p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongA/N: Hey-o, mah peeps! How ya'll doing? Good? Good. I'm actually typing this one in a car on my way to a relative's house. Maybe that will change the quality of the chapter. Maybe not. IDK. This chapter may be a tad shorter than what you're used to. Sorry. I'll try to make longer ones later on./strong/p
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p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongAngel: Jackson./strong/p
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p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongPercy: Why does /strongemstrongeverybody/strong/emstrong mess up my name?/strong/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongNudge: She doesn't own Total, either. Angel owns Total. Total's a talking dog. He also has wings, which is pretty cool. We have wings, too, but I think the talking dog is cooler. He likes to go on vacations with his wife, Akila. When they have puppies, it'll be so cute! I wonder of they'll have wings like Total, or be normal dogs like Akila. Maybe-/strong/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongChibi: OKAY, NUDGE. WE'RE DONE. YOU CAN SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE NOW./strong/p
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p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"Ugh. . . my head hurts like crazy. This isn't what I imagined being dead feels like. I sort thought it would be a little more. . . painless, ya know?/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I struggled to open my eyes. As soon as I opened them, I wished I hadn't. A man with a thousand eyes was standing against a wall. Yup, crazy mutant, check. I looked at my surroundings and found I was in a white bed with white sheets. Hospital bed, check. So where were the restraints? The antiseptic smells? It looked a bit like the School, it just felt. . . different. A little more homely, I guess./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"Three people, about my age or younger, probably fifteen/sixteen years old, walked through the doors./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""And then the minotaur ran after us, which I almost found funny because he was in tighty-whitey's. Not very threatening, if you ask me," said the guy./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Who are you kidding? That thing was terrifying! It was a freaking emminotaur!/em" said the other guy./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Calm down, Grover. I doubt he'll re-form for a while. He's probably still in Tartarus. And Percy, don't take a bull-headed monster so lightly. Undies or not, it's still pretty powerful," said the girl. I liked her. She seemed pretty leader-y, like me. Oh, wait, almost forgot. I might be in the emSchool/em. No friends allowed. Then they noticed I was conscious. The group froze in mid-step./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Oh. . . looks like you're up early. . . Well, emthis/em is awkward," said who I assumed was Grover. I got my guard up, mostly because I noticed the girl had a dagger and Grover had a wooden club thing./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""How are you, you know, alive? I mean, you were dead, last time we checked, like an hour ago. Or at least you were dead for a while, which is what Chiron said happened, but. . ." said Percy. Then they were silent for a few seconds./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""How did you recover? I mean you emwere/em blessed by Artemis, but even with nectar you should've been out for at least another week. You were emdead /em for a day. Was it the Golden Fleece? No, it was only on you for about half an hour. It took me about two hours to heal with the Fleece, and that only healed my broken ribs and exhaustion. You've been resurrected!em /emYou had actually died and came back to life an hour ago! emHow are you alive?!/em" said the girl in one breath. I take it back. She was more like Nudge than me./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Annebeth, slow down. Breath, lady!" said Percy./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""But it's not logically-"/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Logic? We're half emgod/em! What told you that logic was involved in any of this? Why are there giant, acid spitting ants in a camp that's supposed to be safe?"/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"". . . Fine. . ." she gave up./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Um. . . how am I not dead?" I asked. I wasn't dead. Jiminy Christmas, it was a miracle!/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""That's what I said!" the Annebeth girl said, clearly exasperated. That's right, Max learned a big word! How's that, suckers?/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""So. . . bye now!" I took off, jumping out of the bed and rushing towards the door./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Wait!" the group shouted./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""See ya suckers!" I shouted back. I burst out the door, then sprinted to a large hill. I remembered seeing that hill when I came- er, "crash landed" in. Then I felt a stinging sensation in the back of my neck. I quickly pulled it out and ran harder./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"The multi-eyed guy charged after me with incredible speed. He attempted to tackle me, but I jumped straight up over his head and landed behind him. Then I gave him a nice, square punch to the nose. He touched his hand to his face, surprised when he found blood. I ran when he was distracted and reached the top of the hill. I did a U and A and was soon airborne./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I heard a horn in the distance. Then an arrow pierced my left wing./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"emCraaaaap! /emFive new darts were shot in my back. I spiraled out of control./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"emSpread out your wings. Glide down./em/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I gritted my teeth. emI'm trying! I'm trying! /ememstrong[A/N: Final Fantasy Crisis Core reference! Yay, nerds!] /strong/emI spread my wings and glided, circling downward until I hit the ground./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I had chosen a bad spot to land. One, I was on a slanted piece of ground so I stumbled a bit. No real biggie, though. Two, I was surrounded instantly in a sea of teens wearing orange tees and holding swords. Probably a biggie./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I was probably going to die (again), but I should at least die (again) fighting. I folded my wings and took on a stance. Some kids shouted, "For Ares!" and charged at /br /I ducked under one girl's spear and gave her a roundhouse kick to the stomach so hard, she fell off the hill. I gave a guy an uppercut, and another guy a swift rabbit punch to the forehead. He was out cold. A girl, I think she was called Clarisse, got me in a head lock. I did the obvious thing. I bit her arm until I drew blood, scratched at her arms, and repeatedly kicked her shins. She let go. Can't really blame her./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I ran like crazy, then some guy shot an arrow. It then unleashed ropes that swung around my feet, tripping me and making me fall on my face. I rolled over, only to see the guy who shot the arrow at me. He was half pony. Holy /br /"Hello, Miss. Percy, mind putting her out and restraining her? She seems a bit. . . spirited," said now dubbed Pony-Man. Hm. So Pony-Man /br /Percy came over and injected something into my arm. I would've struggled, but, ya know, struggling is a bit difficult when you're covered head to toe in ropes. Life is rough and times is hard and all that shiz. Then it all went dark. Again./p
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p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongNudge: Right./strong/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongPercy: Why does /strongemstrongeverybody/strong/emstrong mess up my name?/strong/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongNudge: She doesn't own Total, either. Angel owns Total. Total's a talking dog. He also has wings, which is pretty cool. We have wings, too, but I think the talking dog is cooler. He likes to go on vacations with his wife, Akila. When they have puppies, it'll be so cute! I wonder of they'll have wings like Total, or be normal dogs like Akila. Maybe-/strong/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"strongChibi: OKAY, NUDGE. WE'RE DONE. YOU CAN SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE NOW./strong/p
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p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"Max's P.O.V./p
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p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"Ugh. . . my head hurts like crazy. This isn't what I imagined being dead feels like. I sort thought it would be a little more. . . painless, ya know?/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I struggled to open my eyes. As soon as I opened them, I wished I hadn't. A man with a thousand eyes was standing against a wall. Yup, crazy mutant, check. I looked at my surroundings and found I was in a white bed with white sheets. Hospital bed, check. So where were the restraints? The antiseptic smells? It looked a bit like the School, it just felt. . . different. A little more homely, I guess./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"Three people, about my age or younger, probably fifteen/sixteen years old, walked through the doors./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""And then the minotaur ran after us, which I almost found funny because he was in tighty-whitey's. Not very threatening, if you ask me," said the guy./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Who are you kidding? That thing was terrifying! It was a freaking emminotaur!/em" said the other guy./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Calm down, Grover. I doubt he'll re-form for a while. He's probably still in Tartarus. And Percy, don't take a bull-headed monster so lightly. Undies or not, it's still pretty powerful," said the girl. I liked her. She seemed pretty leader-y, like me. Oh, wait, almost forgot. I might be in the emSchool/em. No friends allowed. Then they noticed I was conscious. The group froze in mid-step./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Oh. . . looks like you're up early. . . Well, emthis/em is awkward," said who I assumed was Grover. I got my guard up, mostly because I noticed the girl had a dagger and Grover had a wooden club thing./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""How are you, you know, alive? I mean, you were dead, last time we checked, like an hour ago. Or at least you were dead for a while, which is what Chiron said happened, but. . ." said Percy. Then they were silent for a few seconds./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""How did you recover? I mean you emwere/em blessed by Artemis, but even with nectar you should've been out for at least another week. You were emdead /em for a day. Was it the Golden Fleece? No, it was only on you for about half an hour. It took me about two hours to heal with the Fleece, and that only healed my broken ribs and exhaustion. You've been resurrected!em /emYou had actually died and came back to life an hour ago! emHow are you alive?!/em" said the girl in one breath. I take it back. She was more like Nudge than me./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Annebeth, slow down. Breath, lady!" said Percy./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""But it's not logically-"/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Logic? We're half emgod/em! What told you that logic was involved in any of this? Why are there giant, acid spitting ants in a camp that's supposed to be safe?"/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"". . . Fine. . ." she gave up./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Um. . . how am I not dead?" I asked. I wasn't dead. Jiminy Christmas, it was a miracle!/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""That's what I said!" the Annebeth girl said, clearly exasperated. That's right, Max learned a big word! How's that, suckers?/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""So. . . bye now!" I took off, jumping out of the bed and rushing towards the door./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""Wait!" the group shouted./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;""See ya suckers!" I shouted back. I burst out the door, then sprinted to a large hill. I remembered seeing that hill when I came- er, "crash landed" in. Then I felt a stinging sensation in the back of my neck. I quickly pulled it out and ran harder./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"The multi-eyed guy charged after me with incredible speed. He attempted to tackle me, but I jumped straight up over his head and landed behind him. Then I gave him a nice, square punch to the nose. He touched his hand to his face, surprised when he found blood. I ran when he was distracted and reached the top of the hill. I did a U and A and was soon airborne./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I heard a horn in the distance. Then an arrow pierced my left wing./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"emCraaaaap! /emFive new darts were shot in my back. I spiraled out of control./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"emSpread out your wings. Glide down./em/p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I gritted my teeth. emI'm trying! I'm trying! /ememstrong[A/N: Final Fantasy Crisis Core reference! Yay, nerds!] /strong/emI spread my wings and glided, circling downward until I hit the ground./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I had chosen a bad spot to land. One, I was on a slanted piece of ground so I stumbled a bit. No real biggie, though. Two, I was surrounded instantly in a sea of teens wearing orange tees and holding swords. Probably a biggie./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I was probably going to die (again), but I should at least die (again) fighting. I folded my wings and took on a stance. Some kids shouted, "For Ares!" and charged at /br /I ducked under one girl's spear and gave her a roundhouse kick to the stomach so hard, she fell off the hill. I gave a guy an uppercut, and another guy a swift rabbit punch to the forehead. He was out cold. A girl, I think she was called Clarisse, got me in a head lock. I did the obvious thing. I bit her arm until I drew blood, scratched at her arms, and repeatedly kicked her shins. She let go. Can't really blame her./p
p style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 24.4799995422363px;"I ran like crazy, then some guy shot an arrow. It then unleashed ropes that swung around my feet, tripping me and making me fall on my face. I rolled over, only to see the guy who shot the arrow at me. He was half pony. Holy /br /"Hello, Miss. Percy, mind putting her out and restraining her? She seems a bit. . . spirited," said now dubbed Pony-Man. Hm. So Pony-Man /br /Percy came over and injected something into my arm. I would've struggled, but, ya know, struggling is a bit difficult when you're covered head to toe in ropes. Life is rough and times is hard and all that shiz. Then it all went dark. Again./p