What's this? An update? Yeah, I threw something together in two short little crappy pages on Word. Dudes, I read something that was a disappointment to me. So, read on.
Chapter 52
Frank
That night, when Jason went to his room to get something, Leo leaned forward immediately and asked eagerly, “Hey, do you think if I push Jason overboard that he would fly up?”
“Why did you say that?” Hazel asked, looking confused.
“I think it would be funny.” Leo shrugged. He took out some little metal bolts and began to tinker with them.
“Yeah, it would be funny when you fall off the warship going very fast.” Annabeth rolled her eyes.
Frank grinned. Annabeth was smart, nobody could challenge her. He looked at her to see her smug smile because she knew she was right.
“Hey, I’m back.” Jason walked out.
“Follow me!” Leo called, running to the outside catwalk.
“This is going to be good.” Frank grinned over at the nearest person, which was a mistake, because it was Piper, who was fuming.
“This is not funny or good!” She crossed her arms and glared up at Frank. “Leo’s about to throw my boyfriend overboard and it’s kind of scary!”
They stepped onto the catwalk right when Leo pushed Jason off the catwalk. In less than two seconds, Jason was levitating in the air, looking irritated.
“Thanks, Leo.” He landed lightly on his feet.
“No problem.” Leo beamed.
Annabeth rested on the guiderail. “I just realized something.” She turned with a smile.
“What?” Hazel asked, propping her arms onto the guiderail as well.
“For once, we’re not fighting.” Annabeth brushed a strand of her hair back that got loose from her ponytail. “It’s just us and open air.”
“Don’t jinx it.” Percy hugged her. She seemed to relax when his arms were around her.
“What giants do you think we’ll face?” Hazel asked.
“I bet all of them,” Percy said grimly. “Gaea has that plan to kill us and then take our dead bodies. She’s sick.”
A clap of thunder went across the sky. Everyone jumped. Frank saw that he could no longer see the stars behind the gray storm clouds.
And rain began to pour down.
“That was unexpected.” Annabeth poorly shielded her face from the cold raindrops. “Maybe it’s Zeus?”
“I doubt it.” Leo pulled everyone inside. “Dude, that’s cold.”
“No duh,” Annabeth muttered sarcastically. She wrapped her arms around herself, hugging herself to keep warm. “Sometimes Europe has summer rain showers. Get used to this.”
“Stupid Europe,” Percy grumbled. “Europe must hate us.”
“It does,” Frank agreed wholeheartedly.
“I love Europe.” Annabeth smiled. “It’s so interesting, don’t you think? I learned so much. Like stupid Italians take mythology books from their library.”
“Okay, random alert,” Percy teased.
Annabeth surged forward and punched Percy in the stomach. “It’s true. You weren’t with me. It was Leo.”
“It’s true,” Leo called, wringing out his hair. “I still think he was a monster. He was such a creep.”
“Yeah, I know.” Frank clenched his life stick in his pocket. Then he left the others, needing to think.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Turning the life stick in Frank’s hands, he felt… vulnerable. Like one fatal mood would end his life. Then again, it probably would.
He thought about everything that had happened in the last month. It was hectic and full of chaos. He couldn’t even close his eyes for a long time without waking up to a monster attacking or a nightmare.
Skimming his fingers over the ash part of his life, he could literally see his life flashing before his eyes. There was fire. He was surrounded. There were tears, smiles, and hope.
And there was danger. There would be lots and lots of danger in Greece for the seven. There would be fighting.
His eyes opened slowly. His breathing was ragged. The vision had been scary, like really creepy.
A clap of thunder broke him from his trance. The rain hit the windows in a perfect pattern: tap-tap-tappity-tap.
Someone knocked on his door. He stood up and opened the door to see Hazel, her hair wet.
“Hazel, what’s going on?” he asked.
She smiled, her bright eyes filled with a happiness he had not seen in a long time.
“Come on,” she said, jerking her chin down the hall.
“Why?”
“Come on,” she repeated. “The others are asking for a cold. They’re outside in the rain. They say it’s important.”
I know, awful and short. Still- I tried.
Leo: I'm disappointed.
Me: I'M DISAPPOINTED IN YOU! (Long story stort: I got a link, and then I couldn't stop myself from reading the first 5 chapters in the REAL Mark of Athena.)
Leo: How?
Me: *shrugs* It was NOT the beginning I hoped for. At all.
Leo: IT WAS RICKY. HE OWNS ME.
Yeah, so the first 5 chapters were... wow. The beginning wasn't as good as The Lost Hero or The Son of Neptune. And I started crying. I know... I'm a baby.
This chapter is dedicated to HungerHarry11.
Question: How long was Thalia a tree?
Thanks for reading! Seriously. I love all you guys SO MUCH.
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