The Next Generation: Hades's Helm

Chapter 2: Annabeth

Rights to Rick Riordan for the characters Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson. Ally Saven is my OC though

Ally was now 6 years old. She had piercing gray eyes and long blonde hair. Her hair is always up in a ponytail. Ally was good with a sword but better with a dagger or other close-range weapons. Ally had amazing agility, jumping around, and running around a lot. Her favorite activity was swinging through the forest, on tree branches or vines. She almost looked like a mini Annabeth. Even though they had different dads, the girls always considered each other full sisters, not half-sisters. There were still people who doubted her. Doubted her abilities, and doubted she could protect herself if it came down to it. But every time those situations came, Ally proved them wrong, again and again.

Ever since she learned how to walk, Annabeth had been training her to fight, and teaching her. Ally already knew basic multiplication, basic division, addition, and subtraction. She couldn't read, since she was dyslexic. Well, "dyslexic." Demigod brains were hard-wired to read ancient Greek, so they couldn't read regular English.

Ally was training with Annabeth one day, doing a training course. It was just before the school year started. Annabeth was standing off to the side, watching her. Ally was flawlessly doing the monkey bars on the training course, swinging from the ropes just fine. Suddenly, behind her, Percy walked up.

"Seems like Ally is doing good," Percy said. "It was nice of camp to build her her own little training course."

Annabeth gave Percy a confused look.

"I just mean," Percy tried to defend his previous statement. "It was nice of them to build her a little training course, so she could feel like she was training for the rest of us."

"Seaweed Brain," Annabeth used his nickname. "What do you mean, 'her own little training course'?"

Percy blushed. "Well, it's not like she can do one of our training courses. She's 5, and we're teenagers. So, I figured Camp built a little one for her."

"No, Percy," Annabeth rolled her eyes. "That's an actual training course. Meant for teenagers. She's doing it at 5."

"Wait," Percy looked shocked by this news. "You mean, that little 5-year-old girl, is doing a training course meant for teenagers? Maybe she won't be so bad to have around. If she's this good at 5, imagine what she'll be like as a teenager! And you're the one raising her-"

Annabeth cut him off. "No, technically it's the whole Athena cabin raising her."

"Right, whatever," Percy rolled his eyes. "But you're doing most of it. So you have to be doing something right if she's doing that."

Percy motioned to the training course. Ally had just finished it, and jumped off the last monkey bar, rolling up to her feet. She smiles and runs up to Annabeth.

"Good job, Ally." Annabeth smiles down at the little girl.

"Kid," Percy said, his voice filled with pride. "You're going places."

Ally was in the Athena cabin, getting ready for bed. Annabeth had told Ally she had a surprise for her the next morning.

Although Annabeth refused to say what it was...

Ally got dressed in her yellow pajamas, throwing her clothes from the day in her dirty clothes bin. She climbs into her bunk, still having the same owl plush from when she was a baby.