This is my first fanfiction story so I hope you like it! I have an idea of what I want to do with the story but I have no idea how to start it so bare with me. The first couple chapters will probably be about as good as poop on a stick but I promise they will get better as they go along… at least I hope they will. Well the only reason I am really writing this authors note is to delay actually writing the story, because I have no idea how to start writing it! Well here goes nothing…
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the idea for the story!
Annabeth's POV:
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
I sigh as I look over at my alarm clock, and see 2:30 am printed in vibrant green colors on the screen. I close my eyes once more before rolling to the floor with the blankets still wrapped around my waist. I let out a tiny yelp as my head slams into the wooden floor and franticly kick the blankets off of my lower body. I bunch my blanket up and use them as a makeshift pillow to get some last minutes of rest before I have to get ready. I didn't have a peaceful night last night, but then again when do I ever? Ever since I was a child I have had night terrors about huge killer spiders, a half man half bull animal thing, and every other terrifying creation that you could ever imagine.
I am pulled out of my thoughts as I suddenly realize how cold I am at the moment. My flimsy camisole and short pajama shorts are doing absolutely nothing to protect me from the unforgiving coldness of my central air conditioning. I peel myself up of off the ground and look around my room, smiling slightly at how different it looks in the dark. My usually light purple walls have turned to a color that's almost dark enough to be black. The bookcase that lines two walls of the room completely filled to the brim with books looks very ominous in the darkened room. My desk, which is filled with architecture books and floor plans to different structures, looks about ready to collapse under the weight of the many papers.
I stretch my arm out to flip the switch that will turn my lights on and get off of my floor, while wrapping a blanket around me at the same time. I laugh a little at what my best friend, Thalia, would say about that, she always claims that the only reason I multitask is to show off and if she saw me doing it this early she would wake up the whole house with her shouts of outrage.
At the thought of Thalia I suddenly remember why I was forced to get up at this ungodly hour of the day and rush to the bathroom to get ready, newly awakened with the thought. Thalia is taking me and my other best friend Piper on a vacation with Jason, her twin brother (and Pipers crush), and his best friend Leo. We're going to the Olympics. I am actually really excited to go, the architecture that is displayed in the Olympic arenas is simply amazing and it's in Greece this year.
Thals claims that the reason she is taking us is because her cousin is going to be swimming and she needs to give him support but unless her cousin is… I don't know… Percy Jackson or someone, I really don't care! She won't even tell me his name, so I have no way of knowing if she even really has a cousin that is going to be swimming at all! I mean you never know with Thalia. Either way I don't really care because I get to go on an amazing vacation with my best friends of all time, and, hopefully, see Percy Jackson, who is the best swimmer in the entire world! He is also rather cute if I do say so myself. A huge grin appears on my face as I hear Thalia beating up my doorbell from downstairs.
"I'll be right there!" I scream down to her, still not able to get the goofy grin off my face as I sprint to collect the rest of my bags from my room and bring them into the downstairs hallway. After pushing all my bags down the stairs and climbing over them to reach the front door I fling the door open with all my might to see Thalia, Jason, Piper and Leo all standing on my steps taking turns pushing my doorbell. I roll my eyes at their idiocy but it doesn't have the effect I was hoping for seeing as I still have the larger than life smile plastered to my face.
"Well don't you look happy" Piper remarks after seeing my rather blinding smile.
"Of course I am! We are going to Greece!" I exclaim. Piper lets out a laugh, her kaleidoscope eyes twinkling with happiness at my excitement. "Jason, Leo get my bags." I order, turning my attention to the two males as they smirk at me.
"Yes milady" they say at the same time, both in terrible British accents. I roll my eyes at them and they do as I say. I turn around once more to look at my house and the smile finally falls from my face. My dad and step-mother didn't even have the decency to come and say goodbye. I don't know what I expected, they both hate me and they don't try to hide it, they made it very clear that they were glad I would be gone for the next two weeks.
I make up my mind at that very moment to not think about them on this vacation and just enjoy my time with my friends. I rush to the car and get in, I somehow got stuck with the middle seat so I am squished between Piper and Leo while Thalia drives and Jason is in shotgun. Jason turns around and gives me a huge smile.
"You excited Annie?" I sigh internally at his nick name for me but smile anyway; knowing arguing with him will do nothing to help me.
"Heck yah!" I reply instantly, earning a laugh out of everyone but Thalia, who is not a morning person, and is mumbling to herself about buffalos or something. After that the ride goes by quickly with everyone talking about how fun it's going to be and what they are most excited about, and things like that.
Almost exactly half an hour later we pull up to the airport and shuffle inside after finding a parking space. We pass through security without a hitch and board the plane in no time at all. Since this was kind of a last minute thing we couldn't all get seats together so I end up sitting with the isle to my left and an old couple who at least seem really nice to the right. Next to them is a sandy blonde haired boy that would be handsome if not for the jagged scar running across the entire length of his face, and a frown that seems permanently attached, making him look like he was just told really bad news every second of the day.
I groan as I remember that the flight is over 16 hours long, but I don't really want to go to sleep and have more nightmares, especially in a plane full of people so I take out my book instead.
time lapse- 14 hours
I smile as I close my third book; this one had a really good ending, and put me in a much better mood than the other two. But as I look at the clock I find myself wishing that I had packed more books, there are still over 2 hours left on the plane ride and I don't have anything else to do. I decide to get up and try to find my friends to see if they want to do anything.
I give the old couple a small smile as I get up and stretch, then set off down the aisle to find Leo who I know is a couple seats behind me. Sure enough not even 4 rows of seats later I find Leo who is sitting in a middle aisle all by himself, how he accomplished that we will never know. I make a mental note to ask him about it though.
He is watching some kind of action movie with a horrified expression on his face, and he keeps flinching back into the seat muttering "Why? Why? Why? Why me?"
I laugh a little and tap his shoulder to get his attention. He screams a little and slaps my hand away before curling up in a ball and yelling "No! I will not be the first to be effected! I will make it out of here!" I sigh before taking off his headphones and assuring him that it is just me and I will not infect him with anything.
He lets out a relieved laugh and offers me the seat next to him. I sit down and revel in the comfortable feeling of having someone I know near me and not some random stranger. The silence is quickly broken by a terrified Leo who turns to me and with a serious face that I have never seen him wear before says "Annabeth I have something to ask you."
"Umm… okay, you know you can ask me anything Leo." I reply with a hesitant smile, dreading the inappropriate question he will no doubt ask me.
"Why would they put a movie about a bunch of people on a plane dying, on the list of movies? I mean we're ON A PLANE!" He screamed.
"Leo if you knew it would freak you out why did you order it in the first place?" I reply in exasperation.
"Because I didn't think it would freak me out!"
"Well then why didn't you stop watching it when you realized it did freak you out?"
"And waste my money? I think not!"
I shake my head and sigh then remember my question from earlier "hey Leo… how did you get the middle row all to yourself?" a rather creepy smile slowly appears on his face and I instantly backtrack "Never mind, I don't want to know."
He lets out a loud laugh and nods his head, "That's what I thought. Wait do you know where Jason, Thalia, and Piper are?"
"I don't know yet, I have only found you so far… wanna help me find them?" I inquire
"Yah sure, what the plan?"
"Let's go down the aisle first and see if any of them are down there, then we can travel back up to the top." I reply, having already known that I was going to do that. He gave his affirmative and we start on our way down the aisle. After a while we are almost to the bottom of the plane and I spot Piper squished between the window and a rather chubby guy. "Pipes! Wanna come sit with us?" I ask her and she nods enthusiastically not even needing a moment to think about it. She climbs over the man and out into the aisle and hugs me super tight.
"Oh my goodness, thank you so much, I love you!" she whisper yells earning a laugh out of Leo and me.
"Let's just go find Thals and Jason." I reply and when my two companions nod in conformation I set off, up the aisle this time. We pass by all the regular seats and I start to get a little confused, then I pass into the first class section and spot them instantly. To say we were all mad would be an understatement. They get to sit next to each other and be pampered in this lovely smelling closed off section while we all have to sit with a bunch of random strangers in an only slightly larger space that smells too much like B.O. for my taste.
We storm over to them and they look extremely shocked to see us. "Hey guys…" Jason says hesitantly. We glare at him and he stops, trying to sink into the fabric of the seat and make himself invisible. I smile internally at the fact that we can make him scared but still scowl down at them.
"Come on guys!" Thalia exclaims "there are only 10 minutes left in the plane ride… no need to go all psycho on us now…" I look at my watch and notice that what she says is true; we only have about ten minutes before the plane land.
"Fine, but this is not over! Come on guys; let's go back to our seats." I say, turning back to Piper and Leo. We quickly decide that we will all sit in Leo's row instead of having to separate again, and Piper and I grab our stuff from our previous seats.
After the plane lands and we grab all of our suitcases form the conveyor belt thing we turn to Thalia and Jason to see how we will be getting to our hotel. Noticing our stares Thalia tells us that we will be picked up by one of her cousins, though not the famous swimmer. She says the guys name is Nico di'Angelo or something like that and we should just look for a guy holding a sign that says 'Grace' which is her last name.
After a couple minutes of looking we spot him and we all run over, eager to get to where we are staying and take showers and naps.
"Hey Nico, long time no see little man!" Jason greets him while executing some complicated man hug type thing. Thalia just wraps him up in a hug which shocks Piper and I, she isn't the type of person to hug someone, under any circumstance.
When he is done greeting the twins he turns to the rest of us, and I finally get a good look at him. I don't know how he is related to the Graces, where they are both tan with shocking blue eyes he is as pale as can be with brown eyes so dark they are almost black. He is also dressed completely in black from his neck to his toes, and he has a mop of shaggy black hair. Even though his appearance suggests otherwise I can't help but feel that this is a sweet, funny, and kind kid.
"Hello!" he greets the rest of us," I'm Nico di'Angelo and I'm Thalia and Jason's cousin, you'll be staying in the guest rooms of our family house!" he says in a rocky voice. Then turning to Jason and Thalia adds "Except you of course, you will be staying in your bed rooms." There are nods from everyone in the group and he smirks and motions for us to follow him. He leads us out into the parking lot and to a midnight black Chevrolet Corvette. He tells us to get in and we do as he says but not without many compliments on the car and a little drool from Leo.
time lapse- 2 hours
We pull up to the family house and my law drops to the ground. This is in no way considered a 'house' it's a colossal mansion! It's completely gorgeous and the biggest structure I have ever seen. My mind immediately goes to the architecture and I start to estimate how many bricks it took to build a place this big. Thalia pulls me out of my thoughts and motions for me to enter the 'house' I do as she says and am instantly greeted by a bunch of smiling people in cotton uniforms who I assume are the maids and other helpers.
Jason Thalia and Nico greet them all and ask where the rest of the family is, one maid states that they are on the back patio, and the three of them walk off to where I assume is the back patio. As I follow them it is conformed that we are indeed traveling to the back patio to meet the rest of the family, I start to get excited about the identity of the swimmer and I wonder if it really is Percy Jackson. I mean, there is no reason why it wouldn't be, even though he looks nothing like Thalia and Jason, Nico doesn't look like them either. I start to get excited about the possibility when Piper interrupts my thoughts.
"You think their cousin could be Percy Jackson?" she whispers urgently to me.
"That's what I was just thinking about! I don't know it's always possible…"
"Well I sure hope it is! He is the sexiest man EVER!" she shouts the last part earning weird looks from the rest of our group and I quickly shush her while agreeing wholeheartedly. "Oh my goodness! If it is him I don't want to look like this the first time I see him!" she squeals, I look down at my own ratty travel clothes and once again agree with her even though I just tell her that there is nothing we can do about it now. She sighs "I guess your right" she admits.
I smile in a secretive way and reply "It wouldn't matter anyway though" she gives me a questioning look and asks why. "Well, because I call him!"
"WHAT NO FAIR! YOU CAN'T CALL HIM HE IS MY SOLE MATE AND I WAS THE ONE WHO FOUND HIM FIRST! WITHOUT ME YOU WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS! I BET YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY SWIMMING RECORDS HE HAS BROKEN!" she shouts at me.
"16 RECORDS!" I scream back my anger flaring; I hate to be told I can't do something "AND YOU DID NOT SHOW HIM TO ME I LEARNED ABOUT HIM FIRST REMEMBER? BOBBY AND MATHEW ARE THE ONES WHO TOLD US ABOUT HIM!"
"WELL THAT DOESN'T MATTER I STILL LOVE HIM AND YOU CANT HAVE HIM!" she screeches stubbornly.
"Pipes, what about Jason?" I whisper to her, in case anyone is listening to our conversation.
"Oh, right" she admonishes, defeated "Well then I guess you can have Percy Jackson don't worry I know his schedule and where he practices, it's not that far from here if you ever want to stop by…" I laugh at her and assure her that I will not be stalking him no matter how many times she tries to get me to.
"He needs his own space, gosh woman! You will not under any circumstance stalk the poor boy!" she sighs but agrees, that is when I notice that the rest of our group is listening to our conversation and I turn a little red, Leo laughs hysterically while the Thalia and Nico share a look and Jason glares at the wall. Well that's interesting; I make a mental note to question him about that later.
"Well, here we are!" Nico exclaims "Meet our family!"
We walk out onto the patio and look around there are 8 other kids, all around our age –which is 16- and no adults. I ask about that and Jason tells me that no adults ever stay at the house, it's all theirs. I can't help but think that it must be like a party 24/7. Then we start with the introductions.
"This is Juniper and Grover." Thalia says pointing to a cute little cloven looking girl with green streaks in her hair and an awkward looking boy with acne and the start of a wispy beard. He has really curly orange hair and they both wear shirts with 'SAVE THE EARTH!' on them. Thalia then adds in a whisper "they're dating" I smile at the thought, they are a really cute couple and I can tell they are happy together. "That's Connor and Travis, the Stoll brothers." She continues pointing to identical looking boys with pointy features, bright orange hair and mischievous smiles. "Don't let them anywhere near your wallet, or anything of value for that matter." She warns causing their smiles to grow and they nod in our direction.
"Bianca and Hazel" Jason says pointing at two girls who look almost exactly like Nico, but in girl version. "Bianca is Nico's older sister, she's 17 and hazel is his younger sister, she's 15." They give us identical sweet smiles and I can't help but smile back. "That's Frank" he continues pointing to a really buff guy with a cute chubby baby face. "He's Hazel's boyfriend" once again I can't help but notice how perfect they are for each other and I notice that he is holding her hand I smile at the couple and turn to the last person.
When I see him I can't help but let a small gasp escape from my mouth. He had perfectly tousled raven black hair, bright and happy sea green eyes, and a perfect smile showing a row of shining white teeth. He looks directly at me as Jason says "and this is Percy."
I hope you like it! Please tell me if there is any way I could improve my writing, is it moving too fast? Did I correctly develop the characters? ANY PROBLEM AT ALL THAT YOU THINK I COULD FIX I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT IT! I would not expect the chapters to be this long in the future… you never know maybe they will be, but probably not. I will try to make all my chapters at least 1,000 words (this one was 3,600) if I can. Please review and tell me anything you want, it doesn't even have to be related to the story, you could talk about my little pony and I would still love it
Anyway my mom is getting mad now so R&R (I don't know what that means… if you review I would love it if you told me!)
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