Hey everyone out there!
I just heard that Iron Man 3 will come out May 9 or something and I absolutely cannot wait to watch it.
The two movies that I really want to watch next year is
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. They better not mess it up like the first movie though. Not that I didn't like the movie necessarily, but it was not like the book at all.
Iron Man 3. I really want to know what iron man does to his armor this time! He does the most coolest upgrades.
I even saw on IMDB that Sherlock Holmes 3, and the sequel to X-men First Class would come out sometime in 2014 too! I absolutely can't wait to hear info on those two movies. I hope they're as good as the movies before.
Disclaimer: I do not own this stuff. Oh the things that would happen if I did….
Waiting
Annabeth POV
Something bad is going to happen-I can just feel it.
Of course Percy gets left with the suspicious looking lady and the weird dog, while me and Grover go down the elevator first.
We were at the gateway arch. You see, I being the person that I am, had wanted to see the arch for myself so I dragged Percy and Grover along with me to go inside.
Now, me and grover were in a very claustrophobic elevator with a bunch of other random people. It took about five minutes for the elevator to get to the bottom floor. The door finally opened with a satisfying "ding" and everyone filed out of the tiny space.
The both of us walked out into the lobby. There was a snack bar, customer desks, and some washrooms.
Grover and I walked over the snack bar area, and found a seat at one of the empty tables.
There were a lot of people sight seeing and buying food from the snack bar, or just hanging around. It seemed like a pretty normal day for some people. But of course not for us. There is no such thing as a "normal day" for us demigods.
I thought back to the strange looking lady and her dog, from up top in the arch. Why had she called her dog sonny?
She was also eyeballing us in a strange way-different from how she was looking at everyone else.
I couldn't help but think that that lady was not someone to be messed with.
"Hey Grover," I turned to face him.
"Hmm?" he answered.
"Did you notice anything different about that lady and her dog?"
"Well, she did smell weird. She smelt like a monster, but I've been smelling that ever since we got here, so it's probably nothing." He did sound nervous when he said that though, I could here the tremor in his voice. I had a feeling that he didn't really believe himself.
We waited at the snack bar table for another 4 minutes.
"Ugh, where is he?" I exclaimed. "Why is he taking so long?"
"Maybe he already went outside and didn't notice us sitting here." Grover pointed out.
"All right fine. Let's go outside and see if he's there."
So Grover and I walked out the sliding doors of the gateway arch. Sunlight met our eyes. It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the sunlight.
Grover and I walked around, looking to see if Percy had been outside.
We didn't see him anywhere.
We had looked everywhere, but still he was nowhere to be found. Had something happened to him? Was I right to be suspicious of that lady and her dog? Is Percy in danger?
I decided to put those thoughts aside, and to just focus on trying to find him first.
Me and Grover checked all around the arch once more until we gave up, and sat on a bench near the entrance of the arch.
"Where is he?" I asked, exasperated.
"I don't know, but I knew we shouldn't have left him in there alone!"
Just as Grover said that, I heard the whale of a siren in the distance. The sound kept getting louder as it got closer to the arch. From the street came two ambulances, a fire truck, and three police cars. They pulled up into the parking lot of near the entrance.
"Wha-? What are they doing here?" I wondered aloud. I knew there would be trouble if one of the policemen saw Percy. After all, he is a wanted criminal.
The doors to the fire truck opened as six firemen came out of the truck, and ran toward the front door of the arch. They were holding fire extinguishers, and were wearing full firemen gear. As they ran toward the building, some police came out of their car and told me, Grover, and a few other people who were around us to back away from the arch.
"Blah-ha-ha!" Grover bleated. "What happened?"
"I don't know, but it can't be anything good."
After about ten minutes, the sliding doors opened with a "BANG!", and the firemen came out of the building with a woman and a man on a stretcher. A couple of other adults and two kids were walking behind them.
I knew it! I knew something bad happened yet again. But where was Percy? Was he still stuck in there?
Suddenly I heard a voice saying, "I saw the boy! He was fighting a huge Chihuahua!"
"Ok ma'am. Well just take you to the hospital now. Just calm down."
"But I'm not crazy!"
I realized that the person, who was taking, was the lady who was on the stretcher. A doctor from one of the ambulances was trying to get her to calm down.
"Grover, I think Percy is in trouble." I said.
"Yeah, no kidding." Grover answered.
We both backed away from the arch until we could see the top, where Percy had been waiting for the elevator. At the top, there was a huge hole. I could even see fire licking the sides of the hole from time to time.
"Hey Grover, do you see that?"
"You mean that big hole with fire coming out of it, at the exact same place that Percy and that weird old lady had been standing?"
I nodded.
"Yep, unfortunately I do see that." He said with a sigh.
As we kept looking at the hole for any signs of Percy, a bright flash of light met my eyes.
Then I saw a glimpse of Percy with his sword. I figured that the sword had made the flash when the sun had hit the celestial bronze.
Although, something didn't look quiet right. It looked almost as if Percy was on fire.
Then I realized he actually was on fire. Something was biting at him, and he was trying to get away. He looked down from the arch through the big hole, as if that was the only was he could escape.
Then he edged even to precarious ledge of the hole and…fell.
Percy just jumped from the gateway arch!
Me and Grover watched in shock as he tumbled from the arch to the sea below, half on fire.
He landed with a huge splash into the water below. No normal person could survive that fall! But then again, Percy isn't normal. Maybe he still was alive. After all he is the son of Poseidon. But then there's the factor that he didn't land in the ocean, he landed in the sea.
I looked back up at the hole of the arch. I saw the glimpse of a big animal looking down from the hole. It somehow had a goat head, and a snake body.
"What is that?" Grover asked. Apparently he had noticed it too.
"I think I know." I replied.
I had seen this monster in one the many books that I have read. Considering the goat head and the snake body, I came to the conclusion that it could only be this creature. See, the monster that has both, a snake body and a goat head on it, is the chimera. And the has the head of a goat, a body of a lion, and the tail of a snake.
That's what it had to be. A chimera.
"It's a chimera" I said to Grover.
He gasped. "But how..."
"I don't know. But I do know for sure that it's a chimera."
"But what about Percy! He fell, like a hundred feet!"
"We'll have to wait and see if he resurfaces"
"He will resurface. I'm sure of it. He's the son of Poseidon!" Grover mumbled to himself.
Yeah he is still alive. I reassured myself.
"He is alive. He's Percy of course he's alive." I told Grover.
If he died, we wouldn't be able to complete the quest. We would have to go back to camp defeated. World war three would start.
…and I would miss him
So now we wait.
There you go another chapter! I know it took a reeeeally long time and im sorry!
Oh by the way, I am very disappointed to tell you guys that I wont be able to pulish anything for a month now.
I going on vacation to india in about 5 days so I decided to post this up now since I wont have time later what with all the packing. But im sure that once I get back, ill have a bunch of chapters ready!
Toodlo for a month!
-detective DG signs out