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Katie Gardners pov
Okay, so it's safe to say I'm definitely not happy right now, Annabeths dead, I loved her like a sister, she was always kind, caring, funny and oh the list goes on, we were good friends for years when we were younger, and she still came regularly to see me when we grew older, even though our conversations changed to a less innocent subject of boys namely Percy Jackson and Travis Stoll. Hey no, why does everyone assume I like Travis, I mean come on he's childish, annoying, silly, cute, sweet... I mean yeah I totally hate him, and that's why I'm currently pouring with tears and hugging him, yep, it's because I hate him.
Anyway, after the armies of the undead incident the entire tent erupted into argument, who was taking what flank, Greeks or Romans who would take frontline, who would stay defence ect, to me it just felt like they were ruining Annabeths memory and I could see that Percy felt the same, I guess I'll talk to him later, offer help or something maybe.
Then a thunderous shout echoed through the tent "SILENCE" we all turned to see who it came from, the huge skeletal frame of king Leonidas spoke "In my time in the underworld I have heard many stories of heroes, all great heroes, but one day, heroes began to come down speaking of a hero greater than any other, a hero who fought for what he believed in with his brave companions, and with each dead that came down the stories grew greater of bold Percy Jackson and his friends, so far from home, laid down their lives, fighting not just for their camp or for Olympus but for all the world, and now I learn that his queen is dead and you all sit here squabbling like children? Ha, prove to me and my brothers, that you demigods are the great generation that we enjoy hearing of. The armies of the fear and the underworld will take the centre of as much of it as we can fill, Marcus aureillus, your units will be defence, while I will lead the 300 and Scots up the centre, Maoris, do whatever it is that you guys do, our work here is done sort the rest of your plan." He led the undead out of the room.
We all sat and gaped at the space where leonidas had been for a minute before Reyna broke the silence with her battle plan, I only sort of half listened to what was being said around me, absorbed in thoughts of my late sort-of best friend, I would defiantly need to cry it out later, maybe talk to Travis about it- no I pushed thoughts of Travis to the back of my mind and volunteered the Demeter cabin to defend the inside right flank, the imposing roman praetor looked at me curiously before Travis announced that Hermes would hold it with us, this seemed to make the praetor happy while Percy looked at us and smiled sadly, like he was remembering a fond memory, then his face turned dark and tears welled.
Once they'd sorted out all the battle positions, Malcom looked up and spoke, "now who's left to hold off the giants?" he looked around the room and kicked a chair "SHIT" he yelled, I could see that he was mentally kicking himself when suddenly he turned around and spoke to the death god "Lord Thantos, would you take the giants?"
"alas boy, even if I was that powerful which I don't think I am, I couldn't defeat the giants, and anyhow, I must leave soon, death is happening all over the world, boy, and I must keep it that way, I will not be able to fight with you on the field of battle, I'm afraid at least for the time being, you are godless."
"Not necessarily, a huge female voice boomed throughout the tent, 5 gods materialised in the tent, fully dressed for battle, "Malcom my son leave the giants to us, we will take demigod help as and when needed" Athena said, her powerful voice filling the tent, next to her stood Percys dad Posiden, and next to him was Ares, on her other side Apollo and Artemis stood proudly. Right at the moment, I felt a small bit of hope on our side, just a little, but that's all we needed.
Sorry for the small chapter but i hope to be uploading another bigger one tonight as well, I'll do one more lead up to the battle one, then i'll work around the battle and percys grief ect, if any of you caught the referances to the film 300 in it i'm proud, if you haven't watched it, stop reading and watch it, unless youre squeamish, but its a great film and i need to stop rambling:P so yeah, review please favourite or follow, i pinky swear it will get better