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PERCY
Percy sat silently, watching the fire intently as he listened to music on his iPod. He eventually started humming but stopped as soon as he realized what he was doing.
Percy sighed, bored, he glanced over at Thalia, who was sleeping by the fire, she had been sleeping there for about two hours now, 'she looks kinda cute' he thought, then shook his head and looked away, deciding that watching her would be to distracting, so instead he decided to watch the moon going by above him. Percy guessed it was about midnight considering where the moon currently was in the sky.
Percy sighed again, 'this is going to be a long night' he thought to himself, glad he had his iPod.
Percy watched the sunrise, it was about seven thirty and Thalia still hadn't woken up. Percy got up and went over to where she was sleeping, he shook her shoulder gently, "Thalia get up, its time to go." he told her. "Go away" she said sleepily, shrugging his hand off. "Thalia you need to get up, we need to go" he said a little louder, while shaking her again. "what?" she asked, waking up slightly more, "is it my watch?" she asked him, "No, it's time for us to go." he told her. She looked at him questioningly, "Don't you need to sleep?" she questioned, he shook his head, "nah I'm fine, we should get going", he told her. She handed him his sweater, "thanks for letting me use that." she said. Percy unraveled the sweater and put it on, it smelt like her, he didn't mind though.
They walked through the forest, talking about awesome music and stuff like that, until they came to a road, that looked empty in both directions for a long time, Percy sighed and rubbed the back of his head. Percy decided to ask his brother for a little bit of help.
' Hey thanatos, can you help me out?, I'm trying to save our sister, but she is kinda far away' he prayed, Thalia looked at him questioningly, but didn't say anything. 'I'm sorry Percy but i can't transport you and your girlfriend, that would be to big, I might be noticed' Thanatos told him, 'But i will give you some things to help you out, i just can't teleport you places' he finished, Percy blushed when his brother called Thalia his girlfriend, but didn't say anything.
Percy turned around to talk to Thalia, but stopped when he saw Thanatos hovering a few feet behind her with a smirk on his face. Thalia saw him looking at something behind her and turned around, only to gasp as step back, tripping over Percy's foot. Percy glared at Thanatos, then caught Thalia before she hit the ground. "Oh, nice catch there Perce" his brother joked, "couldn't let your girlfriend fall, could you?" he said, poking fun at percy. Percy blushed "Shes not my girlfriend man, cut that shit out" he said, "aren't you here to help out?" he asked, still blushing. His brother smiled and waved his hand, making a black backpack, that appeared to be full with stuff, appear. "Sorry but that, and a mode of transportation are the only things I can give you." he told percy before disappearing.
Percy nodded, silently thanking Thanatos. "Who was that?" Thalia asked after Thanatos had left, "That, was my brother, Thanatos." he told her, walking over to the backpack, "Like, the god of death?" she asked surprised, "Yeah thats him, the joker" he told her, he pulled out keys that said "Kawasaki" on them, he smiled widely when a Ninja ZX-10R appeared. It was black, all black, it had a twelve hundred cc engine, there were two face shield helmets on top of it, one was black, and the other one was dark purple. Percy rushed over to it and went on his knees, "Oh my gods, I love you thanatos" he said out loud, he stood up and threw the purple helmet to Thalia, she caught it and looked at the motorcycle eagerly. "Do you know how to drive that?" she asked him, he nodded "Yeah it's the only kind of vehicle i know how to drive" he said, grinning ear to ear.
Percy put his helmet on and got on the bike, he shivered with elation. Thalia got on behind him and wrapped her arms around him, he blushed slightly. He started the bike and it roared to life. He eased it on the road as slow as he could go with a throttle that touchy. Once he got going about thirty miles an hour he went a little faster, he almost lost control when he turned it more, but he managed to hold it, then he started going even faster. Percy was really glad they were on a long empty straight away.
After a few minutes of driving and getting Percy got to a hundred miles per an hour. 'Hey smart one.' his brother said sarcastically in his head, ' about thirty five miles down that road there is an airport, there are two first class tickets in your backpack, don't worry about the bike, i'll take care of it." his brother told him, Percy frowned and started going a little faster, he was counting the miles they were speeding up by now. before to long they started approaching the airport, and also traffic had started showing up a little so he was no longer going one hundred and ten miles an hour, instead they were slowing down, only going about eighty now. Percy sighed, sad that they were going to have to leave the bike, but his back had about all it could take, with the combination of the uncomfortable bike and Thalia squeezing the life out of him, he felt like he was going to break.
Percy pulled over at the drop off area and they got off, stumbling slightly, tired from the ride, and Thalia seemed to have had fun because she was smiling widely. Percy searched through the backpack until he found the tickets, he inspected them, finding out which plane to board.
They barely got to it before they stopped boarding the first class. They had seats next to each other. After sitting down Percy tried to wipe the permanent smile from his face, but it didn't. Percy looked over at Thalia, who hadn't spoken for a while, she looked incredibly nervous, all the joy from the motorcycle ride was gone. Percy frowned "are you okay Thals?" he asked her, "Yeah im fine." she said back quickly, but it was apparent to Percy she was not fine. "come on Thalia, you can tell me." he said, trying to get her to tell him, "Can you keep a secret percy?" she asked him, he nodded, "I'm afraid of heights" she mumbled quickly, but Percy heard it. His eyes widened and he nodded, "Oh." he said, "we will be fine, plane crashes are one of the least likely things ever" he told her, trying to comfort her, she just nodded. "Why don't you try and get some sleep" he told her, she nodded, "Yeah, I'll try" she mumbled, she took out his ipod and plugged in one of the earphones. She must have been tired from something because she fell asleep seconds after she said that.
There was a sound, and the seat belt light came on. He was about to put his on when he realized Thalia had fallen asleep without hers on, he leaned over and pulled hers down and clicked it in, but doing this disrupted the way she was sleeping, she was now sleeping on his shoulder instead of her hand, he put his seat-belt on and adjusted her head so they would both be comfortable, he grabbed the other ear-bud and put it in his ear, it was short though, because she had put the left one in her left ear, and left him with the right one, which placed their heads really close. After a few minutes he started to doze off, then fell into a deep sleep, tired from not sleeping the previous night.
Percy woke up, and yawned. At the same time Thalia also woke up, yawning. then she seemed to notice that she was sleeping on him and froze. When she looked around to see if he was awake he smiled at her, causing her to blush. Before either of them could say anything a waiter walked by them, a very pretty girl, "how are you?, is there anything you need?" she asked them, "no thanks, we're fine" Percy replied, the waitress nodded and walked away. Percy could have sworn he had heard a slight "clinking" sound when she had started walking away, he also noticed she was walking with a slight limp, like one leg was much bigger than another. Percy gasped when he realized that it was a Empousa, he looked at Thalia, "there are monsters on this plane" he told her quietly, "Are there any other beside that mpousa?" she mumbled to him, he frowned when he remembered her fear of heights.
"I'm going to go check around a little bit, I will be back in a minute or two." he told her standing up, she just nodded. He walked around for a couple of minutes, he first went to the bathroom then he just explored. During his little exploration he found out that there were indeed, more monsters on the plane, of the ones he could identify, there was three empousa that were all waiters, and one telkhine in the lounge, why there was a telkhine there though, Percy had no idea.
He started making his way back to Thalia. Thats when everything started to go wrong. The planes alarms blared, and all the breathing things dropped out of there storages, he made his way over to their seats as fast as possible, as soon as he reached them, the left wing of the plane ripped off, sending them spinning in the opposite direction. Thalia screamed, like a nine year old, he had to remember to remind her of the later as soon as they got out of here. Just as he grabbed onto Thalia's hand, the plane was ripped in half by something and they were both sucked into the falling air.
As percy and thalia fell, Thalia screaming, and him trying to grab a good hold of here so he could try to shadow travel them away before they hit the ground. Percy managed to get a hold on Thalia by hugging her, she hugged him back, crushing his back. Just before they hit the ground he pulled the shadows out of anywhere he could, teleporting them someplace safer. It took Thalia a few moments to notice they weren't still falling, then she stopped screaming, she looked around in surprise in joy, apparently happy to be back on solid ground. Thalia untangled herself from him, "well that was fun" he said tiredly, he knew he was trying not to pass out, "are you okay Percy?" she asked him, "Yeah, I'm fine" he said, "that was the second time i've ever done that" he finished, breathing heavy, "Thank you for saving me" she told him, he just nodded too tired to talk.
"Do you still have my ipod" Percy asked her after a couple of minutes of silence, Thalia in response tapped her pockets until she felt something, then she pulled out his ipod, "surprisingly yes i do" she told him, Percy breathed out a sigh of relief, "awesome" he said. Thalia smirked, "Its almost dead though" she told him, he sighed in defeat, "Damn" he breathed out. "sorry, its most likely from me using the whole time" she told him, he smiled, "no, its cool, I just don't know where the charger is" he laughed out, she laughed too.
"I think I'm going to pass out" he told Thalia. "Well, I'll be here when you get up" she said, he smiled and sagged to his left side, passing out on Thalia's lap, causing her to blush, "well I wasn't expecting that" she said to no one in particular, while absentmindedly running her fingers through his hair.
Percy woke up, oddly comfortable despite the position his back had been in when he had fallen asleep. He unconsciously snuggled closer to what he was sleeping next to, to his surprise, it snuggled back, that got his eyes to snap open. He blinked away spots in his eyes, There wasn't much light where he was but what there was blinded him, he looked around the... "where am I" he questioned himself, out loud. There was a shuffling sound as something tried to get closer to him, he whipped his head to where he realized there was a weight on his right arm, his eyes widened when he saw Thalia there, sleeping on his dead arm. he shook her, gently, "Thalia, how do you sleep so much?" he asked her. In response all he got was her soft breathing, Percy sighed, 'Well, this could be worse' he told himself smiling slightly, "Thalia" he said a little louder, not bothering to shake her this time.
One of Thalia's eyes opened slowly, it drifted up to his face, then shut, and her face turned red. Thalia undraped(is that a word?) her leg off of his, which he hadn't known was there, how he hadn't noticed before , Percy didn't know, in fact it had seemed they had changed sides while sleeping, Thalia now being on his right. Apparently trying to avoid awkwardness Thalia decided to speak up, "How did you sleep, you were out for like, seventeen hours" she told him, he raised an eyebrow, but responded, "actually, I can't remember ever sleeping better" he said truthfully, Thalia nod, "Yeah, me either" she said.
Percy got up and dusted himself off, "Do you know where we are?" he asked her, not really expecting an answer. "Yeah, we're in San Francisco, a few miles from mount ." she told him. Percy's stomach rumbled, "Well, I'm kinda hungry, you?" he asked her, she nodded "Famished" she told him, he nodded.
They made their way to the exit of the empty warehouse, "We are a lot closer than I thought we would be after that plane crash" he told her, she paled, but nodded, "Yeah, don't remind me, that pretty much ruined air travel for me, like, forever." she told him, he laughed, "Common Thals, that was kinda fun." he said jokingly, in response Thalia shook her head and glared at him, he just shrugged, "Well, everyone has their fears." he told her, then froze. "Everyone huh?" she asked him, "Well Perseus Jackson, what are you afraid of." she questioned mischievously, leaning in, as if to hear his answer better. Percy turned back and looked at her, then shook his head, deciding it didn't matter if she knew, "Lightning" he told her.
She stopped, causing him to stop and turn around. "Why?" she asked him, he just shrugged, "Why are you afraid of heights?" he questioned her back, she shrugged, kind of embarrassed, which Percy didn't understand, "Instinct, I guess" she told him, he nodded, thinking the same thing.
When they stepped outside, Percy immediately sighed in relief, it was mostly cloudy out, blocking the sun from destroying his eyes, figuratively of course. Thalia smiled mischievously, deciding to mess with him a little bit. Thalia knew it was a bad idea because it made her a little but she made lightning rumble across the sky. Percy stopped walking, causing her to bump into him. Percy was looking up at the sky, "what was that?" he asked himself, Thalia couldn't help it, she laughed at his expression, he glanced at her, she shrugged "Sorry, I couldn't help messing with you"she told him. Percy looked at her with an astonished expression, "You did that?" he questioned her, she nodded, "I'm a daughter of Zeus" she told him shrugging,Percy's mouth hung open slightly, but then a smirk crossed his face, "A daughter of Zeus who is afraid of heights." he told her, she blushed and looked away, "Yeah, whatever" she said trying to stop him from messing with her about it, she smiled slightly when he didn't say anything about, instead he just shrugged and continued walking.
Percy didn't really know where he was, he was just going the direction he was sure bianca was in. They walked for a little while before Percy stopped, "where is the backpack?" he asked her, she rolled her eyes, "It was on the plane" she told him. Percy nodded, he didn't really know what was in that bag, but whatever was in it, it's gone now.
They eventually exited San Francisco, going toward mount St. Helens. On their way there, a car sped past them, only for four people to jump out of it before it was struck by lightning. Thalia couldn't help but laugh at Percy's reaction to the lightning, he had jumped so bad that Thalia thought he had hurt himself.
Percy decided that the same people must be following him everywhere, because one of the people that had jumped out of the car was the black haired kid he had seen from westover hall. Now that Percy got a closer look he realized the other three were also getting up, none of them were killed. Two of the people were wearing silver parkas, and the other two had orange T-shirts, he glanced at Thalia and noticed that she seemed a little surprised to see them.
"We should go help them out." Percy suggested, Thalia shook her head. "They can't know we're here." she told him, "You see the big guy?" she asked him pointing, he nodded. "His name is Charles Beckendorf, he is the counselor for the hephaestus cabin" she told him, Percy pointed at the green eyed kid, he looked to be around thirteen years old, "who is that kid" he asked her, she frowned slightly, as a look of slight loathing crossed her face but she shook it off. "That would be Orion, a son of Poseidon, and an idiot" she told him. Percy nodded, idiocy can impair you for life, and theres no cure.
Percy and Thalia walked to the edge of the road and ducked behind a mound of earth that seemed to be just the right height for them to look over if they needed but also duck behind it easily.
As it turned out, they didn't need to stalk them for very long when they came to a gate, they went in. Thalia cursed slightly, mad that they couldn't follow anymore or they will be caught. Percy smiled, he had never done it before but he was fairly certain he could shadow them both for a few minutes without draining himself to much.
"I can shield us from there view for a few minutes but we will have to hide when we can" he told her, she looked at him with a raised eyebrow . "how do you plan on doing that?" she asked him, in response he put his arm around her shoulders and pulled all the shadows he could to them, making them pretty much transparent. Thalia gasped, causing Percy to smile, but also blush at how close she was to him, "How can you do this?" she asked him, "I'm not exactly sure how works but i can make shadows and will them to conceal us, but with no shadows around it is much harder to do, but i got this" he told her, she just nodded and they walked through the gate right before it close.
Percy and Thalia were too far away to hear but the 4 people from the car were currently talking to the hesperides. Percy didn't really focus on that though, he was more interested in the giant garden they were in, more specifically the bigass dragon, with more heads than he cared to count, curled around a giant tree that had golden apples on it. Something must have happened because one of the girls in the silver parkas called out to the dragon, something that sounded to Percy and Thalia like. "Ladon, Wake!" After hearing that, Percy decided they should follow the other three around the outskirts of the garden, as they were walking he glanced at Thalia, she was blushing under his arm, but she was also looking around, as if expecting someone to find them.
As soon as they made it to the exit they heard Ladon let out a furious roar, they glanced back to find the girl that was talking to the dragon running toward them, jumping over serpent heads as if they were hurdles. Percy made them walk slightly faster, he was starting to feel some strain from holding up his cloak, he really needed to work on his power endurance.
Percy and Thalia managed to find a hiding spot that was sufficient for the time being, once they were there Percy let the shadows drop, sighing in relief as the pain in his lower abdomen stopped. They peeked over to see the other four looking to their west. Percy and Thalia gasped when they saw ruins there, of what looked like a castle, what shocked them more was the form of a small girl struggling to hold up what looked like the sky.
This chapter took me a little while longer to write I hope you enjoyed it, sorry for kind of skipping over a book but I didn't want to deal with camp yet.