OOOOOOOOOO who lives in a pineapple under the sea?!

*Seagulls chanting Spongebob Squarepants*

AS POREY AND YELLOW AND-

Six: *hits the back of my head* The story, Cindy?

AH Right! Onward ho!

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.: Six's P.o.V. :.
.: First Person :.

I waited for the girl to come back, thinking about my choices for asking help to a kid that I didn't even knew. The rest could've - no would - went out to find me. Plus Tiberius could show up from wherever he went and also track me.

But I guess sitting around and doing nothing in a cage is the last thing I would do for now.

I heard the kid come back, she was holding a thin metal stick. I blinked, "What is that for?" I asked.

The girl looked at the stick before climbing up, "I couldn't find the keys, probably the Janitor took them with him from that one time kids escaped, so I improvised," she shrugged as she inserted the stick into the lock and started fiddling with it. Her face contorted with concentration as the lock clicked, which told that the cage was now unlocked.

I pushed open the cage as the girl dropped the stick, I stepped on out and smiled at her, "Thanks," I said.

The girl smiled back while hopping down from the cages, "No problem," she said. I hopped on down and looked around the room, which had lesser cages stacked together like towers. They were filled with children seeming to blank out from reality, almost looking life-less.

"I don't mean to intrude, but how did you get caught?" The girl asked, I turned to her. "Oh well I got hungry and fell into a trap, but I'm sure my friends will come here soon. What are you doing here?" I said, I'm sure they would.

The girl looked around, "I'm just wondering around, finding a way back to the Hideout," she said. I blinked, "Wait, who are you again?"

"Oh god where are my manners? I'm-"

BORK!!!

The girl froze as she looked up from the stacked up towers, her face paling. I turned back and saw a hellhound crouched down in a pounce position from the highest cage. Its tongue was stook out letting out happy pants as its tail wagged happily. "Tiberius?" I gasped silently.

The hound gave another bark, letting me confirm he was Tiberius. I smiled as I ran up to him, yet the girl stepped out infront of me, "Are you crazy? That thing will kill you!" She said. I turned to her and blinked,soon realizing that she might think Tiberius would kill me and I was about to run up to the dog and die.

"Uhm, actually-" I was cut off as Tiberius growled at the girl, I could tell in his eyes he thought the girl might be harming me. The girl stood her ground and pocketing something inside her skirt pockets - which I didn't notice she had. She pulled out a coin and flipped it over, a spear with a Celestial Bronze blade.

She grabbed it and pointed over to Tiberius in a fighting stance, Tiberius growled as well as he crouched down in a pounce position. I tried to step between them, "Wait you two-."

I was once again cut off as Tiberius pounced over to the girl and the girl side-stepped, she rose her spear up and it sparked with electricity. She was about the strike Tiberius with the lightning when I stepped on front. "WAIT!" I shouted.

The girl stopped and looked at me quite irritated, "What?! The hellhound will kill you! It's not just some cute little poodle or whatever the Mist alters it as!" She said while motioning to Tiberius with her spear. Tiberius growled upon hearing the insult that he would look like a poodle from the mortal children's view. I turned to him, "Tiberius, stand down," I commanded. Tiberius blinked before his ears drooped and he sat down, giving me the puppy eyes.

"What the- You know this dog?!" The girl asked and I nodded, "Yeah it's my sister's pet," I said while looking around, "Actually, if Tiberius is here that means-"

I was cut off when I hear thuds on the vents above, it was rhythmic like those of footsteps. The girl and I looked up to the vent grille that was on the ceiling. "What is it this time?" The girl mumbled while pointing her spear to where the vent grille was.

Tiberius shook his tail again while climbing up on the cages until he reached the highest point. He stretched his neck to the vent grille to get even a tad bit closet and barked, the sound resonated to the vent above.

"What is he calling," the girl said more as a statement than as a question. There was more footsteps running to the vent and there was screams as they fell down, the vent busted open and a group of children all fell to the floor like a stack of unconcious bodies.

I grinned and ran up to them, "Guys!" I shouted. Shadow Six stood up and ran to me, "Six!" She smiled before giving me a huge embrace - mostly my head buried on the shadowy rubber of Shadow Six's raincoat.

Shadow Six let me go and sighed, "Thank goodness we found you! Well, Two thought about the vents but I thought about Tiberius tracking you. What was in your mind when you got that meat?!" She rattled on with words and questions.

The girl gripped on her spear and pointed to us, "That hound," she said while glaring at Tiberius, which he lightly growled at, "Is your pet?"

Shadow Six nodded, "Yes, who are you and why are you pointing that spear at me like I will kill you?" She asked while backing a bit from the sparking spear pointed to her direction. The girl lowered her spear, but she looked skeptical about Shadow Six - well she was a shadow child, and she had a pet hellhound. "My name is Eight," she said.

I blinked, "Wait hold up-"

The other kids blinked before looking at the new kid in the group. Two smiled, "Eight!" She said while she, One and Una as well ran up to the girl known as Eight, or as they called her, Flashlight Girl. Eight blinked as she looked at me then to Two and the others, "Now that I realized it, the group has some familiar faces - Along with a rare sight to see in a huge crowd like this, wassup Mono!" She smiled and Mono just grumbled while fixing his paperbag, "Shut up Flashie."

"Uh yeah, lot of things happened," Two chuckled sadly, mentioning the ambush that happened in the Hideout. Eight nodded, "Well who are these other faces I haven't met? Aside from Six, I helped her out," She asked. "Well, that beside Six is her sister, Shadow Six. They are both daughters of Hecate," Two said.

"Daughters of Hecate? And the other one is a shadow child," Eight silently remarked and I sighed, "We're half sisters, our mom is Hecate." I explained and Eight nodded, looking over to Shadow Six with a suspicious gaze. I know that most shadow children are evil but doesn't mean we must be skeptical around them, right? Or am I just saying this since Shadow Six is my sister?

Two cleared her throat before she started talking again, "The boy over there still lying on the floor probably complaining about his arm which he fell on-"

"Hey!" Seven exclaimed irritated while pushing himself up and actually stretching his right arm, which I guess he fell on. Two smirked while continuing, "Is Seven, son of Poseidon," she finished.

Eight seemed to raise her eyebrow in curiousity, then turned over to Seven who Five pulled up onto his feet, "Really?" She asked him.

Seven nodded, I noticed he felt a tiny bit uncomfortable, guess he is not used yet to the part he was a son of a Big Three, making him stronger than the other usual demigods. "Yup, I just found out," he said, "Do you also have a god parent or...?" He asked and Eight smiled uncomfortably as well, "Mine's Zeus."

I paused. Blinking. Putting two by two on what Eight just said. She had a spear that emits lightning, but I knew there were spears like that even if you are not a daughter of Zeus. "What," I blurted out.

Eight chuckled at my reaction, "Yeah I know, my oh so great dad is the lord of the skies, and his father's brother," she said while pointing over to Seven. Seven coughed, "Wait what- we're cousins?"

Eight started giggling, and I on the other hand wanted to be away from her before she starts talking how all the demigods are related to each other. Two only smiled uncomfortably, "Flashie not again..."

"Ah, well, we're all related in the godly side. Mostly now I would call myself the Aunt and not Flashie," Eight said while glaring at Two pointedly, "But yeah, we're cousins, you could be Two's and Mono's Uncle if you want to be viewed as one."

"Eight!" Mono exclaimed and Seven looked more confused as ever, "Wait... the gods are related to each other too so... oh gods," he said and Eight patted his back, "You'll get used to it," she said.

Seven only nodded, "I also found out I was related to a horse so..." Eight chuckled before turning back to the others. Una stepped closer to her, "What happened to you while you got caught, Eight?" Una asked.

Eight shrugged as she turned her spear back to a coin, "Well I managed to escape. One of the kids noticed and pleaded I helped him out, I did, and told him to set free the others who want to live, unlike these poor kids," she said while looking over to the children of the cages, blanking out from reality.

"Then I just walked around trying not to get caught by the monsters and the Janitor, finding a way to get back to the Hideout. I made it to this big room that had a giant in it who traumatized the children with monster-creature-kid fighting, best not go there. Then I saw monsters and shadow children all clustered togther lumbering in the hallway, I got curious but payed no mind about it. I then walked into a vent, figuring out the way back to the Hideout but I guess I made a wrong turn and ended up here," Eight finished, she then looked at us, "Speaking of the Hideout, shouldn't you all be in the Hideout?"

Una blinked before looking away, Three sighed, "About that, we got ambushed by monsters and shadow children. We can't go back to the Hideout," she said and the others nodded. Eight looked shocked, before her eyebrows scrunched up, "No wonder I heard those monsters cheer gleefully about having a meal. What about the other children?"

"Most got caught, or killed. But there are the lucky ones who managed to escape. But gods only know what is happening to them," Mono said, Two nodded, "And it's not anymore safe to head back, plus, we have some prophecy to find out."

"Oh really? Where did you find that out?" Eight asked curious. Four blinked, "Hold on I didn't heard about that," he said and Scarf nodded.

"Thirteen is actually an Oracle," Two explained, "Una and her wanted to talk to me about a vision Thirteen had. But instead of telling me, Thirteen got possed by the Oracle of Delphi and spoke out some prophecy."

"And what is this prophecy?" Eight asked.

"The Lady's patron helps her overthrow the gods, the half-bloods break the odds. Sisters together ends the gluttony, and send her into felony. A sacrifice and betrayal makes the mend, magic, sea, or the hunter give freedom in the end," Two recited and Eight nodded.

"Magic, sea, or hunter," Four mumbled, "You mean these three?" He asked while looking at me, then Seven, and to Mono. Two nodded, "Yup, and it told how sisters end the gluttony, and we have Six and Shadow Six, sisters."

Eight folded her arms and tapped her foot, "Well, this is a prophecy. Is something else Thirteen said aside from that prophecy?" She asked. Two nodded, "Yes," she turned to me, "Thirteen got possed by Hecate and spoke to Six."

"What?" Shadow Six turned to me, I shifted my feet while nodding, "She warned me about the traitor, and about how the Titans rise," I said.

"Bingo!" Eight snapped her fingers and pointed to me, "Titans. I am pretty sure The Lady's patron is Kronos - King of the Titans, a known enemy of the gods. And how the Lady got tons of monsters is not just because of the demigod meat, but because like the prophecy said, she is going to overthrow the gods for Kronos. That solves a bit of the mystery of the prophecy, right?"

Two nodded, "I suspected that as well. It made sense with all these evidences."

"But why would The Lady do that? She didn't knew about the gods right? Or is she... a demigod as well?" Four asked. I turned to him shocked, he was right. How did the Lady knew about the gods in the first place before she met Kronos, and why would Kronos go to her?

"Well... I... I don't know," Two slumped, "No one knew about the Lady's past," she said.

"Well," Eight trailed off while looking over the door, "How about we go and figure it out, eh?" She said.

Two nodded, "Good idea."

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.: Third Person :.

"I am not going in there," the little girl scrunched up her nose in disgust, "Antaeus has enough satyrs and demigods and other little playthings for his stupid gladiator fighting entertainment. With all my dignity I am not heading there."

The Bellman nodded, "Seems fair enough," he said but a woman slapped the back of his wax melting head. The woman has dark brown hair hung widly around her head and she wore a dark brown glittering tunic with a belt that had many cravings of people eating until they got fat like pigs. She held a basket filled with meat, fruits, and other kinds of food, and was actually chewing on an apple. "Idiot, she's charmspeaking you," she chided while chewing the apple in her mouth.

"Oh," the Wax Bellman realized before bowing at the woman, "My apologies."

The girl huffed, "I don't like it there! It reeks of cattle and dried blood," she whined. The woman sighed while turning to her, "You need to meet up with that little traitor friend that Shadow Seven made. And that is the only way to the Janitor's Nest, want me to send you there?"

"I'd rather be alone than be with you and your-," the girl paused, remembering she was speaking to a goddess. A minor goddess, but still she had enough power to make the every Guest in the Maw to become hungrier and hungrier no matter how many times they ate. It was disgusting to see them scarfing down their food like pigs.

"Than what?" The goddess had the audacity to ask, yet the girl shook her head, "Nothing. I will head down," she said.

The goddess hummed happily while slurping a sausedge whole, "Good girl! Don't come back until you finish your mission!" She said while chewing. The girl rolled her eyes while turning to the Bellman, "Let's go."

The Bellman nodded, "Sure, right this way, Miss Pretender," he mentioned to the elevator at the far end of the hall.

The goddess watched the two go, she on the other hand kept on humming while eating all the food in her basket as she headed over to the balcony overlooking all the Guests eating with gusto. This place was literally her turf, all the people eating and eating and eating no matter how fat they got, just to be the Lady's power source.

This place, it made the goddess of gluttony very happy.

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YOOOOOOOOOO

Well you found something out here, like the Pretender being here and the fact that there is a goddess of gluttony.

There is really a Greek goddess of gluttony, I Googled it.

Now I guess you know who cursed Six right?

Bye!

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