I looked around, Percy and Thalia had made themselves at home, sprawled across the couch, Thalia's head on Percy's chest. Incase you're wondering, we are at Jake's house, we decided to stay here for the night and go back to our quest tomorrow. Nico was sitting tensely at the end of his hard wooden chair. "Relax buddy." Jake said but he didn't seem pleased to have Nico around either.
"You okay Nico?" I asked, patting his back. I was in a long sleeved shirt with pajama bottoms. Jeez was it cold now.
"Uh, yeah sure." He said.
"You look a bit green." Percy called. Nico glared at him. Percy shrugged. "It's true though." He defended himself.
"Uh huh." Thalia said lounging.
"Shut up." Nico groaned, he grabbed a cushion and threw it, which they ducked easily.
"I think you're getting rusty man." Percy snickered. Nico grew fiery red. He stood up , and started throwing everything in view.
"Whoa! I bought this house for a good price!" Jake said as he dodged a piece of china monument.
"I'll ask my mum to repair it later… If we rescue her that is." I said. Jake cautiously put an arm around me.
"I'm sorry for your loss."
"It's alright." I said. Percy and Thalia was busy playing dodge-things-thrown-by-Nico (Get it? Dodge ball, dodge things? No? Never mind)
"Calm down! This house is gonna go down…" Percy was cut off as he jumped forwards, pushing Thalia in the process, they both rolled under the table.
"Go for cover Annabeth!" Nico yelled as the house began breaking down.
"And it was only 3 years old too." Jake complained as we ducked under his bed. Soon there was a crash and the house trembled. I clapped my hands over my ears at the sound. Then, a big piece of concrete landed on my leg heavily.
"I swear that sound was worse than dad's thuders!" Thalia clambered out from under the table.
"My leg…" I whimpered.
"What' wrong with your leg?" Percy crawled out.
"I think it's shattered." I said.
"What?" Nico said he gently ran his fingers over my leg.
"It's shattered alright, the bones inside, I'm not sure if we can fix it…" he said. "It's not broken, the bones, they've broken into a million pieces." Percy examined my leg carefully.
"I don't think we can do a lot about this, I'm sorry Annabeth, I think you'll probably lose the use of your leg." His eyes were sparkling.
"I don't want to!" I said,
"All we can do is feed you ambrosia and wait." Thalia said mournfully.
"Wait…" Jake started.
"What?"
"I think I know a cure… My mum told me about this once, there is a titan called Calypso, she can cure this…" Jake said. My eyes widened at the mention of Calypso and Percy's did too.
"Jake, it's not easy to get to Calypso's island, I don't think it's possible." Percy said "I visited it once, and I'm pretty sure none except the gods are going to visit it soon."
"No, there is something else." Jake insisted "If you find this plant called moonlace (Is that right?) if you shred it and mix it with water to eat just 1 ml, you can travel to Calypso's island for 10 days." Everyone grew silent.
"We've got moonlace in our apartment…" Percy said. Jake perked up.
"Great! Some of us can go to fix Annabeth's leg and some can go to save Athena." I hate being a burden but I really needed a leg to live so I agreed.
"Hang on some of us?" Nico interrupted.
"I want to go." Jake said "I told you about this, I promise I won't be a burden, please."
"Just let him Nico." Percy said. Nico grumbled something about no experience. "So, how about me, Thalia and Nico go to rescue Athena, since I doubt you guys will meet monsters in the way, they would be attracted to us since we are the big three, and Annabeth and Jake can go to get their leg fixed."
"I want to go help Annabeth." Nico said "They might still get attacked, no offence Jake but you have no experience with sword fighting, and Annabeth is hurt."
"Annabeth said Percy defeated a Minotaur when he was 12 and had no experience why can't I?" Jake defended himself.
"Calm down! Jeez, fine, me and Percy will go to save Athena, Jake, Annabeth and Nico can go to heal Annabeth's leg, case closed!" Thalia said.
"But I can't walk." I said in a small voice, the fiery pain still burned my leg and it was more pain than I had ever learnt. I remembered a book called 'Maximum Ride' pain is just a message. I thought.
"I'll carry you," Jake said. Nico shot him a dark look but didn't argue.
"You can't carry her all the way over, after all, you're on an island." Percy objected.
"I'll shadow travel you guys." Nico said.
"I give you permission to borrow Mrs. O' Leary." Percy said. Everyone nodded, it was a plan.
"Well, we should get going." Thalia glanced at her watch "After we eat something that is."
"I've got some bread in the pantry." Jake offered, he came back with few loaves of bread "Take some with you, since we won't have to worry about food supplies at Calypso's, we'll take some money with us too. You guys will be stranded in the sea, no stores, take all this bread with you, okay?"
"Thanks Jake." Percy grinned and patted Jake's back "How old are you?"
"Me? 17," Jake smiled.
"Sweet, same age as us, well Nico is a few years younger…" Percy glanced at Nico.
"I can technically be your grandpa." Nico countered.
"My grandpas Kronos." Percy retorted.
"So is mine." Nico shot back.
"Shut up." Thalia said "Both of you." They both glanced at Thalia's spear and decided to shut up. Jake stood next to Percy, I took in note they were about the same height, well Percy was a few inches taller, no Jake was about the same height as Nico, taller than me or Thalia.
"We're going now." Percy said taking the backpack Jake offered. "Thanks for your help Jake, bye Annabeth, I wish you good luck!" he went out of the room with Thalia. Silence issued all around us.
"Well, let's go." I said. Nico nodded and whistled a low tone. Mrs. O' Leary bounded out of the shadows, Jake nearly jumped a mile.
"Suckers." Nico said. "Get on Annabeth." He lifted me up and I climbed cautiously on the hellhound.
"I'll go with her." Jake volunteered.
"Nah, Mrs. O' Leary will be too tired, and Percy would kill me, you're coming with me mate." Nico said.
"Fine." Jake said. Nico took hold of Jakes sleeve and we were melting into the shadows. I'm not a real fan of the dark. I don't recommend it for any of you. I know I know, Percy didn't really mind shadow travelling but since he's a fearless Seaweed brain…
Mrs. O' Leary tumbled out of the shadows and I fell of her, screaming out in pain when I landed on my bad leg. Jake and Nico melted out of the shadows and saw me. Nico looked a bit pale but he rushed to my side.
"You okay Annabeth?" he asked.
"I landed on my bad leg." I whimpered like a little kid.
"Calm down." Nico soothed. "Mrs. O' Leary, you bad girl, you're not allowed to come with us in Mrs. Jackson's apartment." Nico scolded. Jake just looked shocked. Mrs. O' Leary scowled, if dogs could scowl that is, she loved Mrs. Jackson.
"Come on Annabeth." Jake bended and picked me up. Nico didn't argue, probably too tired. We went into the apartment where Mrs. Jackson was washing her dishes.
"Annabeth! Nico! How delightful, and whose this?" she asked.
"Meet Jacob Castellan son of Hermes, brother of Luke." Nico aid stiffly.
"Brother of Luke? But…"
"I'm the good guy." Jake smile wirily.
"Oh right, sorry, Annabeth what's wrong with your leg?"
"It's crushed." Nico explained "The bones, I kind of accidently threw a chair at the weak spot of a house and it crashed."
"It's your fault!" Jake complained.
"No it's not." I soothed.
"Why did you come here?" Mrs. Jackson handed us her awesome blue chocolate chip cookies.
"We need moonlace." Nico said. "We need to crush it and mix it with water, then drink exactly 1 ml."
"Well, we've got a lot here." Mrs. Jackson led us to the veranda and I gasped. There was like 30 moonlaces all together, they were so beautiful. Mrs. Jackson bent down and picked one. "Wait on the couch, I'll crush it, mix it with water and bring you 1 ml each of it."
"Thank you Mrs. Jackson," I said formally, the pain evident in my voice.
"Call me Sally dear." She came back about 5 minutes later with 1 ml of moonlace crushed and mixed with water for each of us. We all drank it, and in a whirl, we were, moving… moving. To where though?
Percy landed on the shore. "This place does not feel good." He said. Thalia nodded.
"There's an evil feeling about this." She whirled around, too late, hands grabbed her and Percy and they blacked out.
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