It was Annabeth's idea.
She loaded us into the back of a Vegas taxi as if we actually had money, and told the driver.
Annabeth: "Los Angeles, please."
The cabbie chewed his cigar and sized us up.
Cab Driver: "That's three hundred miles. For that, you gotta pay up front."
Annabeth: "You accept casino debit cards?"
Cab Driver: "Some of 'em. Same as credit cards. I gotta swipe 'em through first."
Annabeth handed him her green LotusCash card.
He looked at it skeptically.
Annabeth: "Swipe it,"
He did.
His meter machine started rattling. The lights flashed. Finally an infinity symbol came up next to the dollar sign. I was glad Grover was whispering these things to me because I didn't have my
Seeing eye eagle?The cigar fell out of the driver's mouth. He looked back at us, his eyes wide.
Cab Driver: "Where to in Los Angeles... uh, Your Highness?"
Annabeth: "The Santa Monica Pier."
Annabeth sat up a little straighter. I could tell she liked the "Your Highness" thing.
Annabeth: "Get us there fast, and you can keep the change."
Maybe she shouldn't have told him that. The cab's speedometer never dipped below ninety-five the whole way through the Mojave Desert.
On the road, we had plenty of time to talk. Percy told us about hiss latest dream, but the details got sketchier the more he tried to remember them. The Lotus Casino seemed to have short-circuited our memory.
Annabeth: "The Silent One? The Rich One? Both of those are nicknames for Hades."
Percy: "Maybe ..."
Even though neither sounded quite right i thought it was best to just not mention it.
Grover: "That throne room sounds like Hades's, That's the way it's usually described."
His silhouetted head shook.
Percy: "Something's wrong. The throne room wasn't the main part of the dream. And that voice from the pit ... I don't know. It just didn't feel like a god's voice."
Annabeth's heart started to quicken.
Percy: "What?"
Annabeth: "Oh ... nothing. I was just—No, it has to be Hades. Maybe he sent this thief, this invisible person, to get the master bolt, and something went wrong—"
Percy: "Like what?"
Annabeth: "I—I don't know, But if he stole Zeus's symbol of power from Olympus, and the gods were hunting him, I mean, a lot of things could go wrong. So this thief had to hide the bolt, or he lost it somehow. Anyway, he failed to bring it to Hades. That's what the voice said in your dream, right? The guy failed. That would explain what the Furies were searching for when they came after us on the bus. Maybe they thought we had retrieved the bolt."
Percy: "But if I'd already retrieved the bolt, why would I be traveling to the Underworld?"
Grover: "To threaten Hades, To bribe or blackmail him into getting your mom back."
Kaze: "wow dark."
Percy whistled.
Percy: "You have evil thoughts for a goat."
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ФанфикWhat if Zeus had more then just Thaila when he broke the oath for the first time? What if Thaila had a twin that just so happened to be a trap? (inspiration for this fanfic is TediousBison go give the dude a follow) The only thing I own is my ocs...