Hi readers! First I have to say: Thank you SO much to everyone who reviewed, favorited, and/or followed! It made me really happy. I'm going to be switching POVs, from Annabeth, Percy, and 3rd person. Okay I'll stop talking now!
Annabeth came at me fast and threw a punch at my face. I caught her fist and twisted it, but she kicked me in my stomach and I let go. We grappled for a while, neither making any real pain. I was dimly aware of a crowd gathering, chanting either Annabeth's name or mine. I punched her stomach, which must have still been sore, and she backed away. It was my turn to rush at her, and I punched her in the face while sweeping out with one of my legs, making her fall on her back. I sat on her knees and held her flailing wrists as she tried to escape.
"Do I win?" I asked playfully.
She snorted. "You wish."
I scooted forward on her legs, so I was sitting on her waist. I opened my mouth to reply, but she kicked the back of my head and pulled her hands away. She punched my nose so hard I felt is break. Then she jabbed my temple, making everything go fuzzy. I rolled off of her and stood away from her. One hand was on my face and the other on my knee. I moaned in fake pain and she carefully came towards me. When she was right next to me, I reached down with one hand and swept her off her feet again. I stood over her and she frowned at me, then kicked me where it really hurt. I fell, and she rolled on me and pinned me, her blonde hair falling in my face.
"I win," she told me. She got up and helped me up. They were all cheering for Annabeth, but she just grabbed my hand and forcefully pulled me out of the gym.
"Is there a place I could call Piper and all them? Because they are probably looking for me," Annabeth said.
"Yeah, it's upstairs," I told her.
We started climbing.
"You need an elevator," she complained.
"But we get exercise this way!" I responded.
When we finally reached the top floor, I led her into our video-chat room. I was snorting up blood from my broken nose, and she finally noticed after she called her HQ.
"Here, I'll set it." She grabbed the back of my head in one hand and my nose in the other, and did something way more painful than when she broke it.
"Gods, Annabeth! That hurt!"
"Percy?" I looked at the screen to see Piper, Hazel, Calypso, Katie Gardener, and five other girls I didn't recognize.
"Hi guys! Um, yeah. Percy's here as well as…" she looked at me questioningly.
"I'll go get them." I wanted to give Annabeth some space.
I took the elevator that I didn't tell Annabeth about and grabbed Jason, Frank, Leo, and Travis Stoll. On our way back into the video room, the guys who had rooms next to the video room came along, but the demigods stayed outside.
"Who are these people, and how did you do that that fast?" Annabeth demanded.
"Took the elevator," I said, which earned me a punch in the arm. "Oh! This is Tony, Tank, Gibbs, Winslow, and Georgie. They room next door."
"Hey! Whaddup? I'm Tank, these are my mates who you have been already introduced to, and we're all from Jersey. Well, except for Georgie, he's from Georgia."
"You!" one of the girls on the screen exclaimed.
"You!" Tony replied.
"Oh, um, this is Bella, Celia, Savanna, Kristi, and Valerie. We work together in HQ," Annabeth introduced us. "Hey, Celia, how'd your fight go?"
The girl who had pointed at Tony snorted. "He was no match. I dominated him."
"I went easy on you cause you are a female!" Tony protested.
"Whatever helps you sleep at night, sweetheart," Celia replies.
"Anyway, Annabeth, did you tell them?"
"Yeah, but—"
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, VALDEZ!"
"Uh oh, I shouldn't have left them alone," I say as I head for the door. I notice Calypso and Hazel have both gone extremely pale.
"Frank! Do not kill Leo! No! Stop!" I yell as Frank chases a smoking Leo around the room. Jason and Travis also entered the room, although none of them noticed the girls on the screen.
"Jason Grace, you are a total ! #$%^&*! Go to hell!" Piper exclaimed. Jason cringes and turns toward the screen.
"Pipes?" he asks weakly.
"Who'd you think. I swear, if I was there, you would be having your face off."
"Percy!" Jason yells. "Why didn't you tell me that she was here?"
"Percy! Why is he there?" Piper says. Suddenly, all the demigods except Annabeth are yelling at me. The Jersey people and Annabeth's people join in, yelling "Percy! Why did you do that!" and, "Percy! You asshole!" Annabeth looks at me with an amused expression on her face.
"Guys!" I yell. I am ignored. I try again.
"Everybody! Shut up!" Same result.
I sigh. Then I walk up to Jason, since he is yelling the loudest, and punch him in the face. The room is shocked into silence.
"None of this is Percy's fault! You are all acting like children!" Annabeth says.
"Thank you. Now, could you finish what you were saying, please?"
"But Percy, you—" Leo starts.
"Quiet! I don't care who's a demigod, I am still your boss and can still fire you in the blink of an eye!" I snap.
"They don't want me to stay," Annabeth breaks the stunned silence.
"Why?" I ask, surprised.
"Because you broke her heart. You left, didn't call her for four months. When you did, she broke up with you. Then you came here and when you made contact, it was kidnapping," Piper replies.
"I—" Travis steps forward with a knife and cuts my shirt straight down the middle. Then he spins me around so the reason I didn't make contact for four months.
*SWITCH POV
Percy has a scar the size of a small apple on his back. The center goes deep and there are four marks around it, like he was stabbed with a pencil. I gasp and move forward, not believing what I am seeing.
"You remember I was on a mission the day I left?" Percy asks,
"Yeah." My voice is small.
"It was supposed to be a breeze. Go in, wipe the targets memory, leave. We were ambushed and I was shot, with this bullet." Percy pulls out a tablet and on it is a picture of a bullet. The center is spiked and there are four spiked sticking out of it. "It is was powerful, and I was knocked into a wall so hard I was in a coma for about four months. When I woke up, I was in a hospital in Belgium. I finally got out and got to a phone. Then, of course, I had no idea how long it had been…" He cleared his throat. I felt horrible. He woke up in a foreign place, called me, and I broke up with him. Shit.
"I swam home, came here, and… just made a life, I guess."
The room was dead silent. Piper seemed to be holding tears back, but she managed to say something.
"I guess you can stay, then. Jason…when you get the chance…call me." Then she severed the connection. The weird Jersey people left the room solemnly, and I heard Jason repeating Piper's number, over and over, as he and the other demigods left.
"I'm going to go get a shirt," Percy told me. "Meet me in the library." I nodded and followed him out.
I got lost. The place was huge, and I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. Finally, I reached a door that looked like the library door, and pushed it open. I step in and hold back a scream. The room is dark, gloomy, and full of spiders and spider webs. As one crawls on my boot, I scream again and turn around, only to see the door slam shut and feel another spider crawl across my nose. I can almost hear them whispering, calling for my blood. Then I do hear on of them call me daughter of Athena and killer of Arachne. I scream again and back into the wall. Another spider, then another. I frantically brush them away and feel a knob and grab at it. It is covered in spider webs, but I yank and burst out into the corridor and run, turning a corner and run into something.
"Annabeth!" It's Percy. I'm crying and there are spider webs all over me. He wraps his arms around me until I stop crying.
"Spiders…" Is all that I can manage.
"Oh… you found Seth's room, didn't you?" He carefully pulls the spider webs out of my hair and wipes away my tears. "Better?" I nod. "I've got to show you something!" He sounds like a kid on Christmas morning.
He leads me to an elevator, which I am still mad about, until we are on the second floor. He pulls me to a door, which has a sign that has a spider with a red circle and a line through it. I laugh as he pushed the door open.
"This is your room!" It is pretty large, with a balcony, a door to somewhere, and elevator, and absolutely no bookshelves. I am about to protest about this when Percy starts to speak.
"That door leads to the library, the only keys belong to me and you. I would advise you to lock it or you'll get unwanted visitors wanting to see you nude. The elevator goes straight to my room in case of emergency or if you want to chat. In your desk is the briefing for our first mission."
"It's great, Percy!" and I mean it.
"Now, you should get some rest, we leave at nine tomorrow."
He winks and climbs into the elevator. I shower, change into pajamas, and climb into my bed with the file. I start to read, but my eyelids start to droop, and next thing I know, I'm asleep.
Okay, I hope everyone enjoyed! I don't know when I'll update again, probably after I update my other story.
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