A/N: Hey! I'm officially off hiatus next week, after finals are over, but I really wanted to post this for you guys! I would like it very much if you could review and maybe follow the story? Later on there will be a poll, keep a lookout! Toodles ~Anistaisia (LiveLong and LoveBooks)
Summary:
"Who are you?"
I hear that question a lot. Sometimes filled with fear. Sometimes with awe. I'm the slayer of giants, the defeater of Ares, …. (other titles that im too lazy to type out here)…. The Assassin of Chaos. But who am I? The simplest answer is I don't know. She never told me, and I never wanted to know. I woke up here and I remembered nothing. Not my family, not my friends, nothing. Did I even have a family, or friends? I don't know. And maybe that's why I've been content. If someone's out there, looking for me, do I want to meet them when I don't remember who they are, or even who I am?
ANNABETH POV
"Percy!" I call out frantically, sitting up. I whip my head around the circular chamber, bathed in darkness but for a single ray of moonlight, looking for him. My yes fly over the raven-haired body lying on the floor- Wait, raven-haired body?! I rush over as fast as humanly possible and turn it over. My heart breaks, it's Percy. I can feel the blood rush out of my face as I grow shades paler at the sight before me. He's bleeding, so badly, from an enormous wound on his torso. I desperately search for ambrosia, or nectar, anything that might help save him. I cry out when my search is futile.
"Percy?" I whisper, then louder, "Percy? Can you hear me?"
I am met with a small groan, and his eyelids flutter. "I- how did this happen? We got a mysterious IM showing a path, and we gathered a group to come discover…."
He coughs hoarsely. "Annabeth…. Th- they were going to k-kill you," he coughs, "I f-fought them but they got away…. I don't r-remember what happened after that…"
"Oh Seaweed Brain," I sighed sadly, tears making their way slowly down my face. "I would have helped if only you let me."
"I'll find you. I'll choose rebirth for you, Wise Girl." his eyes started to flutter shut
"No, Seaweed Brain! Don't leave me…" my voice cracked as I started to sob, but it was too late.
My Seaweed Brain was gone.
PERCY POV
I remember a blinding white light and a girl's voice. She seemed to be crying and telling someone not to leave her, which confused me. A lot. I opened my eyes and looked around me, seeing a spacious errrr….. Room, maybe? I was lying in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by dark blue, purple and black patterns I recognized as galaxies. I looked around, amazed by them, before my eyes landed on a figure, which was looking out into the expansive view.
"Erm, hello?" I called out to it.
"Hello, Champion," she turned to me, smiling. "I am Chaos, creator of all."
I immediately knelt, not knowing why, but it felt right. Standing in front of me was a beautiful woman. She had wavy black hair, streaked with a dark purplish color, which fell to the small of her back, and swirling purple-blue eyes. Chaos was wearing a floor-length purple dress that matched her eyes.
I smiled hesitantly at her and she held out a pale hand, which I accepted and stood.
"I have brought you here for a special reason," she said, "You died an untimely death, and for a noble cause, and I wish to reward you.
If you accept, you will be immortal, and my Champion. Military advisor, confidant, anything else I wish you to be as well.. You will also receive extensive training and be the heir to the universe." She gave me a moment to run it all through my head, before asking gently, "Do you accept? If you do not, you are welcome to spend out eternity in Elysium."
I looked into her swirling eyes. "I accept, Lady Chaos."
"Excellent," she beamed down at me, then started to chant words in a language I didn't recognize. Chaos set a hand on my head and my vision faded to darkness.
ANNABETH POV
I stared at his face that was somewhat blurred by my stream of tears, and noticed something odd. I wiped away the tears and looked at him clearly, before gasping. I could see through his head, to the ground, and he was fading further each second. Before I even had the chance to stop it, he was gone. Just disappeared.
I ran as fast as I could out of the cave, where the camp van was waiting. Argus started to drive, and I requested he go faster. We needed to get to camp and figure out what the Hades just happened. We pulled up and I hopped out, sprinting up the hill and past campers, who are all at their activities, to the Big House. Chiron and Dionysus are outside, playing pinochle as always.
I skid to a stop in front of them. "Percy…. He's gone," I say, wiping at the torrent of tears running down my face. I see Chiron's shocked face before I collapse into a puddle of tears.
I woke up, blinking in the sudden light. Chiron, Thalia, Nico, and the rest of the Sven are standing scattered around the infirmary, talking to each other. When they see I'm awake, they crowd around me.
"Annabeth…. Are you alright?" Chiron asks gently as Thalia pulls me into a hug.
I shrug, squeezing Thalia tightly.
"Why don't you tell us what happened?" he suggests.
I make a writing motion for a pen and paper and Piper hands them to me. I slowly write. I followed a dracaena into a cave. I'm not sure what happened, or how long I was out, but I woke up later. I looked around the round cave and called out for P- him. I found him and he had a large wound in his torso, I started to cry silently, dripping tears on the paper. He didn't know what happened, just that he was fighting some monsters that were supposedly coming for me, and he died. He's gone. Forever. And it's my fault. That's not even the worst part- he faded. He faded until I could see through him, to the ground, and then he disappeared. I shoved the pad of paper at them and buried my face in my hands. There were gasps as they read what I wrote and that just made me cry harder.
"No….." I heard someone say, their voice breaking. I could hear several of them sobbing softly, and felt a twist in my gut.
He was gone.
And it was my fault.