HOUSE OF THE RISING TIDES [PJO] BOOK I

two | gucci gang cursed us | j. vasiliev

{ tbh i changed jaime to specifically be russian cuz i watched the man from uncle lol -a }

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I looked hard at the poorly assembled pamphlet. I mean, did they really just put a stock photo with a watermark on the front page? And what's up with this weird font?

A guy clears his throat and interrupts me from my thoughts, "Uh well I know this might be very confusing for you guys, but you need to trust that we're here to protect you and that we need to get out of here. Fast."

"There's a couple of now-unfrozen empousais looking for their afternoon snack—which happens to be you four."

At that, who cares what an emperor was? I wasn't too keen on becoming someone's lunch. We quickly followed them out of the building. We got all the way into the parking lot until someone finally realized, 'Hey, why are we following a complete group of strangers into that creepy van in the vine plagued parking lot?'

"Who the hell are you guys?! Why are you here?!" Thea questioningly exclaims.

The girl briefly answers her questions, "Well I'm Chesa Ferox and these are my siblings Ysa and Lyanna- oh and my friend Lincoln- and we're here to save all of your lives."

She gives us an annoying cheesy grin like her horrible explanation actually made anything clear.

"Yeah thanks for that dimwitted answer." I scoff.

"I retract my statement." She turns and glares at me. "We're going to save all but one of y'all's lives."

"Okay that's enough, Ches." A guy- Ysa I think- interrupts. "Just please trust us, we need to get to Camp Half-Blood quick. I can assure you that you'll be safe there and we can explain everything on the way."

Thea, Matthew, Xitlaly and I went silent for a while, not know whether or not to trust this guy. "Are you crazy?" Matthew speaks up, "You just expect us to follow you guys into a van and drive to god knows where while all these people are frozen in time!"

The strangers seem at a loss for words until Xitlaly spoke up to defend them. I have no idea how she did it, but somehow she ended up persuading us and we all got into the car without a fuss.

After everyone got into the car we immediately start spitting out question after question.

"What is a demigod? How are we demigods? What's going to happen to us?"

"What is Camp Half-Blood? Where is it? Will we be safe there?"

"Why does the pamphlet look like trash? What was going through their heads when they decided to put a stock photo there?"

Beside me Chesa let out a soft chuckle, "Was your first question really about the ugly pamphlets?" She whispered to me. I gave her a dirty look but she just grinned and said, "Yeah I thought the stock photo was too much too."