AN: My first fanfic. Enjoy =]
"Come on Annabeth, we don't want to be late!" Percy said to his wife while packing a suitcase full of celestial bronze weapons into his blue streaked with green Volkswagen.
After the war, Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase had fallen in love, which of course led Percy to the big decision of marrying Annabeth after they finished high school and graduated (with the highest honors) Camp Halfblood. After 2 weeks of practicing the proposal with Rachel (who is still unsure if he practiced well enough), having the band carved by Hephaestus from the rock of the moon, stealing a drop of hydra milk and imbedding it with Poseidon's Jewel of the 7 Seas to place on top of the band (which Poseidon gave without any hesitation, unless maybe a ride in Percy's Volkswagen), and asking Athena to marry her daughter (which Percy survived with only a missing eyebrow), Annabeth accepted.
They had the wedding 1 week after at the beach in Camp Halfblood with Chiron marrying them and having Hera attend to bless the union (which she did very reluctantly). At the reception, Chiron announced that Percy and Annabeth would come back to camp as counselors if they anted to. They agreed.
They then settled down in the Montauk cabin where Percy's mom and Poseidon met. They had it remodeled to be bigger and have a more "son-of-sea-god" and "daughter-of-goddess-of-intelligence" kind of design.
1 year later, Annabeth had a baby girl which they named Zoe, in honor of Zoe Nightshade. The year after, Annabeth had another baby, this time a boy and named him Freddie.
And the rest is history. Or rather happening right… "…now!" Percy said. "Really, Percy. Do you really think they'll leave you part of the festivities?" Annabeth said to her husband, "Without you, there wouldn't even be a 10th anniversary of Kronos' defeat."
"Really, Wise Girl?" Percy replied.
"Really, Seaweed Brain," Annabeth said.
Percy then kissed her on the cheek. "Ewwww!" Freddie exclaimed in the backseat of the car.
They then drove on the road in front of the cabin, that leaded straight to Camp Halfblood. When they got there, they parked the car in the newly made parking garage. But when they got out of the car and unloaded their stuff, they couldn't see anyone.
There were no yelling, no sword clanging, no training, no anything. They finally started making their way up the hill, to the Big House.
About half-way to the Big House, they noticed something. They seemed to be slowing down with each step.
The only exception was little Zoe and Freddie, who was walking faster than Percy and Annabeth who was running. Annabeth and Percy both looked at each other and mouthed one word. Kronos.
"Come on Fred!" Zoe yelled, with the "f" sounding more like "p." Freddie then started running faster up the hill. When he reached the top, he screamed, "Swirly!"
After 1 minute of slow-running, Percy and Annabeth saw what he was referring to. Right where the Big House was, there was a big white vortex streaked with blue.
On both sides of it there were huge muscular arms that swung back and forth. There were skeleton warriors that came from huge fissures in the ground. The water from the beach and the river seemed to be overflowing and when it hit land, it materialized into huge water demons with spears. Humongous thunderclouds surrounded the vortex and brought down huge groups of lighting. There were also monsters coming from the vortex, as if it was a portal to Tartarus.
In the middle of it all, there were demigods, demigods who were either dead or seriously injured. But that wasn't it. Gods and goddesses were all around the place helping their children do battle. They saw Apollo shooting explosive arrows at the Minotaur. They saw Ares stab an rogue empousa with a spear. They even saw Hera summoning a herd of cows to stampede a hydra. But that wasn't the most surprising thing they saw. The most surprising thing they saw was Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades in chains on top of the vortex.