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XXVI- Tributes
(Annabeth's POV)
"BEEP BEEP BEEP" Shouted the alarm clock, I groaned and tried to smash the clock as violently as I could. I never used the clock since that horrible day. I just tried to sleep through the days right now.
But today was the day they're gonna burn his shroud. Today's going to be the day I'm going to see him. They told me that they we're going to hold a ceremony for him as the hero of Olympus, but I couldn't care less.
My mind wants to get up but my body doesn't. I guess it got used to sleeping in until noon. But I finally got myself up and I did my usual morning routines knowing that this day would be far from normal.
I don't think I'm ready yet for this. I can't let him go out of my head. It's all filled with him. Percy, Percy, Percy is all I think about.
But I just have to suck it up, and hope for the best today, I put on a white dress that had magically appeared in my drawer and went out into the open.
At first, the sun blinded me, since I was never up this early in a while and I almost never came out of my cabin but the smell of fresh air soothed me and my eyes eventually adjusted to the light.
I walked around for the first time in days and it actually felt good, the wind blowing in my hair, the gentle ray of the sun beaming down my skin, although all the emotions stopped when I was nearing the beach for the ceremony.
There were around 50 people seated in chairs, mourning, crying. I walked down to the beach and I recognized some people.
Grover, who was crying his eyes out was sitting in a row with satyrs who were trying desperately to comfort him. I guess he went back here for Percy while saving nature.
Rachel, who was still wearing those gypsy clothes was sitting, looking down at the floor.
And I saw Thalia, whose lightning blue eyes were bloodshot, she was accompanied by a Artemis and a few hunters.
I was taken aback when I saw some of the gods came here as well. Aphrodite, who was crying and muttering something about being her favorite couple and how she had to find another experiment.
Poseidon, was sitting beside Mrs. Jackson who was crying silently in her seat. And of course Artemis.
Chiron, who was sitting in the front row was gesturing me to come sit beside him.
"Are you ready child?" He asked me with a concerned look on his face.
I just simply nodded thinking I just had to get over it. I looked forward and I saw Percy's shroud covering him on a marble table.
It was simple, yet elegant. It was sea-green, like his eyes and a bronze trident centered on it.
"Well then, lets get started." He said standing up.
We were all here, a reunion of all people I knew, all the people Percy knew, we all united here by him, and to him we shall pay our tributes.