Leo stared at her in shock. He glanced over at Annabeth for a fraction of a second, then quickly reverted his eyes back to Piper, but she had seen it. She shook her head.
"It wasn't Annabeth, Leo. It had fangs and the laughter was from multiple different beings. It wasn't her."
"She can sound like anyone she wants to, pretending to be multiple people wouldn't be a biggie for her." Leo argued.
Piper shook her head again. "That's next to impossible and even if she could even remotely sound like it, she wouldn't be able to do more than two people at once."
"Do you just want to be attacked by some unknown being?" Leo asked angrily.
Piper stared at him in shock. "Of course not! I'm just trying to be reasonable!"
Leo tensed. He had…heard something. Piper saw his shoulders stiffen and tensed as well.
A twig snapped.
Then another. And another and another.
Leo pulled out a wrench out of his tool belt and stood back to back with Piper, who held Katipos in a defensive position in front of her.
A wild giggle rang out through the forest behind Percy and Annabeth's sleeping figures.
Percy shot straight up as another laugh echoed through the camp. He shook Annabeth awake, who did that, but grumbling loudly as she did. Percy looked up at Leo and uncapped Riptide, his magical pen/sword thing.
He looked back at Annabeth and said, "Hey, you want to start to pack our things?" Annabeth shrugged and started to fold up the blankets she'd been sleeping on.
A figure sprang from the trees, followed by multiple others, all giggling madly.
Madly.
Oh, no.
Maenads.
Hee hee hee! What other disasters should I throw at them? I love torturing my (and Rick Riordan's!) characters! Tee hee hee! It relives me of my sadistic side! ;D
O.K., so I think I know what I'm going to do for the rest of the story, but all comments and suggestions appreciated! If this going the way I hope, expect a sequel or possibly a trilogy! (Yeah, maybe not a trilogy, but there will be a sequel. You know. If you guys don't give me any more awesome suggestions. ;D)
But don't stop! It's fine, really!
I'm just babbling now, so I'll stop now. ;D
