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Annabeth

Looming up in front of her was the statue. It was about 50 feet tall, covered in a sheet of gold molded to look like a robe. The statue looked so much like Athena that Annabeth expected it to bend down and start talking to her, like her real mother would. It shone with power, glowing a gold/silver colour and lighting up the room a little.

Annabeth took a step forward, her eyes riveted on Athena's face.

In the shadows, there was slight movement and for a moment, small whispers rose up around Annabeth.

She whipped around, holding her knife out in front of her and all at once the whispers stopped and the darkness retreated.

Looking around cautiously one more time, she walked up to the statue and sat at its base, under the folds of stone fabric.

"Annabeth Chase..." A voice hissed, making her jump.

"Yes, a fine girl," hissed another.

"To eat!" A throaty voice yelled, and there were short bursts of hissing from around the room, which Annabeth assumed was laughter. From spiders. Maybe Arachne.

"I'm not going to be eaten by anyone here! Now, where is Arachne? I will only talk to her."

"My dear, I'm right here. And don't worry, I'm sure you'll taste delicious in the jaws of my children," a sickly sweet voice came from the wall of shadows and a large round form emerged.

Annabeth shuddered and told herself not to panic. "Come out from the shadows, Arachne. Or are you too scared of the statue?"

The monster hissed. "Annabeth, dear, you know I wouldn't really hurt you. After all, your mother only turned me into a spider because I was too selfish. That's it – do you really think that I've harboured a grudge all these years?"

Yes, thought Annabeth, but she didn't say anything. "Come out, into the light, where I can see you," she repeated, hoping that she could at least get a glimpse of what sort of horrible thing she would have to kill.

Arachne obeyed this time.

Annabeth's heart missed a beat, and then started pounding harder than it ever had before. She gulped. Arachne had a spider's body with a head that was half-woman half-monster – a woman's face, with a tight brown bun, but her eyes were wide and lidless, making them look stretched and inhuman. She had tiny sets of eyes on the side of her head, and the sides of her face bristled with short fur outlining her face.

"Well? Are you surprised by my appearance, darling?" Arachne hissed, laughing.

"No," Annabeth managed to say, trying to calm herself and forcing herself not to shrink back from the horrible beast.

The laughing started again. "Well, my dear, I suppose that that's a good thing. If you aren't at all scared, that means we can kill you without you giving us problems."

"I won't be killed."

"Oh, so we will have problems then, honey?" Arachne narrowed her eyes. "Well, in that case..."

All of the other spiders suddenly started to crawl forward and Annabeth tried not to throw up.

"Stop!" She had to think of something. Something, something, anything...what were spiders scared of?

She realized the answer was above her head.

"Stop!" She repeated, trying to make herself sound more confident than she felt. "This statue...if you try to harm me, this statue will come to live and destroy you, with every last one of your children," Annabeth said, looking Arachne right in the eye. "Athena will protect me."

Arachne growled, sending spider-saliva flying everywhere. "We know this is a lie, Annabeth Chase. We have eaten many children of Athena before and the statue has not done so much as to blink!"

"Yes, well...that's because they didn't do enough to earn her respect," said Annabeth, praying to all the gods that Percy would get here and save her. She doubted that her mom would actually come to save her in the statue.

"And how should we believe you? Children of Athena are known for their tricks." Arachne said, but despite her words scuttled backwards a bit.

"I bet that's because they didn't save Olympus, or help retrieve Zeus' lightning bolt, or outsmart the witch Circe, or travel through the Sea of Monsters, or redesign Mount Olympus, or..."

Annabeth was interrupted by a small spider, which crawled suddenly from the doorway and over to its mother. It made a series of sounds, and then disappeared again.

Arachne turned back to her and snarled. "A large boat has come...maybe your enemies, but quite possibly your friends. I can't risk you getting the statue." With that said, she shot threads of strand towards Annabeth before she could even blink, and in a second, she was completely tied up with strands of silk. She tried wiggling, but she could barely move her fingers.

She gasped and fell down, hitting her head on the ground, turning her vision red for a few moments.

In those few moments Arachne had her grabbed with two of her legs and was crawling off towards Zeus-knew-where.

She tried to keep herself calm and reassured, but that was a feat near impossible. She knew it was impossible to escape – enough spider thread was stronger than metal but flexible at the same time. She still had her knife, but there was no way that she could escape before the spider put new strands of web around her again.

They entered a new room, and Annabeth's head banged against the hard rock floor again, and she cried out in pain.

Arachne hissed menacingly, and before she knew it, another strand was around her mouth.

Annabeth blinked hard and breathed heavily through her nose. It didn't help though – she started feeling claustrophobic, and tears started running down her face before she could stop them. They fell from her face and splattered against the floor.

Arachne started scrambling up a ramp, knocking Annabeth's head against several more times, each time Annabeth crying out silently, more and more tears falling to the ground.

Finally, they arrived in another large cavern, and once again Arachne banged Annabeth's head against the ground, but this was the hardest time yet.

The last thing Annabeth heard before passing out was Percy's voice, yelling "Annabeth! Annabeth, I'm here!"

Like it? Hate it? I know, this would never happen and I'm sorry if Arachne's description is too much like the one in the real MOA, but it's really hard to have something else!