This is the second chapter, and I've done a bit more Percabeth, but then I did Hazel's POV because I'm liking the new love triangle that is potentially starting!
Enjoy! ;D
3rd Person
Annabeth pulled away from Percy as the joy inside her faded, to be replaced with anger and hurt. She narrowed her eyes at him, and Percy looked at her in confusion. What had he done wrong? She took a menacing step towards him and Percy backed up, hands raised.
There was a crowd gathering around them now, and Reyna gave Percy a questioning look.
Percy responded by saying "Annabeth, is everything alright?"
This turned out to be the wrong thing to say. Annabeth screamed in frustration and lunged at Percy, punching him in the stomach.
"No! Everything. Is. Not. Alright!" she pronounced each word with a blow to Percy. Her stormy grey eyes glittered dangerously.
"Percy? Should I…" asked Reyna, her hand resting on her sword as she took a cautious step towards Annabeth.
"No, it's alright," Percy gasped as Annabeth littered him with punches, "She needs to get her anger out - oof!" Percy doubled over as Annabeth punched him yet again.
"Yes, Reyna," said Octavian, with a smirk, "I'm sure that graecus can take care of himself." He didn't sound too sure, more like amused, but Reyna backed off.
"How dare you leave me!" Annabeth shouted at Percy, "Eight months, Percy! Eight months! I woke up one morning and you'd disappeared. How do you think I felt? You're such a – a Seaweed Brain! You left me." Her voice broke on the last sentence and her anger diminished as the new tears of sadness spilt over and she started sobbing.
"I thought you were gone," she whispered, looking down at the floor, so faintly that only Percy could hear her. Percy looked at her with so much affection it looked like it hurt.
He put his hand under her chin and gently lifted her head up so he was looking into her eyes.
"Annabeth," he whispered back to her, "I will never leave you."
(A/N Yay! More fluffiness!)
Hazel's POV
Percy's girlfriend scared me. Me and Frank stood watching their little exchange and I couldn't help but feel a little bit worried as I remembered that line from the prophecy Ella had recited; Wisdom's daughter shall walk alone, the mark of Athena burns through Rome. Could she be the person in the prophecy? She certainly had the right looks – blonde hair, grey eyes, like the daughters of Minerva. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but Athena was Minerva's Greek equivalent, right? The prophecy made it sound like she was a danger to the camp, but watching her sobbing in Percy's arms, it didn't seem likely.
The other people were starting to get off the ship now. There were three more people as well as Jason, Annabeth and Piper. The first to descend was a girl with spiky black hair and electric blue eyes, carrying a bow and arrow and wearing a 'Death to Barbie' T-shirt. The second person was – wait, was that a faun? He had a goatee and an afro and was wearing a tree hugger T-shirt. He had nothing on the bottom half apart from his furry goat legs. Yup, definitely a faun. What had he come to do, beg for our money?
"Yo, Perce!" shouted the faun.
Percy turned around, and must have recognised him because he replied,
"Grover!" and ran to meet him, with Annabeth holding his hand and towing along behind him. I hadn't noticed before, but at some point Frank must have grabbed hold of my hand. I blushed, but didn't let go. It felt…nice.
"Hey, Kelp Head!" said Spiky, smirking at Percy.
"Right back at ya, Pinecone Face!"
They continued to argue like this, and I soon lost interest, but what caught my attention next was far from boring. The next person who emerged from the ship was Sammy Valdez.
No, I corrected myself, that kid's name was Leo. But he was like a clone of Sammy; same curly black mop of hair, same crazy smile. He looked straight at me, and I instantly paled. He even had the same eyes. I felt sick. Why now? Why did he have to show up just as I thought I might be getting over Sammy and moving on?
I was interrupted from finding an answer when Jason called everyone to attention. Everyone immediately took a seat and quietened. He motioned for Annabeth, Piper, Spiky, Grover and Sa- I mean, Leo, to come and stand by him.
"Hello again, everybody!" people responded to this with a cheer, "As you all can see, I'm back. I now know why I was taken in the first place; so that the Roman and Greek camps could overcome their differences and beat Gaia and the giants! But we will not be able to do this without co-operating, so I would like to introduce the Greeks that we will be co-operating with." He gestured for Annabeth to step forwards.
"Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, one of the seven." Oh, so I was right. Annabeth stepped back and Piper stepped forwards.
"Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite, charm-speaker and also one of the seven."
Octavian jumped up from where he was sitting.
"Outrage!" He said, "We cannot have a daughter of Aphrodite as one of the seven! She is useless!"
Piper's nostrils flared.
"Excuse me, Octavian?" said Piper, sweetly. Octavian's eyes suddenly became glassy, and he had a slight smile on his face.
"Yes, my beauty?" he replied in a dreamy voice.
"Could you please sit down, for me?" Octavian sat down so fast he nearly fell off his chair.
"Well done. Now don't talk for the rest of the meeting. Please." He nodded mutely, gazing affectionately at Piper. He had started drooling.
She smiled triumphantly and stepped back.
"Does anyone else have any objections?" asked Jason. The Forum was silent. "Good, now I'll carry on. Grover Underwood, Satyr – or Faun, and representative (A/N I forgot what word Rick used for him) of Pan. He is different than the fauns here, who just seem to beg for change, and he should be treated like any other camp member." Grover bleated happily, and munched on a tin can.
"Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, hunter of Artemis, and most importantly, my sister."
Whoa, Jason had a sister? And she was Greek? Okay, we all had some major catching up to do. There were similar murmurs of wonder coming from everyone else, but Thalia soon shut them up.
"Yes, I am Jason's older sister. Jason's roman and I'm Greek; dad always seemed different when mum was pregnant with Jason," she shrugged, "I guess now I know why."
"But wait," interrupted Reyna, "How are you older than Jason? You're, like, fifteen." She had a good point.
"Being turned into a tree helps," Thalia replied, "Also, I'm a hunter so I don't age. But I'm definitely older. I bet you don't know how Jason got that scar on his lip."
Reyna grinned, "How?"
"He tried to eat a stapler." Ripples of laughter filled the room, and Jason's cheeks turned slightly pink.
"Okay, okay," he said, chuckling, "Moving on. Last, but not least is…"
Leo stepped forwards. Oh dear. I'd almost forgotten about him. What if he was related to Sammy? I crossed my fingers and squeezed my eyes shut. Please don't say Valdez, please don't say Valdez, please don't say –
"Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus, one of the seven!"
Shisht!
So, this chapter was longer. Was it better? Worse?
I might do Annabeth's POV next chapter. We'll see.
Please review! Xx :D
