Percy Jackson SECRETS - 14

Percy Jackson- SECRETS- Chap. 14
                 Percy:
      So, let me explain what was happening at the moment. First of all, I had no idea how my stupid older brother got through the barrier.  Second of all, I don't know where he was taking me, probably to my father's palace. And third of all, I'm probably going to die.  I didn't try and fight, I couldn't, I wasn't supposed to or….wait…you probably don't know. Sigh. Well, you'll learn later on.
      Triton suddenly shot down, and through an archway. Wait, an archway? Omigods. We're here already? Oh well, that's just fine. He threw me in a cage and locked it. He turned to leave, but I spoke up.
      "You know, if I die, he dies along with me." But Triton just simply swished away. Oh well, that's nice. Let your father die. I sat in the cage for what I thought was probably a half an hour when a dolphin swam by. It stopped and turned towards me, the dolphin was a female (don't ask I just know) and her eyes were filled with concern. Weird, I would think every sea creature would come to hate me. She spoke in my mind. He's coming.
I could hear the sea floor begin to shake. I heard someone at the end of the hall.
                 Annabeth:
      "Luke, we have to get in there now." I said. We had been sitting outside this stupid palace for fifteen minutes, and I knew Percy was somewhere in the chambers.
      "I know we have to, ok? But we have to get in there without being seen." He replied. Ooo, that boy. I love him, but I hate him. I guess that is what you call a best friend. Without warning Luke suddenly jumped up. "Now." And he ran down the hill, stirring up little clouds of sand, as he made his way toward the underwater kingdom.
      I followed him as quickly as I could, my hair flowing in the water like seaweed in a coral reef. I slammed my body against a coral pilaster. Thankfully I was underwater, so my impact didn't make a big noise. Luke was crouched down next to me. I unsheathed my dagger and tapped him on the shoulder with it. He turned his neck in my direction, and I gave him my are-you-crazy? look. He gave a silent chuckle that shook his frame.
      "You don't trust me? You're forgetting something Annie. I stole the bolt." He whispered, and started to move around the pillar. I cautiously followed. I wasn't dealing with the same Luke as before, I was dealing with Luke's thievery side. It held no bonds. We tip-toed through passage ways and corridors, always missing guards by a second. By the time we got to the prison chambers I was about rip someone's head off.
      "Luke, where is he?" I hissed, and he pointed to a cell at the very end of the chamber. I could see a little glow emitting from it. We ran down the hallway and I grasped the bars, someone looked up and I smiled. His green eyes were just as bright as ever.
      "You're helping me," Percy said; he wasn't talking to me. "Why would you ever want to help me?" Luke and Percy stared each other down for a few minutes, and I was getting nervous.
      "Hey guys, want to move the staring contest to somewhere safer? Like the castle? Yea, let's go." I said, running a little down the hall, then I turned my head and walked back knowing they weren't listening. I stepped in front of Luke and put my hands on his chest, then leaned against him. "Why won't you budge." I whined. Luke step towards Percy, and I fell flat on my face. I looked over to see them shake hands.
      "We're good?" He said.
      "Yea, we're good." Percy said, then smiled and slightly tapped him on the shoulder. Luke looked over to me, and fake frowned.
      "Oh, I'm sorry Annabeth, were you there?" He asked, and then tried not to laugh. I got up and right away Luke was hiding behind Percy.
      "Why I ought to—" My insult was interrupted by a loud crash down the hall. A few dozen guards came bursting in. "Honestly?! You really need like twenty something guards for three people!" Percy and Luke exchanged glances. "Yea, they do need them, let's go."
      Our feet pounded on the marble floors and soon we touched sand, but the guards were still right on our heels.
      "How fast can these fish swim? Honestly?!" Luke yelled, quite annoyed.
      "Hey! Don't let them hear you say that! They'll turn you into to canned tuna." Percy shot back.
      "Guys, I don't want to be a bother, but we need a plan." I interrupted. I looked around desperately, but all I could see was the vast ocean floor. We slowed down; the guards were a bit behind us now. "Ok, think quickly, what can we do?"
      "Maybe I could, no. Or possibly, no. What if I, no." Percy babbled. Omigods.
      "Don't tell me, it's unsafe to use any of the power that we're getting around our parents?" I asked, as if life couldn't get any worse.
      "….Yes." He answered, putting his head down.
      "Well, then you guys better think of something fast, and right now." Luke said; Percy and I looked in the direction he was. O.M.G'S. Both my mom and Percy's dad were heading towards us.
      "You two have to go, now." Percy said, pushing us away.
      "No, we're not just gonna leave you here." Luke said.
      "Well, I don't think your breathing oxygen right now. I know what Nico gave you guys." We both looked down. "Go." I looked up, and looked him in the eyes.
      "I'm not going anywhere, that's my mom you know." I said, digging my feet in the sand. They were getting closer. We needed a miracle.
      "Luke can you run fast?" Percy said.
      "Well, I don't know. Maybe, what do you think." Luke said in a completely sarcastic, toneless voice. Percy exchanged a sarcastic look back.
      "Well…I, maybe, I just maybe we could—"
      "Annabeth." My mother's voice rang eerily through the water. My head turned into in here direction and I stared into her eyes. They weren't mad, only worried. I didn't know what to say.
      "Annabeth, come with me. The curse was only recently put on you, we can try and get you back to normal." She said. I exhaled sharply, I couldn't believe she was really suggesting this.
      "And if I don't get back to normal?" I asked. Her eyes turned sad, and her head dropped. I'm getting fed up with this. I started to walk away.
      "Where do you think you're going?" My mother called from behind me.     
      "Leaving." I called back.
      "I knew this sea boy was never good for you!" She yelled to me. I turned on my heels. She did not just go there. I walked back to stand next to Percy, my mother was looking at me curiously.
      "Don't you ever say that again!" I screamed. "He is the best thing that ever happened to me, and I love him!" I was so enraged that I took Percy's face and kissed him fiercely. I heard my mom gasp, Luke choke underwater, and felt Percy tense up. I pulled away, his eyes contained nothing but fear.
      "Well…" Luke said awkwardly.
      "You know," Percy began. "Since I've been keeping secrets for so long, I think it's ok I kept one more, right?" He said pulling away from me.
      "What?" I asked, completely confused.
      "Well, usually we are stuck in a life-threatening situation—like now—and somehow a complete miracle happens and we get out of it nearly alive. Although It doesn't look like that is going to happen this time." Percy said. "But since you two were basically just cursed," He gestured to us. "Then there is something you don't know."
      "What the hell could we not know?" Luke said, rubbing his temples.
      "That almost every god and goddess have a cursed one or 'heir'." Percy continued, smiling widely. The whole time our parents where just quietly standing there, probably to see how much we knew.
      "Percy, I'm still not understanding."
      "Ok, well let me just say for a start, Thalia is not the 'heir' of Zeus." He confirmed.
      "Then-then who is!?" I said, shocked.
      "His name is Jason, we have Nico, and my name is Percy; I'm not sure if I'm counting wrong, but to me that makes three." He concluded. Everyone was in shock, anger was radiating from both our parents, and I started choking on water…I couldn't breathe.