Chapter 2

Disclaimer: Still not either Rick Riordan or J.K. Rowling

Annabeth's PoV

The next few days passed in blur, my excitement about getting to go to London, with Percy, made my ADHD brain go on hyper speed.

The only thing I could think about was the trip, which is actually not helpful when you have responsibilities as cabin leader.

Before cabin inspection one day, I was so absorbed in my thoughts of the trip that my younger brother, Malcolm, had to step in and get me off my butt.

After that, I tried to get myself to focus on what I was doing.

Clarisse had seen that I was highly distracted and she challenged me in the sword arena.

I agreed, pulling my celestial bronze knife out of my sleeve.

She drew her sword and we got into our battle stances, as one of her brothers shouted, "Ready, Go!"

She lunged at me and swung her sword down in an arc. I spun backwards and stabbed at her as she dodged.

At this point, we were testing each other's ability, which changed based upon the fighter's energy.

We exchanged a few more blows, I cut her arm, and she gave me a small cut on my face.

Then, she swung her sword at my shoulder and I quickly caught the blow on my knife.

I pushed against her sword and returned the force.

As we were in a deadlock, I grabbed her sword hand with my free hand and twisted.

She dropped the sword and I pointed the knife at her throat. "Dead," I announced.

The rest of my day was spent teaching the newest campers how to read and speak ancient greek, shooting volley after volley of arrows, and attending the canoe races.

Percy is not allowed to compete because he is the son of Poseidon, and he has control of water, making it impossible for him not to cheat.

But that didn't mean he couldn't "help" his favorites.

Clarrisse's team was paddling as hard as they could and getting literally nowhere, as the Demeter kids pulled far ahead of everyone else, with ease.

Travis had paid percy 10 drachmas to make sure that his girlfriend's team won.

Percy had joked that he would start to auction off the win to whoever paid the most, but I knew he was kidding. He liked the canoe races better when he didn't get involved.

Finally, it was the 14th. Percy and I were at the campfire with our arms around each other.

The entire camp was laughing at Connor who was covered in tomatoes and shaving cream after a prank from Travis, which happened to involve soda, a makeup kit and some talented acting from Katie Gardener when Chiron came over to me and asked to see me in the big house.

Once inside, he told me that my dad had been trying to reach me since this morning.

Immediately, my brain started up as I thought about the hundreds, no, thousands of things that could have happened.

Chiron led me to the bronze plated room in the back of the house where the only computer in the entire camp was located, for safety reasons.

I logged on to the computer and opened my email.

My inbox had two new messages, one being a note from an old school friend asking about hanging out, the other was from my dad.

I clicked on it and scanned the page. The computer has a program that translates everything into ancient Greek, so it was easy to read.

The note said that my step-mother had been admitted to the hospital for a bad case of food poisoning and that while she would be alright, he had to stay with my step-brothers and couldn't come on the trip.

He also assured me that Percy and I could go by ourselves, and to just send an iris message to let him know how things were going.

After I finished reading it, my brain processed this information at light speed.

My family was okay.

Percy and I could still go, and as long as we were careful, nothing bad would happen.

While I thought this, I realized that the chances of having a care-free, monster free vacation were slim, if not non-existent. But At that point, I was too excited to care.

Sorry that it's so short, it's really just a filler to get them to London alone.

Does anyone know how british people talk? I want to add it in but I don't know what they would say.

Also, school starts tomorrow. I won't update for a little while, but the story will continue.

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