A/N I: As the title suggests, this chapter takes place within two minutes.
A/N II: No, I do not own Percy Jackson or Artemis Fowl.
In something like panic, Athena pushed at the doors of the van, but they didn't want to open. Of course, if she'd been calmer, she would have known that the pressure differentiation was just to great. Just one problem with that. The calm part. She was about a minute away from dying. Not just that, but everyone in the van was screaming, and that definitely didn't help with the whole thinking thing.
Then a face appeared on the other side of the door. Athena jumped, before realizing that Percy and Annabeth must've seen what happened. The boy smiled at her, waving as he swam alongside the van as it was swept along in the river's currents.
Attempting to communicate with Percy, Athena pounded on the door and puffed out her cheeks. He just looked at her like she was crazy.
Athena had never really been very good at charades, so she was having trouble telling him that he needed to put a bubble around the vehicle.
"Foaly!" she yelled, over the panicked voices in the van. "I need paper and pen! NOW!" The centaur complied with difficulty, handing the pad of sticky notes and small pen to her. Athena had never been happier to have a nerdy centaur as a friend.
Quickly, she wrote out 'CAN YOU MAKE A BUBBLE AROUND THE VAN?' and stuck it to the window, so the message was facing the son of Poseidon.
The boy's lips moved as he tried to decipher the message, but Athena could tell he wasn't reading in right. What was the... Oh, right. Most demigods are dyslexic. Plus... this was Percy. According to the books, and many of the fanfics she had read, there was something like a 'Percy Language'. Just... the way it was best for him to understand stuff.
Kayla turned to her, probably to ask what in Hades was she doing writing when they were about to die, but Athena's focus was on drawing the picture. Just a little car surrounded by a circle... but... it should work. It's just not easy to draw in a sinking van.
Quickly, Athena showed the picture to Percy, who nodded, just as the window between them began to crack with the strain of all the water. Athena could sense both Holly and Artemis hyperventilating a little bit.
Percy's expression adopted a look of fierce determination coupled with intense concentration. All in all... the way Artemis looked when he was almost done with an invention that had been giving him trouble.
Then Athena breathed a whole lot easier when the water was forced away from the windows, and she knew that the doors would open without too much resistance.
"Everyone out," she said cheerfully. Faces turned towards her, looking as if they thought she'd gone mad. Well... except Kayla. Apparently she, at least, had eyes.