"Thermos!" Percy screamed as they hurtled toward the water."What?" Annabeth was holding on to the boat straps for dear life, her hair flying straight up like a torch. But Tyson understood. He managed to open Percy's duffel bag and take out Hermes's magical thermos without losing his grip on it or the boat. Arrows and javelins whistled past us. Percy grabbed the thermos.
Percy could hear Alina shrieking from 7 feet above them. All he could think was how dramatic that was, they had fell off of the Gateway arch and this was still scaring her.
"Hang on!"
"I am hanging on!" Annabeth yelled.
"Tighter!" Percy gave the thermos cap a quarter turn. Instantly, a white sheet of wind jetted out of the thermos and propelled them sideways, turning their downward plummet into a forty-five-degree crash landing.
The wind seemed to laugh as it shot from the thermos, like it was glad to be free. As they hit the ocean.
Alina landed in the boat, right on top of Percy, she didn't even look at him, rolled off of him and immediately started cussing them all out.
"Oh my Holy Hades you guys that was shit scary! Why didn't you tell me you was getting in a lifeboat!" She cursed while they bumped along the ocean before taking off like a speedboat.
The Princess Andromeda faded to the size of a white toy boat in the distance, and then it was gone. As they raced over the sea, Annabeth, and Percy tried to send an Iris-message to Chiron.
Alina waved at Chiron, shocking him because he still thought she was dead.
The wind from the thermos stirred up a nice sea spray that made a rainbow in the sunlight-perfect for an Iris-message-but our connection was still poor. When Annabeth threw a gold drachma into the mist and prayed for the rainbow goddess to show them Chiron, his face appeared all right, but there was some kind of weird strobe light flashing in the background and rock music blaring, like he was at a dance club.
They told him about sneaking away from camp, and Luke and the Princess Andromeda and the golden box for Kronos's remains, but between the noise on his end and the rushing wind and water on the demi-gods end, I'm not sure how much he heard.
"Percy," Chiron yelled, "you have to watch out for-"
His voice was drowned out by loud shouting behind him-a bunch of voices whooping it up like Comanche warriors.
"What?" Percy yelled.
"Curse my relatives!" Chiron ducked as a plate flew over his head and shattered somewhere out of sight.
"Annabeth, you shouldn't have let Percy or Alina leave camp! But if you do get the Fleece-"
"Yeah, baby!" somebody behind Chiron yelled. "Woo-hoooooo!"
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FanfictionIN WHICH, Alina Thorinson falls for Percy Jackson in every universe None of this work apart from Alina Thorinson and her backstory is mine! All credits go to Rick Riordan!!!