Author's Note: Welcome to chapter two, mon cheries! I'm so excited! This is my first crossover, so hopefully I feel encouraged to do more. I hope you enjoy. I am aware that several other people have made this, or at least one similar to it, but I think you find mine...unique. Enjoy!
When I was finished, Percy looked disgusted, though not for the reason I had imagined. His next comment surprised me somewhat. Who am I kidding? It surprised me A LOT!
"This is just great," he intoned sarcastically. "The end of the world is coming again." I had just enough time to think, Again?, before he continued. "Why do the... um...our friends upstairs always make it me and you, Annabeth, that discover these things. What wrong with Clarisse, or someone else from the…summer camp? Actually, don't answer that."
"Yeah," Annabeth replied. "But, Percy, it's a whole other civilization that's still around! This is...well, not great, but interesting."
Percy looked at her like he was annoyed with her. "So how much do we tell him? Will our monsters be able to track him too if we let him know?"
"I'm not sure," Annabeth murmured. "I don't think so. I mean, with Sadie and Carter we could already see them, so…"
"Okay, I'm sorry," I interrupted, "But I'm really confused! You sound like you've dealt with this before! How is that possible? Let's hear your stories now."
Percy and Annabeth exchanged guilty looks. They seemed to feel bad about not cluing me in before. I was sorry I had been short with them, but I needed to know why they were so calm, why it didn't take any convincing to get them to believe me.
Annabeth sounded repentant as she said, "Sorry, Magnus. I guess we should tell you why we've been kind of...indifferent. Do you remember when we were kids and I said I was going to run away?" She paused as I nodded the affirmative. "Well, I did. But, I never did tell you why. It's because Norse gods aren't the only ancient deities still around today. The Greek gods are still around too. There's a reason for that, but it'd take too long to explain, so I'll give you the short version. western civilization is a living force that moves with the center of power, leading the Greeks to the US."
When she was done with this explanation, I stared at her with my mouth agape. My world had just gone from ordinary (well, as ordinary as it can be when you're dead, and yet still alive) to absolutely full-on crazy.
Percy teased Annabeth, "For the "short version," that was pretty long."
"Well, it's shorter than the orientation film," Annabeth replied.
"You know, I never actually saw that."
"Anyways," Annabeth said with a harsh glance at Percy. "While I was on the run, monsters from Greek mythology started to chase me. They always found me because they could literally smell my demigod...aura. It's a really big problem for us. But, I was scared and alone until two other demigods found me: Thalia and...Luke." I noticed she faltered when she said his name, and that Percy looked at her with concern. "Eventually, a satyr name Grover found us and took us to Camp Half-Blood, a safe place for demigods.
Thalia, who was a daughter of Zeus, sacrificed herself for Luke and I. There was a huge hoard of monsters on our tail because Hades was angry that Thalia had been born," Catching my confused expression, she said, "I'll explain later. When we were in the camp, it was found that I am a child of Athena, and Luke was a son of Hermes. Later, I found that the big three, meaning the three most senior gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, had made a pact not to have any more children. There was a prophecy that stated the next child of the Big Three who turned sixteen would either preserve or destroy Olympus.
"Alright, Percy. You can talk now. I'm done for a while."
Percy looked at her. So, I just tell him the whole story? What about the part where Jason comes in?"
Annabeth looked exasperated. "I'll summarize that part. Just get on with it already."
PS: Do not fear! There is more to come ye loyal (or maybe not-so-loyal) readers. I promise that ye will be-eth satisfied when I am through. Man, talking like that is confusing!
