Blood of Olympus

Piper: Chapter 11

Piper

Piper suggested you never let yourself get dragged off by an Orthrus. It was terrible. The Orthrus smelled horrible and there was slobber all over her leg. Her dagger was gone and all she could do was get dragged through mud puddles, poop, and things she wasn't going to name.

Piper felt herself getting wet. It didn't feel like mud. She looked and the Orthrus was dragging her into the ocean. She screamed and thrashed around; the Orthrus growled and dragged her in faster. Soon she couldn't breathe. She started crying underwater (if that was possible...) hoping that Jason wouldn't beat himself up when she died. The last thing she remembered was a cyclops stomping towards her.

"Piper," a voice said, "wake up." Piper's eyes flew open. She saw a cyclops. She reached for her dagger but remembered it wasn't there.

"Who are you?" She asked.

"I am Tyson." He said, "Percy's brother."

Piper stood up, "where are we?"

"Underwater," he said, "daddy has allowed you to breathe underwater."

"Nice of him," Piper said. "Daddy is very nice," Tyson said, "but you have to go to Athens. Percy and Annabeth await you."

"What about Shaley?"

"Daddy does not know about her. But she can take care of herself." Tyson said looking troubled. "Now you have to go."

"Where should I go?"

"Up," Tyson said, "and you will end up in Athens."

"Okay," Piper said, it seemed impossible but she learned to never doubt god's powers. She swam upward. Soon she reached surface and pulled herself onto the beach.

"Mommy!" A young boy said, "a girl just came out of the water!"

"That's nice, dear." The woman said absently. Thank you, ignorant mortals. Piper stood up, she knew she was in Athens. She could see Mount Parnitha in the distance. She had a feeling in her gut that Percy and Annabeth were there, so she started walking.

Piper looked up at the mountain, it was huge. Well, all mountains were huge. But this was the biggest mountain in Athens. Mountains brought back bad memories. She took a deep breath and started climbing up. Now would be a good time for Arion to appear, or for Jason to fly her up the mountain, or Frank to turn into a flying animal. Piper wished Frank would come back, or that she would have a dream about where he was.

Piper reached the top. There, Annabeth was tied up.

"Piper!" Annabeth said under her breath, "what are you doing here?"

"Saving you," Piper said.

"Where are the others?"

"No idea," Piper said, "do you know where your weapon is?"

"It's with the Cyclopes." Annabeth said.

"Great," Piper muttered.

"Don't you have your dagger?"

"Lost it." Piper said, "do you think the ropes will untie if I ask them to?"

"I don't think so." Annabeth said, "these ropes aren't enchanted or controlled by Gaea, so they don't really have a mind."

"Is Eos here?" Piper asked.

"No," a gruff voice said, "we are."

"Some rescue," Annabeth joked, Piper was now tied up next to her.

"I know, I know, it didn't go as planned." Piper paused, "not that I had a plan."

"Well I do," Annabeth said, "call on your mother."

"Okay, you're going crazy," Piper said, "she will change our clothes!"

"Don't care."

"Fine," Piper said. Mom, she thought, can you help us? We're sort of trapped on the top of Mount Parnitha and me and Annabeth sort of need your help.

No reply.

Percy and Annabeth's love is at stake.

Aphrodite appeared "hello, dear."

"Now you appear." Piper muttered.

"Well, as you said, love is at stake so I must help." Aphrodite said beaming.

Piper groaned.

"Aphrodite," Annabeth said, "can you get us out of here?"

"Of course I can," Aphrodite said cheerfully, "but I won't."

"Why not?" Piper demanded.

"Because Venus takes orders from nobody!" Aphrodite said, changing form.

"Oh great," Annabeth said, "out of all the time in the world, she had to change forms now?"

"Silence!" Venus, Aphrodite-whatever said. "I am looking for a mirror!"

"You have a mirror," Piper said.

"Oh, right!" Venus said, "now, I have have to go."

Venus disappeared.

"Thanks mom," Piper said sarcastically, "do we have a plan B?"

"No," Annabeth said, "unless if you count waiting until they find us."

"This is going to take forever." Piper groaned.

"So, what happened when I was gone?" Annabeth asked.

"Shaley followed you guys and we have no idea where she is," Piper said, "Hazel and Frank got into a fight, and Frank went missing. Then Orthrus attacked and one dragged me off the Argo II.

"It pulled me into the water and I blacked out. Then Tyson woke me up and I had the ability to breath underwater, thanks to Poseidon.

"I swam out of the water and saw this mountain, I had a feeling you and Percy were here. But only you were here."

"Wow," Annabeth said.

"What's your story?" Piper asked.

"I heard Percy give out a muffled scream and I knew someone was on board. I took out a piece of paper and a pencil and prepared to write faster than ever. I saw Eos appear in the doorway so I pretended I didn't see her and I wrote down 'Dawn'.

"Then I hid it in one of my books, making it look like a bookmark. Eos grabbed me and I blacked out. Next thing I knew, I was here." Annabeth said, suddenly Annabeth froze and went unconscious.

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Yay! I finally published chapter eleven! ^o^. Sorry, it took awhile for me to update. I now have planned everything out for BoO so I might be faster at updating (maybe). I have eight hundred reads on my first Wattpad story! Can we try to make it one thousand? I not going to set any goals or anything, but if we make it to one thousand I'll update earlier and update one of my other stories that I've stopped writing for now.

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-Jellybean