Sooo I kinda just decided to write this from Percy's POV...yeah.
Hi. I'm not dead. Also, on a happier note, I started a new story called Maybes and Music! I'd really appreciate it if you checked it out!
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Ch 12
Errm, yeah. It's Percy.
Shut up, Leo. I am the most mature of all of us! What, Annabeth?
Coach Hedge stepped in between Leo and Beth before Beth could murder Leo.
I have no faith in you, Leo. Just putting that out there.
"Listen up, cupcakes!" he yelled. "Fight nicely. Minimum amount of death. Valdez, no flames."
"What?!" Leo complained.
Coach glared at him. "Quit your whining and go fight!"
Leo grumbled under his breath, then turned to face Beth. Beth twirled her knives expertly in her hands. Leo paled.
"So, Beth, I was thinking that maybe we could just, ya know, talk this out," Leo said in a voice an octave higher than his usual voice.
Beth smirked. "No." Then she pounced.
Beth raced towards Leo, her knives ready. At the last second, Leo blocked her knives with his hammers.
While they were close, Beth leaned in and whispered, "Make this fun and I might not murder you for calling me a 'cutie', Valdez."
Leo gulped. Beth shoved Leo down. She threw her knives towards where Leo was lying. He rolled out of the way, and the knives stuck into the gym floor. Leo took a swing at Beth's feet with his one of his hammers and swung for her torso with the other. Beth backflipped over both of the hammers.
Hey, Thalia, does becoming a hunter of Artemis give you super agility or something? Ha ha, very funny. Wait. Does it actually turn you guys into Spiderman? Well I'm sorry!
Marcus leaned over to his goons. "Since when could the school bookworm do that?"
Thalia overheard that comment. "Since the 'school bookworm' could kick your a-"
Hazel slapped her hand over Thalia's mouth before she could finish that sentence. "Thalia, we're at school!"
Thalia peeled Hazel's hand off of her mouth. "Hazel, it's the twenty-first century. It's fine."
Hazel just pursed her lips. "The nuns would have washed out your mouth."
I turned back to the fight. Leo was on the ground, his hamers long gone, and Beth was approaching him with her knives in hand. I missed all the action! Stupid ADHD!
Beth stabbed her knives down. Leo rolled out of the way, and rummaged around his toolbelt for another weapon. He pulled out breath mints.
"Oh come on!" Leo cried, putting the breath mints back. Leo looked at Beth, who was advancing on Leo, a smirk playing on her lips. "Please don't kill me!"
Beth paused. "Fine. But only because I like Calypso." Beth tossed her knives to Thalia, and curled her hands into fists.
Leo gulped. Beth came flying at Leo. Leo screamed like a girl.
Oh, sorry, Leo.
Leo screamed like the manly man's manly man.
What?
Luckily for Leo, Jason jumped in the way, blocking Beth's punches.
"JASON!" Thalia screeched. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!"
Jason froze. Thalia marched over and grabbed him by the ear, dragging him out of the fight and back into the spectator circle where she proceeded to scream at him. "JASON GRACE YOU DO NOT, EVER, EVER, EVER INTERRUPT A FIGHT WHEN ONE OF MY HU-"
Jason slapped a hand over Thalia's mouth before she could say 'Hunter' in front of all the mortals.
The air around Thalia sizzled with electricity. Beth and Leo had paused their fight to watch Jason get scolded. Thalia grabbed her brother's hand off of her mouth and glared at him. "Go to (insert word for a horrible pit here. I still can't say it)."
Three words was all it took. We had been going strong, nothing for a couple of weeks, just happy laughter and fun. But three words had the power to turn all of that progress around.
Immediately after saying it, Thalia realized what she said and who heard it. All of the demigods (and Beth. You know what? From now on, when I say demigods, it includes Beth) stiffened. My breath quickened, and my muscles went tense. But it was Annabeth who screamed.
Annabeth was crumpled on the ground, hands over her ears, tears streaming down her cheeks as she screamed over and over again. "No! No! Percy! Percy!" She lifted her head, an expression of pure terror on her face.
I ran over to her, and wrapped my arms around her. "Shh, shh, we're out, it's okay," I muttered into her ear. Her screams stopped, and she turned into my arms, her body wracked with sobs. I put my face in her hair. From how wet her hair was, I could tell that I was crying too.
The rest of the gym class watched us in shock.
Then Marcus smirked. "Oh no," he drawled. "The ickle nerd had an ickle nightmare."
All of the demigods' eyes flashed with anger. Beth reached Marcus first.
"What're you gonna do?" Marcus asked smugly, glancing pointedly at Coach Hedge. "Wouldn't want to get in trouble with a teacher, would we?"
Beth glanced at Coach Hedge, who turned around to face the wall. She punched Marcus in the jaw.
"What was that for!?" Marcus exclaimed. "The nerd broke down in the middle of class! What'd you expect me to do?"
"If you had been through what they've through," Leo said, serious for once.
Annabeth's sobs had subsided into the occasional hiccup by the end of class. I swear to the gods, those flashbacks to our time in...that place were absolutely horrible. They took us back to a terrifying time in our lives. I mean, there is nothing more terrifying than Tartarus-
Annabeth! No! Annabeth!
*mic drops onto floor* *commotion*
Percy! We're out!
Annabeth! No!
-going to be okay?
-worse than last time-
Bob! No, we can't leave Bob!
Percy, we're safe!
-just saying it-
-say it around him-
-getting a little better-
*screams stop, replaced with sobs* *static*
Hi, it's Beth. We're going to, um, take a, erm, water break.
