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Disaster Strikes

ANNABETH'S POV

Oh no Percy's in deep trouble I need to go help him. I thought as I looked through the window

"Annabeth are you alright." Said sally

"Sort of. Do you know where Percy keeps his drachmas." I asked

"Yes I do. He always gives some to me incase he has a quest and is near me he can come and get some from me." Sally said as she handed me a couple of drachmas.

I walked towards the kitchen window and got a bit of water in my hand I threw it up at the ceiling as it fell it started to form a rainbow.

I immediately started saying "O Iris goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering and show me Thalia Grace wherever she's at." As I said that an Iris message started to form. My friend, Thalia Grace, had her back to the Iris message, she seemed to be talking with lady Artemis.

"Thalia" I called

Thalia jumped a little and turned to look at me "oh, hey Annabeth, now isn't really a good time you-"

"It has to be a good time"

Thalia noticed my worried look and said "hey, what's wrong?" she asked

"It's Percy, we came to visit his mom, and when we were headed to his car we saw a bunch of spiders around it, he brought me back to Sally's, and then out of the nowhere Arachne showed up, he's trying to distract her so I can escape, he said Blackjack is coming soon, but that's not the point, the point is that Arachne is stupid but will soon realized that he is only distracting her and will attack him, she's strong he might or might not stand a chance against her."

"Alright," she turned to Artemis "may I go help him"

"Yes" she nodded her head

"I'm also going to get Nico"

"Then tell him to meet me at wal*mart in Minneapolis."

"Alright, bye" I said

"Bye" and the connection broke.

I sprayed some water again and this time asked for Nico, he was turned to me, but was busy eating to notice me "Nico" I called

He jumped and looked at me "what, and make it snappy before Persephone comes back"

"It's Percy, we came to visit his mom, and when we were headed to his car we saw a bunch of spiders around it, he brought me back to Sally's, and then out of the nowhere Arachne showed up, he's trying to distract her so I can escape, he said Blackjack is coming soon, but that's not the point, the point is that Arachne is stupid but will soon realized that he is only distracting her and will attack him, she's strong he might or might not stand a chance against her."

"Alright I'm going" he got up

"Hold on, I also told Thalia about this, she wants you to go get at her at wla*mart in Minneapolis."

"Alright we will be there ASAP." he shadowed travel out and the connection broke

"Annie, a horse with wings is on the wire escwape" Tommy said

"Alright, thanks for telling me"

"No probwem"

"Sally, don't worry, he'll be fine, Thalia and Nico are on there way"

Sally nodded "be careful when you ho"

I nodded my head and went for Tommy's room, much cleaner than Percy had it when it was his, and went to the fire escape. Blackjack looked at me and sort of snorted. He was probably saying "hey boss's girlfriend, how you doing, you called for a handsome Pegasus?"

"Hey Blackjack" I said "keep us hovering on top of Arachne but don't let her notice us, I want to help Percy, Thalia and Nico in some case of emergency. Blackjack whined and flew up. He did as I told him and kept us hovering on top of Arachne. Percy was talking to her and she was writing some thing down. Percy then told her something else and she stood up, she tensed and looked up. She noticed me and growled at Percy they exchanged words and she ran to attack Percy, thankfully Nico and Thalia appeared next to Percy, and they started fighting.

Everything happened so fast, I couldn't really process it. As soon as Arachne attacked Nico and Thalia appeared next to Percy. Thalia stood at a safe distance and shot arrows, while Percy and Nico charged trying to hit Arachne without getting themselves hurt. Arachne did have a way to fight all three of them. She was throwing little web balls that had small needles on them, they were dripping a purple substance... Poison. Percy and Nico would throw the balls back by hitting them with their swords like a baseball bat. I looked at Thalia, a ball was headed her way, and she hasn't even noticed it. When Thalia finally did, it was a little to late. Percy had noticed it before her and ran, he was pointing his sword towards Thalia as if he was getting ready to hit a home run, but he wouldn't get it in time, he must have known that because he let his sword fall by his side and then let if fall to the ground. He took my knife out and threw it at Arachne, he pushed Thalia down, in time for the ball to miss her, but it hit Percy on the right shoulder.

Percy let out a scream of pain and fell to the floor next to Thalia. He put his left hand on his shoulder as he kept screaming in pain. I looked at where Arachne was, my knife had missed her, but Nico summoned some dead soldiers to attack her. I couldn't take it any more, I ordered Blackjack to fly low enough for me to jump of him. While Nico distracted Arachne, I got my knife and tried to sneak up on Arachne, but she sensed me. She turned to me and we started fighting, thank gods she didn't use those web balls. Instead she used her nasty claw like nails. My body was shaking with fear, sure, I have gone to hell and back literally but Arachne dragged me into it, and I had faced her down there and lost. Ever since then my fear for her and spiders had increased. I wanted to cry but I knew that would get me nowhere so I just kept fighting, pushing my fear down. It took a lot of my strength and will but I finally manged to kill her, she evaporated into gold dust with a screech and noting was left.

As soon as I saw Arachne turn into dust, I ran to Percy. Thalia had his head on her lap. He looked pale, his lips were a bluish-green, he eyes looked like he hadn't slept in years.

"Percy," I gasped "I'm sorry Percy, I shouldn't have let you fight her, I knew her tricks yet I didn't stop you"

Percy put a hand on my cheek and wiped off a tear that had left without my permission "it's not your fault wise girl, I would have fought her anyway"

I took his car keys out of his pockets and ran to his a car, a few minutes later I returned with a small baggie of Ambrosia "eat it" I told him and he did, he didn't look much better he still looked the same

A voice laughed inside my head "you think you can heal him with Ambrosia, please, he'll die before you find a cure. The poison the web balls as in them were a mix of both normal insects and reptiles and monsters, he at the most twenty minutes, you'll never get to your precious camp in time to save him"

I gasped, if ambrosia could heal poison from some monsters, mortal doctors could heal him of the rest "we have twenty minutes to get him to a hospital" I said "I'll be back."

I didn't let them answer me, I just started running to Sally's apartment. I told Sally to call an ambulance and pretty soon paramedics put Percy in a stretcher and Sally let me go with him in the ambulance.

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