Hermes Express. Inside there are flying shoes! It may help us against whatever we have to face. In this section, there are several bones, and I can't help but wonder what killed them.
Asher is a few feet in front of us, staring in horror in front of him. There are tiny spiders skittering across the floor, and I wonder why we are even here. Then I see why. There is a medium sized owl sitting in a cage a few yards away. Athena's owl, I think. But, just above it is a gigantic spider. Oh god. Arachne.
"Child of Athena. I have risen again and I am ready to take back something of Athena's, why not start with her child?" The monster says sinisterly.
Asher straps on a pair of the flying shoes, and so does Amber, but there aren't enough for me. I'm stuck on the ground. "The prophecy was fulfilled. Barely. You have help now, Child of Apollo…and Child of Hera," Arachne says with disgust.
I look around at the tapestries, new ones, depicting the demi-god Annabeth's death. Well, at least what Arachne wanted to happen? But that didn't happen. I feel that we won't be able to trick Arachne like Annabeth did, which leaves fighting. But I doubt that we will be able to do that well. Amber fires an arrow at Arachne, which begins the fight.
Arachne lunges at Asher, who tries to jab her with his sword, but Arachne dodges it easily. I think that her teeth are venomous as she approaches Asher and she kicks him with one of her eight feet. "Asher!" I shout and try to stab Arachne with my dagger, but she whips around just in time and I see the foundations of the place begin to crack. She drives her teeth into me and I scream with pain. I fall to the ground, tears streaming down my face. It feels like fire is ripping through my joints.
"Jezebelle!" Amber says, tossing her sword down and handing me a pack of ambrosia, and I eat a small piece, and Asher drives his sword into Arachne. Arachne wails and a crack opens up underneath her, and she is enveloped by it.
Asher kneels beside me, brushing a piece of my hair out of my eye, and he is looking down at me in sorrow. "We did it." Amber says, laughing almost.
As if to answer us, a long white piece of silk hangs onto the edge of the crack where Arachne went down.
POV Asher (Son of Athena, Head of Athena Cabin)
"Get back!" Amber shouts, and she immediately starts to float with her feathers on her shoes. Jezebelle struggles to get up, so I run towards her. Until the long stand of silk finds Jezebelle's body.
"No!" I shout in agony and I grab her hand to stop her from going over. It is a long drop.
Amber is flying towards us as Jezebelle is getting dragged closer to the chasm. "Go! Meet me in the Underworld!" Jezebelle shouts at us, and I am unwilling to let go. At this point, Jezebelle is in the chasm, and I am the only thing holding her up. Then, we both topple in.
POV Amber (Daughter of Apollo, Head of Apollo Cabin)
I don't know how long I stand there, I watch as Asher and Jezebelle fall. After an hour or so I climb up the rocks and I am in a parking lot or something. Walking toward a car, I realize that someone left in the keys, and it was running. And it was unlocked. You're just asking for it then! I get in and drive it away, and I am surprised when I see Janice and an army of Romans standing in front of my car after I drove for a few miles.
"Amber?" Janice asks in dismay, walking towards me. "Asher? Jezebelle?"
I shake my head slightly, and Janice's face falls. "They're in Tartarus. They're trying to get to the Underworld." I say quietly.
A/N: Yes, I am cruel, aren't I? MWAHAHAHAHA! I am so proud of myself. I am as evil as Rick Riordan. Sorry everyone. I truly am. Not really. But oh well!
