Eight Gusts [ACTION]

[thewindything]

[So you thought you'd escaped the excitement of April Fools. A place like camp heralds the date like the end of times. When you're in a camp full of ADHD half-gods and 75% of them are the worst kind of tricksters it's only natural to build your own safe house and live underground untilt he dust cleared.]

[It would be about 7pm and a little after dinner that camp would get at least one more surprise.]

[And that would be the sound of a purple and blue shaped missile rocketing through the skies. It could have been written off as a weird low flying plane until it changed course very suddenly and nose dived towards camp.]

[John Egbert had been on the run for a good week before he made a last ditch effort to fly the rest of the way back to the island. When he was able to finally spot Half-Blood Hill passing under him... well. He was always told he needed to work on his landings.]

[He nose-dived, plummeting through the tops of a few trees and finally gracelessly crashing through the roof of Hecate Cabin.]

[The rest of camp will be notified by this event by the sounds of explosions and fireworks going off from the rupture of all of the cabin's cursed stones.]

[+ One lost Son of Jupiter. Happy April Fools!]

Comments

[wintersergeant]

Yup. For a second I thought the explosion was a lame idea for a joke.

[thewindything]

That is such bullshit. I get kidnapped fore two months and I miss my favorite holiday. I bet Gabe is laughing this up.

[Pauses, thinking on that.]

I guess blowing up a cabin will have to do for now. BLUH.

[wintersergeant]

--kidnapped? What?

[What is this camp oh my gods]

By who?

[thewindything]

Wow, you really must be new.

[He frowns.]

Have they told you about the Red Room yet? It's a faction of jerks working for Gaea. They go around basically screwing everything up. There was a big fight here at camp a few months ago where they came in with a bunch of wolves and tried to burn the place down.

I got taken prisoner during that fight like an asshole.

[wintersergeant]

Yeah, they mentioned somethin' about that. Nothin' about wolves or prisoners though.

[Which worries him. Why not go and save captives?]

[thewindything]

That's... weird.

[Like, really weird.]

...So, hey. You've never heard Jason or Reyna. What about Ventus? Naomi? Jehan? Dave is here, thank god.

[He's worried as hell about his friends.]

[wintersergeant]

Is Ventus Ven? Some girl said he got called out or somethin' a few days ago. Dunno the other two, sorry.

[thewindything]

Ven! Yeah, he's ...my brother.

[Blinks.]

Called out?

[wintersergeant]

Yeah, went to help people? I dunno, I didn't pay too much attention.

[thewindything]

[You're super helpful, guy. But John thinks on this a little.]

Maybe they found other members of the Legion. That would make sense. I don't see either him or Jason sitting around in that case.

[wintersergeant]

I guess. Really, I've been too busy tryin' to learn other stuff to pay much attention to everyone else. I haven't heard anything about anyone named Naomi or Jehan, if that's any help.

["Jehan" is butchered.]

[thewindything]

Jehan. [Correct] It's fine. I'll have to hunt them down myself.

[He hopes they're even here. He's worried about how the wolf situation went and he's been gone so long.]

You walked into this demigod business at a pretty rough time.

[wintersergeant]

Story of my life. Y'ever hear of the Lotus Hotel in Vegas?

[thewindything]

Nope. What is it?

[wintersergeant]

This hotel an' casino that once you go in, it's hell to get back out. Some weird magic or somethin'. Guess where me an' my best friend spent the last seventy-something years?

[thewindything]

Holy shit.

[Pause.]

So you're like ...from the forties or something?

[wintersergeant]

[He just nods]

Yeah, basically. I've been a bit busy catchin' up on everything else, not learnin' who's who.

[thewindything]

That's pretty valid, I'll give you that.

Man what was even in the forties, anyway.

[wintersergeant]

What's that supposed to mean?

[He gives John a Look. Is he insulting the 40s?]

[thewindything]

Exactly what I said. World War II happened, I know that much. Doctor Who we got in the sixties, Star Trek was the sixties, I'm coming up blank.

[He's not actually insulting it sounds like he's legitamitely curious.]

The Twilight Zone? Wait- when did King Kong come out?

[wintersergeant]

[Bucky blinks at John before shaking his head]

Th' only one I've heard of is King Kong. That came out in '33.