Those blue eyes. A.C x oc fem

2.3- What is going on with me?

◇◇◇◇◇◇Annabeth Chase◇◇◇◇◇◇

I'll be honest, when V wrapped her arms around my waist, I almost had a fucking heart attack

I was glad it was midnight, so no one saw my blushing, I really didn't know what was going on, I was pretty sure I was blushing hard and my heart was racing.

Why does Victoire Avery make me fee like this?

Or were they all right?

No, it's probably just because of the harpies almost killing us.

"How do we get aboard?!" Vic shouted from behind me.

Only then I realized how huge the cruise was, I felt as hough I were looking up at a building in Manhattan. The white hull was at least ten storeys tall, topped with another dozen levels of decks with brightly lit balconies and portholes.

The ship's name was painted just above the bow line in black letters,lit with a spotlight. It took me a few seconds to decipher it:

PRINCESS ANDROMEDA

Attached to the bow was a huge masthead -a three-storey-tall woman wearing a white Greek chiton, sculpted to look as if she were chained to the front of the . She was young and beautiful, with flowing black hair, but her expression was one of absolute terror.

Why anybody would want a screaming princess on the front of their vacation ship, I had no idea.

"You first," Percy told me.

I slung my duffel bag over my shoulder and grabbed the bottom rung. Once I'd hoisted myself onto the ladder, I offered Vic my hand and she took it. Our hippocampus whinnied a farewell and dived underwater.

We began to climb. Percy let us get a few rungs up, then he followed us.

Finally it was just Tyson in the water. His hippocampus was treating him to 360° aerials and backwards ollies, and Tyson was laughing so hysterically, the sound echoed up the side of the ship.

"Tyson, shhh!" Percy said. "Come on, big guy!"

"Can't we take Rainbow?" he asked, his smile fading.

Percy stared at him. "Rainbow?"

The hippocampus whinnied as if he liked his new name.

"Um, we have to go," Percy said. "Rainbow . . . well, he can't climb ladders."

Tyson sniffled. He buried his face in the hippocampus's mane. "I will miss you, Rainbow!"

The hippocampus made a neighing sound I could've sworn was crying.

"Maybe we'll see him again sometime," Percy suggested.

"Oh, please!" Tyson said, perking up immediately. "Tomorrow!"

Percy didn't make any promises, but he finally convinced Tyson to say his farewells and grab hold of the ladder. With a final sad whinny, Rainbow the hippocampus did a backflip and dived into the sea.

The ladder led to a maintenance deck stacked with yellow lifeboats. There was a set of locked double doors, which I managed to prise open with her knife and a fair amount of cursing in Ancient Greek.

I figured we'd have to sneak around, being stowaways and all, but after
checking a few corridors and peering over a balcony into a huge central promenade lined with closed shops, I began to realize there was nobody to hide from. I mean, sure it was the middle of the night, but we walked half the length of the boat and met no one.

We passed forty or fifty cabin doors and heard no sound behind any of them.

"It's a ghost ship," Percy and Vic murmured.