M'kay! Hello people! I don't know how many of you reading are new comers, but I guess I should explain what happened at the end of my MoA if you didn't read it.
Percy and Jason had fallen into a coma. Jason had woken up through a mixture of Charmspeak and healing magic by the children of Apollo (*cough, cough, ME, cough, cough*). Percy on the other hand, just wouldn't come out of this little...slumber until Annabeth started talking to Jason about Percy and Thalia shocked him like how they shock people in hospitals to keep their hearts beating.
You know when they shout 'CLEAR!'. :) Then he stopped breathing momentarily and Annabeth turned her back to him and almost started yelling at her for killing Percy when he coughed and asked, 'Wise Girl?' and that's where the beginning of this story took off.
So, enjoy this sort of sucky chapter! :P
ANNABETH
"What was that?" Reyna had asked, followed by a scream.
Annabeth turned to her boyfriend and told him sternly to stay there, as Piper did the same with Jason. Neither of them looked happy, but Percy seemed to understand he had to stay.
Reyna led the way, following where she was pretty sure the sound had emanated, with Annabeth, Leo, Thalia and Piper following behind her.
In the hallway at a split where the sound could've gone either way, Thalia sighed.
"I'll go this way. Scout around. If I see anything, I'll come find you and we'll take care of it together."
Annabeth hesitated before nodding and allowing her to go the other way alone.
She was on edge. Her hand kept itching to where she had sheathed her dagger. She was getting a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach.
They continued along, following Reyna through the now eerily quiet hallways and rooms.
They stopped by the door that had its hinges ripped out.
When Annabeth pushed forward to the front and looked inside, she wasn't a big fan at what she saw. Three Scythian Dracanae had torn the room to shreds. And in the middle of being cornered, in a feeble attempt to beat the monsters, was Nico di Angelo the Ghost King himself.
He stood holding his Stygian Iron sword, obviously weary and weak. It looked as though he was having trouble breathing, and there were dark red stains on his shirt, along with a nice long gash on his calf, his pants now with more rips than normal.
Nico coughed and a dark substance came with the hacking sound.
One of the monsters who held a sword feigned a strike at his arm, and when Nico went to block it, another struck at his legs.
Nico yelped as the metal cut through his skin. Annabeth's hand immediately went to her dagger and she pulled it out.
She pulled out her Yankees baseball cap and stuck it onto her head, and she soon couldn't see her fingers or the knife in her hand. She advanced slowly and silently, ready to strike.
Annabeth then tripped on the wreckage of what seemed to be a couch or loveseat, falling forward, bumping into the Scythian Dracanae in front of her, and knocking the baseball cap off her head.
The monster in front of her stumbled forward slightly, but balanced itself and turned on her.
"Sssso, girl, you want to kill me, eh? We'll ssssee about that!" It hissed at the girl on the floor.
Annabeth looked up helplessly, and waited until the sword had too much inertia to stop immediately, and rolled to the side.
The monster looked back at the other two who tried to advance on Annabeth as well, "I've got thissss one. Kill the boy!"
The other two nodded and turned back to the son of Hades.
The Scythian Dracanae turned back to Annabeth, and hissed what she could only assume was an evil laugh.
"Gaea issss ssssstronger than Kronosssss wasssss. Sssshe sssshall overpower the treacherousssss godssss! Bow before me and you sssshall be ssssspared child of Athena. I'll make ssssure of it."
"Never," Annabeth sneered. Reyna and Leo took this as their cue and ran over to the two other monsters while Piper rushed in and helped Nico out of the room and into a safe place before she'd rejoin us.
Somehow, as the battle raged, bronze clashing with gold, one of the Dracanae that Reyna and Leo had been fighting had snuck up behind Annabeth.
Piper must've just run back into the room, as she yelled from behind Annabeth and the monster creeping up on her, "Annabeth! Behind you!"
Annabeth turned, eyes growing wide as the Dracanae hissed and lunged forward, digging a knife into Annabeth's side.
Annabeth yelled in pain. She was shaking as she removed her hand from the now warm and wet spot on her side and saw the blood soaking through her shirt.
She held her dagger high though, swiped it in front of her, barely hitting the monster as it turned to dust.
The original Dracanae she had been fighting snarled in anger, but Piper threw her own dagger, nailing the monster in between the eyes.
Reyna finished off the last of the monsters and they all surrounded Annabeth as Percy limped his way into the room, Riptide glowing in his hand.
"Annabeth!" He yelled when he saw her fall to her knees, clutching her wound. "What happened?" He demanded his eyes dark and cold. Evan Reyna was nervous to look him directly in the eye to tell him what had happened.
Percy scooped up his girlfriend into his arms, despite the obvious pain he was feeling.
"I'm fine, Percy," Annabeth grunted as she was lifted into his arms. "But you're not! I told you-"
"-to stay in bed. I couldn't when I heard you scream. How could you even think I'd stay put?"
Jason clawed his way into the room, panting like a dog.
"Jason! What are you doing?" Jason's girlfriend demanded.
"I...I can't feel my legs….and somehow….Percy got out of…of bed…and I wanted…to help."
Piper raised an eyebrow at him, then went over helping him stand, shaking her head.
"C'mon, Sparky. Let's get you back to your bed."
Reyna laughed slightly as Jason nodded his consent.
"You know…that bed…is looking pretty good right now."
Leo chuckled and followed Reyna out of the room to help Nico to their make-shift infirmary, as Percy made his way after them, Annabeth in arms, limping his way there.
Upon arriving in the room where the wounded lay, Travis Stoll with a bad burn all the way up his arm, was standing by his bed trying to move around without wincing.
When the six walked into the room he seemed to brighten.
"Hey guys! Where wer-what happened?" Travis immediately sobered.
"Attack. Let's just hope the medical supplies that the Apollo kids and Connor went to get speed things along. We need to get going." Piper answered as she helped Jason back into his bed.
Travis took a deep breath and nodded. He looked at Annabeth.
"You're hurt!"
"No, duh, Stoll," She grunted back, black spots dancing in and out of her vision. Travis started to flip out, not knowing what to do, Leo trying to calm him down, but obviously not helping as Leo couldn't stop laughing.
"We're back! We have healing stuff!" Connor shouted. Apparently, they had walked into the destroyed room.
"What the heck happened?" Connor yelled over the loud noises of gasps. "Gone for like, ten minutes and you miss all the fun!"
Thalia then ran into the make-shift infirmary, worry in her eyes.
"Annabeth! I went to go find you guys and ran into the destroyed room-and man, is Connor loud!-and then I saw blood on the floor and splattered around so I got here as fast as I could! Who's hurt?" Thalia asked hurriedly, yet calmly.
Percy answered for her. "Annabeth's been wounded. Her side."
Thalia nodded. "Lots of Hunters get side injuries. I can handle this one."
Leo then added, "So is Nico, but I don't know what's wrong with him. He's been coughing up blood."
Thalia and Percy made eye contact just as Annabeth started to black out, the spots dancing in her vision, blending with the hair of both Thalia and Percy.
So, I do love reading your thoughts and feelings through reviews! Please, it doesn't matter your opinion, just leave something! Haha, just kidding!
Anyway, I would've updated sooner today, but I had a head ache :( And if I tried even sitting up it hurt like hell, so I had to stay away from the computer until it went away, and when it did...minor writer's block.
~*J.C*~
