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Hazel (ooh new POV)
I watched as Piper and Annabeth retreated down the steps to the cabins. I felt so bad for Annabeth, she has gone through so much. It's not fair. She has been through so much lately. She lost Percy for 8 months, faced her biggest fear, went through Tartarus, only to lose Percy again. I even heard that she held up the sky with Percy. That's plain crazy.
Annabeth has suffered so much I can't believe that she's still sane. Especially after going through Tartarus.
But Annabeth isn't the only one that misses Percy. I miss him terribly. He was like my big brother. He was insanely powerful and protected us. He risked his life for one of our quests. Now he was gone.
How are we going to defeat Gaea without him! Whether you want to admit it or not, Percy was the most powerful of us all. Sure Jason is a close second but Percy could kill him. Heck he almost did kill him. Without meaning to of course.
Point is, if we want to take down Gaea, we need Percy. That's why the moment Annabeth left we started planning how to get Percy back.
We couldn't talk about him in front of Annabeth, she'd break down again. We needed her to calm down, she was the brains of this operation. We couldn't have her upset and not being able to think.
When Piper came back we were already calling out ideas to save Percy.
"Hey guys, Annabeth is still down so be gentle around her K?" Piper said the moment she climbed on the deck.
"That's fine with me, Annabeth is scary when she's crying, its weird."
Everyone turned to glare at Leo.
"You know Leo, we wouldn't need to save Percy if you didn't distract us letting Percy jump off the ship!" Frank yelled at Leo.
"Yeah Leo, why did you do that?" Jason asked
"Did you guys not see his face? If I didn't distract you guys he wouldn't have been able to save Annabeth because you guys wouldn't let him. If Annabeth was killed or taken he would have beat up himself or worse killed himself. You saw how he was when he fell unconscious when the shrimp monster attacked! He blamed himself for days! Now imagine that but ten times worse. That would be Percy now if he you guys didn't let him go save Annabeth. THAT is why I distracted him and let him go. He would be worse than Annabeth. Or worse, he could completely destroy my carefully designed bathrooms!" Leo lectured us
We all took a few moments to take in what he said. But then recovered by slapping him for joking about his "awesome bathrooms" which for that matter weren't very awesome. The only thing I was glad for were those toilets, because they were wide enough for me to (you know, go bleh) Well actually the showers are nice and warm, and there's a cool skylight and
No bad Hazel, you aren't thinking about bathrooms right now. Sometimes ADHD can be so annoying. What was I talking about again?
I was to busy trying to figure out what I was thinking about I didn't hear what Jason had asked me.
"Can you do that Hazel?"
"...Sorry what?"
"I asked you if you could maybe track Percy using his sword?"
"Um, I'm not sure, Percy's sword was thrown out in the sea if you guys remember so I don't think that would work."
"Hazel, Percy's sword returns to his pocket remember?"
"Oh yeah. Sorry I forgot. Umm but I'm still not sure if I could do it, I mean, I've never tried to track things that are so far away."
"Maybe he's not that far! Why don't you try Hazel?"
"Um ok"
I closed my eyes while everyone watched me.
I searched for Percy's sword, put all my concentration on the celestial bronze sword. Too soon I felt a tug in my gut, I anchored my thoughts onto that. Almost got it.
"AH!" I yelped in surprise losing my concentration, Piper's knife had pinned my shirt against the deck.
I KNEW I had felt the tug too soon. I felt Piper's knife, not Percy's sword.
Frank slowly came over and freed me from the deck.
"Sorry guys, I think Percy is too far away for me to track his sword." I said embarrassed.
"Its ok Hazel, you tried."
Aw, Frank was so sweet sometimes.
"Thanks, Frank." I gave him a small peck on the cheek.
"Don't worry Hazel, we'll figure out another way to get Percy"
I smiled sweetly at Piper, she always knew what to say to make me feel better.
"Oh! Can you check your knife for any clues on Percy, Piper?" Jason asked.
"Um, I-I guess I could."
"What's wrong Piper?"
"Nothing! Nothing's wrong!" She gave me a fake smile, and failed.
"Piper" "Nothing, nothing wrong Hazel I'm fine, I'm perfectly fine!"
I sighed, she obviously didn't want to talk about it, but I could respect that. But I let it go. Even if I was curious.
Piper
I was NOT fine.
"Piper, you sure your ok?" Jason asked
"I'm sure I'm fine, stop asking I'm completely fine." I said as convincingly as I could.
I really wished they stopped asking, I hated lying to my friends.
The truth, I hated that knife. It always showed things I didn't want to see. Yes sure once and a while it showed something helpful, but that helpful information usually turned into something bad.
The stupid knife never showed the whole story! Only glimpses of it!
But I had already said I was fine and that I would do it. No backing down now.
I forced myself to turn toward my knife. Katoptris, my knife, meant looking glass, which is a horrible name since I never want to look at it. The knife's images always gave me nightmares.
Ok, you can do this, just look at the knife, it's ok.
No I can't do this, I can't handle another nightmare or image.
Stop it! You'll have nightmares anyways, and stop whining, you should be grateful of your nightmares, poor Percy and Annabeth went through Tartarus, I wouldn't be able to even sleep if I knew I'd have to relive that place.
I don't care I don't want to look at it.
You already said you would so do it.
Apparently the argument in my brain went on longer than I thought it did. When I opened my eyes, everyone was looking at me.
I cleared my throat, "Ok, so I'll look at it now."
"About time! What were you doing in your brain Beauty Queen?"
I glared at Leo, "Shut. Up."
"Ok! I'm shutting up. Leo's shutting up now. Whoo Leo's mouth will be closed in 10, 9, 8"
"SHUT UP LEO!"
"Ok."
I huffed in annoyance and looked at the knife.
What I saw made me scream from fright. The knife clattered on the deck.
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