Annabeth´s POV
"No Percy." I said annoyed. "You hold your bow wrong. Keep it higher." I tried to teach Percy how to shot an arrow into the target, but he was hopeless. I never saw someone who was that bad. We were for two hours in the arena now, but it didn´t help anything at all.
"Okay." He replied, lifted his bow further up and shot an arrow at the target. Of course the arrow didn´t hit the target, but Clarisse´s butt.
"AAHH!" She screamed and turned around. "Jackson!" She stomped towards him, her face was scarlet.
"You shot me you idiot!"
"Yeah, sorry Clarisse. I didn´t mean to hit you." Percy said sheepishly. Clarisse was about to punch him, when Chiron came galloped towards us.
"Clarisse, can you please give the new campers a tour? I haven´t got time now." Then he saw the arrow in her butt. "Who did this?" Before Clarisse could answer Chiron looked at Percy and seemed to understand.
"Ah, I see, Annabeth, you have a lot of work to do with Percy." I sighed.
"Yes, I know."
"Hey!" Percy protested. "I´m right here."
"I´ll leave you two now. Clarisse, come with me." Chiron galloped away, with Clarisse following, the arrow still in her butt.
"Okay Percy. Now concentrate and try not to shot other peoples ass."
"Fine. I´ll try it. But do not have too much hope."
"I never said that." I mumbled, but so that Percy didn´t hear me.
He narrowed his eyes and aimed at the target. The arrow flew through the air and hit the outmost spot of the target.
"That wasn´t so bad." I admitted. "You only have to keep your bow a bit further left, and then you should hit it right." I pushed his arm to the right side, so that the tip of the arrow pointed at the red spot of the target. But as I wanted to let go of Percy´s hand, it didn´t work. I looked down at our hands and saw that we were bound together with pink handcuffs. Percy realized it too and dropped his bow immediately.
"What did you do?" I half – yelled at him.
"I did nothing. How could I?" We crazed the handcuffs in every direction, but nothing worked. I yelled in frustration and stumped my foot at the ground.
"Maybe some stupid joke from the Aphrodite cabin." Percy suggested. "I mean, the handcuffs are pink. No other cabin or god would do that." Then it hit us both.
"Aphrodite!" We yelled in unison.
"Argh, I hate her!" Thunder grumbled at the sky.
"Sorry." I mumbled. "What do we do now?" Percy thought for a while.
"Let´s go to Chiron. Maybe he knows something how we can get free again." We started to walk towards the big house. It was a bit difficult because we were so near. I admit it was a bit uncomfortable. Some campers sniggered as we passed them. As we reached the porch of the big house I saw Chiron playing Binokel with Mr D. Yeah, so much to ´I haven´t got time now ´ Chiron!
"Uh, Chiron? We´ve got a problem."
"What is it child?" Percy and I held out our hands so that he could see the handcuffs.
"Oh. How did this happen?" He asked astonished.
"We think it was Aphrodite. Only some stupid joke from her." Percy answered.
"Yes, that explains that the handcuffs are pink." Mr D said without looking up from the game. I looked at him.
"Why can´t you free us from this?" I asked him and held up our hands again. Percy nodded in agreement.
"No. I always find something like that funny."
"But that´s not fair!" Percy demanded and did a step forward. In the process he pulled me with him.
"You are a god. Why can´t you just wave your hand or something and let the handcuffs disappear!" This time Mr D looked up. He had this purple fire in his eyes that means when Percy said something more stupid now he would end up as a dolphin or something like that.
"Watch it, Peter Johnson. You two have to find a way how to get this thing up from you, and I´ll not help you with certain." With that he turned back to the game and pretended like nothing happened.
"But Chiron!" I protested. "How do we want to eat and sleep when we are bound together? We live in separate cabins and eat at separate tables."
"Yes, that´s the problem. I think there´s no other solution than to sit at one table and sleep in one cabin until we find a way to free you two." Percy and I stared at him. That with the eating is not that bad, but sleeping in one bed with Percy? Unimaginable.
"But that don't- I- we can´t-"Percy stuttered.
"I´m sorry. But there´s no other solution. You may go now." Chiron turned back to his game with Mr D and ignored us. Without another word we left the porch.
That will be great! I thought.
So, yeah. That was the first chapter. Nothing special. I just wanted to write it because I think it´s funny. Please tell me how you found it and if I should continue to write.
