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Worlds Collide

Curtains Up

Chapter Five

Curtains Up

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Leo and I left the trio on the deck of the big house and headed to the infirmary in the second floor to check on Percy. I was about to open the door when I heard voices talking inside.

“The next great prophecy had begun.” I heard my brother said flatly as if he was very tired.

“We should go.” Leo whispered to me and was already turning his back to go downstairs, but I grabbed his wrist to stop him.

“Just a moment.” I told him.

“You should have told us sooner about meeting a shadowhunter, Percy. Look at what happen to you. What if Cassandra gets hurt as well?” Chiron scolded him.

“I thought if Cassy and I ignore him and their existence maybe we can avoid or at least delay the great prophecy from happening.” He responded dejectedly.

“Percy, you know that the great prophecy is inevitable.” It was Annabeth who was talking to my brother this time. Her voice was soft and comforting.

“I know that now.”

“Cassy.” Leo hissed, tugging me away from the door. “Let’s go.”

“Do you know what they are talking about?” I asked him, still whispering quietly. “What is the great prophecy?”

“I can’t tell you. I swear to the river Styx.” Leo whispered back, looking very desperate to get away from the on-going conversation on the other side of the door.

“Fine. You can go of if you want to, but I’ll stay here to listen” I said stubbornly, letting go of his wrist.

“Cassy.”

“Leo,” It was not me who called his name but Annabeth, who opened the door of the infirmary. “And Cassy, don’t you know better than to listen to other people’s conversation?” she scolded us.

“I tried to stop her.” Leo defended.

Chiron only sighed at our antic. “Are you sure you are fine, Percy?” He asked my brother.

“Yeah, go ahead and call all the cabins’ head counselor for a meeting.” Percy answered. He changed into camp shirt as well like me and was sitting on his bed.

“Very well then.” Chiron nodded his head and wheeled out of the room leaving the four of us.

“Come here, kiddo.” My brother called out, using his nickname for me, patting the space next to him for me to sit down.

I didn’t sit down though; instead I ran to him and hugged him tightly. I’ve seen injured demigods before but not as serious as Percy’s, which I have to admit scared the hell out of me. When I let go of him, he had a grin on his face.

I sat down on the bed next to him. “There are a lot of things we need to talk about. First things first, did you also know about the existence shadowhunters? Is that why you wanted me to avoid Jace so much? What’s the great prophecy?” I shoot him with my questions right away.

“Chiron told us about them but never meet one until the night we met Jace. I thought avoiding him is the smartest thing to do.” He answered.

“The great prophecy tells about the rise of fall of Olympus.” Annabeth answered my last question.

“I know about that. What I want to know is what does the great prophecy said.” I clarified.

“It’s not yet the right time,” She responded, meeting my brother’s eyes. “And we need to go to the rec room now.”

When we arrived at the rec room, Jace, Clary and Isabelle, and almost all of the cabins’ head counselors were already there, even Nico that spend most of his time in the Underworld was present, waiting for the meeting to start. Chiron was sitting on the head of the Ping-Pong table, Percy and Annabeth sat down on his left and right side while Leo and I sat down on the vacant chairs next to Jace. After all the head counselors was complete, Chiron started the meeting.

“Before we proceed to discuss about our current problem, I’d like you to meet our new friends Clary Fairchild, Jace and Isabelle Lightwood. They are shadowhunters.” Chiron explained to the head counselors that apparently didn’t have any idea what was a shadowhunter until today. There were whispers of confusion among the attendees about their participation in the meeting, but Chiron ignored it.

“Now, as you can see Mr. D was called back to Olympus by Zeus because of the current problem in the Underworld.” He started to tell us.

“Erebos, the Primordial god of Darkness and Mist, which was turned into the great black wall in the Underworld is set free by the Demon Lords that was imprisoned in hell when they breakthrough the wall of Erebos in the Underworld to escape from hell.”

The word darkness bothered me, reminding me of my nightmares, leaving a prickle of cold to my nape down to my spine.

“Wait! What?!” Percy asked, confused by what Chiron said like everyone else. “By hell, you mean Underworld, right?”

“No, hell as in inferno, Percy.” Chiron answered.

“Underworld and hell are two different dimensions.” Nico spoke up this time. “Where do you think a person that doesn’t know about the existence of Underworld go after they die? When a person die their soul goes to the dimension of afterlife they believe in, Underworld and hell are one of the examples of it. I believe that there are many more dimensions out there we have no idea exist.”

“It was taught to us about the existence of other dimension but that’s just…” Isabelle let her sentence trailed off.

“Mind blowing.” Jace supplied.

“You told me once about it when you first take me to the Silent City.” Clary reminded him.

He nodded. “What are Demon Lords? I’ve studies demonology and I never heard or read anything about those kinds of demons before.” Jace asked.

“Those Demon Lords were the demons Pandora set free when she opened the jar, because of many demons lurking around our world that time, a warlock named Jonathan Shadowhunter summon the Angel Raziel to create a race of human that can protect the world from the demons. It was also Jonathan Shadowhunter, who imprisoned the Demon Lords in hell with the helped of demigods. After doing it, the two races decided to not interfere with each other’s business and erase all records written about one another on their history, including the Demon Lords.” Chiron answered.

“So, we have to catch Erebos and throw the Demon Lords back to hell?” Leo asked.

“I wish it’s that easy but we must find Sasha, the guardian of the wall first, she is the only one who can fix the wall and imprison Erebos again. My father built only a temporary wall to keep the demons from using it as their escape path.” Nico answered this time.

“We’ll have to launch a quest to rescue Sasha. It will be our main priority at the moment.” Chiron agreed to Nico.

“We need Rachel to tell us the prophecy of the quest but she’s in school right now.” Annabeth said.

“We can try to call her through Iris message.” Percy suggested.

Annabeth fished out a drachma from her pocket while Percy made a rainbow, he tossed the drachma to the rainbow he made and a cloud of mist formed, showing Rachel sitting on her desk in her dorm room.

“Percy,” Rachel answered the message cheerfully. “What’s with the sudden message?” The tone of her voice change, it was laced with worry now after seeing the grim expressions on our faces.

“We’re going to a quest.” Percy explained to her about our current situation. “We need you to tell us the –” My brother wasn’t able to finished his sentence as Rachel started to pronounce the prophecy of the quest.

“Those who are touch by the angel

Go along the Earth-Shaker and Anvil

To the frozen desert, you must enter the gate of hell

Where the guardian you ought to save waits inside a cell.

One will be left behind alone

To keep the promise that is set in stone”

After Rachel told us the prophecy, the Iris message was cut off. The room was in dead silence for a moment until Jace spoke up.

“In the first couplet, it said those who are touch by the angel, Clary and I both have a mark that symbolized being touch by the angel.” Jace said.

“The two of you will do the quest?” Isabelle asked, astonish by their willingness to come along the quest. “I know you two have tendency to make suicidal decisions but this is insane! You can’t possible agree to literally go to the depths of hell!” She snapped angrily.

“We’re shadowhunters, Isabelle. We face danger everyday this is no different.” Jace tried to assured her. “Besides I always want to see hell.” A smirk was on his face.

“You’re unbelievable!”

“I… I’m going too.” I volunteered. I want to sound confident but all I can feel was cold chill down on my spine. I barely noticed everybody’s stare at me as I only focus on looking at my brother. I know what they’re all thinking, Percy will be a better choice to go with Jace and Clary since he was a veteran at doing quests compare to an amateur like me, but I told myself to held my ground and straighten my spine to look confident even though inside I’m not.

“Poseidon’s the Earth-Shaker and I am his daughter.” I announced. “I’m also having nightmares with pass few days.” I continued to tell them about my dream of disembodied voice in the darkness.

Percy’s expression was blank, which was very rare. He was always been an open book. “Are you sure about this?” He asked me seriously.

“Percy! You can’t let Cassy go to a dangerous quest like this!” Annabeth protested.

“I am.” I answered steadily.

He nodded his head. “If that’s what you want.”

“Percy!” Annabeth hissed.

“Cassy is a daughter of Poseidon. She had the right to volunteer to join the quest and as the head counselor of Poseidon’s cabin I’m giving her my permission.” He said authoritatively, which silence Annabeth.

“I’m in too.” Leo volunteered too with a goofy grin on his face as if he was actually happy to come along to the rescue mission in hell.

“It’s decided then. Jace, Clary, Cassy and Leo will be doing the quest.” Chiron announced.

“Antarctica is also known as the frozen desert.” Annabeth said, probably analysing the prophecy inside her head now.

“Why would the gate of hell be in frozen place like Antarctica?” Percy asked with a dumb look, shaking his head.

“Hell is cold.” I said absentmindedly. Percy and the others stared at me like as if I go mad.

“The ninth circle of hell is cold.” Jace said, the corners of his lips turned up to a grin. “It’s from Dante’s Inferno.” He told to everyone.

I looked at him with a small smile. I never thought of Jace as a reader, but the way he knew how I adore books when he brought me to the library came back to me, only those who love books will understand the look on my face that moment. He smiled back, not his usual smug grin but a real sincere smile.

“Can it be true?” Clary asked. “That hell is cold?”

Jace shrugged casually like the thought of going to hell didn’t bother him. “How am I supposed to know when I’ve never been there?” Clary glared at him.

“We’re just quoting a passage from a book.” I answered Clary’s question.

“One of you might be left behind.” Isabelle said. “Don’t you dare act as the hero, Jace!”

“Nah, I’m no hero, so it’s definitely not going to be me.”

“And I won’t let you, anyway.” Clary said.

Percy and I looked at each other silently conversing.

Percy: I already let you do the quest; don’t be stupid to let yourself be left behind.

Me: Not gonna promise anything.

Percy: Cassandra Charmaine McQuee!

Me: I’m no hero too; you got nothing to worry about.

Percy: That makes me worry more; you’re the most selfless person I know.

Me: I am not.

I turned away from my brother’s stare and remember my promise to mom not to get involve with the shadow world but look I’m in it more deeply.

Am I doing the right thing?

Notes

A/N: Hi! Thanks for reading! ^_^

I’m not sure if they can Iris message a mortal but Percy messaged his mom with it before, so I think that they can do the same for Rachel.

Excuse my silly rhyming skill. I’m never been good at rhyming words.

I think if I lengthen the chapter it will become too overwhelming so that’s it for now!

Comments

@pdemz96 more please this story is great

OMG! Next xhapter please!
MizzPurpleRox MizzPurpleRox
10/19/13
@pdemz96

Sometimes, it makes me sad too. :/
@Faling_To_Tartarus
Thank you! I'm working on it just a bit busy...
Your username makes me so sad!
pdemz96 pdemz96
6/14/13
This is a really good story! I love the whole crossover idea! :) Keep writing!