Two brave Warriors

There were once two brave warriors,
Who scaled the depths of the oceans
Crossed unforgivable deserts
And conquered fierce lands
With nothing more than just the two of them.

They battled dragons side-by-side,
Slept under the same roof
Had the same meat together.
Partners in crime, were they
Protectors of justice, were they.

They feared no demons
Took pride in their accomplishments.
They walked as one and climbed the ladders of success
Nothing could separate the two of them.

But, when a lightning bolt tears them apart,
Both go flying to North and South
One to wake in th the scary depths of sea
The other in the middle of a scarier desert

It was not the seemingly deadly creatures which bothered one,
It was not impending doom which bothered the other
As lack of company
Is what bothered both.

They had given up,.
The rulers beside each other
Were not even peasants without one another.
One wanted to engulf the darkness around the sea
Other wanted to embrace the harsh winds and be buried in the sand.

Fate, is a cunning thing.
It sets out to change things
for the better or worse, no one knows.

Yet will it allow, the two to meet again?
Will they ever be truly together again?
Will fate, finally give up
And let them rule their world, together again?


Yang reporting for duty readers, and with me there is the long awaited Yin! Please welcome us even though we might not deserve it. Sorry for being inactive for eternity? (Yup, Yin agrees) I hope you missed us. We hope to stay a bit more active from now onwards.


  

Having a pet v/s not having one- Yin v/s Yang

Hello readers! This is Yin back this Sunday with an unusual review, about a situation. I'm sure you must have missed me and had to tolerate Yang all alone. Well, my apologies. I hope I can redeem myself with this. So, this review is going to be about, dogs. I have a nine-month old beagle and I love her so much! But I can't say it's all rosy and nice having her. There are a few things I have to do which I do not wish to. And Yang enjoys not doing all that because he doesn't have a dog. Okay, yes Yang I've heard you. You want a dog but can't get one and that I'm so fortunate to have one. I get it.

Now, coming straight to the situation at hand, I love my dog. There's no denying that. How she runs to me everyday when I get back home from school, how she wakes me up with her soft nudges and licks. All that is definitely worth having a dog. But the other things can't be unnoticed. You have to take them for a walk everyday, change their newspapers (worst part) and sometimes, if you're the only child like me, you might have difficulty in adjusting to a new member who gets all the attention.

But yes it is fun. Yang here may feel bad because he doesn't have a pet with whom he can play catch, or run around the house with. But he doesn't have to clean her poop or her puke (which dogs do very often), neither does he have to take her for a walk early in the morning during winters. As much as you would want to look at only the positives, the negatives cannot be left unseen. Once you get a dog, your holiday life gets limited. You won't be able to take your dog everywhere and wouldn't have the heart to leave her at home, so you also end up staying at home. You need to give her a bath once in two weeks, clip her nails, clean her ears, trim her hair. . . That's a lot of work! But still, being a dog owner, I'd never give my beagle back. She is a part of the family now and I cannot imagine life without her.

Just as any other topic, dogs also have both positives and negatives. It is upto you to choose the good side or the bad side. That's all for now. See you next week with another smashing review from Yang. Until then, this is Yin signing out. 

Blood of Olympus - The world is at stake

Apparently, your low life, loveable, inconspicuous and maybe funny writer is back. Yang back into action with Yin in tow! I know, don't hate me now! She was supposed to do this one but apparently your writer girl has called in sick, but she'll be governing and editing my work from her room, say hello Yin. Yeah your phlegm coated hello is very adorable, we'll get you working in no time! Just keep eating the vegetable soup.

To be doing the work now, this review will be on the last book of the series. This will mark the history as the most awesome patch of the biggest arch enemies in mythological history. Between the Greeks and Romans, they will unite, forget their differences and face a common enemy, our Queen dirt face and the god of Porta potty, Gaia. Our two heroes have come back from Tartatus with unpleasant, disturbing and horrifying memories as complimentary package of the tour. The very first scene is Jason, Annebeth and Hazel climbing a mountain so that they can attend a ghost slumber party gone wrong, and gather information for the safest route to take.

They embark on the most adventurous and deathly quest of all, because the World is at stake. They have to face threats as dangerous as always as each and every one of the routes are heavily guarded by Gaia's minions. How do they plan to overcome these dangers? How do they plan on surviving? What has our sweet, vengeful mother earth planned for them? Most important of all, how do they stop Gaia from destroying every civilization ever created on earth? Even the gods?

House of Hades - Hold on to your souls

Yang here! I am excited particularly by this review because the book contains exciting turn of events with many possibilities of death of any or all of our great demigods who are destined to stop the our mother earth who is apparently eternally evil by hating the Olympians. To be honest, hating the Olympians is not a difficult task, they are immortal so they think they are the most superior beings, which gives them the Mount Olympus sized ego in their immortal bodies. They often tend to forget about the minor Gods and treat humans badly and unjustly. You see, it is not fair when you release your wrath upon humans when you did not have low-fat, divine milk for your cereal. Even Hera, (yes, we are getting back to her) it is also not fair if you punish the woman Zeus did some hanky-panky with, also the child has no role to be punished. It was Zeus's holy sperm, blame him. So Gods, we are also praising you, (we don't want to be the bad paparazzi, unlike here on earth, they can do much more from up there, I don't want Hera's holy animal's, cow dung on my shoes every time I go out. Annebeth knows.) but if you could keep the rage up there with you, it would be a delight for everybody, both demigods and mortals alike.

Back to the review, our five demigods are taking a trip to a deadly temple of Hades where people went to call upon the dead so to predict the future or maybe even have a picnic with the dead. Typical underworld stuff. The reason they have to go to that lively temple is that the one end of doors of death are there which are bringing the dead and monsters back to the world. It is guarded by a giant and an evil witch(This is going to be fun).

Now, before all that, our heroes, namely Hazel is graced with the honour of having Hecate the goddess of mist's advise. Hecate enlightens the choices they'll have and the route of the journey to the temple of House of Hades. She tells her that not every thing is yes or no, left or right, wrong or right, you have more than two choices (A valuable thought) Hazel also discovers that her power of summoning metal from underground has much more powerful use. She has to learn to control the mist as the fate of the quest depends on it, without the mist, they will not be able to reach the entrance of the temple alive, let alone go in and close the doors of death

Now, notice how I said five demigods? (Yin, should we tell them? They would have read the book by now right? Yeah, you are right there, what happens in the big T, stays in the big T) My brother and his intelligent, good looking girlfriend (No offence Perce) are stuck in a special, terrifying, and of course a death-dealing place. Where the monsters regenerate after being destroyed and all the rivers of the underworld meet.
A 'good' Titan, who became good because he lost his memory thanks to Percy, helps them to navigate through the terrifying place. This does not stop their every step being harder from the last. They are literally dying in there! Their supplies are almost depleted, they were inflicted with curses, and they have cuts and bruises all over! They barely survive the hell-hole!

Simultaneously, our other demigods are having their own problems up there, they have to get a magical Diocletian's sceptre to help them battle the enemies in the house of Hades. They have to reach there with a dead line hovering around, and when they do they have to go through the underground temple dealing with monsters, traps and ghosts. They have to close the Doors of Death as to stop the horde of dead spilling out. The catch here is that the doors should be closed from the both sides together, they have no communication with the other two whatsoever, they can just pray that they are able to reach there at the same time those two do, so that the doors are reset and transferred to another place, untraceable.

My brother is in mortal danger, I dont have any choice but to wait, the silver lining is that he is with Annebeth. I can't imagine the love he has for her, maybe one day I'll match him on it. But for now, I just have to smear my t-shirt with tears and ice cream. So you can say I am having an internal crisis. *Yin patting me and comforting me* Thank you Yin, I needed someone to do that, you mind if I crouch into a fetal position, you can still pat me. She will come back with a smashing review on the last of series, Blood of Olympus. Bye people and please do read the book, even if it may carry a crisis with it.

       

Mark of Athena- Knowlege does triumph all in the end

Its another Sunday and Yin and Yang are back to work. Dear readers, this is Yin. I apologise for every weird thing Yang did in his previous review (sons of Poseidon I tell you). Anyway, today we're here to focus on a daughter of Athena! Finally some recognition! So let's get straight into it.

By the end of Son of Neptune, we have Percy and gang waiting for Annabeth and team to come and meet them at Camp Jupiter. And finally in Mark of Athena our two love birds unite ( Romeo and Juliet are just friends beside them) Jason and Piper go around the camp, Annabeth has a friendly chat with Reyna. All is fine. A bit too fine I guess. So obviously to disrupt all this "happiness" Leo has to be possessed by Eidolons (evil spirits and minions of Gaia) and starts firing the ballista and wrecking havoc at camp. They had come there to strengthen relations between Roman and Greek demigods, but that was not going to be possible today. So the seven of them fled to the ship and took off as fast as they could.

They escape alright, but with a whole Roman armada trying to find them, they can only run but can't hide. Piper gets a vision on her knife that involves Bacchus, the wine God. Jason, Percy and Piper go to Kansas and meet the wine God who says that they'll have to kill two giants and Giants can't be killed alone by either God or demigod, both had to work together. Just as they were talking, Gaia's minions posses Percy and Jason, but our Charmspeaker outwits them and saves the day. Charmspeaking is a power used by Aphrodite's children, they are mainly self-centered but Piper is genuinely nice, so the power is in good hands.

Later, coach Hedge, Frank and Percy fight Keto and Phorcys for information about Gaia's plan. And the Romans ultimately do find them and all hell breaks loose! Our seven and Coach Hedge get on an unknown ship with an unknown enemy ready to fight them to the death. All roads lead to Rome and so do our adventurers. They go to Rome to find answers to the prophecy and mostly to leave Annabeth all alone to find the Mark of Athena and bring it back, though no child of Athena has ever been able to find it. She has to go alone and survive alone with no help whatsoever.

Percy now has to defeat two giants, worry about his girlfriend coming back to him and save the world. I'm actually kind of feeling sad for the guy. Anyway, this is an amazing novel and with each novel the suspense just keeps rising and has you craving for more. But beware. The cliffhanger at the end of this novel is the worst so far. That's all from me this week. See you next Sunday with the review on House of Hades from Yang. This is Yin signing out.

Yang, don't even think of eating the chocolate ice cream! My sister is in mortal danger so I need all kinds of comfort food! Yeah, that's right. Whimper back to your room. Sons of Posiedon! I have to take tips on how she keeps Percy under the leash. After she comes back of course. Yes, she will come back, I believe in you sis, we all do.

Son of Neptune - Another empire shaking tale

Yang here, I am here for what I am here every time. To give you the review on the second book of the series, The Son of Neptune. I hope you enjoy it. If my writing is getting 'not-interesting' tell me, I would be happy to read the hate mail. At least I'll get mail. *sobs as if having years of practice*

So to begin with, our sassy, Greek-ily hot, sea green eyed, loving boyfriend is back. The one and only, Percy Jackson. What's the catch Yang? Even though he is Greek he happens to bump in on a Roman camp (Read the intro for the brief explanation of our two beloved empires). That sounds interesting, how did that happen? Of course, our one and only, Queen jealous-of-her-husband's-girlfriend, Hera (She should give classes to possessive people on how to take revenge, you can partner too Yin. Yin? are you possessed? why do you have the death stare? don't take a step forward! The power of Christ compels you! Ahhh! My will - My four pair of socks, some couple of T-shirts and Jeans and a couple of hundred bucks go to charity. The rest of my possessions are my undergarments, they go to the garbage can). She takes his memory and dumps him into a pack of wolves so that later he can go to the Roman Camp of demigods (Camp Jupiter). Why wolves? Because apparently that's how Romans roll, they are left with the pack of wolves whose queen is the god of wolves, Lupa. She trains them until she thinks they are ready  and then leaves them to go on their own and survive the cruel world till they reach camp. All this is done while the child is with wolves and they have their own principals, like if any child showed weakness then demigod special would be available in the dinner menu. She got the award of the most desirable nanny ever (okay Yin, I'll get off the ride of 'Humor on wolf' and get on the ride of 'book reviews' just not the lamp, it hurts.)

Getting back to the review, all that Percy remembers is Annabeth. Now he just has to find a way to get to her. Should be a piece a cake right? Only that it's anything but that. Percy fights Gorgons (they're related to Medusa) and reaches Camp Jupiter with an old lady on his back who turns out to be the Roman counterpart of Hera, Juno. Lot to process yes. There he meets Hazel and Frank who help him at Camp. Soon news spreads that a son of Neptune (counterpart of Posiedon) has come to camp and their camp head or Praetor, Reyna takes charge. She invites Percy to a nice friendly chat and tries extracting all the information she can but is left with none because he can't remember a thing! A few days later, Mars (counterpart of Ares) comes and gives a simple prophecy to Frank (who happens to be his son. Told you these Greeks and Romans are no different). His mission is to go to the land beyond the gods, Alaska, save a god, defeat a giant and bring back a Roman flag which will be vital for the future. Easy stuff. To bring it down a bit, Frank is the guy who is hungry, Alaska is a fridge (it actually is cold there) and saving a god, defeating a giant and getting the flag is the snack in the fridge. He does not have a choice because if he does not get the snack, the big prophecy would be useless (that's for another time).

As is the norm, every quest should have three demigods and Frank obviously chooses Hazel and Percy and the three set off on their adventure, hoping to find this god free him and get back to Camp alive. More than that Percy just wanted to get back to his old life, his old home, his old friends and his Annabeth.

This book is better that the first. The way Percy gets his memory back is one amazing ride. Frank and Hazel surprise us at every opportunity and the trio become really close by the end of their quest. And as to whether my distant brother gets his memory back or not, you'll get the answer in the book. That's right, MY distant brother *beaming with pride*. Anyway, that's all from me. Yin will see you here next week with the review of Mark of Athena (she's kinda sentimental about writing about her distant sister's adventure. Dont worry Yin, it would be alright. You just have to feel the pen and keyboard the rest will be done). See you readers!

First of the series- The Lost Hero

Another Sunday and Yin and Yang are back together to give you the review on the Lost Hero. So, today I, Yin, will be taking you through the first novel that led to a revolution in the worlds of Gods both Greek and Roman. It all started in a bus.

Our protagonist, Jason Grace felt as though he woke up after a decade of sleep and next to him was a pretty girl holding his hand (Yeah Yang, I know you call it a fortune).For any average guy, if he finds a girl holding his hand, he's not going to care how they got there instead he'll think about what to do next (Yang, I know I can capture masculine perspective so delicately. Now being with you has its perks, even if useless ones)But Jason wasn't the average guy. He was a demigod. Soon he finds out that the girl next to him was "supposedly" his girlfriend Piper (Yang, I know it can't get any better than this, now let me tell you, it took an hour of energetically frolicking around with my dog to calm her. So I am tired. Now, shut up) and they had another friend, Leo. All of them were heading to see the Grand Canyon. That's where everything went wrong. Their teacher-in charge was Coach Gleeson Hedge. They reached the Grand Canyon and all hell broke lose. A student turned into a Venti (unfriendly wind spirits) and knocked both Piper and Jason in the Grand Canyon.  That was when Jason learnt that he could fly! Coach Hedge was captured by the Venti. They were saved by a girl and guy in a chariot. The girl immediately charged towards Jason demanding information about Percy Jackson, but Jason didn't know a thing about himself! How could he know anything about this guy, Percy Jackson. The three demigods are escorted to Camp Half-Blood.

After they reached Camp, Leo was revealed as a son of Hephaestus, Piper was a daughter of Aphrodite and Jaosn was a son of Zeus. Now, two of them are accommodated as Greeks. What about our hot, decent-guy protagonist? Even though he is the son of Zeus, he is not Greek. He is Roman, his father is Roman Zeus, namely Jupiter. Don't you dare say it's a planet, this post is mythical, not astrological. Now, in our previous intro, we wrote that Roman and Greeks don't go together, so how come a Coca-Cola has entered the neighbourhood of Pepsi? Clearly the work of a God (namely Hera/Juno). She just wants to poke her immortal nose everywhere. Now, I can't blame Hera (Or Juno) on this one. She did a fantastic job. Yes I said it. But her own interests were at heart for that particular time, you see, she was captured, and was due to become a wife of a giant, which is like the most ridiculous ship, pairing of two people, ever (not so much of an immortal, snobbish boss now are you?) Hera chooses Jason as the one who will free her, with Piper and Leo. As a custom in the camp, a prophecy is issued so that they may have a very vague clue of what will happen in the quest. Now how do they go to the prison to free the nose-poker queen of the universe? Does Jason get his memory back? What will happen to Jason and Piper, since she loves him but he is very confused? Amnesia does that.

Yang, what has happened to you? Have you reserved this day for being an overly girls-obsessive douche? Why do you think a pretty girl is the fortune and he is making a mistake by not "going for it"? Anyway, readers, do us a favour and read the book, it will be worth your time. Meanwhile, I'll go and debate with this guy of mine who writes. See you next Sunday.