CHAPTER 4: FLOATING AND YELLING
Annabeth POV:
Percy was suspended in the air with black smoke surrounding him and he was screaming like his whole body was on fire. He couldn't move and he had his eyes shut tight.
I looked at Nico and Clarisse and the terrified look on my face must have been pretty obvious because Clarisse took charge of the situation. She made a quick plan and soon we took different positions. Nico used shadow travel again and appeared behind the black man while Clarisse rose from where we were hiding and charged the monster. While he was distracted with Clarisse, Nico fought him from behind. My job was to get Percy out of that black mist. As I came closer, his screaming turned almost unbearable but I held it together and moved forward. I had no idea how I was going to get him when suddenly he dropped to floor and stopped screaming, I hoped he was just unconscious because otherwise he was…no, he just couldn't be dead. I ran and kneeled next to him.
"Percy please wake up, please!" there was no response. I looked over at Nico and Clarisse and they somehow had managed to overcome the monster because he was lying on the floor. They ran to us. "Nico…!"
"He´s no dead, not yet but we need to get out of here" As soon as he said that I heard a voice in my head and immediately stood up.
"You might make it out of here alive, I'm still not strong enough but that boy served me well and I will soon tear your world apart. Be prepared to die."
I could say Nico and Clarisse had heard the voice too and for a second we were too shocked to do anything. Then the black monster started to wake up and we knew we had to leave now. Nico grabbed our hands again and I hold on to Percy praying to every single God that he would make it alive.
We were back at Camp and Nico almost collapsed from exhaustion, Clarisse helped him to his feet and together we tried to take Percy to the infirmary. Chiron met us in the middle of the way to help us carry him and when we arrived he placed him softly on one bed. We explained to him what we saw and how Percy had been surrounded by black smoke and everything and my heart almost stopped when he told us he didn't know what the Lord and the monster were doing to him and that we only could wait for him to wake up. Nico assured us that he wasn't dead but that he could sense how extremely weak his aura looked.
"Well done all of you but there's just nothing we can do for him now, I suggest you all go back to your cabins and put on some new clothes. Try to get to the day with your normal activities while I go to Olympus and alert the Gods of this new threat."
We all did as he said. I went back to my cabin and took a shower, I got changed and after explaining everything to my cabin mates I went straight to the infirmary again, I couldn´t concentrate on anything else so I took a chair and sat next to Percy's bed. I looked at him and hoped I had a chance to see his eyes again.
I remembered him screaming and floating in the air and a few tears went down my cheeks; I couldn't lose him, not my Seaweed Brain, not when we had just gotten together again. I kissed him softly on the lips and rested my head at the edge of his bed. I fell asleep as soon as I closed my eyes.
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