AN: Mwah ha ha I feel so evil and also kind of sad for killing Annabeth. NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED: All these characters and settings belong to Rick Riordan. R&R sorry for any OOCness. Also please make sure you read the AN at the bottom it is very important. Thanks. ENJOY!
Piper
No one spoke a word as Percy dismounted the Pegasus (whom Piper now recognized as Blackjack) and carried Annabeth's body to Athena's throne. He looked up at the goddess and laid her daughter at her feet.
"I hope you're happy," Percy's voice sounded rough and cold, "I overcame my fatal flaw…It was still fatal, just not to me." Percy turned around and walked back over to Blackjack. Piper could not believe what she was seeing, he mounted Blackjack and started to leave but Athena stopped him.
"Percy," the goddess sounded like she was about to cry. "What happened to her? How did she die?" Percy sighed.
"We…uh ran into Medusa's sisters they…uh weren't very pleased to see us." Percy replied. Piper had so many questions she didn't even know where to begin. Nico asked for her.
"Dude, how did you get out?" He asked it in such a way that he almost sounded scared.
"Yes." Zeus asked suspiciously, "How did you get out?"
"That is of no concern to you!" Percy snapped.
"Percy," Poseidon warned, "I wouldn't get him angrier than he already is."
"Yeah," Leo chuckled, "Thalia over here already got him pretty wound up." Thalia glared at him and ran a finger along her neck parallel to her chin, the: your-dead signal. Leo gulped.
"OR WHAT!" Percy shouted as he paced Blackjack back and forth like a war horse. "WHAT WILL YOU DO? KILL ME?! BECAUSE I COULD LIVE WITH THAT AT LEAST I'D BE WITH HER!" He pointed at Annabeth's lifeless body. Leo started laughing hysterically.
"Dude that was a good one 'What will you do kill me because I could live with that!'," Leo started to laugh again along with Frank and Nico, even Hades started to chuckle.
Boys Piper thought.
"I could die with that then if that's what you prefer, but that just sounds weird!" Percy snapped at the boys. They stopped laughing immediately and were suddenly very interested in how shiny the floor was(AN: At this time if you could please ever so kindly picture Leo, Frank, and Nico staring wide eyed at the floor saying, "Oooooo shiny!". Thank you please continue reading.). None of the gods spoke.
"Percy?" Thalia even sounded afraid of him, "Percy, what happened? We're your friends, not your enemies, you can trust us. Percy, come down from there." It worked so well even Piper couldn't have said it any better. Percy dismounted Blackjack and Thalia rushed over to him and hugged him. He started to cry a bit too. They stood there like that for an awkward minute or so before Percy stepped back and took a deep breath.
"She needs a shroud," Percy finally said. He looked to Hades, "Will she-"
"Elysium." The god replied plainly, "She will make Elysium." Percy smiled for the first time since he had entered the room. Blackjack whined and Percy sighed.
"Sure man," He told the Pegasus. Piper wondered what he had said. Percy walked over to Blackjack and handed him…a wad of paper? "Oh, and you really got to stop calling me boss, man." With that Blackjack galloped out of the throne room cheerfully.
"What was that all about?" Piper asked curiously.
"What? That?" Percy looked kind of confused. "Oh he just wanted some money to go buy some doughnuts." He said it so casually that Leo started cracking up again. Thalia glared at him again and he shut up quickly. Then the weirdest thing happened three old ladies came in and wrapped Annabeth's body in a shroud. Athena shrunk down to normal human size and gave her daughter a blessing. Percy turned to the three old ladies with a strange sign of respect. One of them nodded her head at him.
"Perseus Jackson, we meet again." 'Again'? Percy had met these old ladies before? "You had better protect the friends you have left I have a feeling this is not the last time we will see each other." Then they continued to carry Annabeth away they almost were out the door before Thalia stopped them.
"Wait," She sounded ashamed. Piper couldn't understand why. Thalia walked over to the old ladies and took an old picture out of her pocket. Actually six pictures in a strip like from a photo booth at a mall. She set the photos atop the body. "From our first adventure together. Goodbye Annabeth." Thalia nodded at the ladies and they took Annabeth away.
"Just like, Luke." Percy said. Thalia nodded, Nico sighed, and all the gods shook their heads.
"Who's Luke?" Leo was always the one to ask the worst questions at the worst time. No one answered Piper could tell it was a sensitive topic for everyone.
"Who were the old ladies?" Piper asked to try and change the subject.
"The three fates." Zeus told them. Percy told them a quick story from when he first met them something about a giant pair of socks and a pair of scissors. Piper had no idea what any of it meant but she listened attentively. When he had finally finished no one spoke for an awkward minute or so. (AN: AWKWARD SILENCE CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP) Then Blackjack came back with a bag of doughnuts. He dropped the bag on the ground and whined.
"That's very nice of you Blackjack." Percy told the Pegasus, "Where's my change?" Blackjack nuzzled the bag closer to Percy and whined again. Percy sighed and picked it up. "Ok I guess this'll work."
"Uh," sometimes Piper wondered if Percy forgot they couldn't speak horse, "what'd he say?"
"Huh," Percy's mouth was full of doughnut, "herr errferrred yerr gerrs serrm derrnerrts."
"What?" Piper seriously wondered how anybody put up with this guy. Percy swallowed and tried again.
"He offered you guys some doughnuts," Percy said as if it were obvious. He held out the bag to them and they each came forward and grabbed a doughnut. Percy turned around to face the gods. "You guys want any?" Most of them said yes and grabbed one, which left two in the bag. "Anyone want another?" Percy asked. Before any of them could answer Blackjack whined. "WHAT?!" Percy shouted at the Pegasus, "AND YOU JUST CONVINENTLY FORGOT TO MENTION THIS BEFORE!"
"What's going on," Thalia asked, "what did he say?"
"Apparently," Percy glared at the Pegasus, "Blackjack ran into my parents at the doughnut shop and they know that only I ride Blackjack so they came here with him and are waiting for me in the lobby." Blackjack whined again. "Along with…with…Luke?"