K so yeah here is my next chapter! Sorry if i get suddenly delayed, i have lots of homework... CURSE YOU MATH!
Annabeth
Yeah, I guess I was a little selfish when I cheated on Percy but can you blame me? Mark has power, and my mother approves, so that's all that really matters right? I thought so, I thought I could never be happy with Percy, that my mother would never approve since he didn't have enough power, but the day we received the news, I was shocked to say the least.
*Flashback*
"Annabeth… babe! Where have you been, I been searchin' for ya everywhere!" Mark grabbed me around the waist. We had been dating for around six months, ever since Percy left but I still wasn't used to the way he tossed me around… 'Percy would never touch me like that' I thought, than I chided myself. I tended to think about Percy a lot when Mark was around and compare the two.
"Hey Mark, I was just practicing my knife fighting! Want to duel?" I asked with a hint of Flirtation to my voice. Mark just shook his head in disapproval, and took the knife from my hands. "Now why would I want to do that? I could hurt you, and hurt girlfriends are hard to…"
"Now Mark, is that anyway to talk to a lady? Especially my daughter?" I looked over Marks shoulder to see my Mom, Athena leaning on the door frame.
"Lady Athena, surely you've loved someone?" Athena simply shook her head, and returned her focus to me. "There is a gathering at the big house. The Olympians have a… announcement to make!" Then my mother vanished, leaving behind the feathers of an owl and the smell of olives.
I turned to Mark, "Is it just me or is she more,"
"Bitchy?" Mark interrupted,
"I was going to say stressed." I said looking at him with a hint of guilt. I did love him, I think, but he was really rude to the gods. When he became a god, he had been given telepathy and he used it a lot to spy on my thoughts.
"I'm a god, so it's not like they can punish me for saying things like that!" I punched him hard in the shoulder, "You know I hate it when you spy on my thoughts!" I yelled and stormed out of there, I always seemed to be more touchy around Mark. My friends said I was nicer around Percy, more relaxed and it had been so long I wondered what it felt like to be relaxed.
Finally I reached the big house and went to the war council room, which was more like a recreational room with a ping pong court as a table. I took my seat to find that everyone was already here, and I blushed; I hated being late, it meant inaccuracy of time which meant NOT. BEING. WISE!
"We have terrible news everyone; Olympus will be attacked tomorrow morning!" The room became eerily silent and creepy until Lou Ellen spoke up, "Um, who is attacking?"
Hestia walked forward and almost the entire room gasped; Hestia was none violent so to find her in a war council room was extremely rare. "He is the chosen of Chaos, the most powerful demi-god of all time!" Suddenly Mark popped in, "Someone call?" Hestia sighed at the seriousness Mark had in his tone, like she couldn't believe he believed it himself.
"Well, Mark isn't attacking this place so you must be wrong!" I said, I mean come on. He is the most powerful demi-god of all time, I he wasn't why would they have offered him immortality? Poseidon sat up strait in his chair, "That's what I said! But nope, apparently my other son is stronger, and he seeks revenge!" I gasped.
Hestia sent a glare towards Poseidon and continued, "Most of you have probably guessed, Percy Jackson is Chaos' personal General and once he defeats us he will rule in our place. Sadly, some of us were not smart and declared war before backing down," Hestia looked quickly in Apollo's direction before continuing on, "So we have sent out a little plan in how to make sure this world stays safe. We stand no chance in winning against Percy so our best hope is to make sure that the world is safe while we are gone!"
"Mom, you couldn't think of a better plan than that? You're the goddess of Wisdom, there has to be a better solution!" My brother Malcolm stood, furious but a more obvious statement stood on the tip of my tongue, "Percy wouldn't betray us! He would never turn on Olympus!" Hestia looked at me with a mixture of Pity and Blame. "I wish to talk to you after the council disperses; you have played a large part in the betrayal!" Everyone looked my way and I felt myself shirk down in my chair.
*End of Flashback*
So there we stood, in front of Olympus ready to face the monster Percy had become. I sat on the stairs of the entrance to the Empire State Building, holding hands with Mark, removing and replacing my New York Yankees cap, making me invisible every few seconds. Finally Mark had had enough,
"Come on, seriously Annabeth; do you really think this Percy brother guy of mine is stronger and better than I am?" Around this time the old Annabeth would have told him that yes I did think that, but now honestly I wasn't scared if he was stronger than Mark or not, I was scared about what he was going to do to me!
Suddenly in front of me there was a ripping sound and there appeared two figures; one was obviously a woman with long black hair and she was dressed in a black fighting gear that I could tell was stronger than armor with a kind of leathery feeling to it. She looked familiar, but the man beside her even more so; he also had shaggy black hair and he was about two inches taller than the girl with the same type of equipment only there seemed to be something in his pocket.
They looked around and noticed they were surrounded, so the man reached and pulled a pen out of his pocket. Mark started laughing, and I desperately wanted Mark to stop, not wanting the figures to notice us. Sadly they did; the man turned and uncapped the Pen and it turned into a two foot long celestial bronze sword. I drew in a wheezy breath, and exhaled one word, or more likely one name, the only thing I could think of,
"Percy?"
Me (Bad Imitation of Annabeth's voice):Percy?
Annabeth: Why do you hate me so much?
Thalia: Because your a...
(Percy covered Thalia's mouth)
Percy: Your almost worst than Arion!
Me: Anyway, i don't feel like having a long conversation so Read and Review while me Percy break up this girl fight!
