AN: Here's the next one. Sorry for the late update, holidays+sick+school+exams=no time to post! Well, anyways here's an update on Percy. :)
Percy charged through the forest, the Stoll brothers right ahead of him, the satchel with the crown in it over his shoulder. they had been running from the palace guards for an hour now. The thief stopped to catch his breath at a tree and noticed two posters. they were wanted posters of him and the Stoll's.
"No, no no, this is bad. This is very very bad. This is really bad." He said taking down the poster of him. The Stoll's turned to look at him like he had gone crazy. Honestly, it wasn't as if he had never seen his own wanted poster? "They just can get my nose right!" Percy exclaimed showing them the poster with his nose all bumpy and huge.
"Who cares!" Travis Stoll said rolling his eyes.
"Well that's easy for you to say. You guys look great!" Percy said looking at the Stoll's poster. They happened to look just like their own selves. Just then a shout came from behind them. The palace guards had caught up and were hot in pursuit. The Stoll's and Percy ran off again. They dodged under trees and over fallen logs. Percy shoved the poster he had taken down in his satchel and looked back. They weren't in sight but they could be heard. Percy looked ahead and nearly collided with a rock wall. They had run right into a dead end.
"Okay, give me a boost and I'll pull you up." Percy said hurriedly, though he had no intention of saving them.
"Give us the satchel first." Travis said holding out hos hand. Percy feigned hurt.
"Wha..? I just...I can't believe, that after all we've been together, you don't trust me." Percy said dramatically. He was met with serious, dead-panned faces, "ouch." Percy dead-panned. He handed over the satchel exaggeratedly. The Stoll's stood on each other's shoulders and Percy clambered up them to the top, surreptitiously swiping the satchel while he was at it. He reached the top and stood up.
"Now help us up pretty boy." Travis said anxiously as the guards got closer.
"Sorry," Percy said fake politely, "My hands are full." He grinned and held up the satchel. He dashed off and Travis' face contorted and he screamed in rage as the guards caught them.
"Retrieve that satchel at all costs!" Jason, captain of the guard, whom Percy had the displeasure of knowing on a first name basis, seeing as they were cousins, said to his men as they rode to catch Percy. Jason was riding a pitch black horse, Blackjack, and the others had brown or speckled.
Percy dodged between two trees, confident they couldn't follow, but apparently Jason and Blackjack dared to make it, and they did.
"We got him now Blackjack!" Jason said readying his crossbow. Percy ducked under a fallen log as crossbow bolts hit the log where his head had been seconds before. Percy ran faster and saw a vine hanging from the canopy and grabbed it. He swung around a tree just as Jason and Blackjack came by and the thief knocked the captain right off Blackjack. Jason was sent flying and Percy took Blackjack's reins.
"Go!" Percy said as he slapped the reins. Blackjack realized his master wasn't on his back and stopped suddenly. Percy was nearly thrown off, "Heeyah! come on fleabag, forward!" Percy said. The horse looked back and eyed the satchel. Percy moved it out of ranged of the horse's mouth as blackjack tried to get it back. In the midst of the struggle for the satchel, it flew out of Percy's hand and got caught on a branch, hanging over a cliff. The horse and the thief eyed eachother and took off after the satchel. Blackjack tripped Percy and got ahead, but then Percy tripped Blackjack, managing to climb onto the branch and retrieve the satchel. Blackjack caught up with him on the branch, but heard a crack, then the branch plummeted off the cliff. Blackjack landed and immediately began sniffing around for signs of the thief.
Percy on the other hand, was hiding behind a rock as Blackjack passed him. The young thief slipped away from Blackjack and went to lean on an ivy-covered rock; but there was no rock. It was a hidden passage to a large clearing with a tower in the centre. Percy decided it was the best place to hide. He began climbing the tower.
"Ahhh, alone at last." Percy said as he clambered into the tower. Then a sharp pain exploded on the back of his head and he knew no more.
AN: There's the next one! please review!