They hurled toward the water.
"Thermos!" Percy screamed.
"What?" Ethan yelled.
"Did you lost your mind?" Y/N shouted over the wind. He was holding on to the boat straps for dear life, his hair flying up.
Annabeth didn't seem to understand what Percy was talking about either. "AAAAAAAHHHH!" was the only sound coming out of her mouth.
But Tyson seemed to understand. He managed to open Percy's duffel bag and take out Hermes's magical thermos without losing his grip on it or the boat.
Arrows and javelins whistled past them.
Percy grabbed the thermos. "Hang on!"
"I am hanging on!" Y/N yelled.
Percy gave the thermos cap a quarter turn.
Instantly, a white sheet of wind jetted out of the thermos and propelled them sideways, turning their downward fall plummet into a forty-five-degree crash landing.
The wind seemed to laugh as it shot from the thermos, like it was glad to be free. As they hit the ocean, they bumped once, twice, skipping like a stone, then they were whizzing along a speed boat, salt spray in their faces and nothing but sea ahead.
As they raced over the sea, they tried to send an Iris-message to Chiron. They figured it was important to let somebody know what Luke was doing, and they didn't know who else to trust.
The wind from the thermos stirred up a nice sea spray that made a rainbow in the sunlight—perfect for any Iris-message—but their connection was still poor. When Annabeth threw a gold drachma into the mist and prayed for the rainbow goddess to show them Chiron, his face appeared all right, but there was some kind of weird strobe light flashing in the background and rock music blaring, like he was at a dance club.
They told him about sneaking away from camp, and Luke and the Princess Andromeda and the golden box for Kronos's remains, but between the noise on his end and the rushing wind and water on their end, Y/N wasn't sure how much he heard.
"Percy," Chiron yelled, "you have to watch out for—"
His voice was drowned out by loud shouting behind him—a bunch of voices whooping it up like Comanche warriors.
"What?" Percy yelled.
"Curse my relatives!" Chiron ducked as a plate flew over his head and shattered somewhere out of sight. "Annabeth, you shouldn't have let Percy and Y/N leave camp! But if you do get the Fleece—"
"Yeah, baby!" somebody behind Chiron yelled. "Woohoooooo!"
The music got cranked up, subwoofers so loud it made their boat vibrate.
"—Miami," Chiron was yelling. "I'll try to keep watch—"
Their misty screen smashed apart like someone on the other side had thrown a bottle at it, and Chiron was gone.
An hour later they spotted land—a long stretch of beach lined with high-rise hotels. The water became crowded with fishing boats and tankers. A coast guard cruiser passed on their starboard side, then turned like it wanted a second look. Not every day you see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by five kids.
"That's Virginia Beach!" Annabeth said as they approached the shoreline. "Oh my gods, how did the Princess Andromeda travel so far overnight? That's like—"
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The Path Of Glory (Annabeth Chase x Male Reader)
Fanfiction"You will be glorious. You will be my glory." Y/N's life was quiet before that day. What day? The day a giant snake tried to kill him. Then it became really weird for sure. First, a lightning bolt was stolen. How is that even a thing? Y/N didn't kno...
