Elemental Stones: Chapter 1

Josh's P.O.V

I thought about it. The quest is going to be split into 3 groups of 3, and we need some form of communication, so we decided to bring each of us 10 golden drachmas. I figure that would be more than enough to keep communications open, and I told my friends to each bring a bowl filled with water with a lid. That's one of the most useful ways to get Iris Messages open for a long time.

I went back in my cabin, and lied down on the bed. I cleaned up my bed first, and it took me a couple of minutes. As I cleaned my cabin, I am thinking about the upcoming quest, and started packing. Fortunately for me, I can always get a couple of burgers outside camp. All I have to do is just pay the stoll brothers a couple of golden drachmas, and in a flash, they will return with about 6-7 big mac burgers.

I did that earlier, and someone knocked on my cabin. I opened the door, and they showed me 6 big mac burgers from McDonalds. I took them, and gave them a few extra golden drachmas for making the delivery quick, and the Stoll brothers say a quick thank you and ran off.

I began stuffing the big mac burgers into a small food container, and put them in my backpack. I also packed some drinking bottles and cups. I also brought with me some spare clothes to change. I heard another knock, and I turned to silver form and opened the door. It was Liliana.

"Hello, Josh." Liliana said, then she gasped. "Josh, how did you do that?"

"You mean turning my hair and eyes into silver?" I asked.

Liliana nodded.

"It's one of the things that I can do, but I don't do it often." I said, turning back to golden form. "Anyways, what are you here for?" I asked.

"I just wanted to ask about the quest." Liliana said. "Perhaps we should get something that can help us."

"I agree, but I don't know what it is." I told her. "This is one of the quests that are sudden, and I had little to no clue what is going on, so I'm not really prepared."

"Maybe Chiron knows something." Lily told me, her black hair is flowing smoothly from her head to her shoulder.

"We need to speak to Chiron. Maybe he can tell us something that we don't know."

"Good idea." Then, Lily piggybacked me and we both go to the big house, where Chiron is.

Lily put me down, and we both knocked on the door. At first, there's no one answering, and we knocked again. The second time, Chiron opened the door.

"How can I help you?" Chiron asked.

"We have a question to ask you." Lily told Chiron.

"It's about the elemental stones, is it?" Chiron asked. "Well, to tell you the truth, I've got no information to tell you."

"Well, what we need now is clues that will lead us to the three elemental stones."

Chiron mused for awhile, and then looked at us. "Well, you are your own leads. That's the only thing that I can tell you for now."

Me and Lily looked at each other, then looked at Chiron. "Thanks for you help." Then we left the big house.

As soon as we're outside, Lily turned towards me. "We are our own leads.... I wonder what it means..." I said

"Well, as far as we know, I think Chiron is talking about us being able to know the precise locations of the stones." Lily answered.

"Wait, are you saying that we are the maps?" I asked.

"Yes. You got the map to the fragments of the light stone, and I got the map to the fragments of the moonstone, and Jack got the map to the fragments of the nature stone. Basically, the map is inside your head."

I fell silent for awhile, and tried to focus. Sure enough, images of places of the stones emerged in my head, and I figure that Liliana is doing the same.

"I can see it." I told her.

"Yeah, me too." Lily replied. "I could see that mine is somewhere in Paris, in Eiffel tower."

I concentrated on mine, and images from the Miami beach come to view. There's a piece of this golden piece of stone gleaming bright under the sun, and people are having fun in the beach of Miami.

"I could see mine in the beach of Miami." I told her.

"Well, I guess it's time to play capture the flag." I told her. "Wanna come?"

"Sure, it would be fun!" Lily said, and we both jogged down to the Capture the Flag game.

As soon as we got there, the capture the flag game hasn't started, since it's lacking players on either side of teams.

(WIP)