"Escaping" and Furies

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Alina POV

I noticed Percy was having a hard time at camp. Everyone steered clear of him like he was a disease, Annabeth was clearly worked up about something since Percy got here, and even my best friends were a little wary. I know they meant well, I mean all of a sudden a son of Poseidon shows up during camp? I have to admit that's suspicious. But that doesn't stop me from feeling bad for him.

One day, I decide to visit him in the Poseidon cabin. I knock on the door, and it opens. "Lina, right?" He says. I nod. "I wanted to check up on you. I noticed that no one was talking to you much." He nods. "Ever since I got claimed as the son of Poseidon." He says. "Well," I say. "You're a child of the Big Three, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. There aren't any of those. Not to mention a hellhound came into the middle of camp, everyone's suspicious; they'll get over it eventually." I reassure him.

"Is your friend Annabeth always this tense?" He says. "Usually when she's like that, she's coming up with a plan," I reply. "But she's not bad; she's had a tough life. Plus, you can be an idiot kelp head sometimes." He laughs. "But, I promise, they'll get over it eventually." I say, just about to turn the doorknob.

I leave the cabin, and I bump into someone. "Annabeth?" I ask. She doesn't answer, but instead pulls me into the Athena cabin. "Listen, what we say in here cannot be repeated to anyone, understand?" I nod. "Here's what I heard. Remember when we visited Olympus for the solstice?" I nod. "Zeus's lightning bolt was stolen, and he is blaming Poseidon for it, but an immortal cannot steal another immortal's possessions. So, Zeus is blaming Percy, Poseidon's son.

"WHAT?" I say. "But Percy didn't steal it! Zeus is insane thinking that!"

"Lina," she warns. "Insane is not the word to describe the king of Olympus." I sigh and huff. "Fine," I say. "But he didn't steal it." I say. With that, I walk out of the Athena cabin.

A couple of days later after that, I sat on the bench by the lake. I was almost finished with Divergent.

I feel a tap on the shoulder. It was Grover. "What is it?" I ask him. "Chiron wants to see you Lina," he says. I nod and follow him to the Big House.

I come into the Big House, where I see Percy and Annabeth standing there. "You wanted to see me Chiron?" I say to him. He nods. "Yes, dear." He says.

"I assume you've already heard about how Percy was framed for seeing the lightning bolt?" I nod. "In order to… what can I say… appease Zeus, we are issuing a quest to find the lightning bolt and to return it to Zeus. Percy can have three companions on this quest." He finishes. "Grover and Annabeth. For his third companion, he has chosen you."

"Normally, I wouldn't let someone as young as 10 years old go on a quest, but you have been here a long time, with a lot of experience and training." He says. "So, you'll go on this quest."

"I get to escape!" I say. Everyone looks at me funny. "I mean leave."

"No time to waste," Chiron says. "I think you should all get packing."

I go to the Aphrodite cabin, where Silena and Lacy were waiting for me. "What happened?" They say. "I'm leaving," I say. "I'm going on a quest!"

"You've been wanting one for so long!" Lacy says. "I know!" Silena looks worried. "Promise us you won't do anything stupid?" She says. "I make no promises," I say to her. "But I'll try." The three of us chat, excitedly and nervously while they help me pack. I pack three extra changes of clothes, my Divergent book, some mortal money Luke stole for me that I saved, some drachmas, a toothbrush and toothpaste, and my silver knife, in a small purple bag that I have.

I meet up with Annabeth, Grover, and Percy at Half-Blood-Hill. I run to Thalia's tree and hug it. I do this a lot, and some people think I'm weird, or strange for doing so, but to me hugging this pine tree is like hugging Thalia herself. "Wish me luck, Thalia," I whisper to the tree.

Chiron was waiting for us, with Argus, our head of security, who has eyes all over his body.

I hear footsteps and Luke comes running up the hill carrying a pair of basketball shoes. "Just wanted to say good luck," Luke says to Percy. "I thought you could use these." Luke hands Percy the sneakers, which I already knew were magical shoes from Hermes.

"Maia!" Luke says. Wings sprout out of the shoes, and Percy drops them. They flap around on the ground until the wings folded up and disappeared. Luke talks to Percy for a while and gives a hug to Annabeth.

He then turns to me. "And you Lina promise me you'll stay safe alright?" Oh, NOW you want me to be safe! You neglected me for the last six months! I nod as he embraces me.

I smirk as I see Annabeth look as if she's going to pass out. "You still like him don't you?" I say. "No, I got over him." I snicker. "Yeah, you probably like Percy." She groans. "Why do I want to go anywhere with a seaweed brain and a hot-headed daughter of the love-goddess?" I smirk at her. "You love me." She sighs and rolls her eyes.

Daughter of the love-goddess. I remember the first time I met my mother, Aphrodite. It was only six months ago, at the solstice. She had smoothed my hair and told me about how she had to leave me with Robert for my own good, because it would be even worse leaving me in the care of my real father's "followers" as she calls them. According to my mother, my real father is "half dead." But I don't know what that means. My real father has followers? But even Aphrodite won't tell me anything. I'll find out when I'm ready.

Someone shakes my shoulder. It was Percy. "Lina, we have to get into the van." He says. "Oh, right." I say.

I look at the real world through the car. It is amazing. I haven't realized how long we've been here. Four years.

I smirk as Percy and Annabeth argue. Oh, as the daughter of the love goddess, I just know that they will be the perfect couple! Oh great, now I'm sounding like the kids in my cabin.

Argus unloaded our bags, and made sure we got our tickets for the bus. Then, we were on our own. We played a game with one of Grover's apples for no reason while waiting for the bus. The game ended when Grover ate the apple—core, stem, and all. He blushes, but Percy, Annabeth, and I were too busy cracking up.

The bus finally came. As the last few passengers get on, I notice something strange; they looked like triplet demon grandmothers…wait a second…The Furies… or Kindly One's.

Percy turns to Annabeth. "I thought you said they could be dispelled for a lifetime!" He says. "That's if you're lucky, you're obviously not!" She replies.

One of them got up.

"I need to use the restroom," says the Fury.

"So do we," said the other two Furies.

They walk towards us.

"Percy, take my hat," Annabeth says. "Turn invisible, let them pass us." She says. "But— There's an outside chance that they may not notice us."

"I can't just leave you!" He says. "Don't worry about us," I say. "Go!" He puts the cap on, and we don't see him.

"Lina," Annabeth whispers. "Use your charmspeak, there's a chance it could work. Even if it works for a second, we can make a run for it." I nod.

The Furies transform and surround us.

"Where is it? Where?"

"He's not here!" I yell, my voice having charmspeak in it. "He's gone!"

They mutter. The charmspeak had some effect. "It's working Lina!" She says. "Run, both of you!"

We tried running to the exit, but they come to us hissing: "Charmspeak!"

Suddenly, the bus twists, turns, slams to the side, grinds metal, and throws sparks behind us. What is Percy doing? It halts to a stop and the screaming passengers leave the bus.

They lash our whips at us. Annabeth and I had our knives out, yelling at them to back off. The charmspeak worked once in a while, but they caught us before we could leave.

The lead Fury hisses words at Percy, lunging at him. Annabeth gets on the Fury's back, holding her in a wrestler's hold. The other one tries to come to her aid, but I hop on its back, yanking her back away. I shove the Fury back, and the same thing happened to the other Fury.

"Zeus will destroy you!" The lead Fury says. "Hades will have your soul!"

"Get out!" Annabeth yells. "Now!" We rushed outside. A BOOM comes from the bus, along with an angry wail. "Run!" Annabeth says. "She's calling for reinforcements!" We plunge into the woods with rain pouring down, the bus in flames behind us, and nothing but darkness ahead.

In a way, it was better than being bored at camp all the time.

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