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PERCY POV
I guess everyone slept relatively well... Well, no, not really. Around one in the morning, I just had to have a nightmare.
Annabeth and I were in Tartarus, fighting the arai. I was on the ground, about to die of more than a dozen curses. But one of that mattered. Annabeth was walking toward the cliff. I tried to call for Bob but no sound came out. She kept walking. i tried to move, to yell, to do something, but I was too late. She took another stp and...
"Percy! Percy, olease wake up, please! I'm here, it's okay! We're out!" I opened my eyes to see Annabeth standing over me, tears in her eyes. "Hey Wise girl." I said quietly, "What happened?'
She stared at me, tears threatenng to spill over her eyes. "Well, you were burning up. I tried to shake you awake at first, but it didn't work, and then you just stopped breathng! And I thought you were going to leave me again..." Then the tears fell. I pulled her close and whispered to her. "Hey, hey, I came back didn't I? A little broken and bruised, but I'm here now. We got Jason back, I got rid of that pain curse, everything is okay." Just then the door opened, and speak of the devil, Jason walked in.
"Are you guys okay?" He asked, worry barely concealed in his voice. I nodded. He saw Annabeth and looked at me, then closed the door. We could hear voices outside murmuring things to each other. I heard Leo, and started hoping he wouldn't tell the others my tiny predicament. I was kinda fending off a primordial trying to posses me. That is probably why the nightmares are so bad.
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HAZEL POV
Ok, I was REALLY worried about my two best friends. Their nighmares seemed to be getting worse. But, I didn't really have time to think about it bacause next thing I knew, we were all gathered around the kitchen table, preparing to tell our stories. Percy and Annabeth would, of course, be the main story tellers.
"Now that everyone is here, I believe we should get started." Annabeth said, stabbing her pancakes. Percy nodded and started to regal us with his oh so wonderous life story. Please note the sarcasm.
"So, our adventures started about five years ago. Annabeth and I were both twelve. We met after the minotaur chased me and made my mom disappear. I was about to pass out and her first words were, 'He must be the one.'" Annabeth glared and said, "Really, my first intentional words were 'You drool in your sleep, but whatever floats your boat. Anyway, Percy was a son of the big three, Zeus, Posiedon, and Hades. Technically, they weren't supposed to have kids after a pact that was made becaue of a prophecy, but more on that later. Let's just say, Percy wasn't supposed to exist. We went on our first quest with Grover, a satyr, to return Zeus's master blt a few weeks after Seaweed Brain started camp. Thankfully, we succeeded, but my oldest friend, Luke, betrayed us. He went to work for the Titan Kronos, who was the person we were trying to stop."
"On our second quest," Percy said, "We had to help Clarrise find the golden fleece. It was on an island in the middle of the sea of monsters, otherwise known as the burmuda triangle. We needed to get thefleece because Thalia's tree, and, before you ask, a daughter of Zues who was turned into a pine tree as she died, and the tree was providing our protection, was poisioned by Luke. So we traveled to the island and got the fleece while rescuing Grover, using an old trick against the cyclops and a very angry half brother of mine named Tyson, who is also a cyclops."
The two explained everything, with occasional butt-ins from the rest of us, Right up until their fall into the pit. The wizard all stared at the two of them, waiting for what was to come next. Jason looked at the two and picked up where they left off.
"Percy grabbed a ledge as they were falling. He couldn't pull Annabeth up. He told Nico to help us get to Epirius, and fell." Everyone looked at Jason. Finally, Moody broke the silence. "Well, where did they fall boy? You can't keep us waiting forever." Jason hesitatedbefore he answered, looking at the two demigods, who were now clutching onto each other, staring into space with terrified looks on their faces. Jason looked at Moody, and said in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tartarus." The wizards all looked at each other quizically, except for Hermione, who was staring at Percy and Annabeth with a horrified look on her face.
"Ummm, what's Tartarus?" Ron asked, completely oblivious to the two demigods now shuddering in their seats, halding onto each other as if their lives depended on it. "Tartatus," I answered, "Is the deepest part of the underworld, where all monsters go whenever they die. It is literally your worst nightmare, multiplied by an uncountable number." That changed the atmosphere. Alot. Tears were streaming down Mrs. Weasly's face, all of the boys were staring at the two, open-mouthed.
The explanations continued. We finally got to the end of our story, which was breaking Jason out of the underworld, when Mrs. Weasly threw her arms around Percy and Annabeth, squishing them, and started crying. "You have suffered so much at such a young age. I feel so sorry for you.!" After about ten minutes, she finally calmed down enough to let them go.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go work on my thingies to find Sunshine." Leo said, and walked up to the room the boys shared. I looked at Frank. "Maybe you should go watch him, make sure he doesn't blow anything up." I said. He nodded and trudged up the stairs after Leo. A few minutes later, We could hear Leo singing "Let it Go", followed by alot of cursing and a high pitched scream. I mentally made a note to self: DO NOT leave Leo and Frank in a room together. Bad things will happen, and Leo will be dressed up like Hiccup from how to train your dragon, costume complete, with a peg leg and VERY angry dragon.