Chapter 17-The Sock Plan

Annabeth






   "Annabeth, you ok?" Alec asked. Sunlight streamed through the mouth of the cave.
   "Artemis is trapped." I told him. I turned and attempted to wake Lucas up.
   "5 more minutes!" He groaned, and immediately fell into deep sleep.
   I gritted my teeth and took off his sock. Then I dangled it in front of his nose.
   "Annabeth, what are you...?"
   "I got this from the internet. The 'Sock Plan' always works!" I said.
   "Sure... look! He's not waking up!" Alec pointed to my drooling brother.
   Oh how embarrassing this must be for him! I thought in my head, mentally smiling in my head. "Lucas is wasting sunlight..."
   "Like I don't notice that?" Alec pointed to Lucas' other sock. He began slipping it off. "Maybe another sock will work."
   "Ugh! It isn't working!"
   "Yeah..."
   "Maybe if you take off your socks... I'll take my socks off too." I told Alec.
   And so we both took off our sock and plopped it on my brother's face. He still didn't wake up.
   "I think we killed him with our funk." Alec told me. Oh great. "You are daughter of Hades. Can't you make it deathly stinky?"
   "I'll try, though I highly doubt it." I said and tried using my powers. I suddenly felt lots of heat. Sweat broke out. I kept my eyes fixed on the socks, trying to make them deathly stinky. Sure enough, a huge gust of stink broke into the cave. You could even see green waves of funk. I wasn't sure if I should be offended or not.
  "Wow that sure is stinky!" Alec coughed, swatting his hand to push the funk away from his face.
  I coughed in my reply, then luckily Lucas woke up. "AAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! STINK BOMB! AAAAAAAHHH! SOCKS ON MY FACE! SOCKS ON MY FACE!"
  "Lucas, calm down. Artemis is trapped! We have to rescue her. I'm not exactly sure who trapped her, or how, but, we have to hurry. Something is taking away her powers, little by little!" I told him as soon as he woke up.
   "What are we waiting for? Let's get going!" Lucas grabbed for his backpack and we all walked out of the stink-infested cave.
   When we were 10 yards away from the Stink Cave, Lucas said, "How come you didn't try to wake me up?"
   "Lu-"
   "And why was there socks on my face?
   "Lucas,"
   "AND WHO DID THAT STINK BOMB?"
   "LUCAS! CALM DOWN! There was no stink bomb! We tried to wake you up by putting decent smelling socks on your face so you would wake up so I had to use my powers to create stinkiness to wake you up and apparently, it did."
   After a long silence, Lucas finally said, "Why wouldn't you wake me up the normal way?"
   "This is going to be a long day." Alec murmured.