Chapter 11 : Falling still sucks

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A short filler chapter, you guys are lucky.

It's not that much of an interesting chapter though, next chapter we go to Lotus Hotel!"

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Look I know I fell from the Arch before, heck I even fell in the Tartarus. I fell in Alaska and I fell from the sky to Ogygia and survived. I sat in the sun chariot that almost crashed down Camp Half blood and I knew this was going to happen yet, it scared the shit out of me.

For some reason it was still scary even though I had done it before and I knew I would be alright, even when Nyx told me she would help me if things went downhill (or down Arch).

When I reached the water I was panicking.

Let's not talk about it.

Things were pretty straight forward from that point, meeting a water nymph telling me to go to Santa Monica, talking about not accepting the gifts (Aka the flying shoes, which was really nice of her but still a bit too cryptic. If she just told me straight away she could've saved me a lot of trouble.

When I came ashore next to the floating McDonalds there were Police everywhere, Great no matter what timeline I am in the authorities will never like me.

Luckily the crowd were all looking at the Arch, apparently someone drew a knife and started threatening people. I wonder how they would react to FrostSilver, Would they take it for investigation? Take it as evidence? Would it melt in time?

A little girl yelled, "mama! That boy walked out of the river."

"That's nice, dear," her mother said absentmindedly.

"But he's dry!"

I winked at her before disappearing into the crowd.

(Annabeth)

We found Percy wandering around aimlessly, trying to avoid the police officers that were all around the place. I saw a few ambulances but there were no reports of any injuries. I had a vague idea what Percy would be fighting but I hoped I was wrong.

"Hey Perce!" Luke shouted at Percy, he turned to face us with a big grin. In his hand he held some kind of pelt, was that a Chimera Pelt. He saw me looking at the pelt and grinned sheepishly.

"Did you defeat the Chimera?" Luke asked Percy looking at the pelt. Percy's eyes twitched a second before grinning, "I guess I did, though I couldn't defeat Echidna afterwards so I Jumped down the Arch."

Luke gave Percy a hug, "Well it's good to see that I didn't train you for nothing."

'But how?" I wondered, "Bellerophon needed the help of a Pegasus to do it, and the Arch is 630 feet, water is like concrete at that height."

Percy shrugged, "guess I was lucky, I tricked it into attacking me and threw both my swords at the beast after that I jumped."

He put the Pelt in his backpack which seemed to be endless at this point since I knew he also carried a Minotaur horn in it. Why? I had no clue and this annoyed me.

"We need to go to Santa Monica." Percy said and he explained his conversation with the Nymph.

"That's kinda off the road." Luke complained with a twitch in his eyes.

"We've got to go there, we can't ignore a summon from your father." I told Luke, if we ignored Poseidon's orders, who knows what could happen?

Luke was about to refuse but Percy spoke up first, "no it's alright, he better give me some goodies or else."

He grinned like a child in a candy store.

How could he talk so low about the Gods?

Probably because he's the Thief.

I don't care what Luke says, my intuition tells me the Thief is someone close to me, and I'm a child of Athena. Not some rookie kid going on her first quest.

Something is going on here. I am sure of it.

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