The Rise of the Earth by Jeanette and Myrna (good books to read for teens txt) 📖

large building. On the porch were two people, they were both boys but one looked older than the other. The older boy turned round so I could see his face; Sea-green eyes and messy black hair.
‘PERCY!’ Annabeth cried.
‘Annabeth don’t –‘I tried to warn her but she didn’t listen.
‘You should have.’ Athena said.
Annabeth hung her head. ‘I know.’
She got loose of the grip of the girl who was holding her and ran to hug Percy and when she did, Percy looked at her a little surprised and then she backed up, shaking her head.
I put my hand on her shoulder. ‘Annabeth, he doesn’t remember.’
She turned around and looked straight in my eyes. ‘You saw him, didn’t you?’ I stayed silent. ‘You promised! You promised you’d bring him back!’
Ryan sighed, putting his head in his hands and Annabeth put her hand on his shoulder.

‘I don’t blame you anymore.’ She said quietly.
He sighed. ‘I know.’
‘Did you mean mentally or physically?’ I asked but I knew it wasn’t helping her mood.
Thalia sighed. ‘Ryan, you make any dramatic situation over dramatic just by saying something stupid.’ He glared at her.

‘I can’t believe I trusted you!’ She cried, her eyes were now welled with tears. ‘I can’t believe I was stupid enough –‘
‘SILENCE!’ Shouted a new voice, then from out of the shadows came a wolf, it was about the size of a horse, with black and white fur and amber eyes. ‘Legion One members, newcomers; my office NOW!’ It snarled. We went inside the big building and Annabeth slumped into the corner.
‘For people who don’t know me, I am Lupa,’ the wolf said. ‘What are you Greeks doing here?’
‘We’re here because we need four Romans for the next great prophecy and you have one of our campers.’ I said.
‘And who are all of you?’ Lupa asked.
‘I’m Ryan, this is Thalia, that’s Annabeth, that’s Leo and Piper and you already know Jason. Who are these guys?’
One of the girls came forward. She had long brown hair and hazel eyes. ‘I’m Hazel, daughter of Ceres, this is Dakota,’ she gestured to the big boy who had his sword at my throat. ‘Son of Mars and Gwen,’ she pointed towards a girl with red hair and brown highlights, green eyes and freckles sprayed across her nose. ‘Daughter of Mercury.’
‘Look, Lupa,’ Thalia said. ‘We need four of your best campers to come with us to Greece –‘
‘- Because Gaia is rising, yes, I know, we’ve all heard the prophecy.’ Lupa said. ‘Dakota, Hazel and Gwen will accompany you; can someone tell Reyna that she will be going too?’ When Lupa said that name I remembered the promise I made to Apollo, I had to keep her away from Jason.
‘So we can leave right now?’ I asked.
Lupa shook her head. ‘Gwen, Dakota, Hazel and Reyna need to pack and I can’t let you leave with a forgetful quest member. I’ll give you some time to try and receive his memories, I suggest starting now.’ And then she left us with a forgetful Percy and not much time.
‘Who called?’ Asked a voice. In came Gwen, Dakota, Hazel, Reyna, Leo, Piper and Jason.

‘What are you reading?’After Nico recovered and they told the newcomers what had happened they started reading again.
‘Who wants to read?’ Artemis asked.
‘Ryan hasn’t read yet.’ Caliga said. Artemis handed him the book.


‘Chapter 4: I save a guy with an identity crisis’ Ryan read and Caliga glared at him.
‘I do not have an identity crisis!’ She yelled.
‘Then what do you call a girl who cross – dressed as a guy and barely talked to the same sex she dressed up as?’ Ryan asked.
‘Weird?’ Leo suggested.
‘Mentally disturbed?’ Dakota offered. But Caliga just glared at both of them.
‘Okay, let’s try this again.’ I grumbled.

I was pacing the room and was getting very annoyed because for the past 2 hours I was trying to convince Percy that we were his friends but he didn’t believe us.
‘That was really annoying.’ Ryan grumbled.
‘My name is Percy Jackson,’ I said, Percy repeated what I said. ‘And my dad is Poseidon.’

‘Do you really think that that would help?’ Athena asked Ryan.
Ryan just shrugged. ‘It was worth a shot.’ Athena rolled her eyes.

‘And my dad is – is...’ He stuttered on the last line.
‘O zeu kai alloi theoi!’ I mumbled, hitting my head on the wall.

‘You know hitting your head would make you lose more brain cells?’ Athena asked Ryan.
‘Like Ryan has any brain cells to spare!’ Reyna laughed. ‘He doesn’t even know the simplest Latin!’
‘Uhh, Reyna, most of us here don’t even know Latin.’ Rachel pointed out.
‘So?’
‘That doesn’t mean Ryan’s stupid; he’s just too lazy to learn Latin.’
‘Thank-‘ Ryan said but then realised what she just said. ‘Hey!’

Then I heard Percy mumble something, I stopped.
‘What did you say?’ I asked.
‘I’m beginning to remember.’ Percy said. ‘When you cursed it jogged my memory, you’re Ryan, and I met you at Goode last year.’ He then turned to Thalia. ‘You’re Thalia, I healed your tree and you came back.’ He finally turned to Annabeth but his face was like when I saw him in San Francisco. ‘I don’t remember you.’ Percy said, Annabeth started to cry, Thalia asked if she wanted some company but Annabeth just shook her head and ran outside.
‘What’s with her?’ Dakota asked. Me and Thalia exchanged looks. ‘We can’t tell you.’ Thalia said. Then we heard a scream coming from outside and lying on the grass was Annabeth and standing over her was one of the girls Hazel introduced use to, Gwen.
Everyone glared at said girl.
‘What?’ She demanded. ‘It’s not like I meant to hurt her, it was my Roman instincts!’
‘Out of the way!’ A girl yelled as she pushed past me; she was about 15 with curly brown hair and sky blue eyes. ‘Daughter of Apollo, coming through!’

‘Reyna, just because you’re a daughter of Apollo doesn’t mean you have to be so rude.’ Dakota said and Reyna glared at him.
‘Just because you’re the son of Mars doesn’t mean you have to beat up every new kid you see.’ She retorted. Ryan decided it was best to read on before another fight between the son and daughter of Apollo and Ares started.

She knelt beside Annabeth and touched her head.
‘She has a minor concussion, but she will be up and running by tomorrow.’ She said.
‘And who are you exactly?’ Thalia said. The girl seemed to realize for the first time that she hadn’t introduced herself.

‘No surprise,’ Dakota grumbled and Reyna glared at him.

‘My name is Reyna, daughter of Apollo.’ She said.

I was pacing up and down the infirmary; Thunder boomed from outside and the smell of ozone filled the room.
‘What does ozone smell like?’ Nico wondered.
‘Want to find out?’ Thalia said.
‘N – n – no...’
‘Then shut up.’
‘Great, just great...’ I mumbled. ‘The one quest that could save the world and my best strategist is knocked out by some – some redheaded, kleptomaniac girl!’
There was some snickering coming from the boys.
‘Are you talking about Gwen, Rachel or Jess?’ Nico asked. But no-one answered.
‘Hey!’ Gwen shouted. ‘The redheaded, kleptomaniac girl has a name you know,
The snickering then turned into laughing and then the girls joined in.
‘Does that answer your question?’ Ryan asked between laughs.
And it wasn’t my fault!’
‘I don’t care whose fault it was!’ I yelled. The thunder boomed even louder than before. ‘I just care about saving the world.’
‘And you don’t care about me?’ Annabeth asked, glaring at Ryan.
‘Uhh...’
‘And you don’t care about the girl whose unconscious?’ Percy asked.
The sound of thunder subdued and I sighed. ‘Yes, I do care about Annabeth.’ Just then a horn blew. Everyone went out to have dinner and Thalia turned round. ‘Are you coming?’ She asked me.
‘Yeah, I’ll catch up with you.’
I sat opposite Percy who was just staring at the sleeping Annabeth.
‘Who was she?’ He asked. ‘I mean, how do I know her?’
Annabeth winced, she spent all that time looking for him and all that time she had been thinking he would still know her. Thalia noticed her sad face and hugged her.
I pursed my lips. ‘Percy, I shouldn’t –‘
‘Please,’ He said. ‘You know who she was, tell me.’
I sighed. ‘Well, her name is Annabeth, I don’t know her last name, she was with you on your first quest to get my dad’s master bolt from Ares and to get you mom back from Hades.’
‘So, your dad is Zeus?’
I smiled. ‘Yep, my dad is the lord of the sky and my full sister is Thalia.’ Percy’s mouth dropped open. ‘Thalia is your sister?’ I nodded and then the horn blew again, signalling lights out and Percy looked like he didn’t want to leave Annabeth.
A small smile formed on Annabeth’s face.
‘Get some rest,’ I said. ‘I’ll stay here with Annabeth.’
I don’t remember going to sleep but I knew I must have been dreaming because in my dream I was standing on the edge of a deep pit.

Everyone including the gods shuddered, that pit had made their lives miserable for the past five years.

I looked down and felt a wave of nausea come over me because I couldn’t see the bottom. Sprits of the dead floated past me and were whispering, ‘No! Stop!’ But I heard something other than the whispering sprits, I heard chanting, ancient chanting even older than Greek and then the chanting stopped.

Everyone was silent.

I then heard something that made my hairs stand on end; a voice, an old raspy voice that said, ‘You will never stop me child of lightning; I am the earth that you stand on. I am the mother of everything!’

‘Gaia! Gaia talked to you in your dream! Why didn’t you tell me?!’ Annabeth shrieked.
‘If you’d just wait ten seconds...’ Ryan grumbled.

The spirits began to get restless, they whizzed past me whispering, ‘Beware! Traps, betrayal, destruction!’ The voice began to laugh and everything went black. I woke up screaming, ’No!’ and turned to see Annabeth with her face full of concern.
‘Ryan, are you okay?’ She asked. I just nodded but that dream seriously freaked me out, the spirits and the voice in the pit, what was that voice? And where was that pit?
‘Happy now?’ Ryan asked Annabeth.

I decided not to think about it too much because I was sure I would have more dreams like that. I followed Annabeth to the Argo II and everyone was ready to set sail. The ship took off, leaving the Roman camp as a little dot on the horizon.
Hey guys, look at this!’ Annabeth said, we were flying over New England and she was pointing towards an assortment of stone slabs. ‘Stonehenge, it was built by –‘
‘The cavemen,’ I finished. ‘Then it was used by the Greeks and then the Romans.’ Annabeth just stared at me.
As were everyone doing to him at the same moment.
‘What?’ I demanded. ‘I can concentrate in class if I want to.’
‘We should land,’ Leo said. ‘The engine needs time to recharge and we need a place to crash.’ Everyone nodded in agreement.
We walked around the square, looking for any sign of a hotel until we stopped in front of an old restaurant. I looked up to see the name but with my dyslexia, it just looked like meaningless spaghetti.
‘What does that say?’ I asked, pointing to the sign but