Wow, I haven't written on here in over a year! I'm so sorry! Well, better late than never I guess! I hope you like it! Sorry for any typos/oocnessJ
Chapter 2
They said that I was asleep for a week and they weren't even sure if I was ever going to wake up. I couldn't move a single muscle without spreading pain like a wildfire throughout my body. I was alone and scared and didn't know what to do.
I honestly don't remember much of what happened before the mountain fell on me but the one final thought that I did have was that Annabeth was gone, that she would never come back to me, that I was alone. I could barely breathe and I could sense that I wouldn't live for much longer. But what did I expect, a mountain fell on me! I'm a demigod, and demigods don't get happy endings.
The familiar sound of horse-shoes against wood filled the room and I knew Chiron was standing right next to me though I was forced to stare at the ceiling and couldn't move my head. His deep caring voice said, "Percy, I know you have never faced pain like this before. I cannot pretend to know what you are going through and I as much as I would like to tell you good news, unfortunately that is not why I came. I am here because I need information on where we can find the empousas and destroy them. They are coming after the camp, and will stop at nothing to kill you once and for all."
I looked straight at the ceiling and wanted to cry but the tears wouldn't come. All I could do was lie there and have the pain eat me away from the inside. I quietly said, "I'll try. I have seen them in my dreams one before but I don't know how much help I can be, the pain is making it too hard for me to fall asleep."
Chiron sighed deeply and said, "I can help if you want. I know you feel that you are helpless right now but doing this for the camp could mean our survival. I want to let you know that I am so sorry about Annabeth, I couldn't imagine anything worse and I know the entire camp is mourning."
Suddenly, I had a fire burning inside me. I couldn't believe what he was saying. It was like he had already written Annabeth off for dead, like he didn't care that there could be a chance to save her. I stared trying to move but the pain was unbearable. It seemed just as bad if not worse than it had been before. I let out a scream that the entire camp must have heard and I heard heavy footsteps and then the familiar feeling of the needle being put into my arm again. Was this the only way I could ever fall asleep, with a needle going into my arm? I somehow knew that it most likely would be.
Of course the dreams came, and they were about Annabeth. He saw her and Keli again and it looked like they were in front of a huge mob. It took a few seconds for my eyes to focus and to realize that it was a mob of hundreds of empousa. I didn't even know that many of them existed! Annabeth was standing right next to Keli who was giving a war speech to her tribe. She screamed above the crowd, "My sisters, we have done it. We are so close for killing the incredible 'Percy Jackson' once and for all and none of it would have been possible without our new recruit Abigail here. Three cheers for Abigail! Anyway, we know all of Percy's weaknesses and when it comes to his friends, he will do anything to save them. Not only that, but now that we have crippled him, all Abigail must do is give him the poison of Tartarus and our tribe will be feared by every creature walking the earth. Now who is ready to get rid of the demigods once and for all! We leave for their camp tomorrow!"
I saw the evil in Annabeth's eyes and couldn't even bare it. It was too much. But she still had a chance. Nectar or Ambrosia could save her. We could do it. Camp Half Blood could do it.
No, that would never work. Even if we saved Annabeth the rest of the empousa would still attack. I don't even know if there is a way to anymore, and on that though all my thoughts were just inky blackness.
I woke up to the sun shining in my face through the window. One of the Hermes campers were next to me filling up a cup with half nectar and half water. We had found out from all of my previous accidents that the best mix was water and nectar but no matter how much of it I could take, I don't think I would ever be fully healed again. Not even a magical mixture for the gods could cure someone who was crushed by a mountain.
But I could tell that I was getting a little stronger. I no longer wanted to black out from every movement of my body but there was no way I would be able to fight by the time the empousa came in a couple days.
I started to believe it too. I now felt it impossible to ever save Annabeth. Our entire future will be forever ruined. I wanted to have kids with her, start a family somewhere away from all of the demigod stuff. I wanted a perfect life, but that could and never will happen for someone like me.
Wow, I made that really depressing didn't I? I'm sorry^-^! Anyway…do you want there to be a chapter 3? I promise that it won't take a year to write this time;) Well…if you are a Percabeth lover this is definitely the story for you! Thanks for reading! Who's your favorite character? Percy or Annabeth? Comment below!
ily, Ashley Morgan