Hey, I'm back! Sorry its been so long.
I just wanted to say that this is a side project, so I'll only update whenever I'm free and feel like it so sometimes it takes months (sorry I have a thing with procrastination), there's no schedule, sorry.
Also, I want to give a warning that the story might just discontinue at any time but I try not to let it happen. I have a lot of procrastination issues, alright and I get distracted easily. But since we are all in quarantine, I have a lot more time now. Also I changed the summary because it was not fitting with the story.
Update: one of the reviews said that Annabeth has a sword now and let's just pretend the gods gave her back her dagger as a reward or something because Annabeth with a sword is just plain weird. Heck, Viria's art of Annabeth has her dagger. Also if there's any continuation error from the canon series like Annabeth's sword, I apologise because it's been a while since I read the books. I'm just relying on google and my memory, so pls inform me if there's any error. I've only just re-read the Red Pyramid, and planning to re-read the rest.
Now, on with the story!I
Disclaimer: I obviously do not any of the series.
P E R C Y
10 minutes in and Percy was already feeling bored. He loves Annabeth but he really does not love museums, sorry wise girl.
They were in the Roman section and Annabeth is talking about some random artefact while Calypso was telling Leo the real truth behind some of the artefacts in the aisle nearby. Now, normally he would join Leo and listen to Calypso's stories (and boy, were they wild!) but Annabeth really wanted him to stay with her and Percy can't possibly say no.
"You're so whipped, man," Leo had said while laughing uncontrollably. Annabeth and Calypso had then narrowed their eyes at him in unison. "And you aren't?" Annabeth scoffed. Calypso had only raised her eyebrows as Leo looked down sheepishly which had then been Percy's turn to laugh.
Anyway, Percy was still feeling bored and so, he turned around, looking for something to do when he spotted that school group at the doorway of the section they were in.
Noise gradually filled in the section as the students neared where they were, their shadows creating a massive dark patch on the ground with some shadows sticking out.
Heh, Nico would definitely love that.
Percy took some time to study the school group since he had nothing to do anyway and Annabeth was far from done, when he spotted a few familiar faces.
"Is that... Lacey and... what the Hades...Drew?!" he muttered to himself in shock.
Lacey seemed to have felt his eyes on her because she suddenly looked up from her museum guide and stared at him in shock. She then waved hesitantly as Percy waved back.
Well, looks like he found out where Lacey and Drew go to school now. He didn't know they went to school together though.
Drew seemed to have seen Lacey waving at someone because she was smiling fakely at him now. Once Percy met Drew's eyes, her smile dropped and a sneer took its place. Percy glared back, making Drew sniff and flip her hair, turning back around to talk to her friends.
Urgh, Drew never change even after Piper took her down a few pegs.
He was about to turn back to Annabeth, when he saw a blonde girl with streaks in her hair narrowing her eyes at him. She was next to Lacey and seemed to be Lacey's friend. Percy didn't give it much thought, Lacey's friend must have been curious as to who he is since Lacey knew him.
He then refocused his attention on Annabeth when a large explosion-like sound came from beside the museum, slightly shaking the ground.
S A D I E
When Sadie first step foot in the museum, she knew she was gonna be bored. Please, she lived through some of these stuff!
If they were in the Egyptian section, she might have been a bit more interested since she could laugh about it with the others. But nooo, they had to start in the Roman section.
To make matters worse, Drew could not stop...well, being Drew which is basically insulting each and every one.
Sadie was slowly growing even more bored as the teacher started to explain the stories behind some artefacts. And she didn't even have the other magicians with her to entertain her!
The rest were in different tour groups in various parts of the museum, and just her luck, she was stuck by herself.
She turned to Lacey, hoping Lacey could talk to her or really, do anything. She was too bored to be picky. However, Lacey's attention was on something else.
Sadie looked over to see what had caught Lacey's eye. Some random guy was waving to Lacey and Lacey was waving back! Sadie's curiosity sparked. Who is that?
Sadie was about to ask Lacey when she noticed Drew sneering at the guy and the guy glaring back. Woah, both Drew and Lacey knew this guy? Seriously, who is he?
And the guy was glaring at Drew which Sadie silently applauded the guy for doing so. Turns out he doesn't like Drew either, she could vibe with that.
"Hey Lacey, who was that you just waved to?"
"Oh, urm, just a guy from summer camp," Lacey replied hesitantly, averting her eyes from Sadie.
Sadie knew Drew and Lacey went to the same summer camp, so both of them knowing this guy was not a lie. So why did she get the feeling that Lacey was hiding something?
Sadie narrowed her eyes at the guy. Now that she thought about it, there is something weird about the guy, but she could not quite put a finger on it. All she knew was that the guy felt wrong. And weirdly enough, that wrong feeling felt familiar.
Before she could dwell on it any longer, a huge sound came from outside, seemingly next to the museum. It sounded like a huge explosion and Sadie mentally groaned in her head. What is with them and explosions at museums? They really have to stop doing this.
Sadie felt Lacey stiffened next to her and saw the guy and a blonde girl next to her immediatedly standing up in alert. Now that were some unusual reactions right there, usually people start panicking and screaming.
As she tried to find the other magicians, she could hear the teacher telling everyone not to panic and trying to evacuate everyone out of the museum.
Drew started whispering to Lacey about something like 'they can handle it' and how they don't need to do anything. And Lacey seemed to visibly relax at this.
First off, Drew whispering to Lacey was alarming and what were they talking about? Who can handle it?
In the corner of her eye, she spotted Carter and Zia's tour group at the other end of the room. It would be in no time that they will reach where she is. Sadie followed her teacher out before slipping out of the group and running back to the exhibit near the window.
Sadie then turned her attention back to where the explosion came from, which seemed to be right outside the museum window. But they were on the third floor, whatever caused that explosion must have been big to reach all the way to the third floor. She could even feel the ground shaking!
Weirdly enough, the guy, the blonde girl and two other people - a boy with curly brown hair and is that a toolbelt? -and a pretty girl with her caramel hair in a braid, were slowly edging towards the window.
They seemed to have seen what was down below as the guy smiled and told the other three people something which caused Toolbelt Boy and Girl with Braid to leave.
"Sadie, what in Ra's name happened?" Zia demanded, with Carter following close behind.
"Explosions, duh. Did you expect anything else? Somehow, every single time we are in a museum, something happens. Why? Just why?" Sadie said exaperatedly.
"That's it. I'm never going to museums ever again, you can't make me," Sadie huffed as Zia rolled her eyes, dragging her and Carter nearer the window.
"Wait, who are they?" Carter asked, furrowing his eyebrows while pointing at the guy and the blonde girl.
"Don't know. All I know is the guy's from Lacey's summer camp and they are weird," Sadie replied.
Sadie was about to march over to the window to check what was happening when Zia pulled her back and motioned for them to stay quiet and keep their distance.
"What was that for?" Sadie hissed.
"We don't know who they are. Might be dangerous," Zia said, narrowing her eyes at them.
"What-"
"She's right, Sadie. Besides, it doesn't hurt to be safe than sorry," Carter said.
Of course, leave it to Carter to side with his girlfriend. Honestly, they were never going to find out what happened at this rate.
Suddenly, Toolbelt boy and Girl with Braid were back with another guy who was dressed in all black with an aviator jacket and had a striking resemblance to Anubis.
Zia pulled them in a crouch behind a wall. Sadie tried to listen in on the five weirdos' conversation but all she could make out was Aviator Guy saying, "spirits escape...dad sent me...this museum...cursed object...retrieve...fake..."
Judging by the look on Carter and Zia's face, they could not make out what they were saying either. However, Zia looked to be in deep thought like she was debating something.
Before Sadie could dwell on it further, the guy from Lacey's camp said something inaudible to the group which caused them to leave again, but this time the blonde girl lingered behind for a while before leaving too.
They split up in three different directions, Aviator Guy going one way, Blonde Girl going another way and the last two going another way.
Zia cursed under her breath and jumped up. Before she could say anything, the speaker in the museum blared to life and some lady announced that the explosion was just a leaking gas pipe and that it was safe and no harm was caused.
That was weird... usually it wasn't solved this fast and they still didn't know what caused the explosion.
"Sadie, stay here. Watch that guy. Carter and I will follow the others. Walt, Jaz and the rest should be on the lookout too, they must have felt the explosion. We will inform them about those five people when we see them." And with that, Zia and Carter headed off before Sadie could ask Zia what she was thinking about just now.
This was why Sadie did not like the different tour groups thing. Trouble always seemed to find them and it is way better to stick together.
But you can't do that when Walt and Jaz was on the fourth floor, Alyssa and Julian on the first floor and her on the third floor. She didn't even know where the others like Sean, Cleo or Felix could be.
Sadie turned her attention back on the guy and he seemed to be checking out some artefact. He was twirling a pen in his hand and could not stop fidgeting. Gods, this guy seemed to be getting weirder and weirder. And he just feels so wrong.
Sadie wasn't sure what the guy was up to, but it was surely nothing good. First, the weird not-explosion explosion, now he's fiddling with his pen and glancing around.
Huffing in irritation, Sadie lowered her eyes into the duat, the weird symbols around the guy made her gasp. Who was he? Definitely not a normal mortal with those symbols. Whatever, he's on her radar now-
How could some random mortal have symbols like that? It looked foreign- words that were in another language were swirling around him, that seemed to be pulsing with some sort of power, one she didn't recognise and she has seen a lot.
Sadie decided to get closer, pretending to check out some artefact while slowly analysing the guy.
What could he be? Definitely not a normal monster, she would have recognised the symbols. But besides that, what else could he be? Sadie didn't know any other option.
Was Lacey and Drew involved? After all, they knew this guy. And now that she thought about it, she got that wrong feeling when she first met Lacey and Drew but it was much fainter than this guy's. No wonder the feeling felt familiar and why didn't she ever notice it?
The guy must have felt her staring or something because he glanced in her direction, eyes lit with suspicion. Sadie quickly looked down at the artefact in front of her, waiting for the guy to turn back around.
When Sadie looked up again, she spotted Blonde Girl dragging the guy to the escalator. And hold up- was that a dagger?
True enough, there was a dagger in Blonde Girl's hand. This time Sadie was sure they weren't normal, no one normal would carry a dagger around like that.
All of Sadie's senses were on alert as she she stealthily followed the two not-normal people.
Sadie found herself on the second floor of the museum where the Greek section was and spotted most of the other magicians milling around on the second floor. Turns out she was late to the party.
"Hey Sadie! You know who they are?" Jaz called from behind, gesturing towards the five people. Somehow the other three were here too.
Sadie shook her head fervently. "No, but they aren't normal, so I intend to find out."
Sadie and Jaz made their way over to where Walt and the rest of the magicians were, except... "Where's Zia and my idiot of a brother?"
"They informed us on what's happening and about those five people over there, then they went to the other side of the room. Also, I don't think we should do anything. Anubis keeps warning me not to associate with those five over there. Says we should just go." Walt said.
"Well, tell death boy over there that I do what I want and what I want is to find out what in Ra's name are they up to," Sadie fumed.
"And.. now he's gone completely quiet," Walt muttered.
Hmmph, typical god of toilet paper.
They watched the five for a while more until Aviator Guy gestured at some artefact to the rest. The other four immediatedly went over and swarmed the display.
Sadie decided to go closer to listen in on their conversation. However, she felt Walt's hand on her arm, trying to pull her back. Sadie huffed and shrugged off the hand, hurrying forward before he could drag her back again.
"I think this is it...too many people...replace...tonight," Aviator Guy said to his friends.
Sadie only managed to catch some of it but she was pretty sure they were going to do something to the artefact tonight. Well, she got her wish - guess it's time for another night museum retrieval trip.
P E R C Y
When Percy heard the explosion, he had immediatedly went over to the window, already gripping Riptide tightly in his pocket.
He had expected monsters or something really bad but all he saw was a familiar young boy dressed in all black with an aviator jacket.
Wait a minute- Nico?
True enough, Nico was on the grass patch next to the museum.
Hold up- did Nico cause the explosion?
After Leo and Calypso went down to get Nico, Percy took a good look at Nico which was quite hard since he was 3 floors up.
But even from such a high angle, it was obvious that Nico looked much better. He had a healthy tint to his olive skin, and he did not look quite as deathly pale, skinny or tired anymore. Nico even looked to be much happier.
Oh yes, Percy definitely approved of Will now.
When Leo and Calypso came back with Nico in tow, Annabeth started questioning Nico on what in hades had happened.
"Long story short, when the Doors of Death were opened, a lot of spirits escaped and one of them was a son of Hecate. He was a rogue demigod in Krono's army and he died during that battle too. Anyway, we already captured him but he somehow managed to curse an artifact which happens to be in this museum. Dad sent me here to retrieve it and replace it with this fake," Nico explained.
"Hold on, that does not explain the explosion," Annabeth said, raising her eyebrows.
"Ahh, urm, that might have been my fault. I was trying to send Jules-Albert back. But Will suddenly IM-ed me and I got distracted, accidentally opened up the ground where a gas pipe was and BOOM! Explosion happened. Jules kinda broke apart but I fixed him up though," Nico said sheepishly.
Leo and Percy burst out laughing.
"Hah, wait till I tell Will, he will feel so honoured that you got so distracted by him that you caused an explosion! Gods, you might be even more whipped than lover boy over here," Leo chuckled, grabbing Percy by the sleeve.
Nico rolled his eyes and said, "So are you all going to help find the artefact or not? It's a statue of Hecate, kind of looks like three women in one statue." (A/N: This is real, I think. At least it's what appeared when I searched up 'ancient greek artefacts hecate', it's all a bunch of statues of Hecate.)
"Let's split up, it'll be faster that way. Wise girl, you can take the second floor. Leo and Calypso, take the first floor. Nico, check the fourth floor. I'll stay here and check this floor," Percy said.
Leo, Calypso and Nico nodded and immediatedly headed off. Annabeth lingered behind for a while and said, "Please don't get into trouble."
"When have I ever," Percy smirked. Annabeth just rolled her eyes fondly and headed off.
Percy walked over to the nearest exhibit and started to check out the artefacts for something similar to Nico's description.
He slowly grew even more restless as he checked more and more artefacts that didn't come close to Nico's description. He had ADHD for gods' sake! He can't keep still for very long.
Honestly, he would rather the explosion happen because of a monster, even though there aren't many monster encounters anymore after the war with Gaea. But at least there's some kind of action, way better than checking artefacts all day.
He took out Riptide to try to settle his growing restlessness when he felt someone's eyes on him.
He turned around quickly, eyes lit with suspicion when he spotted the blonde girl that seemed to be Lacy's friend from before. She was looking at an artefact in front of her but Percy knew that she must have been staring at him.
Maybe she was still curious to how Lacey knew him. Hopefully, she wasn't checking him out, Annabeth would be furious. But what can he say, he was everybody's type except Nico, hmmph. ( A/N: Sorry if Percy's a little OOC here. But I really wanted to put that in. Also I didn't want Percy to be that suspicious of Sadie yet. After all, Sadie is only looking at an artefact and Percy is known to be a little bit oblivious, not that that's a bad thing.)
Although now that he thought about it, that girl felt a little off to him. Nah, she's just Lacey's friend. If she was anything other than normal, Lacey and Drew would have told the camp. Okay, maybe not Drew but definitely Lacey.
''Come on, seaweed brain! We found it!" Annabeth cried as she ran up to him with her dagger in one hand. She must have took it out when she went to search for the artifact.
They sprinted off in the escalator's direction and headed towards the second floor.
"It's a pretty cool artefact actually. It's origins date back to the beginning of Ancient Greek civilisation..." Annabeth started to ramble excitedly. (A/N: This fact was made up. Google barely gave me any info) Percy smiled at her fondly, of course Annabeth would know all about a cursed artifact's history.
Percy could only focus on Annabeth. She was so gorgeous, even with the fine sheen of sweat covering her after running around the museum.
And if Percy wasn't so absorbed in Annabeth, he would have noticed the blonde girl - Lacey's friend following close behind them.
They spotted Leo, Calypso and Nico next to an artifact that matched Nico's description exactly. It was a statue of three women in a circle, their backs against a pillar. (A/N: It's pretty hard to describe, just search up 'Hecate's feast statue')
"I think this is it but there's too many people around, and the fake artefact is back in my cabin. I have to come back and replace it tonight," Nico said.
"You? Don't you mean us?" Leo exclaimed.
"It's a simple mission, I can handle it," Nico scowled.
"Come on, Neeks. It'll be fun. No deadlines, no monsters, just breaking into a museum, I don't think I ever broke into a museum to replace an artefact before," Percy exclaimed, slinging an arm around Nico. (A/N: Percy hasn't, right? It's been a while since I last read the books but I don't remember him doing anything like this.)
"And if these two go, we have to go too, to make sure they don't do anything stupid," Annabeth said, pointing at Leo and Percy, Calypso readily agreeing with her.
"Hey!" Leo and Percy protested.
"Fine. You all can come," Nico huffed.
"Then, let's go back to camp. It's already 5pm and the museum closes at 8pm," Annabeth said as they slowly left the museum.
And that's a wRap! I don't know when's the next time I'll post. It might be weeks, months... I just want to say that it might looked like I died like some of the reviews said.
I have not died in fact, this chapter actually took weeks to complete because I kept getting distracted and decide to go read fics, watch youtube etc. instead of writing which isn't very good of me. But well, I only write when I'm in the mood so it depends on whenever I feel like it.
Also this story won't be that adventure-y like quests and wars and stuff cuz' I don't think I can write that. I was thinkin' something more chill like going to explore each other's headquarters etc.
Anyway, hope you guys like this chapter and hopefully it's long enough, not too draggy. I will try to update within the next two months, maybe...no promises.
Bye! Seeya!
-Kelie
