Chapter 7

When your dreams all fail,

And the ones we hail,

Are the worst of all.

Third person POV

Thalia left after leading the two siblings to their room.

The room was simple, not anything special. But it was something. Annabeth was thankful for that.

There were two single beds, a closet, and a small nightstand in the corner, beside the nightstand was a wall plug, the walls were beige, the room was amazing for their situation. Annabeth couldn't ask for better than it.

As soon as she saw the wall plug, she ran to it, took out her iPhone and charger from her backpack, and put it on charge.

She saw that Amy was already asleep in the bed that's near the wall. So, Annabeth took the one near the door, laid down, and in no-time was fast asleep.

"Honey! Come home early, okay?" A middle aged woman, said.

"Mom, I'm twelve. You can stop worrying now. Besides, I'm just going to Kate's house. Her mom will be there." A small girl, said.

"Honey I'm only saying that for your own sake. Be back at eight, understand?" The woman said, looking at her daughter sternly.

"Ugh Whatever!" said the girl, and left.

The girl had blonde hair, and startling silvery-grey eyes, that looked like storm clouds.

She started skipping to a house.

When she finally reached it, she rang the bell, and a small girl that had chocolate brown hair and honey colored eyes came out, and closed the door.

"Hi Kate!" Said the blonde princess.

"Hi, Annabeth." Spoke the said girl.

Little Annabeth looked at her, and said. "Arent we supposed to go inside?" She asked, questioningly.

"No, We're going to spy." She said matter-of-factly.

"Spy? Whom are we going to spy at?" Questioned the grey eyed child.

"Your parents! We spied at mine last week!" She exclaimed, happily.

"Okay.." Said young Annabeth, although she had a feeling in the pit of her stomach that what they're going to do was going to get them into trouble. Scratch that, its going to take them to tartarus.

They went back to little Annabeth's house, and sneaked in.

"My parents should be in the basement, they're always there. I'm not supposed to go in there though." The blonde princess explained.

"Why?" Asked the honey-eyed.

"I-I don't know." stuttered the other girl.

"Then lets go in and find out, I don't think going in there will hurt." Dared Kate.

"O-okay,"

Kate opened the basement door, slowly, trying not to make any sound. Both girls tip-toed down the stairs.

They gasped at what they saw.

There were so many electronics, some science experiences, compounds and mixtures. But what made them gasp was the person that was there. It wasn't a normal person, it looked like a monster.

Annabeth's parents weren't there.

Kate looked at the monster. And went to open its cage.

"Stop!" Yelled the young princess, but Kate kept going to it.

Suddenly Annabeth felt something slapping her, the dream faded.

She bolted up, breathing so fast, it hurt.

"DON'T DO IT KATE!" She yelled, then blushed when she noticed Three figures standing in front of her. Thalia, Amy and Percy. Wait PERCY! She looked at him, their eye gaze met, sea- green on grey. She was so mesmerized by them, that she didn't hear what he was saying "...Kate?" Was all she had heard.

"Uh, its nothing, just a dream, I've been getting alot of those earlier." She said sheepishly.

Percy didn't look convinced, but thankfully, he let it slide. "Training starts in ten, be there on time." He said sternly and left.

"No need to be so grumpy." She muttered, Thalia chuckled, Annabeth jumped, almost forgetting she was there the whole time.

"Go take a shower, Here are some clothes." She said then added, "Finish fast, you don't want to face an angry Percy, trust me, it's bad."

"I'm not scared of him." Annabeth challenged.

"Sure," Smirked Thalia then left.

"I'm going to wait for you here Annabeth, finish fast though, I want to fight!" Exclaimed Amy a little too enthusiastically.

Annabeth chuckled, "Okay sweetie, I'll be done in less then ten minutes."

She went to the bathroom, stripped, opened the steaming hot water, and got in.

After taking an eight minute shower, which was a record for her, by the way, Annabeth tried to comb her curls, notice TRIED.

But, miserably, failed.

She wore the clothes that Thalia gave her, which were a long-sleeve shirt, and some black sports shorts, It wasn't cold. She slipped on her boots, put her dagger inside of its neck, and got out of the bathroom.

"C'mon, Amy." She took Amy's hand as she reached their room. Together they walked to the arena, to meet up with the others.

When they reached the arena, Annabeth caught a glimpse of black hair, and instantly knew it was Percy's.

"Uh, hi." She said and tapped him on the back, since he had his back to her.

"Ah, ten minutes exactly, accurate are we?" He teased as he turned around, Annabeth didn't find that funny, so she shot back at him.

"I'll take that as a complement. I bet I can beat your butt in battle." She dared.

"Oh, really?" Said the professor, obviously impressed by her attitude.

"Yes, really." Shot the blonde. Putting her hands on her waist. "Scratch that. I know I can win you in battle." She smirked.

Percy chuckled. "Bring it on, wise girl."

"Wise girl? Is that the best you got, seaweed brain?" She mocked.

"Let's fight." He confirmed, then went and clapped his hands together, once. Everybody stood silent.

Seems like Percy is respected here.

"Good evening, as you all know we have new members here." He said and got a couple of yeah's, duh's, and whatever's. "We're going to have a battle with them, Amy and Matt shall fight with Layla, and Max, since they are their age, while Malcolm and Annabeth will fight me, and Clarisse. you loose if you fall, or if you lose your weapon. After the fight, we will see their weaknesses and we'll teach them, so they could get better." He concluded.

We all nodded, Layla and Matt went first, using wooden swords.

Layla started by attacking him, he easily dodged it, then slung his sword at her, she ducked, then got her sword and hit his leg making him almost lose his balance, then Matt slung his sword at her but he knew that she would try to sidestep him, when she was going to do that he took the opportunity to take her sword and throw it as far away from her as possible. Everyone cheered for him. He had won the battle.

Layla just smiled and told him that he did great, which only caused him to blush.

Amy and a kid named Max were next. Amy didn't look scared, instead she just smiled, and shook hands with Max and then the battle started.

Amy had some moves, but Max was stronger, and quicker.

Their fight went like this, Amy attacked, Max easily sidestepped it, then aimed his sword at her, she jumped so high, the sword went from under it. When Max was about to take his sword, Amy was already stepping on it, although it was still in his hands, but that was a mistake since it only caused her to slip and fall.

That means Max won.

Max extended his hand for her, she took it. Both of them were blushing, which only gave them a couple of aw's and how cute's

And that didn't help them. They turned into the color of a ripe tomato. Causing everyone to crack up.

Malcolm and Clarisse were next.

Clarisse was tough. That was obvious.

Malcolm and Clarisse both used spears.

The battle started with Clarisse and Malcolm attacking at the same time, Clarisse used her spear to aim at his stomach, while Malcolm had other plans, he put his spear tip on the ground and went flying up holding the back of it, his legs kicked her face causing her to curse. but before he could land Clarisse had a hand on his leg, causing him to fall.

Clarisse had won. But people weren't cheering for her, they were all cheering for Malcolm since the move he did was a bad-ass move.

Percy and Annabeth were next.

Percy smirked. "Good luck, wise girl. You'll need it."

"Break a leg." Annabeth said and smirked, knowing she actually meant it.

Percy frowned, "That wasn't nice." He pouted. Causing Annabeth to laugh at him.

Percy took out a pen, when he uncapped it, it grew into a full size celestial bronze sword. That caused Annabeth's jaw to drop.

Percy smirked. "Meet Riptide, Beth." Annabeth blushed, nobody calls her Beth. But she liked it.

She just shrugged, and bent down, then got her dagger from her boot.

"They say only smart and fast people use knives as their battle weapon. No wonder you're a wise girl." He smirked.

"Duh, I am smart. And fast." She said, helping her ego grow more and more.

"Don't get your hopes up, sweetie." He winked then attacked not leaving time for Annabeth to blush. Or even think about what had just happened.

She sidestepped him then attacked so fast, if it wasn't someone as skilled as Percy fighting her, he/she would have lost by the first move she had done.

Percy and Annabeth's weapons met, going right, left, right, left, right, left and so on.

Until Annabeth got bored from the routine, and went from under Percy's legs, which looked wrong, but hey, they were fighting.

Percy smirked, knowing a perfect move, that would make her lose.

He turned around, made a hand-stand followed by a cart wheel, then he made an air back-flip which got him behind Annabeth, she gasped.

He had pinned her down, and threw her knife away with him on top of her, their faces were inches apart

Percy had won, and that doesn't help Annabeth's pride.

He smirked, and whispered in a low husky voice that made Annabeth shiver. "I've got moves, wise girl."

Annabeth lost her voice.

Percy got up, and dusted himself, then extended his hand for her, she took it, not wanting to show how butt-hurt she was.

Everybody was cheering.

"Okay now, off to practice everybody, we have alot to talk about at dinner." Percy said, then went to Annabeth and whispered, "Don't worry Beth, you've got some moves." He said winking, then left.

"UGH!" She shouted once he was out of the room. Only to earn a few weird looks from others.

Gods she was so embarrassed.

And Angry.

Whatever, She thought. He just won once, that doesn't mean that she's weak. Besides, Percy is skilled.

Yeah, yeah, said the annoying voice in her head. Keep saying excuses, you know he's a better fighter than you. Admit it. Don't be stupid.

"Shut up!" She yelled, but soon realized that she said it out loud, since everybody was looking at her, weirdly, again. "What are you looking at! Go back to whatever you're doing!" She shouted. She was angry, and not in the mood for being friendly. Everyone just burst into laughter.

She turned red from embarrassment, and ran.

She ran, and felt tears in her eyes.

Annabeth never cried. Well not never, just rarely.

AND DONE!

Hope you enjoyed the chapter, it's longer than the usual ones. I know, but that's supposed to be a good thing right?

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Bye

~CluelessDorkIdiot.