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 Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:34 pm
(Sorry I've been gone for SOO long. My aunt had a baby and everything was crazy!!!)
Kros was still fairly traumatized from the fact that her real identity was nearly discovered. She had to seriously thank Hermes. A burnt offering perhaps?
Kros pulled out some rocks, made it into a mini-kitchen, and cooked her best meal yet: a HUGE Chinese-Greek banquet. Its aroma seemed to sneak throughout the hotel room, making her think of Eris. That's in the past, she cooled, things will get better.
As she waited for the food to be cooked, she turned on the TV and lowered the volume so no one asleep would wake up. All the cartoons, though funny, seemed boring, so she flipped to the news.
"And thank you, Lisa, for sharing that," the male reporter announced, trying to sound eloquent, "and now we have a dire situation to talk about. A young girl, Chriaxa Delores Marellton, has been missing for about a month now. She was last seen in her home, reading a book called Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull. The day in which she was found missing, a valuable object from her father's side of the family had disappeared. Police suspect that this missing object relates to Chriaxa's disappearance, but nothing of her or the artifact have been found. Her parents are extremely miserable and expect a student at her high school has captured her, made her their slave, and forced her to do their homework for them. - "
Kros tensed so much, she felt more like a log than a human. Was Eris messing with her? Still, the slave-homework thing was funny, but did that matter?
" - And here are her parents," the reporter finalized.
Her father appeared on the screen, face red and blotchy with tears.
"I just want my daughter back," he sobbed, "she's a beautiful angel and we all miss her! Chriaxa, if you're watching this, ESCAPE FROM WHATEVER DUNGEON YOU'RE IN! We - "
Kros immediately shut off the TV in fear of anyone hearing the news. Her father truly was a great liar. "Beautiful angel", BAH! Her father never loved her for who she was, nor would he ever. Her entire family loved her only for her intelligence. But, Kros knew, I have a new family. They're better, despite their faults. Everyone can relate to each other.
Kore hissed, "The food is ready to burn."
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:31 pm
Cautiously, Bellatrix opened the door and scanned her room, intense green eyes almost daring the tell-tale glow of a monster aura to pop out from somewhere. Once sure the cost was clear, she went in and closed the door behind her.
Sitting cross-legged on her bed, she tried to relax, but couldn't. She had brought her few packed things in from her car, and was changed into her pajamas, ready to sleep. Bellatrix was tired, but too anxious to rest. She sighed and turned on her iPod, then flopped backwards, and the last thing Bellatrix remembered was Gerard Way's voice.
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:38 pm
Tony didn't often get to sleep in such a nice place, since he started traveling he ended up usually sleeping outside. Before that he used to live with his grandparents (not the grandparents on his dad's side obviously) on their farm and slept outside a lot too or in the barn.
When he thought about that it made him a little homesick.
He sighed and took off his shoes and vest. He threw himself onto the soft bed. It was so comfortable that he driften into sleep immediatly and started snoring.
*inside his dream*
Tony dreamed that he and Bella were kissing when suddenly his dream was interrupted and was thrust into another dream in which he just woke up in the room and there's a guy waiting in the chair in the room.
eek "Wha?" Tony is creeped out that someone snuck in and edged backward and fell off the bed. He picked himself up, "Who da hell are you?"
"Hypnos god of--"
"Dreams... right?" Tony frowned all of a sudden gods invade his personal space on a daily basis.
"You got it."
Tony was enjoying the dream he was previously having and wasn't entirely sure that Hypnos was just his imagination or the real deal god of slumber giving him a message or something, "Oh..."
"I bet you're wondering what I'm doing here..."
Tony nodded, "Yeah that, and if you're the reason I keep having those weird recurring public nudity dreams, I'm kinda mad."
Hypnos laughed, "Oh I give those to everybody for fun." xd
"Oh..." Tony said. "So did you have something to tell me or did you just come to kid around?"
Hypnos's expression suddenly changed from joking to serious "No, I needed to tell you that the things in this hotel are like the chair of the underworld."
Tony scratched his head, "Chair of the underworld..." It didn't ring any bells but he thought he should know about it.
"Come on Antonios, don't tell me your dad didn't tell you about the time he went to dislodge Theseus and Pirithous from it."
It took a moment for Tony to remember that story. He recalled that from what he heard Pirithous and Theseus weren't bright enough to figure out that Hades wouldn't like them taking his bride so Hades tricked them into getting their butts stuck in a chair until his dad pulled them out.
Tony's eyes widened, "$#17 I'm sleeping in this bed right now!"
"Don't worry Tony you and your sister aren't affected since you two are related to Heracles, but you have to do it soon because the longer they get used to their room the harder it'll be to get them out especially if they eat the food in here. Eris had taken over it, she's good at keeping ahead of what us other gods have planned."
That wasn't what Tony wanted to hear but he nodded, "Okay so I'll wake up." Tony thought about waking up hard but he didn't wake up. It was pretty frustrating, Tony clinched his fists and squeezed his eyes shut and thought really hard about waking up.
"... What are you doing?"
"T-trying to wake up"
"Just pinch yourself, you know like in the movies," Hypnos said nonchalantly. "By the way they'll really, really be addicted to the rooms so you might need to drag them out."
Tony didn't really like the idea of dragging out everybody and the pinching thing sounded really stupid but since the god of slumber (and probably the god of dream logic) said so himself Tony pinched his arm and awoke.
"I've gotta wake up everybody." Tony said to himself hoping it wouldn't be too hard especially since he'd have a little help from Calli.
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:59 pm
{{Okay sorry if I do this wrong, but I never learned and can't find the details on that particular myth anywhere, so I don't know WHY she's supposed to want to stay in the room.}}
Bellatrix was 90% sure she was dreaming. Bellatrix was infailably practical and logical in just about any sense, and this also included when she was dreaming. The circumstances were no stranger than everything else that had been going on, but considering she had no memory of waking up, Bellatrix concluded she must be dreaming.
There was a glow about the room. A thick, dark grey mist layered everything in the room, curling off furniture in smokey breaths and swirling about her person. That was another tip-off that she was dreaming, because she was armed with her bow and standing upright in the middle of the room, and she knew that when she'd fallen asleep she was in bed holding only her iPod.
Bellatrix's uncontrolled subconscious stream was suddenly interrupted as a thought struck her. She looked to the window, but couldn't tell if it was day or night because the blinds were closed. She looked down at herself. Same Green Day T-shirt and black short-shorts with her iPod in the pocket. So she had her bow and arrow, but hadn't changed out of her pajamas. Huh.
Then, it seemed, just appearing to prove her I'm-dreaming conclusion, the Geico geco from the commercial suddenly appeared, perched atop of the TV.
Okay, this is too weird. No more TV before going to sleep. I'm outta here!
She turned around, and to her strange combination of pleasure and horror, she saw no door. Sealed in. And before that, a nightmarish (no pun intended) head. It changed from Eris's leering face to Tony's smiling one. She didn't WANT to leave.
Then it turned gruesome and awful and suddenly Bellatrix bolted upright in bed, awake and panting. The faces and the geco were gone. But the mist was still there. And she could not leave.
Bellatrix fell asleep again.
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Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:33 pm
Kros burned the food outside the hotel because starting a fire in the place would really suck. She found it really weird that no one noticed that she was leaving, but she guessed it was only because everyone was asleep.
The hotel seemed...too perfect to Kros. It reminded her of her old home and of the Lotus Hotel and Casino from the Percy Jackson series. Something was wrong...
She was about to re-enter the hotel and as she pulled on the doors, like the sign said to, nothing happened. The place was locked.
"Great," Kros grumbled, "Kore, we're trapped outside."
No reply.
"Kore?"
Then Kros remembered that he was getting sleepy when she was cooking the food and let him stay in the hotel. Before Ral and Blayd and Friends, she was used to being solitary, but now, it just felt akward.
"Aw, crud," she sighed, slumping onto the ground, "we're dead."
She couldn't think of who "we" was, so Kros did what she usually did to help her think: meditate.
She crossed her legs, laid her hands on her knees, and closed her eyes, breathing deeply and slowly. Kros' mind cleared itself and she imagined oblivion guiding her way to light. The oblivion wasn't the evil kind, it was the kind of darkness that comforts you when you sleep.
Her meditating concentration was broken by a whisper of, "Do you think that's her?"
Kros opened her eyes and squinted towards what might be the source of the voice.
"Yeah, it looks like it," a second voice replied.
Silently, Kros pulled out one of her knives.
"I think it is her, James. Good eye."
Kros backed up and clutched her knife even tighter than before.
A tall, handsome-ish young man emerged from the bushes. He looked familiar, but...
"Chriaxa?" the man whispered.
"Who are you talking about?" Kros guffawed, lowering her knife, "I'm the great adventurer Kaita!" Acting finally came in handy.
"Kaita?"
"Yes. I'm looking for a friend of mine."
"Well, it's no use for a kid your age to be wandering around alone like this."
"I make do."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"How so?"
"Like this." Kros lunged towards the man, pushed him to the ground and brought her knife to his neck.
"Agile," he smirked.
"Be glad you're in one piece," Kros pipped, slipping the knife into its sheath and turning to walk to the back of the hotel.
"I manage this hotel, you know," the man informed.
"Really?" Kros questioned without turning around, "How many floors does it have, then?"
"30, though there is no 13th floor."
"Okay, what is the name of the lobbyist that usually gets Employee of the Month?"
"Susan Olrich."
"AND who is her husband?"
"She's single."
Kros turned around, "I believe you, FOR NOW. The place is locked."
"You need a place to stay?"
"No, it's just that my suitcase is in there and I forgot it."
"Then why were you out here?"
"To get some fresh air. Anything wrong with that?"
"You were burning food."
"I was making an offering to the God of Thieves, Travel, and Commerce."
"Hermes?"
"The very god."
"Bah! Greek gods! Nonexistant!"
Kros grinned. She knew that this was actually her history teacher, James Olrich, Susan Olrich's brother. James never was very deep or passionate, or pious for that matter. Nope, he was just a history textbook in himself. Kros was his favorite student.
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:43 pm
(you guys make such long posts lol ) blayd fell asleep with the tv on comedy central, he began dreaming of himself being roasted (the comedy type of roast, not being cooked) on the dais were all his new friends, Apollo, Athene and hermes. the roastmaster was hypnos, but instead of introducing him to everyone hypnos was saying "blayd, you need to wake up, tony is coming to help you, but you need to be ready to run when he's dragged you out of here" that's not very funny thought blayd, before realizing that this was hypnos REALLY talking to him in a dream as the gods used to in dreams
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:41 pm
(Replying to Blayd's comment, a long post is a happy post.) mrgreen
Kros entered the hotel with James and was "searching for her suitcase".
"Mr. Grett," Kros asked, referring to James Olrich using the name that he wanted her to call him, "what was that about Chriaxa?"
"You watched the news?" Mr. Olrich asked.
"Yes."
"You heard about the girl that went missing?"
"Yes."
"She was the daughter of a friend of mine and I wanted to find her. I also know her really well and find her very well bred."
"Umm...okay? What about the other person?"
"That was a...a detective. He was helping me track Chriaxa and whatnot. You just happened to look like her."
"Interesting..."
Kros was pretty good at telling whether someone was lying. Mr. Olrich was lying so horribly, he could be saying that his shirt was blue to a moron and the moron knows it's actually red.
"Who's the detective?"
"Detective E."
"What does the 'E' stand for?"
"Err...yeah, Erwin!"
"Erwin?"
"Yes, his name is - "
"But I heard a woman's voice..."
"That's her last name."
Kros stopped and faced Mr. Olrich.
"All you've been telling me are lies, Mr. 'Grett'. Now I want to know - " - Kros pulled out her knife, pounced on Mr. Olrich and brought the knife to his neck - " - what do you REALLY want?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:31 pm
Tony stumbled out the bed and ran to the door and gave it a big kick and it came off its hinges. He didn't even stop to put on his shoes or vest he was in such a hurry.
Alright who's room first... Tony thought. He figured Calli would be alright being immune to the whole thing if and if he needed any help he'd reach her. Bella would definitely be the first to check on since she was human. Tony had no clue what Kros was he'd get her before Blayd and Pandora since she was a kid. Blayd and Pandora were extra strong and more enhanced than normal demi-gods so they'd be after that.
Tony ran into the hall and tried to remember which room each person was in.
He recognized Bella's room and kicked that door down. He saw her sleeping in the bed. He almost felt like a jerk to wake her up because she had a really happy smile when she was sleeping. He walked over and thought about how to wake her up. Hmm... Tony picked her up and shock her "Bella WAKE UP!"
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:48 pm
Calli was taking a shower she was so glad to get the dirt and spider goo out of her fingernails. She changed into some clean clothing and went to bed to relax. Archie was lounging on the bed. She smiled
"Hey Archie" Calli said petting his ears.
Archie yawned, "Hi." They heard noises from outside.
"What in Hades was that?" Calli asked.
"I dunno" Archie said.
"Let's check" Calli and Archie ran outside and saw Tony busting down the doors with his feet. "What are you doing?" Calli's thoughts immediatly went to, How are we possibly going to afford these damages, why's Tony doing this? I hope he didn't eat more of Kros's food again. She ran into the room Tony just busted the door down to and saw him trying to wake up Bellatrix. "Tony what are you doing?" She asked knowing that something must be wrong.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:45 am
Pandora's eyes snapped open as her phone rang. The fact she had been sleeping so heavily was not a good sign. Pandora was a very light Sleeper. She quickly stood up and grabbed her daggers and began to place them on her body before she opened the door tos ee Tony busting into Bella's room with Calli following him. Pandora quickly turned and headed towards Blayd's room to see if he was awake.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:07 pm
James Olrich seemed to look innocent, "What are you talking about?"
Kros heard Tony scream something about Bella and Calli scream at Tony while there were bunches of noises of stuff breaking and thumping. Kros didn't even want to think about what was going on.
"You hear that?" she growled.
"Kaita, what are you talking about?"
"Okay, that's it! I know that you're really James Olrich and you don't manage this hotel! You're a history teacher for freshmen and you don't even know Chriaxa's parents! SHE'S YOUR FAVORITE STUDENT!!"
Mr. Olrich cooed, "Chriaxa, you finally get it, you fool."
"Okay, NOW I'm scared." Kros backed away.
"You know who that lady in the bush was?" Mr. Olrich rose ominously.
"Ermm...well..."
"Don't hide it from me." He grabbed Kros by the neck and threw her to the wall.
"I...I know it's too weak to be Eris..."
"That's true, so WHO IS IT?!"
"I...I don't know..."
"LIAR!"
Mr. Olrich pulled out a revolver and shot Kros in the shoulder. Her shoulder was pierced with pain.
"I'm serious," Kros cried, "I don't know!"
"LIAR!!!"
He shot Kros again, this time in the thigh. Kros screeched in pain, "I DON'T KNOW!"
James was about to pull the trigger of his gun, but lowered it, realizing that it was useless to waste his bullets.
"Who was it?" he whispered in a deadly voice.
"It was..." Kros quavered, "it...was..." Kros stared at James.
"If you lie," he hissed, "I will kill everyone in here."
Kros glared at James with huge eyes.
"You're not James Olrich," she hissed, "that woman in the bush never existed. It was a mirage."
"Then who am I?"
"Pirithous?"
Pirithous lowered his gun, smirking, "Now was that so hard?"
Kros felt crippled. Her shoulder and thigh were creating a giant blood puddle and it hurt so much, she wanted to just cry, but it hurt too much to actually cry.
"I don't want to sound stupid," Kros muttered, "but I want you to explain to me what is going on."
"You don't see it, Chriaxa? It's the Chair of the Underworld."
"Okay," Kros knew this myth, "but I'd think you'd have learned your lesson by now. Who do you want to kidnap next? Amphitrite? Hera?"
Pirithous smiled.
"Oh Zeus, I'm not that attractive!"
"Who says I want you as a bride? My liberator is paying me big if I bring you to her."
"ERIS?"
"DUH!"
"But...why ME? Am I, like, bait or something?"
"All will be revealed if you come with me. And if you do come, I'll stop this whole thing and you can tell your pals goodbye. If you don't, well, I'll have to force you into it." Pirithous held out his hand.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:28 pm
Tony couldn't tell if he'd be able to wake up Bella but he heard a lot of screaming coming from Kros's room. If Kros is in trouble this could be bad, at least Bella's safe her with Calli.
"Hey sis watch Bella, I'm going to check on Kros." Tony ran into the hall again and kicked Kros's door off its hinges and saw Pirithous trying to abduct Kros. He somehow knew that it was Pirithous after his dream gave him the idea that something like that would happen.
"Ah the son of Heracles, how nice of you to show up."
Tony was trying to figure out why Pirithous, a hero and friend to Theseus, would be kidnapping Kros for Eris. "What's this about Pirithous? I thought you were a good guy."
"Like everyone thought your father was," Pirithous said harshly. "He abandoned his comrade to keep the favor of a loathsome, unloyal god of corpses!"
Tony didn't like the way that Pirithous talked about his dad at all but wanted to try to justify what happened, "Come on Pirithous, my dad did what anybody would've done when Hades gives a command."
"Sure, and I trust that if Hades came to you right at this moment and told you to leave your friends here for eternity, you would do just as he said right Antonios?"
Tony had to admit that Pirithous had a point in feeling betrayed by the gods and heroes. Tony couldn't say if he could leave a friend behind in order to please a god but deep down Tony knew he couldn't.
He sighed, "No... I wouldn't be able to..."
"So now you see why I'm loyal to Eris, she freed me from the chair and promised to give me immortality in exchange for Chriaxa."
Tony could only assume he ment Kros when he said Chriaxa, "But... you said yourself that gods are unreliable, why trust Eris of all the goddesses?" Tony hoped that some of his reasoning would get through to the fallen hero.
Pirithous looked thoughtful for a second, "She set me free which is more than I can say for your father." Pirithous was about to leave.
mad Tony wasn't about to let him go with Kros, "WAIT!" Tony yelled hoping to appeal to whatever god he could, "What if you made a deal with us?"
Pirithous looked slightly interested, "I'm listening..."
"Dad's the god of heroes you were one and the way I see it he owes you enough to give you immortality." Tony though that that plan was great except that he had no idea of how he'd be able to get Heracles to help him.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:17 am
Kros glared at Tony.
"Don't worry, Tony," she tried to sound strong, "I'll be fine."
Kros rose very carefully and ignored the searing pain in her thigh. "See?"
Pirithous grinned, "Well, seeing as Kros is 'okay'...I refuse your little deal. Now Chriaxa, you're going to come with me." He put out his hand yet again.
Kros was about to take it so that her friends would be okay, but she backed up.
"Where's Kore?" she hissed.
"Oh...the snake...." Pirithous simpered, trembling suddenly, "Well..."
"Great, you killed Kore?!" scream
"No..."
Kore slithered to Kros from behind Pirithous's leg. It seemed as though Kore dipped his fangs in blood.
"Glad to be of service, Kros," Kore giggled.
Pirithous stared at Kore and back at Kros.
"Eris will get you, Chriaxa!" Pirithous cackled, "This I SWEAR!"
He jumped out of the window, leaving a paper on the floor.
Kros rolled her eyes, handed Kore a rat for his troubles, and glared at the paper Pirithous dropped. The wanted poster.
"$&%#!" Kros hissed, swapping the paper.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:37 pm
Tony looked at the paper before Kros could snatch it away.
"Kros, what's up he called you Chriaxa, is that your real name? And what's with the poster?"
Tony knew she'd have to tell the truth now, he'd already read the poster and could tell that she probably ran away from home since the paper had a reward from her parents.
"Don't worry I won't turn you in. Just tell me what's going on."
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:43 pm
Kros rolled her eyes.
"My parents were rich, I got bored of it, ran away, and they're 'sad' because I'm super smart and my smartness makes them look good and they don't love me for being me. And yes my real name is Chriaxa. Happy now?" Kros sighed. rolleyes
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