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Chapter 10 Annabeth

The next few days passed without incident except when some sharks started swimming towards Jason's Hippocammi. Jason was petrified in fear and stood frozen where he was, not daring to move. When I laid my eyes on them, I realised what they were and immediately my Hippocammi veered to away from them at my command. Sharks can sniff blood from a mile away and they get uncontrollable when they smell it.

Percy swerved his Hippocammi and brought it in front of the sharks and me. Most likely, he did the 'son of sea god thing' cause the sharks disappeared into the sea. After about an hour, they reappeared with some fish for us to eat. We all hogged on the food like we had never seen food before but we were seriously hungry. What do you expect from seven kids who didn't eat food for the last three days?

The fish was raw and tasted horrible. In normal circumstances, I think I would have puked by now. Despite the horrible taste, I ate it gratefully not sparing even the tiniest part. We all ate in silence and Piper was the first to puke followed by Jason. Quit laughing cause that stuff was nasty...awfully nasty. Thank the gods you didn't have to eat it.

Again for the next few days, nothing major took place until we finally reached Rome. The moment I stepped foot into Rome, I felt giddy and nearly fell head first on the ground. If Percy didn't catch me, I would have attained a foul wound on my head even without a monster after me. Gods, what is wrong with me? It's as if Rome was draining all my energy from me. I looked over my back to find Percy, Leo and Piper in similar conditions.

On the other hand, Jason, Frank and Hazel looked refreshed. Great. They get all the advantage cause its home turf for them. Percy kindly thanked all the Hippocammi and they seemed extra pleased. I was certain that we wouldn't survive if we continued without food so I decided to find a restaurant.

"We need to get food and provisions if we want to continue or we don't stand a chance" I claimed.

"Annabeth's right. I don' think we stand a chance against any monsters without food and provisions. Besides, I'm starving" agreed Jason.

"So it's decided. We go pick up some food first" said Percy.

"But we are short of cash. I don't think we can pay for the food. We lost all our money on the blasted ship" said Frank irritated.

"What do you think I'm for" said Hazel grinning wickedly.

"Good idea Hazel" I said cheerfully. Of course, how can I forget? Hazel can pull out precious stones from thin air.

"Okay. You go with Piper and get some money fast" I instructed.

"I'm going to Iris message Chiron and Jason I think you have to inform camp Jupiter too about our progress" I told. He nodded sagely, not looking very comfortable with the idea.

Before we left, I gave the others their work.

"Frank and Leo. You guys try to find directions for Rick Mansions" they agreed and left.

"Percy, you just go and order some food for all of us" I said.

"I don't have money" he said.

"Just wait for Hazel and Piper. They will bring the money" I told.

Without reply, he walked towards Burger King. Now that everyone had work, I concentrated on making a rainbow. I found an empty car wash centre and decided it was fine. I picked up a hose pipe and threw a drachma into the air. Then I said "Iris, please except my offering. Please show me Chiron of Camp- Half blood. The air shimmered and altered to show Chiron.

"Annabeth, why haven't you Iris messaged me before? I take it you have reached Rome" he said.

"Yeah, we have. Well, things didn't go well on our way here. Argo 2 malfunctioned. And then it crashed into the sea".

I thought he would be surprised that it malfunctioned but he wasn't. Never in my life had I caught him off guard. Damn he expected everything. Surprising him was almost impossible. I tried not to dwell on it but Chiron always seemed so unaffected by emotions.

"If that is so, they already know you are coming. It is best you proceed to Rick immediately" he said.

I thanked him for his help as the Iris message dissolved. Then I tossed a drachma at Jason and gestured him to proceed. He looked uneasy but he did as I said. An image of surprised looking Reyna appeared in front of me almost immediately. When she saw Jason, she looked like the weight of the sky was taken off her shoulders (I speak from personal experience).

"Hey Reyna" said Jason.

"Did you reach Rome yet? Did you encounter any monsters? Did anybody die? " she asked.

"Yes. Yes. No. We did reach Rome even after the ship crashed. WE reached at about the same time as we estimated. We encountered some monsters but nobody died" he summed up.

"Did you make any progress?" she asked.

I decided to join Percy food store partly because I was starving and partly because Reyna looked like she wanted to talk to Jason alone.

"Jason, you go ahead and tell her everything. I going to go check on Percy and make sure he didn't mess anything up" I said.

Reyna looked at me gratefully and I smiled. I quickly exited the place and retraced my steps to Burger King. There I saw something totally unexpected...and totally boiled up my anger. Percy was getting kissed by some random girl on his cheeks. How dare he? Percy pulled away quickly before anybody could see and looked around furiously looking for anyone he knew. When he saw me, his face turned into a big oh-oh.

I was so going to bust his sorry butt. He is so dead today I thought. I stormed into the shop, my intention of killing him. But I did something even more stupid.

I kissed him full on the lips before he could react. He stared at me in surprise like that was the last thing he expected me to do. The other girls sitting next to Percy sent glares at me but I didn't even bother to look back at them. After some time, they left .I slid next to Percy and started munching away my food like nothing ever happened. Instead of eating his food, he started to stare at me which was kinda annoying.

"What?" I snapped.

"Nothing" he said with a huge lop sided grin spreading across his face.

We started eating again and were shortly joined by Hazel and Piper laughing unmanageably.

When they reached, they put five thousand dollars on the table. They each pulled a chair for themselves and started eating without comment. Jason was next looking very restless but he too started eating immediately. Leo and Frank only arrived when almost all of us were done eating.

"We can get a bus from here to a place only 2 kilometres from Rick Mansions. The bus leaves at one in the afternoon. Now the time is a quarter past eleven so we have plenty of time before the bus" said Leo.

"How much does each ticket cost?" I asked.

"About 8 dollars per head" said Frank.

"Ok, good work. You guys better eat now cause we are not stopping any other time to eat" I told.

They looked at the food like it was the first time they saw it and they both grabbed their food. After they were done, we made our way to the bus station. We paid and got in early. Consider we had nothing to do, I told Percy to wake me up in an hour if anything went wrong and took some rest.

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