Celestial Immortal

CASSIA POV

~CASSIA~

Over the clouds we all soar across the atmosphere. My horse, who I have gathered is named Angel, is much stronger and has been talking to me for the past hour. She says that I'm her new master and friend. She calls me Madge, short for Your Majesty. I told her she was the most beautiful horse I've ever seen and that her name was perfect because she clearly was most angelic. 'The only one that usually talks to me is Mr. Jackson. He hates it when I call him that though. He always brings me peaches, I love peaches.' She rambles. "Noted." I say, remembering her peach addiction. "So who is this Mr. Jackson?" I ask. 'Oh, he is about 5 years older than you and he is a son of Lord Poseidon. His name is Percy and he is dating Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. He's gone on many quests, and is by far the greatest Demigod in modern Greek history. No offense' she describes. "None taken. But why is he the only one that can hear and talk to you?" I ask. 'He is a son of Lord Poseidon. Lord Poseidon created our kind. Horse.' She explains. "Wait! But if I can talk to you then that means that I must be related to him so I have to be a daughter of Poseidon, right?" I exclaim. 'Oh my Gods! Madge, your right! What if you are? That could mean we're sisters!-' "Wait! What now?" I ask. 'He created me and he created-' I interrupt, "Ok, I guess you could see it that way." 'I don't see any other way that we could be able to communicate. Possibly... Circe? No. Another minor God? No. No Titan. No power of other Gods. Yup! You are most definitely a daughter of Poseidon. You have to be.' She declares.

"Charlie! Guess what?!?" I yell. "What?" "Angel says that I-" he interrupts. "Look Cassie, I'm sure that whatever your horse said is important but I've got a lot on my mind right now. So count me out ok?" I get a confused look on my face. I look towards Jules and Aspen, Aspen is still sleeping and Juliet just shrugs. No body believes me! I'm a daughter of Poseidon and they don't even care. Well the joke's on them, because once we get to camp it'll get a lot more interesting.

The scene changes and I'm guessing we've just entered Canada. Michigan was a long trip but we've exited it along with the entire country. "We're safe from the Gods now, but not from monsters. I'll expect there will be many just crawling to get at our throats." Charlie says. "Well, isn't that enlightening. Charlie it's 2:00 AM, and pitch black. How are we supposed to see monsters when we're sleep-deprived and have no light." I point out looking all around the sky and as far down as I can see hoping not to see any shadows or moving bodies. "Because we have this," Charlie gestures to the sky. Nothing happens. I look at Jules, she looks at Aspen. Aspen is slowly waking up. We all have confused expressions. "Ah come on!" Charlie yells, "I wanted to be dramatic!" At that the sky lights up! We all gasp. Every color ever known to man is strewn across the sky in ribbons of light. "Aurora Borealis!" I gasp. "So much rainbow!" Juliet yells. Aspen gives the intelligent, "Um... Wow... Pretty Colors," she says groggily. We all laugh at that response. "Girls! Shhh! Do you want to just send up fireworks and yell 'Demigods here for early breakfast!'" He whispers. We all put our hands over our mouths and instinctually look around. Nothing's changed yet but Charlie's words leave us all on edge.

If only we all could've taken a nap like Aspen. I feel so exhausted I'll fall off Angel. So I decide to talk to the other horses. I call out to Charlie's horse in my mind. 'Hello, Black horse. I'm sorry but I don't know your name.' I mind say. He neighs. I laugh. 'Yes I can hear you!' 'Name's JP.' He replies. 'That's cool is it short for something? I'm Cassie but that's short for Cassia Taylor.' I say. 'It's short for Jay Park. Yo Cassie! Awesome to meet ya Cassie.' He mind says. 'It's nice to meet you too JP.' I turn to Aspen's fiery red horse, 'Hi I'm Cassie. What's your name red horse?' I ask. The horse turns to look at me and I wave. If you've never seen a horse look confused, it's really funny. 'I'm Ember' She says. 'That's really pretty.' I say. Lastly I turn to Juliet's horse. 'Hi black and white horse, yes I can hear you, and my name is Cassie. What's your name?' I ask trying to clear everything up. 'I'm Serendipity! But you can call me Seri or DiDi. This is so cool! I finally have someone to talk to. Percy thinks I'm annoying so he just feeds me cookies with sleep sugar in them and he slips out when I fall asleep. Sometimes I just pretend to be asleep though. He just wants me to think he actually cares. Oh Percy! So oblivious. He's funny though. If I shut up long enough for him to talk, he tells me jokes.' She says without a single breath. I'm hyperventilating just listening to her. I can only imagine why Percy would put sleep sugar in her cookies. If only I had some cookies to give her right now.

I casually look away and hope that she loses interest. "Charlie?" Aspen calls. "Yes?" He asks. "How much further to New York?" "I don't know." He replies. "484.2 miles from here, Goderich, Canada to Long Island, New York." I say matter-of-factly. "Wow! How did I know that?" I ask. They are all staring at me like a crazy person when I hear a hiss. Charlie must have heard it too. Soon the hissing sounds like a million bees in a beehive all trying to get out with a snake chasing them inside. "What is that Charlie?!?" Juliet yells. Suddenly the sky goes dark. If the northern lights have an off switch then it was just pulled. All that's left of our senses are smell, touch, taste, and sound. Although taste isn't necessarily going to help us right now. 'Angel? Seri? JP? Ember? Do any of you know what this is? What's going on?' I ask the horses. None of them know. The wind starts to pick up. "There is no way this is Zeus! Charlie you said the Gods have no power here!" Juliet yells over all the sounds of yet another storm. The wind is blowing at over 100 miles per hour. 'Horses? Can you still fly?' I ask. 'I'll do anything for Your Majesty!' Angel says determinedly 'Thank You Angel! How bout' you guys?' I ask. 'Ember can do anything!' Ember declares. 'I can fly as much as I can talk!' Seri says. (That's surely impossible, I think.) 'JP IS AWESOME!' I take that as a yes. "The horses say they can do it!" I say. "But we need to figure out what the meaning of this is." "The meaning is your Demigods and they're monsters. Monsters kill Demigods. Especially when they have no defense or Gods to protect them. What we need is to fight. The only problem is we have no weapons!" He exclaims. "Help! Help! Help us! I know you can! " I plead quietly. "Somebody do something!" I yell. "We need to land." Aspen says. The noises around us are so loud I barely hear her. "Are you crazy?!?" I yell.