Chapter 35.
Annabeth
After the wind stops, I see John Smith looking confused. Merlin and Liam took Nine with them, and the mortals will be easily avoided.
It's only John we need to worry about.
"How did you find us?" I demand.
"I can read minds." He says. What if he found out what we were? Oh gods I hope not.
"Not mine though." I state. "I noticed you tried to get in."
"You've got a strong mind. Now, I was only going to fight Merlin, I don't trust her, but you two are only humans. Come with me and I'll make sure you don't get hurt."
"We're not going anywhere with you."
"Hey." Says a girl. I recognise that voice, it sounds like how caramel looks. "I'm looking for my friend, you're not going to take her anywhere, are you?"
Piper comes into view.
"Of course not." John says.
"You're not going to fight us? I really don't want you to."
"Not at all."
"Ready guys? Leo is driving."
We walk past John. Piper's used her charm speak.
As soon as we're out of earshot, Piper commands Leo to drive.
"Let's hit the road!" Leo calls, punching the air before slamming his foot on the gas.
"Where are we going?" Percy asks
"Camp Jupiter." Leo grins
"We can't go there, what if they find out where we are again?" I ask
"What do you mean?"
"John can read minds, that's how he found out where we are. We can't risk leading anyone to Camp Jupiter." I explai
"What? I got an Iris message from Reyna telling us that a Loric girl and Liam arrived, while Piper was away." Leo says
"Wait, a Loric girl? Aren't we driving away from the Loric?" Piper questions
"It'll be Merlin, don't worry about her she doesn't even know what the Greek gods are." Percy shrugs.
"Well, where to then?"
"Somewhere we've never been before." I plan. "Let's get lost so even we don't know where we are."
"On it."
Katy
"Ugh, my back is killing me." Hannah complains, adjusting her backpack.
"You'd think that you'd learn to stop overpacking." Adam laughs.
"Well I don't know how long we'd be gone for." She sighs.
"Thanks for coming with us." He smiles.
"What legacies do you have?" I ask
"Mediumship, telekinesis and resurrection." She says.
"Resurrection?" I whisper. "How in the hell did you figure that out?"
"I killed a fly with my bare hands. A few seconds later my hand glowed green and the fly came back to life."
"Have you ever resurrected a person before?" I ask
"Once. It was a teenage girl. I went to the Mogadorian cave because I wanted to help the Guarde but got lost, and found the body of a teenage girl. I couldn't stop myself." She closes her eyes tight and shakes her head. "Never again."
"What was her name?" I ask.
"I don't know. She was in bad shape. I took her to a hospital and left before she gained consciousness or anyone questioned me."
I feel like the girl I'm talking to is a completely different person to the girl who was yelling 'China' this morning. Her voice is much quieter and she's speaking a lot slower.
"Where are we actually going though? We've been walking round for three hours." Hannah yawns. I realise that she walks with a limp on her right leg. She must be really tired.
"We're going to that hotel I told you about, but this phone is taking us round in circles."
It's cold, dark and we're all tired. Adam freezes and looking around us. Hannah takes out a black whip.
A high pitched scream comes from my right and Hannah disappears.
"Arénes!" Adam yells.
"Where did she go?" I ask, not expecting an answer.
Someone pushes me into Adam and we both hit the floor. I try to get up but somethings weighing me down.
"Well well Well, look what we have here?" I hear.
"Bastard!" I hear, loud and clear.
"So, you're a Guarde?" Hannah demands, cracking her whip which causes sparks to fly.
"Wait, Arénes? Is that really you?" An unfamiliar voice asks
"It's Hannah now." She spits.
"Isn't that your middle name?"
"Yeah, and?"
"You're still alive?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Hannah asks, looking confused. I press myself up. Some guy in black clothing stands above us.
"We thought you were dead."
Nobody says anything.
"Are you ok?" Adam asks, going up to her.
"Yeah, surprised that's all."
"Let's go somewhere private." The guy says
We go to some hotel, and enter a twin room.
"Wait, this is the hotel I was trying to find!" Adam laughs
"Wow."
"Hannah, what's going on?" Adam asks
"Well, I never told you how Master found me." She begins. "Ever noticed how everyone we know who works with him found the organisation during a low point in our lives?"
"You'd have to be to agree to put your life at risk everyday." Adam agrees "but I never thought you, What happened?"
"Well, it was in April," She begins. "I was flying back home from a holiday in Thailand. There weren't enough seats on the plane my family was on so I was separated from the rest of my family. The wing fell off the plane and we nosedived. I hit my head on the side of the plane and the next thing I remember I was out of the plane and in the air. About two minutes later I hit the ground. I'm not sure how I survived that fall but I did. I lost my right eye and this leg is still messed up from the landing. For the first day all I did was lay on the sand. When I realised I was alone, I went looking for food and water. I drank from a river and ate insects. I was so lonely, I began talking to the dead. This caused Master to notice an increase in spiritual activity on the island I was on and check it out for himself. He found me and helped. I had no way to contact anyone, and I couldn't get home so he offered me work. Since then I've been saving every penny to get home."
"Why didn't you go to the authorities? Surely they'd help?" Adam asks
"I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently they've got technology that can detect human Guardes. I didn't want to risk being sent to that Academy so I stay away from all authority."
"You were the only person who's body was never found. To this day whenever we get a phone call Mum hopes it will be that you've been found alive." Jordan tells us. "I can't believe it's been three months since I last saw you."
"Where is Mum? I need to talk, she needs to know I'm safe."
"At home, I came here on a school trip and no mobiles are allowed."
"What a stupid rule." Hannah pouts. "And that doesn't explain why you attacked us! Or that you have legacies!"
"Yeah, why did you attack us?" Adam asks
"Er,"
"You were trying to rob us, weren't you?" Hannah says, not taking her eyes off him
"I haven't done anything like that before, and no, some kids took my wallet. All I remember was that there were three of them and, Well, looked a lot like you two." He says, pointing to me and Hannah. "Look, Arénes."
"I've literally been going by Hannah for the past two years, how hard is it?"
"Easier to pronounce?" He smirks. "Every time you introduced yourself you said something other than Arénes."
"I don't know how people get it first time, it's my own goddamn name."
(An: alright so I tried to type my middle name, Reneé, and auto correct changed it into Arénes and I thought it looked pretty cool. I'm not even sure if it's a real name or not so I've decided that it's pronounced A-ren-es and you roll the R but Arénes can't roll her Rs so that's what she means when she says she can't pronounce her own name and watch Arénes be the name of like some group in the KKK or something like that but yeah.
Also I re read my first story with my friend the other day and my gods it's awful, I don't know how anyone read the entire thing but every other sentence she read had us in tears, It's so bad and so is this one tbh I do the same thing every time I re read it but oh well enjoy)