Annabeth
I didn't realise the world was ending until Percy Jackson kissed me.
It had just been a normal morning, I had gotten up, pulled on a black cammie and a red and cream plaid shirt. I found my dark grey skinny jeans on the floor under my dresser, which had annoyed me, that stupid step-brother of mine had been in my stuff again. It didn't help that he lived in the apartment permanently, while I went to my mum's house every second week. Which left Percy with plenty of time to mess about in my room.
I scowled, the cocky little seaweed brain
I opened my wardrobe, because I was sure that I left my brush there last time I was here. I opened the two doors and my lips pursed together in a thin line.
"Percy," I hissed through clenched teeth.
"Good morning, Annie," I whirled around and slammed the doors of my wardrobe shut. Percy was standing in my doorway, wearing a pair of tight ratty black jeans and nothing else, his black hair was still damp.
Most girls my age would have at least spared a glance to his bare chest, but I was not most girls, I was taking all AP classes and had skipped sixth grade. I had very little care for Percy's looks and chose to hate his personality rather that drool over his body, Percy drooled enough for both of us, actually.
"Have you stolen stuff from my room again?"
"I didn't steal anything, I did come in here last Friday, and well, it was bit of a mess," Percy admitted with a devilish grin on his lips. I glared at him and spotted my hairbrush under one of my text books. I grabbed it and started dragging it aggressive through my hair.
"Jesus, Annabeth," Percy chuckled. "You're going to rip you hair out."
"It's not my hair that I want to rip out," I muttered under my breath and Percy's grin got wider.
"Where are you going?"
"To the library, I need to finish an assignment." I picked up a few drawing off of my desk, they were plans for buildings I had always hoped that one day, I would see built.
"Cool, Your dad left you money on the counter, I moved it into the drawer next to so that smelly Gabe doesn't steal it," Both of us scrunched up our noses in disgust. The only thing that we had ever really had in common, apart from shared space and married parents, was a hatred for the vile smelling land lord that liked to let himself into the apartment early in the morning in the hopes of catching me or Sally showering. Percy had never behaved like my brother, except when smelly Gabe was around, then he behaved like a mother hen. Gabe also had a nasty habit of stealing stuff, never expensive stuff like phones or computers, but lose change and food were never safe when Smelly was around.
"We have got to get a bolt lock for that door," I muttered.
"I know, but Mum says that we can't, it's in the lease contract," I nodded.
"You don't know what a lease contract is, do you?"
"I have absolutely no idea," I rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Au Revior, Kelp head."
"See you later, smart ass," Percy smirked at me as I grabbed my bag and hung it on my shoulder. I pushed passed him into the hall, I opened the cutlery drawer and took out the ten dollar note.
"Tell my dad I went to Starbucks before school,"
"Sure," Percy flashed me a smile that would have had most girls fumbling, but I just frowned and made a mental note to text dad about where I was going, when Percy got that tone of voice, I knew that he was going to do something.
"Hmm," I gave Percy a suspicious look, he continued grinning, and I wondered how he could do that for so long without his cheeks aching. I supposed he was used to it, that stupid grin rarely ever left his face.
I turned around walked out of the door. And ran right into Smelly Mcsmellalot.
"Gabe!" I said in surprise, and in the hope that Percy would hear me and come to my rescue. I looked at the door and waited for a moment, there were no sounds from within, no rescue there.
"Mornin' Annie-Beth," Gabe breathed and I wanted to hold my nose. He was standing way to close for comfort. And he didn't seem to own a toothbrush.
"It's Annabeth," I managed to say, without choking from the smell.
"Sorry, sweet cheeks," he grinned at Me and I saw Gabe inching around to the door. I frowned, he had been getting very weird lately, even more than normal, the way that he talked to me, the way that he leered at me. My dad had once shown me a DVD, about how to reconise the signs of a potential rapist. I suddenly wished that my father had never shown that DVD to me.
I hoped that my dad would come out of the front door, or Sally, or even Percy, Gabe was never so blatantly creepy around other people. But no one came, I was on my own.
"Uh, Gabe, I need to get to school, I have class," that was a lie, but Gabe didn't need to know that.
He just smiled at hme with those rotten yellow teeth of his and I was hit with another blast of death breath.
"Go on then," I tuned around and walked past him, pressing my shoulder against the door so that I didn't have to touch him, Gabe opened the door to the appartment, Percy looked up in surprise from the breakfast bar and he caught sight me for a second, I gave him a look that clearly said *don't get us kicked out of the apartment.
Before I could finally get past Gabe, he pinched me on the ass and I yelped in surprise. Percy gave me a weird look. I hurried down the hallway and away from Gabe. I didn't want him to catch me on the way down to the bottom floor, so I took the stairs. I practically sprinted out of the building.
Once I was a safe distance away, I slowed down and shuddered. Gabe was gross, I was going to have to have another talk with my dad about his invasion of my personal space.
Percy
I scowled at Gabe as he entered the room, He just smiled evilly back at me.
"What do you want?" I sighed, trying to keep the edge out of my voice.
"Percy!" m mother looked at me from her bedroom door, and I felt guilty instantly.
"I'm just inspecting my property" when he said 'property' Gabe's eyes slid towards my mum. I clenched my fists under the table, if it were up to me, I would grab Gabe by the collar of his shirt and slam his head into the wall until he learnt a little respect for my mum and Annabeth. Gabe may have thought that I hadn't saw, but I had seen him touching Annabeth just before he walked in, the idea made me bubble with anger.
"Percy" my mother put her hand on my shoulder, I forced myself to calm down, I couldn't get them kicked out, Annabeth would kill me. I looked up from the bar and stood up, putting my toast down on my plate.
"I should get ready for school mum," I kissed her on the cheek and left the room before I could do something stupid.
I went into the bathroom. My shirt was on the toilet seat, I heard Annabeth walking towards her wardrobe and hadn't had time to put on my shirt. And there may have been a part of me that had hopped that her eyes would linger. But like always, they didn't.
Annabeth had decided ages ago that I was an idiot, at our first meeting, on Annabeth's first day of kindergarten, I was playing tag. I had been chasing after Grover, who had legs like a mountain goat, and he had leapt over Annabeth without her even noticing. I had tried to do the same thing, but at the time, I hadn't quite acquired the agility that came with my skateboarding, and had tripped over Annabeth's knees and ended up sprawled out on the ground. She hadn't taken it to well and had started to hit me on the head with her book.
I had cried, but hey, I was six!
I smiled. Good times.
Annabeth
I looked both ways before crossing the road, and walked into the local Starbucks. The smell of coffee filled the air And my mouth watered. I got in line but regretted it the moment I did. Drew Tanaka was on duty smiling sweetly at all of the customers. When she got to me, a sparkle of malice came to her eye.
"Hot chocolate, please," I put the money down on the counter in the hopes that Drew would just leave me alone. But I was unlucky, the other day a girl had stood up to Drew and declared that she was a pathetic dictator who had no real talents except for being a bitch. And now Drew needed to show someone that she was still queen bitch and no one was going to change that.
"Do you want sugar or artificial sweetener?" Drew smiled her malevolent smile.
"Sugar," Drew raised an eyebrow and batted her eye lashes.
"Really?" she looked me up and down.
"Yes," I gritted my teeth. "Sugar."
Drew shrugged as if to say 'your the boss' and turned her back on me to take another person's drink and handed it to them. She smile sweetly and waved goodbye.
"Where's your brother?" Drew battered her eyelashes.
"He's at college, he left last semester."
"Not that brother, the other one, Percy," I frowned.
"He's my step brother, we're not blood related," I liked to point that out, Percy's stupidity may have been gene related, and I didn't want anyone thinking that we shared those genes. I couldn't go around having people believing that Percy was my actual brother.
"Hey, that means that you two could date, you know of you wanted to," I shuddered in horror. Was this girl mad, or just stupid?
"That'll never happen," I have Drew a look to remember and took my got chocolate off of the counter.
"Bye Annabeth," Drew waved and tilted her head to side, her blindingly sweet smile still of her face. I couldn't help but grimace as I left the shop.
On my way to the library, I sipped my hot chocolate, it's chocolaty creaminess making up for the pain that I went through getting it.
When I entered the library, Kory looked up. She was a pretty girl with long black hair that she tied up in a braid down her back and she had sea green eyes with a mischievous glint that made teachers hone in on her with their trouble-maker radars. But her cuteness made up for it. Percy often dumped Kory in the library because he was to cool to look after his genius little sister in the mornings. I had always felt sorry for Kory, I mean, having Percy Jackson as an older brother and Idol couldn't have been easy.
"Hi, Kory," I sighed.
"Was Percy being annoying?"
"Yes," we exchanged her age, Kory spoke like a teenager, even though she was barley ten years old. "And then I had to get my chocolate from Drew," Kory arched her eyebrows.
"She's not very nice."
"You have no idea" I sat across from her and sipped my drink. Kory was tapping away on her laptop, she was probably writing up another bizarre thesis for her English class that would change the way the world looked at Shakespeare. Typical Kory, sometimes I thought how Kory got all of the brains and left none for her brother, but I knew that it didn't work like that. Technically, if Percy was older than Kory, he should have gotten the brains, so Percy should be smarter. I almost laughed. What a ridiculous thought.
Sometimes I felt sorry for Kory, she was so cute, being a ten year old girl with the brain of a twenty year old must have been hard.
We worked in comfortable silence for a while, I was absorbed in my book, and Kory was playing bejeweled while she thought I wouldn't see
"Hi," someone said, and we turned around and I smiled at the newcomer.
"Hi, Luke," I gestured to the chair next to her. "Want to sit down?" Luke dropped a pile of books onto the table.
"What are you doing? Cramming?" Kory frowned, though she'd never had to cram for a test in her life, her photographic memory had gotten her out of that.
"No, just research." Kory went back to her laptop, nodding, her eyes now fixed on the blue glow of the screen. She did smirk at me and make googly eyes. I swear my eyeballs almost rolled out of my head. This girl was almost as bad as Piper, trying to set everyone up with their 'perfect partner'.
Luke gave me a smile, I flashed him one back.
Percy
Michael Yew was a bit of an idiot when it came to school. He was a lot like me, he was intelligent, but just really hated applying himself.
Which was one of heaps reasons why we were friends.
And on that morning, we were discussing my punishment. Three days ago, Michael had dared me to go steal one of the security tapes from Gabe's office. I had managed to get one, but I made the mistake of watching one of them, Gabe used the security cameras to make sure that none of the more attractive women in the building slipped in the shower.
There was no way in hell that I was showing Michael a video of my step-sister in the shower. I'd rather take the punishment.
An evil grin spread across Michael's face and I got this sinking feeling in his stomach.
"As your punishment for loosing what was a very easy bet, you must kiss your step-sister on the mouth," I almost choked.
"Dude, that's sick, and not in a good way either."
"It's not sick, it's incest," I gave him a weird look.
"Yeah, and Incest is a sick-in-a-bad-way kind of thing." Michael shrugged and smiled.
"You're the one who lost our bet," he smirked that evil smirk of his and I almost groaned. If I refused to do this, then Michael could post some very embarrassing videos of Facebook.
"Alright." I sighed. "I'll do it." Michael laughed and clapped his hands in delight.
"In front of me," Michael reminded me.
"Yeah, I know," I muttered. I stood up and gestured for Michael to follow me. I found Kory and Annabeth in the library with one of their friends, I had never learnt his name, unless he did something stupid, like try to ask Annabeth out on a date, I probably never would.
"Hello," I sat down next to Annabeth, I gently grabbed her arm and she frowned at me and put her book down on the table.
"Yes?"
"Oh, you know just thought that I'd come and talk to my sisters,"
"And why'd you think that?"
"Well, you see there was this bet..." I trailed off . Well it was now or never.
I leant forward and kissed Annabeth on the lips for a few seconds before she shoved me off.
"What the hell is wrong with you?
"I had to kiss my sister, and, well, my step-sister," I flashed Michael a sarcastic smirk, who rolled his eyes and flipped me off.
"Thank you, Percy, now I have to go and wash my mouth out with soap." Annabeth glared at me but I just smiled at her. I couldn't help it, she was so fun to argue with.
"Bye," I waved at Kory over my shoulder. My sister smiled ad waved. Giving me one of her smiles, which was basically her way of singing 'Percy and Annabeth sitting in a tree.
Sometimes, I thought that my little sister was the female version of Damon from the Omen. Only way more evil.
Annabeth
I stood up and packed my stuff into my bag.
"Where are you going?" Luke asked, frowning in concern.
"To rinse out my mouth, he tastes of kelp," Luke laughed and threw his head back. I smiled a little bit, he was very cute when he dd that.
"I thought that you were joking," I scrunched up my nose in disgust and shook my head.
"Nope, and I need to use the toilets anyway, and then I need to go talk to Mr. James about my maths assignment,and you know how he carries on, so I need to be really quick" I left the library and went towards the bathrooms. As I walked past one of the open windows, I saw one of the football players chasing a few cheerleaders around. I couldn't help but roll my eyes. Idiots.
I walked into the girls bathroom and looked at my face in the mirror. I need to get out more, I decided. My healthy tan was starting to fade and the bags under my eyes were starting to stand out.
I turned on the water and washed my hands, and then I grabbed a bit of paper towel and wiped my lips. Next time I saw Percy, I was going to hit to hit him again, honestly, his lips didn't taste of kelp, they tasted like honey, which I found really annoying since she hated honey.
There was a moaning sound in a stall behind me and I looked around, one of the doors was closed and engaged. I turned the water off and the bathroom went quiet. Someone was still moaning, I walked towards the pale purple door until I was standing right in front of it.
"Hey, are you okay?" the moaning became more frantic and something crashed into the stall's door from the other side. I took a step back in surprise.
"What the hell!"
The door shook again, and then there was a brief moment of silence. Then the moans returned, sounding more excited now. I looked down at the floor and almost screamed. But I kept my mouth shut, this was ridiculous. It was impossible. But when I looked again, the head of the cheer leading squad was still trying to crawl out of the stall through the gap under the door. There was blood and bits of flesh stuck between her teeth, and one of her eyes was hanging down her cheek. I backed away as Katie reached out to grab my foot. The fingernails on her left hand had all been ripped off and congealed blood was dribbling out of her skin like cold gravy.
" .god" I stumbled backwards. Katie was having some luck dragging herself out from under the stall. She was getting closer, and I realised that pretty soon, she was going to be standing. So I did the only sensible thing to do when a Zombie's arms were in the way of your only escape.
I ran forward and kicked Katie in the face. The Zombie girl was slow and not very smart. She tried to grab my foot as I puled away, But Katie seemed to have been blinded temporarily by my kick. But that didn't stop the zombie from stumbling to her feet and lunging for the last place that she had seen Me.
So they're not completly stupid, good to know.
I dashed past her and towards the door. I threw it open and stumbled into the empty hallway.
There was still an hour until school started, and only a few dedicated people were there at that time, well, a few dedicated people and Percy Jackson.
I went back to the corridor of the school that was really just and expanse of windows. outside, where before there had been cheerleaders in their skimpy uniforms, was a few corpses with what looked like the remnants of tight red and white dresses, but I couldn't tell if it was the same colour. The red material would have stayed the same, and the white material would have been stained.
I covered her mouth and let out a sob. My entire body was shaking and I had to lean against the wall to stop myself from collapsing.
There was a grunt from the other end of the hallway. I stood up and saw the same boy that had been chasing the cheer leaders. His eyes were wide and wild, blood dripped down his cheek from deep scratches all over his face. A large chunk of his neck had been ripped out. Blood and spit dribbled out of his mouth, it took me a few seconds to recognise Becondorf. I struggled to my feet. The Zombie-thing set its eyes on me and started stumbling closerwith alarming speed.
I staggered backwards and ran down the hallway. The Zombie bellowed and pursued me, slipping in the blood of its last victim.
I threw open a door, and nearly fell into the Janitor's closet. The Janitor himself was a pile of bones on the floor. I didn't think that he was going to get up.
I slammed the door shut and pulled the latch across. But one look at the screws told me that the latch had been screwed on several times in the same place, it wouldn't hold. I surveyed my surroundings, that was what they'd told us to do in self defence class. Use the things around you.
I saw several industrial cleaning solvents, some rubber gloves, a few splay bottles and several brooms and mops. The large floor cleaner was folded up, I saw the power cord, it would be of no use. I didn't know if there was any power in here.
I looked back at the solvents and then at the tin of floor polish. This was a rudimentary idea, but it was all that I had.
I grabbed a spray bottle and filled it up with the solvent, I found the one with the highest pH and mixed in a spray bottle with some water.
Then I dragged the polish and tipped it over the floor, so that it ran into the drain in the middle of the floor, the ground was raised slightly around the edges, so the polish ran right down the drain. If Grover had been there, he would have scolded me for damaging the environment, I almost rolled my eyes.
I stood in the corner of the room, squished into the corner next to the door. The dark blue wood rumbled as Beckendorf threw himself against it, again, and again, I could see the screws in the latch coming loose. How much longer did I have now?
The door was about to give in, so I yanked it open and Beckendorf was thrown into the room by his own momentum. He crashed into the wall with a thud and tried to get up. But the incredibly slippery polished stopped him.
If he'd been smarter, maybe he would have slowed down and tried to drag himself out of the puddle and maybe take off his clothes. But he wasn't smart, so he continued to slither on the floor. I skipped over the polish and into the hallway. I sprayed the solvent on my shoes, removing any of the polish that may have stuck.
I pulled out her phone and dialled Percy's number, I hoped that Kory was with him, otherwise I wouldn't know where to look. Kory didn't have a phone. She was ten for god's sake.
Percy answered on the first ring.
"Annabeth!" he hissed. "You would not believe this! There are these-"
"Zombies, Yeah, Percy, I know, Katie Gardener just tried to eat my face, And Beckendorf had a go too," there was a rustling sound on the other end of the line.
"Annabeth, where are you?"
"I'm next to the east entrance."
"Find an empty classroom," Percy ordered. I didn't argue, I saw a classroom across from me, it was drama studio, mostly empty except for a few chairs and a grand piano. Not many places for a Zombie to hide.
"I've got one," I said quietly, and crept into the drama room.
"What room?"
"The Drama studio, you know, the one where we went to do our counselling session that time," Percy said something to someone an then spoke to me again.
"Annabeth, Kory and I are coming. Just wait there, lock the door. Kory says that she'll tap her name out on the door in Morse code," I hung up the phone and flicked the lock on the door and sat under the piano so that I was out of sight through all of the windows. I was a little bit shocked that for once in my life, I was actually wanted to see seaweed brain. What was the world coming to?
I considered searching the internet but when I checked my phone's credit I decided against it.
I decided to call my dad while she was waiting.
After a few rings, my father picked up.
"Annabeth!" he cried in relief. "You're alive!"
"Yeah, Dad," I said softly. I felt overcome with the urge to cry like a little girl. "I'm alive."
This shouldn't be happening. I got up this morning and everything was fine, the streets were a little empty, but no one noticed, or cared.
"Where are you? I'll com-" there was a guttural cry in the background and my dad cursed, using language that I would never expect to come out of his mouth.
"Dad?" I asked.
"Annabeth, I have to go, go with Percy and Kory, find somewhere safe. I love you." and with that, my father hung up on me.
I felt sick. This morning, I'd been attacked, and there was a Zombie running around in the school, Possibly more than one, and my father might be dead.
I was tempted to cry again, and I could feel her eyes tearing up.
No I told myself. No, I'm not some helpless heroine who needs saving. I'm Annabeth Chase. There is no way that my step siblings are coming through that door and finding me in a sobbing heap on the floor.
I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths, I forced all thoughts of Zombies out of my head by making myself mutter Shakespeare's sonnets one through to ten, and then I murmured a few pages of '*The Buildings of Greece; A complete guide to Greek Architecture*'
Then I heard the knocking.
-.- - .-. -.-
I crawled out from under the piano and stumbled towards the door. I opened the door and saw Kory, her eyes wide with tear tracks down her face. There was blood splattered down the front of her jean skirt and black leggings.
"Kory!" I threw her arms around my little step-sister's neck. Kory hugged me back, clutching me tightly.
There was a moan in the distance and I pulled them both into the room and into the corner. I closed the door and flicked the lock shut.
"What are we going to do?" Kory asked softly.
"We need to go home."
"My dad said to go somewhere safe. Do you really think home will be safe?"
"You got through to your Dad?" I nodded and Percy looked troubled.
"My Mum... she's not answering her phone." I winced and looked at Kory. I knew how close they both were to their mother.
"Kory are you okay?" Kory shook her head.
"Annabeth, w-we were in the library a-a-and-" Percy pulled her into a hug and whispered something into her ear that sounded something like "We'll tell her later."
"We don't have time for that now, we need to go...home?" I looked at Percy and nodded in agreement.
"Who's blood is on your clothes?" I was almost afraid to ask. Please don't be Luke's, Please don't be Luke's
"Michael's," Percy said, he was, like his sister, covered in blood. But it was much more spread out across his body. As if he'd been in a fight.
"Have any of you swallowed it?" Both Kory and Percy shook their heads.
"Do you think that they're like, real Zombies?" Kory asked quietly. I noticed that she still had her laptop.
"Look it up, you're connected to the school's internet," Percy and I sat behind her. Kory opened up her internet and searched Google, we found that CNN was streaming straight onto YouTube.
"...Zombie like creatures have invaded the united states, it is unclear exactly where the epidemic started, but it appears to have begun somewhere within the state of New York, the national defence department has advised citizens to stay inside their homes to stop the spread of the plague..." more footage of people running in terror from packs of snarling zombies flashed across the screen. An unfortunate woman tripped over something in the middle of the road, and a group of zombies descended on her. A zombie leapt in front of the camera, and the footage cut out.
We stared at images all of similar things, Zombies causing havoc, The Military moving in and cordoning off entire blocks of the city while they tried to kill the Zombies.
I looked over at Percy, he had a frown on his face. This was the longest he'd ever gone without making a joke. Kory was biting her lip staring at the screen. Her eyes were wide, she looked so worried. I wanted to comfort her, but what could she say? Don't worry, it's only the apocalypse? Yeah, like that'd help.
Percy reached over my shoulder and closed the tab.
"We're going to be fine." Percy said out loud. I wasn't sure if he was talking to me or Kory, or even himself.
"Yeah," I said quietly. I put my hand on Kory's shoulder and squeezed. Sometimes I forgot that Kory was still just a ten year old girl, no matter how mature she seemed, she was still a scared kid at heart, and nothing could change that.
"We need to go Home," Percy said again. Kory shut down her computer and stood up.
"How are we going to get there?" Kory asked, looking up at her older brother. She was so adorable when she was serious.
"We'll have to walk, the Zombies seem to be attracted by noise, so we can't use a car," I looked up at my step brother. He was actually making sense. Oh dear gods, we're all going to die
"Yeah, Kat- I mean, the Zombie in the Bathroom didn't react until I turned the water on, and she sounded, excited when I asked her if she was okay." Percy looked at me for a moment, a frown on his face.
"Is everything okay?" I watched him, he had that guilty look on his face, the one that he always had whenever he decided
"Not really,"
"Anything I need to know?"
"...No." on any other day, I would have had a go at him, who was he to make decisions about what I should and shouldn't know? But today was not any other day, our lives were in danger.
Kory looked at me and then at Percy.
"At least we won't get pulled over by the hall Monitors," Kory muttered. "I'm not getting a detention in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse," I couldn't help but giggle, Kory said it like she was complaining about the amount of homework that her science teacher had given her. Percy smiled a bit, too.
"Let's go home," Kory nodded and looked around the room.
"What do we do if we get attacked again?" Kory's Question hung in the air, Percy shrugged.
"We hit it hard enough on the head so that it doesn't get up again."
"What if there's a horde?"
"We run, very, very fast." I said after thinking for a moment.
"If we get separated, we rendezvous at our apartment," Percy nodded.
"If it's not safe, then we should all try to meet back here, in this room."
"Okay, Lets go. "
I opened the door, just before I was about to go out, Percy pulled me back in and looked out the door. He grabbed my hand and poked his head out of the door.
"Come on," Percy muttered and look a step into the hallway. I followed behind him, looking around the deserted school hallway.
"We'll leave through there," Percy pointed to the door a little way down the hallway.
Kory walked a few paces behind us. She stayed silent, the only reason I knew that she was still there was because I could hear her footsteps behind us.
Percy pushed open the doors and they entered the car park. We all froze, expecting to see a zombie coming right for us.
Kory moved in front of me and looked inside one of the cars. "It's Miss Dodds's car, do you remember, Percy? She's the one that gave you the detention that got you kicked out of Yancy."
"Don't Remind me," he rolled his eyes. I had found the year when Percy went to Yancy to be one of the most peaceful of my life. It was horrible. Nothing to do, and no one to yell at.
"Why is that important?" I asked.
"Because, there's a dog in the back. Miss Dodds was allergic to dogs, we put dog hair in her bed once, so that she broke out." Percy pulled the door handle of the car and it popped open.
The dog in the back seat hopped out and licked Kory's hand, Kory smiled a bit and scratched his head.
"Kory, we can't take the dog, it'll bark at everything," Kory ignored her brother.
"I think I'll call him Frank."
"*Kory*."
"*Percy*," Kory and Percy started each other down for a few seconds, and then Percy gave in.
"Fine, but make sure it doesn't bark." he snapped. She grinned and patted the dog on the head.
"Come on, Frank, let's go," she smiled and the dog, Frank nuzzled her hand and wagged his tail.
"Stupid dog," Percy muttered. I rolled her eyes, I felt better now that I knew that Kory was a more like her regular self, I hoped that Kory would be able to keep her mind reigned in, she had a vivid imagination and I didn't know how well she would do fighting a Zombie.
"Let's just go, and a dogs a quite smart, they might be able to find a zombie before we could," Percy flashed me his lop-sided smile.
"I don't know why you know so much about Zombies, I'm the expert, I've watched way more apocalypse movies than you have," I scoffed and gave Percy a little shove.
"I read world war Z," Percy smirked and went to say something else, but I glared at him. "Don't even think about it, Kelp head."
"Think about what?"
"Making a joke about how uch I read. I was just going to say that I watched the movie version." He smirked at me and I really wanted to slap his face.
"The flirting is very cute, but can we focus on getting home alive without any large chunks taken out of our bodies." Percy flipped Kory off, I slapped his hand. But I did notice that he stopped standing quite so close to me, and his cheeks were slightly pinker than before, well, under the blood that was smeared on his face.
"Shut up Kory," Percy reached into Miss Dodds's car.
"What are you doing?" Annabeth hissed.
"Getting my skateboard, what better to use to kill zombies?" I realised that she didn't have a weapon of any kind, and that worried me. There wasn't really anything around that I could use if we were attacked, and I didn't want Percy to have to fight the Zombies alone.
"Let's go," Percy started walking towards the corner of the school. I noticed that he was keeping close to the wall, I couldn't help but smile, it looked like kelp head might have a little more inside his skull than just seaweed.
We walked around the school in silence, all afraid that if we spoke or made a loud noise, a horde of Zombies would descend on us and rip the flesh from our bones.
Percy constantly looked back to check that Kory and I were following him. When we came to the deserted street outside the school, Kory whimpered a bit when she saw a dead body in the middle of the road.
"Don't make any loud noises," Percy ordered. "We don't know if people are infected by a bite, or if it's just..."
"Airborne?" Kory suggested. Percy grimaced.
"I was going to say random," he kept a tight grip on his skateboard, his eyes were alert, constantly scanning the area around them for threats.
Frank trotted behind Kory, occasionally freezing and tilting his head to the side to listen out for anything dangerous.
We were so close to being home and safe when the three zombies stumbled out in front of us.
"Oh shit." Percy sighed.
