ANNABETH

Annabeth was furious with the other camp for cheating. People in Camp Half Blood were all rather annoyed but rather than fight (which Chiron had warned them about) they just satisfied themselves by giving any other demigod the evil eye. They nicknamed it 'The Look'

They were staying in big dormitories. The girls were on one side of the camp and the boys were through the forest and across the river. There were at least 60 beds in a room and they were the most uncomfortable beds that Annabeth had ever slept in.

Piper and Thalia were on the beds either side of her. Their bags were dumped unceremoniously at the foot of their beds. But who wanted to unpack? They had been busy all day.

After the Flag game, no one was tired. So they all went Grass Sledging. Annabeth hadn't even known that it had existed. But there are sledges that go on grass! All of Camp Half Blood went to one of the big hills to try out the new sledges.

As it was September though, it was starting to go dark quicker than it had in August and they were all told to go back to their cabins.

Hence, why Annabeth was now in her dormitory. As Camp Half Blood was one of the smaller camps, all the girls got to stay together in the same dormitory. She moved, trying to stretch her aching back.

"I think the floor would be more comfortable to sleep on than this mattress," grumbled Piper.

"Yeah," agreed Thalia, "It would be,"

Annabeth smirked as she watched her two of her closest friends chatted away. It would be nice if they had no people who would cry in the middle of their night. It usually happened in Camp when they got a new camper. They would wake half the cabin up with their sniffing/sobs and everyone would get out of bed and have a big discussion about if they should tell someone or not.

"When do the Hunter's come Thals?" Annabeth asked her.

Thalia shrugged, tossing an arrow up into mid air and catching it left-handed every time. "I think about midday or they might come in the evening,"

That's when Drew came over and sat at the end of Annabeth's bed.

Annabeth exchanged a glance with Piper and Thalia. They weren't exactly 'best buddies' with Drew so Annabeth was surprised she wanted to talk to them.

"What you doing here Drew?" glared Thalia.

Drew leant back defensively, "Whoa guys, I'm only here to tell you something Annabeth."

"What?" Annabeth asked. She hated to admit it but she was genuinely curious.

Drew smiled and twirled her hair. "Well," she said, dragging it out.

"Drew," Piper warned her half-sister.

Drew glared at Piper. "Jeez you guys are so grumpy! I mean, seriously, I only came to be nice and this is how you talk to me? I mean-"

"DREW!" shouted Thalia. "What do you want?"

Drew huffed and crossed her arms. She turned towards Annabeth. "I came to tell you that Lacey said that Mitchell heard from Malcolm that he heard in the war games tonight that some girls from Camp Jupiter think Percy's hot and they want to be his girlfriend."

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "Was that it?" She thought it would be more interesting than that! Obviously Percy was hot but Annabeth has no intention of letting some other girl go and be his girlfriend! They could find their own Seaweed Brain and leave her's alone!

"Which ones Camp Jupiter?" Piper asked.

"Hello, this isn't about that!" Drew interrupted, trying to get their attention.

Annabeth turned to Piper, ignoring Drew. "I think it's the ones in the purple t-shirts,"

Drew huffed again, indignant that the gossip hadn't provoked a more serious response. She stalked back towards her other siblings, where they were all painting their toenails. Thalia turned away from Drew, uninterested.

"Oh dear," she said. "It's nothing to do with her as well. Is people's relationships all she can talk about?"

Yep," Piper groaned, "Trust me, that's all the whole cabin talks about sometimes."

Thalia shook her head, "Still can't believe you're a child of Aphrodite, Piper. It is kind of weird how different you are from then."

Piper smiled at that. "Drew kept going on about this guy during the grass sledging,"

"What guy?" Lacey shrieked. Annabeth looked up, to see Lacey now jumping on Piper's bed. Where did she come from?

"I don't know! Jason, I think his name was." Piper answered.

Lacey gave a high-pitched giggle. "Oh my gods! That really good looking one! With blonde hair and blue eyes and tall and an amazing fighter!"

Piper nodded, "I think. Hey Lacey, why not ask Drew? She's the one that know so much about him."

Lacey squealed and ran to give Piper a hug. "But you do admit he's good looking?"

"Uh huh," said Piper, without looking up. Lacey jumped up and skipped her way over to Drew.

Piper turned her head and Annabeth caught sight of her face. "Piper are you blushing?" Annabeth asked.

Piper turned an even brighter red. "No,' she muttered.

Annabeth could barely hide a grin. "Do you have a crush on one of the guys that all your siblings are talking about?"

Piper just glared at her. Annabeth grinned. "Thals, Piper's got a crush."

She looked at her other friend, who had been quiet during the last bit of the conversation about Jason. JASON! Annabeth mentally hit herself. How could she have forgotten? Jason was Thalia's brother and they had that massive argument in the woods. Clearly, Thalia wouldn't want to talk about him!

Fortunately, Thalia was talking to one of the hunters on her weird walky-talky thing. All the Hunters had one to communicate with each other. Annabeth hoped she hadn't heard about Lacey squealing about Jason. But Thalia was smiling so she assumed she hadn't.

Piper was watching her curiously. Damn! She knew something was up and she raised an eyebrow questioningly.

Annabeth thought quickly. She wanted to hear someone else's opinion. "Ok, I'll tell you if you promise not to tell,"

Piper considered, "Fine, but you can't tell anyone that I might like Jason,"

"Do you want to go out with him?" Annabeth asked.

Piper looked startled. "What! I barely know the guy. I just think he's good looking and we had a cool conversation but that's it?"

"Aha! So at least you're now admitting that you like him!" Gods, Annabeth just realized she was sounding like some Aphrodite girl. I'm being as bad as Drew! "Andwhat conversation?" Annabeth noticed.

Piper waved her hand. "Never mind. So tell me about what's going on with Thalia."

Annabeth began to tell her. Briefly, she wondered if Piper had charmspoken her but she knew that she would never mean to intentionally.

It was once Annabeth had finished telling Piper and Thalia had finished her message phone thing, the lights went out. It was pitch black in the cabin.

"Eeeek!" screamed many of the girls.

"Turn the lights back on!"

"What's happening?"

"Who turned the light's off?"
"This isn't funny!"

"My toenails, I've spilt the wrong color on them!"

Annabeth couldn't see a thing. Have you ever had it when it's so dark you can sort of sense where you are but at the same time have no idea?

The last shriek had to have been Drew of course.

"What's going on?" a girl demanded, from a different camp as Annabeth didn't recognize it.

"EVERYONE JUST SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP!" roared Clarisse. There was silence in the dormitory and no one moved.

Annabeth heard Thalia chuckle in the darkness at Clarisse. You had to hand it to her; they wouldn't have stopped complaining otherwise.

With that, Annabeth fell into an uneasy sleep.

The next morning, everyone awoke stiff and tired. There were the typical arguments about queuing for the toilets and the showers. When the girls came to the mess hall for breakfast, no one was really talking as they just sat down at a table and decided what to have.

The boys came down, looking just as tired. Dionysius strolled into the room and chortled at the sight.

"Never in all my days," he raised the Diet Coke he was holding, "Finally someone has taught you brats to be silent! Praise us Gods!"

Percy caught Annabeth's eye. "Bit full of himself isn't he?" he mouthed to her.

Annabeth nodded. She was about to reply when Coach Hedge came in. Surprisingly, with no baseball bat.

"Cupcakes! Time for training!"

The majority of demigods moaned but Annabeth was quite pleased. This would be the first chance to see everyone showing his or her fighting skills. She walked with Thalia to the hall. There was another hall, joining onto it, the same size so there was really two massive training halls.

Demigods grabbed the weapons from the wall, but Annabeth held up her trusty dagger. She saw Percy walking towards her, sword at the ready.

"Think you can beat me Seaweed Brain?" she teased.

Percy shook his fringe out of his eyes. "Oh it's on Wise Girl."

They began their usual fight, one would attack, the other defending and so on.

"NO, NO, NO!" snapped Coach Hedge firmly. He pushed his baseball bat (must have got it back somehow) in between their fight.

Percy looked at him. "What was that for?"

The coach snorted. "You could have broken my baseball bat. You." He turned to Annabeth, pointing towards Reyna. "Go and fight her. Jackson, go and fight Grace."

"Who's Grace?" Percy asked, bewildered.

The coach spun him round and marched him towards a demigod in a purple shirt. The guy spun round, sword resting in his hand. It was Jason.

"Percy, this is Jason. Jason, this is Percy. Now you two are the supposed leaders so prove it," barked the Coach at them.

Annabeth saw them raise their swords towards each other. But she was to be fighting Reyna so she went over to her. Reyna just nodded at her and raised her dagger. At least they used the same weapon.

Coach Hedge blew his orange whistle and the sounds of metal and thumps were heard. Swords and daggers clashed, as each demigod was determined to now beat their enemy from a different camp.

Annabeth dodged another or Reyna's blows as she came nearly close to disarming Annabeth. She was one of the best people with a dagger that Annabeth had ever fought against. She saw an obvious strike and faked an attack. Reyna raised her dagger in defense but Annabeth spun round and knocked it out of her hands. The other girl looked disbelieving as she watched her dagger clash to the floor.

But Annabeth was now looking at the center of the room. By the looks of it, so had many demigods and there was a big circle around two demigods who were furiously fighting. Percy and Jason.

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