HEY EVERYONE!SORRY THIS TOOK AWHILE...THANKS TO 'pecabeth777' FOR REMINDING ME TO UPDATE(I HONESTLY NEARLY FORGOT...) ANYWAY HERE YOU GO CH.3!
'But was THAT what Selina was at camp for? To make sure that I knew that little fact? Or was it to make sure I knew that I had fallen, hard, for my best friend. Percy Jackson, the only demi-god son of the Sea God Poseidon. The son of my mother's mortal enemy…'
My eyes bulged in realization. 'How could this be? When had I stopped thinking of Percy as just my best friend?'
I could hear the sound of someone clearing their throat. I looked up. Percy was still sitting there, on his side of the iris message, looking uncomfortable from the prolonged silence of my cabin.
"Err, Annabeth, you okay there?" he asked me, concern plainly written across his face. 'I guess he noticed my, uhh 'little discovery'…'
"Of course, I guess I just…zoned out for a second there…" I said with a weak smile as I tried to figure out if he had bought it. Well at least it wasn't a complete lie…I had zoned out after all.
"Ha, a daughter of the mighty goddess Athena, zoned out?" Percy asked me teasingly.
"Heh, I guess so," I muttered with not the lightest of blushes spread across my face. I looked into the corner of my cabin in embarrassment.
"Well you know what they say. 'There is a first for everything'," my friend replied with a smile that made my heart melt as I raised my head to see his reaction.
'But IS there a first for everything?'
"I guess your right Percy," I said, referring to his previous statement. "So what did you do all day then?"
Percy raised his hand to his chin in mock thought. I giggled softly at his display of 'smartness'.
"Well you know, since you know everything…" he said with a small smile as he finished his pondering and started to roll his eyes at the mention of my superior intelligence.
"Come on Percy we both know I'm not THAT smart-" I said defiantly.
"He snorted in amusement. "Well name something you don't know then Wisegirl," Percy said looking at me in a sheepish manner.
I didn't know plenty of the things but only one thing cam to mind.
'I don't know if he-'
But Percy, completely unaware of my currently important lack of knowledge, took my silence as something different. "See told you so Annabeth. You're so smart I wouldn't be surprised if you could read minds or something…." The dark haired boy said with a wide grin.
Now it was my turn to snort in amusement.
'Yeah, I wish I could read minds…well not minds more or less just one mind.'
"But really what did you do all day?" I asked trying to press our conversation on from earlier.
"About the same as you," he said simply as he leaned back in his chair.
'I highly doubt that.'
…………….TIME SKIP……………
"Come on Annabeth!" yelled a familiar voice.
"No, help me Annabeth!" cried out another voice, this one desperate.
I was running in a dark tunnel, one that changed every few feet.
I was in, the Labyrinth. Once again.
I ran as fast as I could on the uneven rock floor beneath my pounding feet. I was trying to make it to the small light ahead. A light that came from a small gap at the edge of a sturdy looking wooden door with rot iron handles. 'Behind the door has to be those people.'
I ran faster now even more desperate to help those oh so familiar voices.
'If only…'
Suddenly the rock floor turned to sand and I fell slightly from the lack of support.
'But I have to…'
I trudged onward needing to reach the end of this tunnel.
Finally, I made it.
I tugged roughly on the iron handle. It seemed to be stuck. I pulled harder, using both of my arms in an attempt at leverage.
There was a slight click noise of the door being pulled loose from its jam. I fell to the, now hard, floor from the force of my pull.
I was drowned in light from behind the open door way. I shielded my eyes from the intensity of the present light. Thankfully it started to clear leaving in its place a room with ceiling tiles similar to those of a middle school class room.
On one end of the room stood a young man, ghostly pale with sandy hair that danced across his forehead but didn't quite interfere with his vision. He wore a baggy pair of cargo pants that tucked into a worn out pair of army boots and a white t-shirt that hugged his shoulders. In his arms he held a long sword, half celestial bronze the other…regular steal. The blade reflected its wielders eyes. Eyes of just a black nothingness, they were soulless eyes.
On the other end of the room, facing the first boy, stood a younger boy of around 15. He had a head of dark messy hair that rested a top his lightly tanned skin. This younger boy wore a simple pair of jeans and a pale blue t-shirt along with a ratty pair of sneakers. He held a slender sword in his hands; it was at the ready as if he was ready to attack at a moments notice. But unlike the first boy he didn't have coals for eyes, his were sea green.
As I stepped within the lights range the two boys turned. Although they did not break their tense stances their faces did seem to soften at the recognition of my arrival and in honest hope.
'Who are these guys? Why do I feel like I know them?'
The dark haired boy started to walk over to me, his left hand extended out as if to take mine. The boy never did make it to the door though because it was the paler one who spoke. We both looked over towards the older boy.
"Annabeth, come on. Kronos needs you. No I need you," echoed a hard voice.
At his words the dark haired boy tensed, then looked back at me pleadingly.
"Please Annabeth. I can't win this without you Wisegirl," he begged.
The older boy merely tilted his head back and let out a loud harsh laugh that seemed to shake the room.
"Now, now Annabeth, you don't want to defy me. Do you?" asked the soulless boy, all previous emotion erased from his stone cold face.
The younger boy stepped in front of me defensively just as it happened. Suddenly the figure of the pale boy completely changed. It became more feminine. It was now none other then Athena, my mother.
I was amazed at the sudden change. If it were possible the simple room seemed to become more tense then just seconds before hand. 'This isn't good…What could make a godly one have more hate then the previous boy here, the one with no soul at all?'
"Daughter, you disgrace me?" she asked, her eyes fierce with anger.
"What? No, I could never-" I cried out as tears came to my grey eyes.
"Yet you associate with this-" she seemed lost for words, "spawn of my immortal enemy, Poseidon?!" She motioned to the person before me.
"He's not spawn, mother!" I argued.
My godly mother started to rub the bridge of her nose in annoyance to my difficulty.
"I thought I had made it clear to you, as I do with ALL my children, but now I see that…" her voice faded off as her grey eyes assessed the dark haired boy who still stood in my wake. She then returned her gaze to rest on me, her daughter.
But just as I was about to say something I was interrupted.
"Please Athena," the protective boy pleaded with the goddess, "do not punish your own daughter for something that I have done."
A thick silence passed within the small room. "Very well," declared Athena with a satisfied grin. "You shall be punished instead."
"No!" I yelled as a blinding blue light escaped from my mothers hand as she pointed towards the boy. I was pushed back with a force that sent me to the floor mere feet away. Then as I watched the scene before me everything seemed to click.
She was pointing to…Percy.
The light hit him square in the chest causing him to fly back into the wall 10 feet behind us. But just as he hit the wall he looked over at me sadly, sorry to have it end this way, and uttered only three words.
"Good bye Annabeth."
As he muttered those few words the light of the room entirely vanished and I was enclosed in darkness. All I could hear was the cold laugh of the heartless boy, nowhere to be found in the outlying shadows.
His last words echoed through my mind.
"Good bye Annabeth."
Then the dream ended. There was a harsh knock from outside my cabins door.
"Annabeth get up!" bellowed an aggravated voice from beyond the door of the Athena cabin.
I groaned in drowsiness and slowly dragged myself to a sitting position atop my bed. I looked towards my digital clock. In glowing red letters it read "11:27 A.M."
'Argh, not again! Why do I keep having that stupid dream?! I mean sure I don't have it every night but its too consistent…Hmm… it was different this time though. I don't remember it usually being that long. What was different though?' I rubbed my temples trying to recollect my nights dream. 'I remember the begging perfectly but…Wait. My mother came, that's the same then- Percy got hit…' My eyes widened.
"Come on Annabeth get your lazy butt out of bed all ready!"
I squinted in concentration, trying to block out the displeasure of my friend while trying to contemplate my nights dream.
"You're going to be late for lunch if you don't hurry up!" said the irked voice of Selina, as she continued to thump her manicured hand on my cabins wooden door.
"Yeah, yeah hold your horses," I replied groggily as I rested my feet on the faded floor and pulled the rest of myself out of my bed.
I made my way over to where I kept my small collection of clothes. (Really barely enough for a weekend out in the eyes of any child of Aphrodite.) I pulled out one of my many orange 'Camp Half-Blood' t-shirts and roughly tugged it on. I looked around trying to find some pants and quickly found a pair of jeans.
I hastily finished dressing to make it to my cabins bathroom. I looked at my reflection in the mirror as I brushed my teeth. I seemed the same as always almost entirely the same except for one thing. My eyes. They didn't seem to have their usual shine.
It was as if part of me wasn't there. It had been like this for over 3 months now. No one appeared to notice thought, it was just me… 'Why?'
As soon as my teeth were brushed I made it back towards the door, making sure to grab my coat on the way.
"Sorry about that Selina," I apologized as I joined her outside. She wore a pink jacket and a matching pair of Uggs. Her makeup covered face, that was usually perfect, had been tarnished slightly from her chilled pink cheeks.
"Took you long enough, gosh it seems your waking up later then me and my siblings Annabeth! What up with you recently?" she asked a cloud of heat escaping her mouth.
I shrugged at her accusation and started to walk out into the white tundra of the camp trying to make it to the pavilion for lunch. I pulled my coat tighter around myself as I walked through the half foot of snow.
We walked to the pavilion in silence.
To be continued…
SO WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? PLEASE REVIEW TO LET ME KNOW!I'VE DECIDED THAT I'M GOING TO WRITE A SIDE CHAPTER ABOUT WHEN APHRODITE TOLF SELINA TO STAY AT CAMP (COURTESY OF 'sistergimm2'). ALSO AS ALWAYS GIVE ME SOME IDEAS FOR FUTURE CHAPTERS!!PLEASE!
