Constellations: Chapter 11

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Previously:
My eyes slowly started to close. The dude who we had fought with came over and stood over me. I probably would have punched him in the face, if I had had the strength. His familiar blue eyes scared me. But what scared me even more was the scar on his upper lip, where he had tried to eat a stapler when he was 2.

A saving grace.

Jason Grace.
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Jason POV
July 17th

I was stunned into silence. The girl who was supposed to be dead for the past year, is alive. Or was. Let’s hope for the former.

“Step away from her.” A strong female voice said.

I stood up and walked backward. I had no intentions of hurting Annabeth, and from the tone of the girl’s voice she did not know that.

“Drop the sword.” A male said.

There was a pause as the girl processed what he had just said.

“Hey, you stole my thunder!” The girl complained.

“I am just trying to get him away from her, like you were. I was helping!”

“Ugh, it’s too late now. Let’s just hurry up and kill him!”

“Woa, woah, woah!” I said turning around. “I just fought with you… guys…”

For the first time, I got a good look at the boy and girl. If you were to put Annabeth next to them, you would automatically think they were triplets. They had the same curly blonde hair and stormy grey eyes, that all… Athena… kids… had.

Athena kids. These kids were children of Athena. They weren’t dead. I didn’t recognize them from camp. They must have been unclaimed Athena kids who never made it to camp. So many discoveries today!

The girl leaned over, not taking her eyes off of me, and whispered to her brother, “He’s like Annabeth. Never finishing their sentences.”

I shook my head, “I just fought all those creatures with you, why-why would you want to kill me?”

“Because you are strange person with a sword.” The girl said.

“No, what!? I am a friend of Annabeth’s. Look, my name is Jason-”

They both gasped and the boy took a step forward. He was looking at me like I had just dropped out of the sky, which trust me, I get that look a lot.

The boy murmured, “ ‘Her friends, Piper, Jason, Leo, Frank, Hazel- ‘”

“ ‘And we can’t forget about Percy Jackson.’ ” She finished.

“Nate” The boy said. “I’m Nate, this is my sister Sara. And you obviously know who Annabeth is.”

“Yeah, she is-was a good friend of mine. Um.” I scratched the back of my neck, “I thought she was dead.”

“Dead?” Sara asked. “Annabeth very much alive. Or at least I think she is.”

“No. She um, died in a fire. All of her siblings did. We thought she had dead for a year. But on her birthday we were attacked. They burned our camp to the ground, and asked for Annabeth. When we said she was dead, they laughed at us. We had to evacuate the camp. When we got to California I thought we were in the clear. But they found us. It was easy, Percy, he beat them in one tide. But we found this,” I pulled out Annabeth’s hat, “2 days ago, we lost all hope she was alive. My girlfriend, has been keeping very close watch on everyone making sure she doesn’t lose any other friends. I-I need to tell them-”

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