Out Of The Woods: Getting Lost in The Sea Of Thoughts

~Ricky~

Why can't I get over Gilbert, being sad over him isn't going to help... I need to get over him. I'm in no shape to be on this quest- but I can't turn back on my friends if I go- some of them might not even come back. I go back to where my friends are and sit down.

"Look I know you're hurting we all are-" Ally starts.

"I'm getting over it, okay?" I said.

"You sure? Because if you aren't focused- this whole quest is going blow. It's time to move on." Ally stated.

"I don't know who you think you are, Ally but, Gilbert was my BROTHER, you hear me, BROTHER. It's been only three weeks since he's died- and you all are forcing me to get over it! You know what, I'm finishing this quest by myself, so I don't get so stressed! Some of you can drop dead for all I care."

"Tatiana wait-" But before Tom could finish I already had grabbed my things, and I start to leave, some of them were surprised and shook. I'm done with them; they don't understand that Gilbert was my brother. He's family, and none of them get that. Nobody understands why this is so hard. Instead, all they care about is how fast I can get over him. 

I walk on my own, but soon it was going to get pitch black dark. I walk in a small forest I climb up a tree and sit down on a branch. This forest was weird, there was not a sound of a critter. It's spooky, but it's quiet. My ears get tortured by a sudden scream, I race down the tree and follow the sudden unknown screech. I get to the middle of the forest where the scream stops, I pause looking around. Silence settles itself in the forest again. Until a wacko comes up behind me and puts me in a headlock.

"I got her!" The boy screams. Four other teens come out, one of them was the leader.

"Good work boys." The leader of the four says. One of the four was a girl.

"Eh-hem." She speaks.

"Oops and girl." The leader pats her head. She gives him the look of disgust.

"Finally, daughter of Poseidon is in our hands." He grins.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" I stare at him.

"Son of Aphrodite. You see we've all been waiting for you to get us out of here. It's in the prophecy dummy.

You are gonna show us how to get out of here."

"What prophecy are YOU reading?" I raise an eyebrow.

"Ugh, she's an idiot." The boy who has me in a headlock says.

"What's your name?" I ask.

"Ricky..?" He answers confused. I laugh historically

" You act all big and bad, you're son of Aphrodite and your name is Ricky? What were your parents thinking...?"

"Ricky is a great name." He pouts.

"Okay yeah, this isn't gonna work. You have five seconds to get me out of this headlock. " I tell the boy. The boy looked at Ricky in fear.

"She's too weak, and she's bluffing," Ricky says. A few seconds go by...

"Okay, your choice." I step on his foot, and he loosens his grip enough for me to get out of his arms. I punch him in the eye, and he falls back. I look at him suffer from pain then turn to the four teens.

"Listen RICKY; I'm not doing anything for you guys, you. You captured me; you called me an idiot, so..."

"Oh yes, you will. You're going to help all of us." He grins. More people came out of the shadows; I am surrounded.

"Ughhh." I groan.

"Let's go people!" Ricky leads them. Two of his minions grab me and remove my weapons from me. We walk for a while until we arrive at a gate, Ricky opens the gate, and we walked into this mansion. There were a whole bunch of kids talking to each other. They all cheer as we come in, Ricky sits on his little "throne" people worship this dude...?

"My people! We have captured the daughter of Poseidon; She will finally be able to break the border spell Zeus put on us from leaving this no good world." Ricky grinned. Everyone cheers of course.

"We're only here because of you, Ricky!" someone shouted.

"Yeah!" one agreed.

"I've made mistakes, but I've learned from them. This stupid punishment will be over soon." Ricky defends himself. As they're bickering I look around for exits and vents; there was none. I look back at Ricky and the person he was arguing with.

"What mistake are you even talking about," I ask.

"This fool almost killed America! He asked us to be apart of his master plan to break into a bank- but instead, he was trying to plant a bomb INSIDE the bank. When the God's heard of this, Ricky tried to blame everyone. We all just got in trouble for it."

I look around the room; there looks to be about 90 people here.

"Ricky- you're a total mess." I raise both my eyebrows.

"Do you want me to kill you?" he got off his throne walking to me.

"You cant, you need me," I smirked.

"Well, she won't help anyway..." Ricky mumbled.

"I will."

"What but earlier you-"

"I'm gonna help "your people" NOT you."

"Oh well, when you get them out I'm automatically out too." He shrugs.

"Take her away." Ricky snaps. They take me upstairs to the end of the hall; I spot a window. They lock me away in a cell. I look at the window through the cell bars. Hm... I could get out through the window... But there's no trampoline to make sure I don't kill myself. I sigh if frustration. "They're going to have to come and get me... "

I roll my eyes. I spot my weapons in the center of the hall, way out of reach, unfortunately. I sit on the cell floor for about an hour. A boy in a black cloak brings me a pile of food.

"Your vegetarian meal ma'am." The boy gave it to me. I took it cautiously, of course, I'm not going to eat it.

"Thanks..." I paused for a moment, looking at the plate then back at the boy. I could barely see his face; the cloak was covering it making his face look like a shadowy figure. He was right by my cell, reaching distance. I grabbed him by his cloak and took the hood off.

"Unbelievable."I crossed my arms.

"Heh..." Hunter scratched his head.

"Get out of my face before I kill you. "I stepped closer to the bars.

"Whoa, sis-"

"Don't you call me that you little traitor." I made a straight face.

"I just wanna say... I know you're getting out of here soon- to be honest- you probably already have a plan. Well, I want to get out of here too- you HAVE to take me with you. This world is... different, it's boring."

"You're smoking crack, Hunter." I chuckled and scoffed.

"Come on...We're family."

"Gilbert was family," I responded viscously quick. Hunter thought for a moment, silence spread through the halls. Hunter started to walk away, but before he could disappear I said

"Oh and Hunter- that little darling of yours, Anna was it? Oh yeah- she died a couple of days ago- tragic giant incident. Glad I'm the person to deliver that." It felt good to crush his soul- just let he did to Gilbert and I.

Okay, my uncle is Hades you can't expect me to be perfect... it's not like I killed her.

"You're lying.." Hunter shakes his head,

"Am I?" I smirked. Hunter looked at me, then disappeared with grief at his feet. What goes around comes around...