Jason's POV
"Are you sick in the head?!" Leo screamed in my direction then bashed me on the head. "Of all people to call selfish you choose Lucy?! Next thing you do you're going to be calling Lady Athena an idiot, Artemis a slut, Hades a ball of sunshine and Zeus a weakling! Are you mad?!"
I'd never seen Leo so angry, he looked ready to burn the place down, with flames flickering all over his body and everything. Worst of all, I didn't know what to say to him, that sudden burst of anger with Lucy had switched off like a light. I was pretty sure that wasn't supposed to happen. Something wasn't right. I felt like a coward but I ran out of the throne room.
One thing I can tell you about Lucy's Place is that news spreads fast, really fast. As soon as I burst out the throne room, Percy, Annabeth, Sophia and Reyna were there, but thankfully all of Lucy's soldiers had gone. They all had fierce looks on their faces, Sophia glaring at me the most.
Swallowing up the last of my courage, I gripped Sophia's forearm and dragged her away saying: "I need to talk to you."
Well, Sophia - as you can imagine - wasn't very happy about that. When we got to a dark hidden part of Lucy's base, we were under a dark eerie statue of Ash. The statue was made completely of Jet, it was of Ash in a hoodie with the hood pulled up and the sleeves ripped off, showing off his buff arms, his fists were clenched with bone bracelets around his wrists and a crown of bones in his head. The statue seemed to be staring down at me with disappointment, getting ready to judge my price in the Underworld. Sophia stared at me in the same way, but she looked like she wanted to send me to the Underworld personally.
"What did you do?" She demanded. "Lucy has never - never - cursed anyone, ever. What could you possibly have done?" Sophia's voice wasn't loud, it was quiet and venomous, which was a million times worse. And I still couldn't get the vision of Lucy with her flaming green eyes out of my head.
"That doesn't matter." I said a bit too quickly. "I need your help."
"You don't ask for much." Even though it was meant to be, her voice wasn't sarcastic; it was cruel and temperamental. "You want my help, straight after you insult my sister, the only one in my whole life who has neverabandoned me, who had protected me since I was five, yep nothing much at all."
"Look, I'm sorry, this wasn't my fault I didn't mean it-"
"Then why did you say it?"
I ignored the question, which obviously wasn't buying me any points. "I need your help finding my soulmate."
Sophia raised an eyebrow, then she shook her head. "I have met many oblivious males, one of them being my very own mate, but you are by far the most oblivious andstupid."
"Reyna?" I asked, I had seen Reyna always looking hurt when I was around Piper and she had volunteered, it could be possible.
Instead of agreeing Sophia slapped me right across the cheek, but she looked ready to punch me. "Be glad I'm not Millie! She'd murder you for that." She snarled, although she looked fairly okay with the idea of murdering me herself. "Do you like Reyna?" She asked almost disgusted.
"Well... no..." I admitted.
"Then why the fucking Zeus, Hades and Poseidon do you think she's your soulmate?! Do you have a mental condition or are you just plain stupid?!"
I flinched. Obviously Sophia was as gentle as a feather compared to Lucy, but I had so many dangerous and powerful people yelling at me today I was starting to seriously considering hiding in a corner.
"I just thought that Reyna wasn't the obvious answer and... Well, I just... thought that might mean the fates had..."
Sophia slapped her forehead. "I see your point, but mates are never notdrawn to each other. You've never found her attractive and that's impossible with mates."
I nodded, and was thankful she hadn't yelled at me... that much.
"Just sleep on it Jason. Tomorrow try and work things out with Lucy and try the soulmate bond with someone you really think, or better yet know, you love."
"Piper." I said immediately.
Sophia lifted her mouth the slightest bit. "You're finally starting to get there. Now get some rest, and try not to cause anymore trouble before you see Lucy or do the bond." Then Sophia left. I looked up at the full moon and prayed to my father: 'please, don't let me mess this up.' but when I started walking to my room a feeling of dread filled me, as if my father was against me too.
Hazel POV (A/N If you have a good imagination, I don't recommend you read this before you go to bed because I wrote it before I went to bed and I had nightmares!)
I twirled my thumbs as I thought about tomorrow. Leo and I had talked about tomorrow and he had seemed nervous, but that seemed normal as Lucy had said. Trying to clear my head I relaxed onto the pillow, trying not to fidget and managed to fall asleep when Lucy started singing.
Something must have gone wrong that night, because I did have a dream. I was surrounded by bronze mist, in a pit similar to a ditch but with palm sized holes covering the Walls of it. Somehow I knew what they were, I was in a snake pit and the snakes were meant to come out of those huge holes.
"Hazel?" A voice called.
I turned to see Leo, but he was different, his eyes were bright indigo, not violet, indigo.
"What are you doing here?" He asked, he looked nervous, like he was earlier, but more so.
Then he disappeared in a shower of light. The pit filled with hissing and out of one of the biggest holes crawled out a huge snake. It had bright indigo scaly skin and on it's head was the symbol of Hecate. It slithered in front of me and I couldn't move. My feet were glued to the floor. I struggled but nothing happened. The snake curled upwards so it's reptilian bronze eyes were level with mine and it's mouth was wide open with it's fangs bared. It's face was only a few inches from mine.
'Thief!' It hissed in my mind.
"What?" I croaked.
'Thief!' It screeched angrily, inching closer and closer to my face.
Tears streamed my face as it's fangs came closer. Thunder echoed in the background but I was too scared to notice it was violet. "I didn't steal anything!" I sobbed.
'Stolen!' Hissed the reptilian voice in my head. 'Give back! Give back! Give back!'
"I didn't take anything!" I cried.
'Then who?' The snake demanded. 'You did this! You will pay, girl. You stole! Stole! Stole! Thief!'
Then the snake lunged at my throat and I bounded awake just as I felt the sharp fangs pierce my throat. I screamed but the sounds of people coming towards me shimmered into the dull background as a horrible figure stepped out of the shadows.
Jinx had changed, her hair was bronze with flame coloured roots flicking away with real flames, her eyes were more crazy and angry like a murder-induced-mad-woman, her tattoos seemed to dance on her skin as if they were alive, but the worst thing was that her face was pale and her eyes were empty as if everything she cared about had been ripped away. There was blood surrounding her neck like a collar as if someone had just slit her throat and blood was still pouring out of it. Her fists were clenched so hard blood dripped down from them by her nails biting her palms and her teeth were clenched with blood dripping down from her eyes, like tears, staining her teeth a horrible crimson colour.
"Thief!" She screamed, but it was worse, real gut-wrenching-heartbroken-sobbing. "You did this to me!" She sobbed as the blood from her eyes ran harder and faster. "You took. Thief!" She cried. "Thief! Thief! Thief! You destroyed me!"
"Stop it!" I said, but it sounded terrified even to me. Whatever I had stolen had meant the world to Jinx, and it had changed her.
"Stolen!" She repeated. "Gone! Nothing left! Taken from me! Thief! Thief! Thief!"
The she was gone in a flash of hissing snakes and a strangled cry just as everyone barged into my room. But it didn't matter, I could feel Jinx's nails and fangs sinking into my neck... wanting revenge... after my blood, and my blood alone...
Soz it took so long, I've been really busy! Enjoy!
