Chapter One
Annabeth's POV
"Annabeth, Percy, would you two like to be like us," Lord Zeus asked us. My heart was racing. To become a minor goddess, that would be amazing. Percy was looking at me for my reaction. I nodded. Percy looked at Zeus and said, "Yes." Then it was my turn. "Yes Lord Zeus, I would." Everyone else looked at Zeus and he said, "Only one of you can become a like us and the other will have to earn it. Percy, you answered first, therefore you will be changed. You Annabeth must earn it." I was shocked. I looked over to Percy to see his reaction, but his eyes were closed. He was getting too bright. I looked away. He was getting his true form. When the light died away, he looked the same. Then Zeus said something that broke my heart, "You have ten days to find a minor goddess to be your bride. Only the minor gods and goddesses have to marry." I couldn't take it anymore. I ran. I had one of Persephone Pearls. So I threw it and I was home, at Camp Half-Blood. No one was in my cabin so I was all alone.
Annabeth, can you hear me?
Mom?
Yes, it's me. Don't cry over Percy. He's not worth it.
He broke my heart mom. He has to marry a goddess. And I have to prove myself to be one.
It's alright. Do you want me to talk to Poseidon and make him talk some sense into Percy?
Mom, you don't have to do that, it's okay. I'll get over it.
Just than one of my cabin mates came in. Carolyn Daff saw me crying and rushed to my side. Her blonde hair was covering the scar I had given her on her first day. She tried to beat me in swordplay. It didn't work out. "What's wrong," she asked. Then I explained the whole story. I had just finished talking when I felt a warm feeling inside me. Carolyn gasped, "Annabeth, you hand." I looked down and on my hand was a ring. It had a small word in ancient Greek on it. . Honest. 'You have to earn it.' I would have to earn two more words and then I could be a goddess. I would do what ever it took to be a goddess. Whatever it took.
