Danger Zone

This is the second book to The Other Side trilogy,the sequel to Bulletproof.

Diona Goes Missing
''Clang! ''Elizabeth's sword fell to the ground again and I pointed my sword at her.

She pouted. I laughed. Elizabeth crossed her arms.

"That's NO FAIR!!!!!" she yelled.

"Not to you, it isn't." I replied.

Elizabeth pouted some more.

"Go. Get some rest. Maybe you can beat me.... but of course not."

I walked away, rubbed the scythe and placed it into my weapon belt.

I could hear Elizabeth yelling angrily behind me.

I grinned.

Elizabeth was sooooooo easily mad.

That was one of her bad traits.

''Oh well. It could be blamed. Her mother did put her in foster care, where she was in danger 24/7. ''Let's face it. A demititan has a harder life. Demigods think they have a hard life? Please. Their life is like... being a millionaire's kid compared to a demititan's life. We were raised to fight to live, or die. No mercy. I guess that's why we are so messed up........

I laughed brutesquely.

Messed up describes little of how our nature is.

I know Elizabeth is coming after my back, so I pull out my knife and countered her attack.

Really, I am kind of furious at Elizabeth. I mean, attacking a person behind their backs? Stupid and cowardly. I laughed in Elizabeth's face.

"That was dumb. Next time you do that, you won't be as lucky."

"What do you mean?"

"Oh... you know how you're alive right now? Next time it might be different."

I could see Elizabeth's face paling, and I laughed again.

I walked away, and Elizabeth started folloing me.

"HEY CHRISTINA!!!!!!! SORRY!!!!!!" she yelled.

I whirled around to face her.

"This is getting boring. Let's go."

Elizabeth nodded. We were just about to go outside when we were stopped by an empousai.

She had long, wavy, lush brown hair, and cold chocolate eyes. She smiled at me, and looked at Elizabeth. I could hear Elizabeth huffing behind me.

"Christina, Elizabeth. I'm afraid your....... friend has dissapeared quite suddenly."

"Who? Amaranth?"

"No.... the other one. Also your stack of magazines have appeared." the empousa handed us the magazines.

"Uh-huh. Diona's missing?"

"WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Elizabeth shrieked.

"THAT STUPID GOOD FOR NOTHING LOSER IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IDIOT-" Elizabeth just kept yelling things that quite shocked everyone around us. Then she blushed and pulled me away, taking the stack of magazines with her.

What Mortal Teenagers Think Is Embarassing
Elizabeth, Amaranth, and I are sprawled out at the foot of my bed. We are just "chilling," as mortal kids would say it, with a six-pack of coke vanilla and a family size bag of BBQ chips. We are also reading mortal teenager "problems".

Amaranth laughed out loud. She pointed to a section in the magazine titled " SOOOOO EMBARASING!!!!"

"This is so stupid!" she giggled, and mimicked the girl:

"OH NOOOOO!!!!! My crush JUST saw my underwear in class!!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!! THE WORLD IS ENDING!!"

We all laughed.

"WHO CARES????? It's just stupid underwear. You know what's really embarassing? Being deafeated by a demigod. That's a situation I'd never want to be in. Hand me a coke?" Elizabeth commented.

Amaranth tossed her a coke, and it bounced off her head.

Amaranth and I burst out laughing, and Elizabeth rubbed her head and cursed silently.

"Oh, here's another one;" I started. I imitated the speaker:

"I had to sing a solo in front of 50 ''people for choir!!!!!! Then, I started sweating so hard, I dropped the microphone!!!!! The next day, there was a note taped to my locker that said, "SWEAT ON, LOSER!!!!! There was also a stick of deoderant on it!"

We burst out in giggles. If this was real, this is NOTHING. It probably is real, so it is NOTHING.

Elizabeth pointed to a different section titled- "ASK GENIE!!!!"

"Ok, look at this 'problem'. My boyfriend won't hold my hand!"

Amaranth snorted, I almost choked on my coke.

Elizabeth grinned, and continued.

"My mom won't let me wear make-up!"

"People tease me because I sweat a lot!"

"My feet smell bad!"

"My former best friend stole my diary and read a page of it over the PA!!!!"

"My friends say I'm fat!"

"My friend is scared to ask her crush out!"

At this point, my chest hurts from laughing. This is TOO MUCH.

"Ok, ok," I started.

"These are problems? If so, what happened to humanity? These are petty, useless problems and if you think this is important, you're overreacting. Seriously, you can solve these problems- easy. You really don't have to feature them on a magazine, you're just embarassing yourself. You know starvation? That's a serious problem. What is this? 'My feet smell bad?' Just stuff a dried flower or herb into your shoe or something. That's easy! Simple, easy, stupid problem Nothing to fuss about." I said.

"Um, wow. You just said an inspirational speech, no sorry, what could've been an inspirational speech,'cause you just said all that, and I still have no idea what you're saying."

I rolled my eyes.

"Sometimes I wonder why I waste my breath on buckets."

"HEY!" Amaranth yelled.

I just grinned.

Surprising News
We trooped out of my room, still giggling over stupid mortal teenager problems.

Elizabeth actually peed after hearing the last one (My butt is too big!), so we decided to stop there before it gets.... er... TOO extreme.

A drachnae slithered up to me.

"KHIONE HASSSSSSSSSSSSS ARRIVEDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!! EMMEEEEEERRRRGENCY COUUUUUUNNNCCIL MEEEEEEEEEETTING FOR THEEEE DAUUUUGHTERRRR OFFFFF KROOOOONNNOOOSSSSSSSSS!"

I glanced at Amaranth and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was fuming.

"I WAS THE ONE WHO TOLD KHIONE THAT DIONYSUS'S KID, JENNY, HAD INFORMATION!!!!!!! WHY AM I BEING LEFT OUT OF THE COUNCIL? HUH?HUH?"

The drachnae wringed its hands nervously.

"Khione hassssss onllllllyyyy arrrrrrraanggged a meeeeetttting withhhhhhhh originalllll councilllllllllll memmmmbbbbeeerrrrsssssssssss. Daaaaaauuughttter offffff Kronnooooss only."

Elizabeth stomped off, and I followed the drachnae. Only Aramanth stayed there. I winked at her, and she slipped on her cloak of invisibility.

I grinned. She, at least was going to the council with me.