《Katastrophe Jackson and The World's End》Catnado!
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Kat and Annabeth automatically started to attack Pegasus, without actually hurting him of course. They managed to use enough wooden arrows to annoy him to the point where he swooped down to try and get them, but them flew right into their lead that Annabeth had quickly made. We managed to capture him, and then put him in a soul stone, a recently created item that was meant for trapping beasts. It paralyzed the muscles of the beast, by sending a tiny electric shock through them. After that was finished, All Kat and Annabeth could do was sit back and watch.
Lili, Frank and Marie were doing quite well against Pulao. He kept roaring, and making everyone go deaf for about five seconds at a time. Kat then managed to take a cushion and turn it into earplugs for everybody, and threw it to them. Since they could now just fight, they were doing much better. Lili and Frank were seemly distracting Pulao, while Marie was searching through her bag. She than found a vial of clear liquid, and opened it. She then yelled out a spell, and Pulao flew straight into the vial. Marie quickly put the lid on the vial, trapping him inside.
Magnus was having the hardest fight. It was one person against two ravens who could see almost everything. His fight had hit the twenty minute mark, with him being covered in bruises, and not a single raven caught. Kat then was covered in a tornado of flowers, and everyone but Magnus ran over to check on her. "Are you alright?" They all asked frantically. "I think so, but my bracelet feels heavier" Kat responded. She checked her bracelet, and found a new charm. It was a Fehu, the Norse rune of Frey. She tried to pull it, and instead it said "Nope. Try again later". Her moon charm then started vibrating, and she pulled it. It turned into her normal bow, except for the fact that it had the same Fehu symbol on the bottom. She pulled the string back, and a Temperate Iron-tipped arrow appeared. She then shot it at one of the ravens, and managed to get it to target her. She then pulled on the rune charm, and a net appeared. She threw it over the raven, and then did it again with the other one.
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Magnus, then looked at Kat and asked "Why do you have a cat and flowers all over you? Wait, did you get covered in flowers earlier?". "Um yes. And how did you know?" She asked back. Magnus then didn't respond, and started running towards the bus. "I need to hide!" He yelled, from inside the bus.
The next thing that happened was odd. Two mini tornadoes appeared next to each other. One of them was made out of cartoon hearts, and emitted cat noises. The other one was made out of peace signs, rain, and sunlight. A god and a goddess appeared, the goddess out of the catnado, and the god out of the peace storm. The goddess announced "I and my brother are here!", before Annabeth interfered, and said "Let me guess. Freya and Frey? And you guys are the gods that blessed Kat?". "How dare you talk to a god and goddess like that!" Freya said angrily. "Pfft. You guys aren't a big deal. My brother Percy Jackson, who is currently at the Camp Hestia that he built, fought Titans and giants. The only things that you could do to me, are try and make me fall in love, and get cats to try and attack me, or make it so that I'm more likely to get pregnant" I responded calmly. "I also could make wars constantly happen around you, or kill you right now" Freya responded.
"WHO THE HADES ARE THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE THREATENING YOU. NICO DI ANGELO. GET OVER HERE. I NEED YOU TO SHADOW TRAVEL ME" Percy yelled, who had just seen that exchange through an IM. "And also, good luck with the wars or death thing. Unfortunately for you, Uncle Hades, and my cousin Ares, quite like me. Why, even though Uncle Hades wouldn't be able to bring me back from the dead himself, I'm sure he would give Percy a easy task, such as bringing him a Hydra head. And though Ares loves wars, he would do anything for a cousin whom he owes favors" Kat responded, deathly calm. "Well, in short, we blessed you. Your sword is now a half Temperate Iron, and half Greek metal. You have an option of using Temperate Iron arrows, same with your knives. In your bag, you have an infinite amount of special orbs, that allow you to catch the Norse beasts. The Fehu is a one use thing. It instantly teleports anybody touching you away from danger". "Well I think that we should kill the entire group" Freya said. Frey just sighed, and said "You need some time to cool off. I'll be back in an hour".
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At this moment, with a flash of gold, ten large being appeared, them being Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hestia, Poseidon, and Hades. Two smaller beings also came out of the shadows. "Who in the Tartarus are you, and why are you threatening my younger sister?" The taller of the two smaller beings yelled. "Why, I'm Freya, goddess of cats, love, and death" Freya responded. Most of the gods looked at Hades, and he nodded. They disappeared, and Percy and Nico grabbed everyone and shadow traveled into the bus. Freya asked Hades "Are you afraid of dying?". "Why, not at all. I may be a king, and called a monster, but most importantly, I'm the Greek god of death. What are you the goddess of?" Hades responded. "Cats, love, and death" Freya said. "Unfortunately for you, Hela, a good friend of mine, is the main goddess of death for your pantheon. In that regard, you are more like a nymph of death. Can kill plants or bugs, but immortals are out of the question. On the other hand... Say hi to Hela for me" Hades said, before clapping, and a tiny rift opened in the ground, nothing more than a foot diameter. A large number of undead cats came out, and pushed Freya into the rift. The rift then closed, leaving nothing more than a tiny pile of dirt.
"Hi Uncle Hades!" I exclaimed, while running forward and giving him a hug. "Hello Kitten" He said in response. "Where's my hug?" Poseidon asked. "Hi dad!" Percy and I yelled, as we gave him a big hug. All of the gods had shrunken down to a more normal human size. The rest of the gods then proceeded to join in with the hug, and managed to push Percy out of it. Lili, Mei, Frank, Hazel, and Magnus, who had gotten out of the bus, and were leaning against it, practically had their jaws touching the floor. "Dude. Last time I saw you, you hated most of the gods with a vengeance, because, by your words, they were "Overly arrogant, selfish, stupid, people who ignored their children', and hated most of them, except for Poseidon, Hestia, and Artemis" Frank and Hazel said. "Most of them have matured. Most of them, so don't expect anything different from Hera, Dionysus, or those that hated us from the start. Cause most of them still hate us" Percy responded.
"How. In. Diyu. Are. You. And. Your. Brother. So. Friendly. With. Gods" Mei said, while looking at us like she was waiting for them to blast us to pieces. "Well, since I was four, I have been spending a month a year with my immortal family, mainly to learn how to control my powers" I said. "Have you been practicing your summoning?" Hades asked me. "Why, yes I have. I can summon a hundred undead without batting an eyelash, and keep them summoned for a week or so. Then, I have so far maxed out at a thousand undead, but I could only keep those up for an hour or so" I responded. Wait. Did I ever tell you about some of my other powers? I'll probably introduce more of them as this goes along, due to there being so many, but Uncle Hades had blessed me with undead summoning and control. Nico said "Good job. I total maxed out at a thousand for a week, and a couple million for half an hour. You'll get there. Hey, do you want to summon some of our friends? I'm sure that they'd be glad to see Hazel and Frank". "Sure. Who do you want me to try and contact?" I asked. "Let's do Jason, Piper, and Bia, if she will come" Nico responded. "Wait. You're going to-?" Hazel asked Nico. "I'm not going too. She's going to" He said, while motioning to me. I dug a hole, and tossed in some ambrosia and nectar, and did the summoning spell.
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