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My internetless vacation starts tomorrow, so I'm going to update as much as I can today, just for you guys!
I'm already halfway through with Chapter 39, so that should be up shortly.
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Chapter 38
Annabeth
"We can't just swim in there and act like nothing will happen," Annabeth said as she scanned the scene in front of her.
They had ducked behind Amelia Earhart's plane and were now discussing the situation at hand.
"We can't just hide out here forever!" came Percy's rash response. "The doors are back there, and so are our friends! We have to get through, and we will. I'll slay them all if I have to, and-"
"There's your fatal flaw again, Percy!" Annabeth sighed. "We can't just go in there and kill them! We'll die. They outnumber us 100 to 1!"
"But there are two of us," Percy countered.
"Okay, now you're just being stupid."
Percy glanced at her. Annabeth gave him a hard look. "We can't just go in there, Percy."
"What should we do, Annabeth?" Percy asked. "What's your plan?"
"Find a weak point. A chink in the armor. Find the least populated part of this sea. The chances have to be 10 to 1 or less, or 20 to 2, if we're being technical about this." Annabeth instructed.
"Percy math. Can't beat it."
That made Annabeth smile. Despite the odds, Percy was still her Seaweed Brain.
"It has to end," Annabeth continued. "There aren't that many monsters. We'll attack one of the sides."
"How do we get there?"
"We just keep swimming."
They had been swimming for what felt like ever. Annabeth's legs were sore and tired, just like her arms.
Percy seemed fine, though.
Lucky son of the Sea God.
"Is it starting to think out yet?" Percy asked wearily. "I want to get to those doors."
"Just a little longer, Percy. And why are you complaining? I'm the tired one here!"
"Sorry, Annabeth. I love you," he said.
"Love you, too." She said bitterly.
He smiled.
Annabeth looked over him at the monsters that seemed…slightly less.
"Only a little while longer, they seem to be thinning. Percy, we're going home!"
"Finally," Percy sighed.
They started swimming toward the slowly thinning mass of monsters.
There were a few monsters Annabeth had never before. They looked similar, but they had features that the ones she knew never had.
Hundred Handed Ones with extra eyes and gills.
Echidnas with wings and gills.
"Percy, something is off about this set of monsters," Annabeth whispered to Percy as they approached the first wave.
"Oh, little demigods, you've finally arrived," a female voice hissed behind them.
Annabeth whirled around in surprise as an Echidna came slithering up to them, through the water.
Percy drew Riptide, and Annabeth pulled out her cane.
"You actually think you can beat me?" her laugh was a wicked cackle. "I have tons and tons of others ready to swarm you, and you think you can beat me?"
"You?" Percy asked. "Yes. Your friends? Less likely."
"Exactly," she showed a wicked grin and she lunged at us.
Percy slashed and cut her head clean off.
But her head was still cackling, even as it sunk to the bottom of the ocean. "You can't beat me, little demigods. You can't beat Gaea."
"Why does everybody say that?" Percy asked Annabeth, and she smiled at his stupidity.
More monsters began to take notice of the two demigods, and soon they were surrounded by ancient Greek myths that looked similar to the ones they knew, but not quite the same.
Annabeth told Percy, "We don't have to kill them all; we just have to get through the ones that are blocking out path to the Doors."
"Okay," Percy sighed. "Let's do this."
"As long as we're together," Annabeth told him as she drew her cane.
"As long as we're together," he responded. And as he spun Riptide, he called to the sea of monsters, "Well? What are you waiting for?"
So, this story will be ending soon, as you may know, since they're getting close to the Doors and everything.
Thanks for Reading!