The Uprising
Sorry its so late guys, but you dont no how hard school is! anyway im back now so here's another chapter for you all.
I get a riddle from some Cab drivers
"Annabeth?" I ask groggily, coming round on the floor of her room.
"Yes Percy, I'm here."She kneels beside me and looks down at me with a worried expression her face.
"Sorry about earlier," I mumble and then spot something." I didnt know you wore thongs." I take them out from under the bed and she turns as red as a tomato, snatching them from me and sending daggers in my direction.
I just laugh and get up and then sit down again groaning. My stomach feels like its having a cleanout from the camp harpies and their lava spray. Danny comes over from the bed and opens the front of his backpack and takes out some nectar and ambrosia.
"You don't look too good fish boy." he remarks handing it over.
I just grunt and take it gratefully. After downing it in one i tell them about my vision of grover. After I've finished Annabeth immediately starts getting out a bag and begins packing.
"Are you going somewhere?" I ask.
"Grover said get to camp, so thats what we're going to do." She starts getting all her Greek stuff out of there hiding places and shoving it in.
"Yeah but I said we would get there tommorrow and he didn't complain."
"And that would have been fine," she replies hurriedly," if it was just us going. But now I know who he is it changes everything. Your scent will have become amazingly strong with the 2 of you together, just like if it was Thalia! We need to get to camp now!"
She sounded so worried and strained that i didnt even argue. When she was ready we got out of the girl's block and outside the school. We then walked onto the road and Annabeth got out one golden dranchma.
"Woah, hold up. What are you doing with that?" If i was right then she was going to do something i had bad memories about.
"I'm calling a cab." she replies and then goes to throw the drancma into the concrete.
Damn.
"No way am I going back in with the them again" Those sisters gave me helpful information but that doesn't mean i liked there service. They were batty old bags!
"Percy its the fastest way! Stop moaning at me, I'm doing whats best!"
With that she throws it and summons our ride.
The same cloudy grey cab seems to form out of the concrete. Annabeth throws the door open and bundles us in. The three of them are there same as ever scabby, grey skinned hags with only one tooth and one eye.
"Where too Godlings?!" screeched the one in the driving seat. (I think it was Tempest)
"Camp Half-blood." replied Annabeth curtly handing the coin to the one in the middle seat.
"The tooth, Wasp give me the tooth!" rasped the one in the middle to her companion on the left.
"No, I want to bite it!"
"You bit it last time you old hag! Give it here!"
"Not a chance you cranky b...!" The last bit of her insult was lost as Wasp wrenched out the tooth and stuck it in her gum, from where green blood dribbled.
"Ermm... Ladies," asked Percy tentatively," You sort of like...helped me with my quest the other year and ermm... I was wondering if you could... you know... help me again?"
"Not a chance!" retorted Tempest from the wheel.
" Yes, we know nothing about your perilous undertaking in the next f-"
Wasp clenched her gums together as she was pummeled from both sides by the screeching ladies.
"What Quest?" said Percy staring inquisitively at the three women at the front. They stared straight on, not even arguing about tooth or eye,Wasp looking a bit sorry for herself. "Remeber what i nearly did with your eye last time..." He let the threat hang in the air like a bad smell.
" Ok, ok..." they all grumbled and recited in time;
The place you Love
At hill top
Is ever so close
to a long drop
The only way to stop
this now
We cant tell you,
you find how
We only see a little glimpse
Sometimes just animals and imps
But we have seen a true thing,
That you must stop the Uprising!
"Service done!" they wailed and with that the whole cab dissolved into smoke, with only the cackling of the three old buzzards left in the air.
We just sat on the grass and stared at the place we had arrived at, our home, our safety...Half-Blood Hill.