Hey! So, like I said, I'm trying to go faster in my writing. I really hope that I get back to the pace I was at during summer. Enjoy and review.
"Who is that?" Ashley whispered, but of course, Ares probably heard her. He snorted and crossed his arms. None of us said anything.
"Well?" Ares asked.
"Well what?" I asked. What was he getting at?
"Aren't you going to answer her runt?" He snapped. I folded my arms and had to keep myself from punching him. Like always, his magic was making me restless to pick a fight, but of course I had to keep myself from doing so. If I picked a fight, I might end up getting turned into one of Ares many leather jackets.
I turned to Ashley. "Ashley, this is lord Ares, god of war." I said. "And an immense jerk." I whispered under my breath.
"Excuse me twerp?" He asked, the flames in his red eyes getting brighter.
"You heard me." I said. Annabeth looked at me disapprovingly, but didn't do anything to stop me. She knew it was impossible to stop me from arguing with Ares. It was one of my many talents.
Ares grunted and turned to Thalia. "Hey twigs, your dad gave me something to pass on to each of you. At first, I thought I would keep them, but none of them work for me." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of miniature items.
He handed Thalia a mini lightning bolt. It was about the size of her thumb, and had a metallic tint.
"Um, thanks." She said.
Ares rolled his eyes and snapped his fingers. The bolt grew until it was the size of her arm. She looked at it in awe. "It's one of your dad's lesser bolts. He thought that you could use it." She nodded, still looking at the bolt.
Ares handed Annabeth something small as well. It was tiny and made of celestial bronze. "My knife!" She yelled with a huge smile. It was the biggest one I had seen in days.
Ares moved onto Rachel, and gave her one of her many credit cards. "Zeus saw how all your clothes and un-needed possessions were crushed in that car and dug up the credit card, just in case you need it. Which I know you will."
Then to Ashley. "This is from your mother and Zeus." He handed her a whistle with an owl painted on it. "You blow and it clears the minds of all who hear it except the user. Be careful with it, because friends can be affected."
Nico was next. Apparently Ares was holding off dealing with me until the end. Ares handed him a bone. "What am I? A dog?" He said, obviously angered by the fact that the others got things they could use.
Ares frowned and one of the scars on his face turned into his mouth. "It's a type of compass and tracker in one. Set it on the ground and the sharp point will point North; and if you're looking for something, hold it in your hands and think about the object, yes it has to be an in-animate object, and wait. If it grows cold you're getting further away from it, if it gets warm, your closer." Nico looked at the bone before tucking it into his jacket pocket.
Finally Ares turned to me. Grunted and grabbed my arm before dragging me a few paces away. "Hey! Let go of me!" I said trying to pull away but his big meaty hands were too strong. After dragging me a few paces, he wheeled me around to face him.
"Now your gift is what I wish I could have taken the most. I had even gotten ready to pretend I had lost it, but Zeus told me you already had it." Ares folded his arm. "You have a new power. You can control lightning, but in smaller amounts, and it's not the explosives type, it's a point finger and zap kind." He said.
I pulled out my beanie from my pocket and stuck it on my head, then uncapped Riptide. The beanie changed into Cyclone and I tried the point finger and zap thing at the ground so nobody but Ares and I saw it. It hit the ground and the grass caught fire. I quickly doused it with the water from the air.
I couldn't keep the smile off my face. 'See Zeus, it's not that hard to like me.' I thought.
I heard a rumble from somewhere in the distance, and I quickly apologized in my mind.
"You understand now runt? Good. 'Cause you ain't getting that taken away from you anytime soon and we wouldn't want you zapping people in the anus's when they aren't looking." I nodded. "oh, and one more thing. The only path that will lead you the right way, starts with Sea world." With that, he started to turn gold, so I turned away. When I turned back, he was gone.
I went and joined the rest of the group. They all looked at me as if I just survived a stampede of rhinos.
"What did Ares ask about?" Annabeth asked. "Did he threaten you with your own life?"
"No, actually he just gave me some information that might help. He said that the next part of the quest starts at the only place on the planet that stars a giant killer whale."
"Sea World?" Ashley asked.
"Yep." I said. Then I started to walk off down the road.
"Where are you going?" Thalia asked.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm going to Sea World. I'm ready for this quest to end and the faster that we travel, then the less time there is until it's over." I replied. They all started following me.
Everybody was talking about the gifts they got from Ares/Zeus. I, on the other hand was too busy practicing sending little shocks through my hands. It was kind of like the static you got on your hands when you went down the plastic swirly slide at the park, but it wasn't quite as uncomfortable.
"Hey Percy?" Annabeth asked putting a hand on my shoulder. She immediately took it off yelling out in shock. "OW!"
"What happened?" Thalia asked.
"Something shocked me!" Annabeth said.
"By touching Percy?" She asked. Next, of course being the group we were, Nico touched me next while I tried to get my new power under control.
"OW! He shocked me too!"
Then in went downhill from there. Next Ashley tried and then Rachel, but when Thalia tried, she didn't feel anything; but that could have something to do with the fact that she was the daughter of Zeus and she was electricity-proof.
"Why is everybody getting shocked by you Percy?" Annabeth asked.
Nico looked at me suspiciously and I passed him a small nod hoping that he caught it. "I'm not sure. I think it might have something to do with the fact that my clothes are cotton or because Ares was just here." She looked at me.
"Percy. You're lying. You've been lying to me for a few days now. I can tell, and I'm getting tired of it. Just tell me what's going on." I became very distressed in that one moment.
"Annabeth-."
"NO PERCY! Please… just tell me what's going on." She asked in a heartbreaking tone.
"Annabeth… I…can't." I sighed heavily while the others watched on. I took Annabeth's hand and pulled her away from the group so we could talk in private. When I turned back to her, her face was bright red.
"Annabeth, I know you're mad, but please just hear me out… you know that secret that I couldn't tell you back at camp? This is part of the same secret. I can't tell you until the time is right, and that time has yet to come."
"But you will tell me the moment you know it's right? She asked.
"The very first." I promised. She smiled and then something over my shoulder caught her attention. Her face scrunched up into fear.
"Oh my gods." She whispered under breath.
I turned around quickly and saw something with giant hairy black legs coming out of the forest. Here we go again. Please read below.
Please review. For Christmas? And I plan on writing a short one-shot for Christmas for you guys.
