8Hi! It's AutumnLeaves03! I'm back! Sorry for the wait. A lot of things happened. School started back up for me and I got a new puppy, her name is Fern, she is a blue standard Poodle, and she is very sweet! (A Blue Standard Poodle is really a gray poodle, its just called blue because of the color of its skin. look it up if you want more info.)
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Annabeth swore and dashed up the stairs, passing the open door to the room she shared with Percy as she headed towards Charlie's room.
Things were a mess. The expensive lamp had been knocked onto the floor, all the books had been pushed off the shelves, and Amber was standing in the crib yelling at Ashley to close the door.
Annabeth dashed in, slamming the door without thinking and accidentally catching Percy's little finger.
"OW!" Percy yelled, trying to wrench it away. Annabeth hurriedly kicked the door open, bent down next to him and looked at his finger.
The white was already darkening into an unpleasant purple color; there was a small gash running down from the tip of the nail to where his joint was. Grimacing, she dabbed the blood away with a box of Kleenex and sat him down next to the door.
She had enough of this flying squirrel.
Grabbing her cell phone, she scrolled down her contact list as fast as possible and called Piper. Maybe she could charmspeak the thing into a box.
Annabeth smiled wryly as she waited for Piper to pick up the phone. Piper would come over and everything would be fine. She and Jason lived a few houses down the street with their two baby sons.
Piper finally answered the phone.
"What do you want?" she mumbled, her voice groggy with sleep.
"Oh, gods, Piper," Annabeth sighed in relief. "There's a flying squirrel in my freaking house! Can you please come over and charmspeak it into a box?" she asked as the squirrel leapt off the floor with agility onto Percy's face, rapidly climbing onto his jet black hair.
"Don't you remember?" Piper asked in annoyance. "I'm at Camp Jupiter, with Jason and Reyna. It will be a three or four hour drive to your house, way to long for me to drive at-" there was a pause "- three in the morning! I'm not driving to your house to grab a flying squirrel!" she snapped.
"But can't you use Tempest to get here?"
Annabeth sighed as she realised her friend had hung up. Piper was exceptionally grumpy when she got woken up from her beauty sleep.
Percy groaned as Charlie toppled over, right onto his hurt finger. Annabeth looked up. The squirrel was resting in the crib for the moment, but any sudden movement- such as Charlie and Amber being idiots- would set it off again.
Ashley was trying to reach up to Percy's head with the intense concentration displayed only by kids under seven, Amber was curled up on the floor, muttering about giving up and keeping the 'cute little thing' as a pet, and Charlie was sitting next to Percy, staring at him as if saying, Why are you sad, Daddy? You're a demigod! Me falling on your finger can't be as bad as the wars!
Although, they hadn't actually told Charlie any of that stuff, so that obviously wasn't what he was thinking… Annabeth sighed and looked at her phone again.
She dialed Pipers number again hopelessly and waited for her to pick up.
She finally did.
"What are you doing, Annabeth?! STOP CALLING ME!" Piper shrieked. Annabeth winced and held the phone away from her ear.
"Just listen to me, I'm putting it on speaker and can you try to control the squirrel from through the phone?" Annabeth asked severely.
"Fine," Piper sulked.
Annabeth put the phone on speaker and Piper started to speak.
"Okay, stop running around or whatever you're doing and go into the box Annabeth has," Piper said through the phone.
Annabeth looked up from the screen hopefully, but what she saw made her almost want to bungee jump into Tartarus screaming swear words at the squirrel.
Ashley and Amber were jammed into the box, Percy valiantly attempting to resist but slowly crawling there anyway, and Charlie was perched on top of Ashley's head, yanking on strands of her dark hair.
The squirrel was nowhere in sight.
She growled, a scary sound that made Amber… sigh in exasperation. Huh.
Annabeth rolled her eyes. This was it for the heroine of Olympus. For about the hundredth time in her life, she mentally rewrote her gravestone.
Here lies Annabeth Jackson-Chase, heroine of Olympus, Survivor of Tartarus, favored child of Athena, Mother of Three, Sister, Friend, Wife, Loved One.
R.I.P. Annabeth. Died from a flying squirrel entering her house at three in the morning. We will miss you.
The grave would be nicely carved, and next to Percy's. His would read:
Here lies Perseus Jackson, hero of Olympus, survivor of Tartarus, bane of monsters, leader of demigods, favored child of Poseidon, Father of Three, Brother, Friend, Husband, Loved One.
R.I.P. Perseus. Died because his two-year-old son sat on his finger during the Attack of the Flying Squirrel. We will miss you.
Then she heard it, a scratching sound. Looking at the box, with struggles she lifted Charlie, Amber and Ashley out and then dragged Percy away; in the very middle of it, laying curled up and staring at her, was the flying squirrel.
She smiled, incredibly relieved, closed the box and carried it outside.
The flaps of the box swung open to reveal no squirrel and a ragged hole in the side of the box.
Words could not express how much she cursed.
She rushed back inside and found it sitting on a lamp, cleaning its back left foot.
She broke into tears, sobbing and screaming at the squirrel, grabbing her phone and viciously stabbed in 911.
"Hello this is 911 emergency line, what is your emergency?" the operator asked.
Annabeth opened her mouth to speak, trying to form words.
Ther-there is a flyimnb squeal in me houmse, i can't get it out! *sniffle sniffle* can you helb me? she started crying again.
There was a silence from the operator, then the phone was hung up.
She started crying again.
Then the squirrel leapt, springing nimbly for the half-open door and escaping outside.
Annabeth collapsed on a chair, utterly exhausted.
She calmed down enough to go find Percy and the kids when she heard screaming and yelling.
Her entire family came hurtling down the stairs.
Then she saw what they were screaming about- at the top of the stairs, staring down at them with big eyes, was a chipmunk.
And that's it! The last chapter of Something In The Closet! Thank you so much for reading!
Until the next story!
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