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4 - Annabeth

Annabeth woke to a start when she heard the wailing of the alarms aboard the ship and jumped so high out of her bed she nearly hit the ceiling. Literally.

Annabeth grabbed the sword that damasen the friendly giant had given to her while she was in Tartarus. Holding this sword felt different to Annabeth. She was so used to wielding the celestial bronze dagger that Luke had given her when she was seven years old, but unfortunately that was lost forever along with all her other prized possessions she had taken with her on her mission to find and rescue the Athena Parthenos, but when she fell down the pit that connected to Tartarus so did all her things as well. That was it they were gone and there was no point reminiscing about it, Annabeth had a monster to slay.

Annabeth ran up deck and saw exactly what they were dealing with. Sirens. Annabeth knew how enticing it was to listen to their song. She had done it years ago but had nearly drowned trying to do so, so she knew not to get to close.

Thank the Gods there was no one above the deck, otherwise they would have probably dragged themselves over board. The second Annabeth thought that she regretted it. Gods, what if they had all ready done that? Annabeth asked herself, praying that everyone was below deck.

Annabeth raced back downstairs and rummaged through the supplies in the supply room, frantically trying to find some wax to shove in her ears. Finally she found a wad of wax. It was slimy, sticky and very disgusting, but she had no choice but to tear a piece off and mold it inside her ear.

The good thing, there was complete silence. Annabeth could hear nothing but the constant ringing coming from the inside of her ear.

Annabeth raced back upstairs and onto the deck of the Argo II and she saw the sirens on the sitting on craggy rocks, singing to their hearts content. Gods were they ugly! Annabeth thought to herself. They had scaly fish tales, the body of a vulture and finally the head of a female human. They were abominations.

Annabeth, knew the ship was on auto pilot because Percy had instructed Leo to have a break and to rest. Annabeth didn't know much about the ship, but from what she knew about the rout they were taking, the ship was going to sail right into the rocks and smash into a million pieces. Annabeth wasn't going to let that happen, not on her watch.

Annabeth ran to the control helm and grabbed the steering wheel and began randomly pressing buttons, trying to find which one was 'auto pilot'. Each one Annabeth hit, just had to be the wrong one. The first button that she had hit had released mini rockets that sailed up into the air and nearly rained down upon the Argo II. Lucky they didn't though.

After fiddling with buttons and control sticks, Annabeth finally found the right on and the Argo II suddenly came to a stop. Leo had designed this ship using his very ADHD mind and had incorporated so many unnecessary things into the controls (such as a wii remote, for steering) and this made life very difficult for anyone trying to steer the ship other than Leo.

Annabeth grabbed the Wii remote off of the bench top and thrust it up skyward. Immediately the ship began rising out of the water and the oars began to retract into Arial mode. It wasn't the most graceful life Annabeth had done, but it had worked. That was the important thing. Annabeth figured it was safe to take the wax out of her ears since they were well and truly out of the reach of the sirens and went to wake everyone up to inform them what had happened.

Everyone was assembled out on the deck when Annabeth spoke up. "You all slept through the alarm! Lucky for you it woke me, If it hadn't our means of transportation to Greece would be gone. It would have smashed into a thousand pieces, if it wasn't for me" Annabeth said.

"Annabeth, calm down" Percy said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "It's my fault. I insisted that Leo take a break and he refused to so I compromised and told him to put it into auto pilot. Don't be cross, please" Percy pleaded. "Seaweed brain, how could I possibly stay cross with you? I get it, you wanted the best for everyone and you did what you thought was right. I just wish you wouldn't be so impulsive and would think things through a little more."

Percy's mouth dropped so low, it nearly hit the floor. Annabeth expected for him to pipe up over this and get on the defensive but instead he pulled her into a hug and whispered into Annabeth's ear "look, I'm sorry" before letting go of her and going to sit on the deck. Truth be told, she wasn't cross with Leo, she was cross with Percy but she didn't know why.

"You know, Annabeth is right" a voice said from behind. Annabeth spun around to find Piper standing behind her. Annabeth had been sure she hadn't seen Piper that morning or so she thought until now. "Thank you Piper" Annabeth exclaimed, trying hard to suppress a smirk.

Piper then walked over to Percy and Leo and began talking to them quietly, but Annabeth could still here what she was saying. "Leo, Percy. Annabeth doesn't mean to be snappy, it's just she's been through on hell of a lot, that's all. Don't take it personally, she's gone to hell and back" Piper said, soothingly. "Um, in case you may have forgotten I was with her on our little expedition to the underworld and I find your wording rather ironic because it was hell" Percy grumbled. "Now if you don't mind I want to have some time alone with my girlfriend!" Percy said before shoving Piper out of the way. Annabeth felt giddy from hearing Percy say he wanted alone time with her, but she didn't know how to take the shoving part.

"Annabeth, can we talk?" Percy asked apologetically. Annabeth knew what he was going to say before he even said it. "Percy, don't apologize, you don't need to. You've done nothing wrong. Piper is right, I haven't been acting like myself have I?"

"No, you haven't, but that's only because Tartarus changed you. It changed me to, so you aren't alone, you will never be alone. I will never leave you if that's what your worried about" Percy insisted. "Perc, I know that. It's just ever since those Arai put that curse on me to go blind and be forever lonely, I don't know. I know you would never leave me but even when you were guiding me through the darkness of Tartarus while I was blind, I couldn't even feel your touch. Please don't hate me for saying this, but ever since that curse, there has been this nagging inside of me that keeps insisting that you will leave me and be eternally lonely. I know you would never, ever do that though. Right Perc?"

"Perc? where are you?" Annabeth cried. "Annabeth, I'm right here. Snap out of it!" Percy yelled.

"Percy! I thought you said you would never leave me, how could you?" Annabeth sobbed in despair. "Annabeth, I'm right here" Percy murmured, shaking her shoulder.

"Who's there?" Annabeth screamed before grabbing for her sword. "Guy's, I need help! NOW!" Percy bellowed at the top of his lungs while trying to side step out of the way, while Annabeth wildly swung her sword around trying to kill him. She nearly did, if Percy had of jumped out of the way one second later he would have been impaled by Annabeth's sword.

"What's wrong?" Hazel yelled as her, Piper and Frank came running towards them. "I don't know. We were talking about Tartarus. One minute Annabeth was fine then the next, well take a look for yourself" Percy yelled out while still trying to avoid being sliced to pieces. "Percy, it's the Arai's influence. Just talking about them must have awoken the suppressed curse within Annabeth! The curse won't break until she kills you or until she believes she has" Hazel said, obviously scared beyond her wits. "I know, I'll use the mist against her. Make her think she has killed you" Hazel said. "that's reassuring" Percy shot back at Hazel. "Just trust her" Piper yelled. "She knows what she's talking about" and instantly the words washed over Percy and he knew he had been charmspoken.

Annabeth continued to swing her sword around like a mad man until she finally hit something solid. Annabeth pulled the sword out of whatever she hit and felt warm sticky blood on the end of it. She knew she had hit somebody, Gods what if she had killed them?

Annabeth was immediately over come with guilt and sunk onto her knee's over someone's limp body. "no, no, no" Annabeth cried. She had killed Percy and was now going to know eternal loneliness forever and always. Annabeth was so despaired she grabbed her sword and put the tip of the blade to her chest. Before she could take her own life, she heard someone say her name "Annabeth".

The name was like a connection to a past life. The more she focused on it, everything around her became clearer. Her sight was coming back to her. It was like opening her eyes for the first time, like taking a breath of fresh air after being sealed in a cave for your whole life. Everything was coming together. Then she heard another familiar voice "She will be okay. She will come to it in a few seconds".

1,2,3,4,5 seconds that's how long it took for Annabeth to come back to consciousness. When she did she was greeted by the voice she loved most. "Welcome back" he said before kissing her on the cheek.

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