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"One on one," Percy challenged Luke. "What are you afraid of?"
Luke curled his lip. The soldiers who were about to kill us hesitated, waiting for his order.
Before he could say anything, Agrius, the bear-man, burst onto the deck leading a flying horse. It was the first pure-black pegasus I'd ever seen, with wings like a giant raven. The pegasus bucked and whinnied, clearly not happy.
"Sir!" Agrius called, dodging a pegasus hoof. "Your steed is ready!"
Luke kept his eyes on Percy. "I told you last summer, Percy," he said. "You can't bait me into a fight."
"And you keep avoiding one," Percy noticed. "Scared your warriors will see you get whipped?"
He was good at bluffing.
Luke glanced at his men, and he saw Percy had trapped him. If he backed down now, he would look weak. If he fought Percy, he'd lose valuable time chasing after Clarisse. For Percy's part, the best he could hope for was to distract him, giving the others a chance to escape. If anybody could think of a plan to get them out of there, Annabeth could. On the down-side, I knew how good Luke was at sword-fighting. Everyone still talked about him. How he had been the best sword-fighter in 300 years.
"I'll kill you quickly," he decided, and raised his weapon. His weapon was a foot longer than Percy's sword. Its blade glinted with an evil gray-and-gold light where the human steel had been melded with celestial bronze. I could almost feel the blade fighting against itself, like two opposing magnets bound together. I didn't know how the blade had been made, but I sensed a tragedy. Someone had died in the process. Luke whistled to one of his men, who threw him a round leather-and-bronze shield. He grinned at Percy wickedly.
"Luke," Annabeth said, "at least give him a shield."
"Sorry, Annabeth," Luke said. "You bring your own equipment to this party."
I raised my hand. "Percy and I are on the same side, like you and your bear twins. I'll give him something."
Luke looked a little confused as I dropped my hand to the floor, and I found the spirit of a fallen demigod.
Give me your shield.
No!
GIVE ME YOUR SHIELD!
No, it's mine!
I'll tell Melinoe.
Yeah, okay.
A ghostly hand shot up, producing a shield. I tossed it to Percy. Despite it glowing, looking blue, and intangible, he caught it, looking shocked that it felt much more real than it looked, and he nodded in thanks as he turned to Luke, who didn't look too happy, but I guess he knew I was right.
Luke lunged and almost killed Percy on the first try. His sword went under Percy's sword arm, slashing through Percy's shirt and grazing his ribs. He'd caught Percy off-guard.
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νεκρός || Annabeth Chase x Fem!OC
Fanfic"I'm sorry that I hurt you It's something I must live with everyday And all the pain I put you through I wish that I could take it all away And be the one who catches all your tears That's why I need you to hear I've found a reason for me To change...
