Olive , the group arrived in Delphi and went a little outside of the main part to find a source of water for a rainbow because Sanaa wants to Iris message Nick. There currently at this house ruins where Ian found some puddles inside and Sanaa asked Val whether or not she could get the water outside to the sun to create a rainbow)).
Alex sent Manami a sheepish smile, but it was apparent how nervous he was by the way his eyes seemed to be searching around. He was incredibly afraid of thunderstorms if he was honest with himself. But he'd managed so much now, surely he could manage this as well.
His spike of confidence deflated as soon as it came when lightning struck a little in front of them. Alex squeaked, ducking behind Manami. He couldn't see the ground as it had turned dark once more, but he was sure that the ground was scorched after that. He bit his lip to repress a whimper. He was suck a scaredy cat, wasn't he?
Finally trusting himself to not freak out, he opened his mouth and said, "If lightning can strike here, what would happen if it hits us?" He paused, then decided to continue the train of thought. "I mean, it's an illusion, but it'll hurt just as much, won't it?"
Alex really didn't want to get saved by the others at the camp, but right now, he had to say that he wouldn't have minded to have them show up. It was wishful thinking. They wouldn't show up and Alex knew that. They couldn't have gotten that far yet.
Nick stopped outside of the Athena cabin, furrowing his brows. He'd told the others he was going to rest, but there were still some other things he had to do. He was only wearing his jacket right now, but it was zipped up either way. He'd have to get a new shirt from the ones he had one he was back at his cabin. It hadn't been hard to figure that his old one was done for. Covered in blood and ripped apart, basically? Yeah, not a good way to use a shirt again.
Knocking on the door, he opened it moments later, glancing inside. He couldn't see Percy, but somebody else was in the cabin. What was her name? Imogen, wasn't it? Clearing his throat a little, he stepped inside, smiling calmly. "Well, Percy doesn't seem to be here. You're Imogen, right? A few others and I have found the goddess' hideout. At least, we're rather sure that we found it. We need a quick plan now for our attack. You think we could come up with one until tomorrow?" he said.
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Joshua looked up from where he was swinging his gladius. He smiled at Ben and waved back, only to have his smile turn a little more sheepish when Freya stomped over. "Joshuaaaa," she whined. "I'm 14 now, you said I could use the magic orbs at 14!"
Joshua laughed a little. I really should've set the age higher. It's just too bad that Alex is only a year older than them, because I had to set the age so that he was allowed to use them. I never would've heard the end of it from the twins otherwise, he thought, trying to think of a way to make sure the twins never tried using them.
Finally, he came up with something. "Sure, but I don't have any right now." A flat out lie, but it wasn't like any of them knew that.
Ben grinned. "You can't just be older, Freya. You have to earn the orbs by doing things like chores, extra training..." He joked, walking and coming to a stop next to Joshua. He knew they should've set the age higher, although with the number of younger campers it would have been hard, considering how many could be trusted. And it wasn't like he thought the twins would do anything evil... at least, not purposely.
Manami grimaced, not liking the idea of being struck by lightning, illusion or not. "Well, we'll hope that doesn't happen." She said, biting her lip nervously.
She didn't like the thought of somebody being in that much pain at all, let alone in a situation like this one. Things would definitely take a turn for the worse.
Hey Sera, I think you forgot to reply to Nick, though I'm guessing you just didn't see it))
"Well then," Freya decided, pointing her finger at Joshua. "I'll earn it by defeating you in a fight, Joshua!" she declared happily. Joshua laughed nervously, holding his hands up.
"I don't think that's a good idea," he tried to reason, looking down at the shorter girl. He didn't really feel like sparring with Freya, especially when he was supposed to use his gladius. He couldn't just pretend like he suddenly had orbs now. Of course he could use mist manipulation, but how far would that get him?
"It's a very good idea!" Freya replied heatedly, whipping her head over to Ben. "Don't you agree?"
"Agreed..." Alex murmured. He kept to Manami as they continued on, glancing around. "So, once we get back to camp I'm going to take a long nap," he tried joking despite being scared of the situation. Honestly, it was probably a way to keep himself from freaking out again. Joking around seemed to keep him from doing that again. "And I'm going to eat a lot." Alex hadn't noticed it before, but he felt very hungry. While the goddess probably wouldn't have let them starve, they'd enter the tunnel, so they were on their own now.
He could already see the goddess before his eyes, laughing at them for trying to save themselves. She had probably decided to let them try, simply to make them go insane by showing them all their fears. He paused when he thought of that, glancing at the others. "So, what fears are still left? We've had spiders, being alone and hated, a crazy stalker, giant dogs and now a storm. What fears weren't touched on yet?"
Manami's mind went blank, not being able to think of anything at the moment. She hoped it was over. Then, she stiffened, looking at the others sheepishly. "Bees." She said, sighing. "I'm scared of bees, and we haven't seen those yet." She figured bees would be pretty bad, considering they'd actually hurt quite a bit of the illusion went so far as to make them that realistic.
Ben's eyes widened as Freya looked at him for his opinion. This really hadn't been what he was going for, so he decided to at least give coaching her out of it a try. "A fight has nothing to do with chores, now does it?" He pointed out, hoping he could glaze over the part where he mentioned training. He smiled sweetly. "You have to show maturity, Freya."
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Imogen nodded, jumping down from her bed and setting down her book. "Yeah, of course. I'll give it my best shot." She agreed, starting to step out of the cabin. "Should we go? It sounds like we have quite the time limit." She was thrilled that they'd found where the goddess was, although a bit weary. They had to go into this very carefully in order to bring everybody out safe.
"If we can survive all those fears then we will survive bees." Nathan said as he actually did have a small fear of them when younger but only mirroring it from his mortal half-sister that had a terrifying experience before soon hearing something that sounded like buzzing coming from both ahead of them and behind them, "I hope we can get out and not be saved... then again I wouldn't mind that either if we can get out of here."
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Chevy had decided to sit in the pavilion with two dozen sodas at her side and one of the dozen already empty stacked up in a pyramid-shaped as she seemed downcast really unlike her normal crazy self but she wasn't at the moment, she hated dead things for reality to fantasy ones which only made it much more true when seeing Grimm like that and she fought monsters that would bleed until they could finish it off but seeing a comrade fallen like that was shocking as she took a sip from one of the sodas that happened to be grape-flavored. Why'd this have to happen huh? Guess that pain in the neck goddess could answer that.... she thought to herself with her eyebrows furrowing in slight anger since Mynesome had brought only suffering to the camp and the only good thing from her was Satoru.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
"So now we've got a storm with bees. That's really... unrealistic," Alex pointed out. "I can't imagine bees being out during a storm where they have to fight against wind and rain." Of course these illusions didn't have to be realistic, but Alex really couldn't take either serious for the moment. Why would bees and a storm be there together? He wasn't going to count on them as being magical bees, either. Honestly, the goddess probably just hadn't thought this one through.
He flinched a little when thunder sounded again, murmuring something that sounded suspiciously like 'Asher'. Seconds later, he shook his head, trying to be brave again. "Let's keep moving. Maybe we can kill these illusions by pointing out unrealistic things. Like, for example, the storm somehow happening inside a tunnel."
Freya crossed her arms with another huff. "But doesn't sparring show maturity? The older campers do it all the time, Ben! Not to mention, it's kinda a chore for demigods, isn't it?" she complained, eyes never leaving Joshua. By her gaze, she could already tell that she had won, and Joshua thought that that thought was frightening. When had Freya started becoming so logical? He remembered the twins never applying logic to anything. Where was Vivi for situations like this?
Either way, if Ben didn't find a good excuse, he'd probably have to fight her. He knew that he would most likely lose unless he could trick here. The twins using magical orbs would just cause chaos around the whole camp.
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Nick paused for a second. "If we go there again, we're not going inside, though," he started, joining her. "Who knows what await inside. We could get trapped and then our chances would be bad." He wisely kept the fact that he was injured to himself. He wasn't going to get stopped from joining the fight. He could rest after the campers were safe. "Still," he added after a few seconds. "We don't have to go there, either. I know what it looks like from the outside."
The upside to being able to remember a lot. Nick was far from being one of the people to remember everything that had ever happened, but he could remember things that hadn't happened years ago in great detail. Not waiting for Imogen to really reply, he said, "I think what we could search for if we visit the place would be a second entrance. With just one we have a high chance of getting ambushed, but with two, the moment of surprise could be on our side."
Manami nodded, starting to walk again, although a bit slower. "Bees wouldn't be out in a storm." Manami said, repeating Alex's words. There couldn't be bees here, right? The goddess wouldn't do a storm and bees at the same time, right? She bit her lip, following Alex as they started moving again.
Ben huffed, realizing he didn't have any more excuses. Though, he did have sort of an idea. "Well, the orbs can be very, very dangerous. You can't just fight one of us and expect to win over the rights to the orbs. You have to be able to defeat both of us," He suggested, knowing that even if she agreed to fight both of them, it lessened her chances of winning.
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Imi nodded in agreement. "That would make sense," She responded, biting her lip as she thought a bit more. "How large is it?" She asked, wondering how much space they had to work with.
"She's using two fears at the same time probably to invoke more terror," Nathan said which rembered him of the previous fears that they had faced, "What if were close to the entrance and she's trying to scare us back a different way?" He suddenly suggested with everything could have happened early on before he himself even got here which had to mean that the goddess was either speeding up her progress or was trying to get them to turn back.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
Alex flinched a little when he saw lightning again, holding onto Manami more tightly. Oh yes, there went his bravery. Taking a deep breath, he managed to calm his racing heart a little. "Honestly, you may be right, Nathan. However... what if she doesn't care about us anymore? She's thrown out her bait, the others are coming regardless of our current state. They... can't exactly find out whether we're alive or dead."
The thought hurt, but of course they couldn't know. There was no way any of them could find out, even if Alex knew that that was probably freaking Asher out the most. They had to hold out until help arrived at the very least. Even better if they managed to escape during that time.
Alex bit his lip when another thought came to him and stopped for a second despite the rain still hitting him. "Do we even know why the goddess is doing this? She talked about memories the last time Sanaa saw her, but... that can't be all, can it? What if... what if there's something more to it?" He didn't know what, but the puzzle didn't seem completed yet. Something was missing.
The buzzing now seemed to rival the howling of the wind and Alex made a split second decision by getting in front of Manami. "Stay behind me, I'm not scared of bees," he said lightly, trying to make the mood appear less serious.
Freya seemed to pause and consider that for a moment, then crossed her arms. "Fine! Bring it! I can defeat you both!" She seemed dead serious, but Joshua wasn't sure whether she really knew what she was getting into. Then again, what if Freya defeated them? That would be a bit to both of their prides for sure.
He tried meeting Ben's eyes, silently saying, "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
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Nick paused, thinking her question over. "I mean, we didn't go inside, but it looked like an abandoned ants' nest. As in giant ants, of course. Either way, I imagine it's got the tunnel systems of one as well, which is the reason I think an ambush is likely." He paused, closing his eyes for a second. "As for how big the outside was, I'd say about as large as a few cabins pushed together. Give or take. I imagine it's way larger underground, though."
He didn't feel good with the thought that they had no idea what awaited them on the inside, but it couldn't be helped. They couldn't just go in and check it out.
"That could be true...." Nathan said with him then trying to figure out why the goddess had in store them since the first plan she had of course fell apart so what was she trying to do now or what did she want? There has to be a way to figure that part out since if they were going to be stuck inside a ant's nest or whatever they were in they might as well find a way out and try to see the connection into what the endgame was, "What's different this year then last year?" The question came to mind since plans did change over time especially over a year.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
Well, Manami is probs with the other kidnapped campers I'd say, so there's that. They're currently fighting their fears and Alex found Nathan by grabbing onto his hand and they're moving onwards right now in hopes of finding the others again or a way out.
Also on my side Joshua, Freya, Pascal, Noel and so on are free. ))
Ian seemed to ponder that for a moment, then nodded a little. "There's this spot with benches and whatnot close to one of the tourist sights where you can sit and rest and all that. There's a small shop close by as well," he replied with a grin, eyes sparking a little when they reached a spot outside of the main parts. Some ruins of an old house were close by and Ian walked over. He checked the broken wall for a second, regarding it carefully. It was already broken down to what was probably once its real size and the middle had a large hole.
Without much more thought, he put his right foot into the large crack in the middle, then held onto the sides of the wall before hopping inside the ruin. He felt satisfied when he noted the few puddles still around in the shadows. So they hadn't disappeared because of the sun yet. He turned his head, calling over his shoulder. "There's water here!"
"...But no sun," Sanaa commented from outside, gaze turning to Val. "Can you get the water out here to create a rainbow? It's fine if you're too tired to, though."
Basically what you have to reply to. Beside that Nick and Imogen are working on a plan to attack the goddess and free the others))
Alex paused, trying to think while another gust of wind tried to knock him off his feet. He frowned a little, tilling his head. "It's not that different is- wait." He bit his lip, suddenly getting an idea. "Last year, she was in a part of the world where a forest fire had left behind burnt land, she wanted to restore it. This year, however, she's at the camp. All she can do by killing us here is summoning creatures. I'm not sure what monsters may rise that way, but I... I'm not sure how that change of plans would come about. Unless, of course, she's working for somebody." It was a weird thought, but not one without evidence.
Nathan nodded in agreement, "Also this year we've got a lot more new campers with one being her son... her working for somebody makes sense but now the question is who? It could be anyone..." he replied which when a camper got claimed meant that the goddess or god claimed the camper as their own and that could stir up things yet all they could down here was to figure a way out and think of what the agenda was.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Feb 17, 2017 9:12:09 GMT -5
((thanks!))
Valentine was silent for a moment, thinking. "Yeah, probably. Just hold on." She walked over to the water, willing it to push down into the ground. She moved it through the dirt and past rocks to area they were waiting. With a flick of the wrist, it sudden burst from the ground, making a tiny geyser. "There you go." She said, her voice sounding strained. Her eyes were already half closed, and she struggled to keep the water flowing.
Alex paused for a second. "Honestly, I don't know," he admitted. "There doesn't seem to be enough information to figure it out." He couldn't help himself - he smiled a little. "How about we just go ask her?" He chuckled a little, then froze up when thunder sounded again. He could see a few bees by now, but there seemed to be something else as well.... A few seconds passed before Alex suddenly reached for Nathan's hand.
"If I'm not mistaken, Nathan, there's a stalker up ahead again, so I think it's better if we all just hold hands and stay close," he explained. "We all have a fear here right now, getting separated would be bad."
Sanaa seemed concerned about Val, but figured that the best course of acting was to do the iris message before she was too tired.Pulling out a golden drachma, she dropped it into the geyser through the rainbow that was forming above. "Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me Nick Evergreen at camp half-blood," she said clearly. Honestly, if Nick wasn't at the camp for whatever reason at that moment Sanaa was going to kill him.
But the message went through and Sanaa laughed when Nick seemed startled for a moment. He turned towards the message fully, smiling again. "I almost forgot these things existed," he admitted, motioning to the message. His hair seemed a little messier than usual, and Sanaa was surprised that he was still wearing his jacket. It was almost as warm over there as well, wasn't it? In the background she heard Ian exclaim a 'woah, that's so cool!'.
Nick seemed to read her expression. "I'm wearing the jacket because my shirt got ripped apart by a chimera. Gonna pay that monster back once we find it."
"Chimera?" Sanaa echoed. "So, did you find it?"
Nick's smile didn't waver. "It found us. But we actually ended up finding the hideout. Imogen and I are planning the attack right now." He eyes swept over the group, settling on Sanaa me Naomi. "How far are you guys by now? Any ideas how you're going to sway Apollo around? I could come help if it's needed."