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Annabeth's POV:
It is difficult not being able to tell time. It feels like we have been on our horses for days although I know it has been only a couple of hours.
The plan to find the Gods was to go to Mount Olympus. Hopefully the largest mountain would be our correct guess. In the distance, a large mountain, taller than any skyscraper, stood looming in the distance. (A/N: Bear [right bear/bare? I'm so tired haha!] with me, I don't really have a plan of where they are actually going, city wise.)
I was ready to go home and I was glad we were heading in the right direction. Hopefully.
Thankfully, our first night away, we weren't attacked by monsters. Percy kept watch and now we had to find a place to stay. The horses have been galloping so long and we haven't passed through any towns, even though we have covered a lot of ground. When the sun started getting lower in the sky, it painted the heavens with beautiful colors, which was our cue to find a place to sleep.
We were close to the water sort of, so we set up camp there. The horses were tied to a fallen tree next to the water so they could drink. I made shelter with a few clothes that hung over our heads and sat on the tree's branches. Meanwhile, Percy scouted out the area a bit, not to far so that I always had him in sight but he gave it the a-ok. When he came back, we started a blazing fire. It was my turn to stay watch.
"What's for dinner again?" Percy asked and opened up a basket that I pulled down from the horse. He handed me some bread and a canteen of water. I drank it all down and refilled it at the river.
When I sat down, he kissed the side of my face and I tried to hide a yawn.
"Annabeth, why don't you let me take watch tonight?" He asked.
"You were up all last night and haven't gotten any sleep today. Shut up and go to sleep, Seaweed Brain." I told him and grabbed a blanket from the basket and sat outside with my knife at the ready.
"Wake me up if you see anything, ok?" He said from behind the sheet.
"Yup."
The sky got a lot darker and soon, I couldn't see anything past the small glow of the flames in front of me. I poked it with a stick and sent little embers flying everywhere in the air. They danced around each other and some landed on the ground. I got up to stomp them out quickly so the grass doesn't catch fire.
The evening was quite boring and I was about ready for fall asleep.
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Those moments when your head bobs from trying to get some sleep scare me the most. I fell asleep for a second and jolted back upright. After a few minutes, my body slouched and my eyelids drooped. Another head bob brought me back up to look at the fire.
I could hear Percy breathing softly from the small shelter. Every once in a while he would snort or let out a abrupt snore, but mostly I could tell he was drooling all over his face.
I walked around the fire, careful to make sure I didn't sleep again. Did some stretching, practiced some moves in the fire light, and hummed a little tune to myself.
Crack. Something rustled in the bushes. I frowned and quickly unsheathed my knife. I held it at the ready and backed up a bit. Something was now walking in the grass. I wasn't sure what it was. Now that my eyes had adjusted to the darkness, I could see shapes in the areas.
"Now, young Godling-I haven't heard of you before!" A familiar and female voice called quietly.
A girl about my age walked out of the dark and next to the fire.
"Kelli" (A/N: Is that how you spell her name again?) I snarled.
"Do I know you?" She asked.
"No, not yet."
"Easy kill probably… Little stupid…" While she was muttering the chances of my survival, I swiftly threw my knife and lodged it in her side.
"You have got to be kidding me… SHI-" She didn't finish her sentence before she exploded into dust. Smiling at my success, I put my hands on my hips and went to go retrieve my knife but got knocked to the side by a long, scaly, thing. Crap, not done yet…
I rolled safely to the side and scrambled for my knife. Picking it up, I looked straight into the eyes of a dragon. It looked familiar and I recognized that Percy and I fought one of these guys before.
Speaking of Percy, that Seaweed Brain was still sound asleep, despite the commotion outside the thin barrier.
The dragon hissed and his red eyes blazed brighter. It lunged and I ducked, stabbing my knife into the amour of his scales. It howled and turned towards me. I ducked again and stabbed into it's body again. Finally it collapsed and fell to the side of the fire.
"Well, look who saved Olympus, Defeated Gaea, and saved the damsel in distress!" Percy said, dropping his sword and flexing his muscles. I looked to the dragon and his head was cleanly shaven from his long neck.
"GODS DAMNIT! PERCY! Did you not learn anything from last time?!" I screamed. Percy looked at me with his black hair all messed up and his green eyes with an 'oh shit' look.
The limp neck laying on the ground started to split and grow into another neck. We started hacking and slicing the body, trying to kill it.
"Oops…" I heard him mutter under his breath as it rose and turned around.
"Yeah oops!" One head popped at me and the only way I could make it out of there with all four limbs was to cut it off.
"Annabeth!"
"I had to!" I screamed, kicking the head aside. I wiped some sweat from my forehead and saw Percy step back and start doing his water thing.
He raised his hands and water from the stream shot out. A large, floating channel of water erupted from the river and swallowed the hissing dragon. Heads were poking out for air but Percy dumped it in the water, forcing it to the bottom of the lake.
As soon as I saw the dust floating in the water, I took my breath and ran to Percy. It was so much water to contain the monster, it put him on his knees and breathing very hard.
"Percy, are you okay?" I asked and fell at his side. He waved his hand away and I helped him stand up. With my arm hook on his, he stood a bit taller than me and regained his strength. "You shouldn't do that, you know…"
"What happened to wake me up if you see any monsters?" He sighed.
"All happened so fast." I told him and he laughed. "I was falling asleep."
"Well then we will both stay awake." He said and ripped the cloth from the trees. He leaned against the log and opened up his arms. I crawled safely between his legs and he wrapped his arms around my body. Lastly, the blanket covered us all.
I felt him kiss my neck and we kept each other awake.
A/N: Yeah! Another chapter. I hope you liked it as much as I did!
