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Chapter 3

Annabeth's POV

My dream started out like this: I was flying, flat out arm stretched, fists clenched, defying the laws of gravity, flying. Also this was one of these dreams where I could tell it was a dream, which made it better, the best thing of all would be if Percy was here... 'Percy...' I miss him so much.
I watched from above as he got roughly pushed from a van. The Cyclops took off the sack from his head and I got a glimpse of his brown hair and those eyes. Those eyes made me want to stay in his arms forever.

At least, that's what I was expecting, when I saw him I let out a little gasp of surprise, he had bruises all over his face, and he was limping badly, I was starting to wonder if I could glide right down there and kick a little Cyclops butt... But then I felt a hand on my arm, it was Hera.

"Hera!" I exclaim, taken aback.
"Shh, Annabeth. Just watch." She said like she didn't take my boyfriend to the Roman Camp, or she didn't drop a statue on my best friend's legs, or that she didn't send cows after me to leave me little "surprises". I didn't argue though. I knew better than to start an argument with the queen of the heavens. I shifted my gaze back to my boyfriend.
He gazed at the ruins of the black palace, longingly. Then he and the Cyclops talked a little bit, something incomprehensible. Then they both started staring at something, I looked over there too, and there he was, Atlas.
I let out another gasp, this one a little louder that had Hera look at me with surprise, 'yeah like she cares about me.' What was Atlas doing out of his burden? I had no idea what the answer to that was. I felt frustrated, and that is not a good thing for a daughter of Athena. 'Well, at least I know where Seaweed Brain is.'
"Annabeth," Hera said "Your friends are starting stir, daughter of Athena. Remember this, and all that you have seen."
I woke up gasping. I calmed myself down and looked around, Piper, Jason, and Leo were all still asleep, 'yeah, for sure they have the night watches down'. I was about to wake them up and give them a good chiding when I saw Piper and Jason holding hands, I decided to let them be.
But that didn't stop me from going and getting a good bucket of water to dump on their heads when they DID wake up. 'If they think I'm going to make them breakfast after doing this, they have another thing to worry about.' I chuckled to myself, imagining them all with wet hair, 'at least it'll help with Leo's smell...'
Jason woke up with a start, and sat up straight like something bit him, making Piper wake up also.
"What? Who? Where?" she sat up groggily, looking around, a confused look on her face. Her kaleidoscope eyes flashing. She looked down at their hands. Jason looked at her, and they both blushed. 'Just like Percy and Me' I thought. Piper's sudden outburst woke up Leo, who immediately jumped up and did a karate kick, like a professional. I laughed in spite of myself.

They all stood up together and looked at me,
"What's the plan?" Jason asked, I could tell he was trying not to look at Piper in the corner of his eye.
"Well first," I said "Stay here, don't move."
I walked behind them and picked up three water bottles we had stashed and gave them each one, I started to circle around them,
"I want you to uncap them,"
They did.
"I want you to think about what happened last night,"
Piper and Jason blushed.
"And I want you to squeeze the bottle with all your might."
They looked at me quizzically and Piper and Jason sighed but Leo did it and it squirted him in the face. He said a few things in Spanish I think that wasn't very nice to water bottles, or me. While Piper and Jason started to roar with laughter, Jason bent over, and momentarily forgetting the water bottles, stepped on it making it squirt him up his pant leg.
This made Piper laugh harder, but I didn't think she shouldn't get wet so I picked up my own water bottle and poured it over her head.
"ANNABETH CHASE!" she screamed, looking furious. Jason was on the floor laughing, Leo against the wall crying, and I was chuckling at her. Finally she gave in and smiled a little, than a little wider, and then she joined in with the rest of us, still dripping wet.

After our little laughing fest, I decided to tell them about my dream. We were walking away from our little alleyway, looking determined. If anyone passed us gave us a weird look, we would just glare at them like 'what 'chu looking at?'
I was on my guard, and I purposely made sure that the water bottles were in my pack, so they wouldn't try to get revenge anytime soon. I explained to them about what happened in my dream, their faces turned from serious, to questioning, to horrified. Piper pressed both hands up to her face "But that means!"
"Yes, Atlas is free."
"But who is holding up the sky then?"
"I- I actually don't know. But that's why we need to get there, and fast. Piper, do you think you could get plane tickets to California?"
"Yeah, sure thing, Annabeth!"
We walked together in silence heading towards the bus station, to take us to the airport, in silence. 'Percy' I thought 'I'm coming!'

Once we got to the bus station, it didn't feel right. I kept on looking over my shoulder, looking for something trailing us, but there was nothing there. 'Okay, It's official' I thought 'I'm going insane.' I looked over at the rest of my group; they were doing the same thing. 'Whew! I'm not the only one!' I added to my thought stream.
We got up to the Ticket Operator, I let Piper go in front of me to buy the tickets, I felt bad for using all of her money pretty much, but we didn't have any other choice. I'll pay her back one day.
"Four bus passes please, one way." She dug in her pockets for her credit card her dad gave her, and managed to fish it out bringing a few gum wrappers out as well. She handed it over to the lady and gasped. I followed her eyes and muffled a scream. A lion, with metallic skin, was coming right towards us, looking right at Jason. Behind the lion, what looked like an obese old lady was coming towards us.
"Go, Sonny, rip that Son of Jupiter to SHREDS!" Jason wielded his gladius, the one that Hera gave him. Leo, Piper and I followed his lead, Leo getting out his hammer, Piper and I our daggers.
"Let's kill this thing!" Leo motivated us.
"Go for the eyes and mouth!" I screamed. But as we started fighting it, we noticed that it rarely opened its mouth and had its eyes just as slits.
"ANNABETH!" Jason called "It's not opening its mouth!"
"We need something gross to open his eyes! Like Percy did in the Air and Space Museum!" I recalled from his stories. Piper groaned. "One more thing about Percy and I will point this at you!"I mustered a smile and let Leo talk to it while we waited.

"Did you know, dear monster, thing, I have no idea what you are but can I just say you are like... AWE-"
"Leo!" I shouted
"Oh yeah, sorry, anyway, so like I can do this really cool thing," He lit his hands "look! Look! You're not looking!"
"Leo, he's not THAT dumb."
"Yeah sure-"
The monster roared and Jason jabbed at his mouth but was a fraction of a second too late.
"Try again, Leo!" I cheered
"Yeah Leo, you're good at getting things to yell at you" Piper teased
"Shut up." Leo Mumbled. "Anywhoo, so monster, yeahh you're mom is like REALLY ugly, like, UGLY! I mean really, she makes Medusa look like a saint or something. And the sad thing is, she doesn't have any cool powers like Medusa, like turn people to stone, though I do think I would rather be stone than look at HER ugly face! YEAH! Yo' mom so ugly when she walked into a store a policeman arrested her for mooning!"
The Lion roared again and Jason and I both stabbed at its mouth, Jason caught it perfectly and killed it, making it turn into a pile of golden dust and a big lion fur coat.
"Aww man, I didn't even get to the best of the yo' momma jokes!" Leo complained, but I could tell that he was a little glad, probably remembering his own mother.
"My son! My precious baby!" Echidna cried.
"Hades, I forgot about the weird old lady mama." Leo said.
"Who even are you?" Piper asked.
"I am Echidna! Mother to the fiercest monsters to roam the planet!" Leo looked confused.
"I thought that was an anteater?"
"RAWR!" She was really mad now "First that Poseidon spawn and now YOU!" She made eye contact with Leo "Now, demigod, TIME FOR YOU TO DIE!" Leo looked at her, bored.
"Uhmmm... Okay, lady, but not before this!" He set his hands a blaze and shot a column of fire at her. She screamed and withered under the intense heat. Jason, Piper, and I stepped back so we wouldn't have our eyebrows burned off. After he turned off his fire, she erupted in gold dust. The mortal fire alarm was barring and our bus was coming on the loud speaker.
"Let's go guys!" We ran to the end of the platform and got on the weathered bus! 'Off to go save Percy's sorry butt... again...'I thought.

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