~~~~|~~~~~| Allie |~~~~~|~~~~
Allie was pretty confused. Sure! Why not go on a flying ship with a bunch of random teenagers that claim to be half god? Is appearing in Serbia normal for demigods? Apparently this is real… so I guess I have to believe it, she thought. She woke up, half expecting to be home. She was still in the room that they let her sleep in.
She didn't have any pajamas, so she slept in her clothes. She didn't want to borrow any clothes from the drawers because she felt weird, like she shouldn't even be in the room. It was well organized. There was a desk with a few pictures hung on the wall. One showed a guy who was around 16, and a girl around the same age. The guy had dark hair and sea green eyes. He had a nice smile. He looked kind of like a guy you would see hanging around a skate park, cute but mischievous.
The girl had blonde hair and stormy gray eyes. She looked like she was the kind of person who paid attention in school. She and the guy where on a dock, and he was pulling her in the water. They looked like a good couple. She had guessed that they where Percy and Annabeth.
That morning, Leo woke her up. "We're landing. Get up!"
Allie might have liked Leo, just a little. They where a lot alike. She liked his smile.
She went on deck where everyone else was. Piper told them about her dream.
"So they're ok?" Hazel asked.
"I'm not sure, 'cause Gaea woke me up, and who knows what she will do!" Piper said.
"They are both smart enough to get out of it. They're going to be fine. Whatever happens, they will motivate each other to not give up." Nico said.
"So! Festus said we're in Bulgaria. Well, over, whatever. But we need some stuff. I have to install the Archimedes Spheres. We need some celestial bronze, which is right in a city called Sofia."
"Cool. Do you think I could, like, get some clothes there too?" Allie asked.
"We don't really have any Euros, or what ever they use in Bulgaria. Now that I think of it, that was pretty dumb." Leo said.
She laughed. "Who said anything about money?"
"You're gonna steal? Can I help?" Piper asked.
"Sure! Hermes your dad too?" She asked.
"Nah, Aphrodite. I can charmspeak people into giving me stuff. Technically, not stealing!" she said.
"Jealous! I wish I could do that." Allie said.
"Once I talked a guy into giving me a new BMW."
"You're gonna steal?" Frank interrupted, nervously.
"I don't like to think of it as 'stealing', I think of it as… borrowing forever." Allie said.
"But-"
"It'll be fine. Its not like we are ever coming back here, right? After we close the doors, we are going back to America, right?"
"I guess… can you get me some pants? Someone lost my only other pair." Frank looked at Leo.
"Sorry man! Would you rather have no pants or be attacked by giant eagles?" Leo said.
"Um… what?" Allie was confused.
"Not important. We shouldn't take too long. It is dangerous to be on land, especially closer to the ancient lands. We shouldn't be gone longer than 20 minutes." Piper said. "Allie and I can go steal stuff, Leo, Jason, and Frank can go get the Celestial bronze, and Hazel, Nico, and Coach can keep watch."
"I never get to do anything fun!" Coach complained.
"If anything attacks the ship, you can kill it." Jason promised him.
Piper turned to Allie. "You should have a weapon, just in case we run into any monsters." She led her to where they kept the extra weapons. She chose a sword and touched the bottom. It turned into a necklace.
"Awesome!" she said.
"I didn't know it did that!" Piper said.
"I love it." She said as she slipped it over her head.
Leo landed the ship in a small courtyard. He almost landed on a tree. No one seemed to notice their giant ship. The mist is weird, Allie thought.
They headed off. They found a little store on a street corner, about a quarter mile away. "If we get caught, you can charmspeak our way out, right?" Allie asked.
"How dare you doubt my abilities?" Piper smiled.
"Awesome! Lets go."
There was a middle aged man at the cash register, but other then that the store was empty. Piper kept watch while Allie stuffed her bag with clothes. As they where leaving, the man stopped them. He said something like, "He!"
"Um… what?" Piper said.
"We don't speak Bulgarian." Allie said.
He looked at them, confused.
"We," she pointed at Piper and herself. "Do not," she made a 'no' gesture. "Speak," she pointed at her mouth. "Your language." She pointed at him.
He still looked confused. "I'm not dealing with this. Run!"
They burst through the doors. The guy yelled something else in Bulgarian that Allie couldn't make out.
"What do you think he said?" Piper asked.
"Probably something like, 'stop those thieves!'" Allie said. She heard a police siren. "See? Run faster!"