Chapter 1

Annabeth

Annabeth paced the length of the Argo 2, mind whirling with her thoughts, which was difficult to do considering she was the daughter of Athena. Her thoughts circled between Percy, the prophecy, Percy, Camp Jupiter, Percy, Gaea, oh, and did she mention Percy?

Did he remember her? Did he have a new girl friend now? It had been nearly nine months since Percy had gone missing and Jason had come to Camp Half-Blood, with all of his memories wiped. It didn't exactly help that they had figured that that was what had also happened to Percy when Hera/Juno had kidnapped him so she could put him in the Roman Camp. Stupid Hera, Annabeth thought angrily and thunder rumbled quietly in the distance.

"Annabeth?" Annabeth swung around, her dagger already in her hand. Piper Mclean gulped and looked down pointedly at the dagger now at her throat. "Would you mind moving that? Thanks." She said as Annabeth returned her dagger to its stealth at her side. "Sorry Pipes." I mumbled as I turned and walked over to the railing of the ship.

"It's okay. So how are you doing?" She asked. "With what?" I asked back and she rolled her eyes. "With the fact you'll be seeing your missing boyfriend in about five minutes." I shrugged and replied "Okay I guess. More worried than anything." She tried to sound cool and calm but the tremble in her voice betrayed her.

Piper opened her mouth to say something but suddenly Leo's voice called out "We'll be landing in two minutes. Please hold on to something and thank you for riding Air Leo!" he laughed and both Piper and I rolled our eyes.

I grabbed onto the railing and Piper hung on also as suddenly a huge city appeared before us. We stared down and I noticed a huge field were maybe about 300 Romans waited, weapons drawn and pointed to a wide cleared space. Leo circled the area about three times before Piper yelled at him to land already.

The Argo 2 began to slowly descend and Jason walked over to us right as the Argo 2 bumped into the ground. I stood up and muttered a few Ancient Greek curses before walking over to Jason. "Ready?" he asked and I noticed how nervous he looked. "As ready as I will ever be."

Percy

The ship was huge and well crafted; he even thought he heard a few children of Vulcan sign in pleasure. The gangplank floated down to the ground and out walked a boy with blonde, close-cropped hair and bright blue eyes. "Jason!" Reyna said and the Romans behind him cheered. "Hey guys." He said as he walked down into the fields and came over to stand in front of Percy and Reyna. "Hey Reyna. Long time, no see." With that Reyna wrapped him in a hug, but Percy's attention was drawn to a curly blonde haired with stormy gray eyes walking toward him. "Hey Wise Girl." He said before pulling him into his arms and hugging her.

He pulled back enough and met her waiting lips. Behind him he heard the Romans cheer again and pulled back laughing. Just as Annabeth punch him hard on the arm. "You. Left. Me. Do you have any idea how worried I was!" she yelled at him as he rubbed his sore arm.

He held up his hands in surrender when she looked like she was about to punch him again. "It's not my fault. Hera took me, erased my memories-even though I always remembered you- and put me to sleep for seven months. Then I had to retrain and only got here a week ago and have spent most of that time on a quest." She looked at him for a second before jerking his head down and kissing him again.

They ended the kiss, but intertwined their fingers instantly. He smiled over at Jason and Reyna. "Hi I'm Percy Jackson by the way." He held out his other hand and Jason shook it in a firm, hard hand shake, like he was testing him. He grinned and squeezed Jason's hand- hard- and let go.

He saw Jason wince slightly when he flexed his hand but replied "And I'm Jason Grace, Son of Jupiter. I've heard a lot about you in Camp Half-Blood." Percy chuckled and said "Same about you here."

"HEY! Forgetting about someone?" a skinny, with elfish features boy appeared a crazy grin on his face. Walking beside him came a dark skinned girl with unevenly cut hair with some of it in small braids. Percy couldn't decide if her eyes were brown, green, or blue, but she obviously was a daughter of Aphrodite.

Jason laughed and said "This is Leo Valdez."

"Yup, or Supreme Commander." Leo added.

"Or Repair Boy. Hi, I'm Piper Mclean." The girl said ignoring Leo who was scowling at her. I smiled and shook their hands "I'm Percy Jackson. This is Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, and my fellow praetor Reyna." I said gesturing to Frank and Hazel standing behind me. Reyna smiled at me for a second before turning and saying "There will be a senate meeting in twenty minutes. Other than that you can all go back to your activities." The group of Romans left, though they were grumbling about how it wasn't fair they didn't get to talk to Jason.

I smiled at Annabeth "You're going to love the architecture in this place." Before turning and leading them toward the praetor building.