A Demigod Tale

Chapter 30: Managing the Situation

After the Fovos were killed the cabin heads were able to regain control of the campers. With the help of the satyrs, who had been in the forest trying to avoid getting trampled by panicked campers before, they rounded everyone up and got them to the Amphitheater. Everyone was given a sip of nectar, just a sip, to calm their nerves. The cabin heads, including Jake, stood in front of everyone. The head of the Athena cabin, a seventeen year-old guy named Harley, spoke first. "Okay, let's get right to it I suppose. As you are all certainly aware, all the counselors disappeared. While we still aren't sure what happened, we've sent word to Camp Jupiter for help in finding them. There's no need for panic. We can survive without them for a few weeks. Now, three campers have just returned from a quest and say they have a theory on who did this. Jake, Jade, Jordan?"

Jade and Jordan made their way up to the front. They stood next to Jake. Jade recounted a carefully edited version of what happened on the quest. She explained the Fovos at the house and how they had seen three Fovos at camp. The demigods listened intently. When she finished Jake spoke up. "We're pretty sure the Fovos have the counselors. We just don't quite know where they're keeping them," he said. Jordan just kinda stood there. He wasn't sure what to say. He felt at fault for the whole thing, even though that was ridiculous. It's not like he could help the fact he had Jimmy stuck in his head! Nighttime began to set in and everybody went to bed. Jordan dreamt again.

This time he was just outside the Library of the East. He was surrounded by Fovos, and in the middle of the monster huddle lay the counselors. They were tied up and gagged, bruised and beaten. They looked terrified, the powers of the Fovos affecting them. "How long now?" one of the monsters asked.

"Not long. Soon enough they'll be on their way, and then we can finally get rid of these stupid demigods," another said. It growled and kicked the closest counselor, who happened to be Percy. Jordan wanted to yell, to demand that his friends were set free, but he couldn't make a noise. He couldn't even move. His dream shifted.

He was standing in a huge courtroom. A man stood in front of him, livid and fearful. Zeus. The king of Olympus shook his head. "Never. You will never take my throne!"

"You sure Zeusy?" Jordan, or rather his dream-self, said. He cackled. "I don't think you have a choice," he said darkly. He giggled and began toying with a knife. "You think you can beat me? Okay, let's have some fun. You send your armies, I'll send mine." He grinned at the scared god. "See ya, toga man!" With that, the dreams disappeared. Jordan was surrounded by darkness. Insane laughter started all around him. It got louder and louder. He clapped his hands over his ears but he could still hear it. His head started to hurt badly and he gripped his hair.

In real life Jordan wasn't much better off. He had started to roll around a bit in his sleep. Then he started muttering 'no' to himself over and over. Then he started to laugh softly. His face twisted in pain and the laughter turned to muttering again. "Stop it. Stop it!" He sat up in bed, gripping his head. His muttering got louder. "Stop!" he shouted! He woke up everyone else in the cabin. Jake rubbed his eyes sleepily. He got up and went over to Jordan's bunk.

"Jordan?" he questioned. He stifled a yawn. "What's going on?" He rubbed his eyes again. He turned the light on so he could see better. He didn't like what he saw.

Jordan was shaking and practically pulling his hair out. Jake snapped awake, well, fully awake. He shook Jordan to try and wake him up. "Jordan! Jordan wake up! Savanna, go get some water!" he ordered. When his sister returned with a bucket of water he immediately took it and threw it at Jordan. The water soaked him down to the bone and, fortunately, woke him up. His eyes snapped open. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down a bit. The whole cabin was staring, not at him, but his knife. It was glowing bright red. He took another deep breath and twitched. Jake shooed everyone outside and told them to go check around for any sign of Fovos. He went to go get Jade, and the two sat next to Jordan on his bed. "What happened?"

Jordan told them about his dreams. When he was done Jade gave him a huge hug and forced Jake to do the same. "At least we know where the counselors are now," she said, trying to brighten the mood. Jake nodded.

"Yeah! We can go save them now!"

"But they were completely surrounded by Fovos. There was a whole army of them! The camp was nearly brought down by three!" Jordan said. He looked paler than normal, which Jade hoped was just because of the nightmares. The knife was still glowing in it's holder, though it was dimmer now. Jordan's eye twitched.

"Camp Jupiter is coming to our aid. With their help we'll get everyone back!"

Jordan sighed, then smiled a little. "Yeah. Maybe we can do it. But I don't think I should come. Way too many Fovos."

"It's okay, we understand. Don't worry, this'll all be done soon enough," Jade reassured him. Jade left and Jack went out to get everyone back to bed. Jordan fell back asleep and didn't wake up until morning. When morning came things went on as usual in camp. Breakfast, training, lunch, training, just like always. The whole camp was awaiting word from the Romans. They had tried to Iris Message the other camp, but for some reason it hadn't gone through. They did manage to get a brief message to Calvin and told him that they had an idea of where the counselors were, but it just barely went through. They asked why it was taking so long to get there, and got a garbled reply having something to do with an unusual amount of monsters.

Jordan was still quite a bit paler than he had been the previous day, and it seemed that his hair was a smidge darker. Jade was getting extremely worried. She went up to Jake while he was teaching some of the younger Apollo children about different healing techniques. She grabbed his hand and dragged him into the Big House. It was basically empty without Chiron and Mr. D around. She let go of Jake's hand and spoke before he could say anything. "I'm worried about Jordan."

"I know, I am too, but-"

"No. This is different. His eyes are permanently tinted red, his skin has gotten paler, his hair is getting darker, and he's skinnier than he was when he arrived even though he eats a ton!"

"Well, the weight part might be from all the training."

"But it's not that he's getting more fit, he's just getting skinny! His nightmares are getting worse and that stupid knife was glowing last night! Glowing! The Jimmy problem is worse than we've been acting like it is. We need to save the counselors fast so we can save Jordan, okay?" she ranted. She took a deep breath. Then she whispered softly, "I'm scared for him. I don't want him to disappear. I'm afraid Jimmy's gonna win."

She started tearing up. Jake wrapped her up into a hug. "I know. I'm scared of that too. He's so much more powerful than any of us. It seems hopeless."

"You're great at cheering people up."

"Well, that's the truth, right? It seems hopeless. But we can't give up. Jimmy wants us to be scared. He wants us to give up. But we can't, because we need to show that jerk that he's not all he thinks he is!"

Jade laughed a little. She pulled away from the hug. "You're right. I can't wait to show that moron exactly what we think of him! One-way ticket to Tartarus!" she exclaimed. They both burst into giggles. They could do this. Jimmy was going down. They were sure of it.

Right?

I updated! I actually did it! It's not great, a little show-not-tell, and sorta boring, but I wrote a new part! I recently discovered that that Twenty One Pilots band is good to write fanfiction to. I busted this out in, like, a day or two, after weeks of unending writer's block. Okay, what else? Sorry for how long it took! Let me know if you think I shout re-write this to be a bit more interesting. See you Fanfares!