Chapter Four = We get attacked by the Math Teacher from Hell

We walked into algebra. "Goth Girl" sat right in front, her cat on the desk. We sat in the back of the class. The math teacher, dressed in a black leather jacket, was at the board. She turned around, and then I saw her for real.

Ms. Dodds.

She had been my old Algebra teacher in sixth grade, and now she was here, haunting this girl. What the hell?

"Welcome back class," she droned "my name is Ms. Dodds."
"Goth Girl" was fiddling with something on her neck, but I was too busy shooting a panicked look at Grover to pay attention. I heard Nico explain to Thaila and Annabeth who Ms. Dodds is and why we should be wigging out.

"Honey, you're distracting the class. Give me the locket and you can have it back after class."

I was wondering who she was talking to, until I saw her hold out her hand to "Goth Girl".

"No."
"Goth Girl" was sitting straight up in her chair, her eyes defiant. I saw her clench the black notebook. The cat hissed at Ms. Dodds hand. What is up with that cat?

"The hall. Now."
Goth Girl grabbed her bag and notebook and led by Ms. Dodds, left the room, the cat with her, hissing all the while. The door closed with a bang. Annabeth, Thaila, Nico, Grover, and I stood up quietly and made our way out the door, just in time to here Ms. Dodds make her glory speech.

"Now Honey, you are just too much trouble. Your time was up along time ago." She bared her fangs.

Other Monsters started coming out of nowhere. I saw the two other Furies on either side of . And some sort of Panther thing I had never even seen before came up behind the girl, snarling. Annabeth elbowed me.

"That's a Tazmainian Octofura. They can breathe fire."

I nodded as if I knew what she was talking about. I looked at the others and we moved into place.

I took down Ms. Dodds like nobodies business (A/N: where does that saying come from? Anywhoo.) Nico, Thaila, and Grover took down the other two. I turned around to take down the panther-thingy when…
It happened as if in slow motion. The Octofura had "Goth Girl" in it's claws and was about to eat her (it really didn't look that hard) when Annabeth pushed her out of the way. For the second time today, the kid slammed into a wall headfirst. The Octo-taza whatever grabbed Annabeth when, a bolt of lightning struck it. It turned, snarling, and threw Annabeth against the wall, where she lay, crumpled alongside "Goth Girl".

Then everything went back to normal speed.
I ran forward and threw Riptide like a Javalin. The TanzaFury-thingy disintegrated. I ran to where Annabeth lay. Nico wasn't far behind me. Gently, I picked up Annabeth. Nico did the same for "Goth Girl'. We carried them to the Girl's Room, Thaila leading the way.

When we got to the Girl's room, I lay Annabeth on her bed. Nico reluctantly lay "Goth Girl" onto her bed, the farthest away from the door. Thaila sat on her bed, closest to the door. We all looked at each other, until, finally, Annabeth twitched. As she tried to sit up, I pushed her back down. "Oh no you don't." I said, smiling because she was awake. I gave her some ambrosia. She sat up again, and this time I let her.

"Are you OK?"

She nodded. She looked into my eyes. I swear, she could trap me this those pools of gray.

We sat around and waited for "Goth Girl" to wake up.

Annabeth's POV (A/N: Sorry guys, I had to do this.)

I was drifting. Suddenly, a pair of strong arms grabbed me. I hoped they were Percy's. Probably. He would be super jealous if some else carried me. What if he was carrying that new Demigod? He had better not. She was way too pretty for her own good.

The arms put me down on a bed. I wasn't drifting anymore. I opened my eyes and saw Percy's face.

I was exactly where I wanted to be.