Chapter Four
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Last time on: Heroes of the Thirteen Colonies.
There was a large stinging pain and I screamed a little. I could not really see anything and I squeezed my eyes closed. I felt a hand start to squeeze mine and normally I would pull my hand away but it was better than squeezing the blanket. "Athena better claim her soon so we can give her ambrosia." I recognized the voice as Percy's. Ambrosia? Athena? What is with the Greek mythology all of a sudden? I tried asking, but soon enough my grip slacked and I passed out.
~Annabeth~
I woke up to talking. I did not open up my eyes, because I physically could not, but I saw sunlight streaming into the room through my eyelids. The people talking, well more like arguing, were Percy, Will, and Jason. It is always those three.
"Percy, she's not ready to be moved. She'll get an infection and get really sick." That was Will. He sounded like he was pleading almost. Who are they talking about? Is it me? I wanted to ask because I hate not knowing things. But I could not open my eyes and I did not think my voice would work.
"Will, I know but we need to go or they'll find us and kill us and take her and we can't let that happen. She's important!" Percy was reasoning. He sounded exasperated, like he's been trying to convince Will for a while, and it was not working.
"Perce enough! She's a person too. Think of her health!" That was Jason and he sounded mad. Is this all about me? I needed to find out, I hate not knowing anything. I tried so hard to open my eyes but they would not. I was trying so hard my left leg twitched. All the talking stopped. I felt the eyes on me but I could not do anything. I heard the creaking of the floorboards as they walked over to me.
"Jason I understand that. Believe me I do, but it's time to go." Percy pleaded.
"I'm going to wake her up. She has been sleeping for three days, plus the two before that. She's probably hungry. She'll need her strength if...if we're leaving tomorrow." Will concluded with a sigh and I could practically hear Percy's smile (if that even makes sense) as he sighed. Will shook my shoulders lightly and I tried to open my eyes but they did not agree. This was getting really weird. This time someone poked my side rather harshly and my eyes flew open. I did not take in anything before my eyes shut again. It was really bright in the room and I need a minute for my eyes to adjust. The room got quiet as I rubbed my eyes and I could feel everyone staring at me.
I opened my eyes and just stared back at them. I did not think they knew I was listening to their conversation. We all just kind of stared at each other for a while. Then, finally, Will broke the silence.
"So uh your thigh is better and is healing quickly. It should be fully healed in about four more days. Thalia just had to hit your Deep Femoral artery. " he said the last part with sarcasm. "Oh! I'm Will by the way." He said with a smile. He had curly blonde hair like mine, and blue eyes. His mouth seemed to almost always be in a slight smile. I just stared, keeping my mouth shut, the corners of my mouth kind of went up a little.
Will had done so much for me, I could not be mad at him, no matter how much I wanted to. Percy leaned over to Jason and whispered something. Jason nodded, looked at me with a small, sad smile, then left the room. I gave them a slightly confused look. Will sighed and left the room following Jason. I missed his presents. He seemed warm and comforting. Percy and I just stared at each other for a few moments until he spoke.
"I think we got off on the wrong foot." He said sitting on the end of my bed, looking at me with his legs dangling off the edge. He moved them so they were swinging. I shifted so we were not so close. "So starting over. I'm Percy and it would be great to know your name." He said with a smile.
He looked at me patently waiting for a reply, that he was not going to get. He was about to say something when the door opened revealing Jason and Piper. Why did they get Piper? She glared at Percy.
"Stop harassing her Perce! She just woke up and is probably confused enough without your help." Piper said with a laugh. Percy looked slightly embarrassed and got up. Piper looked directly at me and to be honest, she made me a little nervous. "So, I'm Piper. You probably already know these guys." She continued and I found myself nodding and I did not understand why. It was like I was doing it involuntarily. "We would really like to know your name. Your father never said in his letters." She looked at me with such certainty and I felt bad for not answering right away. I did not even notice the talk of my "father".
"I-I am Ann-" I forced my mouth shut. What was I doing? I cannot open up to them. They killed everyone on my ship. They killed my Uncle. Even if they are nice to me I could not be nice to them.
I looked up and the others looked confused. I looked at Piper. Something about her wanted me to speak. She raised eyebrows as if saying 'Well go on'. I could not help it and I sighed. Instead of giving what they want, let me get what I want. "Where am I? Who are you people?" I looked directly at Percy when I spoke. "And why do you keep mentioning all the Greek mythology stuff?" I asked quickly but clearly so they would understand.
The three just sort of stared at each other for a moment having a silent conversation that, I am guessing, Piper won.
I kind of was starting to warm up to her. She seemed nice and honest, I needed to stay away from her. I cannot befriend these people. After a moment it was Percy who spoke up and for the first time (since I've met him anyways) his voice was somewhat gentile, and it was weird as hell. He was normally so certain and strong with his voice. Hearing him be quiet was really strange.
"Well, this is a camp the demigods have made in Long Island, New York. It's very deep in the woods and the loyalists have yet to find us. We..."he gestured to Jason, Piper, and himself, "...are demigods. Half mortal, Half god. God being the Greek gods. (A/N: I do have Roman demigods coming in later.) We believe you are also a demigod. The prophecy suggested it and some of your features are very...demigodish I guess." He said the last part with a shrug. The whole time my eyebrows just kept furrowing deeper and deeper. "So the whole Greek Mythology, well what if I told you it wasn't a myth." He said with a smug look. I glared while Piper and Jason face palmed. He cannot be serious. "All of the people here are half god, half mortal. My father is Poseidon god of the sea. Jason's dad is Zeus. Piper's mom is Aphrodite. The guy who was watching over you, Will, his dad is Apollo. One of your parents, well we know it's your mom, but she's a goddess" Percy concluded. Everyone looked at me with pleading looks. Like they were hoping I would not think they were crazy. My face stayed blank.
"This is not the usual reaction." Jason mumbled to Piper and she nodded, eyeing me. It all honestly made sense. It should not, but it does. I have heard of demigods before at school in Britain. The gods would fall in love with a mortal and they would have a "love child" then the god would leave and the child usually died at the hand of a Greek monster, or would do deeds for the gods. This defiantly applies to my situation. I never met my mother, and most British feared me. My dad would always tell me how special I was and how important my mother is. He told me I might save the world one day. But gods? Greek gods? That is impossible. Is this a trick made by the patriots to make me believe them so I will go to their side?
I looked up and saw everyone staring at me. They looked so hopeful and I had a feeling (I will deny it later) they were telling the truth, but I could not trust them. They killed my last living relative and...I just could not. "I-" I started talking when the girl, Thalia, ran into the room. Jason immediately went to her side followed by Piper and Percy.
"Thalia? What's going on?" Jason asked holding Thalia's arm.
"The Loyalists, they found us. They're charging the camp. We need to go. Now." Thalia said panting and pulling Jason towards the door who grabbed Pipers wrist and she stumbled following Jason. Percy went running after them and I heard yelling.
Everyone started running around frantically, grabbing weapons, bags, clothes, everything. I just sat there looking at everyone running around. New faces blurred past me. I was about to get out of bed and head to the door when Percy snatched me up. His arm under my legs and the other around my back. He handed me these cream colored slippers and I shoved them on my feet.
"Will told me to get you, you're not ready to walk just yet. Hold these bags will you?" He said running with me out of the cabin. He shrugged off two bags and shoved them in my lap. He ran through the building and I noticed all the surrounding cabins.
They all had an emblem on the front. Each one was made different colors and many different materials. My eyes wondered around the structure of each one, they were all so different, but I did not have a good chance to get a decent look before we were pasted the buildings and headed towards the woods.
I looked around trying to find these loyalists Thalia was talking about. I saw none but knew they were around somewhere hiding. I calculated how long it would take for them to fully attack. Based on the time Thalia came and told us they were here, about three minutes ago, and the idea that the loyalists do not know this area, I assumed it would not be for a few more minutes.
Percy started running into a patch of woods followed by Leo and a girl and boy I have never seen before. Percy turned to Leo stopping him. "Leo, light it up, Don't hesitate, burn it all. We will wait for you in the woods just hurry." Leo nodded running to the nearest cabin and touching it. The cabin immediately caught fire.
"What the...?" I said in awe. Whatever happened to the whole "not being friends or speaking to these people" thing I had going I am not sure. Percy looked at me smirking a little, then took off running the two others followed Percy.
"Leo is a son of Hephaestus and has some special powers. Beckendorf here is also a son of Hephaestus and the girl he's courting..." He said with a sly smile," Miss. Silena, is a daughter of Aphrodite like Piper." He finished jogging farther into the woods. I just nodded. I have had to process so much today and have just decided to accepted everything. I will sort it all out later. After a few minutes of silence and bumpy jogging we got to the small creek.
"This is the spot we're all meeting. Hopefully everyone else won't be long." Percy said putting me on a rock and taking a seat next to me. It was a nice day out, warm and sunny. I examined the other people.
Silena was beautiful. She had long black hair. I was silky straight, which was odd, because most girls had curled hair. She had even, lightly tanned skin and sparkling brown eyes, but when I looked again they were blue. She was very slim and was somehow working a calf length floral dress. I quickly switched my gaze to the boy, before anyone would notice.
Beckendorf however is completely ripped. I wish I had that much muscle. He was also really tall. He had brown eyes, and brown hair that was not very long. He also had dark brown skin. He and Silena were too busy looking at each other to notice me. I turned my head back around to ask Percy where we were going, when I felt eyes on me.
I turned more, to see something in the trees. I gasped slightly and tugged on Percy's white sleeve. He looked up from shuffling through a bag, confused and followed my gaze. They walked in closer and I turned around myself, cursing when I realized my suspicions were true. We were surrounded by loyalists.
A/N: I love ending in cliff hangers. They're fun...for me anyways. I hope everyone's had a good week so far. I'm taking a driver's ed class and it's alright. Except today I got in a car (we have to pick a different one each class) and I couldn't find the seat adjustment and I am like...really short so I had to sit on my left foot to reach the peddles and my instructor yelled at me for not going a constant speed. Like sorry but I cannot even reach the peddles let alone go a constant speed! It was embarrassing. Other than that it's fun, I hope you enjoyed my rant ha-ha.
So since my birthday is the 22 I decided to give you guys a gift and I will update another chapter for you! I love you guys so much and just wanted to show my appreciation for everyone. Have a beautiful rest of your day!
-Lunch1380