House of Forbiddens [COMPLETE NOVEL]

16: Sanity? Who Needs Sanity? I Certainly Don't!

Kaden

Yea... I don't even know how to start this next portion. So we are just going to start from the beginning.

So to school, that was easy enough even if I was tired from the event of the previous day. My teachers like me so it wasn't hard to sleep through AP HUG and lunch. It was when I got home that things went south.

If someone is willing to explain to me how I managed to get questioned by strangers who had me pinned against a wall in on my street, in the forty-five steps from my bus stop to my house, I would greatly appreciate it.

"You, what do you know about all of this?" Demanded a guy who shoved me roughly into the side of a house. I looked the strange man over, and it suddenly dawned on me who the heck he was (the chainmail vest was hard to forget).

"What do I know about what?" I asked the man, glancing behind him I saw the girl that I had bargained with, she was MAD, and the pale boy who did the sign language. Fear and worry where radiating off of them, especially the girl. The boy she was related to was missing.

"Magnus is missing, along with Sam and you are the only people who seem to know anything." He said, angrily. I used a little bit of power, trying to calm the air around me, hoping that maybe we could talk in reason.

"Hey get off of her!" A voice shouted and all I could think was thank the moon and stars backup had arrived.

Ian sword was drawn and waiting for a target if these crazy people didn't get off of me. The man, wisely, got off of me. The girl was looking curiously at Ian sword, a three-foot-long celestial bronze sword with dark crystal plant decorating the intersection between the hilt and handguard.

"Relax Ian," I said trying to make my voice seem calm, "I think that they may be in the same predicament that we are."

"And that is?" Ian asked, eyebrows raised.

"People are disappearing."

So then Ian and I lead this strange group of demigod to my house where, hopefully, between Riley, Athena girl, and the rest of us, we could figure something out.

"I'm sorry I don't think that I caught your name." The daughter of Athena said moving up to walk next to me.

"Kaden, yours?" I asked offering a hand.

She looked slightly surprised by my willingness to give my name, but I didn't care. Someone had to be the first to extend the olive branch.

"Annabeth," She said shaking it, I nodded and indicated Ian who was walking a few steps behind us. "And that Ian." I added, she laughed.

"Blitzen and Hearth." She replied nodding to her own two companions. Hearth, I liked that name, the boy it belongs to seems just as gentle as his name, though there was a certain fearful aura surrounding him. But that was just my first impression.

They had to stop and stare at the front yard, Ian chuckled to himself as they stared at the yard mouths hanging as they tried to comprehend what they were seeing.

"It's our security system," Ian explained, "they won't hurt you." As we walked through the yard I got a sinking feeling the pit of my stomach, Will, he was still here. Jack's fever had broken the night before and my dad had let Jack skip school to recover, this lead to Will delaying his return home to spend an extra day with his twin. And being that he was the head of the Apollo cabin at Camp Half Blood, and that Annabeth was from Camp Half Blood, it was likely that they would recognize each other.

"Ian, WILL you go ahead and make sure everything is ready for our guests?" I asked emphasizing Will's name.

"Sure." Ian said nonchalantly, but quickly made his way to the door as our three guests gapped at the flower garden, and the zombies attacking it.

Eventually we made our way inside, after assuring everyone that the plants wouldn't kill them.

"These plants, are they Persephone's?" Annabeth asked looking as we made our way through the front yard.

"Yea, we don't really know exactly why?" I straight out lied, "but they like us, so I'm not complaining."

Eventually we made our way to the living room, the fire was on (thank the moon and stars, I needed to think straight and this was the way to make it happen) and everyone quickly found a spot. Now the main mission was to avoid this girl figuring out who and what this place was and did.

"Yall first, I want to know how you figured out where I live." I said, it was a logical question and she knew this.

"Right, well after you guys bought the apple a few weird things happening. We got attacked."

"Is that unusual?" I questioned.

"No," she said, shaking her head, eyes wide half laughing, "it is not. But it is unusual to encounter flying cloud monsters swoop down and attack, claiming that we were part of some weird safe house. Then this ghost with a cloud body came through and tricked my cousin into following him, and ran off with him, we have no idea where the heck he is." She stated pain trickling into her voice. I instantly hated the sisters, you did not rip up a family. Period. "So then we went back to Henry and Harry hoping to find you guys, but you had left, so we asked if they had any idea where you lived. They told us around here. Then we asked around and eventually found you." She finished.

I nodded, Harry and Henry knew more about me then I wished they did, but that couldn't be changed. "Of course I didn't realize that Blitzen was going to change at you like that, forgive me for that one." She admitted.

"Your good, I think it's our apology, something is going on here, and we don't know what." I admitted on my end. "But the two companions that you saw me traveling with have since disappeared. So seems like we may have a common cause, because I bet you wherever we find one, we will find the others."

"Ok with that out of the way, why don't yall stay the night and we can worry about this fresh in the morning," my dad voiced from where he had been listening from the back of the room. "I know my child at least needs to sleep before any other adventures take place." He continued. Jack looked strained by the idea, the two of them may not be touchy feely, but they were also an open book to read.

"That sounds wonderful," Blitzen said gratefully accepting our offer.

Annabeth

There was something off about this place, Ian's sword was engraved with the symbol for Persephone and the plants in the front yard, I wasn't sure about that coincidence. But she hadn't asked about my two companions, so I quickly made up my mind not to ask about hers. That was until I noticed the Will Solace look alike.

By: Marie Fay