Oh, guys! It's the last chapter! I think I'm going to cry! Not only did I finish this story, but I also finished Digimon! I don't want it to be over! Well, I guess I could watch other series than the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, but I hate the other ones so much I didn't bother. Now I'm watching Shugo Chara.
Oh, and since I couldn't decide on POV's I change quite a bit. Well, most of this chapter is in May's POV as it should, so read and review! Then expect me to start the sequel soon enough.
Chapter 50 *sniff*
May's POV
Marina had gone missing for a few hours and none of us could find her. Not only was that it, but Lisa, Felicity, and Simon were here. Lisa had given me the ambrosia. Right now I was too worried about my friend, so I couldn't even force myself to finish the task that was one step from being finished.
"Hey, May I need to tell you something." Lisa had pulled me aside.
"Really, what is it?" I asked softly.
"You probably already figured that I wasn't sent here to help you with your 5 tasks, but I'm pretty sure you don't know why I'm here. Well, I was sent here to give you the option of joining Artemis's group of huntresses. The only thing I needed you to do was to eat the ambrosia and then sign a blood contract. I have the contract with me, but I need to make sure you survive eating the ambrosia. No one's going to make you join, but if you ever want to then you could." Lisa explained and held up a sheet of paper with tons of writing on it.
"Why would anyone ever agree to do that?" I asked.
"I don't know. Everyone eventually says yes." Lisa shrugged.
"Then I'm going to prove you wrong!" I huffed and stomped outside, but Lisa followed. I don't know what happened, but I tripped and fell over something. Great.
It was a little boy. He was wearing a toga, like, Marina mentioned. He had a wreath in his golden blond hair, brown sandals, a cherub face, and he had remarkable pink eyes with green flecks. Maybe he knows where Marina is.
"Little boy do you know where a blue haired girl went?" I asked. The little boy giggled.
"She won the game." The little boy started to giggle again. I was already confused enough, but the game? What the heck was the game?
"What's the game?" Lisa asked.
"Hide and Seek. She won, so I let her into the entrance." The little boy grinned.
"Then could you grant us to the entrance too?" I asked.
"Only if you play another game with me." The little boy started his adorable fit of laughter again.
"What kind of game?" Lisa asked.
"Truth or Dare." He beamed at us. Truth or Dare, what was this kid thinking?
"Okay." Lisa shrugged. I nodded, if this was going to help us find Marina then so be it.
"You," He pointed at me, "Truth or Dare?"
"Dare." I said surely.
"I dare you to sign that thing." The little boy pointed to the contract Lisa held up. The blood contract? What should I choose then? To help Marina or to not become a huntress? I took the obvious answer.
"Okay, I'll do it." I took the ambrosia in my hand and nervously took a bite. My mouth immediately felt like it was on fire.
"Imagine you're in Antarctica. There's ice everywhere." My mouth somehow calmed down.
"There are icicles everywhere. Your teeth are chattering. Snow is everywhere. Polar bears and penguins are the only animals you can see." That was bad. I thought of how the penguins and polar bears were so warm in their fur/feathers. My mouth started to burn up.
"Okay, that didn't work. Imagine all those times you fell in the lake. The water was cold. Your whole body was drenched and it felt like you were taking a bath in ice. Your arms were covered Goosebumps." That helped. My mouth somewhat cooled down, but I finally swallowed the ambrosia.
Hm, just the rest of it left. I shoved the rest of it in my mouth. My mouth felt like it was on fire this time. My taste buds felt burnt. Then I remembered Lisa's words. Cold. Antarctica. Ice.
"Okay, um, a little extreme, but keep on imagining the cold. The icy cold, the teeth chattering wind, and the icy polar caps." Lisa soothed. My mouth felt extremely dry and itchy as I swallowed, hard, the leafy golden plant.
"Yay! Sign the paper!" I gulped. Lisa handed me a small needle, which I pricked my finger on. I nervously signed the paper, May Maple. As soon as I did I felt a flash of relief. All of my senses felt sharper and surer, but I didn't feel any of my hormones going crazy. I guess once you joined all guys looked the same.
The little boy also started to get on my nerves, a lot. I wonder how Lisa survived feeling like this every day without punching a guy in the face. I was already getting sick of looking at the little boy I thought looked like an angel a minute ago.
"Okay, it's your turn!" The little boy's giggling this time sounded like a demented hyena.
"Truth or Dare." I managed to growl out.
"Dare!" The little boy clapped, annoyingly.
"I dare you to take me to the entrance." I said. The little boy took my hand and we started to sink in the ground. Soon I was falling and then I hit the cold hard ground, but I somehow landed on my feet in perfect balance. I didn't Marina anywhere, but I did see a screen showing the little boy and Lisa in HD.
"It's my turn! Truth or dare?" The little boy started his hyena-like laugh again.
"Um, dare?" Lisa looked nervous. I would be too if I just saw my friend sink through the ground with a boy in an ugly toga. Ugly? There's my huntress mind speaking again! I sighed.
"Okay, I dare you to take my hand." Lisa did as she was told and soon sank to the ground like me. What the heck! All she had to do was grab his hand to get here, but I had to eat something and sign something that changed me almost entirely?
"Heh, your turn!" The little boy started it again. I felt my eyes twitch in annoyance.
"Truth or Dare?" She asked.
"Dare!" The little boy was either copying whatever we chose or he really liked dares.
"Okay, I dare you to bring down four more demigods down here. Their names are Drew, Jimmy, Felicity, and Simon. They're all located in this town, so it's your turn to play hide and seek!" Lisa's dare was so specific.
"Just you wait! I'm going to win!" The monitor showed the boy finding everyone lodged in the Pokémon Centre. I guess Lisa just wanted to trick the boy. Soon they were all being dragged by the boy down a pit.
"AHH!" A chorus of screams was heard as well as a nice painful crash. I guess being a huntress really did have some perks, like, not crashing when you're falling down with a boy in a toga to the labyrinth. Wow, never thought I'd ever think of that.
"Oww." Drew was the first to stand back up. For some reason I didn't feel annoyed by him, but Jimmy and Simon sent a flash of annoyance down my spine, but it was only a small one. I guess friends do matter –even if they were guys– to the hunters.
"Something's different about you?" Drew said. I would've blushed, but I didn't. Instead I gave a puzzled look.
"Never mind, now you look normal again." Drew flipped his hair. This time I really did want to punch his face.
"What's that supposed to mean?" My anger was still the same, though. Well, that's good. I never wanted to change.
Gary's POV
The river Styx was exactly how I remembered it. Green and dreary! Everything smelled of death too! This place was just perfect for a picnic! Oh, and you know bugs, well, after they die they don't die. They end up in the Underworld too and not only that, but they live near the river Styx!
"I wonder if the others are seeing this awful view too." Leaf said out loud. I already knew the answer, but I'm pretty sure she would get pissed. Paul was silent as ever, actually, he was trying to stay away from the two kids.
"Who cares? As long as we finish, right?" I said. The BCD was activated.
"I'm in the labyrinth with Jimmy, May, Lisa, Felicity, Simon, and Marina, but she's the one we can't find." Drew informed. They all got in the labyrinth? How is it that they all could when one person couldn't even do it on purpose? They sure were the luckiest people I knew.
"Then why are you telling me? Get through that labyrinth!" I cheered.
"That's not what I wanted to talk to you about. May just recently became a Hunter of Artemis, so she's going to age more slowly now. We're just going to have to make do with it. That means we have extra time to get through the labyrinth, so the faster you get here, the faster we can get rid of this task nonsense." Drew said.
"It's not like you have to do this." I smirked. He may be my best friend, but he was just too stubborn sometimes.
"…Shut up. We have some unfinished business to do." Drew sounded like he was embarrassed. With that he ended the conversation. Geez, I thought he was used to my comments by now, but apparently not. Even better.
"Ugly lady, I'm scared." The little boy was apparently named Sarah. Although, how he kept on calling Leaf an 'ugly lady' was bothering me. The little girl named Austen however was just like Sarah except she didn't call Leaf an 'ugly lady,' so I favored her more than Sarah, the ugly boy.
"It's okay. Don't worry this is just fake. A projection," Leaf soothed. That stopped his tugging, but he still looked unsure. This caused Leaf to carry the boy. Was it okay to be jealous of a little kid?
"Fine, but you have to cure me fast." Sarah said. Why did she choose these stubborn kids?
"Okay. We're just going to give you a bath. This place is famous for curing diseases, so just ignore the projected water, okay? It's not really that dirty. It's really just normal water." Leaf lied.
"Okay, but me and Austen get to be cured at the same time." Sarah said.
"Austen and I." Leaf said immediately. Well, I guess she's being as smart as ever. What a relief!
"Really? Okay, Austen and I should be cured at the same time." Sarah corrected himself.
"Just go! It's not like I actually wanted to babysit some kids!" Paul growled.
"Then c'mon, Austen you too," Leaf said and took Austen by the hand as if she hadn't heard Paul.
"Okay, here goes nothing." Leaf let go of the two. Austen took Sarah by the hand and jumped into the water with her. This was their new beginning.
Dawn's POV
I was tanning on Dewford Beach. Even though it's winter Dewford was always warm. Today just happened to be slightly colder by one degree. The beams of the sun warmed my skin lightly. The sounds of the ocean's waves and the sound of splashing from Pokémon, namely Ash's, Misty's, and mine could be heard.
I was in my pink bikini with mini purple skulls. I wasn't sure why, but I had a strange urge to buy just the other day. It looked good on me, though, so all was right with the world. I smiled.
So much had happened since I found out I was a demigod, actually, scratch that, since we found out we 5 were demigods. I've injured my legs, but now new skin had grown on them. I even started to use less time to get ready by applying less and less make up. Sooner or later I'm going to eventually stop it all entirely! Just the thought makes my skin crawl.
I thought of all the strange things I'd seen. The monsters, the Underworld, etc. My life sure was…eventful. I really should've been helping May instead of lounging around, but hydras really are tiring, so I was just taking a "lazy day."
"Dawn don't you think too much sun is bad for you?" Misty yelled from the water. Her orange hair was pulled into the usual side ponytail and she was in a plain blue swimsuit with white stripes. Ash was right beside her in his red trunks.
"You just want me to join you in the water!" I yelled back, but I got off the chair and ran toward the water anyway. Even if I was on this crazy adventure there was no other place I'd like to be than with my friends until they messed up my hair. Now the only thing I wanted to do was beat them to a pulp.
May's POV
Drew had suggested that we needed to stay and wait to see if Marina was going to show up, but after an hour of waiting for her we finally decided to start searching. After we passed the first tunnel we encountered a problem. Two tunnels.
We decided to split up into two groups of three. Drew, Jimmy, and Simon into one group and Felicity, Lisa, and I into another. The group I was in took the right tunnel and group B took the left one. It was actually kind of relaxing to know I wasn't going to be stuck with any guys for a while. I just recently turned into a huntress and it was making me hate every guy I saw.
The little boy had been following us, but he sank through the ground when we saw the double tunnel. That little sneak probably knew the right path, but didn't tell us. My anger grew for the little boy again. I sighed it looks like my adventure had taken a sharp turn. I was going to age more slowly, but I didn't know how fast the time went in the Underworld either.
I finally knew what people meant by everything wasn't always what it seemed. After all my life was like a rollercoaster and this was just one of its loops. I knew deep inside that there was another loop just waiting for me to get there. And then I remembered Drew was my slave. Just wait 'til I see him again. That sly little devil split us into groups like, this on purpose! He was going to pay and I know just how, but after I see him again.
You know, even, though, I was unarmed I felt unafraid. The labyrinth was supposed to be this twisted and impossible maze and I was pretty sure Hera was out to get me as a few other gods were, but it might be the adrenaline talking, but bring it on.
To be continued…
Okay, well, the ending was okay to me, but I always think endings should be different, but who said this was the ending? REVIEW!
~TDF~