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Annabeth's POV


Percy looked at me for the plans. I had a plan just in case this happened, but it was typical of him to count on me, a daughter of Athena for the plans. To be honest, I didn't see how anyone wouldn't.

"So...from what I hear, we have to watch out for Ols and Akbaba, right?" I asked Coral.

"We might even meet many more in the future, but for now, yes. Those are the two creatures to watch for. The thing pretending to be Leo was a grade three Ol. There are only three grades, and grade three Ols can turn into nonliving objects, so those are the things we have to watch out for most," Coral said.

"You sure do talk a lot," Sadie said.

"Would you rather me not give the information that could save your life later on?" Coral asked.

"No," Sadie said.

"Exactly. And it's not like you don't talk a lot," she said.

"Guys!" I yelled. "Trying to tell you a plan here!"

"Yes. And we are very grateful for that. Please continue," Coral told me.

"Okay, so are your parents coming with us on Saturday, Coral?" I asked her.

"No. When they say it's my fight, they mean that they can't help us with the mission," she said.

"Okay, so we have ways to hide everyone from Akbaba. We will meet at the flagpole, here at the school at ten A.M. We'll take the bus to the Statue of Liberty. This is an awful large group of people, so we'll have to split up. I've put us all into groups.

"My group has Percy, Carter, Sadie, Piper, and Jason. I didn't want to separate Frank and Hazel, and Calypso and Hazel have to be with Coral, to hide in her cloak if we see another Akbaba. I figured that Sadie and Coral would kill each other, so I split them up. Any questions?"

"What if he isn't at the Statue of Liberty?" Sadie asked.

"Then I have an idea of where he might be, but for now, we'll check the Statue of Liberty," I replied.

"And where's that?" Sadie asked.

"You'll see if we have to go that far," I said.

Sadie was about to say something else, but Carter said, "Sadie, I think it's clear that we are NOT going to the Empire State building."

"Is that what you were getting at? Είμαι έκπληκτος οι θεοί του Ολύμπου δεν έχετε ακτινοβόλησαν κάτω!" I yelled at Sadie, then covered my mouth.

"Annabeth...," Percy said. "Calm down." I nodded and took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry, it just...slipped out," I said.

"What did you say?" Sadie asked me.

"You don't want to know," I told her.

"Why not? Was it a curse or something?" Sadie asked me.

"Sadie, she doesn't want to tell you," Carter said.

"Well I want to know. What did you say?" Sadie asked me being stubborn.

I ignored her and looked at Percy, then at Coral. "Statue of Liberty on Saturday. We meet here at ten AM. That's the plan," I said.

Coral nodded and walked off, saying, "Meeting dismissed."

I walked with Percy to his house. "Do you really think Sadie has a pet baboon?" he asked me.

"I don't know, Percy. Do you think Sadie is always that stubborn?"

"According to her brother, she is," Percy said. I laughed.

"I don't always believe a brother's opinion, but I'm starting to believe it," I said.

"I even asked her boyfriend, Walt. He said that she is always that stubborn," Percy said.

"Now I'm really starting to believe it," I said. "But I'm not surprised he wouldn't hesitate to admit that. I wouldn't hesitate to admit that you're stubborn, because that's one thing I like about you."

"My stubbornness?" he asked me as we reached his apartment.

"That and you aren't afraid to admit that you're stubborn," I told him.

He nodded as we went into the kitchen, holding hands. "Mom, I'm home," he said.

"Hi, sweetie. Hello Annabeth!" Sally said when she saw us.

"Hi, Sally. We're just going to do homework. Well...I'm going to force Percy to do his homework," I said.

"And that's one reason why I love how you're dating Percy," Sally said. "Now go do you're homework. I'll make us some supper." Sally waved us off, and I ran after Percy into the living room.

"Do your math," I said.

"Yes ma'am," Percy said, saluting me. "Remember when the taxi driver called you 'Your Majesty'?" Percy asked, stalling.

I laughed at the thought of it. "Yeah. It feels like that quest was so long ago," I said.

"Yeah, I almost can't remember a time when we weren't dating. Or at least when I didn't have a crush on you," Percy said, getting his math book out.

"I can't believe it took us five years to start dating. We had feelings for each other, anyway," I said as Percy opened his math book.

"Yeah. How do you do this?" Percy asked.

I looked at the problem and showed him how to do it. "Well when you put it like that, it doesn't seem so hard," Percy said.

"What are girlfriends for?

It was a rhetorical question, but Percy answered anyway, "Kissing."

"Yeah, well I'll kiss you when you finish your homework," I told him.

"Don't you have homework, too?" Percy asked.

"I finished it. Now do that problem," I said.

Percy took an hour to finish his math, then quickly wrote an essay on why homework is worthless (His choice, not mine!) for English.

"Done with my homework. Now will you kiss me?" Percy asked.

I rolled my eyes and kissed him. A few minutes later, we were still kissing, Sally came in and said, "Dinner is ready."

Percy quickly pulled apart and stood up, excited to eat his mom's delicious cooking. I laughed and rolled my eyes at him. He's such a seaweed brain...


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