༄ ✩ 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘆 𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 ▬▬▬▬
❝ 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘑𝘐𝘕𝘟𝘌𝘋 ❞
in which percy jackson meets
the 'insane' daughter of eris,
and is determined to be her
friend, despite what everyone
else says.
⬪ the lightn...
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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐱: darling won't you take me home ( home - good neighbours )
❝ take my hands ❞
Another Ares guy slammed him in the chest with the butt of his sword and Percy hit the dirt. They could’ve kicked him into jelly, but they were too busy laughing.
“Give him a haircut,” Clarisse said. “Grab his hair.”
Percy managed to get to my feet. He raised his sword, but Clarisse slammed it aside with her spear as sparks flew. Now both his arms felt numb.
“Oh, wow,” Clarisse said. “I’m scared of this guy. Really scared.”
“The flag is that way,” he told her. He wanted to sound angry, but he was afraid it didn’t come out that way.
“Yeah,” one of her siblings said. “But see, we don’t care about the flag. We care about a guy who made our cabin look stupid.”
“You do that without my help,” he told them. It probably wasn’t the smartest thing to say. Two of them lunged at him. He backed up toward the creek, tried to raise his shield, but Clarisse was too fast. Her spear stuck him straight in the ribs. As it was, the electric point just about shocked his teeth out of my mouth.
One of her cabinmates slashed his sword across his arm, leaving a good-size cut. Seeing his own blood made him dizzy—warm and cold at the same time. “No maiming,” he managed to say.
“Oops,” the guy said. “Guess I lost my dessert privilege.” He pushed Percy into the creek and he landed with a splash. They all laughed.
Percy figured as soon as they were through being amused, he would die. But then something happened. The water seemed to wake up his senses, as if he'd just had a bag of his mom’s double-espresso jelly beans. Clarisse and her cabinmates came into the creek to get him, but he stood to meet them. He knew what to do.
Percy swung the flat of his sword against the first guy’s head and knocked his helmet clean off. He hit him so hard he could see his eyes vibrating as he crumpled into the water. Ugly Number Two and Ugly Number Three came at him. He slammed one in the face with his shield and used his sword to shear off the other guy’s horsehair plume. Both of them backed up quick.
Ugly Number Four didn’t look really anxious to attack, but Clarisse kept coming, the point of her spear crackling with energy. As soon as she thrust, Percy caught the shaft between the edge of his shield and his sword, and he snapped it like a twig.
