Chapter 1

"Percy...Where are you..." Annabeth looked out into the sea, its green colours reminding her greatly of the Hero of Olympus - twice, in fact. The sea looked darker than usual, the disappearance of the hero affecting the morale of the entire camp.

Ever since the Hero - Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon and Sally Jackson - disappeared from Camp Half-Blood, everyone had gone into a state of frenzy. Grover had started to chew on his own fingers when he ran out of tin cans in his burly sac, with Juniper trying to console him to the best of her abilities; Clarisse frantically mobilising the entire camp in preparation for an all-out search party; Nico constantly shifting in and out of existence, with Will trying to keep him in the present long enough to tear out his own hair; even Dionysus looked slightly troubled, losing a few games of Pinochle to Chiron.

Annabeth, on the other hand, had shut herself off completely from everyone else. Malcolm could no longer speak to her without her having a full-blown panic attack; Chiron could no longer act as the mentor that he once was for Annabeth. Left with no other choice, Chiron was forced to appoint Malcolm as the new cabin counsellor, claiming that "it was time for a new change" when everyone knew the true reason - Annabeth could no longer function properly ever since Percy was gone.

Annabeth's room was left unkempt, simply because no one resided in there anymore. Annabeth had taken up an officially-temporary-but-unofficially-permanent residence in the Poseidon cabin. It was the only thing that kept her from breaking into uncontrollable sobs in the middle of her training or screaming hysterically while teaching the new campers Greek, scaring them half-to-death. But it didn't truly help - every night, the entire Camp Half-Blood would still be jolted awake by bloodcurdling screams emanating from the Poseidon Cabin. During the first night, everyone had thought the Camp was under attack, but they soon realised it was coming from the Poseidon Cabin, where Annabeth had sneaked inside just to calm herself down, though unsuccessfully. It became a daily routine - Chiron literally had to stand outside the Poseidon Cabin at 3 am every morning to calm the distraught demigod before she caused harm to herself or disrupted the sleeping schedules of the other campers. (Though the Ares cabin, closest to the Poseidon Cabin, wanted to murder Annabeth every night for interrupting their beauty sleep.)

The twin sons of Despoina had tried to decode any hidden messages or hints of Percy's whereabouts in his last letter addressed to Annabeth, but to no avail, though they did come to the conclusion that it was, indeed, written by Percy:

Dear Annabeth,

By the time you are reading this letter, I will most likely be gone. I know that you are probably wondering why I am writing this letter. Well, I am writing this letter because I want to tell you that I'm breaking up with you.

I have left Camp Half-Blood. Please don't send anyone to find me.

Love,
Percy

During a cabin counsellor meeting (of which Annabeth had been missing), they had all come to the conclusion that something was amiss with the letter. For Zeus' sake, Percy's fatal flaw was loyalty! Moreover, that letter was devoid of any grammatical or spelling errors - something Percy could not possibly accomplish on his own.

Thus, they derived at the only conclusion:

Percy did not leave on his own.

He had been taken.

A/N

Hi guys! I'm actually not dead, contrary to popular belief :P

I know, I haven't edited in like 3 years (maybe slightly more than that). Thing was, I kinda gave up on writing fanfiction for that short period of time. But now, with loads of time on my hands, I've decided to re-edit everything, and hopefully, continue on with the story. (Technically, it's storIES coz Book1, Book2, etc. :P)

Also, some pretty major updates:

- I will no longer be writing in POVs, coz I realised that it's quite stupid - the switching back and forth. So I'll be writing in third person for all.

- The prophecy will still remain the same.

- Hopefully, my language has improved from 3 years ago. :D