Chapter 11
ANNABETHSo tonight, I decided I would sleep in my cabin. I missed my half-sisters and half-brothers, and missed my bed. Trust me, sleeping in that room is pretty hard. Why? Cause the ventilator Percy's on, makes a horrible Swishing noise. You never get used to that. And it also doesn't help that that couch is made from some really hard and crunchy pillows..
Anyways as I fell asleep, I got to thinking. I might have an answer to Percy's poisoning. Cause you see last night I had this dream.. I was in this golden room, I have no idea where i was but the place did seem familiar. I don't why though.. Weird.
So I was in this golden room, barely lite and all. And There in the middle stood Nemesis, but something abut her was off. Something wasn't normal.
Anyways, she stood there posed strong and tall like a model. Until she saw me, she murmured a f
ew words in Latin, that I couldn't comprehend at the moment, then smiled cruelly at me and yelled. "Do your worst."
From the way her voice sounded, I could tell this wasn't her. It was the possessor. It was back. As soon as I realized it wasn't really Nemesis anger filled my very core. I suddenly found myself quickly running towards her with my dagger in place. And before I even see what was happening, Percy appeared out of nowhere in front of her. Nemesis had him in her clutches. She quickly wrapped her arm around him with a dagger in her hand, and positioned the knife against his neck as she pulled his head back with the other.
I quickly stopped in my place, panting hard, and just realizing what was happening. There I stood in my place, and there I found myself powerless.
"Don't make a move, daughter of Athena, yeah Demi-God, who's the powerless now?" She laughed.
"What do you want?" I spat at her in complete disgust.
She kept her eyes trained on Percy as if he were to escape any second. I looked at him too, and for the first time I noticed, he didn't look like himself, he was extremely pale and look strained and tired, as if sometime of force was forced apon him.
"My dear annabeth, I wish only to grant my masters wish. Kill Percy Jackson." she whispered.
Everything then went silent for a second, you could almost feel the desperateness in the air.
But the silence was soon over, as behind me Grover yelled. "WELL YOUR GONNA HAVE TO TRY HARDER YOU OLD WITCH!"
"Annabeth DUCK!"
I quickly ducked and look above me to see one of Grovers fake crutches fly above my head.I smiled inside, good old grover to save the day.
I stood up after the crutch flew away and hit Nemesis in the face. I watched as Percy fell out of her grasp and crashed on the floor. But he slowly got up and used the little powers that he still had, and drowned the Witch.
I watched as the water flew above us and exploded as it hit Nemesis, the waves look huge and powerful, even though Percy did not. The crashed in to Nemesis exploding somehow. It stayed like that like that for a minute, until the waves quickly disappeared and left a lifeless Nemesis lying soaking wet on the golden cold floor.
From then on, everything seemed to go in slow motion. I heard Grover screaming Percy's name, Nico and Thalia quickly rushing to his side.
I turned my head around and found my friends scattered above Percy. And in a moment, a second of time I was one of them there.
Percy was motionless on the floor. Grover kept repeating he has no plus, Thalia was crying over him and Nico stood there speechless, his mouth hung open as he was feeling Percy's soul go down to the underworld.
"Annabeth! THE POTION! Give me the potion! Now! Remember what Asclepius said! If we give his to Percy in his greatest time of need..."
I opened my sack and raced through it to find the clear potion. As soon as I found it in my endless sack, I uncapped it and placed it between Percy's lips. I watched as the whole small tube was empty. We all sat there anxiously waiting for Percy to wake up, or at least a sign to tell us that it somehow worked. But nothing.
We sat there for minutes, maybe ten or maybe 30 I don't know how long we sat there, but it seemed like a lifetime.
I sat next to him and held his hand. "We made it this far Seaweed Brain, come one don't give up on us.." I whispered.
. . . . . .suddenly I felt something shifting, and I felt something in Percy's hand come back to life. But then a glowing light from somewhere emerged from Percy's chest, quickly growing around all of him.
The light was so bright you needed to close your eyes or risk getting blind, but something about the light told me this wasn't just a regular light bulb. I felt it in the air around me.
After I felt the warmth around me disappear I slowly opened my eyes, and saw Percy again.
But this time, his eyes were open. And he look perfectly fine, he wasn't pale or looking extremely tired anymore... He looked... Normal. In fact he even stood up on, and handed me his hand.
I smiled at him and took it.
"Percy..."
He smiled back at me. "Your okay.." I whispered.
He nodded. And that was it. I was awakened by Thalia tugging on my arm, telling me To get up.
Yeah, that was pretty much it. But, now I know that Asclepius has the potion that can save Percy, or know where and how to get it. And that's a great start on this new quest.
Next Morning
PERCY
So I was Forbidden to set foot on the ground today. Yeah, I woke up and found a tube forced down my throat and if I might add, I little lost and off balance. Anywho, I quickly made a hand motion to Thalia who was awake and hadn't noticed my wakening.
But As soon as she saw me she ran out of the room and got Will and Owen, who asked me how I was feeling. I managed to tell them I was fine and to get this thing out of my throat soon or I was really gonna die on them...
They laughed and it was all funny and happy in till I noticed Annabeth was here. But I couldn't ask any questions anymore since Will was already telling me to relax. "Can you feel your throat at all Percy?" I shook my head. He nodded and positioned him sled above me from behind then instructed me to cough and gag.
I did as told. Will was holding my head still as Owen started slowly pulling the tube out. To be honest with you. I sorta lied when I said I couldn't feel my throat. I just wanted this thing outta my throat right now, I didn't really think of how much it would hurt. I just wanted it out, instantly.
I sorta felt the tube running up my throat, it only rubbed uncomfortably against the sides of my throat as it was being pulled out.
Hey I didn't really care, that tube has been down my throat for days, even if i was asleep or unconscious, it was uncomfortable. And now I'm super gals outs outta my throat.
As soon as the horrible tube was out of there, i took a deep. I mean DEEP breath and smiled. But then I realized it desperately needed water and asked Owen to get me some. But I turned out as soon I ask turned to him, there he was water in hand. I smiled a thanks at him and drank all of it.
After I finished the water I turned back to Owen, handed him the empty glass and asked. "How did you know?" my voice came out rusty and horse.
He smiled back at me as I rested against my soft soft pillow.
"Hey, your not the only Demi-God who needed to be put in a Vent.." He laughed.
I nodded and gave him a thoughtful grinn. "Nice to know.."
"Uhum.. Now listen to Will, he has a few things he needs to say and do before we leave." I nodded, talking wasted too much of my energy.. I turned my head in the other direction as Owen left and and I gave Will my ears.
"Okay Perc, so first of all, even though your off the Vent doesn't mean your all better and you can get on with your life no sorry mate, so you'll still have toward this, just in case." He placed the nasal channel tube back around my face. The tube ran under my nose and around my ears.
I have him an annoyed look. "Yeah, yeah I know I hate that too mate, but it's necessary..anyways, last thing Chiron told me to inform you with some valuable information about Gods Poison that he thinks you might not know and you should. Gods Poison takes 7 days to kill a Demi-God. That means you have one more day."
I stared at him with a terrified expression. One more day? But i thought I was getting better!
"But..." he continued. Thank gods theres a BUT!
"Your not a regular Demi-God, your son of one of the Big Three. That means you hold more power and invincibility than normal Demi-Gods. So, it takes twice as long for the poison to damage your whole system... Look.. I don't want to be the one to say this, but you have a week left unless a cure pops up."
I nodded, and patted his arm with the strength I had left. "Thanks Will."
He smiled sadly back at me and left.
Thalia quickly ran up to me and gave me a shocking hug. "Oh thank gods your alright Jackson! Annabeth will be so glad your off the vent."
I gave her a quick smile, but it turned into a frown. "Speaking of Annabeth. Where is she?" I asked. Ugh bad idea, my throat feels like someone just ran a Harley through it. Ughh...
"She's sleeping back in her cabin. She couldn't sleep here last night. But I'll get her." Thalia stood up and stared to leave before I realized my mom was also here, I just couldn't see her.
"Where's my mom?" I asked.
"I'll get her too, shes out side talking to Chiron."
I nodded and gave a a really quick smile. I'm getting way to tired of smiling. Literally,
Thalia left out the door, and also left me and my thoughts alone. Bad idea. So I decided just to think abut the bright side of things and wait on my mom and Annabeth.
Until something else caught my attention. I heard my dad whispering in head. "Close your eyes Percy.., close your eyes." he soothed me... I found my eye slowly dropping as I started dozing off. And as soon as I did.
I dreamed the unthinkable.
All I could think was. Holy Seacow.
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