Chapter 7

Annabeth´s POV

Let me tell you something really important if you ever happen to find yourself on a battlefield. Don´t wear a dress.

After almost eight hours of dodging blaster shots and crazy dudes with lightsabers my formerly beautiful white dress was looking more like an old rack that was used to clean a mud hole. It was more brown than white now and ripped at places that would make me blush if we were in another situation. Honestly right now I was almost ready the just rip the stupid thing off and run around in my underwear which would at least give me more mobility.

But my dress wasn´t the reason why I wasn´t in a very good mood. It more because of everything that could have gone wrong this day went wrong.

First Luke interrupted our almost kiss, which made things really awkward between us and then Minos troops managed to invade the planet Delphi and now my feet hurt like hell after all the running.

Yea things were absolutely great right now.

Needlessly to say I was pretty glad when Percy announced that we would be resting for the day when we crossed on of the bigger parks of Delphi.

I sat down on the soft grass next to Percy in the shade of an old oak and starred at the sky in concern.

"What if they manage to find us?" I asked after a minute.

"They won´t."

I sighed, we both knew that it was very likely that they would get caught sooner or later.

"You should sleep for a while. Tomorrow we will have to get across the other half of the city." Percy suddenly said and I groaned at the thought of more walking. My feet killed me and the view that the have only crossed half of their distance wasn´t very encouraging. I was pretty glad though, that we managed to get a pair of shoes for me because it wasn´t possible to walk with the high heels I wore at the ball.

I yawned and felt Percy´s hand grip mine and then his soft breath as he said "Sleep now. Okay?"

I wanted to say no but I already felt my eyes closing. Then I laid down beside him and snuggled my head into his warm chest and fell asleep.

Jason´s POV

"FUCK!"

You could hear Quintus swearing all over the palace when he got the message of what happened at Delphi. I didn´t even knew half of the curses my commander yelled, which was kind of impressive.

"Do you think he´ll calm down eventually?" Piper said who stood next to me with a worried expression on her face.

I nodded "Yea give him a couple of minutes then he will shut orders all over the place."

But I knew how Quintus felt. He was in charge of the security around the royal family and we just got informed that Delphi got taken by force. Apparently a lot of politicians were missing at the moment and two of them where King Frederick and Princess Annabeth.

And also Percy.

Personally I was pretty sure that they were still alive. I mean we had some of our best fighters there and Percy always gets out of really bad situations.

I felt Piper grip my hand and despite the current circumstances I had to smile inwardly. We just got together a couple hours before when I confessed my undying love for her.

I know cheesy right?

Well Piper apparently thought so too but she kissed me anyway so point for me.

Suddenly the curses that earlier came from the office stopped and I heard Quintus speaking with someone.

"-Yes your Majesty! We will be awaiting you at the landing place- No your Majesty. We haven´t heard anything from the princess- Of course your Majesty."

Then the door crashed open to reveal the commander of the royal guard with a hopeful grin on his face "The king managed to get out he is here in a couple of minutes!"

I fist pumped the air until I remembered what he said earlier "Isn´t the princess with him?"

Quintus grin immediately dropped.

"No. Apparently the Princess and Percy didn´t managed to get to the ship in time. They are probably hiding somewhere until it´s save again."

I nodded and looked at Piper who had a tear rolling down her cheek when she heard that her friend was still in the battle.

"Don´t worry Pipes. You know Percy and Annabeth. They are probably kicking some butt at Delphi right now." I said and whipped the tear away.

During their time at the royal school they got into a lot of trouble but always managed to get out somehow. I was pretty sure that they wouldn´t let their series tear apart.

Percy´s POV

When I woke up the first thing I noticed was that I was lying on soft grass and that it was still dark. Then I felt some pressure on my chest and some blonde curls tickling my face and a barely audible sigh of content.

First I thought "Oh my god!"

But then I remembered what happened yesterday. Our almost kiss, Luke, the invasion…

Crap we have to get moving!

I softly drove my fingers through her soft hair and shook her shoulder "Wake up Annabeth! We have to move before sunrise."

Her response was an unwilling groan before she fell asleep again.

I almost laughed at that but then I remembered our current situation and made a quick decision. I grabbed her at her waist and almost effortlessly pushed her in the air.

Wow she really is lightweight.

Her reflexes immediately kicked in and she caught herself before she fell over on the ground. Almost in the same motion she threw a glare at me.

"Don´t get me wrong I really liked that position but we gotta move." I told her with a smirk.

She blushed and mumbled something that sounded like "Ass."

My grin only widened and I decided to check the area first before we move on so we wouldn´t run into a trap. After a couple of minutes I decided it was save to move but when I got back where I told Annabeth to stay I found just a couple of soldiers who luckily didn´t noticed me before I could jump into hiding.

"Someone was here. There are footprints of bodies in the grass." I heard them say which made me breath in relief. Annabeth obviously managed to hide herself before they came here. The question was just where?

I got the answer just a couple seconds later when I heard one of the soldiers exclaim "Hey I think I found someone!"

Shit!

Now I had to react fast. If they manage to take Annabeth there wasn´t much I could do. Maybe if I –

My thoughts got interrupted when I heard a silent blaster shot and someone screaming in pain before the voice died down.

"What the…" one enemy asked before he went down too. And then another.

I frowned and tried to make out the shooter and shortly after found the oddly familiar figure on top of a tree taking down one soldiers after the other with absolutely deadly precision.

But I knew that wasn´t enough. It were at least ten enemies and sooner or later they would return the fire.

Well the enemy´s enemy is my friend!

With that thought I decided to help him and attacked the surprised squad from behind that in the meanwhile had taken cover behind some trees.

I got to say it wasn´t that much of a challenge. I just simply jumped out of a bush and decapitated the closest target shortly followed by another one. Meanwhile our "friend" had already eliminated three other guys leaving only two more left. The first one basically killed himself by shooting at me which I just redirected back at him and the last one surprisingly got knocked out by Annabeth who crawled out of her hideout with a branch in her hand.

After the fight was over I wearily watched as our helper jumped gracefully down from the tree. The figure wore a black/green camouflage battle suit, the blaster was strapped over his- no wait! As the shooter came closer I noticed that he was walking in a feminine kind of way. Then I also realized the long brown hair that was put together in a ponytail and the wide hips… That was definitely not a guy it was a girl!

"Who are you?" I asked. I was pretty sure that I knew her, people give away a lot about themselves just when they are walking.

The girl snorted and began to take her mask off "I´m a bit disappointed. Don´t you recognize an old friend?"

I knew that voice.

"Zoë?" I asked in disbelieve when she revealed her face.

Sorry it took me so long for this chapter. I barely had any time for writing this week because I was so busy at work. I probably upload every Sunday from now on, at the weekend I luckily have enough time.

-Inverted Logic