Son of Hades: A Percy Jackson Fanfiction

Arrow Saves the Day

Chapter 8: Arrow Saves the Day

As you can imagine waking up from a death like sleep is not a pleasant experience. My eyes are stinging and every stupid inch of my body is sore and on fire. I’m alone in one of the hotel bed rooms so someone must have moved me here when I went down. Why does it hurt like this, it was different the first time. Just my stupid luck I guess. Getting up I stretch my muscles. I walk towards the living room. Nico, Connor, Cleo and Dom have their eyes glued to the TV and don’t even notice me. Don’t mind me I was just dead and talking to hades the jackass. I’m totally fine and not going to me in the ground in two weeks. Maybe there watching a horror movie or something. I plop down besides Cleo and everyone jumps like there asses are on fire. “Jesus, what’s going on with you guys?” None of them answer and just turn back to the TV. What the hell. “Guys what’s going on?” turning to the TV I feel a chill run down my spine. It’s static, just black and white static.

Getting up slowly I look over them again. They still haven’t looked away and just seem…well entranced by the static. Like they can’t look away. I turn to walk away when movement catches my eye. When I turn there frozen. Not breathing, not shifting just statues. I scramble back and hit the wall. Without looking directly at the TV I turn it off. Still no change. Damn it! Taking a deep breath I pull out my cell phone. Being a daughter of Aries means that hack and slash is your first instinct. You see a bad guy you cut him down and even though I don’t want to admit it….it’s fun. It rings about five times before she picks up. “What the hell do you think your doing?” Annabeth asks sounding hysterical.

“Slight problem.” I slide down the wall and keep an eye on my friends. So much for a nice day.

“Slight problem? Why are you using your cell? Do you want every monster in a hundred mile radius to come after you? What are you thinking.”

“I need help.”

“That’s what your quest teams for.”

“There unavailable.”

“What?”

“I don’t know. I was laying down taking a nap then when I came out they looked like they were hypnotized by the tv. I was going to look outside when movement caught my eye. Then when I turned again they were completely frozen they couldn’t even move.” She silent and I swear I can feel my stomach twisting in knots. I look over my shoulder again to make sure no ones in the room. “Annabeth?”

“Your in trouble.”

“I know that but what is it. What’s doing this?”

“Basilisk.” She says and I feel sick. I watch movies and I’ve seen harry potter. That freaking thing was huge. It could eat me in one bite.

“Jesus that thing is huge! How do I fight it when I can’t look at it. It’s not like I can pull the sword of Gryffindor out of thin air.”

“You’re talking about harry potter.” She says flatly and I roll my eyes.

“Yes I’m talking about harry potter, wait that was a basilisk right and not some other evil snake thing.”

“Yeah, that was a ‘basilisk’ but not the real kind.”

“Real kind?”

“Our basilisk the one you’re dealing with is about a foot long.” I don’t know why but I start laughing. Jesus twelve inches. It was only a baby snake. I didn’t even need a sword I could just step on the stupid thing. “What’s so funny?”

“It’s tiny, how could something like that do this?”

“Well you said the TV is on the fritz right? Well if I had to guess I’d say he was using the Tv station. What channel was it on?”