Sacrifice is Always Painful
Chapter 2
Gosh I hate myself. I'm sorry I haven't uploaded. I either busy or I'm too lazy. I don't own anything. Thank you for the reviews, I never thought I could get that much. And thank you for the ideas, I might use it! ^-^ Okay, this is all you reviewers are waiting for, right?
Smoke curled up from the fireplace. A redish glow flickered on the campers stepped forward, her eyes red and puffy from crying. She was holding a shroud Tyson made.
It was a beautiful shade of turquoise with pearls embroidered onto the right upper hand corner. A sea green trident was stitched into the middle and waves lashed about in the background.
Chiron chanted something and Annabeth burned the shroud.
"Heroes and their stupid curses!" Annabeth yelled at Chiron and slammed the wall, crying again.
"I'm sorry my dear, but I can't do anything. I'm just an old centaur that trains demigods into heroes," he replied, not looking at her at all.
"Exactly! You trained him to be a hero, and now he died!"
"But that's my job."
"I don't care! I want Percy back! First Luke, now Percy! It's like everyone that I love leaves me!" And she stormed into the graveyard of the camp. (Let's pretend they have one, last year.)
"Chiron, she won't leave the tombstone," Grover reported. "She set up a tent next to him and won't move at all. All she does is cry and goes to sleep. She won't even eat."
"I tried to comfort her, but she won't listen," Juniper added.
"Well, try something else," said Chiron.
Piper slowly walked up to Annabeth's tent with Grover.
"She okay?" Piper whispered. Grover shook his head. Piper gave him the bowl of soup.
"Annabeth? We've got you something to eat," Grover spoke softly.
"Leave me alone."
"Don't make me tell Piper to charmspeak to you."
"So what?" Grover sighed.
"I told you, she won't listen," Grover whispered to Piper. Piper's eyes lit up.
"That's it! Grover, do you know where Hazel is?"
"I think she's with the Apollo cabin, training in the arena. Why?"
"Thanks!" And Piper ran off.
"No prob…," Grover muttered.
Piper finally reached the arena, panting. Jason was just about to go in there.
"Jason, did you see Hazel?" Piper asked. Jason gave her a small smile.
"She just left to her cabin."
"Thanks." And Piper took off.
The camp was unusually quiet after Percy's shroud was burned. Piper knocked on Hades' cabin. Feet shuffled and Hazel opened the door.
"Hey! Piper! What do you need?" she asked with a warm smile. Piper smiled back.
"Is Nico here?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I want to ask him for a favor."
"Okay, come on in. He's over there," Hazel replied, waving to Nico's bunk. The guy hardly came to visit, but since he heard Percy's death, he decided to stay for a bit.
Piper came in, bouncing.
"Hey Piper, do you need anything?" he asked.
"I know this is a touchy subject, but you can bring back the dead as in ghost right?" Piper asked. Nico tried not frown, but he failed.
"Yes, for a few minutes, but why?"
"Can you bring back Percy?"
"He's a son of Poseidon, so I don't think so."
"What about Bianca? She was a daughter of Hades."
"That's different."
"Dang it. What about Luke?"
"Sure, but he's a hard one."
"Can you at least try? For Annabeth's sake?"
"Maybe."
"Come on, Nico," Hazel pleaded.
"Fine," he grumbled.
This chapter's a little short, but I think its good enough. Review and tell me some ideas for the future chapters. Review! And maybe Percy might come back! ;) MAYBE. ;P