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THE WAY BACK TO THE ARGO WAS A LOT FASTER THAN LUCIA EXPECTED. The fact she made Piper run as if their lives depended on it was probably why. If what Tiberinus said was true, they didn't have a lot of time to save Nico from the Giants.
She wasn't about to waste valuable time while his life was at risk.
Once they finally made it to the clearing where the Argo parked they made their way onto the deck. Piper relied on her to sum up the story of Annabeth. Which would have been fine if Lucia's anxiety wasn't skyrocketing.
"And then she got kidnapped by Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn!" Lucia yelled. Slightly louder than she meant to.
Percy stepped forward. Her chest rose and fell sporadically, causing his hands to fall on her shoulders to try and steady her breathing "Luz, it's time to cut back on the caffeine"
"That's an evil thing to say." She growled, "Okay, So she wasn't kidnapped! But! Listen. She's gone—And, And. I should have made sure—"
"Princess, You did all you could." Percy reassured, "We can only wait now. Annabeth, she's tough, and she's smart. She can do this."
but can I? Can I go through this again...
"I know, it's just, she's Beth," Lucia said simply as if that one word carried the weight of all she felt towards the blonde girl.
She tried to get a grip of herself. She felt pathetic for all the mixed emotions that were now taking over her. She thought of Nico, and how desperately he needed someone right now. "Tiberinus said we had less time to rescue Nico than we thought... When should Hazel and the guys be back?"
Piper checked the time on the helm control. "It's two in the afternoon. We said three o'clock for a rendezvous."
"At the latest," Jason said.
Lucia pointed to Piper's dagger. "Tiberinus said you could find
Nico's location with that thing."
"I've tried," Piper bit her lip. "The dagger doesn't show what I want to see. I'm fact, it hardly ever does."
"Please," Percy pleaded. "Try again."
He begged with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Lucia knew she would lose the argument. She didn't have years of Kelpheaded memories to strengthen her resistance.
"Fine," she sighed, and drew her dagger.
"While you're at it," said Coach Hedge, "see if you can get the latest baseball scores. Italians don't cover baseball worth beans."
"You can check out the Yankees' score later." Lucia shushed as Piper studied the bronze blade.
The light shimmered. She saw a loft apartment filled with Roman demigods. A dozen of them stood around a dining table as Octavian talked and pointed to a big map. Reyna paced next to the windows, gazing down at Central Park.
"That's not good," Jason muttered. "They've already set up a forward base in Manhattan."
"And that map shows Long Island," Percy frowned.
"They're scouting the territory," Jason guessed. "Discussing invasion routes."
Light rippled across the blade. On it appeared ruins a few crumbling walls, a single column, a stone floor covered with moss and dead vines-all clustered on a grassy hillside dotted with pine trees.
"We were just there," Lucia observed. "That's in the old Forum."
The view zoomed in. On one side of the stone floor, a set of stairs had been excavated, leading down to a modern iron gate with a padlock. The blade's image zoomed straight through the doorway, down a spiral stairwell, and into a dark, cylindrical chamber like the inside of a grain silo.
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²𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐃𝐘. percy jackson
Fanfiction𝄞 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐃𝐘.(n.) behold the blood of Hyacinthus, which had poured out on the ground beside him and there stained the grass, was changed from blood; and in its place a flower, more beautiful than Tyrian dye, sprang up. ❝ Near time...
