This is a sad one - sorry! I hope you guys cry while reading it... I cried while writing it... :3
But hey! Who doesn't love a good 'Percy's death destroys Annabeth'?!
:) Review if you want more (Well... I'll do more if you don't review, but maybe not every day... :L
Read on, but don't forget your tissues!
For Olympus, and For Percy!
"We got this, Annie!" Percy shouted, as we drew our weapons.
I wasn't so sure. Last time we had fought these things, Percy had blown up a mountain, and everyone had thought he'd died in the process.
Slipping on my Yankees cap, I circled around the telkhine (a/n I think that's how you spell it…?) and raised my dagger. Percy slashed its face with Riptide, and I struggled to focus.
More were coming up the hill, but we had to have faith that our friends would deal with them. I slashed its' weak-spot, and took my cap off, just about ready to do a happy dance. That is, before I saw what I saw.
"Percy!" I wailed, but it was too late. He looked down to see a sword blade straight through his right lung. He collapsed forward, and I threw my dagger with precise aim, hitting the telkhine behind Percy, killing it instantly.
"No! Percy! The others are coming, hang in there…" I sobbed.
"Don't… don't cry, Annie." Percy voice croaked. "I'll always be with you…"
"No!" I couldn't help it. I screamed the word over and over again, until Percy opened his eyes slowly. I saw the others running up the hill. Their eyes widened when they saw him.
"Don't worry, Wise Girl. I'll… I'll talk to Hades… my favourite uncle…" He cracked a smile, then winced. "I'll request one last talk with you before I go… I'll be fine. As long as you are." He whispers the last line, as if from a prophecy… "One will fall… to save them… all."
"No… no, Percy! Don't go… I love you."
"I… love you too…" He croaks before his eyelids close, and his chest does one great heave, before slowing to a stop.
"No… NO!" I scream, sobbing over his body. He can't be gone. He just can't.
"Annabeth." Pipers voice is soft. "Come on. He wouldn't want you to be sad." I heard the charmspeak in her voice.
"Your charmspeak won't work! Nothing will… He's gone." I wail, and wrap his limp arm around my waist. Curling against his lifeless body, I give one last sob, before passing out.
*Line Break*
"We gather here, to say goodbye to the Saviour of Olympus, Hero of Camp-Half Blood, Peace-Maker of the Romans, but most importantly, a friend to all. We raise our weapons to you, Perseus Jackson; Son of the Sea God!" Chiron spoken with unguarded passion, and everyone knew Percy was like a son to him. Everybody drew their weapon – sword, spear, dagger, bow – and held it above their head; a kind of demi-god salute.
Chiron motioned for me to stand up, and give my speech.
"Percy was…" I sniffed, looking for the word. "He was the bravest, smartest, most courageous man I have… I have ever met. And in his last moments, he told me the best thing I will ever hear." I felt the tears run down my cheeks. "He told me… he loved me." I say, and Pipers arms wrap around me, and I begin to sob into her shoulder.
Everybody is silent. Nobody had seen me express my emotions as much as crying, let alone sobbing into my best friends' embrace.
"I'm sorry. And another thing. Percy? I know your listening. So just… know that I love you." I say, nearly a whisper.
Then something happens that nobody expects.
The sound of rushing water. Lots of it. It pours through the doorway, and forms on the stage at the front of the amphitheatre. It forms a boy. It forms Percy. Everyone gasps, but I just laugh.
"I promised I'd talk to you one last time." The water-Percy says.
"You did. And you never break your promises." I say, laughing for the first time this week – the week he died.
"I love you too, Wise Girl."
"I love you, Seaweed Brain."
Another round of gasps and 'aww's.
"Don't cry. You lot had better love her. Care for her with all your heart. You hear me?" Percy jabs his watery fingers towards the rows of campers.
"I'll look after her, brother." Tyson says, from a few seats away from me.
"Thank you."
"Percy. Your time is up." Boomed a voice that seemed to radiate from Percy.
"Ok, uncle. Can I say… One more thing?" I assume Hades nodded, because Percy said one more thing. One thing I knew already.
"One must fall, to save them all. I love you Annie."
"I love you, too." I murmur quietly, but it was heard through the amphitheatre – because of the microphone I had.
Water-Percy smiled one last time, before the water went gushing out the door, leaving everyone wet – everyone apart from me.
"Goodbye to you, my son. For Olympus!" Chiron ended the ceremony with the traditional goodbye.
Everyone cried out, 'For Olympus, and For Percy!'.
"Goodbye, Seaweed Brain."
