CHAPTER FIFTH TEEN

"George's Machine or A really old LWS"

Percy said sarcastically touching his head, "Ouch that really hurt".

Annabeth said, "That was the whole point of revenge, you two weren't thinking that you would get away with it."

Percy and I said at the same time, "Uh, nope."

Sky jumped in and said, "Need a hand?"

She reached out to me.

I replied, "Sure."

I took her hand and she helped me up.

I continued, "Uh, I'm sorry."

Sky said looking at me, "I know you are, dummy."

She was blushing a bit. We were looking into each other's eyes; I thought we were understanding each other better.

It was a bit quiet since we were just looking at each other; plus Percy and Annabeth were just looking at us. Annabeth was biting her lower lip anxiously and looking at both of us.

Percy was a bit confused; he had no idea why she was anxious. Sky and I looked away from each other.

Percy confessed, "Can you both help us get to the armory, we are totally lost."

Annabeth laughed and said, "Come on, it's this way."

We were all mostly quiet through the rest of the walk. We met with Ashlyn in the way and Sky told Annabeth everything between Carlos and her, she even made a big deal about both of them dating. I tried to ignore the girl talk.

Thankfully we got there soon; I couldn't stop hearing all the laughs and giggles.

George was there making something, I think it was two long tubes connected to a huge thrash can with wheels and a motor…

George looked up and greeted us.

George said, "Hi guys, welcome back.

We all said "Hi"

George continued, "How are things going?"

I said, "Awesome."

Sky said, "Fine."

Percy said, "Great."

Annabeth said, "It's good."

George gave one look at his contraption and right back at us.

Then he said, "Do you guys want to test ride this fast absorbing reversible thrasher?"

I laughed, everyone looked at me.

Annabeth said, "What?"

Sky said, ''What was so funny?"

Percy read my mind, he was laughing even harder than I was.

George was confused, he said, "its ok if you don't want to, you guys aren't the janitors."

I laughed even more, and Percy was doing the same thing.

Trying to hold it in I said, "No, it's not that."

I continued, "Did u notice that the abbreviation of that thing is F.A.R.T as in fart?"

I continued laughing and everyone joined me, even George was laughing. My stomach really hurts from all that laughter.

George started to say, "I never noticed, don't worry I will change it in a bit."

I said, "Its ok. We came to ask if you had any weapons here that I could use."

George said, "Well, there's a LWS if you want it."

I replied, "A LWS?"

George said, "Yeah, a light weight sword."

I said, "Sure."

George went into a closet filled with cobwebs, probably has some spiders, he took out a dusty sword and gave it to me.

George said, "It's probably a bit old, but still works like a charm."

I swung the sword a bit, the weight it's a bit odd but I think I can fight with this.

I said, "Its fine."

Percy said, "Let's try it out."

George said, "At least he's going to make a good use of it".

Percy and I ran outside, I was really anxious to have a real sword, even if I did use a sword to kill a Cyclops; it is still my first time holding one and stuff.

Percy said, "Well then, now that you have a sword maybe we can do a sword duel right here to test your sword skills."

I felt really bad; I don't know how to use a sword in one on one fight. I can fight other creatures, but not my own brother and even less try to hurt a friend.

I said, "I don't know how to fight with a sword…"

Sky randomly appeared behind me and said "But didn't you kill a Cyclops with a sword?"

I said, "Well… yeah! But it's not the same thing."

Sky replied, "It is the same thing."

I said in a harsh tone, "It's not! What if I hurt someone?"

With that came a long silence that lasted 20 seconds. They all looked at me as if they were petrified or rather spooked by my words, some would say they just saw a ghost that scared them.