Catching Water (Discontinued, rewrite in progress)

We are Filmed Live

Bethany's POV

        While we walk over to waterland, I think about the mysterious man that I met in town one day.

         *Flashback*

        I was a kindergartener again. Miss Jones had officially decided I was useless. She didn't care that it was my dyslexia or ADHD. She was frustraited that I hadn't understood anything that I'd been taught over the past month. I had kept to myself all my life, and it was finally getting to her. So I was given a houskeeping uniform, and chores. It was all I was allowed to do all day.

        It had been a week since I'd been "Premoted" or more like "Punished for doing nothing." I was out running errands in the afternoon. When I went to get the bread, I had walked past the ice cream place. I had never had ice cream before, and I stared longingly, wishing Miss Jones had liked me. Then maybe I'd try it. A man came up behind me. My young self looked up behind me.

        "Hello, sir!" I said formally. The man smiled at me. "Can I help you?" I asked.

        The man smiled at me. He had kept his face hidden, but I could see brown hair and blue eyes under his hood. He had walked into the ice cream place and brought out a small cup of mint ice cream. "You can eat this." The man said. He had a deep voice, which reminded me of the ocean.

        "Are you sure?" I had asked. The man just smiled.

        "Very." He chuckled.

        I had tears in my eyes. All I'd had for breakfast was stale bread. "Thank you." I whispered.

        *End of flashback*

        We arrived at the water park. And it just had to be locked.

        "What do we do now?" Grover asks. We end up climbing the fence. We rush through the water park, trying to find the tunnel of love Ares had described.

        "There!" Annabeth points out a tunnel. There's a boat painted pink and covered with hearts. There's a scarf that must be Aphrodites. And a glistening object points out that Ares sheild is there. Percy walks over it, and grabs it, but then we notice it. It was a broken glimmering spindelly wire. The statues of cupids around the pool buzz to life and start shooting arrows of rope around the pool, trapping us inside. The heads pop off, revealing cameras. 

        "Filming live on Mount Olympus in 60 Seconds!" A voice over a loudspeaker says. "60, 59, 58,57...."

        A bunch of Metallic spiders start pouring into the pool. Annabeth turns pale.

        "..... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1" The cameras start to film.

        "Percy! We have to get out of here!" I yelp. I think Annabeth is going to faint.

        "I know!" He yells back. "Hold on! Everyone in the boat!" 

        We climb in.

        "Bethany, you're going to have to help me!" He yells. I know what he means. We use the water to propel us towards the exit. We catapult ourselves over the fence. We check the sheild, which luckily, is intact. The cupid cameras are still filming us. 

        "Bugger off!" I yell. They shut off. Annabeth, Percy, and Grover look at me. "What?" I ask.

        "Where did the brittish accent come from?" Annabeth asks.

        "I don't know- Wait, WHAT?!" I ask.

        "You just spoke in a brittish accent." She repeats.

        "Um..... I don't know? English?" I say, confused.

        Annabeth sighs, and looks at the sheild. "Well seaweed brains, we should get this to Ares before dark." She says.

        Percy's POV

        "You used us!" I yell at Ares. He just smiles. 

        "You guys looked good on Hephaestus T.V." he says. I curl my fists angrily.