Annabeth
The second we stepped into the darkness of the Labyrinth, we were lost. The winding corridors confused me at every turn and I was confused as the walls seemed to disappear and reappear in all places on me.
"Do you have any ideas where we are going, Annabeth?" Piper yelled.
"I'm trying to figure it out, Piper! Give me a minute!" I yelled back.
I ran my fingers along the way of the Labyrinth, trying to strategise a way for us to head into the centre, where the monsters were. I theorised that they couldn't have been there now, because time would have helped them escape.
The second this thought crossed my mind, I headed forward, guessing that that was where the centre of the Labyrinth was.
As we walked, the girls talked about our quest.
"How would the monsters get into the Labyrinth?" Piper's face was scrunched up in confusion.
"I wondered the same thing Pipes. I don't see how a monster could have even appeared on here." Calypso's beautiful voice lilting.
Hazel remarked, "Annabeth, if anyone can pull of this quest, it's you!"
"Thanks Hazel, but I'm still worried about how we are supposed to take down so many famous monsters. I mean, these are the most dangerous monsters in all of Greece, and we have to take them down!" Worry and doubt crept into my mind, planting seeds of negative emotions.
I shook this off. Athena always said that the most important weapon in wartime was a clear mind. You needed it to outsmart your enemies, and defeat them without even raising you physical weapon.
We trekked along the dark passageway for a few more minutes, keeping our thoughts to ourselves. We soon came upon a split in the path.
"Which way?" Thalia asked.
"Quiet Thals." I said.
"What, Annabeth? Did you hear something?" Thalia asked.
I had heard just the faintest sound down the left passageway, as if there was something down there. I strained my ears, trying to grasp the sound again, but to no avail.
"I must have imagined it girls," I said, shrugging it off. But something about that sound bothered me. It almost sounded... human.
My train of thought was interrupted by a large roar down the right hallway, a large roar that sounded like a drakon!
Before I could even give them orders, the girls ran towards the sound, weapons at the ready.
I knew I had made the right choice in choosing these girls, and I ran after them.
"Guys," I panted as I ran," we need a plan of attack. We can't just charge in." At this the girls stopped running and crept closer to the sound, slowly. As soon as we came into sight of the drakon, my heart nearly stopped. It was about twenty feet long, spitting fire and acid at the walls as it thumped around the corridor.
Just our luck, I thought. Most drakons don't spit acid, but we get the kind that does.
I glanced nervously at the large, armour like scales that covered its entire body. They were going to be incredibly difficult to get through.
A plan started to formulate in my mind as I spirited around the drakon, careful to keep its blind spots.
"Piper, you and Thalia take care of distracting it. Make it mad, and make sure it's attention is directed away from us. Hazel and Calypso, I want you guys to injure it, make it weak so it can't get up. Whatever you do, don't look it in the eye."
"And what are you going to do, Annabeth?" Thalia asked, even though she already knew the answer.
"I'm going to take this monster down," I said as I grasped my dagger.
...
Piper and Thalia charged into battle on my command, immediately getting the drakon's attention. Hazel and Calypso darted in after them.
As Piper deflected acid and fire, Hazel slashed a long cut through the drakon's leg, cutting through it scales.
The drakon roared in pain, and it looked for Hazel, but Thalia shot a few arrows at its face, embedding the silver arrows in its nose.
Seeing that the drakon was distracted, I surveyed the damage to its body. I needed to figure out a way to relieve one killing blow, so my friends wouldn't get hurt and tire themselves out. A blow to its heart or neck would be the best way of fatal wounding it or killing it.
I ran behind the drakon, grabbing onto its tail. I then quickly climbed up the tail and vaulted onto its neck. I was just about to drive my knife through the drakon when suddenly it roared and shook its body violently. I was forced to grab onto its neck to prevent being smashed into the wall and breaking every bone in my body.
The drakon shook me around like a rag doll. It was all I could do to keep holding onto the large, scaly neck of the monster, and I could feel myself slipping as I desperately tried to get a better grip.
Piper ran to help me, but she couldn't get past the drakon's swinging tail, and she narrowly avoided it by ducking under it. Next, she tried to go under the drakon's body, but the tail smashed into her and she flew backward, flying into the wall. She hit it and she seemed fine, other than the fact that she was unconscious.
"Piper!" I screamed. Seeing my friend lying on the floor unconscious sent fear through me. I was the leader of this quest, I was supposed to keep everybody as safe as possible.
I was so wrapped up in my thoughts, I didn't realize that Hazel had aimed to attack the drakon's eyes, and had become paralyzed in the process. She was almost burnt into ashes, but Thalia pushed her out of the way, coughing as they both took in smoke and slumped to the floor.
However, Thalia was able to shoot a few arrows at the drakon's face before she fainted.
It was just me and- Calypso took a hit to the head from the drakon's claws and crumpled to the floor. She didn't move again.
I was overwhelmed, glancing around, trying to figure out a way to take down the drakon with all my friends incapacitated and weak. I jumped off the drakon's back and faced it head on. Thankfully, Thalia had shot a bunch of arrows into the drakon's eyes, meaning it couldn't paralyze anyone anymore.
I attacked the monster with all I had left, feinting to the left and charging to the right. I somersaulted under the drakon and cut both of its legs badly. I was just about to slice its stomach into ribbons when another sword sliced the tail of the drakon.
In confusion, I rolled out from underneath the drakon and saw a dark figure rushing around the back of the monster. Within moments, five other dark shadows joined it, and they proceeded to cut down the drakon.
Not to be out done, I jumped onto the drakon and managed to deflect the dark shadows around me. I quickly scaled the drakon's scaly back, and drove my knife into the drakon's neck. The drakon dissolved underneath me, and I fell to the ground like a cat, landing on my feet. I turned to look at the dark shadows, but before I could see them, I was being picked up by one of the shadows and carried off in another direction.
When we reached the clearing, I soon got a good look at my "kidnapper." It was a boy my age, with dark, black hair that was shaggy and didn't seem to be combed. He was taller than me, with a tan and a good build. But it was his eyes that captivated me the most. They were sea-green, but even that wasn't enough to describe them. They seemed to swirl with blues and greens, changing from a lighter bluish color to a darker green one. They entranced me, and I couldn't seem to look away from them as I let myself be dragged along.
I've seen those eyes somewhere before. Then I realized, they were a carbon copy of Poseidon's, my mother enemy, which meant that... this boy was a son of Poseidon.
Immediately, I pulled myself from his grasp and surveyed my surroundings. The boy came to stand beside me and made me sit down. It was only then I realized I had a cut on my arm that was dripping blood.
"Who are you, I demanded? What is this place?" I asked.
"Settle down," the boy said.
"Like I'd listen to a son of Poseidon." I spat.
"Hey, this son of Poseidon is trying to save your life, daughter of Athena" he said back at me.
"How-" I was cut off.
"With that attitude and those eyes, you must be a daughter of Athena."
"Well, with that intelligence level, you're clearly a son of Poseidon."
"That hurt."
"I hope so."
"I just saved your butt back there. How about a little bit of gratitude?"
"I had things under control." I argued back.
"Yeah, I could see that, with you friends all hurt and you about to die." he said sarcastically.
"I know what I'm doing."
"Really?"
"Obviously! I'm a daughter of Athena!"
"Quit you flirting you two!" a black haired boy yelled at us.
"Shut it Nico!" The boy yelled.
By now the rest of the girls had woken up. Thalia was the first, and as she looked around, her eyes landed on the blonde boy and her face broke out into a wide grin.
"Jason!" she yelled, going to hug him.
"You know this kid?" I asked.
"Know him? Annabeth, he's my brother!"
"What?" I said. I didn't know Thalia had a brother. I could only vaguely remember her mentioning him a few times.
"So, how's life in Corinth without me? Keeping Percy on his feet?"
The boy next to me yelled, "I keep an eye on him!"
Jason said, "Well, interesting friend you've made here, Thals. She's almost as stubborn as Percy."
"Someone who's as annoying as Annabeth? Wow, I didn't think that was possible," Thalia joked.
I sent her my best death glare, then yelled in pain as the boy- Percy, I guess, applied antibacterial liquid to my cut.
"What was that for?" I yelled.
"To keep it from getting infected," he said. "Wow, as a daughter of Athena I thought you would know this stuff, what was it, Annabeth?"
"I mean, why didn't you give me any warning!"
"I didn't? Oops." He shrugged.
I got back at him by kicking his feet, and he yelped in pain. It was only then I realized everyone else had woken up and was staring at the little show that Percy and I were putting on for them.
"Buzz off!" Percy and I snapped at them.
"Stop it!" we said.
"Ugh!" we threw our hands up and crossed our arms the exact same way.
"Wow Jason you were right. They are so alike." Thalia said.
Percy and I turned to glare at our supposed "friends". Thankfully, at that moment, Piper chose to wake up.
"Hey," she said. "A little help over here, if you guys could tear your eyes away from each other for a minute."
I stood up to help her, but Percy pulled me back down.
"Oh no, You're not going anywhere until we bandage that arm, Annabeth."
I frowned and sat back down, but Jason turned towards the direction of the voice. He looked
annoyed as he turned around, but the second he saw Piper, he was speechless. Even beat up and dirty, Piper was gorgeous.
Being a daughter of Aphrodite, Piper has that quality on people. I smirked, then stared when I saw Piper blushing under Jason's gaze. She never blushes around guys. She stays away from them.
I then noticed the other guys setting up camp around the empty clearing.
"Oh yeah," Percy said. "That's Nico, he said, pointing to the black-haired boy who had yelled at us earlier. He was helping Calypso. That's Frank," pointing to a Chinese guy who was helping Hazel. "That's Leo" he said, pointing to a really hyper Mexican guy who looked sort of like an elf.
Even with demigods having ADHD, he seemed really excitable. "And that's Grover," he said, pointing to a satyr who seemed to be the most sensible one there right now.
"Hyper much?" I said referring to Leo.
"Ok, Leo's the most hyper person you will ever see. Not my fault."
"Except you," I said as I smirked.
"I'm actually quite calm." Percy said.
At this the rest of the boys started laughing so hard they fell on the ground.
"Yeah right Percy." Leo said. "Biggest lie ever."
I grinned, knowing that my analysis of Percy was true. He really was insane.
"So what are you people doing down here? You barged in on my quest."
"I barged in on your quest? My father sent me down here to kill those monsters, Annabeth. You invaded my quest."
"Your father sent you down here?" I asked. "That's impossible. My mother sent me down here to kill those monsters." I said.
"That's odd, unless,"
"They were trying to out do each other." Percy finished my sentence for me.
"Oh when I get up there Athena is going to get it!" I yelled.
"Believe me, so is Poseidon, but first Annabeth, we can't abandon these monsters. At least they are real. We have to protect Greece." Percy said grimly.
"Fine." I sighed.
"Wow, you two work really well together." Calypso remarked.
"No we don't." Percy said.
"We should team up," Jason said to Piper.
"Yeah, I vote for that," Grover said.
"Me too!" chorused everybody else.
"No way! We are not working together!" I said.
"Yup, not going to happen." Percy said.
Everyone else exchanged a look, as if they were in on something we weren't.
"What?" we demanded.
"Proof!" Leo said.
"This is perfect. We can cut down the amount of time that it would take to defeat these monsters. Come on Annabeth, you're outvoted already." Hazel said.
"Yeah captain. Just go along with it," Nico said, with a devilish grin on his face.
Percy sighed in surrender. "Fine."
He glared at me. "But no funny business."
"Wouldn't dream of it," I said.
Hey guys! Happy with Percy finally appearing? I hope this chapter was action packed enough for you! Tell me if there anything you want to change. Constructive criticism is gladly accepted!
Love from an exhausted dancer!
~ Vi