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Chapter 2: Annabeth

I stood there silently, I saw Jason's eye twitch suddenly. Making me uncomfortable, were we going to go or what? It has been months since the meeting with Chiron, and Leo and been weirdly absent at all of his classes. Not even his cabin mates were seen, the whole Hephaestus was gone, vamoose!

I stared at Leo, I was getting really impatient.

"Pause for dramatic effect," I heard Leo whisper to himself. "Okay! I have a surprise for you guys!"

He didn't say anything more, he just took off running at an unconditional pace, leaving us behind.

"Leo wait!" I yelled to him, running at a regular pace after him. We had hit the center of the camp, when he suddenly stopped. His face was covered by a grin, he smiled like an idiot. When me, Jason, and Piper finally caught up with him we were all breathing deeply. Our breathing was hectic; I had to take a few breaths before I could even whisper. "What is this?"

I gestured my hand to the big draped covered thing, his grin grew even larger, if that was possible.

"This is how we're getting to the Roman Half-Blood camp," he said and walked closer to the thing. I stood there in disbelief. What was he saying? Was he saying that we were going to the camp on a big sheet monster? I knew that Leo was strange, but I would think that he would have a least a little brain.

He put his hand on a little rope thing and pulled down tightly, his jaw perplexed at the effort. But as he pulled the big sheet lifted and then I saw what it was.

The big boat was huge! The whole Hephaestus cabin was up on the ship, packing box after box. Checking the control panel, yes they're children of the god of black smiths they don't know how to sail, only how to make things work technically. The sides of the boat were covered by massive oars, they were wooden, but looked very sturdy. The whole boat was monstrous and wooden and everything you could image. Then I remembered, Leo's flying boat drawing… Oh my gods! It could fly!

The thing that I think really made Leo love this thing was the thing at the head of the ship. Proudly shown was the head of a metal dragon, Festus. A few months ago Leo had accidentally destroyed his pet dragon and had saved the head for his place of honor.

I gasped in surprise as all of this overcame me. This was awesome, but wait, was the Hephaestus cabin coming along. Not that it minded me, but we didn't really discuss the matter.

"Wow Leo," I congratulated him. I set my bag down on the ground, when two of his half brothers grabbed it frailly and tossed into a hidden compartment. "This is awesome! But are your cabin mates coming along?"

He didn't look very happy after I asked this question. The smile faded from his lips. "Does it bother you?" He asked coldly, his eyes shooting daggers at me. Wow, talk about 180 degree mood change.

"No!" I said as I flashed a meaningful look at Jason and Piper. "I was just wondering."

His face softened and he frowned slightly, either at me or himself.

"Sorry," he apologized, looking down at his oil covered shoes. "I was just being…"

He didn't get to finish his sentence; there was a loud sound of metal clinging against metal and then a big boom! I turned with Leo, Jason, and Piper, toward the ship. I laughed under my breath as two of Leo's half brothers swore and trudged to the control panel. It seems that the Hermes cabin had set a trap in the control panel and the cabin mates were so unlucky as to get pounded in the face by a metal boxing glove.

I saw Leo's panicked expression turn to amusement. Jason and Piper laughed out loud. Piper was holding her sides so hard I saw her knuckles turning white.

"Alright," Jason sad as Piper exploded into another fit of laughter. "Let's get going."

We all nodded in agreement as we walked off toward the huge ship without anyone noticing us. There was so much going on; nobody noticed four small shapes trudging the big distance to the boarding dock.

"Hey Rock," Leo said to one of the huge built boys at the boarding place. "Everything almost set?"

"Yes Leo," Rock said in a low monotone. He looked at us and smiled warmly. "We just need to load a couple more crates and we'll be set to go."

Leo nodded understandingly as he kept walking onto the ships main deck. We followed at heel. To tell you I was quiet nervous, what if we crashed? What if we died? What if this didn't work? What if the Roman camp was even more hidden then we thought possible? I was absolutely terrorized by now. I followed Leo down any way, but it was more out of force than anything else.

He led us into a small dim hallway, plastered with door after door. Then I realized that these were our cabins. The air smelled musty and of dirt and metal, which was normal for this kind of work.

"Okay, Annabeth and Piper in room 1107," Leo said, gesturing toward a door marked with the number 1107. "And me and Jason in room 1108."

I sighed as I thought they would be on the other side of the boat. I smiled slightly at Piper, who returned it nervously.

We didn't say one more thing; we just walked into our rooms and claimed our beds. I was kindly granted the bed with the desk on it, Piper insisted because she knew that I was still studying some blueprints for some stuff.

I sat on the bed and realized it. I was going to go find Percy, I would see him again. I would be able to memorize his facial features. And look into those sea green eyes once again.

The only thing that stopped my happy daydreaming was the twisted sound of metal against wood. I quickly looked out the small, foggy window to see the boat lifting off the ground in a fashionably manner. People from below were waving at us as we took off into the sky, towards California, towards the Roman camp, towards Percy.

Hopefully he was still my Percy.

It was hours into the 'flight' when I heard a loud wrenching call of the wind against the window. I covered my ears once again as it sounded off, this had been going on for a long time now and it would not stop!

It was about three o'clock at night and mostly everyone was sleeping, but me. I heard Pipers soft snoring from the bunk above me. I sighed and lay back down on my pillow and got a better look at the room.

Its pale boring wallpaper was nothing too interesting; the linoleum floor was dirty and gross. I looked around the room and saw nothing of good fascination to me. There was a plant in the far corner of the room and there was a painting of a hammer and a screw driver. That was pretty weird. The only thing that made me quietly laugh was that there was life ring hung on the wall, with a 'in case of emergency' sign under it. What would that thing do well? We were in the air! If we fall out, we fall out. Nothing we can do about it.

I closed my eyes and tried to find sleep once again, and this time thankfully I was entered in. I sighed as a dream enveloped me. This was another dreamless sleep, never a good sign.

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