Chapter 6

With that I leaned in and so did she but before our lips met we were interrupted by a male voice "Oh hey Annabeth!"

I groaned and was about to turn around to tell to back the fuck off before I made him but then I saw his face. It was Luke Castellan.

Percy´s POV

Right now I wanted nothing more than to punch that guy in his stupid face but then I felt Annabeth holding my hand and I decided to just stare Luke down.

Surprisingly he didn´t even flinch but grinned at the two of us.

"Annabeth long time not seen!"

I felt her gripping my hand a bit more tightly and she replied coldly "Well that was definitely not my fault!"

I furrowed my brows at that.

So they knew each other? Why did she never tell me about it?

Again Luke surprised me when he looked genuinely sorry and said "Yea I know! And I´m really sorry for what I have done to Thalia. I´ll never forgive myself for hurting her like that. B-But I´ve changed and I want to make things right again."

So it was about Thalia? I wonder what he had done to her.

She was a maid at the palace and a good friend of Annabeth but how did Luke ever met her?

Annabeth ripped me out of my thoughts when she snorted "Yea right and pigs fly."

With that she turned around and forced her way through the crowd and disappeared leaving me with Luke.

He sighed and then turned to me "So you must be Percy Jackson, Annabeth´s new guard right?"

I narrowed my eyes and my hand went to my belt where my lightsaber usually would be "How do you know about that?"

The prince shrugged "I don´t know. I guess I just like to keep myself informed about all the things around."

Then his expression turned serious "Alright, I know you don´t like me. But you have to listen to me now. Minos is planning something. I don´t know what exactly but I´m sure it will start today and the outcome won´t be nice."

What the hell is he talking about?

"Well he looks a bit creepy I guess, but I don´t think he is really dangerous." I answered.

Luke shook his head "No! Listen! I know him since almost twenty years. Something bad will happen today! And I´m pretty sure that one of his targets is Annabeth."

My expression turned deadly serious when he said her name and I grabbed his collar "Listen carefully buddy, if you have any information that could get Annabeth in danger you better tell me right now!"

The prince yelped a bit when I pulled him slightly into the air but other than didn´t react.

"Geez chill! I just want to help." Luke said and I let him on the ground again.

Then he grabbed something from his pocket and put it in my hand and said "Go, find Annabeth and watch her carefully!"

After that he casually walked away. I wanted to follow him but then decided differently when I saw what he put in my hand. It was a lightsaber!

How the hell did he get that thing in here?

Now I knew Luke was serious about the whole Minos thing. He wouldn´t have taken the risk getting caught with a weapon in here if he was not sure about that he would need it.

I have to find her!

It took me only a couple minutes to find her sitting next to a small fountain in the garden. As I slowly approached her she said "I know you are here."

Despite the possible thread I smiled to myself, it simply amazed me how she knew that I was the one walking to her. But I shook that warm feeling of that was forming in my stomach and gripped her shoulder.

"We have to go."

She turned to me with a worried expression "Why?"

I took her hand and lead her towards the exit of the ball building and tried to explain "Luke told me that king Minos is planning some kind of attack and he said that you are one of the main targets."

She abruptly stopped and looked at me as if I had lost my mind "And you trusted him?"

"He also gave me this." I said and showed her the lightsaber and Annabeth´s eyes widened.

"We have to get my dad and get out of here!"

I shook my head "The king is already on our ship, I ordered Clarisse to sneak in here to get him as soon as Luke left."

The princess breathed out in relief with the knowledge that her father was save.

When we were almost at the exit I suddenly heard a barely perceptible sound and instinctively I drew my lightsaber. Just in time to block an incoming blaster shoot that was aimed for Annabeth.

Then there was a second shoot but now their hidden attacker aimed at him, obviously noticing that I was the bigger thread. But now I was not only ready to block but this time I also made out the shooter and deflected the attack back at him.

The unprepared assassin got hit square in the head and was dead immediately. Then I suddenly heard shots coming from the ball building.

It has already started!

"Come on! We have to be fast!" I whisper-yelled at Annabeth who just got over her shock and chased after me.

"Where are we going? This is not the way to the exit!" she said when I turned left.

That was pretty easy to answer. As every good bodyguard would do, I checked the place before we got here for some alternative pathways and luckily there was one just ahead of us hidden behind some trees.

I broke the door with a kick of my foot and signaled her to follow me.

When we were halfway through the small passage I suddenly got a call on my holo-watch.

Before I could even look I knew it were bad news because I could clearly hear shooting in the background.

"Commander! Clarisse is speaking here! The king is save on his ship! However the whole thing is now surrounded by attackers! There is no way you´ll make it in here. Whole harbor is a battlefield-! We have to fly before they start to dismantle the whole spacecraft!"

I closed my eyes. This was really bad. But I had no choice "Clarisse get the king out of there! I´ll take Annabeth somewhere else! Just get the king back to Olympia and tell them that king Minos is behind all this!"

Clarisse looked confused "Minos but-"

A small explosion behind her interrupted her and with that the connection got canceled.

I swore and kicked the wall. But then decided that it was no use and tried to calm myself down and took a deep breath.

Our only possible option was now the seek shelter somewhere save. But where do you hide when you have no idea who is on your side and who not?

Then it hit me.

"Rachel…" I muttered to myself but Annabeth heard it.

"Who is Rachel?"

"A friend of mine." I answered not really sure how to tell her about my ex-girlfriend. We weren´t together for long, just a couple months maybe and we broke apart when I became part in the royal guard and she the oracle at Delphi.

We remained friends though and we called each other every few months and she was probably the only one on this planet we could trust right now.

Ha! How was that? I bet no one expected Luke to actually help them right? I promise this won´t be the last time he appears in this story.

And yes I know that this chapter didn´t had much fluff in it. But I´m already on the next one which will focus more on the romance part. Anyway thanks for reading! Next chapter is going to come next week.

-Inverted Logic