Twelve Quests in One
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"Now this was more like it," Percy thought. In the water, just him, the waves and his surfboard. He pulled off spins and turns, landing perfectly every time. The crowd on the beach watched him in awe. All except one person.
Annabeth was lying on her towel, reading. She had read through the entire book on the Twelve Quests and was now re-reading the second chapter on the Hydra.
Percy came out of the water and called her name. She turned and gasped. That sight took her breath away every time. Percy had become very tanned and toned over all his summers at Camp Half Blood.
His well defined muscles shone in the sun and he was dripping wet. He pushed back his dark hair and smiled. Annabeth stomach did another flip, just like it always did when he smiled.
The sight of Percy didn't just take Annabeth's breath away. Most of the other girls on the beach were looking at him and whispering. Percy couldn't help but notice and the blush that came over his face was adorable. He put the board in the sand and sat down beside her.
"So what's the next task?" he asked. "It's the Hydra. It had multiple heads and every time you cut one of them more grew in its place. The only to kill it was to set fire to the main head."
Percy opened his mouth to say something when three girls came up to them. Two were brunette and they stood either side of a blonde girl with huge hair.
Annabeth wondered why would you get your hair styled and then go to the beach.
She also wondered why anyone would style their hair like that. Let's just say you could lose things in that hair and never find them again.
"Hey," the blonde said, "I haven't seen you around here before." She was taking directly to Percy, ignoring Annabeth. Percy nodded. "I thought I'd come to check out the waves. I promised my girlfriend here that I would teach her to surf."
One of the brunettes blushed and the blonde walked away. The other two followed her and Annabeth bit back a smile.
In the next few minutes, Percy and Annabeth debated about the task. They didn't know what they were going to do. They hadn't figured out the first task until the bead had begun to glow. They had no idea what twist this person was going to put on the next task.
As they talked more and more girls would come to talk to Percy. The blonde was there every time.
Finally Anabeth had enough. When another group came up, she stood up and said, "Ok, listen very carefully. Percy here has a girlfriend and it's me so can you please run along before I hit you all into next year!"
As she said this she threw up her arms, hitting a glass of juice that one of the girls were holding. The juice spilled all over the girl. Annabeth's jaw dropped and she said, "I'm so sorry…" Then she saw her wrist.
One of the beads was glowing. She turned around and showed her wrist to Percy. He looked at the girls that were walking off and then at Annabeth. "The more that go away, the more come back," he said slowly.
Annabeth nodded and looked at blonde. "I bet the main head is the blonde." Percy nodded and stood up. "I'll get you a drink," he said smiling.
Annabeth stood behind the group of girls with a glass in her hand. Percy looked over at her from their spot on the beach. She walked up behind the blonde and thought, "I really don't want to do this."
The girl was talking to a group of her friends. "That Percy guy is unbelievably. He must work out a lot! But his girlfriend is too skinny and that can't be her real hair colour." Annabeth scoffed and thought, "On the other hand…"
She walked right up behind her and dumped her drink right onto of her huge hair. Annabeth gasped sarcastically and said again, "I'm so sorry!" With that she put her drink on the table in front of them and said, "On the upside, at least you'll smell like orange juice."
She walked back to Percy, who was lying on the sand laughing, and held out the bracelet. The bead glowed and a picture of a three-headed beast was printed on it.
Percy smiled and stood up. "Come on, time for you to learn how to surf." Annabeth's smile disappeared. "I didn't know you were serious about that!" Percy smiled and pulled Annabeth up off the sand.
"Their relationship is tougher than I thought," the girl said, as she watched the looking glass. The boy beside her shifted from one foot to the other. He glanced back at the small child that was on the floor behind them both.
She had allowed him to give the boy a blanket as he had been shivering. "Do we have to do this? I mean I don't see the point." The girl looked at him with cold eyes. "Annabeth and Percy are perfect examples of true love. I never liked true love." The boy sighed and looked back at the looking glass.
