Hey hey hey. First story so hope you'll enjoy
60 A.D Ancient Rome - Beneventum (Benevento) -
The first thing to hit my nose was the stench of blood.
My arms were sore and my body weak from the lack of malnutrition and I was annoyed by Annabeth actually trying to kill me. Sure, this was all an act and we where actually going to escape this crude place of a country. But come on, you are actually gonna kill me.
The sway and swing of each sword came down hard. "Annabeth, if you're trying to kill me, you're doing a mighty fine job". "Percy, I have to make it look like I'm actually going to kill you if we're going to succeed this plan, and also I just really want to hit you". "Love you too" I replied back sarcastically.
We continued things this way, she swing at me and I try my best to defend myself.
My name is Percy Jackson and the girl trying to 'fake' kill me is Annabeth Chase. We are currently in between what people around Rome would call a gladiator fight in one of the amphitheaters in Beneventum which I and my other unfortunate friend Nico di Angelo have been living in for the past couple of months. Annabeth has been here a bit longer, but that's because unlike me and Nico, she was a Gladatrix instead of a slave.
Due to some special circumstances, we had all come together and somehow become friends. Bit of a long story that I might get into later.
Anyway, back to the reality of now. "Oaky Percy, we have the crowd played, you ready?" "Annabeth, you're talking to a pro at faking injuries to get out of work". "I hate that sarcastic side of you" she replied with a face that showed almost little to no emotion, though I thought I saw a little smile in there. "I'm going to hit your sword away in the next swipe", and she did. "Oaky Percy, time to play along".
"Are you ready to die Percy Jackson"! She yelled to the crowd. And just like a domino affect, the whole crowd cheered. And just like that she Stabbed me, or at least she made it look like that. In reality, she had just stabbed the in between bit of my torso and my arm, and I conveniently plaid along to her stabbing me, adding some screams and yelps. Then with a quick move, she sliced the blood back Nico had created to make an effect that I was really dead. Don't ask me how he created it, I don't wanna know.
The crowd loved it, cheering and screaming and then the gates opened, releasing the guards that where going to collect my body. This is exactly where we wanted them, and how we planned it.
As the guards leaned over me to pick up my body, I head butted one and kicked another. Annabeth, like the good girl she was stoped her show boating to come over and helped beat up the other guards, and then we ran.
The shock gasps of the crowd could be heard all around us and we slid out of the amphitheater. We ran to the slave barracks to break Nico out. "Quick, you know the Romans work fast" Nico said with encouragement. "Calm down Nico, we got this don't we Annabeth" I said as Annabeth sliced the lock of Nico's prison. "You mean I got this" Annabeth replied.
As we ran along the corridors of the barracks, we turned a corner and that's when I collided face first with a guard. I couldn't see who it was due to lighting or what damaged we had done to him but with clear moaning made it clear we must have broken his nose or something. "Grab him" Annabeth said, and with quick movement from Nico and me, we lifted him up and ran with him.
The next few moment where a blur, but after while it became clear we where no longer in the city, and where instead in the forest.
"We actually succeeded" Nico said smiling. I hadn't known Nico for very long, but I was pretty sure that was the first time I had seen him smile. This was then interrupted by a groan by our friend the guard. "Nico, Percy put him down, we need to see who this guy is". We did as Annabeth instructed and got ready to see who it was. "I got one denarii that it's Frank" I said to Nico. "Your on".
Annabeth slowly released his helmet of, and then we saw the face. "Aw crap" I said. We could have run into anyone and we ran into Jason Grace, and what's worse I owed Nico one denarii.
