Once again, Micah is now Zach, Just so ya know:) Okay well i would love it if you would review and would you plz tell me if this story is dragging on? because its almost done a promise! :) okay welll enjoy chapter 14!
The scent of sea air filled my nose, as we headed father west in the direction that Apollo has disappeared. I stopped dead in my tracks, realizing exactly where we were headed. Annabeth and Zach would never understand if I just blurted it out now, and Annabeth would question why Percy and I were having the same dreams. Fortunately I didn't know the answer to that question, and personally I was glad I didn't know. I decided I would tell him tonight when we were on watch together. For me, walking and walking and walking always having to check your compass if you're still going the right direction, is pretty tiring. That night did not come soon enough; the hot day seemed to drag on and on. I was scared we would reach the cliff before nightfall, and I wouldn't be able to express my concern beforehand. Considering this, I couldn't decide whether to tell him now, or tell him tonight. No matter where we were on this earth. At the cliff or not. The coolness of night soon settled around us and Percy finally declared, "We'll have to stop here for the night. We'll keep moving tomorrow, let's build and fire and a shelter. Emily and I will start the fire, Annabeth and Zach gather the stuff for the shelter and build it." Apparently he was leading now, I didn't mind, I just wanted them to shut-up so I could tell them which way to go. I'm also glad that he wanted me to help him with the fire. This was the perfect time to tell him about my concerns.
"Let's go Zach before it gets too dark." Annabeth and Zach headed off to the forest in search of logs and large leaves in the forest. Once I saw the light of their flashlights fade into the density of the trees, I turned to Percy who was gathering twigs and logs. Making sure they were dry and big enough. I took a deep breath and slowly walked over to where he was hunched over picking stuff up.
I tapped him on the shoulder, hoping I wouldn't scare him. Which of course I did! Once I tapped him shoulder I could feel his heartbeat jump up, and he took a shuddered breath, but looked up with calm eyes. His face looked okay but his eyes told me, WHAT? I took another breath and said, "I need to talk to you about something."
When I said that, his look of WHAT? Went away, and a scared face replaced it. What was he scared about? I was momentarily confused by this, but he broke my thinking bubble (yes I have one!) when he replied, "Okay, but promise that if I piss you off you won't make me fall into a pit of death?" He said this so seriously I think he actually meant it!
I started laughing so hard, tears filled my eyes, and I thought I was done but then I looked at his face and it just made me start laughing again because it was so funny! It was contorted with confusion, and hurt because he thought I was laughing at him! I managed to say, "I'm not laughing at you! O-O-okay! I won't split the ground open, what I wanted to say was important!"
His hurt look faded, and he finally asked, "Okay. Fire away." I pushed my last chuckle back down my throat, hoping it wouldn't pop out when I was trying to tell him something really important. I started to feel really bad about laughing because, he thought I was laughing at him. I told him I wasn't laughing at him didn't I? These thoughts swarmed around my head, and I didn't realize I was looking at the ground until I looked up and noticed Percy looked annoyed. "Well?" I must've zoned out for quite a while I guess.
"We both know exactly where we're headed." My voice was quiet but since the whole clearing was silence it felt like I had yelled it, and it bounded off the trees and rang back into our ears. Yes that gave it a dramatic outcome (which I had not attempted) but I knew that I wanted for it to sound serious, and that's exactly how it came out.
"I know. The cliff." Such a serious moment this was, and the thing was, I don't really know why. Yeah, we were talking about the dream we both had, but why would that be so serious? Then it hit me. The thing that made it serious was, that dream was coming true. We didn't intend it, we didn't expect it to happen, it just did.