Pulsing Flames • A Half-Blood Fan Fiction

Of To Olympus - Chapter 7

"WHAT?!" Hallie screeched at the top of her lungs, "You get to go where?! Holy poop this is amazing, the gods have never let anyone up to Olympus unless it's a changing of a season."

"Well for some reason they are inviting us," I said as I finished packing some clothes and zipped up my suitcase, "By the way, can you watch Ashes for me while I'm gone? To make sure she's okay and if she wakes up to be calm?"

"Sure no problem!"

There was a knock at the door followed by the sound of Piper's voice, "Ash! Hurry up, we need to get to the big house soon-it's going to start raining."

Great. Rain. Zeus must really dislike me.

I grabbed my stuff and started walking out the door, before I quickly turned and gave Hallie a goodbye wave.

When I stepped outside I could tell it was going to rain, and soon. "My dad must be pissed!" Jason said, "Well-the Greek version of him." I completely forgot that Jason's dad is Jupiter, not Zeus. Wait, why the heck is he even here then? Isn't there a camp for Roman demigods as well?

Nevertheless, we trudged our way towards the big house and got inside just as it started pouring. "Well that was close." I said with a joking smile. We met up with Percy, Annabeth and Johnny who were already inside.

We walked into this big foyer type thing where Chiron and Mr. D were chatting about something. "Yes, yes, I know this is very strange but we have to keep her on our side-Oh hello everyone! I trust you're all packed?" Mr. D asked.

We all nodded and Chiron motioned us to sit down.

"Now we can begin." Chiron said, "As you already know, the gods have specifically asked for you six to go to Olympus. We don't know why other than they want to speak with each of you about a very picky subject. We have arranged for you to be picked up outside the camp by Percy's mother and Ashley's aunt around 4:30."

Chiron glanced in Mr. D's direction, "Anything you wish to add?"

"Just be careful," Mr. D says as he turns his head to me, "and keep your emotions in check, please." He says with a cold tone.

I nodded, wanting to slap him.

They dismissed us and we left the big house, we got some umbrellas as it was still raining.

Naturally, we split into pairs of two; Percy and Annabeth, Jason and Piper, and Johnny and I. We began walking through the woods towards the road with our bags.

"So...what do you think they wanna talk to is about?" Johnny suddenly asks, stunning me with his powerful voice.

"I don't know." I replied, sounding bored with the conversation. "Maybe it's about you and that "little"...tantrum." He said, clearly wanting me to get pissed off.

I'm not giving him what he wants. Not this time. "Maybe." I reply with the same bored expression as before.

"Are you okay? Are you mad at me for something?" He asks, sounding a little pissed off himself. I wasn't mad at him.

"I'm not mad at you, I'm just keeping all of my happy or enthusiastic emotions inside because of my aunt. When we get there, she is going to talk constantly about her failing love life and I want to seem interested so I don't make her feel bad." I say, looking into his beautiful blue eyes.

"You have really pretty eyes." We both say in unison, we blush and then start laughing.

Everything stays quiet for a while until we reach the place Aunt Dawn had dropped me off. Instantly, I heard the loud sweet voice she has, "OMG! Ashley!" She pulls me out from under the umbrella and into a big hug and the heavy rain.

"Aunt Dawn...I...breathe..." I barely squeeze out as she pushes the oxygen out of my body.

"Oh sorry!" She says as she releases me then proceeds to look at my friends, "So...who are these people?" She asks like she's never met a person in the world.

I introduce her to them as another car pulls up, this must be Percy's mom.

Just as expected, a woman who looks a lot like Percy gets out of the car and they hug, he introduces her to Aunt Dawn, Johnny and I. I guess she's already met Jason, Piper and Annabeth.

Once again, we split up. This time all of the guys go with Percy's mom and all of the girls go with Aunt Dawn. And once again, we listen to Aunt Dawn's love fails the whole way to Olympus, luckily  I was able to get a question in between her pauses.

"Where exactly is Olympus anyway?"

Annabeth quickly turns to explain to me, "The way into Olympus is the Empire State Building. Only Demi-gods can enter though so that means Percy's mom and Dawn cannot come with us."

I nod as I begin to understand, at least one good thing has proven so far. Aunt Dawn won't be with us the whole time, she can be down here making more faulty love stories-crap!
______________

We finally made it to the Empire State Building. We walked into the elevator and Percy pressed the numbers. After a few minutes of waiting, the doors opened to reveal a place one could only dream of. The roads were made of beautiful marble and accented with gold and fine jewels, the houses were HUGE and incredibly decorated. Don't even get me started on the scent in the air, let's just say it was like cotton candy and roses had babies.

We left Percy's mother and Aunt Dawn in the elevator, waving goodbye as we walked towards the main meeting hall.

When we arrived the doors were closed, so we just stood around for a while talking about what might be going on. Finally, the doors opened and a loud powerful voice boomed from inside, "Enter Demi-gods."

We all obeyed and walked inside the large room. What I saw amazed me, the gods before me were huge! And I mean house-sized! The two in the middle, I'm guessing Zeus and Hera, were sitting on large golden thrones while the other gods had personalized ones.

"Welcome! It's wonderful to see all of you in person, some of you for another time, others for the first." Zeus said, his voice just made you know he was powerful. He looked at me then at my father, Hephaestus, who was sitting on an iron throne made of hammers and other tools. "You surprisingly made a good looking child for once. She's clearly not one of your normal children."

Hephaestus looked at me with such pride, while other gods, like Aphrodite, looked at me with a scowl that would make any humans face ugly.

"Mom! Don't look at her like that! She happens to be my friend." I hear Piper shout out at Aphrodite, practically reading my thoughts and causing her to change positions. "My apologizes, Ashley. I shouldn't judge before I know you." Her voice was as pretty as her looks. She looked back to me for a second then returned her gaze to her nails.

"Anyway, we called you all here for a reason. This reason could cause so much destruction, even the titans in Hades could feel it. This reason, is her." He pointed.

At me.