A/N: Sorry for the delay, I just started school again and it was hard for me to find time to upload.
Third One's the Charm?
We packed into the red truck and I sat partially on Percy's lap, at sometime during the drive, Grover almost killed us. We decided to stop at a motel and I walked out to see Percy at the bottom of the pool, he surfaced and I placed a towel next to me.
"Hey, nice work today," I smiled, sitting next to the pool.
"Thanks," he said, pulling himself out of the pool and I tapped my hands on the tile.
"So, what does it feel like, to heal someone else?" he asked catching me of guard.
"It's relieving, because you know you're helping someone, even if it makes you feel their pain."
"When you healed me, did you feel my pain?"
"A little bit but, not as much as I should have."
"Yo Percy!" Grover yelled, making us both turn, "Get in here, you need to see this!"
We walked back to the room, and watched a news report after he changed.
"Oh, shut up Gabe. Great, now I'm a fugitive," Percy stated turning off the TV.
I sat next to Grover, and we had to leave because he held up the head and someone saw it. I was still tired considering I hadn't slept in almost 72 hours and began to doze in the truck. Percy snaked an arm around my shoulders and I rested my head on his shoulder and it was lights out from there. When I awoke, we were at the Parthenon in Nashville and as soon as I looked up, I nudged Percy, pointing up at Athena's crown right before Grover said anything. The pearl was in the crown and Percy said that he had a plan, so we went into the bathrooms and hid until closing time.
"What do we do about them?" Percy asked.
"Relax guys, I got this," Anna Beth said, pulling out a cross bow.
After she shot all of them, Grover started yelling at her and I cocked my head.
"I could climb that," I stated as Anna Beth said that they were unconscious.
"Put on the shoes," Grover said.
"Or he could put on the shoes that he doesn't know how to use," I shrugged.
After getting the pearl, I faced them and asked, "Doesn't this seem a little too easy?"
Right then and there, the janitors walked out and Grover said, "It's alright guys I got this."
As he talked to them, I grabbed Percy's jacket and whispered, "I don't think they're human."
He looked at me confused until the janitors all said, "We've been expecting you mister Jackson. Just give us the lightning bolt and we'll let you go."
"You gotta be kidding me," I muttered.
"Look I don't have the lightning bolt," Percy attempted to explain.
They all merged into one and I grabbed the feather, making Grover look at me and ask, "Really a feather?"
"Stand back," I instructed him, running a hand down the feather as it turned into a sword.
I held the sword as the hydra formed. Throwing my sword to Anna Beth, I pulled out my bow and arrow and started to fire at him.
"You shouldn't have done that," I said, firing another arrow, as the new heads grew.
The hydra fired at me and I held out my hand making the fire go around me.
"Open the door!" Grover yelled.
"The door wont open!" Percy yelled.
I turned and saw Grover holding Medusa's head up to the hydra's. After it turned to stone, we went to get something to eat ad the news came on the TV.
'We interrupt this programming for a special report. Scientist are baffled by the sudden weather changes.." I blocked the rest out, rubbing my temples and hearing a voice in my head.
'You know what to do child.'
"The gods are angry, we need to find the last pearl, where does the map lead to?" Anna Beth blurted out.
Percy pulled out the map and I looked up, waiting for his answer, when Grover read it and said, "We're going to Vegas!"