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~ChildOfWisdom
Annabeth's POV
Percy moved over the slightest bit so that he was standing in front of me with his sword pointed directly at the stairs. What shocked me was what came down from the stairs. I expected a zombie, a fairy, even a genie but never what I saw. Three human beings, perfectly healthy walked down the stairs. Their eyes widen as they saw a group of strangers in their house pointing weapons that them, but as soon as we saw them we put our weapons down.
"Uh…Hi." A shy girl said as she waved at us awkwardly.
"Who are you?" A boy with brown, sun bleached hair and brown eyes said a bit coldly.
"Guys, calm down. Hi, my name's Jack. You guys must be that little bit of power signal we found in New York, isn't that right?" The other boy said with a calmer voice and a light smile.
I took in note all of their different personalities and how they seemed to be to have a strong bond. I felt bad and guilty for intruding into their house like this. Just breaking in and coming in all cold and shivering, pointing weapons at them. The alpha team looked at each other sheepishly until Percy stepped up with an extended hand.
"Yes, that's us. Hi, my name's Percy and this is my Alpha Team. We heard your distress call through the radio and we came here as fast as we could." Percy said giving Jack his award winning smile.
I took note of all of them.
Jack seemed to be the leader, I guess. He had fairy long hair that went down to his neck the color of light brown-blonde. His eyes were a sparkly blue and the way he smiled back at Percy made me think that he was the mischievous, fun and friendly type of person.
The girl who seemed a little shy had blonde hair that reached past her shoulders and brown eyes. She may seem shy but she looked like a sweet girl who would volunteer at animal shelters and local hospitals if the world wasn't infested with zombies.
Then there was the boy with the brown sun bleached hair that looked like some sort of dirty blonde. His voice was firm and cold as if he was mad but I could tell there was more to him. He's had a tough life, much like all of us, and maybe that's just he's way of showing it. I bet he's just as chatty as Jack.
"Wow, I would have never thought anyone would actually hear that. I'm sorry; I'm still kinda shocked that you guys actually arrived." Jack said as he looked at all of us.
"I understand. Uh, how about we introduce ourselves. You know, I'm Percy. This is my gorgeous girlfriend-" But I cut Percy off.
"Annabeth. Hi."I told them as I smiled a bit, trying not to shiver. One, I was really cold and wet and two, I'm still not used to Percy calling me his girlfriend. I looked over at Percy and saw that he was glaring at me, playfully. "Sorry, Perce, but you know that I can introduce myself."
The blonde girl laughed a bit, smiling shyly. While Jack shot me a grin.
"I'm Nico." He said. The blonde girl waved at him and he nodded once.
"I'm Conner." Conner said as he put away his gun.
"I'm Jason."
"I'm Piper."
"I'm Veronica."
"Clarisse." She said as she nodded once.
"And I'm Juniper." She said as she waved.
The trio smiled, all of them.
"It's so nice to meet you all. As you know, I'm Jack." Then he turned to the blonde girl.
"I'm Haley-Anne." She said in a small voice.
"And I'm Daxter."
I tried to wave but my hand was shivering too much for me to control and they noticed. The girl ran up the stairs without any other word and Jack ordered Daxter to do something quickly and quietly while he lead us up upstairs without another word.
[WARNING: ZOMBIE TAKEOVER…WARNING: ZOMBIE TAKEOVER…WARNING: ZOMBIE TAKEOVER!]
You have no idea, how amazing it felt, to take a hot shower after being in the rain and sleeping in gasoline stations and jumping off bridges into the ocean. I was told I could wash my hair, which I did, washing away all the dirt, knots, leaves, everything else that was in it. I washed my skin, removing the dirt and rain and put on the clothes that were laid out for me by Haley-Anne.
The little house was indeed bigger than we thought and the two extra rooms were given to us. The girls in one room and the boys in the other. Veronica, Clarisse, Juniper, Piper and I sat in our make shift beds with the fans drying out wet hair as they moved from side to side. We all sat cross legged, wearing the same colored jeans and the same colored shirts; Blue jeans and red polos. I felt like I was going to school. No, I felt like I was going to an all girl school. And I didn't mind it.
"Shouldn't we go down?" Juniper asked as she braided Veronica's long hair.
"Haley-Anne insisted that we stay up here until she finished dinner. I guess she didn't want our help or didn't need it." Clarisse said from her 'bed'.
"Don't say it like that Clarisse," I said noticing her tone of voice. "She's just trying to be a good host."
"Yeah, yeah. We're living in a world filled with zombies; we don't have time for being good hosts. We need to get out of here and back to the museum. We're safer there."
"They've been here for six and a half years also, Clarisse. They've got more energy than us! I'm sure were safe here."
"Whatever floats your boat, bookworm." Clarisse said, ending the conversation.
I sent a glare in her direction and we waited until Haley-Anne came to get us…but she never did. We waited a half-hour or so until the clock read 7:57. I was still surprised they had a digital clock; you know those little black rectangular ones with red numbers, but I quickly got over it. We stood up and headed down stairs where we found everyone…eating.
Percy, Jason, Nico, Conner, Daxter, Jack and Haley-Anne were all in a deep conversation when we went down stairs. I blinked a couple of times to try to find a logical explanation of why they would leave us stuck in our rooms while they ate…something Italian. They were all sitting in the long, dark wood table eating and enjoying life.
"What the heck?! Can anyone explain to me why in the world you all are eating while we're starving upstairs?!" Clarisse yelled angrily.
I was sort of happy because that's what I wanted to say and I didn't want to embarrass myself but Clarisse is shameless. Her face was red with anger and no doubt that her eyes were two. Her long brown hair was tied back in a pony tail and I noticed that her hands were in fists, showing the veins in her hand.
We managed to startle everyone in the table. Their eyes were wide but they weren't as nervous as Haley-Anne. She started to apologize a thousand times, but a group of hungry girls is something scary. We all waited for an answer with our hands on our hips, eyes in locked with the boys in a death glare.
"I am so sorry, I am so sorry, so, so sorry." Haley-Anne said as she ran into the kitchen and opened the oven.
They had a stainless steel oven. Lucky.
"I set the alarm clock to ring at 7:30. We all thought you fell asleep waiting. Oh, I should have gone up to check on you guys, I'm sorry."
Most of the girls sighed and walked over to the table. We sat down in random seats, but I sat down next to Percy since he pulled a seat next to him and gestured for me to sit down. I sat down next to him and he pulled me close.
"I was going to go get you, but I didn't want to walk into a room of sleeping girls. You girls would have killed me." He whispered in to my ear, making me shiver.
"It's okay. If you did wake up a room filled with sleeping girls, you would have died."
He chuckled and pulled away, but not before kissing me on my cheek. Haley-Anne returned with Juniper and plates of food which we happily dove right into. It was simple pasta or spaghetti, but it was made to perfection. It was hard to know that Juniper had nothing to do with this, since she was our 5 star chef. I saw Piper sneak a glance at me, making me smile. She was eating the spaghetti with Jason, like a couple, and I knew they were trying to do that one noodle thing where they both end up kissing at the end. I always thought they were a cute couple and something inside me wished that I was like that with Percy. All in time, I guess.
"It's okay, Haley-Anne, it was the clocks fault for not ringing." Juniper said as she sent a smile on her way.
Jack came down from the kitchen at sat at the head of the table, next to Nico and Conner. We started talking about ways to head back to the Museum head quarters and Daxter told us his amazing ideas on how we can get more electricity in the museum. Nico pointed out that Thalia and the Omega team were no doubt, heading back to the museum at this time and that we also needed to meet them there so we didn't worry them.
"The Omega team? What is that?" Haley-Anne asked.
"Thalia and her team have traveled to Vermont to something really important. We were told-" But Percy was interrupted.
"Her team? There are more?" Jack asked, both curious and surprised.
Percy smiled at his reaction and nodded.
"Thalia is my cousin, along with Nico. There are nine others with her. Leo, Samantha, Trey, Travis, Katie, Grover, and I think a few others. I'm sorry, I'm just a bit tired." Percy said.
I took a good look at him. He's black hair had grown about an inch so that his bangs were covering his eyes and he had to constantly be brushing them back. His sea green eyes were as green as polished emerald, they are so green and so deep, I could get lost in them without trying to. He was tall, strong and he was wearing black jeans and a white t-shirt. He looked amazing and incredibly tired.
"Oh, of course. You all can go to bed. We can talk about this in the morning." Jack said as he stood up, he's blue eyes was also tired, but he was good at hiding it.
It had been a busy day for all of us. We all finished what we had to do and went to sleep.
Sleeping in that little room with all the girls was uncomfortable. I felt like I was a sardine in a can of sardines. I didn't mind it though, since Piper said it was like a huge sleep-over and Veronica agreed. It wouldn't have been that bad…but of course, nightmares ruin all that.
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I stared around trying to see my surroundings and trying to stop the whole world from spinning. We were fighting the zombies that were inside this giant warehouse we found. I was covered in blood and my body hurt, but I had to keep fighting. I had too.
Inside the warehouse there were four-wheelers. Yes, you read that right. Four-wheelers! Do you know what that is? I mean, you have no idea how awesome it is to find something like that when you're in a world infested with zombies. Only the thought of seeing my cousins again and keeping my team safe made me go. It was my energy, what kept me going. I placed an arrow in the bow and pulled back, letting the arrow fly through the air and hit its mark. The zombies head.
"INTO THE WAREHOUSE! NOW!" I screamed over the sounds of guns being fired.
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Travis said as he grabbed Katie's hand and ran into the warehouse.
The rest followed but I stayed outside. Nasty, decomposing, zombies kept crawling out of nowhere. I shot them with the last of my arrows then rain inside; well…more like limped inside, and closed the giant steel door. I whipped the blood that was slowly rolling down my forehead. It hurt when I moved my left arm, my ankles stung as I walked, but I had to keep going. I had to.
Grover came over and helped me walk over to a four-wheeler and helped me get on.
"Ow." I moan as I put my arms on my handles and place my head in them. My hair was caked with blood and dirt, my body ached.
I looked up to see that my team wasn't any better. Trey had his shirt ripped from the zombies long nails and he had scratches on his chest and arms. Grover, the poor guy, had bruises on his arms and on his face, with a long trail of blood leading from his arm to his hand. Katie's hair was short on one side and long on the other, her face was covered in mud and so were her clothes. Samantha's armor had been torn apart by some zombies, which caused all her clothes to be ripped, just like Trey's. We weren't doing so well.
"Everyone, get on a four-wheeler. I don't want two people on the same four-wheeler! We have to take as much as these things as we can, understood?" I asked, trying to make my voice sound as firm and leader-like as possible.
I got a chorus, of yes's, ok's and someone who yelled food…
"Alright. We're going back to New York." I told them.
"But we haven't found the important thing, Percy was talking about!" Travis exclaimed.
"We found four-wheelers and a laptop. We found the important things." I told him as I turned on my four-wheeler.
It roared as I tugged on the handle. I smiled.
Time to bash some zombies, I thought, happily.
"Laptop? What are you talking about?" Leo shouted out from his four-wheeler which was kinda far away.
Chiz! What did I just say?. I haven't told them yet! Dang it, Thalia.
"Laptop? What are you talking about, Valdez." I told him, trying to confuse him.
It wasn't hard. He was Leo, after all.
"Me? I don't know! What are you talking about?!"
"GUYS! I suggest we go, before things worse." Samantha explained.
"Agreed." We all say in unison.
Travis opened the door of the warehouse, letting zombies crawl in. I narrowed my eyes and turned the handle of the four-wheeler and I moved forward, fast. I ran over zombies, hearing their bones crack underneath the mighty black wheels of the four-wheeler. We zoom passed all the zombies and rush forward towards the forest in the direction of New York.
But they followed us.
[WARNING: ZOMBIE TAKEOVER…WARNING: ZOMBIE TAKEOVER…WARNING: ZOMBIE TAKEOVER!]
It was dark. The night was quiet and eerie as an owl hooted nearby, making me shiver. The zombies had tried running after us but they ended up tripping over each other, plus they would never be able to catch up with us and our four-wheelers. I had taken the first watch, but I was going to let Katie sleep a little while longer, she deserved it.
I thought about so many things while I looked up at the moon. I didn't want to sleep, knowing my dreams were plagued with nightmares, so why even try to sleep? I looked up at the sky and at the very spot I was looking at, lightning appeared lighting up the night sky. My eyes widened and I gasped. I felt the electricity in my fingers, as if I had caused it.
Had I caused it?
We were sleeping outside so I really didn't want to take the risk of taking out my computer and letting someone wake up and see me with it. I had lied for too long and good thing they had forgotten about my little accident, me saying I had a laptop, thanks to the rush of riding the four-wheelers. I wondered how Nico and Percy were doing. I wondered if Percy had told Annabeth he liked her. I wondered if Juniper missed Grover as much as he missed her. I wondered if Clarisse still needed to take anger management…
I laughed a bit at the thought, accidently waking up Samantha. She got up from the ground, having half her hair flat on her head and half all puffy. Her eyes fluttered open and finally landed on me by the fire. She got up, dusted herself off and sat down next to me.
"Any reason why you woke me up with your laughter?" She asked as she threw a stick in the fire.
"Any reason why you woke up to my laughter?" I asked back, challenging her.
She shook her head and smiled a bit, looking over to Diana's sleeping body.
"Would it be bad if I through dirt in her hair?" Samantha asked as she looked up at me.
"No. As long as you tell her Leo did it, your fine." I told her with a chuckle.
Samantha laughed and nodded. "Yes, I see wisdom in that. Well, if you don't mind, I'll take the second watch. You should go get some sleep. You have bags under your eyes."
"Doesn't everyone?" I asked as I got up and stretched my sore muscles.
"No. Not me. I'm too amazing for that." She told me as she put her hands on her hips and looked proud.
"Yeah, you're right…oh and before I go to sleep, can I tell you something?" I said as I got down on my little space in the grass and laid down.
"Uh, sure."
"Stop hanging around Leo, you're begging to act like him. It's a bit scary." I told her, smiling.
"Oh, sue me." She said as she turned her back towards me.
I was going to write in Annabeth's nightmare, but I didn't have much time with the Library computers. The next chapter will start off with Annabeth's nightmare then so forth.
I will be updating Prison Love and Different Worlds next! I hope you like them!
Sorry for the taking so long to update.
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~ChildOfWisdom