Percy Jackson- SECRETS- Chap. 6
Percy:
Annabeth was trembling uncontrollably, and there was nothing I could do. My limbs were numb and cold as walked to the side of the bed, and kneeled down. Annabeth was facing me and I saw the tears in her eyes. 'See what's become of your beloved? Give in boy, there is no going back. Let your parents die.'
"Get out of my head!" I shouted to Kronos, out loud. Pollux raised an eyebrow at me, but I shook it off. Zoe Nightshade came in and kneeled next to me.
"So you all finally made it back here." She said, and brushed Annabeth's hair out of her face, looking concerned.
"We couldn't keep it a secret forever, it's not like people thought we were dead, Zoe." I said.
"True, but I'm not dead." She replied.
"Oh, you know what I meant," I said, waving my hand in the air. "Is there anything you can do to help her?"
"I don't know. Annabeth will be very difficult, since Athena's knowledge is being transferred to Annabeth, her mind needs to adjust so the all the new information can be held. It won't be pleasant." Zoe explained.
"No, no, no." I cried, and dropped my face into my hands.
"It's not your fault Percy, none of us could have stopped this. Don't beat yourself up over it, you get too stressed." Jessica said meeting my eyes as I lifted my head.
"Since when are you sympathetic?" Nico asked.
"I've always been sympathetic, just not to you." Jessica laughed, poking Nico in the stomach.
"Why you little—" Nico muttered grabbing Jessica by the waist.
"Stop! Stop!" Jessica laughed.
"Excuse me." Kate said, standing up and looking both of them in the eye.
"Uhh . ." They said in unison, and ran out of the room. Kate sighed.
"They can get really annoying." She muttered.
"There is nothing I can do, we just have to wait it out. I'm sorry." Zoe said, standing up. I scooted closer to the head of the bed. Now I was face to face with Annabeth.
"Guys, let's go." Kate said. They were going to give me time alone with Annabeth. I thanked them inside my head, as I watched them file out. Once they were gone i kissed Annabeth's cheek, damp from all the tears, lightly.
"I'm so sorry." I whispered to her, and let a few tears of my own roll down my cheeks.
Thalia:
I don't know how long we had been kissing. Minutes? Hours? Days! I wouldn't have cared anyway. I couldn't get enough, and when we broke apart for air it just left me wanting more. I think we could have kept kissing forever, if it hadn't started to rain. We broke apart and both looked up to the sky.
"How did that happen? It's been sunny all day." Luke said.
"The gods are angry." I sighed, I'd wanted to avoid this conversation, but I guess there was no helping it now.
"Why?" He asked.
"Would you accept a 'I don't know'?" I asked.
"No. Is it because I'm alive? Because I don't know why I am, honestly" He said.
"Actually it's all of us." I said.
"What do you mean?" We had been on the floor, so he pulled us into a sitting position, and put me in his lap.
"I mean, there mad at all of us."
"But why?"
"Luke, have you ever heard of a Transfer Curse?" I asked.
"No. What is it?"
"It's a curse that allows the cursed to have power transferred to them from a chosen source."
"Okay, so what does this have to do with us? Wait, your saying we're cursed. With this transfer spell thing." He said.
"Yes." I replied.
"But I still don't understand why the gods are mad at us."
"Well, if we are the cursed ones, then we can have powers transferred to our bodies." I explained.
"And..." He motioned for me to continue.
"And since the gods are mad at us, whose power do you think is being transferred to us?" I asked.
"Umm...The Gods," I nodded. "Oh, okay then the gods, but I still don't see..OH CRAP!"
"Get it now?" I asked.
"Ye-ye-yeah," He stammered. "So that's why I ran so fast-and you- wait what about you!"
"What about me?"
"You're cursed to!"
"So?" I asked.
"So, can you like . . you know . . shoot lightning and what not." He said.
"I was able to do that before." I giggled.
"I know, but is it like stronger now?"
"Yes, but now I can do a lot more than hit people with volts of electricity." I stood up and walked to the edge of the cliff, with Luke trailing behind.
"So, what are we going to do now? I mean are parents are mad at us so we can't go to them for help. How can we get rid of the curse? And who cursed us anyway?" He said.
"I think that would be better discussed with everyone else, and the person who cursed us, well it was Kronos." I said.
"Well, when are we going to meet everyone else?" Luke asked, grimacing at the mention of my grandfather.
"In about sixty-seconds."
"Wait—what?" Luke asked, getting anxious.
"I told you I could do more than hit people with lightning."
"What are you getting at—AHHHH!" And we disappeared in a gust of wind.
Nico:
"Were in trouble." I said.
"That's pretty obvious, but I might as well just ask, why?" Jessica said, scooting closer to me while we relaxed on my bed.
"It's getting worse, and now our parents know." I said.
"What do you mean by that?" Jess asked, lifting her head from the pillow to look at me in the eyes.
"I mean that if we don't stop this curse soon, were going to have to much power to deal with and were going to die, and our parents are going to die with us." I said.
"How do you know this?" She said, putting her head on my chest.
"I can see our deaths."