Well Lookie Here I'm a Demigod

Chapter 23

Ariana

Worthless.

Annabeth called me worthless.

How could she?

I was now sitting in a forest, crying. I feel like she doesn't even love me anymore.

Wait, I know she does. She does love me, just doesn't show it.

I grab a pine cone and throw it as far as I can.

"Ow!"

I hear a voice say.

A female voice.

"Oh no, it's Annabeth!"

I whisper to myself.

Once I stand up, Annabeth comes running towards me.

"What do you want?"

I ask, very harshly.

"I didn't mean it! I'm sorry! You are not useless, I bet somewhere in the past year you've read about Romans, and animals, and all of the crap that's on this quest! I'm so sorry, and I didn't mean it! Octavian is coming soon to get our 'sacrifice' and we are fighting! Can you please forgive me?"

Annabeth catches her breath after she talks very fast.

She called me worthless, acted like I know nothing, and said I always think I'm right when I'm not. But, Octavian is going to sacrifice something of ours, and we will be fighting.

Is it worth it?

The answer is,

Yes.

She might have said all those things, but she's still my sister, and we fight.

"I guess I forgive you."

I say. Annabeth jumps up and down and hugs me.

"What are we sacrificing, exactly?"

I ask when Annabeth grabs my wrist a pulls me out of the forest.

"Festus."

She says and rounds a corner.

"What!? Festus! How are we going to get around? We can't get anywhere without Festus!"

"I don't know. We will just have to find out."

She turns left.

"Why are you so calm about this?"

"I've already freaked out about this."

She turns right.

"Oh."

We finally get out of the forest and Annabeth breaks into another run.

We reach the big dirt pile and the little blonde devil itself is here.

"Ugh, not you again."

I mumble.

"I heard that,"

Octavian says

"nice to see you, too."

He walks over to Leo and asks,

"Now, where is your little pet?"

He adds a creepy smile.

Leo gulps and gags.

"No offense, dude, but your breath reeks!"

He says plugging his nose.

"Shut up! Shut up! Just answer my question."

He says more calmly at the end.

"Uh, I don't have a pet."

"Your stupid dragon! Where is your stupid dragon!"

"Oh! Festus? Over there!"

He says pointing to the woods.

"Leo, Festus is o-"

I get interrupted by Annabeth elbowing my in the ribs.

"Hm?"

Octavian asks.

"Over there! Yeah, he's over there."

I say with an award winning smile.

Surprisingly, Octavian believes me and says,

"Hazel and Frank are waiting by the gates. You guys stay here! While I go get Fiancé."

"It's Festus."

Leo corrects him.

"Whatever! Stay put!"

Octavian says pointing at us.

"When I say run, run."

Percy says.

We wait about 10 seconds until Percy says,

"Run!"

We all run towards the gates and grab Hazel and Frank.

We start running towards Festus with Frank and Hazel asking a lot of questions.

We hear shouts and yells, I look behind me and it's the guard yelling at everyone that we left.

"We might want to hurry."

I suggest, pointing back to the gates.

"Everyone, faster!"

Annabeth yells and we finally reach Festus, hop on, and fly away with the Romans getting smaller and smaller.

"Hi, I'm Ariana!"

I say shaking Hazel and Frank's hands.

"I'm Hazel! Nice to meet you!"

"Frank. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you guys, too!"

I say with another award winning smile.

(Well lookie there, it's not a cliffhanger. Sort of. But anyway, I just realized I never thank you guys! So thank you guys so much! Other people may have 100k reads on a book and I only have about 600, but I'm equally as grateful! Thank you guys so much! Ilysm)