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Captured

Short Story #65 - Captured - Hazel and Frank - sophiasilvia0615

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*After the war with Gaea*

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"Let me GO!" Hazel yells at the two monsters dragging her towards the make-shift holding cell. "Why haven't you killed me yet? Better yet, what do you want with me?"

"Just wait here as bait," one of them says as they lock the cell door.

"Bait?" Hazel prompts as she looks around the cell. It is all completely inorganic materials. She can't manipulate it or bring other jewels in.

"For Percy Jackson," the other monster answers.

Hazel smirks, knowing full well that Percy is not the person they were going to get. Frank is already on his way.

"So, I know I kick butt and all, but how were you able to inhibit my power again?" she asks.

The stupid monsters reply, "This special jewel that Gaea gave us before you lot destroyed her." The bigger of the two pulls out a purple stone that glows brighter the closer it gets to her.

"Interesting. So, if someone was to, I don't know, take that jewel from you, what would happen?" Hazel asks another question as she sees a worm, with clothes on that look much like Franks, inch towards her on the ground.

"Well, it would inhibit the power of whatever you wanted it to," the smaller one says. "Since we want it to interfere with your natural powers right now, it does."

"So, if I was to get the jewel from you, I could ask it to interfere with whatever powers you guys have? Theoretically, of course," she says.

"Yes. That about sums it up," the bigger one answers before the smaller one can open his mouth.

"Thanks. That's all I have to say now. Mind if I sit down?" she questions to keep them distracted.

"Go ahead," they both say at the same time as they too sit down.

Hazel sits and looks at the ground. Frank the worm is right outside her cell. She nods to him as to tell him to go for the jewel. It so conveniently fell out of one of the monsters pockets when it sat down.

Frank the worm became Frank the centipede so he could get over to the monsters quicker than he could when he was just inching along.

To draw out the time, Hazel kept asking them questions. Both of these strange monsters where in a weirdly talkative mood. She's never had a proper conversation with one. They always attack first and then die later.

She learns that they are the only two of their kind, they don't have names, they are brother and sister, and that Gaea always hid them from the world because she didn't anyone knowing about them.

"Would you guys like names? I'm rather good at naming things," she offers as she notices Frank the centipede get the jewel and turn into Frank the hedgehog as he burrows underground.

"Yes please!" the oddly likeable monsters say.

"Hmm, let's see. How about Axeb and Zenab?" she suggests. Both of them nod, but have confused faces. "Axeb is for you," she points to the bigger guy, "and Zenab is for you," she points to the smaller girl.

"I am Axeb!" he roars.

"I am Zenab!" she roars.

"You guys like them? I glad you do," she says. She looks down for a brief moment and sees the dirt pushing up around her cell. A littler face peeks through and she recognizes it as Frank the hedgehog.

"It's too bad that we have to kill you now," Axeb says.

"What? But we were having such a good time," Hazel says slightly alarmed at the sudden change of mood.

"Yeah. I like you," Zenab says, "but orders are orders. If Percy Jackson doesn't show up in ten minutes, then kill the captive and move on to someone else close to him."

At that, Frank bursts out of the ground as a... hedgehog still.

"What do we have here?" Axel says as he approaches Frank.

"AWE! It's so cute! Can we keep it?" Zenab says.

Frank the hedgehog then shifts into his normal self and both the monsters are taken aback. He takes the jewel out of his pocket and both Zenab and Axeb are zapped of their natural strength.

"Not much without your strength, now are you?" Frank comments. He turns around to face the cell with Hazel inside. "Time to get you out."

He breaks the lock and Hazel feels her powers returning to her. "Now let's kick some monster butt."

They quickly dispatch of the two monsters. The jewel, on the other hand, melts back into the earth after Axeb and Zenab are sent back to Tartarus.

"Name? Really?" Frank asks as they walk back to the van they came here in.

"Yeah, well, almost everyone wants something to call themselves and have others call them that isn't mean," Hazel smiles sheepishly.

"Well, I think it's adorable," Frank says as he gives her a quick kiss on the nose.

They both smile and drive back to the camp with one heck of a story to tell the others.

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Authors Note:

Hello! Long time no see. I am so sorry that I haven't been active. My school work has totally taken over my life.

I hope you guys like this one. I'm not to sure about it, but I wanted to give you guys something to read.

I'm planning to write through short story #70 and then complete this story. Once I mark it as completed, I'll go through and edit it and polish it up to what I want. I'll also unpublish all the authors notes that are their one chapter or whatever.

So yeah! Thank you to everyone who has stayed with me.

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