A/N: Hi peeps! I decided not to keep you waiting because I had so many wonderful reviews!
POV: Annabeth, Percy, Nessie
Disclaimer: I don't own the world of vampires and werewolves or the marvelous world of the Greek gods!
Chapter 20: Rounds and Landing
It had taken me an entire day to do so, but I had finally explained all of our quests and years at Camp Half-Blood to the Cullen coven, from finishing the story of our quest in the Sea of Monsters to the end of the war with Gaea. And now, I was trying to distract myself with things to do, because if I wasn't doing anything I'd start thinking about Percy and start feeling like Hera had kidnapped him again.
It had been two days since Percy, Jason and Renesmee all left Camp Half-Blood aboard Festus the now-repaired metal dragon, and I just couldn't stop myself from hoping they'd be okay and be back soon. Especially Percy. If anything happened to him… I don't know how I'd manage.
"Hey, Annabeth, are you doing routine inspections this afternoon?" Chiron asked me, trotting up to me. I nodded silently. "Have you chosen a partner yet? It will be easier to do the inspection with someone else."
I shook my head slowly, trying not to think of Percy, but it was in vain. Percy and I had always done the inspections together, and now that he wasn't here… who was I going to get to do it with me? I left Chiron behind, barely giving him a goodbye, before jogging over to the Big House, where Amanda and Calypso were currently residing. I walked in and climbed one flight of stairs before reaching their door and knocking. Without even waiting for someone to call me in, I opened the door, and what I saw was not a sight I wanted to see at the moment.
Leo and Calypso were standing next to the wall, completely tangled, so close together it was hard to figure out whose hands were whose. Their lips were basically glued together, and they were so distracted by each other that they didn't even realize I was standing there. I closed the door hurriedly and was about to head back downstairs when I saw Calypso's twin sister standing there, a hand on her hip.
"Uh…" I stammered, unable to think of anything to say.
"Don't worry about it, I've walked in on them kissing like five times now, I've gotten used to it, but it's kind of strange." She sighed, and I was surprised at how much she looked like Calypso, with the same slightly ginger flowing brown hair and slight figure – the only difference between the two were their eyes; while Calypso had warm, amber, almond-shaped eyes, Amanda had slightly smaller hazel-green ones.
"I–I was just looking for someone to do rounds with me. Care to come along?" I asked her, suddenly surprised that I was asking Amanda to help.
She was surprised, too. "Uh, sure…" We both walked out of the Big House silently and started rounds. Thankfully enough, I didn't think about my boyfriend miles and miles away on the Atlantic Ocean again that afternoon.
We'd been over the ocean for two days now, and I could finally see an edge of land over the horizon. I was–gods forbid–actually sick of the ocean after flying over it for two days. It had remained the same inky black as it was the first day, which made me wonder what Poseidon was up to so that this ocean would be so forbidding.
And finally, we landed. I had fallen asleep yet again, but this time I was safely secured to Festus' neck, and woke up to see lush green hills surrounded by a misty fog not too far below us. Soon after, the great bronze dragon had landed and the three of us hopped off, completely covered with saddle sores. Jason and I stretched, while Renesmee ran around at lightning speed to check we were alone.
"I highly suggest we get some food," she said. "There's no one around, not that I could see, at least–" she hesitated slightly, and I wondered if she actually had felt someone else around, "–and I'd like to be able to hunt something fresh. You two ate up all our supplies over the Atlantic." She gave us a reprimanding glare.
"I'm sorry!" I exclaimed, raising my arms. "You said you'd be fine, you said you could hunt when we landed!" And I hoped she could drink some blood soon – her eyes were blacker than I'd ever seen them, a deep bottomless onyx, and scaring the hell out of me.
"Alright. Will you two be fine for just a little while? We can buy some food for you once we get to the city. I'll just take a couple of minutes to hunt." She eyed Jason with a flare of hunger in her eyes, and I hoped she wouldn't be hunting us.
"Yeah, we'll be fine. Just don't get in trouble," Jason said, apparently also unnerved by her black eyes. Without another word, Renesmee turned around and bolted off into the trees surrounding the clearing where we'd landed.
It felt absolutely amazing to be able to stretch my newly-longer legs and run at top speed through the forest, searching for prey. Normally, I could settle for human food, but that just wasn't going to cut it after a whole three days without blood and being around demigods that smelled way too delicious for their own good. Apparently, they were even better than humans, and smelled that way too…
I laughed as I ran through the forest, suddenly stopping at the sound of a large heart beating away. There was a stag, all alone, drinking from a river…
I lunged and caught the stag off guard, and drunk every ounce from its body. I'd inherited my father's cleanliness while eating–well, my mom still was getting used to it. A mountain lion would've tasted way better right now, but the stag was enough to quench my thirst.
I started to make my way back to the clearing when I saw a shadow move right next to me. It was the same shadow I'd seen when first inspecting the area for danger, but this time I was sure it had moved. And suddenly, something rushed past my left side, running at a speed only a vampire could match…
And I tried to follow the passerby's scent. It was a scent I'd smelled before–two years ago. The scent of one of the Volturi guard.
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