Annabeth's Struggle

Secrets Revealed

A/N: Hey lovely people of the internet! I was disappointed that out of 120-something readers, zero people commented, so after this chapter, I won’t update until I get at least 10 comments. I swear on the River Styx. Now that that’s finished with, all will be revealed…I don’t know how, but someone actually guessed who Cali’s mom is…I need to be way more vague…and mysterious…yeah, I like mysterious…

 Disclaimer: I own a mouth, a nose, two eyes, two ears, and freckles, but not Percy Jackson…*sobs*

Annabeth’s PoV:

I woke up well-rested, but also to a very angry Evelyn. Let me go back…

 I woke up, but didn’t want to open my eyes, so I didn’t. I lay in bed for five more minutes before opening my eyes. I was more than surprise when I opened them to Evelyn with her hands on her hips glaring at me. I looked at her, then at my siblings who were all staring, just waiting for me to lash out on the daughter of Aphrodite for being in our cabin at 7 in the morning.

 Instead, I counted to ten in my head and decided to the calm route.

 “Good morning, Evelyn. How may I assist you this morning?” I asked, a little genuine, a little not.

 “Oh, don’t be all innocent with me. You have what I want,” she said, seething. I looked at her ‘confused.’

 “Did you want to borrow the sweater you gave me last year for my birthday?” I said, keeping up my act. I saw some of my siblings covering their mouths, but still shaking with laughter, out of the corner of my eye. She rolled her eyes.

 “No, Annabelle, I want Percy back,” she said, becoming more annoyed. Natalie didn’t look surprised, more bored, but everyone else did. It was my turn to roll my eyes.

 “But Percy’s mine, silly,” I said, talking to her like she was three. She gaped at me, obviously trying to think of a comeback, but couldn’t so she left—well, more like stormed out in a very graceful fashion. Note the sarcasm.

 The whole Athena cabin erupted with applause and laughter, and I blushed from the sudden attention. It was time to go to breakfast, so we all lined up behind Malcolm, who came soon after he found out that he was a son of Athena, but only stayed for a week before going back to Brooke.

*After breakfast, and during sword practice*

 After breakfast, the Athena cabin went to the swords arena with the Poseidon, Zeus, Hades, Hermes, Demeter, and Apollo cabins.

 We walked into the arena and instinctively took out our magical weapons. I spotted Cali with the Stoll brothers and Katie. She looked a lot better than before; she was laughing at some ridiculous joke that Travis or Connor had said, and had her normal twinkle in her blue-green eyes. I smiled.

 I started to walk up to her, but Evelyn beat me to it yet again.

 “Hey, Cal, do you want to spare?” her nasally voice asked.

 “You mean spar?” Cali asked slowly.

 “Yeah, that,” Evelyn said dumbly. Sometimes I wonder if they made up the dumb blonde stereotype from her. Wait, she isn’t blonde…oh well.

 Cali looked at her charm bracelet, thought for a moment, then her face lit up. She tapped her sword charm and held her sword, Sunshine.

 “Thanks, Dad,” I heard her murmur.

 Cali’s POV:

I looked at my charm bracelet, trying to think of the best weapon to use. I looked at the flower; I didn’t even know what it did, let alone how to win with it. The spear, Burst, as my dad told me, would shoot flames out of the tip and was sharp, but I wasn’t familiar with it. My knife, Rainlily, could blast freezing or hot water, depending on my mood, at my opponent, but it was close range, and I saw Evelyn with a long sword. Bloodroot, my dagger, was my favorite, since the Bloodroot was my favorite flower, and it had red and white engravings of the said flower, but it was also short range.