I KNOW I KNOW, It's been a few days since my last update and I'm truly sorry for taking so long, BUT GUESS WHAT! 2 161 WORDS THIS TIME! TWICE AS MUCH AS I NORMALLY WRITE :D I hope this will be enough to keep you all satisfied for a few days as I will be very VERY busy.

Enjoy C:

"Percy, Percy wake up," someone said as they shook me awake.

I batted them away and turned over.

"PERCY! We're getting off the bus soon!" Annabeth said loudly.

I reluctantly opened my eyes and indeed saw that we'd reached Redding.

"No way," I said in disbelief, "Nothing happened though!"

"Percy, don't question the miracle," Jason said.

I turned to face Annabeth and she shrugged, "It's a good thing isn't it?"

"Maybe," I said. It unsettled me deeply. Usually when I left camp monsters were on me so fast that I barely had time to prepare for them. That was most likely because I was Poseidon's son, but this time there were three of us and nothing had disturbed our first bus ride.

I looked out the window and saw normal pedestrians walking about. No signs whatsoever that a monster was around. I looked to the skies and saw seagulls and pigeons flapping about, competing for food. It was just a normal day.

Eventually we got to the bus terminal and we got out and searched for another bus that would take us to Medford, Oregon. We found one and bought tickets then waited to board. I looked around again, just in case, but still there was nothing out of place.

"Percy, don't worry," Annabeth told me. She linked her arm with mine and rested her head on my shoulder. I took a deep breath and tried to calm my nerves as I rested my head on hers.

Finally we were allowed to board. Annabeth and Jason went in first and I followed, taking one last glance around the place.

"Damn, that must hurt. How'd you bust your feet kid?" the bus driver asked, looking me up and down.

"I don't remember," I said, putting a confused expression on my face as I looked down at my bandaged feet.

"Percy over here, don't mind him he's still a bit disoriented from the accident," she told the driver.

Pretending to be a dazed car crash victim wasn't that hard to do. I stumbled to my seat and saw Jason snickering. I couldn't help but grin myself.

"This is hilarious," he said.

"Don't blow our cover," I told him, but I had to admit it was hard not to laugh.

Annabeth sat down next to us and smiled, "They're so gullible."

Jason and I stifled our laughs when an old lady got on board. I stiffened, recognising the face from years ago when I was twelve. She taught me pre-algebra.

"No way," I breathed.

"Percy what's wrong?" Annabeth asked as she studied my expression.

"Please don't tell me that's Alecto," I begged.

Annabeth turned and gasped, recognising the face as well.

"Wait, Alecto? Like Alecto the fury?" Jason asked, "She was your pre-algebra teacher?"

I nodded as I sunk lower into my seat, never taking my eyes off her. We were around the middle of the bus and she made her way down the aisle carefully, it seemed like she was looking for a particular seat and she found one that was five rows directly ahead of us.

"I knew it was too good to be true," I muttered.

"At least her sister's aren't here," Annabeth said quietly, but she spoke too soon as two others entered the bus looking exactly like Alecto and sat down beside their sister.

"Shit..." I said, "What can we do? We can't walk past them they'll see us."

"We'll have to act normal," Jason said, "Don't draw attention to ourselves."

"Yeah, that should be easy," I said sarcastically. There was no way that they wouldn't recognise us, well me and Annabeth at lest.

"Funny how we find them in a bus... again," Annabeth said.

"I know right," I said with a sigh. Eventually, minutes passed and no one else had boarded the bus. It left the terminal and got onto the highway, headed to Medford.

"We're screwed," I muttered, "There's no one else here to stop them from attacking us."

"Maybe they didn't notice us," Jason said, desperately trying to change reality.

"'Cmon get real, they're obviously here because of us. I wonder if Hades has anything to do with this," Annabeth said.

At the sound of their master's name, all three of them turned their heads to us and we froze.

"Shit," I said.

"Yeah they definitely after us," Jason said.

"What do we do?" I asked Annabeth desperately. She almost always had a plan or could at least figure one out in a matter of seconds.

"There's nothing we can do," she said helplessly, "The bus is in motion so if one of us gets shoved through a window we'll turn into road kill. If we fight them we might injure or distract the driver which will most definitely cause a car crash."

"Well we can't just sit here!" Jason said.

They were already making their way down the aisle towards us.

"Hello dear it's been so long since we last met," Alecto growled, her eyes fixed on me. They were transforming into their leathery forms and were preparing to pounce.

I quickly grabbed Riptide from my pocket and uncapped the pen while Jason flipped his coin and it turned into a sword. Annabeth drew her dagger and disappeared under her invisibility hat. Alecto growled, "You're not getting off easy this time dear."

Everything happened at once; the three furies leaped towards us, ready to kill, and Jason and I braced ourselves while Annabeth snuck around behind them. The bus driver seemed oblivious to all the commotion in the back and I wasn't about to yell at him to turn around and help.

Alecto aimed at me with her claws and I slashed at her with equal ferocity, trying to force her back towards the front of the bus. Annabeth had managed to take out one of Alecto's sisters as they crumbled to dust and Jason was busy with the other one. She continued to claw at me, forcing me towards the back of the bus.

"What does Hades want this time?" I asked her as I blocked her claws from tearing my face apart.

"We're on our own this time," she said with an evil cackle, "We were bored and smelled your scent. We thought we'd have some fun even though there is that risk of perishing."

"Well don't look too soon but one of your sisters is gone," I said, pointing behind her.

Alecto whirled around to see the dust pile that once was her sister and she screeched, "You will pay for what you did to my sister!"

"You shouldn't have sought us out in the first place!" Annabeth yelled, her hat fell off and she was suddenly visible. Jason was having a hard time with the other fury and Annabeth managed to stab it in the back with her dagger.

Alecto screamed with rage and turned back to me, "I will kill you all for this! Even if I die doing so, at least you'll come down with me!" she said cackling. Instead of charging at me, she aimed straight for the bus driver.

"NO!" Annabeth yelled, but it was too late.

Alecto landed on him, no doubt breaking his neck, which caused him to slump over the wheel. The bus lurched to the right as we all fell over from the sudden movement. It hit another car and started to roll over, all of us were thrown about inside. I could hear Jason and Annabeth screaming as it gained momentum and started rolling faster. I understood how clothes felt in a washing machine, being thrown around cruelly without stopping, it was terrible. With reach roll, more glass shattered and more metal shrieked and groaned under the stress. The walls of the bus were being ripped apart. We stopped rolling, and the bus screeched to a stop. There was a louder screech of wheels and another crash that shook the bus. It skidded a bit further then stopped.

It was quiet except for the cars honking and the people yelling outside. I heard Annabeth's shallow breathing as she struggled to get up. My eyes were closed and I was lying face down with a weight holding me in place.

"Jason, Jason! Are you ok?" she asked.

"I think I broke something," he groaned.

"I think I did too, where's Percy?" she suddenly asked.

"Percy? Percy where are you?" Jason called.

It took a lot of effort just to open my eyes, my bruised body that had been healing was once again put through yet another terrible ordeal. The bus was upside down and I could see that many of the chairs had been ripped out of their places, no doubt they were scattered about on the highway. All the windows had shattered and glass was everywhere.

I tried to move but the weight held me down. I managed to raise my head and looked at myself to see that the car that collided with us had pinned me to the ceiling of the bus.

Unable to hold my head up for any longer I rested it on the ceiling and coughed a little as I tried to speak, but only a strangled sound came from me.

"Percy!" Annabeth cried, as she rushed over to me.

Jason tried to follow her but his face turned green when he tried to get up.

"Percy, can you hear me?" she asked loudly, her grey eyes bore into mine.

"Y-yeah I can," I managed to choke out.

"We have to get out of here before we get crushed," she said, looking up at the floor of the bus as it creaked, threatening to fall. It was easier said than done since Jason and I were unable to move.

In one big lurch, half of it crashed down on us and Jason managed to scramble his way towards us. The car holding me captive was the only thing that could hold up the rest of the bus if it were to fall down.

"Listen to me," I told them, "You need to get out and find help. I can't move with this stupid car on top of me."

"No I won't leave you!" Annabeth cried. The bus creaked and fell again, putting more weight on the car which crushed me further. I gasped as the sudden weight pushed the air out of my lungs.

"You have to go, quickly!" I yelled. A warm wetness started soaking my shirt and Annabeth gasped as she reached out her hand to find blood. Adrenaline coursed through me, my body was still in shock which saved me from the pain for the moment.

"Jason, can you stand at all?" I asked him.

"I don't know if I can, I think my leg is broken," he said miserably.

"Both of you try and get out, get help," I commanded them. I could hear the sirens of the ambulances in the distance, "Go! NOW!"

Annabeth reluctantly grabbed Jason's arms and dragged him out of the nearest window. Just as they got out, the bus groaned and completely collapsed and I head Annabeth's horrified scream. I shielded my face from the glass but I could do nothing about the increasing weight on top of me. I struggled to breath, and hoped that help would get here soon.

I felt light headed and dizzy as I finally heard the sirens blare loudly. Eventually they stopped and I heard the doors open and close as the paramedics got to work. The window that Annabeth had escaped out of had been reduced to a foot by foot hole, and a face managed to poke through.

It was a man, and he shone his flashlight into the wreckage. It blinded me as it hit my face dead on and I saw his startled expression. I blinked slowly.

"Can you hear me?" he called out.

I coughed and managed to move my arm towards him. I had barely enough air to speak, and I tried to move closer to him. I rasped, trying to speak.

"Guys, he's still alive in here!" he called out.

"PERCY!" I heard Annabeth yell.

"Just hold on," he told me, and his face disappeared.

The rest of their voices seemed distant and my eyes started to close. I heard a loud creaking noise and realized that they were prying the bus open, at a certain point the weight lifted somewhat and I could breath better. Eventually, the small hole became large enough for an adult to crawl into and the same guy as before came back in.

"Hey, we're going to help you ok? Percy is it?"

I nodded weakly, and took a deep breath.

"Can you move the car yet?" he called out to the others.

He had started jacking the car up which lifted the weight off me even more.

Finally I heard the creaking groan of the car above me being pulled out of the wreckage and I was finally free.

WOOT! I feel very accomplished that I haven't written so much as this for just one chapter before ^_^ but at the same time, very guilty as I should be putting just as much effort into my homework -_-' and of course I have plenty of that... I hope to get another update up in three days at the most. If I can I might whip up a much shorter chapter if you guys want.

And one last thing: do you want a happy ending? Because I originally had a sad ending but my friend is very much enraged at my ideas and at me for being so sadistic with the characters... I can maybe possibly make an Alternate Ending if you guys want... maybe :)

Read and Review!