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Chapter 20: Trains

A/N: I found internet!!! Here's your chapter

I woke up and saw the sun beating down on our "campsite". I went to sit up but all of the energy was drained out of me as if the sun was making it disintegrate.

I turned over and saw Grover with Gladiola on his lap.

"How much was the reward."

"Oh, I believe it was 200."

"Are there any other dogs?"

"No, just me and.... The evil cats."
Their conversation kept rambling on and on so I just started to tune them out as I walked over to a half awake Annabeth who was sitting on the same rock.

"How are you doing?" I asked kneeling in front of her so we were eye to eye.

"Better than him." She gestured to a still sleeping Percy.

"How is he still asleep?"

"I have no idea."

I walked over to Percy and he seemed like he was trying to make a pool out of his drool. I kneeled down about to wake him up before I heard him mumble in his sleep.
"I won't help you."
I waited to see if he was gonna say anything else but after a few seconds I decided to wake him up.

"Wake up, Aquaman."

"Huh?"

"Wake up."

"Oh, sorry." He got up and shook himself awake. Afterwards he caught eye of the poodle

"Why is there a dog here?" He looked around at me and Annabeth for answers.

"Hey."

"This is Gladiola and he says Hi" Grover said

"I'm not saying hi to a poodle."

Gladiola growled at Percy.
"Say hi."

"Percy, all of us have said hi to the poodle." Annabeth tried.

"No, I-"

"Come on Percy. Just say hi to him." I said trying to get this moronic conversation over with.

"Hi." He said in a defeated tone towards the dog.

Gladiola soften his expression.
"Thank you. Now, let's go to my house."

We took Gladiola back to his house, took the reward money and booked a train. The 200 dollars only got us to Denver but it was better than nothing.

We got into our train compartment and settled down.  I was so tired I immediately fell asleep.

I woke up and saw Annabeth sitting next to me while Percy and Grover were sitting across from me. They were almost... staring at me? No, something behind me

I turned around and saw darkness. That's strange why would a train compartment have a dark space behind me. I saw red eyes appear out of nowhere and look straight at me.

"Y/N, Y/N, Y/N." A voice said in a condescending tone. His voice sounded like blades on chalkboards.
"Look around you." I did as he said and turned around to see the Olympian gods bickering.
"Is this what you're fighting for? Overgrown children." I somewhat started agreeing with what he said. Percy told me that Poseidon only claimed him because of the lightning bolt being stolen. I wondered why my mom claimed me. Was it for a task that she needed to be done? Was she only being motherly to use me?
No, she cares about me. Right?

"You need to wake up, Son of Artemis!" As he said this all of the gods were stabbed. The last one was my mother who was being overwhelmed by different warriors. While the same scythe from earlier came out from the edge of Olympus slicing through the air and careening towards my mother. I tried running towards her but I couldn't move.

"No!!" I screamed as loud as possible practically crying my eyes out.

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" The voice slowly transformed into Annabeth's.

I opened my eyes to see Annabeth's face filled with concern.
"Y/N, wake up." She half-yelled at me.

"Why, what happened? Why are you waking me up? Monster?" I rambled on wondering why she woke me up.

She eventually silenced me by putting her finger to my mouth.
"Shhh,shhhh"

I came to my senses and realized I was on the floor and was in a cold sweat. I looked over to the other side of the compartment and saw Percy and Grover completely asleep.

"What was your nightmare about?" I turned my attention back to Annabeth.

"Uh, nightmare? What nightmare?" I said not meeting her eyes.

"We're you just sweating bullets for no reason?"

"Yeah, I do it all of the time."

"Tell me about it."

"I-uh really don't want to talk about it right now." I said wiping my eyes which still had tears in them.

"Y/N, please tell me." She was almost begging at this point.

"Why do you care?" I tried diverting the attention away from the original question.

"Because I care about you." That caught me off guard. She cares about me? What if she li-. No! I tried pushing my feelings down.

"Please don't make me."

She obviously saw my discomfort and dropped the subject.

"I won't."

"Quick question." I looked towards her and my eyes connected with her's. Her eyes looked me over as if she was finding the best way to take me apart and learn what was in my mind.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" I asked.

"You're my friend." Those words shot daggers in my heart.

"Oh... ok."

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