Annabeth and I were on our way back from Manhattan as Chiron had granted us the day off for winning the war any way we were walking down the main streets (I'm English I know nothing of America sorry) When Annabeth spotted a book on Architecture that was newly released and insisted we go in so that she could take a better look. "Come on Percy please it's only just come out"
"Do we have to?"
"YES"
Her stormy grey eyes bore into me daring me to refuse I gave in and headed into the book shop. You're probably thinking what on this planet could go wrong. Annabeth picked up the book and started flicking through it my ADHD brain did not like being in dreary places I glanced around the room and noticed that one of the shop assistants was approaching us. Annabeth noticed me watching and turned around. "What's the problem Seaweed brain" As soon as the word were out of her mouth the shop assistant revealed her true form and morphed into an emposa a lady with fire for hair and mismatched legs. I drew Anaklumos as Annabeth drew her knife, we charged but unfortunately for us this emposa saw what was coming and leaped on Annabeth sending her knife skidding across the floor. I leaped forward and swung riptide across her but she leapt backward just in time my brain went on overdrive out of the corner of my eye I saw a girl she was heading towards Annabeth's knife " No stay back" I yelled at her she looked at me and continued to head towards the knife the emposa got my attention back by lunging at me I was about to retaliate when she managed barrel into me next thing I know I'm on the floor with the emposa staring down at me grinning evilly "ha-ha I have you now Perseus Jackson son of the sea god" then I saw the point of a knife burst through the flesh of the emposa she then vaporised into yellow dust leaving a smell of sulphur in the air revealing the girl I had seen going for the knife blushing.
Annabeth walked up to stand beside me "Thanks I suppose do you mind me asking who you are" I asked. She looked at me as if she was scared to speak until a quizzical expression over took it "I...I recognise you, I don't know how but your Percy Jackson son of Poseidon and your Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena" she replied in an accent that was defiantly not from anywhere in America.
Annabeth looked at her as if she was trying to analyse why she knew us "how do you know who we are and as you know our names what's yours and where's your accent from?" Annabeth questioned
"Umm... well "
"Annabeth you're overloading her with questions"
"Just because you're a seaweed brain doesn't mean everyone else is so what is your name"
She stared at us as if we were the scariest thing she had ever seen
"Well... umm" she took a deep breath "My names Athena Martin and I come from west Oxfordshire England"
"Annabeth and I looked at each other" Annabeth was the first to break the silence "well one thing's for certain I think you're a demigod come on we'll get you to camp half blood"
We walked out the shop into the busy street luckily no one was on out tail as I had manipulated the mist so the mortals would think nothing had happened. Athena didn't protest she just followed obediently; she was average height with long wavy blonde hair which had a few very thin plaits in it every so often. Her skin had a slight tan and she had greeny grey eyes she wore jeans and a black top with multicoloured raindrops on it. What puzzled me most was the fact she was called Athena. I could tell Annabeth was thinking the same thing Argus picked us up right outside the empire state building. We clambered into the van Athena got in and sat there quietly not even phased by what had just happened.
Annabeth looked at her then to me with an expression that was asking the silent question of who is she?
On the way down to camp me and Annabeth talked about what we had done over the school year and tried to get Athena involved but she wouldn't say anything.
We eventually arrived at camp half blood as we got out Athena looked incredibly nervous we trekked up the hill past Thaila's tree and across the borders well Athena got past them fine so there was no doubt that she was a demigod. Annabeth and I took Athena down to the big house to inform Chiron of her arrival. We entered the sky blue big house to see Chiron and Mr. D playing pinochle.
"Ah Percy, Annabeth you are back all went well I hope"
"Um yeah it was good although we got attacked by an emposa in the book shop but its fine no one got hurt really and we found a new demigod" I informed stepping out of the way so Chiron could see Athena the look on her face was one of pure terror
"Hello I am Chiron welcome to camp half blood what is your name and would you like to step into my office please you two as well please"
We took a seat in Chiron's office which was decorated with party pony t-shirts and photos of famous demigods I for one was surprised to see a picture of me and Annabeth on the wall.
"So child what is your name"
Athena just stared at him in horror
"She is very shy Chiron and apparently doesn't like to speak but her name is Athena Martin" Annabeth said "Ah so Athena how come you don't like to speak?"
Athena made a gesture that looked like she was writing and Chiron reached over and got her a pen and paper she wrote down it's because of my accent and showed it to Chiron
"Child I have been many place and heard many accents"
Athena took a deep breath "Okay fine I shall speak, now what would you like to inquire?"
That surprised me and Annabeth as well as Chiron, me an Annabeth looked at each other as Chiron spoke up
"Well child we would like to know if you have had any strange lights above your head at all or anything strange as you are clearly a demigod otherwise you would have not made it past the borders. You did tell her about the gods Percy"
Whoops I forgot I was about to open my mouth to reply when Athena did so
"No, nothing abnormally weird has happened to me and Percy and Annabeth haven't told me about the gods but for some strange reason I seem to know about them. But it's impossible that I'm a demigod for one thing I have both parent as well as not having ADHD or dyslexia"
"That is truly puzzling but I have a feeling that you are important as you bare the same name as the goddess of wisdom there for I see it fit that you should stay in the Athena cabin. Annabeth, Percy will you see that she gets settled in I will get her stuff to arrive by the time you have finished the tour"
We all headed out of the big house, Athena gasped at the view below with the Greek buildings dotted all over the place. We started with the stables and worked our way round to the cabins only to meet Clarisse stood there with the rest of her brutal siblings glaring at us
"Another newbie we have an initiation for them" pounding her fist into her palm
"back of Clarisse or do you want to swallow more toilet water" I yelled at her standing in front of Athena Clarisse shoved me out the way I turned round to see something that surprised me. Athena glared a Clarisse and kicked her in the face Clarisse brought her hands up to her face yelling in pain. Athena motioned for us to follow as we ran into the Athena cabin. We sat down on Annabeth's bed, Annabeth looked questionably at Athena to whom she replied "Well if I didn't do anything she would of pulverised me and if I ran off she would have followed so I kicked her meaning she would cover her eyes and not see where we ran off to." I replied "well it makes sense" just then Athena's stuff appeared in the room and she smiled so wide it was unbelievable amongst her stuff was a keyboard and a large grey bag that looked like a bag for some kind of sport "Awesome ive got my keyboard and my cricket kit yay"
"What's cricket" she looked at me like I'd just stabbed her hamster
"It's an English sport seaweed brain" Annabeth chuckled
"Oh I forgot that you won't know how to play" Athena looked slightly crestfallen but quickly brightened up " Thank you for bringing me here I am incredibly grateful and time I'm sorry if I wasted your time as I doubt you really wanna be her with me" she looked slightly solemn
"naa its been great meeting you" I said
"really?"
"Yeah and now I have a new cabin mate who actually my age" Annabeth added
Athena smiled "thanks you've been really nice" with that she started to set out her keyboard .
"what times dinner?"
"7:30" Annabeth replied "well we'll let you unpack meet you at the dining pavilion bye"
"bye hope you settle in"
"Bye have fun"
She waved as we left
"Well she's nice"
"Yeah she is a bit shy though"
"Seaweed brain you've got to remember she from England she probably feels awkward around people she doesn't know from a different country"
"yeah I suppose"
We headed down to the beach Annabeth leant on my shoulder and I had my arm around her as we watched the wave's pound against the beach the conch horn sounded and we got up fingers entwined and headed down to the dining pavilion. I went and sat at the Poseidon table and asked for blue cherry coke and pizza I then got up and made an offering to Poseidon once Athena had finished her meal she quickly left for the Athena cabin. Annabeth flashed me a look I nodded once we had finished we headed over to the Athena cabin as we approached we could hear piano music playing Annabeth opened the door to see Athena's fingers going at light speed across the keys captivated we just stood there and listened until the whole of the Athena cabin and Chiron were gathered outside of the cabin which is when Athena finally realised someone was watching her she turned around with a startled face and started blushing until someone piped up and said "you were amazing how do you do that" she started blushing even more "umm...practice" and smiled sheepishly "right everybody back to whatever you were previously doing" Chiron ordered many people congratulated Athena on her playing she just smiled and nodded at them all until she reach the door and ran off towards the beach. "I don't think she likes all the attention I think we should go and speak to her" Annabeth contemplated "yeah she headed down to the beach
Annabeth and I ran after her when we got to the beach we found her sitting on the sand with her feet in the surf staring out onto the ocean we sat down either side of her " whats wrong"
" I guess its just all new I never really liked attention and I'm not used to alot of people talking to me at school me and my friends were the strange ones who were to smart and don't fit in because we don't act like everyone else"
"why what is everyone else like" Annabeth asked
Athena raised her eyebrows "you really wanna know my opinion"
"yeah"
"well to fit in at school you have to be caked in so much makeup that your bright orange and flirt with just about every boy and misbehave because if your smart your ridiculed"
"thats just stupid so who are you friends"
"Only have five I don't make friends very easily but they are the best friends I could wish for" she smiled at the thought of her friends
"what are they like?" I asked
"well there's Amy whos always there for everyone no matter the situation and is great fun to be around and she has to many animals to count. Then theres Florence, Flo for short she is serious injury prone such as she broke her arm then sprained in in P.E while not even doing P.E because of a dislocated knee then she got concussion sliced her thumb open on a cat food tin and has fractured her arm again shes a daredevil and gets obsessive over things. Harriet is another she talks lots but its always interesting and she'll alway listen and be willing to help and she eats absolutely tons and never gets fat as her metabolism is soo high. Sophies the one whos constantly laughing and talking about something random to lighten the mood. Finally theres Yossra who is half Egyptian and is the one who you can rely on. Well then theres me " her voice degrading slightly at the end
"sounds like you have friends who care what do they think of you?"
"well I'm described as the one whos always positive no matter the situation and is always there to encourage people, I'm also the random one who comes out with random phrases and is hyper energetic I'm almost never still and my friends think I'm crazy cause I love to run and be on the move well now you probably think I'm some freak"
"thats not true" I said
"no you were amazing on the keyboard and I'm sure you'll make friends you already have two" Annabeth chimed in
"I do?"
"yeah me and Percy"
"Thanks I really appreciate it"
"Yeah anyone who who can kick Clarisse in the face is cool bye me " I said
Athena smiled Annabeth got up and said "you coming back to the cabin" "you bet"
With that we ran off back to the cabins.
The next day I woke up to find Annabeth shaking me "get up seaweed brain you've missed breakfast"
I got up groaning and got dressed into my Camp Half blood top and jeans "were seeing what Athena is good at today to try and figure out who her parent is "
"oh oh yeah"
"come on then lets get a move on"
I stuck my tongue out at her and stepped out side to fine Athena waiting for us
"so what are we gonna do first?"
"I was thinking foot racing" I looked at Annabeth and she nodded
Once we were with the nymphs they gave Athena a lesson and one thing was for sure she was fast she kept up with the nymphs perfectly then jogged over to us
"how did I do" she asked nervously
"you did great" what I wasn't telling her is that when I raced them they left me in the dust its depressing to be slower than a tree
"how about we move onto archery?"
"okay" Annabeth said Athena suddenly got a very worried look on her face
Once at the archery range we found out pretty quickly she was no good at that we moved onto canoeing and rock climbing which she was okay at. Then we moved onto wrestling Clarisse growled at Athena but she just glared right back when in the wrestling area Athena was incredible. Clarisse was at least 2 times bigger than Athena as she was rather slim and quaint but when Clarisse charged at her she did a front flip over her head and kicked her in the head as she went over when she landed she kicked Clarisse sending her to the floor. Clarisse recovered quickly a threw a punch at Athena but she ducked and swung her legs round knocking Clarisse over Athena jumped up and landed on Clarisse and then walked over to us "how'd I do" me and Annabeth gawked at her then went onto sword fighting which Athena was also pretty good at.
Finally we went to dinner me an Annabeth still confused as to who her parent could be she thought like a child of Athena, had the grace of Artemis, loved water like a child of Poseidon, Fought like a child of Ares, loved to fly on the pegasai like a child of Zeus, ran like a child of Hermes, had a love of nature like a child of Dionysus and Demeter , was as kind as Selena Beauregard child of Aphrodite, played music like a child of Apollo, loved being creative like a child of Hephaestus and was loyal like Hera. It left me and Annabeth completely confused.
As we walked into the dining slightly late an image flashed above Athena's head
It was all the symbols of the 12 Olympian gods many people gasped but Chiron just stood up calmly and said no need to worry there is no dreadful prophecy associated with this child moving onto events Olympus is throwing a party to appreciate the effort you put in to win the war and we are all invited and some of you are expected to sing and not just the children of Apollo"
The camp broke in a cheer at the thought of having a party on Olympus.
Lying in bed thinking about the ball when my thought drifted off to Annabeth I've found that my thoughts have being doing that move lately thinking about how beautiful she is how smart she is they way that she's completely perfect whoa when did I start thinking those things when it hit me I realise I am in love with Annabeth but she'll probably never feel the same way when words came into my head realising it was a song I wrote it down.
Annabeth's POV
I was laying in bed Athena in the bunk next to me her laptop that her parents had sent down what you doing "Oh...talking to my friends asking how school is"
"school didn't that finish in June?"
"no in England it finishes 2 weeks in to July"
"what how come you get less summer time than us"
"because we have a week off in between terms so one between October and November and so on"
"well that makes sense but wouldn't you want more summer"
"Clearly you've never been to England I rains alot of the time but its home and the air smell nicer there and I miss the trees and the bike rides through the mud whiles Flo's on a horse playing cricket at Combe hoping that the match is still on even though its rained "
"sounds like you have fun in England"
"don't get me wrong camp is amazing as well but you always miss home it's just one of those things you and Percy should visit England sometime you'd love the architecture on the universitys in Oxford"
"that'd be fun" I lay back down on my bed and my thought drifted off to Percy and how his messy black hair makes him look so cute and his sea green eyes whoa when did I start to think of Percy in that way but I knew that I loved him but I'd never tell then word came into my head and I grabbed a piece of paper and scribbled them down. Athena looked at me curiously and then surprised me by what she said "you love him don't you"
"Wha...no...Who...wha... yeah, yeah I do" she smiled at me then grabbed the paper like she was analysing it
"this is a song and I know exactly how it would sound" and started writing music
If you have any questions about who Athena is or anything feel free to tell me and I'll make sure I reply and by the way this was a really random dream I had :P