Annabeth was finally able to fall asleep, more then likely it was form the help of Piper's charm speak. She was asleep for a good five hours before the light from the sun filtered in her cabin window.
Based on what Leo said, they should be arriving at the entrance to death's door in the next few days. She was scared that Percy wouldn't be there. Nico said that there was no way anything in the underworld could hold down Percy.
Getting out of her bed was a struggle, thanks to a brace that Coach Hedge had built for her she could walk and run easily now, but she couldn't sleep with it on. Luckily for her, her ankle wasn't as bad as she thought, and she should be out of it by the time they land. When she bent down to put the brace on she felt something stab her in her side form her pocket. Witch was weird because she didn't put anything in her pockets yesterday.
She reached in and pulled out a pen. Annabeth almost had to do a double take, because there was no way this could be Percy's pen/sword Riptide. She uncapped it, and sure enough it turned into a sword right before her eyes.
"Nico!" She yelled, for him, wile trying to run down the hall to where Nico was staying. She turned the corner and ran right into Frank, who was occupied by Jason, Hazel, Piper and the King of Ghost himself, Nico.
"We heard you scream what is it?" Hazel said, almost drawing her sword, wile the others were in attack mode as well.
"This, is what is wrong." Annabeth said holding the pen in front of everyone.
"A pen?" Jason and Frank said in almost at the same time looking at Annabeth like she was crazy.
"Riptide." Nico answered for her, the name made Jason and Frank look back at Nico, almost like they didn't hear him right.
"Wait. I thought Riptide returned to Percy when ever he lost it." Frank said
"It usually does, but I found it in my pocket, witch means that Percy doesn't have a sword with him right now." Annabeth said, with a lot of worry in her voice. Not only was her boyfriend stuck in side of tartarus, but now he had no way to defend him self.
"Why would it be here?" Hazel asked wile simultaneously looking back at Nico. Her half-brother made a face as soon as he realized that everyone was looking at him.
"Well," he said almost unsure of himself. "It could be that the aura around tartarus is not allowing, it to return to him."
"Is that even possible?" Piper asked, stealing the words right from Annabeth's mouth.
"I doubt that is it." Coach Hedge said walking up to all of the Demi-gods. "If that was the case, then all of the monsters that come back wouldn't have weapons every time." He said, well more shouted at them.
"Then what is it?" Annabeth asked, getting inpatient.
"Well, sense you lost your dagger, I would put my hoof on the fact that wile he was falling, he told the sword to go to you, so you could protect yourself."
It felt like a punch to stomach for Annabeth, not only did Percy save her from falling, he also grave her the only thing that could keep him safe, wile he was being toutured.
It must have showed on her face, what she was thinking because, everyone else was looking at her.
"Are you alright, Annabeth?" Hazel asked, not sure what else to say.
"I'm fine, but when we find Percy I am going to beat him to a pulp for doing this." She said right before she stormed off. When she was out of eye sight of the others she ran into a dead sprint, not caring about the brace on her ankle.
"Why the hell did you have to save me, gods dammit why do you always have to save everyone." She said, in-between her muffeld cries. When she reached her room, she couldn't even open the door. She didn't want to just lay on her bed all day.
When she got down to the stable, she layed down on the glass door, thinking that this was going to be the last time she would ever let Percy do something so stupid just to keep her safe. She started to think of all the times, that the two of them saved each other's lives. She made a promise to her self at that moment, it didn't matter if he would like it or not, but Annabeth was going to do what ever she could from no on to make sure Percy was safe and sound, and always with her.
Sorry for the short chapter but my Sergeants have been keeping us all late and it has been really tiring. Hope you liked this one, I however don't really know how I feel about it, I don't want Annabeth to be in some sappy thing that can't take care of her self so expect her to change soon. Please review and add suggestions.