Eyes of Olympus chapter 4
Authors note: so? Better with italics or not? I need you guys to tell me if it was better or not with them. Also I finally showed the significance of the point of views. It's nice to switch it up. Also did you guys like it as long as it was? I was thinking I make each chapter around four pages long as it's obvious I don't have a specific size as evidenced by each chapter being longer and longer. I get so excited writing ideas just come out and then I'll find myself rambling...like right now. I hoped you guys liked the pervious chapter and if you guys have any ideas about the story, then let me know. I love reader input. Even criticize and tell me some things are wrong or just that stupid. I need and love your guys opinions and my ear is always open. On to the story!
(Brandon's point of view)
" You've got a lot of explaining to do " I tell the guy who is a perfect resemblance of Percy Jackson. "This is just to crazy on to many levels. First almost getting zapped on the beach, then people that were watching me ,and that be you and based on the other person I'm pretty sure that's Annabeth, and what the actual Hades is going on around here!?" The last part I scream at him as feel tears run down my face as I look back at my mom and get on my knees and look at my dad.
"I'm sorry this happened. It shouldn't have happened like this, but you are right. Me and Annabeth are following you and you were right about Annabeth being here. My name is Percy Jackson, but it seems you already know who we are. Somehow" Percy says calmly trying to ease the tension.
Annabeth jumps out the window and stands next my dad and looks at me. " I know you never asked for this, but now's not the time to be screaming at one another. If there was a monster here then that fire will definitely attract more of them. We have to get out of here now. If you know about us then you probably know about camp. But that's going to be a long drive and we'll explain everything on the way. You and your family will have to come with us. Please for your and your family's protection. " she says like she concerned with a hint of fear.
"Am I demigod?" I say with a mix of fear and excitement. "We don't know. A stayr in the area reported your sent that's something else. Something no one has ever encountered before". She says trying to be strong, but I can hear a trace of doubt. "That's why they sent us to retrieve you now we need to go now" she says almost aggressively.
I look at my dad. "She'll be fine". My dad says almost reading my mind as we both look at mom. " You're not a demigod. Your mom and I are both mortal and right now we need to move". He says calmly and in his leader voice. "No". I interject. "You and mom should go to grandmas house. Plus mom needs medical attention. If we're going to the camp. I'm thinking off then it's a long drive from here and they won't follow you. They seem to be after me ". I say trying to be strong. "I won't let you go alone. We both know what happens to people who go there. They get hurt or killed and we're both mortal and we need to stick together ".
"No!" I yell at my dad. "Please just stay with grandma. Be safe. I promise to tell you everything the second I find out, but I'm their target. Not you. Please dad. Just take mom and get to safety" I say with each word feeling like my heart is being ripped out over and over again and on the verge of breaking down and my dad gives me a bear hug we both have tears in our eyes. "Just come home safe and know that me and your mother love you very much and always will". My dad says in my ear and I hug him back. "I will make it back". I say promising him. "Now go". I say trying to regain my composure.
My dad picks mom up and he gets in his blue pick up truck and he drives away with her and I watch it leave with tears in my eyes and I look back at Percy and Annabeth as I wipe away my tears. " Honestly I've never thought I'd meet you. I thought you two were just characters in the books. " I say sad and excited and they just looks at me confused. "What books?" They say at the same time then I climb back into my mess of a room and I go into my closet and I take the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus books and I put them in my navy blue camp back pack along with $100, my toothbrush, a note pad and pencil, a couple pairs of black and blue jeans, a black hoodie, and two blank white t shirts, and a picture of me and my parents at the Empire State Building when we went on that trip to New York for my twelfth birthday and also the year my dad showed me the book first Percy Jackson book and I jump out the window. " I'll tell you about them on the drive to camp. Just lead the way there ". They both still look at me confused but they start leading me out the alley as I hear a fire truck coming and we walk out of the alley on the side walk as I follow them.
" So I guess you two came in a car and you're going to drive us back. " they both keep walking and looking around "If you know about us then do you know about the Argo II?". I look at them both in complete shock. "We're going to fly out of here!?" I practically yell at them.
"No, but now we know more of what you know about us" Annabeth says proudly and I look at them both sheepishly as they lead me to a white van that has the logo "Delphi Strawberry Service" on it as Percy gets in the drivers seat and Annabeth gets in the passenger seat while I get in the back as I look around and see little scratches on the walls and the roof from the back and we start driving away and I see fire trucks speeding pass us.
"This van has seen lots of use. I haven't seen or heard of this van since the battle of New York with Kronos. " I tell them casually and Annabeth turns around from her seat and looks at me like she's trying to figure me out and I just smile at her. " I basically know everything from Percy's first fight at the museum to after the events of miss dirt face aka Gaea. " I say like it was nothing, but she looks at me with her mouth wide open and has the expression she doesn't know what to do. "Hey where's Argus? Isn't he usually the one that drives these vans?" I ask. "He's back at camp. He's still head of security". Percy responds then tells me
" Then you'll know people at camp. More or less. You know our story. It's only been a couple months since then. How do you know all this?" Percy asks me. "Do you guys have a scribe? " I ask waiting for their response then a few seconds pass by then they both yell in the air "RICK!".
"Yep. He took your stories and wrote them into wonderful books. 10 books to be exact and some spin offs. Thousands if not millions of people know your story. The fandom fell in love with you guys. I'm surprised you guys haven't notice. There were even two awful movies about the books. The third one is in the workers we speak". I inform them
I hand Annabeth my back pack and she opens it up and sees the ten books completely stunned and she takes the first one which is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. "How come we've never knew!? I love books. I've read as many as I could. Yet I've never knew. " she says scared even looks like she's been defeated. Well they're here and you're even a fandom. We even gave you ship names like Percabeth ". She looks even more confused while she and Percy look at each other.
" What's a ship? What's a fandom? " Annabeth asks so I start explaining everything about a fandom and I tell them the other ship names like Frazel, Jasper, and Solangelo, but I decide not to tell them about Caleo or Theyna (Thalia+Reyna, if you didn't know Rick confirmed it as being 100% canon on Twitter a while back)
" I know some secrets like how Annabeth had a crush on you Percy since you two were twelve, but it was around the time of the end of Kronos that she fell for you hard and when you two kissed in Mt. Sai-" I stop mid sentence because Annabeth jumped into the back and started beating me up blushing so hard her head looks like a tomato yelling "Tell no one or I'll kill you!" as Percy laughs hard and I can see that he was blushing too and he can barely concentrate on the road. "Oh don't think I don't know what happened at the beach with you and Rachel. You know when Beckendorf rode in on BlackJack on the hood of Paul's car and what happened before you went with him". Percy immediately shuts up as Annabeth turns toward him and gets back in her seat looking at him suspiciously. "What happened between you and Rachel?" She asks almost like an accusation. "Brandon. When we get to camp I'm going to kill you". He says seriously, but I think he's joking.
After Annabeth many attempts to pry the information from me and Percy for an hour and fails she calms down she starts reading the first book and Percy pulls over to get get some ice from the bruises she gave me earlier and I was smiling the whole time watching her read and she's stunned by the book and her eyes are almost glued to the book.
"They're great books. Very detailed though I'm sure there are things you didn't tell Rick or however he got the stories from you guys". I tell her. Everything in those books are what I know about you guys. Well that and a legend I heard here and there about Greek Mythology which I also know due to these books". I inform her
"By the way. You said a stayr noticed my scent and that's how you knew about me, but whatever happened to him or her?" "Well that stayr we mentioned was Grover and after he reported you we sent him back to watch you and he should be on his way back to camp". she tells me. "What!?" I yell. "Grover! He's like the best stayr ever. If noticed me then that's an honor of itself". I tell them and Annabeth smiles. " He is the best stayr and I guess the books made him look really good". We both laugh a little.
We drive through Georgia and South Carolina and into North Carolina when we stopped and I woke up from the nap I had from the long drive. "Wha-what?" I ask groggy then I feel Percy's hand clamp over my mouth and I dart my eyes and I see his sword out and Annabeth's dagger is out as they were next to me in the back of the van and I look out the windshield and I see a squirrel in the middle of the road. "Why do I get that feeling that it's not a squirrel?" I say in my head.
(Annabeth's point of view)
Sees Brandon's awake. "Styx" I say to myself. "I wonder if he can see threw the mist. He may have read these books, but he's still a mortal". I look at Percy and he mouths out "wait" then I look out the windshield again and I look at the 10 foot cyclops with a tree in its hand that looks like he uses as a club and its practically looking straight at us, but the kids in the Hephaestus cabin put a stealth machine that should get us to New York undetected from monster. The cyclops sniffs the van and inspects it more than it taps it with its tree club and looks inside again and it shouldn't show any of us are actually in the van.
I dart my eyes at the door handle ready to jump out and start fighting, but I know that won't work. It's probably best to just wait for it to go away.
The cyclops sniffs and looks around more and then it shrugs its shoulders and starts walking away as its foot steps shake the van and they become more and more distant till there's no more sound then Percy let's go of Brandon and he looks at us scared, and I jump back a little bit when I see his eyes are blood red instead of the brown when we saw him and I whisper yell to him. "Why are your eyes red?!"
He goes into the front and pulls down the passenger sun blocker and looks in the mirror that's in it and he jumps back and closes and eyes and open them again and they're still red. " I don't know. This hasn't happen till I saw you guys near my window back in Florida. At first my eyes hurt like Hades and now they feel normal. I feel normal. If anything I feel pumped now. Like when Pop eyes eats spinach. " he says getting more and more excited.
"That's not normal. Red eyes. Monsters after you. Weird smell or aura or whatever " I say starting to get a little annoyed. "True, but when was the last time anything normal has actually happen recently" he says in a matter a fact tone. "Touché" I reply. "But we'll definitely have to tell Chiron this". "I honestly can't wait to get to see the real Camp Half Blood. I have so many idea for new weapons I want to propose to kids in the Hephaestus cabin" he says excitedly like a kid waiting to go to the amusement park and I eye him suspiciously. "What weapons?" I asked almost scared of what's going through his head. "Okay. I've seen lots of weapon designs in video games and tv shows that I thought I could propose to them. My favorite is a suit of armor that was so powerful and durable it can take on gods from attacks from blasts like the master bolt, Titans, or primordials. I call it the GodBuster. From the hulk buster in the Marvel universe." he says getting even more excited then I hear Percy laugh and I smirk. "You know when I was 12 I took on Ares all by myself and I only had Riptide and my wits." He interjects. "It's just an idea. Imagine taking on multiple gods at once and holding your own. With armor that strong maybe it could also be used to fight an army of monsters."
"Well you can run it by them when we get to camp so calm down and go back to sleep or something" I say getting back in my seat and Percy starting up the van again.
"Well I have to pee so good thing we stopped" he says glancing at the van door handle then I sigh and Percy laughs. "At least you didn't pee yourself when the cyclops walked in front of the van". "From my eyes it was a squirrel, but if I saw that I'd probably wouldn't need to pee anymore". I roll my eyes at him and mutter " boys "under my breath and then Brandon get out of the van and does his thing then we're on the road again to camp.
Authors note: well things are definitely moving along. I hope you guys liked this story and the reason I uploaded today and not Tuesday is because I got it done late. Again. Sorry about that, so from now on I'm going to post on Friday's. Leave any comments and anything to point out in the review below and remember to stay beautiful.