I'm back! Well kind of. I don't know when the next chapter will be here but here you have something. Enjoy!
Tony pov
Annabeth had woken up a few days ago, she hasn´t said a word. She is just an empty shell. We made a schedule who checks in on her at what time. It´s my turn now, I have made some pancakes, I even made them blue, I thought she could appreciate that. I walked into her room, she laid in her bed as usual. "I made pancakes!" I tried to sound excited. She didn't even look up. I put the plate on her nightstand and sighed. "I'll listen if you want to talk. You can talk about whatever you want to talk about, just talk. Please." I begged. No reaction. "I saw you were interested in architecture, do you want to become an architect?" No response, at least I tried. We sat in silence for a couple of minutes. "We don't know what happened, you're the only one who seems to know. Can you please try to explain what happened? Maybe we can find Percy." I really didn't like him but maybe she would talk about Percy. "You can't." I heard a soft reply. "What?"
"Percy is gone."
"How are you so sure?" she was finally talking, I have to keep it that way. "He won't survive," She looked at me. "wherever he is." She added as an afterthought. "Are you sure?" I wondered how she was so sure of herself. "No, well… I don't know where he could be. And he was really distressed when he …" She quietened down. "What do you mean? He's alive?" I asked surprises. "Yeah, at least that's what you said. But I mean," She said as if I was a kindergartener. "that I've never encountered a monster like that, so there could be new monsters. He is taken somewhere that's for sure." She stood up and started to stumble to her door. "Maybe…" She mumbled and almost fell, I caught her. "Slow down, you haven't walked in like a week. Be careful." She started to walk further, I stayed close to catch her if she would fall again. "What were you talking about?" I added. She stopped and her eyes became big. "You don't know do you?" What is she talking about? "Err.. What?" "Get everyone together I need to explain something to you." She started to stumble faster than before. "Jarvis." I looked up. "Already done sir."
We were the last to arrive in the living room. I made sure Annabeth sat comfortable. "So… Why are we here?" Clint asked. "I need to tell you something." Annabeth said. "Do you know about the Greek gods?" "You mean the myths like-"I started. "Yeah." Annabeth interrupted me. "I didn't even say the myths." "No, there's a reason. Names are powerful." She gave me a look.
"All the myths are real. The gods are real, which means that the monsters are real too. Sometimes the gods come down and mingle with mortals. The product of the mingling is a halfblood, or demigod. I'm a demigod, my mom is Athena, goddess of wisdom and war strategy. We, the demigods, need to defend the earth from those monsters. I don't know what that monster was that attacked Percy. Percy is a son of Poseidon, god of water, horses and earthquakes and he is one of the big three. Demigods have a smell which monsters use to find us, so they can attack us and get back at the gods, as they can't attack the gods. Percy has a stronger smell and he is the most powerful demigod of the century. He was the leader in both wars, he has made a lot of enemies. So it could be anyone who took him."
"Wait, what? You expect us to believe that the Greek myths are real?" I asked. "Yes. Any other questions?" Annabeth looked around the Avengers. "How is it possible we don't know about them?" Natasha asked. "The Mist. The Mist is a veil that keeps the mortals from knowing about them. It hides the whole Greek world. Although there are mortals who can see through the Mist, they are called clear sighed. You have probably never heard of them because most of them end up in psychiatric homes because no one believes them." She looked around again as if expecting a question. Bruce spoke up. "You kept saying mortals, aren't you mortal?"
"That depends. I am part god but we don't live longer than regular mortals. We probably live shorter." Annabeth replied. "What? You live shorter? Why?" I asked. "Monsters kill most demigods, sometimes even before they know the truth about their parentage." She said monotone. "How old are most demigods?" Steve asked slowly. "I'm the oldest." Steve looked disturbed, everyone did. "How are you still alive?" Clint asked. "There's two camps for demigods, one roman and one greek. I go to the Greek camp. The camps are protected by a magical border. We get trained to kill monsters so we can survive." "Where are those camps?" Natasha asked as if it was an interrogation. "I rather keep it a secret, as I don't know you well enough yet." She looked around daring anyone to go against her. Steve looked like he wanted to ask a question, just as he dismissed his question Annabeth seemed to notice him. "Steve? Do you still have a question?" She asked. "No. Well, um. So if the Greek, Roman and Norse goods are real-"Annabeth interrupted. "And Egyptian." "- Alright. So there are so many gods does- um –does God exist?"
"I honestly don't know. It is pretty plausible though. I mean so many gods exist why wouldn't God be real. There's no proof that he's fake." Her voice became more genuine. "Alright, any last questions?" "You said Percy led both wars? How is that possible?" I asked remembering her talking about Percy. "Well the first war was against Kronos, titan of time, on Percy's 16th birthday. And the other against Gaea, primordial of earth, and the Giants was somewhere around the 1st of august. So Percy fought in two wars in a year. I fought in it too, but Percy centred most prophecies." She stated. "Prophecies?" I questioned "Yes. I'm done with talking about this. You can ask later when Percy's here."
"You said you could help me find and save Percy. What can you do?" She looked at us expecting an answer. We stayed silent. "What. Can. You. Do?" When we still didn't answer she glared at us. She sighed. "Alright, let's try something else." She said it as if she was some sort of therapist. "When Percy got… away? You came right? Who are you exactly?" "Excuse me?" I yelped. "You haven't heard of the Avengers?" She slowly shook her head. "You lived with us all that time and you never even knew who we were?" She nodded. "What? Why? How? I don't-"I kept on rambling. "Tony," Natasha's said sharply. "sit down." I didn't even know that I stood. I sat down quickly. "Couldn't you have searched it online or something?" Natasha asked.
"I can't, it's basically a beacon for monsters to come and kill us. And I was busy with other things." I started to speak up when Annabeth interrupted me. "So, who are you?" "I'm the amazing Iron Man!" I yelled. "Yeah, that says a lot." The sarcasm dripped of her voice. "I didn't know you were sarcastic." Clint said surprised. "Yeah, I've spend too much time with Percy to not be fluent at sarcasm." She looked back at me. "So, Iron Man, what do you do?" "I'm a superhero." She snorted. "You are one? Yeah sure. What is your power than?" She looked expectantly. "I have suit made from nitinol which has a lot of weapons in it."
"Show me."
"Not here, not in the living room. Let's go to the training room." We all rose and went to the elevator. Once there, I activated my suit and showed Annabeth what I could do. She seemed (slightly) impressed. When I landed, I opened my face mask and smiled. "Impressed?" The team rolled their eyes. "Convinced is a better word. Steve what do you do." She dismissed me, me! And I'm sure as hell she is super impressed. I got out of my suit and stood next to Bruce. Steve had grabbed his shield. "I am Captain America. I got the super soldier serum in the 1940's so I could fight in the Second World War." Steve introduced himself. "I know some people like you." Annabeth noted. "Really? Other people got the super soldier serum? I thought I was the only one." Steve asked surprised "No, people form the 1940's" She stated as if it was an obvious fact. "Can you show what you can do?" Steve nodded, still slightly distressed about the fact Annabeth knew people out of time, just like him. He threw some punches at a robot, he also threw his shield to show all his skills, while explaining them. "The serum makes me have a better physique, so I'm faster, stronger and I heal faster than normal people." He was done in a couple minutes.
"Natasha, you're up." Annabeth said. Natasha walked in front of us. "I'm the Black Widow. I'm a master assassin and a spy." She then battled a different robot. She completely destroyed it. "Nice, you seem to be able to battle with a lot of different weapons. I like that." Natasha nodded and stood next to Clint. He changed spots with Natasha. "I'm Hawkeye and am basically the same as Natasha, the difference is that I can shoot and always hit bullseye." He demonstrated by grabbing his bow and an arrow and shooting at the shooting range 50 yards away and hitting bullseye. He walked back to his spot. As Thor was still at Asgard, it was Bruce's turn. The last one. He walked slowly to the middle of the group. "Well, um, I am the Hulk." Annabeth looked questioningly at him. "I become a big green monster when I'm angry." He seemed very uncomfortable. "Aren't you also a scientist regarding biochemistry?" "Yeah." He seemed surprised. "How did you know that but not anything about the Avengers?" I asked confused. "I have some siblings who love the research Dr. Banner has done." She ignored any other questions form me and walked back towards the elevator. Not wanting to piss her off we followed her. Eventually we were back on the couch.
"So, how did you become superheroes?" We all told our story how we turned into superhero potential. When Steve was done with telling his story I took over and started telling about the Chitauri. Annabeth seemed surprised but didn't say anything. When I was finished Annabeth stayed silent. She sighed. "Is there any way you can help Percy?" She suddenly asked sounding exhausted. "Well, when you where, um, out. We tried as much as possible. Tony hacked into video cameras but couldn't find anything. Clint and Natasha have asked if Director Fury knew anything, he didn't." There was a heavy silence. "So you can't do anything?" Steve answered. "I mean, we don't know what we can do."
Annabeth's head suddenly shot up. "Do you have a clear picture of the monster that took Percy?" You could see an idea form in her head. "Yes? You want me to print it?" "Yes, please." I printed it as fast as possible. I handed it to her as fast as possible. She took it from me and walked to the first room, which was mine and walked into my private bathroom. Private. She wasn't bothered by what she saw. I heard Clint snicker behind me. I glared at him. There were a lot of shampoo bottles and conditioner bottles, some had my face on it. Well most of them. My hair doesn't get this pretty without any help. There was also a lot of Iron Man merch. Why did she have to take mine? Wait, why did we even go to a bathroom with all of us. I looked at Annabeth. She started the shower and grabbed a flashlight from somewhere. She gave it to Natasha and made her hold it so it made a rainbow. She threw some kind of gold coin into it and said: "Fleecy, do me a solid. Show me Chiron, Camp Half Blood. The rainbow shimmered and showed a man sitting in a wheelchair.
"Chiron!" Annabeth yelled. The man, Chiron, turned towards us. "Hello, Annabeth, we haven't heard anything of Percy yet. Have you heard anything from him?" He went straight to the point. "Yes, he got kidnapped." She sighed. "Again?" Is it a normal occurrence? "Yeah but this time by someone I don't know. Have you ever seen this monster?" She grabbed the picture and showed it to him. "No, I don't think so. Although it has a resemblance of a Minotaur, but that's not possible as far as I know." "Do you think it was Zeus?" We heard some deep thundering. "I don't think so." He answered unsure. "Can you do something?" Annabeth asked hopeful. "I'll see what I can do. I'll send you an update tomorrow. Bye child" "Bye."
That's it. What did you think?
