HEY SO I DON'T OWN PERCY JACKSON, AND YOU CANNOT READ THIS CHAPTER IF YOU DID NOT REVIEW ON THE LAST CHAPTER. IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?
CHAPTER 28 - TESSA P.O.V. (I WILL BE SWITCHING AROUND THE POINT OF VIEW A LOT IN THIS CHAPTER.)
My alarm clock blasted at 6:50 AM. "Ugh!" I yelled. "I HATE MORNINGS!"
"I know how you feel, Tessa."
I ripped off my eye mask, and Sebastian was sitting on the edge of my bed.
"SEBASTIAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM? HOW DID YOU GET IN MY ROOM?..oh the shadows."
"You're a smart little girl," he smiled and got up off the edge of my bed. Sebastian walked towards the door.
"Why are you here?"
"There are some things you will never know."
"Ugh," I threw a pillow at him. He retreated into the shadows, and Ace walked in.
"Hey what's wrong?" he asked.
"Its the morning do I need to emphasize it anymore?"
"I'm going to grab something to eat."
"Ya um I'll meet you there. Gotta get ready."
"Kay," He left and I shut the door.
I threw a Camp Half Blood shirt, my blue jeans, my belt with the sheath of my dagger hanging on it, and a breast plate. I walked into my bathroom. I took off my breast plate to brush my teeth. Then I wondered why I put it on in the first place if I had to brush my teeth. I put back on the breast plate. I put my hair into a pony tail, and left to the mess hall.
ANNABETH P.O.V.
The mess hall was super hectic. Piper and Leo were staring and whispering at Ava and Tessa. I walked up secretly behind them to listen to their conversation.
"No I'm just saying take Tessa's outfit and put it on Ava and boom you get little Annabeth," Leo said.
"No Ava's gray eyes have a green tint in them, and her hair is straight," Piper said.
"So remove the green from her eyes!"
"Yeah remove the green. Take Tessa's curls and put them into Ava's hair. Also take Tessa's outfit, and then you got a mini Annabeth," Piper said.
Leo tilted his head a little and waited a second, "Oh yeah! I see it!"
"What are you guys doing?" I asked. They spun around and realized I was standing there.
"We um well just look," Leo said. "If you take―"
"Yeah I was here," I laughed.
Tessa walked past us. "Why is everyone being so creepy today," she muttered to herself.
Tyler came over. "When do we leave? I kinda have a date tonight, so you know?"
"Guys we have a problem, well many problems," Bex said as she came in.
"I hate when she says that!" Sammy complained to no one. All of the kids went to a table to talk about what ever problem Bex had in store for them.
"Whats wrong?" I asked Leo.
"Lets go to mission control." We got up.
"I told you we weren't calling it that," I said.
"Whatever," Leo led us into 'Mission Control'.
Leo's fingers started flying across the keyboard. "Oh no that's not good. Like really not good at all."
"Leo? What is it?" Piper asked.
"Annabeth you might wanna get Percy for this. Now."
"Um, okay," I pulled out my phone and texted him. "He'll be here in a―"
One cue Percy walked in with Jason, Hazel, and Frank. "Second," I finished.
"You guys might wanna sit down," Leo said worriedly. We all sat down in our seats where we would usually sit where we would guide the kids on their quests.
"Leo, now," Percy said.
"Well um according to Festus, Nemesis just allied herself with Tartarus. Now he's opening random holes everywhere, sucking in stuff, and then he closes it up."
"Um, are you sure?" Piper asked.
"Do I look like I'm not sure?" Leo asked.
"Is that all?" Frank asked.
"Um..no. There is a huge monster frequency coming from," he pointed to a place on the map on the screen. "Like really huge."
"Chiron sent Haley, Sebastian, and Tyler," Percy said.
"Can you ask Ava if she can go?" Frank asked.
"Ava doesn't quests," Percy said.
"We can can ask her," I said to Percy. "I can go ask her, now." I got up and left before I could start having a panic attack about the whole Tartarus thing. I went to the mess hall. "Hey Ava can I talk to you."
"Sure Mom," She smiled and came to sit down next to me. "I admit calling you 'Mom' is going to take some time getting use to."
"What did your dad say about me when you were little?" I asked.
"Well we did know our dad had a friend named Annabeth Chase, and he said you guys had a HUGE FIGHT right our the time our mom died. Now I feel like an idiot for not putting two and two together. What did you tell Tessa?"
"That her dad and I got divorced two weeks after she was born."
"So.. the truth?"
"Well they semi-truth. Ava can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"Why do you hate quests?"
"Um.."
"Its fine you can tell me."
"Well um... fine. When we first came to Camp Half Blood ― when I was thirteen ―I was given a quest to lead. I was so happy because I was told my mom always went on quests, and I wanted to be just like her. Well I choose two good friends that I made to come along with me. I had to beg, but they agreed. A boy named Greg, and a girl, Lillian. In the end, we were captured, tortured, and we failed our quest. Lillian and Greg didn't make it back...only I did."
I took her and hugged her. No kid should ever have to go through that . I wasn't even there to help her through it. "Are you okay?"
"I just have a few pretty horrible scars." She lifted up her shirt just a drop, and I saw half of a huge scar. "It runs from my hip bone, across my stomach to my collar bone. I have another few on my back, and I have one from my elbow to my wrist."
"Ouch."
"Yeah after that quest I never wore a bikini again. Ever hear that a granddaughter of Poseidon who can't even wear a bathing suit?" A single tear ran down her cheek. "I ended up moving in the Athena cabin because of it."
"I'm really sorry."
"Anyways was that all?" she brushed away the tear.
"I wanted to ask you if you can go with everyone today on the quest?"
"What?!" she stood up. "After everything I just told you?!"
"You know I lost people too!"
"Ava sat back down. "Yeah but Mom how do you cope with it. I can't I cry at least once a day."
"You think a day doesn't go by that I don't think about all the people I lost. Your full name is Ava Zoe. Zoe is from a hunter your father and I knew, Zoe Nightshade. Nick's full name is Nicholas Charles, after Charles Beckendorf. Clarisse named Silena after her best friend that died in the second titan war, Silena Beauregard. Thalia named Ace, Ace Lucas after Luke Castellen. Jason and Piper named Jasper, Jasper Leo, because they thought Leo Valdez was dead. Ava, sweetie, we never forget them, but we have to move on with our lives."
"I could of saved them."
I sighed and realized the problem, "Ava, you have the same fatal flaw as me, hubris, having―"
"I know what it means, Dad told me it was my flaw long ago."
"Go on the quest, don;t fail. For Greg and Lillian."
"For them?"
"Yes."
"Okay...I'll do it."
"I knew you would, you're my daughter. Go get ready they are leaving in a few minutes."
"Okay," She left the mess hall.
Ava P.O.V. (Whooo Ava decided to join the P.O.V. party!)
I have no idea how she did it, but after four years she was the one who convinced me to go on a quest. Not Chiron, not Dad, Nick, Seb, Ty, or Haley were even able to, but Mom who I just met two days ago was able to.
I met Tyler in the hallway outside my room. "Is what I hear true? Is Ava Zoe Jackson going on a real life quest?" Ty said sarcastically.
"Yes," I said. Tyler is one of my best friends, but he is what Dad calls a 'Leo'.
"Wow Haley didn't believe Seb when he told us."
"When do we leave, Ty?"
"About two minutes ago."
"Then why are we standing here?!" I pulled his arm, we ran off the boat, and continued running until we caught up with everyone.
"Ava?! You actually came?" Haley asked. Nick stood there speechless and genuinely surprised.
"It was time," I said. Haley put her arm over my shoulder.
Ace handed me an earpiece. "Welcome aboard," he said.
"So where to?" I asked.
"514 Maple Road," Sammy read off a crumpled piece of paper.
"But," Bex checked up on her iPad. I shouldn't say iPad, it just looked an iPad, but Leo reprogrammed it to be a super tablet. "I just put the address in, and I got the satellite visual up. All that's there on 514 Maple Road is an abandoned ware house."
"Lets go there then," Jasper said.
"How far away is it?" Silena asked.
"Not that far way, just a block away," Bex said. "Anymore questions, people?"
"No," Jasper said. "Wait just one more thing. Promise to never say 'Oh no' all day because when ever you do something terrible always goes wrong."
"I promise," she said.
Ace P.O.V.
I slipped my hand into Tessa's. I loved letting everyone know she was my girlfriend, especially Tyler.
Nick, Jasper, and Silena were walking ahead. I had to admit they were a weird trio. Well I guess after five quests together, you're like family.
I was walking and thinking. Oh my gods, the Argo III was like high school.
Nick, Jasper, and Silena were the jocks. Ava had her little family were the older kids who treated us like little kids even though we were totally mature. Sammy was the quiet one. Bex and Jasper were those weird awkward boy and girl best friends. Tessa was the new girl who was trying to fit in, and I was me. I was just here for the quest, I was that kid who jut came to learn, but not a nerd. I am definitely not a nerd, but now I have a reason to stay. Her name is Tessa.
"That's it," Bex said.
"What are we waiting for," Nick said as he was about to start for the ware house door.
"Wait!" Silena grabbed his arm. "We don't know whats in there."
"Are you scared?" he smirked.
"Do I look scared?" she said, putting her hand on her hip.
"Hate to break up the love birds―" Tyler started only to have Silena punch him in the stomach.
"Did she just dent his breast plate?" Sammy said astonishingly.
"Silena does that," Nick said.
"Okay..that hurt...a lot," Tyler said catching his breath.
"No more hurting each other, only the monsters," Seb said to Silena. "Now lets just go in."
We walked in gripping our weapons. It was just an ordinary empty abandoned ware house except for the fact that there was a giant, blue, spray painted, triangle on the back wall.
"Wait," Tessa said. She pulled off her backpack from her shoulder a weird laptop. I never seen this laptop before, but I have seen pictures of it before in the Athena cabin. She pointed to the symbol on the surface of the laptop. "That's a delta, but also the symbol of Daedalus," Tessa started.
"But that would mean. This would be," Nick continued.
"The entrance to the Labyrinth," Ava finished.
SEE THEY ALL HAVE SOME ANNABETH IN THEM, AND I DIDN'T PUT ANY A/N'S IN THERE SO HERE THEY ALL ARE AT THE END.
-AVA DIDN'T HAVE A BAD CHILDHOOD LIKE ANNABETH, NUT SHE DID GO THROUGH A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE.
-TESSA IS NOT NAMED AFTER ANYONE WHO DIED, AND I KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO WANT IT TO BE BIANCA, BUT THAT IS BEING SAVED FOR LATER.
-SEB IS SEBASTIAN AND TY IS TYLER. YOU PROBABLY GOT THAT. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT ONLY HALEY, AVA, SEBASTIAN, AND TYLER CALL EACH OTHER THAT.
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