(A/N Hi, I have edited the last chapter a fairly large amount on march 18th 2020 if you read it before then you might want to read it again to know the changes if not go ahead and read this, hope you enjoy)
Percy
A big buff guard with blocked sinuses.
The next thing I knew, was waking up on my bed with the taste of my mum's chocolate chip cookies in my mouth and a glass of nectar next to me. I sat up and found Annabeth perched on the side of my bed with her head in her hands. "What's the matter," I asked.
"It's just I went to Olympus last night and it was still there." She turned her head to look at me.
"It wasn't destroyed was it, Chiron said Olympus moves from time to time."
"Olympus moves with western civilization according to Chiron when it moved to America it was almost a year before people knew it had moved, let alone where it had gone."
"Wait, you said you were seeing an old friend last night, who was it." I realized she probably didn't want to tell me. "Fine, I'm going to go get something to eat." I wanted to fight with her but I have tried that and it never ended well for either of us.
"You might not want to do that."
"Why." I turned my head to look at her again.
"Your parents don't know we're here."
"So you're telling me you broke into my house rather than just knocking and explaining," without meaning to I glared at her like she was my sworn enemy.
"I didn't want them to worry, nor did I want to fuss them with a bed for me." she glared back.
"Wait so where did you sleep," I continued my glare without blinking, "Because you couldn't have slept on the couch you know my mum wakes up every night." It has been slightly better since Paul had been in the house but still, every night I am gone she wakes up makes a cup of tea and then goes back to bed. My mind started to panic if she hadn't slept on the couch the only other option would have been on my desk chair or my bed if she did, this day would not start well (again for either of us). I hated people even sitting in my chair at the other option would be really awkward.
"I didn't sleep, and your mum didn't wake up last night," she stood up, and my mind decided to run away and think about who was taller (which was me for once).
"One, that's almost more awkward and two are you telling me that subconsciously she knows that we're here." She nodded slowly; I looked at my watch. "Uh oh, we've got twelve minutes before she's up and has realized what has happened and Paul's already awake. If my mum finds us we will be in big trouble, so how did you get in?"
"I stole your key."
"Okay."
"I think we will have to get Paul to convince your mum that she woke up last night and just forgot."
"Hmmm, Paul is a terrible liar: even I can tell he's lying, and my mum has a calendar to track every night she wakes up, oh and she's never half asleep. Are Blackjack and Porkpie still here."
"No, they flew back if they stayed the polluted air would've raked their wings."
"In two minutes when Paul's program finishes he will go make breakfast. That gives us about ninety seconds of on and off run time. His view of us will be blocked when he: looks in the fridge, crouches for a bowl and pours his cereal.."
Annabeth had this cool round-the-corner scope thingy so we could see exactly when Paul opened the fridge. At the exact same time, he opened the fridge we opened my door, ran and slide under the table. Using the side sight we knew when he crouched for his bowl. At that moment I ran and crouched behind the side of the couch while Annabeth hid behind the coat rack (yes, it had coats on it). Then when he went to pour his cereal we both ran to the door and Annabeth used my key (which she hadn't given back to me) to get us out. We ran straight down the stairs, out of the building and down the street.
Once we had run for like 3 minutes straight I stop to talk to her.
"I don't think he will find us. We need a plan," I said, panting like a dog "and…, it can't involve running to find Olympus."
"Okay, we're not too far from the Empire State building we could walk there and then use your car." She said handing me the keys.
"Okay, but what do we do after that," I said trying to keep up with Annabeth.
"Well if Olympus moved then probably camp did too."
"What about Rachel, does the Oracle move with them."
"I'm not sure, I think we should try to contact Artemis"
"Do you have a drachma left."
"Nah I left them at my house, you?"
"I'm out, I used my last one to contact you.."
"Okay, let's drive to Rachel's school and see if she's there"
We got to my car and started driving to Rachel's school..
We drove for a while, (I lost track of time) until we reached Rachel's school. We got in easily and snuck into a closet and hid until the end of the lesson. When everyone walked past we pulled Rachel into the closet. "Ahhhhh, what are you guys doing here." Rachel said startled.
"Shhhh, we need your help," I said
"Why?" She whispered curiously.
"Olympus has moved and we're not sure where it has gone."
"Okay, how are we going to escape."
"Escape. You say that like we can't go out the way we came."
"Nope," she replied fiddling with her dress. "it's a one-way door you need a key to get out." Then I heard footsteps and the closet door flung open
"What do you think you are doing miss," said a lady with a posh dress and a very prim and proper accent, "and who are these little fiends."
"They… uh… they are my... uh." she faltered and couldn't think of an excuse.
"Please miss Dare how many times do I have to tell you to use your words." The lady said whilst dragging (not literally) us to what looked like a dungeon. We got thrown into a stone room that I think represented a prison cell.
"Oh, well done 'miss Dare' don't worry we're not going to get caught if you shout as loud as you can, we'll be just fine," Annabeth said in an angry and sarcastic tone.
"Hey if you didn't lose Olympus we wouldn't be in this mess." Shouted Rachel, she stepped forward and grew to her full height (which was taller than Annabeth's).
"Alright, that's enough, break it up." I interrupted and put my hands between them and pushed them apart to stop them from actually fighting.
"Shut up Percy." They said at the same time. They thrusted me to the side, I hit the wall and fell to the floor.
Slightly dazed I got up and ran over to the bars and shouted. "Guard come quick please I can't take this, please move me to a different cell."
"Sorry bud, this is a girls-only school so we can't have a boy on their own in a cell," he said with sincere sympathy in his eyes. I thought that was a weird policy, you would expect it to be the boy can't be in the same cell as a girl but I just thought of a plan that would work a lot better.
"Fine can I take the redhead with me," I replied really hoping Annabeth wouldn't get too mad.
"Yep." He took out his gun and shot us all with tranq darts.
when I woke up I was in a slightly different cell with Rachel. I stood up and couldn't see Annabeth and decided she must have been in a different room altogether.
Rachel started to wake up, she stood up and realized Annabeth wasn't here.
"Where's Annabeth, why is she not with us?" She asked looking confused.
"I have a plan but it would never work with you two fighting,"
she pulled a face at me like they weren't fighting but they were about to physically fight.
"As I was saying we just have to wait like five minutes and then all you have to do is play dead, and I will take care of the rest."
"I guess it could work, just please for once be a good liar."
"I'll try."
We sat and waited. We had been there for about two minutes when Rachel heard something, "quick he's coming." she said lying down in her position.
"He's here too early," I said, starting to get flustered.
"It'll be fine, just start shouting," she whispered quietly.
"Guard, come quick!" the guard came rushing in. "I think she's dead, she hasn't woken up yet."
"she'll be fine. If you want her awake just through some water on her." He said looking at the toilet then he threw me a cup.
I picked up the cup and walked over to the toilet. I really didn't want to do this. Then I had a thought, I could try to move the water when it falls so it doesn't hit Rachel. I scooped up some water and crouched down next to her. I put my hand on her shoulder and muttered to myself
"Um, Poseidon, dad yeah you know how I don't get wet like the water doesn't touch me could the same thing happen for this mortal." It still felt weird calling Poseidon 'dad'. I started to pour the cup of liquid and willed it not to affect Rachel. When I realized it had worked I began making myself cry, (I cried enough as a kid it is kind of muscle memory now).
"See it didn't work, she's dead, quick help!" I said loudly as I turned, now fully sobbing.
"Do you think I care," he said, starting to turn away.
"About your job and money, yes I think you do care," he turned back at me, not even caring that I had stopped crying. "What will your boss will think if your number one source of income is dead and it was on your watch?"
He looked at me intently like he was still trying to keep up. Then he must've got it because he grabbed his key and opened the door. I looked at the water stuff and then stared at his nose, mouth and eyes, the liquid followed my eye line straight into his sinuses.
I gave Rachel a hand up and we ran. I completely forgot to steal the key but luckily Rachel remembered and grabbed it. We ran down a few corridors and eventually found Annabeth, Rachel chucked me the key and I unlocked the cell.
"Quick, a big buffed guard has probably unblocked his sinuses by now," I said, purposely trying to be annoying and confusing. We ran down the hallways and into the main room, I stopped, the entrance door right in front of me but we didn't have the key.
"How big is the guard?" Annabeth asked in a rushed voice.
"He's pretty big, why?" I replied.
"Quick stand in front of the door," We did. "When he runs at us we dive to the side at the last second.
"So like what you do against the minotaur?" I understood her plan.
"Exactly."
The guard came rushing around the corner and then saw us. He changed direction to face us and charged.
"On my signal," said Annabeth checking we were ready. "Now." Annabeth dived to the right.
I grabbed Rachel's arm and dived the other way. The guard couldn't stop in time and broke down the door getting knocked out. We ran through the whole and over the wooden chunks. We got to the car and jumped in, me in the front and the two girls in the back.
After about twenty minutes of driving around the city, I found a parking lot.
"So, what are we going to do now, we can't just drive around for the rest of our lives," I said, turning around to look at the others.
"Well, if Olympus moves with western civilization then, England." Rachel said looking almost proud of herself.
"Okay, but then how are we going to get there, Percy can't fly," Annabeth said challenging Rachel.
"Oh yeah, how about by boat we can steal one of my dad's" replied Rachel looking sympathetic.
"Here you know where it is, you can drive," I said getting out of the car.
After a few moments of relaxing, I fell asleep.
(A/N sorry for the extremely long update time I hopefully will have the next one checked and edited soon. As I have said before I am always open for constructive criticism, so favourite, follow and review please. I'll see you in the next chapter)
