Chapter Ten
The Mighty Fall-Fall Out Boy
This chapter is dedicated to @annabethpriorpotter for answering the question in the last chapter CORRECTLY!
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~Previously~
We just stood there hugging each other, crying, while the others in the stands sat there staring at the heads of two of the Big Three.
~Present~
~Percy's POV~
Artemis was the first to come out of her shock. She grabbed us and we flashed into her palace on Olympus. I could feel the pulsing heartbeat of the magical defences wrapping around my body as if protecting me.
Artemis then led us through her palace, without a word, to what seemed to be a guest room.
"This can be your room, for now, Athena," she stated. "I bet most of the gods out there are going to be hunting you down out there. Once they have gotten over the effects of what just happen of course. Come, Perseus, I must show you to your room."
Athena just shook her head as she sobbed a little into my shoulder. "I don't think she wants me to leave," I responded with a shrug with my free shoulder. 'I don't,' I could hear her voice in my mind. The lovely sound I had not heard since the beginning of the end of our fathers.
I already know I love her. WAIT.
She was mad at her daughter on my behalf. She declared a Life-Battle. Made her father fade. All because she believed in me. I start to cry again as I held her to my chest. Not in sadness, but in nervousness. I bow my head so Artemis doesn't see my tears.
"Okay, Athena, you both can share this room. Let me just make it bigger." With the snap of her fingers, the room has enlarged and where the queen sized bed in the centre were two twin beds next to each other. There was night clothing at the end of each bed. Other than that, nothing had changed in the room.
"That is all I will do. It is time you get some rest. I will be back tomorrow at 8 am." She then left the room, leaving the door ajar.
I grabbed a neatly folded stack of men's clothes from one of the beds and walked toward a closed door. I thought it could be the bathroom.
I was wrong.
It seemed that the door I THOUGHT would lead to the bathroom, lead to another bedroom. I looked around and saw Artemis leaning on the bed, sobbing quietly. I quickly backed away from the door and closed it quietly. Luckily, The Fates were on my side at that moment.
The other door I saw lead to the bathroom. When I had come back into the room, I saw Athena dressed in her nightgown. Which consisted of boy shorts and an over-sized t-shirt.
I avoided looking at her and walked over to one of the beds. I laid back on the one closest to the door. The lights went out in with a snap coming from Athena. I then saw a silhouette coming towards me.
It was Athena. She climbed under the covers and burrowed into me, still in her seventeen-year-old form. I took my arm and draped it over her.
"Goodnight Athena."
"Goodnight Percy."
~Dream/Nightmare~
I was walking through Tartarus again. This time without Annabeth. (I didn't care though. She doesn't mean much to me anymore.) I was in the forest where we saw the arai. But instead of seeing Annabeth there, I saw Athena.
She was looking for me.
She thought I had abandoned her.
She thought I had left her here to rot.
"Percy! Percy! Where are you?!"
The arai appeared in the trees and looked like they were about to start attacking me.
I reached into my pocket for Riptide on instinct, but all I felt was air. I backed up to Athena and grabbed her hand. They were advancing quickly onto us. We had reached the edge of the cliff. Right as we jumped I whispered into her ear, "I love you. Always."
The scene changed and instead of it being Athena next to me, it was Artemis.
We were on Mount Tamalpais, where Atlas was holding up the sky. Artemis was in Zoë's place. She had golden ichor all over the rock she was leaning against. She was trying to stem the flow of the blood, but it was no use.
I was too far away. "ARTEMIS!" I cried. I was running toward her now. When I got there I was just in time for her last words,
"I'll never forget you."
I wiped her cheeks of tears and wiped away my own.
"I'll never forget you either."
~Dream/Nightmare End~
I could still feel Athena's body next to mine. But I saw a female figure slinking out of the room, looking around my age.
I went back to sleep and slept peacefully.
~End~
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