The Sword and The Shield

Chapter 9

"Who are you?" I asked, "And what are you doing in our house?" They looked like they were going to die. "I-" the red headed one started, but she was rudely interrupted by me getting pulled back. My fighting skills kicked in. So I kicked who-or-whatever was holding me in the sine. "Dude!!!!" Then I flipped it. I pulled my knife out, and put my knee on its chest. Then I looked for real.

I was about to kill my best friend.

"THALIA!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed. "Yeah it's me now can you NOT put a knife to my throat." "Sorry" I muttered. I helped her up, and gave her a hug. Then I immediately remembered to two kids.

"Ok now back to business. What are you doing in my house?" I asked them. There were two kids. They looked to be about my age. One was a girl and one was a guy. The girl had red hair, kinda crazy, but not as crazy as Rachel's. She had hazel eyes, and a very edgy expression. The guy pretty much looked like a jock. He was tall, and muscular, but there wasn't a lot of muscle like Percy or Jason. It looked like more...
Muscle fat. He had brown hair and blue eyes. But when I looked into them, they were cold, almost.... hurt.

The girl spoke first. "We will talk, if YOU will tell us who you are, and what just happened." She was smart. A trade. I can do this. "Alright. But you first." I looked at her, waiting for an answer. "I'm Nancy Bobofit, and this is Matt Sloan." She explained. "We were walking with our friends when we-"

She was rudely interrupted by a wet Percy tackling me. "GAH!!!!! PERUSES JACKSON GET OFF OF MY THIS INSTANT!!!!" He let go and smiled down at me triumphantly. But before he could blink I shoved him back into the pool, where him and Jason continued to fight.

"Sorry," I said while grabbing a towel. "Go on." I looked at her, and I saw confusion, like there was old memories coming back. "Oh sorry, uh, anyways we were walking with our friends when we heard screaming we thought someone was getting robbed or something, so our friends dared us to jump the fence. The rest you know." She finished.

Matt spoke next. "We didn't mean to hurt you or anyth-" he paused. "Wait is that Percy Jackson?" He asked me. "Yeah why?" He didn't answer all he did was shove me out of the way and walked towed Percy where he was getting out of the pool. He also had a very angry Nancy coming his way. But like my usual seaweed brain he was laughing to hard to realize.

Matt and Nancy started to pummel him. Apparently Matt has a base ball bat. Percy would've been fine, but he seemed to be in shock, and Nancy was holding him down. Everyone stared at the scene, not doing anything.

So I changed that.

I charged and easily kneed the guy in the gut, causing him to hit the concrete. HARD. Then it was me and Nancy. She was pretty easy too, but understood that girls can hurt guys, so she was a little harder. I just threw a few punches, flipped her, and tossed her into the pool.

I turned to Percy.

Oh my gods.

"PERCY!" I screamed and ran to him. He was pretty bad, he had a huge gash on his head, a bloody nose, cuts, and bruises all over. Plus his left arm is at an odd angle. I put his head in my lap, and kissed him. I don't care if everyone is staring, I don't care if there is sticky blood all over my new jeans, he's hurt, MY seaweed brain is hurt. He got hurt because of his kelp head. I would've chuckled at the thought, but all that came out was a sob.

"Annabeth...." He mumbled, and then slipped into unconsciousness.