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A/N: Wow two chapters in one day. I have no life. Also, if you haven't watched the movie that inspired this story, 'The Visit', I recommend you do. It's rated 15 and has some jump scares, but it's brilliant. Well, enjoy this chapter. And none of this was in bold great.
"Magnus, shhh, it's okay, come on, shhh." Annabeth assured her cousin as he screamed, though she looked petrified. He stopped, and calmed down as much as possible. Grandpa was still beating up the man with the crutches. Annabeth and Magnus, hand in hand, ran across the road to stop it.
"That was brave." Percy told Annabeth. "I was terrified." She replied. "It's not the amount of fear you have that makes you brave, but how you treat your fear." "When did you get so philosophical, Seaweed Brain?" "I always have been!" He protested.
"Grandpa! Please! He didn't do anything!" Annabeth begged, touching his shoulder. He turned around to face them. "He was following us." He said weakly. "No, no, no!" Magnus shouted, looking desperate for a 5 year old. "Oh. I'm sorry, kids." Grandpa apologised. "Say sorry to that man, not us!" Annabeth scolded, sounding too fierce for a first grader. "Of course. I'm sorry." He said, turning to the man. He passed him his crutches. Annabeth zoomed the camera in on where the man's ankle was showing slightly, revealing thick, coarse hair on a bent leg. A goat's leg.
"Wait, what? So they were following you!" Percy exclaimed. "For our benefit. He wasn't doing anything wrong- he probably just sensed what we are." Annabeth confirmed.
As Grandpa walked back to the car, looking meek, Magnus kept looking back at his shoulder to where the satyr they'd thought was a man was heading in the opposite direction. "Was that a monster?" He whispered to Annabeth. "No. He would've hurt us. He's a....sate-eye-argh." "....spell it." "You know I can't!" Magnus grinned. "Because you're dice-legs-ick. I know. I was joking." He said. "It's dys-lex-ic. Dyslexic." "Bet you can't spell that either."
"There's nothing wrong with being dyslexic." Percy complained, remembering how people could treat him over his dyslexia. "I know. He knows. He always made fun of me after I failed at spelling his name, though." "That's not fair." "Life isn't."
Apparently, they didn't film anything in the car, because the footage skipped to them walking back into the mansion. "I'm...terribly sorry about our outing. I'm going to resume my wood cutting now." Grandpa said, and walked back to where the barn was. "What now?" Annabeth asked. Magnus grinned. "I have an idea!"
"He looks nearly as bad as Leo here. And Leo's ideas are never good." Percy analysed.
Magnus ran up to their bedroom, but Annabeth stayed downstairs, filming the staircase as she waited for Magnus to return. He came back, holding their other camera. "Let's play hide and seek under the house! In the tunnelly things." He turned on the camera. (A/N: Magnus' footage will be in bold and not italics, Annabeth's will be in the usual italics and no bold.) "Hmm....fine. But if you start getting scared it's your fault. No blaming me like you always do." Annabeth decided. Magnus grinned from ear to ear. "I hide first." He told her.
"You two are really sibling like at times." Percy pointed out. "We were really close. Both my dad and Natalie hated my Uncle Randolph, for reasons I don't know. Because of that, they stuck together more, until Thanksgiving the year of this footage. There was a huge argument. Zeus knows what it was about, but I never saw him again until recently." Percy wished he could forget the pain in her voice when she said that they were close, not are.
Magnus crawled through the bottom of the house on his hands and knees, being as tiny as he was. He had strapped the camera to his head so he could easily move through the tunnels. "I've got an idea. See, Na-Ba isn't the only one who gets those." Magnus whispered. He made a few handprints in one direction, then reversed his steps with his hands above the ground, turning on a different direction. "She'll never find me here."
"Pretty ingenious." Percy admitted. "He learnt from the best." Annabeth said with a grin. "And you say my fatal flaw is obvious."
After 10 seconds, Annabeth crawled into the tunnel after Magnus, her camera strapped to her head. She heard a pattering, and laughed quietly. "I can hear you moving, you butt!" She followed the source of the noise. "Mags? Come on! Where did you go?" Out of nowhere, a pale, skinny shape hurtled out of a corner. Annabeth screamed and fan away from it, running directly towards the sunlight. She could feel it behind her, could hear it scuttling, until the noise finally stopped. Taking deep breaths, she continued crawling more slowly until she reached the outdoors. "What was that?" She pondered aloud, her voice shaky.
"What the Hades just happened? Is Magnus okay? What was it?" Percy wittered on, concerned. "Just watch the footage. I've told you before, haven't I?"
"Walked right past me." Magnus chuckled, watching as the familiar blonde head of his cousin ran past his hiding space. "Probably trying to make me come out by screaming like that." He guessed, as he crawled forwards slightly. He turned his head in the direction Annabeth had crawled past him. Then, he turned his head the other way, and...it was there again. The bony thing. It scuttled after him as he screamed, and this time the sound of it moving didn't fade until he reached the outdoors, where Annabeth was waiting, looking afraid.
Annabeth anxiously filmed the entrance, waiting to see if Magnus was going to escape of if she was going to have to go back in after him. Finally, he appeared, looking panicked and frightened. He collapsed on the grass next to her. "Are you okay? Did you see that...that thing?" Annabeth asked, going over to him and checking his breathing. "I'm fine. So that's why you screamed. I thought it was a trick." He replied solemnly. Suddenly, a figure emerged from the entrance. Screaming, Magnus and Annabeth backed away slightly.
"At least I know you don't die here, but....Holy Hephaestus what just happened?"
A/N: I might be feeling slightly evil to leave it there today, but meh. I hope that this chapter was good, it feels kinda boring to me. Oh well. I tried. See you next post,
-daughterofvictory
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