A.N. ok I am so sorry it's taken so long! My microsoft office got all screwed up and it took a while to get it fixed. So here it is! the first part of chapter 3! (I put it in 2 parts i could update faster) Oh and a SUPER thanks to all the people who reviewed!
I woke up to the sound a huge "CRASH" from the back of our vehicle and Percy cursing in Greek.
I rubbed my eyes groggily and asked "What just happened?"
Through Percy's curses I head "…. Rear ended… 5 in the morning…12 hours… no sleep" and a few other words that I'm choosing not to include.
Now let me back up a bit, to 12 hours before.
At exactly 5:24 p.m., Annabeth had stated that by her calculations, if we drove through all night we would get there about 5:24 the next day. Well, that's exactly what Percy planed to do. Don't ask me why because I had NO idea. But it may have had something to do with my constant complaining… (Heh heh)
So anyway Percy climbed out of the car, probably about to pull some convenient Mist over the eyes of the mortal who hit us (Yeah Chiron FINALLY taught him how to do that). I was too tired to care that much, but then I heard Percy's startled scream, more cursing, the sound of Riptide being drawn and the basic sounds of a monster attack. Annabeth groaned in the passenger seat. Like me, she had been sound asleep, and was none too happy about the rude awakening.
"Nico, go out there and help him," she told me.
"Why? He's invulnerable; he can handle it," I said, "Why don't you go help him?"
She looked like she wanted to kill me but she kept her cool and said, "I'll be there in a sec. Now go and help him."
She was tired, annoyed and cranky so I decided not to argue with her.
By the time I got out there, Percy had managed to take down 2 out of the 7 snake women that were attacking. I was just about to jump in to help him, when Annabeth screamed from behind us. Oh crap, I thought, make that 8 snake women.
As close as I can figure, the 8th snake woman has evaded Percy and gone around the back of the SUV and ambushed Annabeth. Percy had clearly made this connection too, and completely panicked, his fatal flaw coming into play.
He put up his guard, and was desperately trying to fight his way over to where Annabeth was; on the ground, unable to stand, trying to fight back with her bronze knife.
4 of the snake women were on me, trying to disarm me while the last 2 were trying to get Annabeth and Percy.
Well, I thought, I guess it's up to me. Time to bring out the big guns. By that I meant my awesome son of Hades powers. Of course what I was planning to do would knock me out for like half a day but, oh well, I was planning to go back to sleep anyways.
ok, yeah. it was short and I'm sorry but thats only the first half. I'll post the next half VERY soon! Now press the blue button and give me suggestions!
