Thanks for all the great reviews! For some reason I get e-mails saying I got new reviews but when I go on the site, they don't show up. Weird. Anyway, hope you all had a great new year! Enjoy To answer a question; yes the Heroes of Olympus did happen. Percy and Annabeth were saved from Tarturus and this is happening after that. So they will be turning 18 soon. PS: Melania's last name is Jewels not Jews I donno what happened there.
Percy POV
After breakfast, and teaching Melania how things worked at camp, I left her with Chiron and headed to the beach. Chiron had said he would try and explain to her a few things that were going on, in exception to her dad dying. When I reached the beach, Annabeth was already there, sitting in the sand looking at the water.
"Hey," I said as I slid and sat down beside her. She smiled before picking up her sketch book that laid beside her.
"So what you think of this?" she asked as she flipped through it and stopped on a page with a drawing of a sculpture. I couldn't recognize who it was.
"I figured out who Mr. Leo is." She said. "It's Hephaestus. I only designed one sculpture of him so I guess he got offended."
"Huh. Who would have thought?" I said as she continued to flip through the book and talk about what each drawing was. Huhhh. I had done it now. She was off in her little world. But as always I knew how to snap her out of it.
Annabeth POV
"-this is Zeus' main sculpture. I really wanted to make it Roman, but, I knew that included making a Roman sculpture for everyone, and that means my mother who HATES her roman form an-" Percy's lips came crashing down on mine as we fell into the sand. I put my palms on his chest and pushed against it.
"Hey!" I said as he pulled me back up.
"You were rambling." He said. "About Olympus. Again." He smiled against my lips.
"Oh, so now you take no interest in what I'm doing?" I said playfully. But I was hurt. Percy usually cared. He raised him eyebrows at me.
"Come on," he said. "It's go for a swim." He grabbed my hand and pulled me up so that I was standing. He started walking toward the water, but I pulled my hand away. He turned and looked at me surprised.
"No. I want an answer. Do you care?" I asked.
"Come on Wise Girl, you know I care! It's just I can't concentrate on what you're saying." He said. I was really starting to get pissed off.
"OH! AND WHY IS THAT!" I yelled back.
"Look it's like me talking about, I donno, uhh, whales for an hour! I wouldn't expect you to listen!" he yelled back.
"At least I would try!"
"What you don't think I try, Annabeth! I do I really do! But you should know that I don't do it well!" he said.
"Percy you're saying I'm BORING! No girl wants to hear that!" I yelled.
"Ok, calm down." He said put his hands up in surrender. "I didn't mean that. And you know it."
"No Percy I don't know it! I thought you cared! And listened! Why does-" he walked toward he and kissed me, hard. He poured his heart into it; it was so passionate I thought I would melt on the spot. \
He smiled against my lips, "Shhhh," he said. He pulled away from me. "I'm really sorry. I didn't mean it like that."
I sighed. "Ok, whatever. I hate it when we fight." I really hate when we fight. Bickering is ok because, well we're Percy and Annabeth, we're known for our bickering.
"Now, let's go for the swim," he said. I smiled and entwined my fingers with his.
"Sure." Just as we headed toward the water something came bursting through the trees.
"Percy! Annabeth!" we turned around to see Glover standing at the tree line.
"Hey, sorry to interrupt, uhh, well whatever you were doing, but Chiron's looking for you guys."
"Oh, ok lets go back now," he said as he pulled me toward the tree line. We ran to the big house where Mr. sat on the porch playing pacman on a old laptop.
"Ahh, Peter Johnson, your sisters inside." He said not looking up from the screen. I don't think he could remember my name if he really wanted to. We walked through the big iron doors and stopped in our tracks.
In the middle of the room Melania was swimming in a pool. The only thing was, there was no pool. The water just stayed where it was.
"Huh" I heard Percy say as he smiled. "I guess she understands now."
"No really," said Chiron who stood beside the water watching her. "She only understands that water, and anything associated with water it in her power. She says she's the water princess." He said as he smiled and laughed. I walked toward her. She was wearing a one piece blue bathing suit. It had ruffles on her hips and nemo-like fish sewed on in the middle. She floated around the water giggling and playing with a school of fish. She must've gotten the water from the lake. I guess Percy and I were too busy arguing to notice.
I crouched down beside her. Her head dropped under the water and she shot back up. I laughed as her long blonde hair covered her hair. She tried, and failed to move it off her face, only making a big not.
"Here I said as I took my ponytail out and took her hand. I pulled her to the edge of the floating water. I told her to tip her head back, and I pushed her hair into the water. But this time Percy was talking to Chiron in the corner. I pulled Melania out of the water and turned her around. I grabbed her hair and tried putting it in a ponytail. Her curls were gone, as was the braid from this morning. Her hair was stubborn but thin. I guess since it was so long it had thinned its self out.
"What happened to the braid I put in this morning?" I asked her. She simply shrugged and asked if I was done.
"Almost." I said as I pulled her hair through the elastic one last time. "there." She thanked me before jumping into the water once again. I watched her as she chased a school of small fish around the pool. They weren't much fast then her. I sighed and went over to Percy and Chiron.
Percy POV
Chiron pulled me aside to talk about Melania.
"I found out a few things about her." He said. "She's really three, turning four in March. Her mother died two years ago from a monster attack. She simply said that a big scary man with one eye, a Cyclopes, had came to their house and that Mommy went to visit a family friend in The Elysian Fields with him. That's what her father told her. I told her father went to visit them too. Her house is in Brooklyn, and her dad was a doctor. She knows its not her real father. Poseidon stayed with them until she was two, so she remembers him a little. She very, very smart. And her parents had enrolled her into kinder garden a year early. She likes school, and she said that she saw Poseidon a few times but when she would run over to him, he would disappear. The teachers didn't believe her, nor did her step father-I don't think he knew who Poseidon was- but her mother did. She told her that he would come to see her after work but had to leave quickly to get back. She doesn't understand why he left." Chiron looked at me.
"I want you to take her to New York with you, to met Sally and Paul. If she isn't reluctant and if Sally and Paul are ok with it, try and keep her there for a few months. She's enrolled in a private school. Poseidon provided the money and enrolled her in a school near your apartment. It's a private preschool." I was about to ask how this was going to work when he put his hands and my shoulders.
"It'll all work out. Poseidon wouldn't waste Sally's time if he thought it wouldn't. And if it doesn't bring her back to camp." He said. Annabeth came to my side.
"So what's going on?" she asked. I took a deep breath.
"Go pack up Melania. She's coming to New York with us."
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