Chapter Six:

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Last time on: Heroes of the Thirteen Colonies.

"Octavian I'm done with you and Britain. I know the King has just been edging me on my whole life. I knew he would never find what I wanted and I was never happy with you. I'm done." Annabeth said and her shaking stopped. There was a moment of silence before it all went to Hades.

~Percy~

Everything went into slow motion. Octavian lunged at Annabeth and my first instinct was to protect her, (I don't know why either, she could take down Octavian in a heartbeat) but I had three loyalists about to pounce on me.

I pulled the cap off Riptide and dived at the nearest loyalist. I slashed at his belly then stabbed him in the chest. He crumpled to the ground, the light going out of his eyes. I wished it didn't have to be this way. I hated having to kill these men. They probably had a family and a future, but I just want to be free of the British rule. I know it's kind of dumb but they wanted to kill me so I guess it's okay if I'm defending myself...right?

I began my usual attacks of stabbing and slashing before all that was left was Octavian. It honestly looked like he wouldn't be that hard to take out but Annabeth was taking her sweet time, drawing out his certain death.

By now the rest of group was here, all eyeing Annabeth uncertainty and swinging their weapons around. They were all whispering amongst themselves and were slowly approaching the pair. I took a moment to be happy everyone was safe. Then Jason stomped over to me and stood next to me fuming slightly. I knew he was going to be MAD. Like...really mad. He doesn't really trust Annabeth...but he doesn't know who she is yet and what she's said. But then again what she's said could be a hoax. Oh great now I'm going to spend my time worrying if she's going to kill me in my sleep or not.

"You gave her a weapon?" He forced out his eyebrows raised and his eyes showed disbelief. I huffed.

"Jason I have it under control. Besides I could've taken her." I said shrugging turning my attention back to Annabeth and ignoring Jason.

She and Octavian were circling each other. Octavian was taking the occasional swipe at her leg, which Annabeth easily dodged. After a few more moments she sighed dramatically and took him down, giving quick slashes and stabs that would've been hard for anyone to deflect, even me. I stared, impressed by her ability and swiftness, even with a knife. I needed her to teach me some moves. She would be good to have on our side.

Athena needed to claim her soon. If she didn't Annabeth would probably think we were lying to her and that would not be good.

Annabeth towered over Octavian as he laid on the ground, clutching his side which was gushing blood. Annabeth put her right leg on his chest and pressed down, making Octavian's eye bulge out slightly. He started coughing and wheezing, blood spilling out of his side.

"Leave Octavian. Do not try and find me again. I want nothing to do with the British. After everything that's happened to me...I am done. Go tell George I am finished, he can go find another toy." She hissed and after she finished talking she lifted her leg and kicked Octavian in the side. He let out a little whimper, before scampering (He fell down a couple times.) away into the woods. I wanted to follow him but I was more concerned about Annabeth. What did she mean by "he can go find another toy"? I had lots of questions and something told me it could take forever to find out the answers.

Annabeth turned and saw all of us looking at her and she wobbled a little, before falling flat on her face into the river. In hindsight I should've known that was coming. It probably took all her energy to attack Octavian like that and she has like a hole in her thigh.

"Shit!" Will muttered before running up to her and pulling her up. She was limp in his arms and her nose was bleeding. "Perce gimme a hand and fix her face." He said and I strode over to the two. I knelt down next to them and put my hand on Annabeth's nose. She flinched in her sleep, and I guessed it was broken. I felt so bad for her, she'd already been through too much pain. I closed my eyes and imagined her face being healed. When I opened my eyes she looked good as new. Her breathing was steady and quiet.

I picked her up "bridal style" (which was kind of tiring since I had just fixed her broken nose.) and looked around at our group. Everyone was accounted for and I started giving orders.

"We need to head south towards Virginia. That's where we are meeting up with Reyna and the Roman troops. But first we need to go to New York City for a meeting with the Gods. So I want Beck, Jason, Nico, Will, and Chris taking our tents. Silena, Piper, and Katie take care of food. Everyone else already has stuff they got. Malcolm will you help me with directions?" As I spoke everyone move and grabbed their items, helping each other out.

That's one of the things I love about our group. They happily help each other out.

Malcolm rushed over to me, a few maps in hand and I started talking.

"So first we need to go to New York City and have the ceremony with the gods before continuing the quest. They requested we bring Annabeth there before we continue. So what's the quickest route?" While I spoke I gestured for Malcolm to follow me to some flat rocks. I placed Annabeth on the ground gently. Her eyes opened and I lightly smiled at her, hoping she wouldn't freak out, and helped Malcolm lay out a map. He squinted his eyes and searched the map.

It reminded me of Annabeth when she first woke up and was calculating everything about Jason and I.

I knew she was a demigod when we first got on the ship and she killed Luke. Few of us demigods have skill like she does and no mortal is that good. When she turned and I saw her eyes I knew it was certain. Malcolm and her have just so many similar features, I couldn't not take her with us.

FLASHBACK

"Okay everyone you know the drill! Oh Percy!" I turned around from sharpening riptide and looked at Luke. "You're up front my friend." I opened my mouth in protest. I knew I could do it, I knew why I was doing it, I knew how important it was, but I didn't want to. Luke glared at me then disappeared into his captain's quarters. I knew this was it. I saw the girl and we both knew what this meant. I watched as Thalia slipped into the captain's quarters when she thought nobody was looking.

I knew this had to be hard for her, she knew Luke's fate and she loved him but it was forbidden. She already knew her fate to come from a previous quest and it involved no relationships (Luke tells me everything).

We had roughly fifteen seconds till we hit the other boat and everyone was running around frantically looking for weapons and bags. I Gripped riptide in my right hand and looked away from the door.

Ten seconds. I looked around, making sure everyone was on the deck.

Nine seconds. Thalia came from the captain's quarters, the rims of her eyes red. I pretended not to notice.

Eight seconds. Thalia walked up to me, fist clenched and obviously mad.

Seven seconds. Thalia grabbed my shirt collar and brought me down to her level.

Six seconds. I decided Thalia is the best cousin ever, but she is scary as hell.

Five seconds. She threatened me, "If you screw up, I'll kill you."

Four seconds. Her eyes blazed and her face was fuming. Her lip ring was quivering and a tear rolled down her cheek.

Three seconds. She wiped the tear and rushed away from me to be at the left end of the line. I turned to the side of the boat facing the enemy boat.

Two seconds. I ran to the railing of the ship and braced myself, lunging down and covering my neck with my free hand.

One second. I prayed for this to all go well (which of course it doesn't).

We hit the ship full speed and the cracking and splitting of wood echoed all around. I waited the ten seconds as Luke had always instructed me before emerging from my hiding spot. Dust was all around me as I raised myself up. I gripped riptide tightly and turned to face the enemy ship. The loyalist army was armed and ready, they're never really ready...ever.

My eyes wandered the crowd, trying to find the blonde girl with no such luck. All I could see were angry British men. Maybe this isn't the girl. We had false alarms many times before where the blonde was a guy, or was killed within moments. I hoped this was one of those times.

I looked behind me at my crew, everyone's eyes were shining and their lips in murderous grins. When I looked back at the loyalist crew, my men were already shoving their weapons into them.

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Within minutes all of the British crew was dead, but I didn't see the blonde girl and I knew something was wrong. So did Luke. He was trying and failing to get information from the captain. This captain was the most stubborn yet, his brown eyes closed off and his mouth in a tight line.

"I do not know what you're talking about!" The captain cried. His face was very panicked and I knew he was nervous. I would be too if Luke was thrusting me against a wall.

"Don't lie to me! We know your plan! Now tell me or we'll kill you!" Luke said pushing the captain into the wall with incredible force, I saw blood on the wall. I winced lightly. I knew this captain was not going to say anything, but Luke wasn't giving up. Ah the stubborn.

That's when it got crazy. I heard Leo and Piper gasp from behind me and I was about to turn around and see what was wrong, but my head never got all the way around. A blonde blur flew next to me and next thing I knew a knife was in Luke's heart. There were collective gasps and Thalia started screaming.

The blonde girl pulled her knife out of Luke and quickly turned around, ready to continue her fight, but I was also ready. She almost ran her throat right into riptide. She looked beyond shocked her grey eyes narrowing.

Wait. Grey eyes? My eyes widened in shock. This is the girl of the prophecy? Damn.

She was obviously an Athena kid, only her kids had grey eyes. She was also an excellent fighter. I knew it had to be the second I saw her.

END FLASHBACK

"If we head north west and travel 26 miles today and tomorrow we should get there tomorrow evening if we go in a straight path." Malcolm explained pointing in directions. I nodded, he knew more than I did and I didn't want to mess anything up.

"That sounds like a good idea, where will we be in 26 miles from here then? I wanna know where we should set up camp." I continued and Malcolm did his eye squinting again. He started talking but I wasn't really focusing.

I was truly exhausted. I've had to take up so much more responsibility since Luke died. I didn't know how hard it was to be a leader and frankly I was tuckered out. Malcolm stopped talking and I nodded.

"Sounds good we should head out if we want to make it by nightfall." I said helping Malcolm fold up his map. He nodded and headed back towards this things. I looked over at Annabeth and noticed she was gone. I turned all the way around, searching for the girl. How could I let her out of my sights like that? I was scanning the crowd until I noticed her sitting near Will and Nico looking into the forest.

I made my way over, tripping over a rock and swallowing a bug. How nice. I took a spot next to Nico searching into the forest. I stared with everyone else. They didn't acknowledge me which I was okay with, however I didn't exactly know what we were looking for, but I just stayed quiet. After a few minutes Jason came over and stood next to me. "Uh guys, if we're going to reach New York City by tomorrow, we better go now." He said giving me his hand. I took it and stood up. Will and Nico got up by themselves and then helped Annabeth, who reluctantly took the help. Will sighed looking at her giving her a small, sad smile.

"You're still not ready to walk. You might have made the healing process longer from fighting but I'll fully check it tonight when we get to camp. Perce are you up for carrying her?" Will asked turning to me. I eyed Annabeth. I knew I would say yes, but I pretended to contemplate anyways. She crossed her arms, she looked infuriated about having to be carried, but she hid it well.

"Can do Will. Can you find me Malcolm so we can head out?" I asked him walking towards Annabeth and putting her right arm around my shoulders. Will nodded and the three started towards the rest of the group.

I grabbed Annabeth's waist.

"I know you don't want be carried, but you can't be putting all your weight on your leg, so I won't carry you. I will help you though, I don't want Will yelling at me." I said, trying to keep things light, but I was basically dragging her towards Malcolm. She looked defeated, her eyes sad. I sighed and continued moving.

After finalizing our route with Malcolm and Jason we headed off towards New York City. I was towards the back since I had Annabeth and it was really awkward since neither of us were talking. She just kept sighing dramatically and wincing every once in awhile. We trudged through the forest, dodging low branches an rocks.

I got bored and wanted to make conversation with this girl. I couldn't believe it was the Annabeth Chase. It's not like I'm a "fan" or anything, but she's an incredible fighter and she's really smart. She was obviously an Athena kid. I wanted to ask her about herself however I couldn't open my mouth. But I didn't have to.

Surprisingly enough it was Annabeth who spoke first.

"So...demigods huh?" She said looking at the me. I chuckled lightly before replying.

"Yep" I said popping the 'p'. I never 'pop my p's'. What is up with me? "It is interesting. Lately we haven't had too many monsters after us, it's just been the loyalists. I wish it were monsters though." I finished kicking a rock.

Annabeth looked down from the sky and frowned, eyes blazing.

"Why's that? You seemed pretty happy killing my crew." She snapped back before softening a little, "Sorry." She mumbled, barely audible. I looked forward. I felt really bad for her. I mean we did kill her crew, and her dad who she thought was her uncle, we'll have to discuss that...and Thalia shot her in the leg. She hasn't had an easy week to say the least, and she was just tired and confused. Something all of us here have felt before. I gave her an easy, soft smile.

"Nah it's alright. I understand what you're going through, believe me. All of us have gone through something like you have." I finished, not really wanting to go into the subject, but Annabeth's head perked up. Before she could say anything though she was cut off by Jason. Thank gods.

"Alright guys we're going to take a quick break. Get some water we'll continue in a few minutes. I walked over to a rock and sat Annabeth down. I saw a river on our way and needed to rejuvenate.

"I'll be right back, I'm going to the river to talk to the spirits." I lied, making my way to the water before she could reply.

~Annabeth~

I watched as Percy quickly walked (more like sprinted) towards the river. I was about to ask him why but he took off. I slumped on the rock brushing a hand through my hair. It was so knotted and I was covered in dirt. I had not bathed in about a month and was really starting to feel it. I felt so gross.

I sighed and closed my eyes, rubbing my temples. I missed my uncle. He was a piece of my past I have always had. Now he was gone. Because of Percy.

I wanted to hate Percy and everyone else. I wanted to get back at them for all they had done, but I just...could not. When the Loyalists cornered us in the forest I did not for one second think about joining them. I connected with these people in ways I did not know I could. I have not talked to any of them but Percy really, but I still felt connected somehow. I felt accepted and comfortable around them. It was confusing and I just needed to think. But of course I am not going to get that.

I opened my eyes and saw Piper and Thalia staring back at me. Startled I fell backwards and landed hard on my back. I yelped and Piper rushed to aid me, Thalia stayed where she was but looked apologetic.

"I'm so sorry, we didn't mean to scare you." Piper apologized as she helped me up. I am just falling all over myself and it's embarrassing.

"It's alright." I mumbled back. Piper smiled brightly at me and Thalia just stayed blank faced, crossing her arms in front of her chest. I felt incredibly uncomfortable with them looking at me. Even though Piper's look was kind, I still felt nervous. I also felt incredibly dirty. Both Thalia and Piper's hair were clean and shiny, they were wearing men's pants and shirts with their corset over their shirt, with knee length boots on their feet. I felt incredibly awkward in my nightgown and ladies night shoes, with tangly hair. As if sensing my self consciousness, Piper spoke up.

"We can get you in some new clothes. I'd hate to be wearing what you are out here." She said giving me her and a smile. I gladly accepted it, nodding, and the corners of my mouth went up. How Piper had known I wanted new clothes I did not know but I was okay with it. I pretty much looked like a bear. I would know too, I had to wrestle one last year, it is a long story.

Thalia took my left arm and put it around her shoulders and her right arm gently went around my waist, Piper doing the same on my other side. We walked over to where another girl was sitting, getting stared at as we went but we all ignored them. I wanted to know everyone, but I had a feeling that would have to wait. I hoped they all trusted me.

This was all happening so fast and I was honestly surprise with how willing I was to switch sides. Maybe I was not being smart. Maybe if this goes south I will at least have information for the British. I hoped it did not have to go that way though.

As we approached the girl, Thalia called out to her. "Hey Katie! Do you have any clothes Annabeth here can borrow?"

Katie turned around from where she had been...digging? she had dirt all over her hands.

Katie had pretty, straight brown hair, and green grass eyes. Her eyes got bright at the mention of my name and her lips formed a huge grin. I felt my mood instantly improve from Katie's. She nodded happily, wiping her hands on her pants and looked in her little trunk as she talked.

"Oh yeah I got loads of extras and we're close to the same size. Let me see what I got here..."she slowly got quieter and quieter as she dug in her trunk. She pulled out a light blue men's shirt, and black men's pants that matched Thalia and Piper. She pulled out a brown corset and slightly frowned. She looked up at me and gestured to the corset. I shook my head. They were never my thing, unless I had to wear one. She nodded a smile shining through. "Yeah I'm not a fan either." She said continuing to look through her trunk. She handed me a cloth corset, those were much more comfortable. She went over to another trunk and pulled out a pair of stockings and some boots. "This should do for now. As soon as we get to New York City." She said casually. New York City? These people are crazy enough to think we are going to New York City? I could not go there.

Piper and Thalia dragged me towards the woods, with Katie's clothes shaking me from my thoughts. I never got the chance to say thanks, oh well. Thalia and Piper led me deep into the forest and I quickly changed, while they took watch. We were in British territory and had to be careful. I got on my corset and shirt, then put on the stockings and pants. Lastly putting on my boots and tucking my shirt into my pants. Piper gave me a thin strip of cloth for my hair and I tied it into a bun. Some curls came out and hit me in the face. I sighed, the curls twirling.

"We can just leave your dress here, it's too dirty to clean and nobody really wears those anyways." Piper said smiling and I left the dress in the leaves. They grabbed my arms and proceeded to take me back towards our group. My leg was throbbing and I needed to sit. We got back to the group to find Jason yelling at Percy, and everyone else just laughing or not paying attention.

"Percy you can't just scurry off like that! We thought you were kidnaped or something!" Jason said yelling and throwing his hands around. I started to smile with Piper and Thalia (who were laughing) at how exasperated Jason was, his face was really red and he kept waving his hands around. He turned when he heard new giggles and stopped to glare at us, "Oh so you think this is funny do you Piper and Thalia. You guys also left, without warning, with Annabeth. She could've killed you, we all know we don't trust..." He cut himself off when his eyes fell on me. Everyone was paying attention now. Some people shook their heads eyes wide, others just looked up from their work, panicked look on their faces. I glared back at Jason who now looked really uncomfortable and apologetic. I knew he did not mean to say it, but it was too late. He needs to think before he speaks. I walked towards him, without help. Sure it hurt like hell and I would be regretting it later, but I was really mad and it did not process to my brain. I grabbed Jason by his collar and pulled him down so we were face to face.

"Listen because I am not going to say it again. If I wanted to hurt you guys, I would have already. I do not know if you know who I am, but you better watch what you say to me, Jason. I would not be here if I did not think you guys had answers. So next time use that head of yours, and think before you say something dumb okay?" I said shoving him backwards and he stumbled. My leg was screaming and there was some awkward silence for a few moments where I was just glaring at Jason and he looked so surprised and scared. Finally, Percy cleared his throat and spoke,

"Uh...Well um, if we want to get to camp we'd uh better head out. So, uh, let's go people!"

A/N: Hello there friends! I hope you enjoyed this super long, two POV chapter! I had fun writing this and just wanted to say sorry for out of character Jason. Like I said last chapter I'm working on it! I hope you all have a great day! Also I'm going to be taking a two week break from posting chapters since I've posted the last three chapters so close together so follow my Instagram: Lunch1380 because I talk to you guys on there and am active everyday so ya! Love you guys!

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