Hey guys, so i'm updating again! Not my best chapter D:, sorry about that. I was wondering if you guys could give me some options in what to do next. The only thing is that i don't want Percy and Annabeth getting together TOO quickly. Because Annabeth is still a little unsure about Percy and everything. Anyway give me some ideas and i will try my best to go through with them!
Percy's POV
Soon after we were talking for a while Thalia and Bianca came back from the meeting.
"So, what did you guys talk about?" I asked. Bianca shrugged.
"Oh…..stuff….." she said.
"What kind of…stuff?" Annabeth asked.
"You already know, Annabeth. Don't worry about it." Thalia said. Annabeth frowned, but shrugged it off.
"So what were you guys doing while we were gone?" Bianca asked.
"Well, I taught Percy how to shoot a bow and arrow-"Annabeth started. Thalia went wide-eyed.
"You taught Percy how to shoot? Annabeth you are a miracle worker! Since Percy was the child of the Prophecy, Chiron got him a personal trainer, because he felt that he should know how. He didn't learn a thing! And he was Apollo! The best of the best!" Thalia said. Annabeth looked at me with raised eyebrows.
"Hey, Apollo didn't tell me to go to my happy place. He kept yelling at me and told me I was hopeless." I said. Thalia rolled her eyes.
"You are hopeless." Thalia said. "So….just out of curiosity, where is your happy place?" She asked me.
"At the beach with Poseidon, my mom and….um…..Mrs. O'Leary." I said. All of the sudden Annabeth was laughing. Hard. She was leaning on Thalia for support.
"Your dog's name is Mrs. O'Leary?" She asked. I shrugged.
"In my defense, she was named before I got her." I grinned.
"What kind of dog is she?" She asked. I grinned again. This outta be good.
"A hellhound." I said. Bianca and Annabeth stared at me.
"A hellhound? Are you insane? Being Hades daughter, I know that they are horrible." Bianca asked.
Thalia smiled. "Ya, but Mrs. O'Leary is awesome. The best dog in the world." Thalia said. Annabeth shook her head.
"You guys are insane." Annabeth said. I smiled at her. Thalia and Bianca exchanged glances.
"So what else did you guys do?" Thalia asked.
"Um…Percy told me his life story. Very boring." She said.
"Hey." I said. Annabeth laughed, and it was the best sound in the world.
"Just kidding. It was pretty interesting. You're mom sounds awesome." She said. Thalia nodded and smiled.
"She is. How is Sally?" She asked.
"Fine. She and Paul are doing great." I said. Thalia looked confused.
"Paul?" she asked.
"Oh, ya. She got remarried." I told her. She smiled and nodded.
"Well, we're going to go. Try not to kill each other." Thalia said. I rolled my eyes and Thalia winked at me. Then they were off. I smiled and looked at Annabeth. She was pulling her hair up into a ponytail, revealing her beautiful face. I wanted so bad to run my hand across her cheek. But that would be wrong.
"So? What do you want to do?" I asked.
"Well, I wanted to go to a lake I saw earlier. Want to come? I'm sure you'll like the water." She said. I nodded. I walked next to her with my hands in my pockets so I didn't do anything stupid. We had a conversation with laughs and smiles and it just got me wondering….
"Are we friends?" I asked. Annabeth looked down.
"I don't know. I mean, you're cool and nice and funny and all of that. I would love to be friends. But it's wrong. On so many levels." She said. We stopped at tree and she started to climb it. I went after her.
"How? And don't say that it is because of the fact that you are a hunter and I am a boy. Thalia and Bianca are hunters." I said.
"Yes, but Thalia was you're best friend long before she joined the hunters. And you helped keep Bianca's little brother alive. We are connected no way. Artemis is strict about this stuff." She sighed. Annabeth was sitting on a branch with her hands cupping her face and her elbows on another branch slightly in front of her.
"So you want to be friends?" I asked. Annabeth sighed, but nodded slightly. And that small nod just made my day. My whole life, actually.
"Well then that's good enough." I said, hopping out of the tree and holding out my hand. She looked at me weirdly and I blushed.
"What? Friends help other friends out of trees. Or are you still new at this?" I asked. She took my hand, which made sparks fly everywhere, and jumped out of the tree. When she stood up she let go and slapped my arm.
"I have friends. I'm not new at this." She said. I grinned. She rolled her eyes but grinned. After that we walked to the Lake. As soon as I got there I relaxed. I put my feet in the water and sighed. I missed the Ocean.
"Miss home?" Annabeth asked. I smiled and nodded.
"It must be nice to be Poseidon's son. I've always loved the water. Don't tell my mother that or she would freak." Annabeth said. I smiled.
Annabeth sighed and sat down. I sat down next to her.
"You know that we are breaking about twenty rules, right?" she asked.
"Rules, shmules. Lighten up a bit, Annabeth. Go to a happy place." I did a very bad imitation of her. She narrowed her eyes.
"I sounded nothing like that." She said. I rolled my eyes.
"Well in my head you do." I said. She smiled slightly.
"You know, I can do this thing where I can go underwater and not get wet at all." I said. She looked at me.
"Really?" she asked. I nodded.
"And I can bring people with me." I said. Her eyes brightened up, but then she sighed.
"As much as I want to…I-I can't. If Artemis found out, then I will be kicked out for sure. The hunters have been in my life forever. It would kill me if I left." She said.
And it would kill me, if she was unhappy. I knew she wanted to come, though. She started to kick the water.
"I guess I could go. Just for five seconds, though." She said. I smiled.
"Come on." I grabbed her wrist and dragged her to a shallow part of the lake. We walked into the Lake and even though we were waist deep, because I was touching her she wouldn't get wet. Soon I made an air bubble and we went inside it. We I willed the currents to push us to the bottom of the lake where you could see all of the life. There were fish everywhere. I smiled as a school of fish came by. They all said 'hi'. Annabeth sat at the bottom of the bubble. I joined her.
"So…do you like it down here?" I asked. Annabeth smiled and nodded.
"You're so lucky. This is your life every day. You can also talk to some of these animals right?" she asked. I nodded.
"What are they saying?" she asked. I looked around to see a group of fish look at the two of us.
What is Poseidon's son doing with that Athena girl? I decided not to tell Annabeth that one. I heard another one say something and smiled.
"One of them is asking why I don't come down here more often." Annabeth smiled.
"What else?" she asked.
Are they…together? One of them asked. I blushed. The fish kept talking.
They should be. Lord Poseidon forgive me. Even though she is Athena's daughter…..they look perfect for each other.
Percy blushed even harder. I know right? He thought.
Annabeth noticed his blush. "What?" she asked
Percy shook his head.
"Nothing. You would probably kill that poor little fish." I said. She rolled her eyes.
"Come on…I can take it." She said. I sighed. I wanted to tell her that we would look good together. I wanted to see her reaction.
"That fist was wondering if we were like…..together. And then it said that we…..er…..would look good as a couple." I said, watching her closely. She raised her eyebrows.
"Oh." She said.
Oh? That was all she could say. I wanted to go deeper into the conversation.
"Pretty weird, huh?" I asked. She nodded. But it wasn't a nod that was like: Uh, DUH!
It was more like a nod that was like: Oh, ya….sure.
That was kind of nice. There was kind of an awkward moment.
"We should probably go." She said. I nodded. She was about to swim up, but I grabbed her arm.
"Wait! There are people up there. I can hear them." I said. I didn't want to get her in trouble. Annabeth looked unsure.
"Percy, we are deep in the lake. The voices are probably the fish's or something." She said.
"Annabeth, my senses are at best underwater. I'm positive that someone is at the surface." I said. She looked concerned.
"Well what do we do? We can't stay down here." She said.
"We're just going to have to wait it out." I said. Annabeth nodded. Then I realized something. "Wait. This bubble won't hold air for that much longer." I said. Annabeth started to panic. She turned back to me.
"Can you tell who it is?" she asked.
"Um…." I listened deeper into the voice. It sounded familiar. I went pale.
"It's Artemis." I said. Annabeth looked like she was going to cry.
"No! I can't be seen with you. If I do then I will be kicked out for sure. The hunt is my life!" she screamed I walked over to her and patted her back awkwardly. She crossed her arms and glared at the bottom of the lake. "This is going to ruin everything." She mumbled. That's when I realized that it was. I was going to get Annabeth kicked out of the hunters. She would never forgive me. She didn't have a family anymore. The hunters were all she's got.
"It's okay. She has to go away eventually." I said. Annabeth sighed.
"What is she doing up there?" she asked. I listened.
"Arguing with Apollo." I said.
"Again." Annabeth muttered. "About what?" she asked.
"Um…." I listened into Apollo and Artemis…
"Apollo, I think you have the wrong couple. I had a meeting with the girls and they said that the two will never fall in love. She can't stand being in the same room as him." Artemis said. Apollo sighed.
"Sis, I was there. Now listen, they have been getting along. Aphrodite clearly said that these two were meant for each other. It's what the fates want." Apollo said. Artemis sighed in frustration.
"Well, she is wrong! The girl wouldn't fall in love; she has been with me for too long. Why would she start to fall now?" Artemis asked.
"Because, he wasn't born yet. You just don't want to lose her." Apollo said. Artemis was quiet for a while.
"I'm done here." And she walked away. Apollo left to.
"They were talking about two people who are supposed to fall in love. Artemis keeps denying it, but Apollo thinks that it is true." I said.
"Do you know which two people?" Annabeth asked me. I shook my head.
"They didn't say names." I said. She nodded.
"They left, by the way. We can go up." I said. She nodded again. I brought the bubble up and we were dry when we got to the top. As if we were never down there. We walked back to the camp in silence.
When we got back we went in our tent at separate times.
"Hey." I said to Thalia and Bianca.
"Hi." They said. The three girls went on and talked about something. I didn't listen. I was thinking about Annabeth. Annabeth. She was all I could think about now. And I hated it, because I knew that she would never feel the same way.
"I'm going out." I said. Annabeth looked at me weirdly like, we just went out. I shrugged and walked out the tent. I went to Artemis's. She was in there talking to one of the younger girls, Nicole. Nicole smiled at me, as she walked out. She was always nice to me. I knelt in front of Artemis.
"Lady Artemis." I said. She nodded.
"Hello Percy. What brings you here?" she asked. I sighed and sat in front of her.
"I just wanted to ask why I was here?" I asked. Artemis looked confused.
"Well, Percy, you walked in here. It wasn't my intention." She said. I smiled slightly.
"No, I mean why am I in the hunt now?" I asked. Artemis looked just a little bit nervous
"You are here to see if my girls are still loyal to Me." she said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I wanted to see if some of my girls still aren't interested in guys." She said.
"Do you have any theories?" I asked. Artemis looked at the ground.
"Just some of the younger girls." She said.
"Okay…..now look at me when you say that." I said. Artemis looked at me.
"Percy, why are you really here?" She asked, trying to change the subject.
"I…..um….have a problem." I said. Artemis nodded.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Please don't blast me to bits, but I…..I think that I might be falling for one of your hunters." I said. I looked at her. She was frowning a little bit.
"Which one?" she asked. I gulped. Because she has been with Artemis the longest. Artemis defiantly has a connection with her.
"Annabeth." I said. I really expected her to blast me into the sky, so that Zeus could finish me off. But instead she put her head in her hands and sighed.
"Percy…I was afraid you would say that." She whispered. I was confused.
"Why, my lady?" I asked. She smiled slightly.
"I'll tell you later." She said. "You should go. It's almost time to go to bed." She said. I nodded and bowed to her.
"Goodnight." I told her.
"Goodnight." She whispered back. I walked into our tent.
Thalia and Bianca were out. Annabeth was up reading a book.
"Hey." I told her.
"Hi….where did you go?" I asked. I shrugged.
"I went to talk to Artemis." I said. Annabeth raised her eyebrows.
"Why?" she asked. I shrugged.
"I just wanted to tell her something." I said. Annabeth still looked unsure but nodded.
"What did you want to tell her?" She asked. I blushed.
"Oh…nothing." I said.
"Uh-huh. Sure, Percy. Well, I'm going to bed. Goodnight." She said as she lay down.
"Goodnight." I said. I love you. I added silently to myself.