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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:57 pm


i was really exited for this one, because the characters could be so crazy, making the story amazing. also, i write crazy stuff like this so here you go.

MYSTERY BUS

Dylan covered the mouthpiece on his Bluetooth and fumed, “Benny, please, for the thousandth time, please at least try to not hit every pothole!” Dylan sat close to the front, Bluetooth in ear, and suit on as always. He was a banker, and was the most trusted out of the 4 on the bus. He took his calls, and did work on his laptop, which was fittingly, on his lap, shaking every time the bus went over a bump.
“Dylan, it’s a dirt road, everything’s a pothole. This tiny little deserted town can’t afford to pave their roads. Maybe you should sell your Camaro, or move into a smaller house so they can have some money.” Daniel said calmly. Daniel was also sitting close up front. He was very serious, because his work drained so much life out of him. Inside joke related to his job as a mortician. It saddened him to see so many tears, and see so many pale, lifeless bodies, but it was what he was used to, and decided to stick with it despite everyone else’s jokes. He had come up with the idea to go on the trip. Dylan laughed.
“Fat chance,” Dylan said out of his normal banker tone, “I am not selling my car, or my house. That is madness!”
“I wouldn’t either, though I do sell cars as my job, I make them drivable. Whether they fail in a week is none of my business,” Benny winked through the mirror. Benny was driving. Next to Josh, he was the next best driver, mainly because he was a manager at a used car dealership, and knew how to fix cars, and especially how to drive every car out there, including a bus, which he had to fix many of on busy school mornings with the districts crappy cheap bus system. That was pretty much the only way he bought himself a ticket to Hollywood, other than he was such a looker, being all muscular and such, and he could pick up chicks, hopefully, rich and famous chicks.
“Getting into a lawsuit is a scary thing Benny,” Dylan said.
“Ha, I aint scared of nothing!” Benny laughed.
“Fantastic use of double negative,” Dylan clapped.
“I’m not afraid of anything now, and never will be. I don’t care if they sue me. They don’t have anything to prove against me,” Dylan shook his head, and looked back down towards his laptop.
Josh took out his ear buds, “How much longer to go Benny?” Josh yelled from the back, away from the other 3 men. He was the best driver, and everyone wanted him to drive the 1902 miles from Cincinatti to Hollywood. After all he had made trips that long dozens of times by car. However, there was a large risk of crash at hand because he was a movie addict, and he may be trying to replay lines in his head during the drive. He had once watched sound of music 9 times in a row, just because he had seen everything else, and it was such a classic. He sat in the back to not disturb anyone when something happened in his movie and he acted out, as in crying, or laughing.
“Were about halfway there, so 17 hours,” Benny replied.
“Great, tons of time to watch more movies. Anybody got any popcorn?” the other 3 men turned and looked at him
“And where in god’s name would we find popcorn on this bus other than in your stomach?” Daniel said.
“What crazy person carries around popcorn except for you?” Benny said.
“BENNY! Keep your eyes on the road!” Dylan yelled just as the bus dipped into a large pothole. Benny looked forward onto the road, and the smell of burning rubber wafted around the bus as the tire popped, and the dirt road didn’t do any good on keeping it on the axel. The tire then Flew off from the speed, then the bus dipped into another pothole, and the axel broke. A large building was there and it stopped the bus, only after, of course, the bus has already put a hole in the wall, and was consumed by the building. The light was dim. The only light seen was from the laptop in the front. Josh’s in the back flicked off.
A laugh was then heard, and it echoed around the bus, out the windows, around the building, and back in. because of the echoes, you couldn’t tell from which direction it came from. The bus shook, and you could hear a quick blood-curdling scream, which also echoed around the building. This town was indeed deserted if nobody had come to the rescue at this point.
“Benny, you imbecile!” Dylan yelled.
“Shut up,” Benny said. Flicked on the headlights, and two of the men practically disappeared from the bus instantly. The two being Josh, and Daniel. The other two were looking back, around the bus.
“Josh, Daniel, where are you?” Benny yelled.
“They couldn’t have gone far. It’s a school bus, there is nowhere to hide,” Dylan said.
“Nowhere for you to hide either,” an eerie voice said. It came from the front of the bus, along with a loud thump. The men looked toward the front of the bus, to see Josh on the hood, bloody, and dead. “He was the most annoying. Who cares about hearing the plot-line of the same movie over, and over. Next, the most selfish,” the two men looked at each other, and got into a fight about who was more selfish.
“Who are you? why are you doing this?” Dylan asked.
“I have a crow bar!” Benny yelled.
“All you have ever done is made fun of me, even before I became a mortician. I will stand for it no longer!” the voice said again, the echoes hiding where it was coming from. The men could tell at this point that the voice was Daniels.
“We will stop! We swear!” Dylan said.
“We meant no harm!” Benny said.
“Sure you didn’t! Well, I am going to make sure that I never have to worry about you meaning no harm in your dead jokes,” he laughed. “Get it, dead jokes, because you’re going to be dead and I’m a mortician… never mind” he was never able to make a joke anyways, especially when he said everything with absolutely no expression.
All the lights flicked off, and both of the men screamed, one of the screams was cut short.
When the lights flicked back on, Dylan was missing, but blood was splattered all over the seat he was sitting on. Benny was speechless. The bus rocked, and Benny turned around. He screamed as he saw Daneil pushing Dylans ddead body against the glass on the driver window. He threw Dylan aside, leaving blood behind on the glass, and he got close to it. you could see blood around his mouth, and all over his clothes and hands.
“Daniel! Please! You don’t have to do this!” Benny yelled.
“Are you afraid?” Daniel asked when .
“YES!”
“You shouldn’t be, youre on scare tactics!” he yelled before he again laughed maniacally.
“What?” Benny said.
Josh on the hood turned his head around, pointed and laughed at Benny, and Dylan got off the floor, ran around the front of the bus, and got in.
“Im never going on a road trip with you again!” Benny yelled before he started the bus back up, or atleast tried to. “it’s not starting,” he said as the other men ran onto the bus and a evil laughter echoed around the building.
PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:31 pm


PERCY JACKSON VALENTINE'S DAY

It was three days before Valentine's Day. Here at Camp Half-Blood almost everyone was paired up with a Valentine. Even ugly Clarisse got a Valentine and incredibly….I didn't. I kept on doing the usual today, training, walking around the camp, capture the flag, etc. which I'll do the next day and on Valentine's Day.

"Hey Percy." Grover had said as he walked toward me in the training grounds where I had first seen Annabeth training in the camp ever since.

"Grover, what? I'm kind of busy training you know?"

"Yeah I know, but I wanted to say good luck on Valentine's Day." He said as he winked at me and walked away.

Sure, whatever. I don't even know why this camp actually celebrates Valentine's Day. It's a day of broken hearts, well, to me. Anyways, I hope something happens on that day, but I can't do anything about it. It was the next day, two more days till Valentine's Day. I hated this day. I was embarrassed in front of everyone when I couldn't find my clothes after I had gone out for a swim because, apparently, Clarisse and her other pals took them and burned them.

"Here Percy." Annabeth had said seeing me inside the pool dying of embarrassment as she tossed my clothes at me.

"Thanks a mil Annabeth."

"Whatever." She said and walked away looking like something was worrying her.

Then, the day before Valentine's Day appeared and everyone was freaking out on what gift to get for their "valentine". Today was as bad as yesterday. I fell on top of Clarisse and our lips met. How did that happen you ask? Well, it started like this:

"Anyways Grover, I've been thinking about, you know, Valentine's Day and…."

"PERCY LOOK OUT!" he bleated and shut his eyes closed as I tripped over a tree root and fell on top of Clarisse.

"AH! PERSEUS JACKSON! YOU ARE SO IN FOR IT!"

And that's how I got a bad beating leaving a scar in me forever. It wasn't my fault she was running and I tripped on a tree root .It was an epic embarrassment for anyone. Finally, dumb Ol' Valentine's Day is here. Yippee, not! I was in bed until Grover had to make me come out of bed as we both walked out to the front of my cabin.

"Percy! I'm gonna be out alright? Later!" Grover said as he ran off and just ditched me.

I walked out staring at all the campers with Valentine's hand each other gifts. I sat down on the porch of my cabin's steps as Annabeth kept me company by joining me. She had been training by the looks of it.

"Valentine's Day eh?" Annabeth said.

"Guess so. Got a Valentine? Annabeth?" I said staring at her eyes and forced out a smile.

"Naw. I don't. If Luke were here then maybe, just…..maybe." She hesitated and stopped.

I knew I had to do something to make her forget about him, the traitor.

"Annabeth. He's gone okay! Forget about him! Don't forget everything bad he's done so far!" I toldher with anger. Then, I saw her slap my face hard. It felt like if Clarisse had punched me. From that very moment when I stared at her straight in the eyes, I saw tears. I knew I had made Annabeth cry.

"YOU'RE A HEARTLESS JERK PERSEUS JACKSON! Μάιος ψυχή σας είναι καταδικασμένη στα βάθη του Κάτω Κόσμου!" She yelled out at me with such hatred that she wouldn't even look at me.

I knew that she spoke Greek to me saying: May your soul be damned to the depths of the Underworld!

I didn't mean to! I really didn't. It started to rain and I went back inside my cabin. I thought I should make up for what I said to Annabeth. I stood outside of my door as I saw Annabeth in the middle of the camp standing in the rain.

"Hey Annabeth. What're you doing standing in the rain?" I asked with curiosity.

"…..Leave me alone jerk." She said at me with hate.

"Annabeth. Hehe, geez you sure aren't making this easy you know." I said with my hands in my pocket, then crossed them along my chest with a little smirk to see if she would look.

"Please leave me be and may the gods take my body and soul to hell in the Underworld." She said as she looked up at the sky.

"Annabeth. Come on! I'm really really REALLY sorry. Truly, I am! Come on Annabeth!" I said as I ran to her.

"Sure whatever. Stay five feet away from me and I'll make sure not to beat you up." She said as she stared at me with a look of a killer on her face.

"Um so you don't have a Valentine do you?" I said putting my hands in my pockets, looked away, and felt a little blush flow through my cheeks.

"No." she said looking at me with curiosity and I noticed her blush.

"Well, uhm, I wanted to give you something for Valentine's Day today you know? To make up for what I did today and I'm sorry. I know I've been acting like a jerk to you lately and….I'm sorry. Please forgive me." I had said with a sad look as I handed her a box with a ribbon on it.

She accepted it looking at the box like if it were a joke then said, "Oh really? Wha…"

I hugged her as I took the box, opened it quickly, and put on a golden chained heart locket necklace on her neck and I was still hugging her not letting her go.

"Percy! Where did you…get this?" she had said with tears starting to fill her eyes as she started to fill with excitement.

"Lets just say I'm friends with this guy who knows how to forge things." I said with a smile and finally let go of her.

"Thank you Percy!" she hugged me back and there we are again, two people hugging each other in the rain. Finally, we went inside my cabin. I sat down and she sat down on my lap and laid her head against my chest as we both looked out at the Lake. Finally, we stared at each other for a while and our lips met.

"WHAT THE GODS ARE YOU TWO DOING?" Grover yelled as all the campers gathered around staring at us weirdly. I know me and Annabeth were staring at each other with our faces fully red. Everyone started to point and laugh at us. I enjoyed Annabeth and she enjoyed me. We both enjoyed the kiss and each other. SO ….then, Valentine's Day was over and I had survived another holiday of love.

And that, my friends, ends a perfect holiday. Well, maybe not so perfect. ^^


ps. i loved typing this storry haha pss i DO NOT OWN PERCY JACKSON xD  

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