A/N this is a one shot for a series I will be doing called the trials of the three, here is a scene from it that was eating me up so much I had to write it, I don't own Percy Jackson, Rick Riordian does. ]
A loose page flies from the mysterious book and onto the ground, curious, you set the book down next to you on the metal park bench you were sitting on and pick up the page that had fallen. You place the page onto the black cover of the book and put the book in your lap, interested about what the page reads. You begin to read.
"Which cabin do you sleep in at the camp, which table do you eat at camp?" Apollo asked Thalia this question because the blessing of her father did not do the same thing to her as Hades' had for Nico, or my fathers had for me.
"For this to work, you must break your vow Thalia." Artemis looked at her with a painful expression.
"You cannot complete this quest as a hunter." She continued.
"There is no other way." She finally finished. Thalia looked at her lady with an expression that was a mixture of shock and sadness.
"But do not sorrow Thalia, you have not failed me, it just seems it was not meant for you to be with me." She looked down at the ground with a hurt expression.
"There has to be another way for this to work, right?" I desperately asked Artemis, not wanting Thalia to have to break her sacred oath, Ironic since I had tried everything to try to get Bianca not to take the oath.
Artemis looked at me and shook her head.
"What must I do?" Thalia looked at Artemis.
"You must break your vow, by falling in battle or falling for men." Artemis looked at me and then her.
"And how do I do that?" she said in a minor panic, like she didn't want to know the answer. I was in equal panic as there were only Me, Nico, and Grover as candidates and I was the most obvious choice.
"The easiest way is with…" she paused and looked down with her eyes shut tight.
"A kiss." She finished, still looking down with shut eyes. Thalia looked down at the ground and I spoke up.
"Can't you just remove the enchantment?" Artemis looked at me.
"I am afraid I cannot do that young Perseus, the hunters pledge themselves to me for eternity, I cannot break that, they must."
Thalia looked up and towards Nico then towards me. I could feel myself blush as she slowly walked towards me with a sorrowful expression, she started fighting back tears as she walked however. She finally shut her eyes and ran towards Annabeth. She looked up, a few tears now falling. I was genuinely shocked to see her cry, Thalia NEVER cried.
"Annabeth I." Her tears falling. Annabeth shushed her with just as sad an expression. She pulled Thalia into a hug, she held her tight while I looked towards Nico, he had a pale and sad expression as he stared at me, I didn't know why he was upset, I was the one about to have to kiss Thalia, in front of every Olympian, including her father, and Artemis who both may want to kill me afterward. I looked back towards the pair and they had parted from their hug. Thalia wiped the tears from her eyes as the two of them joined hands. Annabeth walked her towards me with an unreadable expression. as the two finally stood in front of me, Annabeth put Thalia's hands on mine as she quickly left. I was about an inch or two taller with her hair lining up with my eyes. I was about to call her back but Thalia spoke first.
"Percy I understand If you don't want to do this, I know I'm asking a lot of you." She said as she looked at me. I noticed a silver light in the electric blue of her eyes.
"Hey hey, It's okay." I tried to figure out what to say and Aphrodite looked at me. She winked at me and I finally found the words.
"I wouldn't want you to do this with someone you didn't feel comfortable with." I honestly didn't know where those words came from but I assume Aphrodite was involved. Thalia's sorrowful expression faded as she locked eyes with me, the color of her eyes shinning in the light. This was just as hard on me as it was her, not to mention THE MOST AWKWARD THING I HAVE EVER DONE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!
She hugged me and I hugged her in response, trying to comfort her, I was about to take away the most important thing in her life from her and I didn't know what to do, I think she was trying to comfort me. As we parted I looked towards the Gods, Aphrodite looked like she was enjoying the whole thing, Zeus had a fixed glare at me but he nodded as he shut his eyes and looked down, and Artemis had left the hall. I knew Zeus would never let me live after this if it weren't for the particular line of the prophecy which read: Denial shall bring the crowns death, The God's at last draw final breath.
She took up my hands with her own as we held them together. I looked at her, this time seeing the beauty in her features; her brilliant eyes, her raven hair, and the softness of her cheeks. She locked eyes with me as I suddenly felt the eyes of everyone in the room on me, I started to get nervous when Thalia tightened her grip on my hands and my attention snapped back to her. I saw something in her eyes that wasn't recognizable, and it looked like it didn't belong with the light in her eyes, it worried me.
She started to lean closer to me and my heart raced, thoughts whipped through my head faster than lightning. She closed her eyes as she drew closer only an inch away. I couldn't move, I could've panicked, when suddenly everything faded away. I closed my eyes as I felt Thalia's soft lips on mine. All the eyes staring at me, the thoughts in my head, and all the tension in the room disappeared; there was only the two of us. I could only describe this feeling like a breathing fire in my chest, it was like there was a light in my heart, I didn't want this feeling to end, so I didn't part away. Thalia let go of my hands and wrapped them around my neck, deepening our kiss. I reflected that display of affection by wrapping my arms around her waist. We stayed like that for what felt like a minute before we finally parted.
I looked into her electric blue eyes, they lost that silver light they had before, and the glow around her had vanished; despite probably being a cruel opinion, I liked the change.
We untangled ourselves as Thalia walked towards her father, the father which I had most definitely upset very greatly. Zeus rose with his master bolt and began to speak in his thundering voice.
"Thalia Grace, the pride of my house, I hereby bless thee with all the might of my realm! This time, electricity crackled all around her as her eyes glowed blue, but just as quickly as it happened it stopped. She immediately looked back at me, she looked at me as if asking me what to do, I might be clueless but that much was certain. I looked at Annabeth who apparently had been staring at me the whole time with the same unreadable expression, this time with furrowed brows. I looked back at Nico who had that same pale and sad expression but wors; I still had no idea why he was like that. I decided to break the silence and say something.
"I know that was a lot." I began.
"Understatement." Thalia interrupted with a smirk. We briefly exchanged looks before I continued.
"We should probably get going, we still have a while before New Year's but we should make some ground. I spoke trying to sound casual so everyone would feel better about the extremely awkward moment a few minutes ago.
"He's right, for once." Annabeth spoke up, with an edge in her voice. I looked at her but she had already started to leave. I sighed as Thalia punched my shoulder.
"Ow! What the heck!" I looked back at her completely surprised as that had come out of no where.
"Come on Kelp Head, if you can't take a hit from me your gonna struggle climbing a mountain." She smirked as I regained composure.
"Just wait till we cross the river Pinecone Face." I smirked as she lifted an eyebrow.
"That a challenge, Seaweed Brain?" She said with the same smirk.
"Maybe it is, Tree Hugger." I responded with the same sarcastic tone she had been using from the start.
"Well I'm sorry to say you will be greatly disappointed with the results, Algea Breath. She said that one with particular emphasis on the name she called me, which raised enough embarrassment to cause a blush.
"Wait what?" I said with mild panic. To which Thalia promptly laughed.
"Haha! I win Jackson!" She smirked at me as she walked ahead. I noticed that the others had already gone ahead so I followed quickly behind her and thought about what just happened. I took a second and exhaled on my hand, it felt like an ocean breeze. I looked at Thalia who was walking ahead and saw she was cheerful, not as upset as I thought she would be. I thought about how she had called out my breath specifically, since we had shared that kiss, she would probably know what my breath was like. As well as the fact that she had pulled me in closer. Did Thalia enjoy that kiss? I couldn't deny the fact that I had. If Thalia enjoyed the kiss, does she like me now?