Percy Jackson Annabeth Chase meet the Fallen C7
"I will take Annabeth, Arianna and Gabbe I am trusting you not to crash my car." She stated handing some keys to Daniel. "You guys take the Sports Back we will take the Chevrolet Camaro." Sam stated
"You guys do that I will take the bike." Cam stated eyeing the Yamaha V-Max but Sam stopped him by grabbing his shoulder.
"Nobody rides that but me. I have put too much time and effort into that for it to be ridden by anyone else." Sam stated she handed a piece of paper to Daniel "meet us there."
"Who exactly are you?" Cam asked but Sam did not answer him instead she moved over to the car.
"That is a 1955 classic Cadillac Eldorado." Arianna stated looking at the car in the back of the garage it was half covered but it looked like someone had been recently working on it. "How?"
"Time to go." Sam stated they were in the cars heading to the airfield, on the drive Annabeth listened to Arianna question Sam all about cars she would shrug off some of her questions and would only give her a basic answer.
"How many cars do you have?" Arianna finally asked
"Four, and the bike at that place."
"Hold up, you have a different place? How many homes do you have?"
"A couple, my aunt owns them." Sam shrugged "we are here." Sam stated as they slowed down to enter security they moved on to a private hanger. Annabeth saw a jet on the runway waiting.
"You call that small?" Arianna asked which is exactly what Annabeth was thinking.
"This is smaller than the others so yes Small." Sam stated getting out of the car a girl came over and took the car away once they were all out. Sam moves over to some flight crew. Daniel had arrived and was standing with Gabbe and the others. Sam waved them over to her. "We leave in 10, it has all been cleared. We head for San Antonio Texas." Sam stated before leading the way into the plane.
The first thing Annabeth noticed on the plane was the sketch table it had everything someone would need to draw. She also noticed that the chairs looked more like sofas with seatbelts. Sam had moved to the back where a mini kitchen was she grabbed a water bottle and an apple before taking a seat and pushing a button. A tv came up across from her. It looked new. Annabeth moved to look the designs in the book after getting a nod from Sam that it was okay. The book was full of calculations advanced trigonometry.
"What is this for?" Annabeth asked
"Something I am playing with."
"These calculations are yours?" Cam asked who had moved to a seat but could see what Annabeth held in her hands.
"Let's just say my aunt can be really strict when it comes to studies. I was bound to pick some of it up." Sam shrugged "we have the kitchen and bathroom is out back. The seats stretch out if you want to rest. It should not take too long though." Sam added Annabeth saw that the others had made themselves comfy on the seats but most of them looked like they did not want to fly.
"Miss Samantha." A voice called out making Sam get up and talk to the pilot. They spoke for a few minutes then Sam shook his hand before returning to her seat.
"So that guy called you Miss Samantha but that lady called you Lady Anna." Arianna stated
"Is there a question?" Sam asked back
"Who are you?" Arianna asked
"I am helping you find something, invited you on my plane. Who are you?" Sam asked back.
"Easy guys we are going to be on a plane for the next hour or so. Let's not start anything." Daniel stated even though he looked curious as to who Sam was.
The flight was not very long, Sam had remained silent for most of it but towards the end she did speak with Gabbe who had moved to sit next to her. Annabeth found the whole thing awkward. When they landed Sam once again spoke with the pilots before being led by an attendant to the cars. These ones were SUVs once again they split into two groups this time Annabeth went with Daniel encase they got separated. Molly and Cam joined Gabbe with Sam the others were in with Daniel. It took them an hour and a half to get where they needed to be, from there they had to walk. Sam was up front with Gabbe the pair of them were talking as they walked, Daniel was walking with Luce Cam and Molly had left them after having a conversation with Daniel. Arianna and Roland were bringing up the rear following behind Annabeth.
"Have you been here before?" Arianna asked Annabeth
"No."
"You said you heard about it in stories, what stories?" Arianna asked.
"I have a friend who likes to tell stories." Annabeth shrugged she seemed to falter in her steps as she recalled exactly what happened in the story Will told them. She somewhat ran up to Sam grabbing her arm making her stop and look at her.
"What is it?" Sam asked her
"How true is the story Will told us?" Annabeth asked
"I do not know what story Will told you."
"The one about the lovers..." Annabeth stated
"Oh, that one. Yeah that one is based on truth." Sam stated turning back to walk but stopped when Annabeth places her arm on her shoulder.
"Including what guards it?" Annabeth asked
"Oh, I see why you're worried. It won't happen to you."
"Not me, them." She stated indicating the others who were all listening to what they were saying and they were confused by it.
"Them, huh...good question." Sam mumbled turning to walk ahead.
"That is all you're going to say."
"It depends on how bad they want it." Sam stated she started walking again. "Now come on you do not want to get caught up here after dark." Sam stated
"Okay what was that about?" Arianna asked walking next to Annabeth.
"In the story...it is said the place is cursed. That those that seek the treasure do not make it back." Annabeth states knowing she was leaving out a lot of details but this way she was warning them and hopefully they would listen and not go after it.
"Cursed how?" Arianna asked
"Well there is two versions, one it is guarded by a horrific monster that kills anything that enters its territory."
"The other?"
"Magic." Annabeth stated
"Magic?" Arianna asked the disbelief clear in her tone.
"It is said that the valley tests those that enter and to this day...no one has returned. Or that is what I have heard."
"But Sam has been." Arianna pointed out.
"Why do you think she was hesitant to come here, whatever your friend said to convince her must have been extremely urgent for her to agree to it." Annabeth stated they drifted into silence as the walk got steeper.