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Percy: Admit the truth

Me: Never

Annabeth: Tell them or die

Me: You will never…

Annabeth: Are you sure? (Holds a knife to my neck)

Me: Fine, I don't own Percy Jackson Rick Riordan does!

Percy: Wise girl are you ready for our date?

Annabeth: Let me just wipe the blood of my hands.

(The two of them leave)

Me: Guys are you going to untie me? Don't leave! Really, really! Bye then!

Chapter 9

After a few hours of sleep I awoke to the sound of footsteps on the train, I opened my eyes and sat up seeing that we were at the last station. From the window I saw a lady and her Chihuahua board the train, you weren't allowed to bring animals on to the train, but I didn't see anything. They got on a carriage a few down from ours, I then remembered what had happened last time we were with 'A lady and her Chihuahua' at the St. Louis Arch. The Echidna and the Chimera had ruined the beautiful architecture there, and Percy had fallen off.

I made the decision that I should try to wake the girls up and get off the train, but the Echidna sat down in our carriage. I started braiding Hannah's hair hoping she would wake up, that girl could scream if someone touched her hair it always got so tangled. I put my hand over her mouth muffling a scream, and whispered in her ear to wake the girls and ask no questions. I walked out the carriage along a few and back, and started mumbling some nonsense to Hannah that I had found our parents, so they should grab their bags and we would go. The Echidna stood up and asked if we needed anyone to watch our bags, and I made up a story.

I told her that we were all going on vacation as a family, and that Hannah was my sister and we were going with her friends. The 3 sets of parents had gone on earlier and were staying in a relaxing resort to give them a break for 2 days before they were due to get on the train with us. I had found their carriage, so I had told them we'd move to them, and then said to the Echidna that we didn't need her help with our bags and we were fine. I walked a decent amount of carriages away and told the girls that when I said go we were going to put on our backpacks and jump off the train. They all looked at me like I was crazy until I had told them that the lady in our carriage was the Echidna and her dog was the Chimera.

The girls signaled they were ready and I waited for the train to slow down a bit and told them to jump, note to anyone out there don't jump from a moving train. We all somehow landed by rolling and didn't break any bones, although our bodies we bruised and sore, we decided to move away from the track. We approached the forest on the outside of the track, and moved inward for about half an hour before I decided to set up a camp. Pulling some logs together we sat eating the food we had packed and had a quarter of an ambrosia square each. It would make us ready to be able to walk a long way tomorrow, I decided that we should try and sleep for the night. I volunteered to take the first watch and we settled down on a soft patch of grass using our backpacks as pillows and wearing as many jackets as we possibly could to stay warm.

I was beginning to get tired, but wanted to let everyone else get a good night's rest when I heard a rustling coming from the trees. I got my weapon at the ready and tried to wake the girls up but they were all out like a light. Circling our camp I listened for footsteps, but didn't hear anything. I began to lower my guard when I came face to face with someone I did not expect to see. It was Thalia!

The other hunters came out of sight and they set up their camp and moved the girls into some of their tents. I hugged Thalia and asked her why the hunters were here, she explained they were on their way to camp and were running a day late, so decided to stay at one of their regular spots to find me here. Lady Artemis offered me some food, but I declined knowing it was getting late and that I should go to sleep. Reading my mind I was offered a tent, or one to share with Thalia was given a blanket and sent to bed. I never knew a 12 year old with so much authority and power in her voice even if she was an immortal goddess who was thousands of years old.

I lay down in my sleeping bag, and closed my eyes wishing for peaceful dreams, being a demigod that didn't happen. Whilst on this quest I had been thinking about Rachel a lot, I thought we had sorted out our problems with each other. Well when she trapped me in her cave I realized I hadn't done anything, she had tortured me for crying out loud. I remembered what she thought would break me, Percy. He was the one who was to loyal, I just wanted something permanent. I realized something, Percy was the only permanent thing in my life, there would always be camp, but I couldn't rely on it when I was older.

During these dreams I realized something, I couldn't become a hunter of Artemis, it wouldn't work out for me, and I was still in love with Percy. When someone saves your life and you save theirs countless times it creates a bond between those two people. I needed to tell Thalia in the morning that I was not going to become a hunter. I closed my eyes and finally peaceful sleep came to me and I drifted into unconsciousness. (A/N she's not unconscious, when you sleep your unconscious so she's just sleeping)

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-WiseGirlAnnabethChase