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Chapter 7
Percy
"A-Apollo? What-What are you doing here?" I stuttered, surprised. He held out his hand and helped me up.
The lord of the sun smiled his dazzling smile as I brushed myself off. He was wearing a simple muscle shirt with board shorts, complete with sandals and Ray-Bans on top of his head. His golden hair looked like he just came from a walk on the beach, and if I didn't know who he really was, I would think he was a lost Californian surfer or something.
"What's wrong cuz-can't little ol' me drop by? Well, if you don't want my help on that little matter on the beach, then fine," he said dramatically, holding up his hands."You could've saved her, Perce, but nooooo, you had to pick on poor little me," then he turned on his heels and exaggeratedly started to march away.
"Wait! I do need your help!" I called after him. He turned around and said teasingly: "What was that?"
I rolled my eyes and said "Yes, I do need your help! There's this little girl on the beach and she really needs your help. She's dying, and there's no other person-god- that can heal her but you. Please," Now that I think about it, Apollo really is the best. He's the god of healing and medicine too. If anyone can heal Andy, he can!
Apollo nodded. "That's more like it. And about that Andy kid, yeah, I know, bitten by a dragon. I've got just the thing." He started walking towards the beach instead, and I released a sigh of relief.
"Thank you, Lord Apollo I-" I stopped mid-sentence. How did he know what happened to Andy?
"Where you watching us?" I asked, suspicious.
He laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head. "Um, hehe, pshhh, no..." I gave him a look Annabeth would be proud of. "Fine, I saw the whole thing, right from when they fell from the sky. I was bored, and um, noticed you, so, yeah."
I couldn't believe it! "You could've helped us in the first place! Then Andy would not have been hurt!" I said angrily.
"I was in the middle of writing a haiku, ok? It was getting really good!" he said defensively. "Wanna hear? I am so-"
"No!" I didn't need to hear another one of his lame haikus, no offense to him, of course. "Look, let's just save Andy, ok?"
He nodded, and we started to walk. "Why did you come anyway? Gods don't usually help mere demigods, do they?"
He smiled, and said playfully: "I'm in a helpful mood, and just wanted to say hi to my dear young cousin Perce, what's so wrong about that?"
I smiled a small smile back, but couldn't stop thinking about Andy though. What if Apollo couldn't heal her? What if it was so bad, even the god of medicine could do nothing about it?
Before I knew it, we reached Andy, the two Annabeths, and older me. My Annabeth looked up and her eyes lit up. "Lord Apollo!"
"Hello, Annie! I've come here to help your little daughter problem!" he strode over to Andy, and older us looked surprised and grateful at the same time, and backed away to let the god do his work.
"Percy, you're amazing!" she ran to hug me. "I didn't really do anything, though," I answered. I just bumped into him in the woods,"
She pulled back and nudged me playfully. "You are such a Seaweed Brain!" I laughed, and she did too.
I looked at Andy again, and was amazed. Apollo was really living up to his namesake. Andy's wound already looked almost completely healed. All we need now is-
"Ahhh!" I heard a shout from behind us in the woods. I turned to look and saw Nico, breathing really heavily, holding hands with a transparent looking thing. I squinted, and realized it was Andy's spirit.
I waved my hands out. "Nico! Nico, over here!" He looked up and smiled a little. Then , with all the strength he could muster went closer. As he was walking, I noticed he looked really beaten up, bruises everywhere and some wounds too. When he arrived, he collapsed to his knees.
"So, how was the Underworld?" I asked mockingly. He glared at me. "Oh, it was just swell, Percy. A real delight!" he sarcastically answered.
I laughed to myself, and turned to ghost Andy. She was simply smiling up at us, not knowing what was going on.
"Hi, Andy," Annabeth greeted her. She enthusiastically waved hello back.
Just then, Apollo stood up, faced me, and nodded. "She's all better. All we need know is Andy's soul, and she's good to go!"
I was so relieved. I faced her again, but noticed she was getting more and more transparent. "Oh no," Annabeth said. "Since she's not in the Underworld, she's slowly returning there, as she doesn't belong in the surface! We need to get her back now!"
I nodded, and reached out my hand. "Andy, c'mon, time to go home." she took my hand, and it felt really cold. I guided her to where her body lay. "Andy, I nned you to close your eyes, relax, and go to sleep. Do you understand?" She nodded and did what she was told. I picked her up gently, then settled her right on her body. Her spirit went right through, and a few moments later, she gasped and all color regained to her face.
Older me and Annabeth rushed in to hug her, they both had tears in their eyes. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Older Annabeth exclaimed.
I reached for Annabeth's hand, and she squeezed it back. This was going to be our future. We were going to live long enough to be happy and have a family, just like we dreamed. That thought made me realized that whatever comes out way, we would survive it. As long as we're together.
"Well, better be off now, godly duties and such," Apollo said. "Bye, cuz! See you around!" and just like that, he vanished in a flash of golden light.
Older me laughed. "Never really forgot how annoying that guy was sometimes,"
"Tell me about it," I replied.
The two Annabeths laughed together, and Andy was just looking around, bewildered. "What's so funny? What happened?"
At that, all four of us burst out laughing.
"So, what now?" Annabeth said.
"I guess, we try to find a why to get home," the other Annabeth said in reply.
"Now, how exactly are we going to-" Just then, a weird portal thing, just like what older Annabeth described, appeared right in front of us, and two toddlers, one black-haired boy and one blonde girl, were thrown out, and the portal closed just as fast as it appeared. The two kids, around 5 or 6, got up and looked around, clearly confused. They both looked at each other, then at us, and the four of us gasped.
The boy had sea-green eyes, and the girl? Stormy grey.
They were 5 year old us.
Shabalabadingdong! Well, there. Done and done. The next chapter. Hehehe, did you happen to see the little HoO reference I put in there? I'll give you a hint: Mark of Athena! (the book that crushed our hearts and tore our souls apart). Anyway, hope it was ok! Please review on what you thought, and sorry again! DARN SCHEDULE AND WRITER'S BLOCK!
PERCABETH FOREVER!
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