Percy Jackson and the wrath of Kronos chapter 3
Hi guys, sorry it's been so long. I have had tonnes to do for school. Setting a new record for the amount of science homework's handed in late and not getting a detention. Lol. I am currently at 6 but I'm trying to stop and it is a bit hard when you have the amazing website of Fan Fiction to add into the mixture. Science homework + Fan Fiction = that cake don't bake (virtual cookie to whoever gets that reference from a certain movie :-] ). I will try to update every Sunday but with the cake not rising it is a bit difficult so I will now try and update whenever I can. Oh and also in the one review I got (thanks Capilla007 for that) they pointed out one thing I didn't notice when I read over the story: In the first chapter I put Clarisse as a spy and then in the second I replaced her with Thalia. I meant to have Thalia as the spy all along but my brain likes to mess with my life sometimes. So with all that cleared up let's get on with the story!
Disclaimer: I don't know why I have to do these they are annoying. But of course me being me will do it anyway. I don't own PJO or any of the books that are related to the series or Rick Riordan. Now on with the story!
As the five spies trudged through the murky, dimly lit cave they were in they all held their heads high knowing that they had completed they mission they had set out to achieve. After about ten minutes of walking along the crudely dug tunnel they saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They knew that when they got to the end there would be a 20 foot climb to the surface up a rope ladder. It was a bit old and unmanaged When they got to the base of the rope ladder, Annabeth suddenly bent down to have a look at a section of wall that looked like any other section of rocky, crumbling wall.
"What are you doing Annabeth?" Percy questioned.
"Come on, come on, it has to be here somewhere." Annabeth muttered as she completely ignored Percy's question.
All of a sudden she exclaimed as she pushed a bit of rock in to the wall and a section slid away.
"It's a new prototype winch that the Hephaestus kids wanted to try out," Annabeth said "this should get those," she gestured to the bundle of weapons and food they were carrying "up there." While pointing upwards.
They hooked up the winch to the bundles and started to winch them up to the surface where Percy and Connor would be waiting to receive the packages and watch out for any guards that might be patrolling the border of the fort. Eventually, after many swear words and a lot of cursing in Ancient Greek they finally got the packets up and then the remaining three campers climbed up the rope ladder and collapsed down on the ground. Then Thalia pushed a rock that was jutting up from the ground and the shockwave from the resulting collapse of the tunnel was so big they knew they were going to be found and they had to get out of there soon for fear of being caught again.
They started to race along the perimeter of the fort hoping and praying to all the gods they knew that they wouldn't be caught. Then as they were about to make a break for the exit path twenty hellhounds, thirty dracaena and fifteen telkhines turned the corner. It took them all by surprise so when they saw each other they hesitated for a few seconds before the five demigods burst into action and charged at the monsters with their weapons drawn and ready. They dived into the ranks of monsters and started slashing and hacking before the monsters even had time to draw their swords. But when they did they put up a pretty poor fight so it didn't take long for Connor to stab his sword into the last monster and turn around with a look of triumph on his face. But it soon faded as the half-bloods heard the sound that they were hoping they were never going to hear until they were far, far down the mountain. The hills were ringing with the sound of alarms. (Stop here and make it a cliffy? Or be nice to you guys and continue? Hmmmm second option cos I'm nice to you guys).
The five spies quickly grabbed the precious bundles that they were trying so hard to protect and ran as fast as they could down the long, windy mountain track path that led up to the fort. This time though they were going down the mountain. They hared down the path as quickly as they could; jumping down ledges (Thalia tried to avoid this as much as possible), scrambling down sheer rock faces (Thalia didn't like that either) and wading waist deep through rivers. It took them well over three hours to get to the bottom of the mountain. By that time they were all panting and gasping for air as they tried to get the air they desperately needed back into their famished lungs. They turned back to look up the mountain they had just climbed only to see a whole horde of monsters and leading them was none other than Ethan Nakamura himself. The backstabbing traitor.
Their nerves settled down though when it appeared the monsters had stopped and were going to set up camp for the night. It was a relief for them all when they learned they would be able to set up camp for the night and have some rest although they knew they would have to get up early to get away from the monsters that were chasing them. So they found some shelter in the forest nearby and discovered a clearing in the middle of it and set up camp for the night, Thalia each providing them with the campers answer to the mini tent/boxes that the hunters had. They were slightly larger but they packed a lot more in them with a fold up camping bed with sleeping bag included and a small bathroom that was actually usable. Each of them were personally made to suit the spies' different personalities; Percy had a sea green one with wave patterns on the outside and the inside, Annabeth had a grey storm coloured one with owl patterns on it, Thalia's one was electric blue with lightning designs, Nico's was pitch black and had skull patterns on it, and Connor had a simple white tent that was pretty plain except for a few personal things that he kept with him all the time. They unloaded all their stuff and bunked down for the night with their empty fire pit and small storage tent in the middle of the ring. Sitting there in the middle of the night they all had the time to think about things that they missed on their missions; camp, their friends, all the training. But then there was all the bad stuff in their lives; the fact that Kronos was rising again and the gods were ignoring the threat, when they had to go on one of these dangerous missions to kill a commander of Kronos's army or to retrieve something the camp had lost. All of these things required a group of the best campers, with a range of special abilities, to volunteer to take on these missions. Then of course there was the prophecy to deal with as well. It went a bit like this:
A lone Half-Blood waits for the call
To storm and fire the world must fall
The half blood born of a broken oath
Shall face the two and defeat them both
But to stop the impending danger
He must team up with a Praetor
Together they journey to the east
To pick up three more at the feast
As a group they travel as one
To get the final job done
The prophecy was about 70 years old and they had got it from a little pouch that was around the oracles neck. They had read it to the whole camp at one point and when it was read the whole pavilion started to whisper and wonder who the lone demigod would be, they knew it would have to be someone of a broken oath, maybe a child of the Big Three, they were born of a broken oath. The whole pavilion turned and looked at Percy, apparently all coming to the same conclusion. He was the only child of the Big Three that it could be, Thalia was a hunter of Artemis and had taken her oath a day before her sixteenth birthday, Nico was still too young and Percy was turning sixteen in a few months time. It was the only logical answer. But then they all started talking about the sixth line the one about the Praetor. They were all wondering who the Praetor would be. No one had ever heard of a Praetor in their lives apart from Chiron, but he was forced to keep it a secret as he didn't want to start the whole Greek/Roman war again.
That night Percy dreamt of Kronos. He was standing in a room with a lone throne in the middle of it. On was Kronos, sitting there whilst he listened to a small figure that was apparently telling Kronos about something. He was talking about the prophecy. Somehow they had found out. They must have someone in camp passing information to them. They had a spy in their midst. When the figure had finished Kronos laughed, the laughter shaking the whole room. He then spoke, "Those demigods at that puny camp will never figure out that they need the help of the Roman camp. Ha! By the time they do it will be too late. Wait, he is here. That cursed son of Poseidon is here. Damn his blood, his father's nature makes him impossible to predict and track." Kronos searched the room until he looked straight at me.
"You may have discovered something this time but next time it will be worse."
Percy jerked awake in a cold sweat, shivering as he got out of his sleeping bag and wandered outside an woke up all the others by making some water slip under the tent door and hovering above their heads and then dropping the water simultaneously on top of the four other sleeping spies.
The resulting curses and many swear words that followed were frankly hilarious as the once sleeping spies became very awake and very wet spies. Thalia burst out of her tent full of anger and her eyes filled with rage to find Percy lying on the ground laughing his head off as Thalia started to build up a powerful lightning blast and aimed her spear at Percy before letting off the charge and striking Percy in the butt. He then promptly started to run around the camp site clutching his butt as his pants began to catch on fire. He then dived into the nearest river and extinguished the fire. But not fast enough as his pants now had big holes where the fire had burnt through the material. He returned back to camp to find Thalia, Annabeth, Nico and Connor all clutching their sides as they struggled to get breath back into their lungs from laughing so hard.
"So Crispy Seaweed, (A/N: Get it. Crispy Seaweed. Oh well, it was my own joke then.) what did you have to say so much you were brave enough to face an angry Thalia, hmmm?" Annabeth said still trying to compress her laughter.
"I had a dream about Kronos." That shut everybody up quickly.
"What did he say." Questioned Annabeth
"He knows about the prophecy, and he said something about a Roman camp, whatever that means."
"A Roman camp? Thalia said "In all of my travels with the Hunters I have never heard or seen of any Roman camp."
"We need to tell Chiron this ASAP." Nico said a look of worry in his eyes (and for anybody out there who doesn't know ASAP stands for as-soon-as-possible (shouldn't be many of you)) they all readily agreed with Nico and started to pack up the camp. It took them about half an hour but they got it done eventually. They set off towards camp. They knew it would be a very difficult journey to get back to the home they knew so well compared to this barren wilderness.
End of this chapter! YAHOO!
Oh and by the way Thalia isn't a Hunter of Artemis any more I will probably do a story on how she lost the position and it will probably involve a certain son of Hades. Also I have a poll up on the profile so go have a look and give me the answer! Read and Review, well you've already done one part of it so now you can go and do the other. Please review, it would help so much. If I can get 2 reviews then I will get another chapter up. If not then I will probably put up another one anyway. Will try and update on my birthday 25th march with chapter 4 and maybe that other story I was talking about.
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