This is my first fic so I hope you guys enjoy it!
Percy's POV:
I checked my watch for the third time. 7 minutes late. Surely everything was fine. I stared at the high ceilings of Grand Central Station as I waited to see my girlfriend who I hadn't seen since the end of the Giant War. After the war, Annabeth went back to San Francisco to go see her family whilst I retook my senior year at Goode. We'd tried to Iris Message almost every day but we were both so busy and it had been forever since I'd seen her in person. Now, it was finally summer and there was nothing that could ruin our last few months before going to New Rome University. Holy Hera, were we fucking wrong about that.
"Seaweed Brain!"
I turned around just as Annabeth threw herself into my arms. Her honey-coloured hair smelt like flower petals and a hundred other things that turned my insides into mush. Gods, I'd missed her so much. I kissed her before letting her out of my arms.
"I missed you, Wise Girl. How was living with your Dad?" I said before grasping her hand and pulling her towards the exit.
"I missed you too, Seaweed Brain." She smiled softly, "My dad's the same as usual but I can't wait to see your mom. I've missed her blue cookies."
We couldn't get a cab so we decided to walk to my mom's apartment whilst we talked about Annabeth's cousin, Magnus, who was in fact not dead but a demigod like us. It was good to talk to her even if it was about the possible impending doom of more immortals. We walked hand in hand through Central Park whilst catching up on everything we'd missed these past few months.
"How's baby Estelle?" Annabeth asked excitedly.
"Adorable as usual. I'm glad my mom has Paul and me to help out with her this time." I said.
"Yeah. It sucks that she had to deal with you all by herself. Sounds like torture." she quipped.
"Hey! I'll have you know that I was a great baby!" I stated. She smirked at me before we both started laughing like idiots.
Suddenly I heard someone else laughing with us and turned to see a pretty Caucasian woman standing right behind us. She wore a long green dress with scaly patterns and dark sunglasses to cover her eyes.
"I love babies!" She exclaimed with a sickly sweet smile. "I had so many of my own. Then, they were killed."
I slipped my hand into my jean pocket and clasped my pen-sword, Riptide, in my hand. Annabeth and I looked at each other and one word passed silently between us: monster.
"I just love children in general. They're so fun to eat- I mean play with." the woman said.
Annabeth raised her eyebrows, clearly unimpressed with the woman's disguise. Monsters really were terrible at trying to hide the fact that they were monsters. How did we not notice that when we were 12?
"Who are you?" Annabeth demanded.
The woman slowly began to morph as the Mist faded away to reveal her reptilian legs. Her face became deathly pale and her teeth transformed into razor sharp fangs. She ripped off her sunglasses to reveal empty eye sockets.
"I am Lamia: half dragon and eater of children. This is what the Gods reduced me to. Why do you still fight for them?" the woman hissed angrily.
"I honestly don't even know anymore." Annabeth retorted exasperatedly. I couldn't help but agree.
Lamia scurried towards us with hungry eyes. I unsheathed Riptide to fight when I heard a rustling in the trees above us. I looked up to see a man in a red and blue suit with a spider emblem on his chest and a red mask. He was squatting on a branch with his arms pointed at Lamia. I saw that Annabeth looked just as confused as I was. Who was this guy? And why did I recognise him from somewhere?
"Holy shit, Lady! Something is wrong with your legs!" exclaimed the red and blue man. He sounded more like a teenage boy than a man. He couldn't have been older than Nico.
He shot a flurry of webs from his wrists towards the dragon woman and stuck her to a nearby tree. Lamia ripped through the webbing and launched towards the boy who rolled out of the way just in time. Annabeth and I gawked in shock as he swung agilely through the trees, kicking and webbing the furious monster. Lamia threw herself at the red and blue clad boy again and this time he was too slow. She pinned him against the ground and unhinged her jaw to take a bite out of his flesh when Annabeth jumped into action and hit the dragon woman on the head with her backpack. Lamia fell to the ground and the strange boy scrambled away and tried to stick the monster to the floor with his webs. I unsheathed Riptide and swiped her head clean off. The boy yelped in shock as she began to disintegrate.
I could here civilians screaming and the sound of sirens coming nearby. We had to get out of here. The spider-boy looked at us and I wished I knew what he was thinking under his red mask.
"Dude, your sword is awesome."
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