A/N hello there peeps. How's life. Awesome? Good thought so.
Im going surfing today, yuppie, I have never done it before so I hope I don't brake my foot or something. Hehe jk.
I really hate how girls get pimples at age eleven and boys don't even get them until seventeen. Like why?
Okay, that was weird. Admit it. It was.
I'm not eleven btw, older than that. Hey, teenager hood is awesome. (Nothing changes)
Totally normal.
Well then, hope you like the next part. If you don't... Don't read it.
My eyes widened in realisation and my heartbeat started beating faster. I'm stupid. I knew they were there and yet I said all those things. There was no backing out now. Or evading the truth for that matter. They probably already knew. Already hated me for being one.
Jake would probably kill me, his father was the leader of the whole organisation. Jessica would help him, no doubt. What of Annabeth? By revealing myself I had revealed her too, I'm a monster. Now something might happen to her because of me. It would all be my fault.
Another tear escaped my closed eyes. "I'm a demigod." I said silently.
I heard gasps. A reassuring hand was on my shoulder squeezing it. "Percy..."
"I'm sorry Annabeth, I really am." I said with my eyes still closed. I didn't want to see the horrified expressions of my friends. No, it would be too much to bare.
Closed eyes was good, I shut the world outside of them.
"So." Jake's voice said. "You're a demigod?"
Still with my eyes closed I nodded. "Are you going to tell?"
"Hell no." He said.
He wasn't? My muscles immediately relaxed, my legs dropped on the floor beneath me. I mentally slapped my self, he's my best friend, why would he do such a thing? I opened my eyes. Annabeth was near me with a somewhat worried look on her face. Jake and Jessica were still on the couch. I noticed they were closer though, had I scared them with my outburst? Where they scared? Where they scared of me?
"You're not?"
"Dude you're my best friend." He said. "And I don't care that my dad leads the whole thing."
Annabeth squeezed my shoulder.
"Please don't tell anyone." I said.
They both shook their head. "You're secret is safe with us." Jessica said.
Then there was silence. Silence. For at least ten minutes. Usually my ADHD would have kicked in and made me move and all, but this time I was sitting there, leaning in the wall, without moving a muscle, except for breathing.
But then I said. "I owe you an explanation."
Annabeth scrunched her eyebrows. Jake raised his arms. "You don't."
Standing up I said. "I do. But I won't go into details. Ask me anything."
"Are you sure?" Jessica asked.
"I trust you." I said sitting down on the couch in front of them. Annabeth sat beside me. "We could make it more trust worthy if you swore in the river Styx not to tell a single soul. In case you're wondering, if you break your promise something really bad will happen to you, or to someone you love. Might be death, like it might be something else."
"Sure." Jake said and they both swore.
Thinking about it, they don't know about Annabeth, maybe they suspect it, but they don't know for sure.
"Who's your godly... um, parent?" Jessica asked.
"Poseidon." I said. To demonstrate I levitated the liquid inside the cup.
Their eyes widened as I put it right back inside without spelling a single drop. "Next."
"Where." Jake seemed unsure of what he was going to ask. He seemed afraid. "Where were you the eight months you were gone?"
I looked at Annabeth and I saw that she looked said, she was looking down. Then I think she noticed my gaze on her and she looked at me lovingly. She smiled and squeezed my hand.
I turned back to my mortal friends. "I was kidnapped." I said simply.
Their mouths dropped open. Heifer they could say a thing I continued. "I slept for, how long was it? Six? Six months just to wake up in a house filled with Wolves. Lupa thought me survival skills and some awesome facial expressions. Found safe heaven number two for someone like me. Carried an old hippy lady across the little Tiber." I scowled. "And lost my iron skin. Travelled to Alaska with two friends of mine, almost drowned. Freed the god of Death, Thanatos. Battled a whole army of dead legionnaires while my friends killed a giant."
I smiled at their expressions. Just to add the cherry on the cake I added. "All without no memory whatsoever about my previous life, except Annabeth."
Their mouths were hanging even lower than before. I chuckled. "That's not it. Got back to this camp and fought a whole army of baddies, plus the bane of Poseidon, Polybotes. Ugh, he wanted to torture me. Thing is, I sent him to Tartarus before he had the chance."
Annabeth winced when I said Tartarus. "Continuing, retrieved my memories. Went on a world stomping quest, went to Rome, little detour to hell, which was not planned by the way. We just, sort of, fell. For... nine days."
Annabeth slapped my shoulder. "I'm sorry, it's just that every time someone even mentions the place, we just get flashes of what happened and get overly depressed about the whole thing, and I'm really just trying to lighten the mood here."
She kissed me. "You always try that."
"I always will." I said. "Then got back up in an elevator with horrible music. Arrived to Greece. Killed some Giants' ass."
I laughed and Annabeth looked at me strangely. "I'm sorry. Annabeth's arm got cut, she watered the stones. The almighty stones. I had a nosebleed, watering the stones and I woke up the earth. Goodie."
Annabeth shook her. "You're nosebleed ruined everything." She said jokingly.
I scowled. "You heard what you're mom said, don't blame my nosebleed."
She laughed and oh gods, I had missed that laugh so much. "Got back in America, fought some monsters, Gaea went boom, Leo died. Hell freezes over and Leo's back. And here we are."
"Wait Leo's back?" Annabeth asked.
Oh, oh. I didn't tell her. Oh Hades.
Slowly I nodded. "Di Immortalis, why the Hades did you not tell me?" She shouted.
"Um, you arrived just today, I wanted to contact you yesterday but, you didn't answer. He arrived yesterday." I explained. "Oh and he freed Calypso."
"I'm going to strangle him." She muttered and I laughed.
I turned back to Jake and Jessica. She looked at Ananbeth. "You're a demigod too, aren't you?"
Annabeth paled up for a second but soon turned to her normal colour. "Yes I am. And before you ask, daughter of Athena."
"That's why she hated me." I said. "Athena and Poseidon have a very old and long rivalry. But Athena accepted me after a while."
Annabeth leaned in on my shoulder. "Yep."
I then asked. "Any more questions?"
"Just one." Jake said. "How did you not get caught? Before, at the interrogation."
I chuckled. "I'm just that good." And they laughed. "Well, he thinks I'm one, but apparently the results from his interrogation say otherwise. Oh Annabeth I forgot to tell you."
She got up from my shoulder and looked at me. I sighed, "I'm going to have to go to this hearing some day, and the whole 'court' is going to be there, and I'm not positive about passing it."
She looked outraged for a minute. But then her features calmed down, she leaned in and kissed me. Then she whispered to me. "Then you won't go."
"Then they'll know I'm one for sure." I said, staring at those beautiful stormy grey eyes. I was kind of shocked that she'd say that, but either way I was going to be discovered. Better be far away when they know.
She shrugged. "I'm not going to lose you Percy. You promised me we would stay together. No matter what."
I leaned in and gave her another kiss. Then once we pulled away she said. "But for now, let's have fun while we're still unknown. I'm sure that whatever awaits us in the future won't be pretty. War perhaps."
My eyes dropped. "Not another one. I'm sick of them. And my mom is pregnant."
I buried my head on her shoulder. She rubbed circles on my back. "I'm just as sick of them as you are. Believe me. I just hope that if there is a war, the gods will help, instead of sitting on their silly thrones."
Thunder boomed and I couldn't help but chuckle.
Then I remembered that two mortals were still with us. "Yo guys, it's hot in here. What about we go to Central Park or something. Take a walk."
They all agreed with me. It was already nighttime so there was barely someone at the park. We walked without exchanging any word.
Then Jake, who had seemed stressed the whole time said. "Is there really going to be a war?"
We stopped. "Look, we're not bad. But if there is something threatening to end us, we will fight back. And if someone such as the DECS... No one is taking it well, they're all angered and full of hatred right now, and I don't blame them."
I looked at him apologetically. "We've been through two wars, and now the mist is gone, and the mortals want to kill us. Most of us are questioning ourselves with, where did we go wrong? We could have easily let the Titans take over last year. All human population would be dead and this wouldn't be happening."
Jake looked down. "I'm sorry. I wish it wasn't happening."
"It's not your fault." Annabeth said. "Nor is it your father's, they're just scared and doing what their brain tells them. They see a threat, they take it out. Even though we aren't a threat."
I smiled gazing into nothing. "I'd like the word saviors better."
Annabeth jokingly slapped my arm. "You already have that title Seaweed Brain."
I laughed and kept on staring into nothing. "Or heroes. Ya know for everything."
She kept on laughing, "that's also part of your list of titles."
"Right." I said. "But I'm your hero." I cupped her face in my hands.
She chuckled. "Yes you are." She was staring right back into my eyes. "And I'm your heroine."
I nodded, but then I scowled. "But when did you save me?"
I was barely aware of my best friends staring at us with a smile on their faces. Annabeth pulled away from my hands. "I took a knife for you idiot."
I faked thinking, I even added my index finger to my chin. "Aah yes, I remember. Was it last year?"
She shook her head. "I'm joking." I said. "I'd never forget that moment. And all the others."
I kissed her and she returned the kiss.
"I smell demigods." A voice said from somewhere around us. We immediately pulled out of the kiss and looked around.
Annabeth unsheathed her new dagger as I took out riptide, in pen form.
"Three of them. And someone else." Another voice said.
"Guys hide." I said quietly to my friends.
I then exchanged a worried glance with Annabeth.
"Three is good." Yet another voice said.
"We're right here." I said loudly. "So, you know, um, if you would show yourselves it'd be a good thing so we can end this quickly."
Jake looked at me like a was crazy. Why would he that? Then I thought about it. I was in a clearing, three, possibly more monsters were after me. And I held a pen in my hand. I laughed.
Annabeth glared at me. "Really?"
"Sorry." Then three dracanea appeared in front of us.
Good, only three.
"Hello ladies." I said with a smile on my face.
"Perseus Jackson." Ugly number one said.
"He'll be such a fine meal." Ugly number two said.
"Yes, yes he will." Ugly number three said.
I couldn't help it, I laughed. "Okay then, so what do you want to order?" I asked. "Dust, or dust?"
They glared at me and Annabeth rolled her eyes. "I've got a proposal." I said. "One way ticket to Tartarus?"
"Get him." Ugly number one said.
"All right then, it's dust and ticket isn't it?" I asked.
Ugly number one and three came at me, ugly number two went to Annabeth.
"Can I trust you to stay alive?" She asked as she headed to ugly number two.
"Count on it." I said.
And then I uncapped riptide. The two dracanea lounged at me and sidestepped. "Too slow."
They then started attacking me. "Die." Ugly number three said.
"Nope." I said as I slashed in front with riptide. "You die." Ugly number three exploded into dust.
Then I turned to ugly number one. "You too." And I stabbed her with riptide.
I swatted the dust off of my clothes. Then I looked at Annabeth. "Took you long."
I scrunched my eyebrows. "Did it? I killed them with two strikes."
She chuckled. "Oh well. I'm getting old." I said and she laughed.
"Are you guys okay?" She asked as Jake and Jessica made their way towards us.
They both nodded. Jake looked shaken. "They said three, there were three demigods."
A/N heeeeeey. Hope you enjoyed this not-so-amazing chapter. I'm always negative on myself. Works to not get my ego too high. Okay, I'm laughing at what I'm writing.
Sorry if Percy seemed a little, what can I say, insane, gone, childish. All that.
Okay, one more thing, I'm currently writing another fanfic. I'd would mean a lot if you checked it out. If you don't, doesn't matter. It's called demigods at Hogwarts. If you like stuff like that, then check it out.
This is the summary of the story:
Percy Jackson, Annabth Chase, Nico Di Angelo and Thalia Grace go to Hogwarts. The usual quest to protect Harry Potter and the golden trio. My version though. Set after BoO and during Order of the Phoenix. Percabeth, maybe Solangelo. Ron and Hermione. Harry and Ginny. No Cho I think
I'll admit, I suck at making summaries. But if you're interested, check it out.
And now, thanks for reading this chapter, which was longer than usual aaand
Hunter out
