Sorry this chapter is so short, but I couldn't really think of anything to write about Eros attacking Annabeth and Percy. Aren't you getting kind of sick of everybody attacking the couple? Heehee, that's my evil nature coming out. MWAHAHAHAHA! XD

CHAPTER III: CUPID SHOOTS FART ARROWS AT MY HEART

2:58 p.m., near the archery arena

I was leaving the archery arena when Cupid—I mean, Eros, materialized in front of me with a pained expression on his handsome (though not nearly as good-looking as Percy's) face.

"Mother is mad. I am sorry."

He drew an arrow and in a second it was shooting at my heart. "Ahh!" I yelled and rolled out of the way. It exploded with the smell of fart and rotten eggs. "Eww!" I exclaimed and drew my knife.

Eros glared at my weapon. "I hate knives." He pointed his finger at it and it began trying to cut me. I dropped it in alarm and scrambled towards the dining pavilion and the Big House.

"HELP!" I screamed as another flock of arrows zipped by me—one was so close I almost felt the sting.

And who came but Seaweed Brain with Riptide in his hand and a mad/exasperated look on his face. "Eros!" he bellowed, charging.

"Hello, Perseus," Eros calmly said, shooting some more arrows at me. Percy jumped in front of me and they all bounced off his chest.

"You invincible demigods all think you're better than the rest," the god scoffed. "But you're not."

He pulled out a canister marked in Ancient Greek and took out the arrows that were inside. I managed to read the label on the canister: FOR INVINCIBLE DEMIGODS/GODS/MONSTERS ONLY.

"Percy!" I warned him. "These arrows can hurt you."

"I know!" he snapped as the first flock of the deadly, poison-tipped arrows flew by us. Percy ran forward with Riptide and dodged the arrows with swiftness. "RAAAAH!" he yelled and cleaved Eros's bow in half.

Eros's eyes turned a frosty blue. "Mother told me not to interfere with you," he hissed. "But I think I can make an EXCEPTION!"

There was a great bang and Percy flew backwards, crying out and covering his right eye. Eros vanished with a poof and reappeared on a low cloud above us. "THIS IS NOT OVER!" he yelled and vanished.

I ran to Percy's side. "Are you okay?" I asked, concerned.

"Uhhhhh..." he groaned.

I peeled back his hand and gasped at what I saw.

His normally twinkling, sea-green eye was blood-encrusted and oozing some sort of yellow thing. "Annabeth..." he moaned.

"Don't worry. I've got some nectar and ambrosia." I pulled them out and began treating his eye.

"Ow," he winced when I hit a particularly sensitive spot. Flustered, I almost jabbed his eye. "Oww!" he exclaimed.

"Sorry," I said, and kissed his eyelid.

His eye suddenly seemed much brighter. "I think it's better now."

"Yeah, right," I laughed. I dabbed a little more ointment on it and smiled in satisfaction as it began to smoke. The flesh began to re-grow and soon everything was back to normal.

"Thanks," he said as I gathered everything together. "I was beginning to worry you'd have to see the fireworks by yourself."

"And why," I asked as we set off, fingers laced together, "Is it always you that saves me?"

"Because you'd do the same for me," he said plainly, looking deep into my eyes.

I laughed and pulled him into a kiss.