Hey guys! I'm back with a new story called, "The Mark of Athena". It is the actual title of the next book so I got something to work with. This time, I am not doing this story alone. God1801 is helping me with all the plans and everything so I am giving him credit for every chapter that I update. I hope that you guys liked my previous story about the Son of Neptune which was totally off now that I have read it. To be honest, I was pretty pissed at the end, not because it was over, but because Rick Riordan doesn't show the two camps actually meeting each other and most of all; Percy and Annabeth don't yet meet!

Anyways, here's the first chapter made by me and God1801. Suggestions are available. Give a good one and we'll put it in and give you the credit. I hope you guys like this first chapter! And please review!

Credit: God1801, who will be helping me with the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or any of the books in the series HoO or PJO. All is Rick Riordan's

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Annabeth

She paced around the room thinking to herself, This was it. This was the day I have been waiting for. This was the day where I would finally see him again. After being gone for almost 8 months, I'll finally see him. She sat down on her bed and pulled out a piece of paper. She unfolded it and it was an image of Percy and Annabeth with arms around each other. The entire ride to Camp Jupiter, Annabeth felt excited and a want for Percy. She just couldn't take being alone for 8 months. It was a too miserable life without her boyfriend being around her with that idiotic grin he'd have. She missed all of her fights with him, all of the teasing they would do and especially the Seaweed Brain himself. When he disappeared, Annabeth's heart felt like it was torn in two, like a piece suddenly vanished. But now, she'd get to meet him again. The long awaited reunion is about to pass.

Then her mind suddenly drifted off to a different thought. What if he doesn't remember me? she thought. What if he found someone else? All of her happy thoughts suddenly vanished and was replaced by torturing 'what if' possibilities. Annabeth held her head while shaking it. It pained her brain to process such thoughts. Ironic how all those long and confusion math calculations would be a piece of cake for her, while only thinking about simple questions hurt her brain. She put away the photo and resumed to laying on her bed.

"Why am I like this?" Annabeth asked herself, burying her hands into her face. The door opened and in came Piper with her chopped hair and her dagger Katoptris on sheathed in its case. Piper is a daughter of Aphrodite, and she can charmspeak, so you wouldn't want her to get angry at you.

"It's obvious you're in love." Piper stating the obvious. Annabeth rolled her eyes. "But it's normal so don't beat yourself up." Piper really knew how to calm people down. It's that or she was using charmspeak.

"You're right." Annabeth said. "It's just that, I don't know if he'll remember me. And that he might be with someone else." Piper groaned, obviously not wanting to hear this.

"Lemme tell you this one more time." Piper getting pretty ticked off. Obviously, they've been through this conversation countless amount of times. "Percy IS going to remember you. Not might. Is. If he doesn't I'll charmspeak him into remembering everything about you." Annabeth smiled at the thought. "By what everyone at camp told me, Percy loved you a lot. There's gotta be something wrong with him if he didn't remember you." Annabeth nodded and thanked Piper.

A loud BEEP went through the room. On the PA system, someone spoke, "Hello ladies and gentlemen aboard the Argo II. Thank you all for your wonderful patience. We should be arriving at Camp Jupiter in a few minutes, according to Jason. So y'all that's still down in the rooms might wanna come up now. This is Leo Valdez, Master Commander, creator and designer of the ship, over and out." Before Leo turned off the mic, Leo shouted, "Jason, you son of a-" was heard. Annabeth and Piper couldn't help but laugh.

The two girl stepped out into the light. Annabeth stopped before going along with Piper to feel the warm sun shine down on her and the wind pushing her hair. It's been a while since she's left the bedroom. The sun was warm and the wind was cool, a perfect combination. Annabeth's stomach grumbled from the emptiness sensation. Piper laughed and went with her to the dining room which was directly under the bedrooms. Annabeth grabbed a few chicken wings and pizza and gobbled down a whole plate within seconds. Talk about hungry. She finished off by belching loudly and Piper laughed. After her amazing meal, they finally went to the deck.

"Hi-ho, me harteys! It be a fine day in these wat- I mean skies." The two girls turned to see Leo on the wheel dressed up in a Pirates outfit. The thing that messed it up, was that Leo was wearing make-up. Annabeth and Piper couldn't help but laugh.

Jason came up beside the girls, then looked to Leo, stifling a laugh, "See? I told you it was nice." Leo just growled in anger, refusing to look at his friends, and continued to steer the ship in the air. Jason turned to Annabeth and said, "Well, well, well. Mrs. I-can't-wait-but-too-scared is awake!" Annabeth blushed and Piper just stared him down.

"Oh stop teasing her." Piper told Jason. "She's...having a tough time right now, so be sympathetic! You're so heartless." As the words came out of her lips, Jason froze and saluted.

"Yes ma'am." It took him a while to find out what had happened. The face he made was priceless. He, Jason Grace, had just been charmspoke by Piper. You could tell in his eyes how much he hated that. They started to argue about stupid things. Annabeth couldn't help but smile. The little scene had just reminded her of herself with Percy. A smile crept up her face, remember all the fun and happy moments she'd share with Percy.

Her thoughts were interrupted when Leo spoke, "The Roman camp is just up ahead!" Annabeth, Jason and Piper ran to the front of the boat and glanced out the boat and searched for any signs of camp. At first they couldn't see anything, but when the land in front of them started to shimmer and wash down like a waterfall, the camp appeared in plain sight.

Annabeth held her breath as she saw the wonders of Jason's camp, "Oh my gods!" She squealed. In the distance, Annabeth could spot all of the different structures of the camp. They were so architectural that she just got interested. Her mind started to drift off to architecture and how Roman structures were extremely similar to the Greek (basically they copied off them. But as they would say it, they perfected them). Then she saw the whole group starting to from in front of the gates, and her mind quickly wandered back to Percy.

Where are you? Annabeth thought. She searched desperately for him among the few hundred people gathering. She couldn't quite see their faces since the distance was too great. One thing's for sure, Mrs. O'Leary was safe and sound with Tyson and a harpy? It wasn't until Leo started to land the boat, that Annabeth saw faces clearly. Blue eyes. Brown eyes. Blond hair. Red hair, ughh! She was frustrated, not being able to find Percy. Blonde hair. Black hair and green eyes? No. Blue eyes. Goofy smile. Purple shirt. Then she realized "goofy smile". Annabeth turned back to the person with the smile and she saw a boy with jet black hair and mesmerizing sea green eyes. Her heart skipped a beat and her eyes started watering. It was him.

He was walking towards the Argo II as it lowered onto the ground. His hands around a girl and guy, probably his friends. He was wearing a purple toga outfit which looked ridiculous on him. But pretty cute as well. She then turned to who was beside Percy's friends. Her heart skipped yet another beat. Her heart felt like it was cracking in half. It was a girl who wore matching outfits with Percy. There was no way Percy could be going out with that girl now. Or could he?

The girl had long black hair, and dark brown eyes. Attached to her belt was a knife. Beside the girl with the purple toga, were two unusual looking dogs. One was gold and the other silver. Both with fiery ruby eyes. They growled and bared their fangs at us as we finally hit touched the earth. Leo pushed a button on a panel that was beside the wheel, and a bridge slid out from the side.

"You ready?" Piper asking basically everyone. But the question was more to Annabeth, who stood kind of dazed and heartbroken like. As soon as Piper saw her expression, she back off a little bit.

Jason walked over to Piper and grabbed her hand, "Come on, Pipes! We may need your charmspeaking." Piper looked at Annabeth for permission who just nodded sadly. They walked away as she just looked at the camp. Frowning, Annabeth stared at Percy who was smiling and laughing. She couldn't look at him. Especially now that he'd move on. If he had moved on, so would Annabeth...eventually. She was heartbroken, even Leo could see it and he was just as oblivious as Percy, but not as much.

"Are you coming?" the son of Hephaestus asked softly before he walked down to land. "You should come. You are leader of the camp."

Annabeth nodded, "Alright." She forced back tears, which was easy since she was now used to it. She'd have to use up all of her strength just to stay strong. But now, seeing Percy once again, she wasn't quite sure if she could do it. She finally walked down with Leo.

When they were on the ground, Annabeth heard Leo sighing in relief. Leo was quite uncertain about everybody depending on him to get them across the country to get their leader. The truth was, he was afraid the whole time. Sure he'd make jokes and make everyone believed he wasn't troubled at all, but he'd been hiding for his whole life so it was now natural.

Jason walked up to Annabeth, "Come on. Me and you will probably have to negotiate with the leaders. It looks like Percy became one of them." The way he said it, made him sound like he was saying that he became a Roman. Annabeth nodded, pulling herself together. She could not break down now. She'll wait until later.

The two leaders of Camp Half-Blood went out to meet the two leaders of Camp Jupiter. It wasn't only Annabeth who felt nervous, but Jason as well. He seemed to be losing his head right now and no one knew why. Was it because he was finally home after 8 months? It couldn't be that. He wasn't nervous at all when he was at Camp Half-Blood. If it wasn't that, then what was it?

Every step, was another step closer to Percy. Another step to the long lost boyfriend. Another step to the one who would soon break her heart. Annabeth couldn't look forward without staring into Percy's green eyes. She just couldn't. It hurt to much. She kept her eyes down to the ground until the four stopped to stare at one another. She couldn't help but look up to see what was happening. This time, Percy's head was not looking forward, but more like everywhere. He looked at everything except for Annabeth and Jason.

An awkward tension built up and caused everyone's mind to stop working. Those who tried to speak, their words would come out, "Ugh-do-uhh", basically embarrassing themselves. Percy was the one to finally decide to start talking.

"So. We on good terms or what?" Percy asked. Annabeth looked into his eyes, his sea green eyes, and somehow got lost in them, not knowing at all what Percy had said. Jason snapped in front of Annabeth's eyes to refocus her.

"Yeah." Annabeth said in more of a questioning tone. The four walked up to each other to shake each other's hands. When Annabeth went to shake Percy's, she turned away from him. She couldn't look at him. It looked the same with Reyna. Did something ever happen with those two? Who knows? For all the Greek demi-gods know, she could be her boyfriend, and that would leave Piper heartbroken. Just like Percy was doing to Annabeth. When the shaking of hands were over, the leaders of Camp Half-Blood went back to the ship and the praetors went back to the city. Annabeth had tears flowing down the side of her cheeks. Percy didn't remember her. Percy forgot her. Percy had found a new girlfriend.

Suddenly, the warmth of someone else's body grabbed Annabeth's hand and turned her around. Standing in front of her was one of the praetors of Camp Jupiter, Percy Jackson.

"Hey you seemed down. What's wrong?" Percy sounded very concerned about her. Percy saw Annabeth's river of tears grow bigger and fall faster. He was there in front of her, and he doesn't even show a sign that he remembers. She fought the urge to turn around and walk away from him, but she couldn't move.

After finally gathering the strength, Annabeth said sadly, "It's just that- you- and-" Annabeth was cut off when Percy pulled her close to him and bent down to kiss her. Slowly, but passionately. Annabeth was too shocked to do anything, not even kissing him back. Annabeth's mind was racing! She couldn't think, she couldn't move, she couldn't do anything. As Percy, backed away, sadness filled his eyes, near to tears. Annabeth finally shook off her immobile moment and pulled him back for another kiss.

This time, both were kissing slowly and passionately. Annabeth flung her hands around Percy's neck, while Percy hands to her waist, both deepening the kiss. Annabeth's heart raced, like it always had when they shared a kiss. Her whole body just seemed to melt and get lost with the touch of lips. The feeling she got from him was indescribable, it was beyond happiness and beyond relief. The fire within her re-ignited with the hope she had lost. Percy remembered her. He didn't leave her. He remained loyal. Of course, that's Percy's fatal flaw: loyalty. The two just made up for all the time they lost, taking the lead. Eventually, they pulled back and smiled at each other, just to get back together for a big giant hug. Annabeth was crying tears of happiness onto Percy's shoulder, who comforted her while rubbing her back gently.

"I thought I'd lost you!" Annabeth words muffled. Percy continued to rub her back and shushed her quietly.

He gave her a peck on her head and said, "Me too, Wise Girl. Me too." At the moment, no one cared if everyone else was watching the two reunite. To them, it was too much an ecstatic moment for them to care. When they stared at each other, getting lost in the other's eyes. At the moment, they felt like they were the only two people alive. All that mattered right now, was them and their blessed reunion. The two obviously didn't know if their parents were involved, but the reunion was too great. Their parents would never make it this perfect, unless they finally approved of who their son/daughter chose.

When they separated, Annabeth whacked Percy's arm with her fist. Percy's other hand instinctively rubbed the spot where she had hit him, clearly in pain. "What was that for?" He asked.

"For being such a Seaweed Brain! Leaving me behind like that and making me worry about you for 8 months! 8 FREAKING MONTHS!" Annabeth raged. She was surprised with Percy's reaction. He just smirked at her. "What?"

"It's just good to have you back." Percy said grinning like an idiot. Annabeth smiled back. Everything was finally together again. Annabeth looked over to Piper of was now jumping up and down while clapping her hands and squealing.

Annabeth hugged him once more, "It's good to have you back too." Frank and Hazel, who watched the whole scene from a distance, along with Reyna and her dogs, stared at them in awe. They assumed that that was the famous Annabeth Percy told them about, and they just thought that they were such a cute couple. Great, now they sound like a couple of children of Venus. The two walked up to Percy, unsure if it was a good time to butt in.

"So, can I meet you're other family now?" Frank asked. Hazel agreed.

"Well, you've already met Tyson. He's my half-brother." As Percy said that, the two Roman demi-gods's jaws dropped to the ground. Percy mentally laughed. Then he gestured to Annabeth, "And here is my girlfriend, Annabeth."

She's pretty, Frank admitted in his head. Hazel saw his expression and slapped him out of it. Percy couldn't help but laugh. Meanwhile, Annabeth was the one pretty confused. Look who's oblivious now!

Percy looked at the others by the boat to see if he could find anyone he knew, but didn't see anyone he recognized. "Who are those people?"

Annabeth grabbed his hand, leading him towards the boat and told him, "Come on, I'll introduce you to them."

Sooooooo? What did you guys think? Was it good or was it good? LOL. To be honest, I was dying when I was typing the part where Percy and Annabeth reunite. I wanted it to be perfect and dramatic. Anyways, I'd really like you to tell me your opinions. I don't mind any negative comments at all. I'll just look at it as a thing for improvement. Like I have been doing in the past few weeks, I've tried my best to update every week since school is really busy and my time schedule is one of the most hardest semesters which is really pissing me off.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter! Hope you guys expect to see more of this story. My goal as of now is to complete my story before the actual book comes out. And remember to review!

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