So... I have received many threat- requests since posting the first part of this a while ago.
So... first, this is what happened in the first part in case you forgot:
Annabeth is out late after having fallen asleep during her shift at the library. Percy talks to Annabeth and says he's a vampire. She doesn't believe him and leaves thinking she's asleep. The next day she talks to Jason who mentions seeing a girl with red eyes. Annabeth drags Jason to the spot she met Percy the night before and they meet Percy and Piper who also mentions being a vampire. Before more people show up and Luke does and he and Annabeth stare at each other confused.
Okay, on with the real thing. Which is strangely long....
-Jaz
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I Thought It Was A Dream (Part 2)
Luke sighs and shakes his head. "Are you two going to eat or not!" He calls annoyed to where he can see Percy and Piper standing talking to some humans.
Nico, Hazel and Calypso head and out and Luke follows behind. He shakes his head looking between Percy and Piper. "What did I tell you two?" Both simply smile.
Luke can't help but groan and then turns to look at the humans. He freezes and his eyes widen. "A-Annabeth?"
"Luke!?"
"You know each other?" Percy asks confused.
"How many vampires do you know!?" Jason shouts.
Annabeth doesn't answer she continues to stare at Luke. "Luke? You-You're..."
Luke gives a bit of a nervous laugh. "Yeah... this scar didn't just appear on my face... So uh... how ya been?"
Annabeth's eyes narrow. "I haven't seen you in years. Suddenly you're here. Say you're a vampire. And that's the first thing you ask!?"
"Uh..."
"I'm gonna kill you Castellan."
"He's a vampire you kinda can't," Percy points out. Piper rolls her eyes.
"Wait..." Jason says as things click. "Luke Castellan? This is the guy you and Thalia always talk about?"
"Thalia?" Luke asks smiling a little. Piper can't help but smile a bit.
"Yeah. She's my sister."
"She's here?"
"Yeah..."
"We'll meet here tomorrow night," Annabeth declares.
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"Listen Annie. I have things planned out. Tomorrow I only have afternoon classes. I can get like 15 hours of sleep," Thalia explains.
"Don't call me Annie," Annabeth replies. She and Jason lead the way to where they had met the vampires the previous night.
"She was really pretty," Jason mumbles. It's clear he didn't mean to say it out loud but Thalia smirks.
"You're taking me to meet your girlfriend?"
Jason's eyes widen. "What!? No. No. I've only spoken to her once and it was only for a few minutes..."
"Ask her out then."
"It's more complicated than that..."
"No it's not dumb***. Walk up to the girl. Ask her out. Done."
"Yeah ask her out Jason," Annabeth laughs. Jason sends a glare her way.
"You know exactly why."
Annabeth just laughs in reply.
"Fine," Jason states as he stops walking. "I'll ask Piper out soon as Percy asks you out."
Annabeth stops laughing and glares.
"Nah that won't work," comments a voice. "Luke won't approve of me dating Talking Food."
Annabeth rolls her eyes at the name as Percy appears with Piper by his side. Piper rolls her eyes.
"Like you actually listen to his orders."
Percy opens his mouth then closes it once more.
"Hello Mr. Dream Vampire. What are you doing over here? We're supposed to meet you on the other side of campus?"
"I'm not a dream."
"I'm not Talking Food."
"Fine be a Wise Guy- Girl? Wise Girl? Yeah, Wise Girl."
Piper rolls her eyes. "You were talking too long so we came to fetch you." She walks up to Jason and picks him up effortlessly and speeds off basically disappearing.
Thalia blinks. "What?"
"You didn't explain?" Percy asks.
Annabeth shakes her head. "Seeing is believing."
He nods and before either girl can protest he lifts them up and takes of running to the agreed meeting spot.
He sets them down we he arrives and backs up.
Thalia looks around at the group there. "What the hell is going on?"
Percy looks around before he heads back behind a tree and shoves a blonde figure. Luke's eyes flash red as he glares at Percy who only smiles. Luke's eyes return blue as he looks back.
"Hey Thals..."
Thalia stares at him for a moment. Then she steps forward, closing the distance between the two until she stands right in front of him. Luke opens his mouth but a punch connects with his jaw.
Thalia ignores the pain she feels in her hand as she glares at him. "It's been years! Years! Where the f*** have you been!"
"It's a long story..." Luke says slowly.
"Then start talking."
"Well um... To put it shortly... I'm uh... well...."
"He's a vampire," someone else cuts in.
"Nico!"
Nico shrugs. "I don't do this lovey doveyness. Can I go?"
"No. All you do is hunt and sleep do something different for a change. Also we never introduced ourselves. He is Nico. I am his sister Hazel and she is Calypso," Hazel smiles.
Nico rolls his eyes but obliges as he lays down on the ground. Others follow sit getting comfortable, sitting in a circle.
"You're not really a vampire. This is all some joke," Thalia says looking back to Luke.
Luke shakes his head, he closes his eyes and when he opens them they are bright red. He opens his mouth as his canines extend into long fangs.
Thalia opens and closes her mouth speechless. At her reaction Luke returns to his normal appearance.
"But how!" Thalia shouts regaining her voice. "When you wandered off while we camping you just thought 'Hey I wanna be a vampire?' I mean we looked everywhere for you."
"Well it wasn't really my choice," Luke admits. "I was getting firewood and kinda tripped and fell down a hill... it hurt a lot..."
"He was dying," Nico continues. "Me, Hazel and uh my other sister Bianca..." nobody missed how Percy winced. "We were over there and smelled something. We found him and Bianca said it would be better to turn him rather than leave him to die. Hazel agreed... So we did..."
Luke nods. "So I didn't have much choice but to go with them... But yeah... They saved my life."
"Well aren't we technically dead?" Percy asks casually.
Piper shrugs. "Details."
"Details flow into each other after so many years," Calypso comments.
"How old are you?" Annabeth asks.
Calypso shrugs. "Couple thousand. I stopped keeping track, it's too hard to remember."
Eyes widen.
"You're over a thousand years old?" Jason asks staring at the girl which looks his age. She shrugs.
"How old are all of you?" Annabeth questions.
"Eighty something," Nico yawns.
"Seventy something," Hazel chips in.
"I'm 19," Piper adds.
"20," Percy contributes.
"22," Luke finishes.
"That's an age difference," Thalia comments.
"How did you all get together?" Annabeth asks.
"Wow, Wise Girl, you ask a lot of questions."
Annabeth glares at him.
"Bianca and I were born in Italy," Nico says. "We later came to the US. Things are hard to remember but, we ended up at this hotel. Vampires hung out there. You can guess what happened. We kinda roamed for a while and found out after we 'died' a while later our dad met another woman and had Hazel."
Hazel picks up from here. "Quee- My mother was a little off I'll admit. She almost got us both killed. She was killed but Nico and Bianca saved and turned me. And time passed... we met Calypso."
"I didn't stay with them," Calypso states. "I had trouble with people staying around me."
"But, we eventually met Luke. And later we convinced Calypso to stay."
"Then we unfortunately found and turned the two troublemakers you had the pleasure of meeting," Luke says nodding to Percy and Piper.
"So you two almost died too?" Jason asks.
"After my mom died... My house- no my stepfather was hell," Percy sighs. "Honestly I was ready to kill myself... I was about to when... They found me and gave me a better option."
Percy smiles and looks to Piper for her turn. Piper nods.
"I may have stumbled onto the wrong people at the wrong time. Some bad vampires. I'm just lucky the good ones bailed me out. I chose to go with them rather than back to my old life. I still call my dad once every two months maybe. He doesn't notice when I'm there or not anyway. But, things are all good now."
"Wow," Jason says after a moment.
"I still can't believe this is happening. Vampires exist," Thalia says. "But, now you will drop bye and visit sometime right Luke?"
Luke looks away from her. "Well... we normally don't stay in one place for long..."
"Then take me with you," Thalia says without missing a beat.
"Wait. What- what?" Multiple voices ask.
"Not happening," Luke says shaking his head.
"We do need to make sure silence is assured..." Hazel says slowly. "Though I do not believe adding more to our party is a good idea."
"Agreed," Nico nods.
Thalia opens her mouth to protest.
"How about an agreement then?" Calypso suggests. "We will return once a year. Though if you encounter us elsewhere, we will turn all of you. Do we have a deal?"
~~~~~
"You're thinking about them again," Ananbeth accuses sitting next to Thalia.
"They are hard not to think about," Thalia confesses. "It's been months."
"It was fall,"Jason reminds her. "It's summer now. They said they would come once a year."
Thalia sighs. "Yeah I know. But I'm not a patient person."
"Fire is started! Who wants some grub!?" Leo shouts.
The friends had taken a nice break from the drama of life to take a short camping trip at a lake mid summer. These friends included: Annabeth, Thalia, Jason, Reyna, Rachel, Will, and Frank.
They gather around the fire to eat not far from the lake talking and laughing. The sun begins to set and marshmallows are made.
"I would so beat you Zhang," Reyna says popping a marshmallow in her mouth.
"I'm a good swimmer," Frank shrugs.
Leo smiles. "Let's have a race! To the island and back."
No one objects. Thalia, Annabeth, Frank, Will, Jason and Reyna line up at the start.
Rachel smiles. "Ready?-"
"Look!" Leo shouts. Others follow his gaze to the edge of the lake where a figure falls off a cliff into the water below.
"Was that a person?" Frank asks eyes wide.
"We gotta help," Will says.
"How? It will take forever to get there," Jason states.
"Uh... guys..." Rachel starts she points to where the figure went over to see another figure standing at the top.
"They were pushed? ****! We just witnessed a murder!" Leo whisper shouts his eyes not leaving the person.
Eyes go back to water as figure emerges. The figure stretches and looks up to the other person shouting: "IM GOING TO DESTROY YOU!".
The group blinks and both are gone.
"That's enough for one day," Leo states. "Goodnight."
No one is in the mood to argue. Thus begin to ready for bed. Well they were when a person landed on their tent.
The friends freeze looking at the person.
"Percy!?" Annabeth gasps.
The boy currently has red eyes and is covered in seaweed? He glares at the trees before her voice jolts him to freeze looking at her. His eyes drain of their red color and sea green is replaced.
He gets up slowly looking around. He scratches the back of his neck awkwardly. "Uh, sorry....Wise Girl..."
"What you're giving up Per-" Piper emerges from the bushes. "Hi?"
"What just happened?" Rachel asks.
"Not sure," Leo says but do you wanna move? I need to fix the tent."
Percy mumbles a sorry and moves off to the side. Piper grabs his arm and pulls him.
"Well uh... bye Wise Girl?"
"See ya Seaweed Brain," Annabeth replies.
"What?"
"Seaweed Brain," she repeats.
"No-"
"Of a cliff!? How f****** stupid are you!? People will notice if you go around pushing people off of cliffs!" Nico shouts.
"They will also notice if they are looking right at you," Piper whispers. Nico freezes and looks to the group assembled. He quickly wipes his mouth and closes his mouth as his fangs retract.
"You-You have fangs," Frank stutters.
"Awesome you're vampires!" Leo shouts dropping the tent.
"Oh. Well this is great," Luke says as he appears with Calypso and Hazel.
"Nice to see you all again," Hazel smiles. "We were planning to visit in a couple months though..."
"But we found you," Thalia says with a small smile. "And according to our deal..."
Calypso sighs. "I shall honor my promise and turn you."
"You're going to be a vampire?" Reyna asks.
"I wanna be one!" Leo shouts.
"No," Nico shakes his head.
"You look familiar..." Hazel says slowly.
"Yes!" Thalia cheers.
"Can I back out on this?" Jason asks.
"I'll take his spot!" Leo shouts. "I volunteer as tribute!"
"Well..." Annabeth says. "your exact words back then were, 'we will turn all of you'. That's not very specific. And you need to make sure your secret is safe..."
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"I guess you're not Talking Food anymore Wise Girl."
"No you can't, Seaweed Brain."
"You're not gonna let that go are you?"
Annabeth gives him a fanged smile. "Nope."
"But, you're officially one of us now... so..."
"So..."
"Uh?... Would you.. uh?"
"Are you okay?"
"Will you go out with me?"
Annabeth smiles.