Annabeth I
Omygods! Omygods! We're in San Francisco now... I'm so nervous. My thoughts broke when Piper called me.
"Annabeth" Piper called.
"Yes?"I asked. Piper looked at me as if she was trying to know what I was thinking.
"Jason told me we're almost there. Just 10 minutes left." I gulped nervously. What if he doesn't remember me? What if he has another girlfriend? What if...
'Stop thinking like that, Annabeth' a voice said. It sounds like...A goddess. Well, not just any ordinary goddess. It's ARTEMIS!
'Mi'lady. No offense but why are you talking to me?' I asked curiously.
'Ah. Just like Athena. Always the curious one. Actually Aphrodite's supposed to talk to you but Athena knows well. Your mother know that she'll just scream at you. That's why I volunteered to talk to you.'
'Oh.'
'Perseus remembers you perfectly. He's fine. Though he did do stupid things.' I chuckled at that.
'How can you be so sure about that, Artemis?' I asked. I'm really really curious.
' Aphrodite, and Athena and I knew what step-mother is up to. Aphrodite and suprisingly your mother begged her not to erase any memory about you. Your mother and my step-mother saw how sad and eager you are. So Aphrodite made sure that Perseus remembers you. And she was right. You're the best couple since Helen and Troy. Well you both surpassed Helen and Troy."
'Thank you, Artemis.'
'It's nothing, Annabeth. I saw the adventures you both came through. And how determined you are to save Olympus last year. And how you both are inlove. I do hate boys, but then when Perseus saved us all I was truly grateful. And his father was right.'
'About what, mi'lady?'
'That no hero is above fear. And he risen every hero. Not even Hercules would do such a thing like what Perseus did.'
'Thank you again, lady Artemis.'
'I shall go now, Annabeth. Father calls me. And you're near the Roman Camp. We Gods will look over you. We will help you on your way. Goodbye, Annabeth. We'll see each other again. May the Gods be with you.'
'Goodbye, Artemis.'
"Annabeth!" I turned around to see who called me. It shocked me. It was Thalia.
"Thals! Do you really have to make me jump? What is it?" I asked, annoyed. Who would have the courage to annoy me? Oh well. Travis, Connor, Nico, Thalia and of course my seaweed brain, Percy.
"I'm sorry." she apologized. "We're -" Whatever she was going to say was interrupted by a THUMP. "Here." she finished.
I raced to the- door do you call it? Jason went down first.
"JASON!" Everyone in the Roman Camp said. But the loudest of all was coming from a girl with purple robe. Next to her was a boy with raven black hair and sea-green eyes. I gasped. IT'S PERCY! He was also wearing Praetor clothes.
"Romans! I'm home! Senators and Praetors we promise peace."
"We know that, Jason. I am Percy Jackson. Son of Poseidon. I also spoke to Hera last night."
"Poseidon?" a boy who looked so much like Luke said.
"Shut up, Octavian! Why don't you go back to your dear temple and murder teddy bears?" Percy growled. Octavian raced to somewhere making the Romans snicker behind Percy.
Jason looked at us and said, "Your family missed you."
"As much as I missed them." Percy replied then looked at me. My gray eyes to his sea green eyes. We both smiled.
"You can now go down!" Jason called at us. I was the first one to come down. I went to Percy then tackled him with a hug.
"I missed you, Wise Girl." I smiled because he called me our nicknames.
"I missed you too, Seaweed Brain." I replied to him. Then I remembered something. I'm supposed to be mad at him! We released each other then I smacked his arm.
"Ow!" the Romans started to go forward but Percy raised his hand to back them off.
"You were gone for 8 freaking months! You're such an idiot, Perseus Jackson!" he flinched. "Oh for Hades sake!" Thunder grumbled." Do you know how worried the whole camp is?! The Apollo cabin don't do sing-a-longs because you're gone! Even the Hermes Cabin don't do as much pranks. They do atleast one or two in a week. Even the campfire is not that bright. Lady Hestia is so sad because her FAVORITE DEMIGOD is gone! You're dad is so upset! The sun isn't that bright so is the moon because Artemis' and Apollo's favorite cousin is lost! I glanced at Will Solace. We only brought the old campers who knew Percy, the new campers and Chiron were in Camp guarding it.
"Really?" he looked at Will who just shuddered and nodded. Then to the Stolls who also nodded. "I'm sorry. It's Hera's fault blame her. Not me."
"Oh! Of course! Curse her!" Thunder rumbled in the sky. Thalia came and zapped him. Then Thalia hugged him.
"Please! Stop hurting me. I don't have the curse of Achilles anymore."
"What?!" Thalia and I scowled at him. "YOU DON'T HAVE THE CURSE OF ACHILLES ANYMORE?! You're such an idiot!" the Roman campers looked at him with awe. Guess they didn't know that.
"Yeah. Because when I crossed River Tiber the Greek blessing was lost. Blessing do you call it? More like curse." Thalia and I laughed at him.
"You didn't change for even a bit I see, Kelp Head."
Percy raised an eyebrow at her,"Why did you think I'll change?"
"NEVER! Because you'll always be stupid moron!" Percy pouted. "That makes me love you." I added then he grinned.
"Peerrccyy!" someone bleated.
"G-man! How are you?"
"How am I? More like how are you! We missed you, the lord of the wild is sad."
"Awww. I missed you too Grover."
"Percy!" we all turned around it's the older campers. They all hugged Percy even Clarisse.
"Awww. Clarisse does this means you missed me too?" He asked using his super duper annoying, teasing voice.
"Shut up,Prissy!"
A boy and a girl came to us.
"Hey, Percy. Care to introduce us?"
"Oh yeah. Sorry Hazel, Frank. " They just shrugged saying it's nothing. "This is Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto, Hades roman counterpart. And this is Frank Zhang, son of Mars, Ares roman counterpart. Frank is also a decendant of Poseidon. Which makes me his great-great-great-great-great- grandfather."
"Ooooh. I didn't know you're old enough to be a super greatgrandfather." Thalia and Clarisse teased. Making everyone to either smirk, snicker, or chuckle.
"Hey!"
"I wonder why Nico doesn't want to go with us. I mean it's a reunion! All four of us. Percy, Annabeth, Nico and me!" Thalia pouted. Hazel looked shocked along with Frank.
"How did you know who my brother is?"
"Oh well Hazel. Let's just say that your brother will be beaten like a pulp when we got to Rome." Percy sighed.
"Nico knows you're here?! AND HE DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO TELL ME?!" I shrieked.
"Calm down, Annie. Jeez. Athena might strike me with flock of owls." Just to prove his point a couple of owls swept pass him. Percy sighed. Everyone laughed.
"He told me though. He said he found Camp Jupiter. Both of us were silenced by Hera." Thalia said quietly.
"Thals. I need to say something really important." Percy said really serious. Thalia is confused. "Nico is captured by Gaea, Thalia."
Thalia backed away from him, with wide eyes too big for her face.
"No! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!" she screeched. Thalia sat down then started crying. She kept crying and crying so did I. I never saw Thalia this heartbroken. This... vulnerable. Percy and I rushed down to her, comforting and soothing her.
"Percy. We have to find Nico. Please! Let me come with you! PLEASE PERCY." she kept crying. The campers looked at her with soft gazes and some with confused expressions.
"Thalia. How about the hunt? You can't just leave them." Jason said who is at the back of Thalia.
"I DONT CARE! I'm going to go! I'll seek permission from Artemis. I'll pray to every God or Goddess in the world. I'll beg! I'll kneel down infront of my Dad so that he can grant me permisssion. But please. LET ME HELP SAVE HIM." Thalia begged and begged. She leaned down on Percy for support.
"Thals. Is your secret the reason you want to help him?" Percy asked quietly. Thalia nodded. Percy sighed, "Fine. You can come to save Nico." Percy and I hugged her. Even though I didn't know this secret. I can still feel the pain. He is one of the most important family I have. He's always there if I'm crying because of Percy.
"You know Nico? Our Pluto Ambassador?" The girl which also wear praetor clothes came to us. Along with Piper and Leo.
"Yes. We're the ones who found him and his sister." Thalia, Percy, Grover and I frowned then sighed. We miss Bianca.
"Oh." Hazel said. I looked at her and saw that her eyes were full of fear and worry. Just like mine when I was looking for Percy. When Frank whispered to her ear, I saw something new in her eyes. Determination and eagerness to find someone.
"Don't worry Hazel. We'll find Nico. Nico is a little capable of himself." Percy said to her. I blinked with suprise at his actions, so was Thalia. I mean I never saw Percy babying someone like that. Well, except for Tyson and Nico. Percy reacted as if Hazel was her little sister. Hazel began to sob in Frank's chest while Percy is stroking her hair.
"Praetor Percy. We must go to Via Principia. Octavian and some of his -erm- followers and the senators are waiting for us. The meeting will be starting. And Praetor please accompany your Greek friends." the girl said. She looked familiar. She went to me and introduced herself.
"I am Reyna. Daughter of Bellona. Praetor of the 12th legion." she raised her hand like expecting me to shake her hand. Of course, me being good, I also introduced myself.
"I'm Annabeth. Daughter of Athena, the Greek counterpart of Minerva. Architect of Olympus." I shook her hand.
"I already know who you are, Annabeth. Your boyfriend over here talked non-stop about you." Percy's cheeks grew red.
"You don't have to inform her that!" he hissed at Reyna who just smiled at him.
"We met. Haven't we?" I asked her.
"Ahh. Yes. In C.C's island." I remembered now.
"You're at the back of Hylla. When she accompanied us toward the island. You're the little girl who told me that I should go back and check Percy!" I exclaimed.
"Yes. I see that you hadn't forgot. Let's now go. The senators wouldn't be pleased if we're late." she smiled at me. And I just smiled back. Piper, Leo and Jason went up to us.
"S-s-i-ilena?" Percy shakingly asked Piper.
"I'm not Silena. But I am her half-sister. I am Piper Mclean. Daughter of-"
"Aphrodite. I know. I can see it. I can sense that you're a powerful charmspeaker too. And you look just like Silena Beauregard. I'm sorry." Percy looked down and sighed. He still think that all the death of some campers in the Titan war was he's fault. Thalia, Grover, Chris and suprisingly Clarisse and I touched him. Percy smiled at us.
"It's alright. I was mistaken by Annabeth once too."
"I am Leo Valdez. Son of Hephaestus. Supreme Commander and Builder of Argo II. I am also a fire-user." Percy's head shot up when he heard that then looked at Frank and Hazel. Frank, Hazel and Percy all stiffened. Hazel put her hand on her pocket. "Do you want me to show a demo?" Leo said cheerfully. The three of them widened their eyes.
"No! Don't. Don't." The three of them said in unison.
"I feel like I'm meeting an actor! I mean you're so famous in Camp-Halfblood. Though I still don't know your adventures. I mean whenever we ask they frown or sigh and go away. When we ask the girls they weep. Even Chiron is sad. He always look at the sky then say, 'I wish you're safe.' I manage to get two information from Chiron though."
"What did he say?"
"He said that you're better than Hercules. The best in all heroes. And the second one was, you're Chiron's favorite camper. For 3000 years, you are he said. Oh! Oh! I remembered another one, he also said that you're the best swordman in three hundred years."
"I'm not better than Hercules. I'm a loser you see. Many people died because of me. And I'm not the best swordman in three hundred years. I just train." He looked down frowning.
"YOU ARE BETTER THAN HERCULES! ZOE EVEN SAID SO. SO DOES EVERONE. EVEN THE GODS! Hercules is traitor! That meddling, scrawny, little whiny traitor! How dare he fool Zoe like that." Both Thalia and I ranted on how bad Hercules is. He just smiled.
"I'm Jason Grace. Son of Jupiter. You're famous at Camp-Halfblood."
"Grace you say?" he looked at Thalia who just shrugged. "You have a lot of explaining to do, Pinecone face. Percy Jackson. Son of Poseidon. You're famous here too."