The Child Of Time

chapter 9

3rd person pov-

"Percy!" Annabeth shouted at him. "Hurry up!"

"I'm coming." Percy trudged up the hill where Annabeth, Grover, Chiron, and Luke were waiting.

"Don't want to be late for our quest." Grover said, nervously.

"Yeah, yeah." Percy yawned.

"Before you go on your quest, I wanted to give you these," Luke handed Percy a pair of white sneakers.

"Um, thanks?" Percy looked at the shoes.

"Maia!" Luke said and the shoes sprang to life.

Wings came out from its soles and they flew around.

"Awesome!" Percy picked up the shoes and thanked Luke.

Saying the command, the shoes stopped and Percy put then in his pack.

He gave the three of them a hug and wished them good luck.

Percy, Annabeth, and Grover piled into the camp van. Chiron held up his bow in salute, as the van ventured off into New York.

"So, I think I figured the out prophecy," Annabeth paused. " 'The child of the titan and his companions shall travel east, where they shall find the god opposite of peace.' That must mean Percy and us," She pointed to herself and Grover.

"will go east,and find the god opposite of peace..." Annabeth deliberated.

"It's obviously Ares." Percy played with his pen.

"Ares is a major god-no way would he be messing with his dad's bolt." Annabeth shook her head.

"Minor god?" Grover guessed. "Probably." Annabeth said.

"Next one," She racked her brain and remembered. "'There, the item shall be relieved; the god not well-perceived will be awaiting his item.' Hades, but we don't have his item.'

"We're going to have to find it, then." Percy waved the topic off.

Argus, the hundred eyed driver, grunted.

"We're here." Annabeth breathed, jumping out of the camp van.

"Great." Percy mumbled, helping Grover get his crutches on, so the mortals wouldn't notice his hooves.

They three got out and started east. (I'm going to randomly interrupt: I saw the hunger games! Dont want 2 spoil but..They didn't put the ending! U no what I'm talking about, winks. I'm confused if I liked that they didn't put it or not-I'm team Gale, dont kill me! I have read all three books but still Team Gale! Idk if we're doing the team thing?)

"Percy, is that you?" Annabeth asked,pointing to a billboard.

Percy got up for a closer look and saw it was missing photo of him. "Yep." he said carelessly.

"You don't care?" Annabeth asked, confused.

"All I care about is getting to the number eight bus." Percy said.

"It's coming," Grover peered around the corner and saw the bus coming.

The satyr sniffed around a bit, smelling something dangerous.

"What are you doing?" Annabeth asked. "There are people here."

"Something's on that bus-dangerous." Grover glared at the opening doors.

"Just the hostile scent of vicious new yorkers." Percy shrugged. "You get used to it."

They paid for the fare and looked for empty seats.

Percy and Annabeth sat together, Grover sat behind them in an empty seat.

"Sure, just leave the satyr alone." Grover grumbled.

Percy muttered something unintelligible.

"Oh, I see how it is." Grover bleated.

"Hey," Annabeth nudged Percy. "Look."

Percy craned his head toward the door, three old ladies were boarding the bus.

The bus driver closed the doors and the ladies started up the aisle.

"Kindly ones." Grover shivered.

"Can I assassinate them?" Percy asked.

"No!" Annabeth smacked him. "Not in front of mortals."

"Whatever you say Wisegirl," Percy shrugged.

"How do we know there monsters anyway?" he asked.

"They're serve Hades." Annabeth said.

Percy smiled at the old ladies who in turn showed him fangs."Yep those are monsters."he said.

"I have my cap, if we could create a distraction..." Annabeth started.

"Great. I'll do the distraction thing, Grover and you will get one of the monsters." Percy stood up,putting his plan into action.

"Um bus driver, sir?" he asked,innocently."Um, I gotta take a turd."

The girls laughed while the driver said, "A turd?"

"Yeah," Percy said. "Number two, a crap..."

"A poopie."

The driver laughed, "Since you're so amusing, I'll stop by a gas station."

Percy waited for the bus and gave a signal to his traveling companions.

Sprinting up the aisle, Percy did a round house kick, and the driver slumped to the floor.

The mortals shrieked as Percy grabbed the wheel.

He jerked it violently to the left, as Grover and Annabeth pounced on the furies.

Percy crashed the vehicle into an abandoned warehouse and, "Please exit in an orderly order, if you die that's your fault."

The doors opened and the mortals rushed out, wailing in the streets.

"Percy Jackson!" A fury-Alecto-screeched. "Return what you have stolen!"

Percy responded by uncapping his gleaming sword, Riptide.

They fought wistfully, Percy dodging her fangs. With one blow, the fury's head was chopped away.

Meanwhile, the daughter of Athena was piggy back riding another fury. Grover was using his reeds to finish off his fury.

Percy leaped and stabbed Annabeth's monster. She wailed loudly then shriveled up, turning to dust.

Annabeth nodded and helped Grover finish off the last fury.

"Now what?" Grover asked.

"I'm getting hungry; let's go find some dinner." Percy said, heading off towards a diner.

Annabeth and Grover shrugged and followed, leaving behind a wreck of epic carnage.