Okay so I decided to redo this chapter because when I reread it, I absolutely hated it. There were so many mistakes and weird words (I blame auto-correct). I'm writing this in notes on my iPod by the way. So here is chapter six...again.
"Athena, do you think you could help us with our next transportation choice?" Poseidon asks.
Athena raises her eyebrows,"Why? Mortal taxi not good enough?"
"Yes."
"Fine," Athena says. She closes her palm and when she opens it a shiny golden coin is sitting on her palm. A/N: Im not sure if drachmas are silver it golden. I think silver but wrote gold anyways.
"What's that?" Bianca asks examining the round piece of metal. It looked like it had been through the washing machine a few times. Or a piece of paper that was crumpled, then they tried to straighten it out, but didn't put in much of an effort.
"It's a drachma," Athena explains holding it up to the sun in her thumb and index finger. She lowers it back down. "Here Poseidon. Catch."
She tosses him the coin and Poseidon catches it. He examines the coin and rubs his thumb against it "What's it for?"
"Your transportation. Figure it out," Athena says then disappears.
Poseidon study's the coin. "There are several things we could do with this, like IMing..."
"Instant messaging?" Annabeth asks.
"Iris-messaging," Poseidon explains. Gods didn't use Iris's method too often, mostly in communication with their children although they didn't do that a lot.
"Ooh lets do that!" Percy says. He's still really upset and dry tears stained his face, but he's determined to be happy. He puts on a smile to not only mask his pain, but to make it disappear too.
"Percy we only have one drachma," Bianca points out.
"So?"
"So we should use it for our ride not that Irish thing."
"Iris," Nico says.
"Sorry, Iris."
"You know what?" Poseidon says.
"What?" The children chorus back.
Poseidon stashes the coin."Camp half-blood isn't too far. I'll just take us." Poseidon grabs Nico's hand, who grabs Bianca's hand, who grabs Percy's hand, who grabs Annabeth's hand. They all do that flying thing again and Annabeth feels weightless. This must be what it's like to be in outer space, she decides. Once they all land, they immediately disregard each others hands and take in their surroundings. In the distance, there's a large hill with rolls of strawberry fields behind it. The large hill blocks the rest of their view, so Annabeth does a 360 to see if the camp might've been anywhere else. She didn't see anything that might've been a camp, but across the street way in the distance are these three old ladies.
"Why are they knitting really big socks?" Percy asks pointing at the ladies.
Bianca slaps his hand. "It's rude to point!"
The one on the left is knitting one sock, the one on the right is knitting the other and the one in the middle is holding the yarn. All of a sudden, she takes a pair if scissors and cuts the yarn.
Poseidon's eyes saden and his lips turn but the quality quickly disappears and he begins to make his way towards the hill.
Annabeth doesn't follow though. Her feet begin to force her towards these two people about twenty feet from where she was standing. One has short black hair and is wearing combat boots. The other has sandy blonde hair and a blue teeshirt. Her brain is telling her no! Go back! but her feet aren't listening and it felt right.
She taps on the boys shoulder.
He turns around. "Can I help you?" He asks, but looks a little annoyed.
Annabeth's eyes widen. The girl pushes the boy behind her. "Sorry, Luke just had a bad run in with his dad, he's a little cranky."
"Thalia!"
"I-" Annabeth try's to get the words up her throat but they continued to slide back down.
"How old are you?" Thalia asks in desperate need of changing the subject, for Luke's sake if course.
"Five... How old are you?"
"I'm seven...so is Luke."
"Stop Thalia!" Luke demands.
"What?"
"Stop telling her things about us! For all we know she could be a monster, or, or a spy!" Luke yells.
"Guys!" A voice calls. A guy with curly hair and a baseball cap on begins to run towards them.
"Sup Grover?" Thalia asks. She turns to Annabeth. "This is Grover by the way. My "dad" apparently wanted him to being me to camp."
Luke's teeth set but he doesn't say anything. For seven year olds, these guys sure do act older and stricter than they should.
"Percy's dad took us to camp," Annabeth says.
Luke's eyes upturn and he looks at her suspiciously. "Who's his dad?"
"Po-"
"There's a monster chasing us," Grover interrupts.
"That's okay, Percy's dad can kill it."
"Well Percy's dad is not here!" Luke yells. He crosses his arms and his blue eyes get that annoyed look again.
"Percy!" Annabeth yells looking around hoping he could bring his dad to kill the monster.
All of a sudden a rush of water grabs Annabeth and drags her away. Annabeth screams in surprise and calls for help. Her mouth fills water and she forced to keep it shut. She tries to fight but the current is too strong. She closes her eyes and lets it carry her away.
She feels the water subside but just lies on the ground in a starfish formation.
"Annie, you okay?" A voice asks.
Annabeth sits up and coughs a few times. She wrings out her hair a little and her teeth begin to chatter. Annabeth slowly opens her eyes. Green ones are staring back. Slowly she takes one of her arms from underneath her armpit and falsely smiles. She punches Percy and he immediately falls to the ground.
She gets up and looks over at him.
"That's for calling me Annie," Annabeth growls. She puts her hand out for Percy but he just backs away and gets up on his own. Annabeth sighs, "sorry."
Bianca's eyes look sad and Poseidon looks a little disappointed. He picks up Percy. "You okay?"
"Yeah," Percy mumbles.
Poseidon lowers him to his feet. All of a sudden those three kids Annabeth saw come running towards them.
Annabeth sees a beast with five arms chasing them.
The clouds become dark and stormy and it begins to rain. The wind whirls around her and the sun that was heating her up disappears.
"Go!" Thalia yells. "I'll fight it off! Save Annabeth!" Annabeths heart lurches. Thalia risking her own life for her?
"No!" Luke yells. "I won't leave you!"
Grover looks at Thalia. "Her dad will save her!" He yells at Luke over the wind.
Annabeth begins to run up the hill with Percy, Bianca and Nico. Poseidon is no where to be seen. Annabeth loses her footing and slips but the others don't notice. Luke, who was behind them does and grabs her. He hurls her over his shoulder and begins to run. Annaeth was a little small for her age and Luke seemed pretty strong. Grover is running along side Luke as he runs with Annabeth in his arms.
Annabeth looks back at Thalia over Luke's shoulder. She has a murderous look on her face and is fighting viciously. She cuts off one of the monsters arms but it just grows back. Realizing she can't kill it, she begins to run away. Annabeth's view of her quickly disappears as they go down the other side of the hill. Soon she can see Thalia again near the top of the hill. The monster closes in in her and jumps up, ready to land on her. All of a sudden there's a loud popping sound and a crack of lightning comes down. Luke stops in his tracks and turns around causing Annabeths view to turn too. Annabeth cranks her neck around, but all she sees is a small pine tree.
"Where's Thalia?!" Luke yells.
Annabeth does some quick thinking in her head.
She reluctantly points to the tree. Luke's blue eyes widen and he begins pick up speed towards this big brown house that seemed to just appears. This must be the camp! she thinks. To the left you can see the rolls of strawberry fields. There are twelve large cabins in what looked like the middle of the camp. Annabeth saw a climbing walk with fusing lava running down the sides. She decides she would stay away from that for now. A large forest is to the right and you can see a lake running along in the distance.
Percy and Bianca are riding on a horse back towards them. Then Annabeth realizes that its a man with a horses bottom.
"Annabeth!" Percy yells. He and Bianca jump off the man/horse before he even gets the chance to stop. They begin to run towards her. Annabeth jumps out of Luke's arms and meets them halfway. They embrace each other. "I'm so sorry!" Percy cries. "I'm so so sorry!"
"We didn't know you stopped," Bianca says as they release each other.
"And I'm sorry Percy for punching you. It's just that someone close to me used to call me Annie but...we're not close anymore," Annabeth explains.
"Sorry," Percy mutters.
"S'okay Percy," Annabeth says.
Annabeth grabs Percy and Bianca's hands. "Let's go to camp."
Luke runs up to them. "Hold up!" He says. "You're Percy?"
"Yeah, who are you?"
"Who's your dad?" Luke demands.
"None of your beeswax," Percy replies. He crosses his arms and sticks out his tongue.
"Beeswax?" Bianca asks.
"Let's go," Percy insists, pulling Annabeth and Bianca back to the horse. They all get on and the horse trots towards a very pissed off Luke.
"Child," the horse says. "Come with us." He holds out his hand to the seven year old. Annabeth looks around and sees that Grover guy already heading to camp. He looks really nervous and keeps on looking up at the sky, as if the lightning would get him too.
Luke turns away. The horse guy insists and finally Luke gives in. He gets on the very back behind Percy and the horse begins to gallop towards the house. Percy's dad is there.
He's talking to another man wearing bright purple shoes, a leopard print shirt and baggy yellow pants that become tight at the bottom. The man looks annoyed and his arms are crossed as he leans against the railing of the deck of the house. Once Poseidon notices the children he quickly disappears.
"Dad!" Percy calls.
"That's your dad hey?" Luke asks. "Crap! I didn't get a good look."
All the children gasp. "That's a bad word!" Annabeth yells.
"Yeah, so?"
"You're not supposed to say that. It's a cuss word," Bianca says. "Right Percy?"
"Huh?" Percy asks looking up. "Oh um, Gabe used that word all the time. I'm used to it." He looks a little mad and his cheeks turn a redish-pink. His eyebrows furrow and his teeth clench.
"Who's Gabe?" Annabeth asks sending Percy's attitude.
Percy turns away. "Nobody," he mumbles.
Annabeth studies him for a second and decides pushing him won't help. She'd find out later.
She begins to think of the different ways to approach Percy and realizes she was being lifted. The horse man puts her on the ground. "You new to clean out your ears my dear," he chuckles.
Annabeth looks at the horse. "What are you?" She asks.
"Duh Annabeth, he's a horse," Percy says.
Bianca slaps him on the shoulder. "He's a person too!"
Chiron smiles,"I am a centaur. One of a kind in fact." His voice was soothing and made Percy want to fall asleep. Percy was really tired. his eyes began to droop and he lets his body collapse. He was tired of fighting.
Annabeth gasps as she watches Percy's body crumble to the ground as if all of his bones had left his body.
"Percy!" Annabeth yells.
Luke looks at Percy. "He's sleeping."
"Is not!" Annabeth yells stomping her foot. "He, he must've fainted!"
"No. He was so tired he fell asleep. When we were on him," Luke says pointing to the centaur,"his eyelids were drooping and I caught him right before he could fall off the horse."
Annabeth scowls.
"Come we will take him to the inside if the big house," the centaur says. "The rest if you will go watch the orientation video."
"How come?" Nico asks walking out of the large building.
"Because you're demigods or sometimes called half-bloods. It will explain."
"We already know we're demigods," Annabeth scoffs. "I'm a daughter if Athena."
"I'm a son of Hermes," Luke says.
"We're," Bianca says pulling Nico to her side. "Children of Hades."
"And his dad is..." She begins but remember that Percy wasn't going to tell. She looks over at Luke and smirks. "I'm not telling."
Luke rolls his eyes,"Thanks."
So there you go! It's a little longer than it was before and I think it's a lot better. I didn't look over it so there might be mistakes. Sorry!