Hello everybody and welcome to the latest chapter of... Drumroll... Beneath the Shadows of the Water! I saw on the traffic graph that we are nearly close to 1.3k! That's amazing. Still not amazing as Accidentally Gender Swapped. Lol. I believe that this is a better story than accidentally gender swapped. See I didn't even pit caps on for the title! Oh, whatever.
-GOA
After the awkward meeting my brother session, it was time for us to tour around and see what's going on. Well, you see, we didn't know anyone who can guide us around the place... But this satyr looking dude with a load of acne on his face, was kind enough to show us around the place. In fact he was so kind that he even played his nice pipes for us. I just laughed and pointed at his music, well it was a laugh of happiness, not because it was funny. "Play The Man by Aloe Blacc!" I said and stared at the pipes. He played the notes which made me smile widely. Percy, who somewhat looked annoyed, grabbed my arm and growled, "Come on, Grover," that was the looking alike satyr's name, "Show us around. We have no time to play about."
"Wow. Percy is becoming serious!" I snorted. "Well it's kind of true," Grover said in a shy tone, playing with some stones with his... hooves, "The time for dinner is six thirty... And well, it's kinda five forty-five..." I was taken in surprise, "Say what!? You better show us around before it turns night! Come on!" I grabbed both of their wrists and dragged them somewhere. "Ermm... Annabeth? You don't really know the way to things..." Grover said nervously. I stopped and dropped both of their arms. "Ok, Grover, you can start touring from here!" I said enthusiasticly. We were standing in front of twelve different cabins all in different shapes and sizes.
"Woah. Cool!" I yelled as I examined the architecture. Grover nodded and started explaining things, "This one over here is the cabin for Zeus' children. Only one person lives there, Jason Grace." I heard Percy mumble something under his breath, something almost like, "So he wasn't lying."
"Yes, Percy. Jason is kind of your cousin," Grover stated. Before Percy and I could even talk, Grover over took us, "I can read thoughts and minds. Part of being a nature nymph."
"Wait. If you're a nature nymph, then how come you have goat legs?" I asked curiously. He looked even more nervous than he was before, "A long story." That was all he said for the rest of that conversation. We walked down and looked at all the different kinds of cabins. The second one after Zeus was Poseidon's, which was obviously Percy's. Grover said he was the only one in it. Next was Hades', which had Nico di' Angelo only. Next was Hera's which had no one, but they just put it here as a honor. In fact even though there are some maiden goddesses, they still build some in their honor. He now explained all the rest of the cabins and what type of gods there are. Well, they're not really gods... But they're the gods of the second generation of the Greek mythology so that does count.
My most favorite one was my mother's, Athena. It had the best Ancient Greek looking cabin. All the pillars and the curves that are engraved into the marble looked amazing. The lightness of the colors made a relaxing feel to the build, too. The windows big and clear, sending beautiful rays of the sun tumbling down into the room. "This is pretty amazing," was my compliment. The architect for this is a genius! "Designed by Daedlus," Grover said while interrupting my thoughts. "Sorry! I was just wondering what you were thinking about. You aren't like other children of Athena. Your eyes look very stormy as if there is a brain cloud in that brain of yours," he said. Where did his nervousness go?
I turned around and saw that Percy wasn't here anymore. "Where's Percy?" I wasn't really worried. Maybe I should be, because he is such a Seaweed Brain. "I know where he went, though. I could smell his scent anywhere at least less that five miles radius," he replied. I followed him down a few paths and twists. As we were walking by, I took note where things were by land mark. People were also staring at us. Mostly boys, which I guess sons of Apollo were smirking right at me. I scowled in a disgusted manner.
Grover and I finally reached to a food court looking kinda place where there were twelve tables. I guessed each table represented each god or goddess. Then I saw Percy next a girl who was trying to flirt with him. I wasn't really jealous, though. I felt more, let's say satisfied that Percy is suffering a horrible time. Percy just looked simply bored and was looking all over the place, I think trying to find me. His beautiful sea green eyes landed on mine as we held our gaze. He smirked as I did the same.
"Annabeth!" He yelled right across from the other side and ran toward me. When he came to a stop he huffed in a sarcastic manner, "That girl! Geez, can't she see that I'm not interested! And you're not even jealous!" I just smirked even more right back at him. A sudden honk echoed from somewhere. DOO DOO DOO DOO! And it kept repeating again and again. Children took caution, and began heading towards us. Not us, the place we were in.
Everyone piled up and took their seats at their parent's table. Each table had a symbol, representing each god or goddess. "Errrmm.. Where do I go?" Asked Percy while frowning. "You go over to the Poseidon table," I pointed towards the symbol with the trident, "over there."
"Thanks," he said and headed towards his table. He looked rather more bored than he was when that girl was trying to flirt with him. I chuckled at his bad luck and jogged towards the Athena table, where most blonde heads lived. Only a few had black or brown. Not red, that's just, ugh.
The Athenian table had the symbol of a gray owl, my favorite animal. Ever child of Athena's heads turned towards me, all of the same but different gray eyes watched me as if their trying to be intimidating. Humph, they cannot make me scared. I raised my head high in defiance and marched pridely. The only person who didn't seem to try and be intimidating is Malcom, my best brother.
"Annabeth!" He yelled, welcoming his arms wide. I smiled and walked straight into his arms and hugged him. I then stood up to face all the Athenian cabin and told them, "I am very honoured to be in your presence of the cabin, as a new founded sister. I assure you that sometimes I won't boss you around. But most of time, you must, in the name of Athena, listen to me or else suffer pure insufferable pain from the prophecy of Olympus." I heard some gasps and turned around and saw most of the campers staring at me in awe. I smirked the biggest smirk I have ever did in my life and sat down and brushed down my shirt.
Well this was big.
Percy's POV
Wow. Did Annabeth just really say that? That speech was so strong and bold that I nearly fell off my seat. My, I think girlfriend, just made the best entrance to Camp Half Blood.
"Enough!" Yelled a man with dark hair that looked a little purple, "Enough chittering chattering! We have two new students!" Chiron, who was beside him at the head table whispered something into his ear. "What? They're not students?" He said rather loudly. He then turned to us, "May I welcome, Peter Johnson and Annie Bell Case." I could imagine Annabeth growling loudly. I frowned at the name as I raised my hand, "Ermm... Sir, our names aren't-"
"Whatever, Peter Johnson!" He raged. Wow this dude has real temper issues, I thought. I heard some giggles and turned around and saw a bunch of so called cute girls giggling at me (not that I'm attracted to them. I actually think they're disgusting.) I turned my back and saw that a few people were serving food. I mouth watered in hunger. They were serving iced tea, grilled beef steak and some fries. Once the plate was set down, I wolfed it all up in one shot. (I nearly wrote sh*t. Lol.)
I was hoping Annabeth wouldn't see me in this condition. That would be just embarrassing! Well, apparently my good luck went downfall when I heard a cute laugh laughing. I turned around again expecting to see one of those tacky voiced girls, but it was just Annabeth looking extremely cute.
"Percy," she started in between giggles, "make sure you don't get sick or anything before you puke on me!" I still had food in my mouth while talking, "Yeah- gulp- whatever." She raised an eyebrow, "Have you sacrificed anything yet, Perce? It's kind of a tradition here. I sacrificed my steak." I shook my head as a no and looked down on my plate. Damn! There are no food left! All I had was the ice tea, which was about half full. I heard her sigh, "If you need anything, I'll be in the Athena cabin." And with that she came marching down Camp Half Blood.
I took the iced tea from my hand. I guess I could throw it in the sacrificial place. It looked kind of like a bonfire. I took another look at the plastic bottle and shrugged. I guess it wouldn't hurt to sacrifice iced tea. So I just stood there and threw it into there. I tapped my foot and prayed a little to my father. After I was finished praying, I took a peek inside the fire. It suddenly shook with rage, the fire was burning high. "Oh my gods!" I backed up onto the ground and stayed there. The fire blared higher and exploded into dust, spraying everywhere including me.
I looked down my body and saw I was covered in soot and bark pieces. "Oh my gods, Percy!" I heard Annabeth's voice after a few seconds. If you're wondering why it took her that fast to get here, well let me advise you, never go into a running race which has Annabeth in it. "Percy!" She ran towards me and grabbed ahold of my arm and pulled me up. "What happened?!" She snapped angrily. I rubbed the back of my neck, an instinct when I do something wrong, "I sacrificed lemon tea?" I wasn't really sure...
"Seaweed Brain"! She exasperated. "That's a special fire, made by the campers. Didn't you know that liquid could destroy electrons, hmmm?" I was blood red, my faced heated up, not because of the fire of course, because I was being such a idiot. "Percy. Let's leave the mess here before anyone has found out."
We left the dining pavilion and headed towards my cabin, where I would be sleeping for the night. "Annabeth," I said calmly, "thanks for helping. I would've been a lot of trouble if it weren't for you." She smirked, "I knew when I heard that sound, I knew you were in trouble. So I ran as fast as I could to see you lying in the ground absolutely dirty." We stared into each other's eyes as the moon illuminated the darkness. "I'm-"
"Shut up and kiss me," she said and caught me by the collar and kissed me wonderfully. We stayed there and hugged each other. "See you tomorrow, Percy," she said. She gave me a peck on the cheek and waved and started heading back down the road. I sighed and held the place where she kissed me.
"I love you Annabeth."
Wooohooo! I think maybe over two thousand words like I promised! I'm getting a new girl in class. I absolutely HATE new girls. And that's an understatement. But my teacher said that I had to show her around. He also said that she had trouble from her other two schools that she's been in. I guessed she got bullied and tortured by my nearby school. Our nearby neighbor school are so rude. They swear and fight and ugh. I now don't hate the girl because she got bullied and that everyone deserves to have a happy life. :) I will help the bullied kids.
stay happy- GOA
