Chapter 3
Annabeth POV
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN PJO OR ITS CHARACTERS.
Sure enough, Seaweed Brain is swimming. Big surprise. He walks up to us.
"Hey Annabeth."
"Hey, where did you get that perfume you gave me?"
He looks a bit nervous. "I told you, I picked it up. Literally. Off the ground."
Seriously, Percy would be the person to do that? "Where?" I huff.
"Outside Cabin 10," Percy says. Right away I know it means trouble.
"Aphrodite, Percy? Really!" How could he be so stupid?
"How would I know? One of the girls told me I could take it, so I did."
Well, that was the story of how I died. Just kidding. Maybe.
"Okay, whatever," I say, walking away with my new friend, Kat.
When we get out of Percy's earshot, she nods towards a group of boys huddled up together- nodding and pointing at me. "Let's see what they're talking about."
As we walk over, they stop talking and stare at me with dilated pupils, gawking.
"What's going on?" I ask.
The first to respond, a Hermes boy named Jack, says, "You look really pretty today, Annabeth." He inches forward until we're less than a foot apart.
"Hey! I hear a yell from a distance. "Get back!"
I turn to see who it is, although I already know. Percy, running to the group, takes out his pen. Uh-oh.
Jack doesn't back away from me. Instead, he grabs my face in his hands and looks into my eyes. His eyes are blurred and confused, an obvious sign that he is under a spell. I swat Jack's hand away, and he backs down just as Percy reaches the group. The other boys still stare, oblivious to what's going on because they are under the same spell as any other boy within the area of Camp Half-Blood.
Percy steps up and slashes at Jack, who backs away from the blade that would have hit his shoulder.
"Okay, enough," Kat speaks up. "This is seriously ridiculous. Percy is Annabeth's boyfriend, and the rest of you are under a spell that Percy accidentally picked up."
"Huh?" Another camper says, coming towards me. I push him away, but three more are behind him, grabbing at me. For one spell-driven boy I push away, two or three more show up. Soon, I am in a mass of bodies fighting over my lips. I try kicking, but it is useless, and I find myself being smothered, with no space for air to get in when I'm literally being trampled.
Then, I hear a scream, and one by one, the boys are knocked to the ground. When all of them are semi-unconscious, I find Kat huffing where the last one stood. I would've thought it would be Percy helping me, especially driven by jealousy since he's my boyfriend, but a true friend can have just as much power as the son of the sea god.
"Thanks," I mumble. "How did you fight all of them off?" I see some of the half bloods starting to get up already.
"It's a secret," Apollo's daughter responds, breaking into a run with me until we're away from those crazy boys.
A/N: REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! Please people, it means the world to me! I have walking pneumonia and it sucks, so I'll try writing soon if I can, but no promises! See ya'll!
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