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Chapter 2:

Annabeth

As we walked across the green to the building with the lyres, I could sense Percy's hesitation; he obviously didn't want to be anywhere near here. It looked like he would rather fight off a million monsters than walk towards the building that was supposedly the end of our quest, that was also supposed to end the brewing war between the camps.

What could possibly go wrong?

When we got to the building Percy held the door open for me and I walked in. The inside was as beautiful as the outside but in a different way. The floors were dark wood, with beautiful ornate rugs decorating the floor and bringing out the dark tones of the wood. The two large windows lit up the room with natural light during the day, and two medium sized chandeliers lit the room during the night. There was a large fireplace taking up half the wall opposite us and a miniature organ next to the fireplace. The wall opposite the windows was cut in half by an archway leading into another room. On the half that wasn't a door was a nice red and gold stripped couch. Next to where we were standing was a half circle counter that looked like it took a step down to a desk that had scattered papers, pens, pencils, and pictures of girls in ballet costumes. No one was sitting on the desk chair.

I think I hear Percy's breathing start to accelerate, but I can't tell if I'm imagining it.

Percy and I walked through the archway into the next room. One wall was completely lightly tinted glass showing into a dance studio where older girls were doing some sort of turn in the center of the room with pointe shoes on. There was a younger girl in with them, around 15 or 16 which I noticed because she was so young. I could hear the music they were turning to through the glass. There were couches, chairs, and plush benches for people to sit on and watch, none of which were currently occupied. There was a door next to the window into the studio that looked like a small kitchen. A hallway leads behind the studio to bathrooms and a longer hallway.

We sat down on one of the couches when the music stopped playing. The wall opposite the window and the wall to the right were regular wood/brick and the wall to the left was completely mirrored. The Instructor was sitting on a chair with her back to the mirrors. When the music stopped she looked at us. It was indeed the Muse Terpsichore. She said something to the younger girl there and she smiled and came out to the watching room where we were. I heard Percy take a sharp breath.

The girl comes out and motions for us to follow her into the room with the fireplace. I start to get up, and notice that Percy isn't following; he has his head down, hiding from the girl. She looked familiar too, like I should know her. She had dark hair, and eyes that seemed to change with the light. The way she had smiled before reminds me of someone but I cannot think of who.I dragged Percy up and into the room.

Before I could even say anything Percy walked right up to her and said, almost as if he didn't believe it, "Amira?"

And the girl, Amira's eyes cleared, like they had been covered in fog, and the fog was vacuumed up.

"Oh my gods is it really you Percy?"

He sat down hard on the red and gold couch. He was muttering under his breath, "No, no, no, no." he started hyperventilating, "No. No. No.," Percy said, louder now. He looked pale and his eyes were unfocused when he looked up, common signs of shock, but why? As far as I knew he had never seen this girl before in his life.

"Okay am I missing something here?"

Amira looked at me as if remembering for the first time that I was with them.

She hesitated and then answered, "My name is Amira Jackson…"

"My sister," Percy finished

When we got back to the Argo II everyone else was back in the lounge eating, drinking, talking and it almost looked like we were all normal teenagers… almost. The swords kind of threw you off a bit.

Most of Percy's color had returned, and he was breathing normally again, but he was still shocked, not in shock, but surprised, his dead sister was alive, who wouldn't be? No one else would notice though, I could tell because he has been my best friend for 5 years; and no one else knew him as well as me.

"So, our mission was a total bust," Jason started

"Us too," returned Piper. All eyes turned to Percy and me.

"Well, we didn't meet Terpsichore, but we did see her and this IS the school where They 'spread the arts'" I answered with a wary glance towards Percy, seeing if he wanted to add any other information. He was looking at his hands on the table.

"Do you guys ever think that the Gods hate you too much?" Percy asked out of nowhere, "I mean, like more than the usual level of hate." This was, again returned by blank stares, "So let say that your sister was kidnapped, and a year of looking later the police come to the conclusion that, 'I'm so sorry but we have to assume the worst' and proclaimed her dead. She was buried with an empty casket. And then suddenly, here she is, saying that, 'Oh of course I'm alive. I have been since I was born,' which is exactly like her too, and the only reason I haven't seen her since was because the Gods were going to kill her if they found out who she actually was, because the pact of the Big Three was still in effect, so if I wasn't supposed to exist, then she definitely wasn't supposed to exist." He finished and took a deep breath and exhaled through his nose. "Would that be more than the usual level of hate?"

After a couple moments of silence Hazel asked, disbelieving, "You have a sister?" and looked at me when Percy didn't answer.

"Hey don't look at me, today was the first I heard about this too."

Now everyone was starting to notice that Percy was starting to look pale again, his breathing was becoming irregular again. He was still in shock.

He stood up and mumbled, "Never mind" and left the lounge.

It was actually funny the way he was acting about her. Like he would rather take on the Titan Lord Kronos again; and it was also scary to see him like this, which was a first.

After he left, the others were still looking after him in awe.

"Wow that's ruff, I had it easy because I barley remembered Thalia, but he lived with her for…" Jason said, and paused to do the math, "nine years before she was taken away."

"He never told you" asked Piper

"Well he explained on the walk back that he didn't want to dwell on her dying, he wanted to forget her dying, and that's why he never told anyone."

"Wow. Percy has a sister." Frank said in amazement.

Leo put on his most mischievous grin, "So….. are we going to meet this mystery sister of his?"

I hesitated, and then answered, "We all need to meet with Terpsichore to get her help for something that we have no idea why we need her help." Leo raised his eyebrows in question as in, 'And… Get to the point.' I took a deep breath, "Yes Leo, we are."

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