House of Forbiddens [COMPLETE NOVEL]

19: This title is "too long" to be put on here. Ugh!

See, here it is!
19: Can Things Get Any More Hectic? Oh Wait, She's the Goddess of Discord, OF COURSE THEY CAN!

Kaden

The house of Forbiddens now stands alone

After Annabeth went running I decided to give up on recruiting allies. This was obviously part of the prophecy that apparently decided to come to into play. Will was at his brother's side again, and I began wandering the house, unsure of what I should be doing at three thirty a.m.

"Kaden can we talk?" Riley's voice came from the attic. He was waiting at the steps watching.

"Sure," I replied, hoping my voice didn't give away how happy I was to have something to do. I quickly climbed up the steps to the small corner that had become Riley's work space.

"So, I'm assuming that you figured out the prophecy is coming into play." Riley started, and I nodded reflecting on the thoughts that I had only a few minutes earlier. "Well... I think we need to get Will out of here." He stated uncertainty.

"May I ask why?" I questioned, in my experience having a healer around had never been a bad idea. Especially when everything was about to go down in flames.

"The prophecy states that the house of forbiddens is going to stand alone," He breathed. "And Will isn't an official member of the house, I think that one way or another Will is going to be removed." He said, "I would rather send him back to camp then watch him get killed by who-knows-what." Riley finished. It made sense, then again, I was talking to Riley who very rarely didn't make sense.

"Logical," I admitted, honestly I kinda liked the idea after thinking about it, one less person to worry about sounded amazingly nice, I was worried enough about Audrey and Christine.

"Let's propose the idea at breakfast, everyone will be thinking a little better then." Riley said then moved onto his next topic, "Ok so majority of prophesies go in order of their lines, meaning that the next line is Nurturing hands bear civil blood untold." Riley said looking me straight in the eyes.

"No, no and in case you didn't get it the first time no." I replied picking up what he was laying down.

"Kaden be rational; you have revived everyone in this house but you own father." Riley said trying to logic with me.

"No, no I'm NOT going to kill someone." I stressed, the only thing that I could kill where wasps when they threatened my butterflies that I raised from caterpillars in the backyard, and cockroaches because no one else seemed to be able to do it.

"What if they threaten me, or Ian, or your dad?" Riley questioned, and I glared at him.

"I hate you."

"I figured," he admitted pushing his blonde hair out of his face. Allowing me a small glance at the five black lines burned into his skin, and the circular scar that wove its way around them. "Just, just if the time comes be ready." His voice cracked, and I saw the exhaustion, and fear in his eyes.

"How long have you been up figure this out?"

"All night."

"Try to get a couple hours of sleep, breakfast will likely be a little later than it normally is." I told him, climbing down from the attic. He nodded stumbling to the room that he and Ian share.

I made my way down to the room that Audrey and I share, it felt empty with only one person there.

Mom if you can hear me, please let my family be alright

Will

"You want me leave?" I demanded the next morning. This was outrageous, Jack still didn't have the antidote meaning that the was burning up from fever for the second time this week. Not to mention that they have no idea what may be happening to Audrey and Christine right now or what kind of attention they may need once they get home.

"Will," Riley voice sounded steady but I could sense the uncertainty behind it. He stretched back, than a sharp pain in his back caused him to quickly stop and I raised my eyebrows, he ignored me. "The prophecy says that the house will stand alone, I fear that if you stay something will happen to you to avoid you being able to help us. You may end up causing more trouble." Riley said keeping his reasonable tone. "It's already happened with Annabeth and her two odd friends." He pointed out. Annabeth, they had described her two friends to me in detail and I still had no idea who they were. Making me wonder about the company that she had been keeping recently. "And," Riley started, not yet finished with his logic argument, "If Annabeth has made her way back to camp you may be able to keep her from spilling all of our secrets, you can tell her a bit as well make it make a little more sense to her. Besides if we need you down here we always have Kaden." The problem with Riley, he always made sense. He could be arguing the stupidest thing in the world but it would make sense and people would believe him.

"Ok, but what about my brother?" I asked, and Kaden laughed a little.

"Will, this is not the first time your brother has ever been in this condition. We have the antidote; he will be fine." Kaden pointed out, as she placed breakfast in front of us. I looked around, I had tried to push away the weird feeling of everyone not being there. Kaden was there, as was Riley, Ian and Mr. Kaden's dad (as everyone here calls him). Jack was upstairs, unable to so much as sit up without major pain and consequences, and Audrey and Christine were missing.

"Ok, just, keep me posted." I said embarrassed. I loved this house, but things were getting weird down here and going back up north almost sounded too good to be true.

"I'll call now and take you to the airport." Mr. Kaden's dad said, not bothering to hide his relief of one less kid to worry about. Honestly I couldn't blame him.

A few minutes later he told me to get in the car, and that my flight left in two hours. No one objected. Amazingly the car ride was uneventful, as was the plane ride home. I walked into Camp Half Blood to find one person staring at me amazed.

"Annabeth!" I called to her, "walk with me, we have to talk."

By: Marie Fay