Hello, lovely people of fanfiction. I'm so excited to post a new story! It is my 3 one and I think its going to be the best out of all of them, I think... but i'll let you decide that. so please enjoy! Oh, and by the way, this story is at the time of the mark of Athena. :)
CHAPTER 1
I scream as I fall out of the sky. And the next thing I know is that I land on something soft. . . And that something soft was apparently a boy.
yelps and stifled screams come from the people around me. I curse in accent Greek as I try to get up. But, sadly my dress some how got underneath him, so when I tried to get up I only made it worse by falling on him again.
"ugg." he groaned.
"Frick!" is all I can manage to say.
I feel something cold on the back of my neck. I turn my neck to see a blond headed girl with piercing storm grey eyes. Holding a dagger at my neck. She looked so familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.
Behind her I see six other kids. The one closest behind her had dark choppy brown hair. She must have been Cherokee, because her skin was really tan. She was holding a bronze dagger. ( I think Pipers dagger is bronze...)
There was a boy with his arm protectively around her waist. He had bright blue eyes and blond hair. And was holding a gold sword.
Then, there was a boy that was quite scrawny, any way, he looked like a mischievous elf, because 1 he had pointy ears, and 2 he was shorter than all the boys from what I could see. He had brown hair, brown eyes, and not to mention his hand was on fire. . .
I thought, more Demi-gods.
In the other hand he had a huge hammer.
Next was a big asian guy who had an army cut hairstyle, he was standing next to a girl. She had really curly brown hair, she had olive skin, and she looked younger than all of them, but I could tell she still had a powerful aura.
I sorta forgot about the boy I fell on so when he shoved me off I tumbled to the ground. I grunted and held my nose. I look at my hand and see that I have blood on them.
"Lovely." I mumble.
I start to get up but a sword was pushed up against my neck.
"wow," I breath in sharply.
"I haven't see Anaklusmos in ages." I smile.
"wait, how do you know about Anaklusmos?" the boy that I fell on asked.
"really? you can't even remember me?." I make a tisk-tisk noise, even thought I was joking. "wait what? Who are you?!" the boy demanded.
"well I thought you would remember me. . . Even though it was five to eight years ago. . ."
"what are you talking about, five to eight years?" the Asian boy asked.
"do you think she's a monster?"one of them murmured.
"to answer your question, no I am NOT a monster. I used to go to Camp Half Blood." I state.
The boy that I fell on had ravin black hair and sea green eyes.
The blond headed girl walked up to me and hugged me. I started tearing up, she was the only friend I really had, I IRS messaged Annabeth a while ago to tell her that I was alright. When I pulled away from her I saw that she was crying, I was to, it was great to see her.
"I can't believe I didn't recognize you Vanessa!" Annabeth exclaimed.
"it's okay I didn't either." I said while wiping away some stray tears.
"wait." the boy with raven hair held his hand up. "how do you know each other?" he said quite confused.
"chill out seaweed brain." Annabeth smiled.
"seaweed brain?" I ask.
"yep its Percy's nickname." I smiled at Annabeths comment.
"well its nice to meet you Percy." I extend my hand but he doesn't shake it.
"who are you." he demands.
"really you haven't figured that out by now?" I smile.
The girl with brown choppy hair said "she's a Demi-god."
"Thank you, finally someone knows who I am." I sigh.
"Chiron said something about a girl that left camp a year before I got here." Percy says. "I'm really sorry, for not telling you all." Annabeth says shaking her head.
"It's alright." Percy says, as he wraps her in his arms and kisses her head.
"Wait. . . If your a Demi-god then who is your godly parent?" the scrawny/elf looking boy asked while he scrunched up his noes.
"I wish I could answer that question." I say sadly.
FLASHBACK
(the flashback is when Vanessa is 10 years old)
I run through the woods, tears spilling down my cheeks. My left ankle fractured, deep cuts and small cuts all around my body. I trip over a root and cry out in pain. Whatever was following me had lost my scent, for now. But I knew I needed to keep running, because it would find my scent again, and if that happened I know I wouldn't survive. I get up and start running up a hill. Once I get to the top of the hill I'm out of breath and there is so much fog I can barley see five feet in front of me. I hear the monster scream in anger. I turn around to see nothing but I can sense that it's close. I take off running down the hill towards a big blue house. I reach the house and bang in the door, crying. The door opens to A very tall man, but he wasn't really a man because he was a white stallion from the waist down. I stare at him and cry. He walks towards me and say,
"please come in my dear." I look at him wondering if he's a monster, but I decide that he isn't. I walk past him and move towards a couch. I immediately collapse on it and lose my consciousness. The next time I wake up I see a blond headed girl staring at me.
"who are you?" I manage to say through my scratchy throat. It feels like I swallowed a bucket of sand, and if you don't know how it feels, you'r lucky because it feels horrid.
"I'm Annabeth Chase." she smiles. I try to ask another question but she gives me a Lemon bar.
"Eat it, it will make you feel a lot better." I take the strange looking lemon bar gingerly, then take a bite. Instantly I fell my ankle mending.
"what is this stuff?" I ask.
"its ambrosia," Annabeth says.
"whats ambrosia?" I question. Then the strange man walks in. to where ever I am and says.
"I think its best for you to rest right now."
"but where am I, and whats ambrosia?" I try to sit up. but Annabeth pushes me back down gently.
"your questions will be answered in time dear." the man says.
"but I want to know now." I say starting to tear up.
"don't worry, all your questions will be answered soon. Just rest." I do as he says and close my eyes.
END FLASHBACK
I look at Annabeth and say.
"Can I get changed into something else?"
"sorry of course you can. Come this way" Annabeth leads me into a corridor. She opens a door and goes inside, I step in the room and go over to Annabeth. She pulls out a grey t-shirt, some jean shorts and other girl stuff. (if your a girl you know what I mean)
"Thank you so much." I say as I grab the clothes from her. "wheres the bathroom?"
"go out the door and take a left into the hall and then go to the last door on your right and thats it."
I walk out the door and take a left then I walk down the hall and go to the last door on my right. I step inside and quickly get undressed I slip on the under clothes, and then pull on the shirt it is baggy and falls off my shoulder, an it has a black owl on the front, I slip on the jean shorts and walk back to the room that Annabeth was in.
"I can't thank you enough." I say to Annabeth as I walk through the door.
"No problem." she smiles. "So what do you think brought you here?"
"I have no clue." I respond.
"well we were about to have dinner... Uh before you came, so lets go eat."
I follow Annabeth out the door and into the place where must be the dining room.
"Whats your name?" the boy with curly brown hair asked.
"Vanessa," I say as I take a bite of my salad.
"ok how about we go around the table and say our name and who our godly parent is." Annaneth suggests. "I'll start, I'm Annabeth Chase, and my godly parent is Athena."
"I'm Percy Jackson, and my godly parent is Poseidon."
"my names Hazel Levesque, and I'm the daughter of Pluto."
"Nico Di Angelo, Parent Hades."
" The names Leo Valdez, and The parents Hephaestus."
"I'm Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite."
"Jason Grace and my parent is Zeus."
"and my name is Frank Zhang, my godly parent is Mars."
"well its nice to meet you all, My names Vanessa Peyton, and I don't know who my godly parent is." I say all in one breath. "so where are we?" I ask.
"were on the Argo II, and I'm the captain." Leo states.
"That wasn't necessary to say Leo." Annabeth scolds.
"whats the Argo II?"
"Vanessa, the Argo II is a ship, and were on our way to stop Gaia from rising." Annabeth explains.
"Wait," I hold up my hand. " so you mean your saving the world with, a skinny elf as the captain?" I ask.
"Hey! Im not a skinny elf!" Leo try's to protest, but I just laugh with every one else.
"Sorry just kidding." I say smiling.
"Not funny," Leo comments.
After dinner they all go there separate into there bedrooms.
"hey, Annabeth? Where will I sleep?" I ask.
"Oh, you'll sleep with me."
"are you sure? I don't want to impose on you."
"No it will be fine, now come on." Once were in her room, she throws me some pj's.
"thank you," I say as I undress.
"No problem." once were in our pj's and have brushed our teeth, I sleep on the floor with a sleeping bag, Pillow, and a blanket.
"Night Annabeth."
"Good night Vanessa." and with that I dose off to sleep.
(Annabeth's P.O.V.)
I can't go to sleep, and all I can think about is Percy. I slip out of bed, and go to his bedroom.
"Percy." I whisper right above him. He started to open his eyes, and I smiled at him.
"Wh-what's going on?" he asked. "Are we there yet?"
"No," I say, so my voice is low. "It's the middle of the night."
"You mean. . ." Percy looked frantic. "You sneaked into my cabin?"
I roll my eyes. Percy, you'll be seventeen in two months. You can't seriously be worried about getting into trouble with Coach Hedge."
"Uh, have you seen his baseball bat?"
"Besides, Seaweed Brain, I just thought we could take a walk. We haven't had any time to be together alone. I want to show you something-my favorite place aboard the ship." Percy still looked a bit shocked that I was in his cabin, but he just said, "Can I, you know, brush my teeth first?"
"You'd better," I say. "Because I'm not kissing you until you do. And brush your hair while your at it." I say. I wait for Percy to finish and then we creep downstairs to the second deck. I led him past the engine room when he asked a question.
"How does this thing even work?" Percy asked.
"No idea," I say. "And I'm the only one besides Leo who can operate it."
"Thats reassuring."
"It should be fine. It's only threatened to blow up once."
"You're kidding, I hope."
I smile. "Come on." We work out way past the supply rooms and the armory. I was leading him towards the stern of the ship,we reach a set of wooden double doors that open into the stables. The room smells of fresh hay and wool blankets. To my left were three empty horse stalls. To my right were two empty cages big enough for a large zoo animal. In the center of the floor is a twenty-foot-square see-by-miles of dark countryside crisscrossed with illuminated highways like the strands of a web.
"A glass bottomed boat?" Percy asked. I grab a blanket from the nearest stable gate and spread it on a part of the glass floor. "Sit with me."
We relax on the blanket as if we were having a picnic, and watch the world go by below.
"Leo built the stables so pegasi could come and go easily," I say. "Only he didn't realize that pegasi prefer to roam free, so the stables are always empty."
"What do you mean come and go easily?" "Wouldn't a pegasus have to make it down two flights of stairs?" Percy asks. I wrap my knuckles on the glass. "These are bay doors, like on a bomber."
I see Percy gulp. "You mean we're sitting on doors? What if they opened?"
"I suppose we'd fall to our deaths. But they won't open. Most likely."
"Great" I laugh at Percy's nervousness.
"You know why I like it here? It's not just the view. What does this place remind you of?" Percy looked around the room. "That zoo truck," Percy decides. "The one we took to Las Vegas." I smiled, hoping he would know that he got it right.
"That was so long ago," Percy said. "We were in bad shape, struggling to get across the country to find that stupid lightning bolt, trapped in a truck with a bunch of mistreated animals. How can you be nostalgic for that?"
"Because, Seaweed Brain, it's the first time we really talked, you and me. I told you about my family, and. . ." I take out my camp necklace, I see my dads collage ring he gave me and now I have a new one, from Percy it's a pice of coral from his fathers palace at the bottom of the sea.
"And," I continue, "it reminds me of how long we've known each other. We were twelve, Percy. Can you believe that?"
"No," he admits. "So. . . You knew you like me from that moment?"
I smirk. "I hated you at first. You annoyed me. Then I tolerated you for a few years. Then-"
"Okay, fine." I lean over and kiss him: a good, proper kiss, with out anyone watching-no Romans anywhere, no screaming satyr chaperones. I pulled away. "I missed you, Percy."
"Annabeth," he says hesitantly, "in New Rome, demigods can live there whole lives in peace." I become more guarded after he says that. "Reyna explained it to me. But, Percy you belong at Camp Half-Blood. That other life-"
"I know," Percy says. "But while I was there, I saw so many demigods living without fear: kids going to collage, couples getting married and raising family's. Theres nothing like that at Camp Half-Blood. I kept thinking about you and me. . . and maybe someday when this war is over. . ." I blush at Percy's words, "Oh," I say. It looked like Percy said too much. "I'm sorry," he said . "I just. . . I had to think of that to keep going. To give me hope. Forget I mentioned-"
"No!" I say. "No, Percy. Gods, that's so sweet. It's just. . . we may have burned that bridge. If we can't repair things with the Romans-well, the two sets of demigods have never gotten along. That's why the gods kept us separate. I don't know if we could ever belong there."
(Skip to the end of there conversation.)
I manage a small smile.
"Some romantic evening huh? No more bad things till the morning." I kiss him again. "We'll figure everything out. I've got you back. For now, thats all that matters."
"Right," Percy said "No more talk about Gaea rising, Nico being held hostage, the world ending, the giants-"
"Shut up, Seaweed Brain," I order. "Just hold me for a while."
We sat there fore a while enjoying each other's warmth. Before I knew it I was falling asleep in Percy's arms. When I woke up I herd a boys voice say, "Oh. . . You are in so much trouble."
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