Chapter Eleven
Annabeth's POV
The day started of really boring without Percy. When we were little, he would wake us up and then, prank us. He didn't this time. I couldn't fall asleep! All I could think about was why Percy had left. So what if my mom and his dad don't like each other. We can work it out.
Percy had Iris messaged us in the morning. We are going to his apartment today. I really excited. I've met Percy's mom, Sally Jackson or Sally Blofis, when I visited with Thalia years ago. I heard that Paul Blofis is really nice. It would be a pleasure to meet him. I remember that Sally use to always make blue food. They tasted so good!
After we all changed, we went down to eat breakfast. Today, I'm wearing denim shorts with my yellow t-shirt. I also wore my Yankees cap. I can't believe it, but I can turn invisible! It's really cool. Now, I can sneak up without anyone knowing. It's fantastic. Just this morning, I scared the daylights out of Nico and Jason while they were playing video games. Nico accidentally sent a bunch of skeleton warriors upstairs. And Jason levitated off the ground for a minute or two. It's extraordinary what demigods can obtain. I now know that Percy has hydro kinetic powers!
For breakfast, we ate waffles and blueberries with some milk. After eating, Thalia, Nico, Jason, and I went outside and started the car. We rode up to where we stopped two days ago. We went down to the subway and bought one way tickets. It smelled worse than it did two days ago. During the bus ride, I could hear whispers about us from a group of six girls at least mine and Thalia's age. They all looked like an different barbie doll. Like Ava. One had dirty blonde hair and tan skin with dark green eyes. Another one was brunette and had bright blue eyes and freckles. One of them caught my attention. She had fiery red hair and an evil grin. Her eyes were icy blue and looked very deep. All of the others looked like one of the three I had just described.
They keep whispering things like "the girl with the spiky black hair" or "the boy who wears all black" and start giggling. Hey, these are my friends you're talking about. I wanted to yell at them. I could tell that Nico and Thalia looked really uncomfortable about it. They looked down on their shoes, too intimidated to do anything about it. This was weird because Thalia and Nico usually talk back at people who insult them. I think that she should've zapped them and Nico should've sent his skeleton warriors to beat them up.
Jason gave them all an evil glare and one of the beach blonde girls pretended to be scared and they started to laugh about it. I really wanted to punch these girls and feed them to the wolves. Of course, that would pretty much be murder. I was ready to take my dagger, which Luke gave me during camp, and push it down their throat. I can't see my friends like this. I don't want to feel helpless like I have been all my life, but before I can make a move, someone said something that surprised me.
"Shut up why don't you. People are trying to relax." A girl said. She was Asian and had a silver headband across her messy pitch black hair. She wore skinny jeans with a gray hoodie and dark blue sneakers, but it looked like she had something in her pocket. She looked only twelve, Nico's age. She was sitting across from the giggly girls and sat a few seats down of Jason. Her eyes were so dark, they were black. Her vacant face was facing the window, not even bothering to look at the group of girls.
"What did you say?" a brunette said with disgust. The twelve year old girl laughed. People were starting to stare. "Why are you laughing."
"It's just that I can't believe that you didn't hear me. I bet everyone else did." She was really confident. I could see it in her eyes and so can everyone else. A smirk washed up on her face.
One of the blondes from the group said "I can't believe she just said that. She did not say that, okay. She didn't." I think she did. Another one of those girls spoke up. She had red hair almost like fire.
"Don't worry. She didn't say it. She won't be able to say anything after I'm done with her." What did she mean? They actually shut up for the next few moments.
Our train stop finally arrived. I wanted to thank that girl for sticking up for us. But she left the stop and when I tried to find her in the station, she was already gone. Who was she? Then, I felt something. Almost like a sixth sense. I turned around. A pair of evil icy blue eyes looked my way quickly, but left just as fast. Thalia gave me a confused face.
"What's wrong, Annabeth? You looked like you have just seen a ghost." It feels like I've seen one.
"Nothing. It's alright," I lied. Thalia looked reluctant to accept the fact that I'm okay. The truth is, I'm not okay. Ever since I found out that I was a half-blood yesterday, I feel like I'm being watched. My every move.
We walked out of the station and looked for fifth street. We walked down a few blocks before I had that feeling again. This time, it felt like eyes were burning through my head. I turned around again, looking for those icy blue eyes, but this time, I wasn't able to see anything. I tried my best to not make Thalia ask me what I was looking at. We all walked until we finally reached fifth street. There was a crowd of people there. It was pretty hard to get through. Percy's apartment was that far down.
Then, it happened again. I looked behind me and those eyes were looking at me again.
"Annabeth, what's wrong?" Thalia used a stern voice.
"Run," I said as quietly as I can.
"What?" she asked me looking puzzled. The eyes moved closer and closer. It was almost here.
"RUN!" I started to run as fast as I can. Jason, Nico, and Thalia raced after me. I could here there desperate calls of my name. We ran past people, accidentally pushing some people out of the way. One of the people I pushed fell down. I looked behind me and stopped. I helped her up. I then noticed that the girl I had just pushed sown was the girl on the train. The one that stood up for us.
"Hey, I know you. I saw you on the train. Ouch." She slowly got up and rubbed the back of her head, which is what she hit the floor with.
"Sorry. Look, I have to go know. There's something behind me." She looked behind me and her eyes got wide. Then, Thalia, Nico, and Jason finally showed up, panting.
"You have better have an explanation for this, Annabeth. Percy's apartment is a few buildings down." I ignored her and looked behind her. Those eyes were still there. But this time, a full body showed. I can now remember where I saw her. It was the girl on the train ride. The one with fiery red hair and icy blue eyes. But what I saw was almost nothing like her. Her hair was burning. One of her legs was celestial bronze and the other looked like a donkey. Her face, once beautiful, was now pure evil. People around her started to scream. I don't know what they saw. The mist, a supernatural force to keep mortals from seeing what's actually happen, probably affected the mortals' eye sights. She was coming closer. The girl that I accidentally knocked over got up as quick as she can. She looked terrified. Then, she said "Follow me." It sounded so urgent that I actually followed. Thalia and the others came running right after me. I guess they had noticed what had happened.
"Where's your friend's apartment?" the girl asked, while running.
"Right there," I say, pointing to an old building. We all quickly went inside. We were safe.
The girl turned back to us and said "Wait here. Just go up. Don't go outside." And with that, she ran out.
