The Sinister Four: Chapter 11

Josh's P.O.V

This is bad, very bad.

Nadine appeared to be quite exhausted as she knelt for a moment and shakily stood up. She used one of the demons as a support but she was able to stand independently after she did that.

"You're going to pay for that." Nadine glared with hatred at me.

"You're the one who did this to yourself." I reminded her, my voice getting calmer, but still shaky. "Perhaps you would like to call off the assault."

"Yes, but on one condition." Nadine said.

I and Mary looked at her.

"Take the sky." Nadine said. Me and Mary already stared at her as if she was crazy.

"No way." I told her. "You do it. I'm not going to die in suffering when my friends are having all the fun in the camp. I guess that leaves me no choice."

Just then, Nadine vanished, and she appeared beside me. It was one of her most used moves, so I immediately anticipated it and kicked Nadine in the guts and ran from Mount Othrys with Mary.

Nadine was furious and she was chasing us. I could see Nadine waving her hands up in the air and chains started to appear in her hands and she threw it at me.

I managed to dodge the chains, then Nadine threw another one. This time, Mary managed to catch it before throwing it back at Nadine. Nadine apparently didn't expect that move and when Nadine was about to throw another chain at me, she was hit by the chain and she sat back and groaned.

She didn't stay down for long. She vanished and appeared beside us, but unfortunately, she appeared 3 meters away from where we expected her to appear. We striked at the wrong direction, and that gave Nadine some time to conjure chains. She conjured chains on Mary's body, but she easily ripped it apart. Then Nadine conjured chains on my body, and before I could even react, I was already chained by Nadine's magic chains. I tried to struggle, but with no avail.

Nadine approached me and grabbed my cheeks. "You were saying, my dear?"

I writhed and struggled. "I was saying... call off your attacks!" I growled at her.

"Ohh, but only if you do one thing, and if you don't want to do it yourself...." Nadine concentrated for 20 seconds, and then waved her hands, and chains started wrapping around Mary and tightening around her. Apparently, the chains are too much of her, and if I didn't do what Nadine says, she will surely kill Mary, and I don't want that to happen.

"Perhaps..." Nadine waved her hand again and this time we're in Mount Othrys, where the demons are taking turns holding the sky. Nadine waved her hand again and the chains disappeared from my body.

Mary's P.O.V

I watched frantically as Josh's chains disappeared from his body, while the chains in my body kept tightening. I don't know what this chain is made of, but it seemed to resist my every effort of breaking it. Usually, I could even rip industrial sized chains that is about 50-100 tons in weight with my bare hands, but this one seems more powerful than ever.

Nadine was forcing Josh to take the sky. NO!!

"No, Josh! Don't do it!!" Then the chains began to tighten around me, making me gasp.

Josh looked at me with his sad eyes, and as I writhed and struggled with my immense effort, I could feel the chains are breaking. Josh saw me with hope in his eyes, and he stepped backward.

Finally, after an exhaustive 40 seconds, I was able to break the chains, but my nightmares aren't over. As soon as I broke my chains, the demon that had stuck under the sky slipped off and that left Josh holding the sky.

"JOSH!!!" I rushed towards him. "Let me hold it!"

I rushed towards the sky, but Nadine held her hand up and an invisible force pushed me back.

"Ohh, we don't want to ruin the fun, do we? Now why don't you go back to your pitiful camp and tell that the war is over?" Nadine said. I was about to protest when Nadine waved her hand again, and before I could land a punch on her, I was back in Camp Half-Blood.

I have to tell everyone what had happened back in Mount Othrys. This is not so looking good. I should have been the one to take the curse. In fact, I'm built for it in order to substitute my father once in a while.

Once I am back in my cabin, I met with my father, Atlas. I looked at him with a very concerned look. Fortunately, Atlas recognised that look, and he told me what should we do.

"We should tell the other campers to look for Josh, especially Jessica. She has the right to know where Josh had been." I told my father.

Atlas agreed. "Perhaps."

Jessica's P.O.V

I was experimenting with my intercontinental ballistic shadow travelling arrows. I was hitting demons on Mount Othrys, when one of the arrows came back to me with a dreadful news.

Oh, and by the way, I had recently discovered what this intercontinental ballistic shadow travelling arrow can do more than kill. It can actually provide live images that I can see from my very own eyes, and it's revealing that Nadine had escaped and Josh was trapped now.

Just then, Mary entered my cabin, shock was in her expression.

"Mary, I know about Josh." I told her.

Mary looked surprised. "How did you know?"

I chuckled. "Remember that dark arrow that you saw?"

Mary's mind must have reeled, because she was already trying to remember about it. "Yeah, was it the..."

"Intercontinental ballistic shadow travelling arrows, yeah." I told her. "Have you heard of it before?"

Mary shook her head.

"I wish I could have told Josh sooner. And anyways, let's go rescue Josh." I told her.

This is one of the subjects that Stella shouldn't know. She was paranoid that Josh would be captured again, as he already got captured 2-3 times already. So it's best that I and Mary go alone, but then again, I wouldn't want to risk anyone's life or send the whole camp into frenzied panic.

Chiron would think that Mary and Josh were still in Mount Othrys, on a quest to drift Gaea back to sleep, but Chiron had been reckless since he did not tell the demigods any information that leads to Gaea drifting back to sleep.

Now, my main priority is to rescue Josh and bring him back safely. I had recently sent another intercontinental shadow arrow and found that Josh is still under the sky. Since the arrow requires such high velocity to operate, it is nearly impossible to tell Josh's current condition.

(WIP)