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Spider Frenzy

PERCY'S POV

I was walking with Annabeth when all of a sudden she just stood straight up as if somebody was behind stabbing her. I looked back to check but no one was there (a good thing to.) Then I turned to where she was looking. Towards my car, (which by the way is a Ferrari spyder) there were about 90 spiders in front of it maybe more(go figure.)

"Annabeth go back to my mom's apartment" I said "fast."

"No Percy I'm staying here with you" she said firmly "we are a team. Remember?"

"Yes I remember, but I also remember that spiders freak you out." I said.

"Percy I have overcome that fear." Annabeth said trying to convince me.

"Oh really? Then what would you do if I told there are 20 more spider's under you?" I said trying to prove my point.

"WAIT. WHAT?!" Annabeth screamed as she jumped up and down trying to shake the "spiders" of.

"See Annabeth you haven't overcome that fear of spiders you have. Now hurry back to my mom's apartment." I said in a pleadingly and worried tone of voice.

"NO Percy I am staying here with you!" she said

"Sorry Annabeth I didn't want to do this." I said as I wrapped my hand around hers. I closed my eyes tightly and imagined that I and Annabeth were water vapor and I imagined my mom's apartment. I opened my eyes, I saw a collection of photos of me and my mom and fell to my knees. The only things holding me from falling to the floor where my hands and knees. My mom and Paul came running to me helping me up and my brother asking me if I was okay.

"Percy are you okay?" asked my mom worried.

"Yeah I'm alright." I said reassuring my mom.

"Annabeth stay here. I'll be right back Iris message Thalia and Nico tell them to come help me." I said in a soft tone. "Give me you're knife I might need."

"No Percy I want to go wi-"Annabeth said but I cut in

"No Annabeth, listen to me, please." I said. "Those things can hurt you, gods know how bad, and I don't want to risk you, understood""

I unsheathed her knife, took it out and kept it and said "Mom, Paul don't let her follow me"

"Why Percy? What's going on" my mom said with worried plastered all over her face

"Don't worry mom I'll explain everything to you later." I said as a vapor traveled back to where I was with Annabeth.

As I was walking towards my car I noticed that there were more spiders than the last time. I also noticed that the spiders were moving closer and closer together as if they were forming something. No not something a monster...

ARACHNE!

She was big heck big is to little compared to Arachne she was huge. From her waist down she was all spiders. Her legs looked as if she had thorns. From her waist up she had women body her fingers had nails like knifes. Her face was the same way around her chin and cheeks. Her teeth looked very sharp and thin. Her eyes were the ones that freaked me out the most. They were pitch black. With a shine that creeps me out.

I took riptide out just incase anything bad happened and she tried to attack me.

"You son of Poseidon. What have you done with her? Where is she?" asked Arachne searching around for someone.

I felt a strong shiver go up and down my spine. I bet she was talking about Annabeth. I got my courage up and asked "who are you talking about spidy?"

"I'm talking about Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, demigod scum." She said and I became worried. If Arachne was still searching for her after so many years, it was never good.

"What do you want with her?" I asked.

"I want revenge, I want to kill her for what she did to me, for stealing was rightfully belonged to mine, for making me weave my own trap, for making me fall into Tartarus." Arachne said

"Annabeth did what she had to survive"I said.

"Yet she fell into Tartarus as well, and you went down with her. I know all about it, but just her falling into Tartarus isn't enough." Arachne hissed. "You two got out after you found the door of death, but I didn't, I had to find another way and it wasn't easy"

"To sad, to bad"

"I do know something that will torture her." Arachne said, she started walking towards me, I got in a fighting position and waited for her to attack, but she didn't. "I should just torture you," she ran a figure from my chick down to my chin and up my other cheek "then when she comes out from hiding, I'll just dig my nails into my your chest, and pull you're heart out" she put a hand on my chest and slowly raised her fingers so that the tip of her nails were "standing" she pinched my skin and made a pulling up gesture. "Do you like my plan?"

"Well, there are a few things wrong with that." I said.

"Oh, really?" She asked. "Like what?"

"Well, to torture me first, you have to catch me, and I'm not an easy catch. Second, she wont come out from hiding because she no where close to here-"

"But I smell her scent."

"It must be me," I said "I'm around her so much I must have cough her scent, now can I continue, I hate it when someone interrupts me."

She looked like she just had a brain fast and nodded. "You might want to take notes," I stated. "Do you have a pencil and a notepad?" I asked.

Arachne nodded her head in 'no' gesture "all right hold on, I'll be back in a sec." I vapor traveled to my mom's apartment and went to Annabeth.

"Listen, I'm distracting Arachne us much as I can, I want you to go into Tommy's room and out of the fire escape, Blackjack will be here soon, don't go out until he is waiting out the fire escape, understood?"

Annabeth nodded her head "Percy be careful." She put her hands on my cheeks and kissed me. "Next time let me fight with you."

"Depends on the monster." I said. "Mom, Paul, make sure that she does what I told her," I ordered.

"Percy tell me what's going on." My mom insisted.

"Arachne managed to escape Tartarus and is out to get Annabeth." I explained. "Now has anyone seen a pencil and a notebook or piece of paper."

Tommy ran out of the living room and into his room, which use to be mine but Annabeth and I rented and apartment so I moved out, and then he came back with a pencil and notebook paper.

"Thank you." I said as I ruffled his hair. "Gotta go, BRB." And so I walked out, not using vapor travel, why? I don't know, It's my ADHD acting up.

When I was in front of Arachne, I gave her the utensils. "Take note." I order. Arachne sat down and put the paper on the floor with the pencil in her hand, ready to write.

"I'll start from the top, First, to torture someone, you need to catch them, and no demigod is an easy catch." She wrote it down. "Second, to make someone come out of hiding you got to make sure that person is there, because maybe it's just someone else using the same perfume." She wrote it down. "Thirdly, to pull someone's heart out, you must have the right tools, if you take it out by just digging your nails into someone's chest, you will damage the heart." Arachne nodded enthusiastically. I turned to look at the edifice and saw a black figure swoop down behind it, I sighed in relief and turned to look at Arachne. "And fourthly you need to check the type of skin your victim has, sometimes their skin will be hard as a brick, steel, or wood and sometimes soft as a cotton ball, plastic, or paper. Did you get that?" I asked

Arachne nodded.

"Now go home and study it, you have a test in a week. I expect to see you here next Wednesday." Arachne got up and was ready to leave when she froze and looked up. I looked up too and noticed that Blackjack was hovering above us, and to make matters worse you could see Annabeth.

Arachne turned to me. "You tricked me!" Arachne seethed.

"I did not, you were just stupid enough to listen to my rambling." I said. "And besides you can't reach her, just go home."

"I can't reach her but I can reach you." I took Riptide out and got ready to fight. A shadow started to form next to me, and Thalia and Nico were by my side in a matter of seconds we started attacking.

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