Sorry, first fanfiction. Constructive criticism is appreciated. This will be sad, but hopeful. Percy is 25, Annabeth is 26. They are married and have a son named Sam. It is after Annabeth's birthday but before Percy's. Also, I don't know when I will be able to update. I do not have a schedule, and I have been working on this for at least a year on google docs. By the way, I believe in long chapters, this is almost 5000 words. I might, eventually make a prequel, but this is where I imagined the start of the story.

CHAPTER ONE Percy POV- Overrun

"Retreat!"

The Romans had been fighting the onslaught for about a week now, because of us.

Camp Half-Blood was first, now it's a burning pile of ruins, we didn't last one day. When we figured out we would have to run, the most important thing was to get the new and young campers out, while the older campers covered them. My job was to make sure that they got to Camp Jupiter safely; I was one in about a dozen older campers who had this job. Annabeth wasn't one of them.

The people who stayed behind fought, while a group would break away every few hours, trying to get to safety and bring supplies like drachmas, ambrosia, nectar, weapons, and mortal money. Heartbreakingly, before the last group got away, Camp Half-Blood fell, and as one of the oldest members, Annabeth fell with them. We lost so many people that night, so many powerful demigods.

We didn't even know what we were fighting, no mortal had ever seen it, and so it had no name, until that day.

Οι καταστροφείς The destroyers.

Once we got to Camp Jupiter, the older campers and I put up some tents and stuff that we were able to grab from a Wal-Mart on our way across America in the Field of Mars.

Once we crossed the border, every one asked questions, especially my friends Mark, Hazel, and Reana.

Leo, Jason, Piper, Nico, and the Stoll twins tried our best to answer them, but probably failed miserably.

"Something attacked our camp, we don't know what but we named it 'Οι καταστροφείς', 'The destroyers'. The day that they attacked, it seemed peaceful at camp, but not quite right. at about noon, they started coming over the border, slow at first, but fast enough that they just kept piling up on us, because we couldn't figure out how to kill them, it ended up being a line of older campers holding them back, the older campers split into two groups, and switched from carrying the wounded away, to fighting, so, after a while, we knew that we would be overrun, so with the older campers that weren't fighting at the moment, we made a plan to evacuate the camp and leave in groups, the wounded, the young, the new, we told them to quickly grab their belongings and meet in the dining pavilion, and then their was an older camper assigned to them, because it was the biggest group and the most vulnerable, I was voluntold. the monsters were more interested in getting to camp than killing us, so we were able to start the cross country trip over here, we were met with other monsters on the way, but they were few and far between, we put nico in the first group so that he could be the emergency evac for the last group, once we got a few miles away, nico stayed behind so that he was a safe distance away, but it wouldn't take much energy to get there and back, and the monsters would have to go the long way, so, a head start. once nico is situated, we left one of the older campers that came with us to stay with him. then we headed out. a few hours later the next group is on its way, and met up with nico, and nico sent an IM to me to tell me." I let nico continue the story.

"it was the same for the next 4 groups, all according to plan, then the 5th group. this was the 2ed to last one, and I waited to hear from the other groups if they had caught up, each group was a few miles apart, but within sight, so once I heard from the 4th group that the 5th group was a good distance away, I shadow traveled into the camp and grabbed onto the first camper I saw, I told them to make a chain of people, and tie a line around their waist so they could still fight, and while they were doing that, all the monsters piled on top of them while fighting with increased vigor, and when one of the athena kids fell, annabeth, well, she heard her brother's cry of pain as he fell, and risked a look to see if he was ok, and the monster she was fighting, took advantage of it, and… killed her. I grabbed her brother and shadow traveled away with the rest of the group. she wasn't connected to the rope yet."

Afterword, when all the questions were ansured, and tents put up, I went searching for a good hill overlooking Camp Jupiter and New Rome. There was one right by the river timber, so I grabbed a rock to mark the hill, turned around and saw Nico.

"Hey"

"Hi" I answered, I was surprised by how hoarse my voice sounded.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"No! She… my wife… she, she... died!" then I started crying, the tears just streamed from my eyes as if the ocean had flooded them. I collapsed on the ground holding my face.

"Our son, what will I tell our son..."

"I don't know Percy, I don't know, but you need to keep it together, the campers depend on you. You are, well, now you are the oldest camper, you're freaking 25. Not many Greek demigods survive to that age, well, it hasn't been long in this new era to see that, but you know what I mean."

There was a horn in the distance, it blew again and again, all together three times.

"That's the signal for war"

I ran to the Greek campers camp, wiping the tears from my eyes, Nico following shortly behind me.

"Now we know what they want."

"I don't care what they want, we need to protect the campers!"

"I'm sure they're safe for the moment."

"I don't care about a moment, they're in danger!"

I finally entered the camp, the roman army parting around it, "Older campers, we need to get the younger campers to safety!" I yelled to them. I turned to Reana, who was walking past me, "Where can we move them to?"

"Get them to New Rome they will be safe there, unless we fail."

"Alright," I said turning from her, "Nico, Stole Brothers, get them to new Rome, the square, make sure they're safe."

"But we want to fight." Nico said.

"I know, but you can bring up an army at the call of a word, and the Stoll brothers, they can put traps around to slow down invaders. You guys are the best people to put on to protect them until the other groups arrive."

"If they arrive..." Nico murmured.

"They'll be fine, don't worry, he'll be fine."

"I hope so..."

"Now go!"

He and the Stoll brothers ran off to gather the campers.

"Percy!" Reana yelled.

I ran over, "Yeah?"

"They're a couple hours away, you sure that your up to it, you lost allot, you have to take a break to mourn."

I glared at her, "we are on the battlefield, I mourn right now and I'm dead, how did you get a heads up?"

"We have look outs 10 miles away, all connected with iris messages."

"Are there any demigods on their way?"

"Yeah, all collected in groups about a mile between them."

"How many groups?"

"5"

"I need to make a few iris messages."

I ran to the timber and lifted a spray, "Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept this offering" and with that I threw a drachma into the mist, it vanished. "Clarisse, Camp Jupiter."

"Clarisse"

"Hey, what's up?"

"They're behind you, hurry up and tell the others. There are 5 groups including you, the last one… well, they didn't make it."

she had a sad look, "Ok."

I swiped my hand through the mist.

"Now, back to battle..."

An hour later the other campers arrived, and I told them to go with the younger campers and strengthen their defenses, but my real reason to send them was to protect them because they were travel ridden, and needed rest.

When I was getting my armor back on, Reana came in, "They're 20 min away, any advice on how to kill them?"

"Cut off their heads, be careful though because weapons don't always work, and after the battle if you get the chance, burn the heads so they don't grow back and multiply, it happens, but it's very random."

It takes about an hour for it to happen, so..."

"Thanks, are you Ok, you look as if you walked through hell again."

"Ask me again after battle, we should go to the front."

"Yeah, let's go."

"Retreat! To The field of Mars. Go!"

Too much pain, suffering... Death. With a burst of fury, the River Timber exploded into a massive wall. I walked into the river to my waste, and the wall grew higher, "You are never going to harm another demigod life in the protection of Camp Jupiter again!" I said with difficulty, the wall stopped growing, the demigods on the outside ran through untouched, but soaking wet, when the monsters saw their ease, they tried, and burst into dust once they touched the water. Once I saw the last demigod come through, I made the wall bend over and spill over into the mass of monsters until it reached the tunnel. Then the wall straightened out until it was 20ft high and a foot wide.

Reana an over, "How did you do that?" She said trying to pull me from the water.

"Don't pull me from the river."

"But you're pale, you need rest and unicorn drought."

"I have very little energy left, if I leave the river that energy will be non-existent, the river is replenishing it, with a little help from my dad. I have a feeling that I will never be able to leave the river as long as the wall is up."

"So what do we do, since you're stuck?"

"Help the wounded, there might still be some on the other side of the wall."

"Wait, does the wall go all the way around?"

"Yep."

She was quiet for a moment, and then she walked away.

"Percy," a man said behind me, "you really pushed yourself there."

I sighed, "Hi dad, thank you. I probably would have died."

"Yes, you would have."

I realized that the scenery had changed, "Guess I passed out. I was wondering why Reana hadn't said anything."

"I thought it might have been a little unsettling, and you needed the rest."

I nodded.

"Now that the battle's over, you should start thinking about what happened, there are some things that the water cannot heal."

"I know, it's just so painful, because I wasn't even there for her, and our son, he's in danger because those monsters are on some sick mission to kill every demigod. We don't even know if they will ignore mortals like other monsters, and I can't do anything about it because I can't leave Camp Jupiter to Crumble like Camp Half-blood."

"Don't worry about your Mother, Paul, or your son, I will guide them safely here."

"Do you know what they are?"

He was silent, "I do not know what they are, but I know who sired them, Night, or at least one of her children."

I shivered, "Was not my favorite person to meet in Tartarus."

"I know." He said, I realized that I was sitting in one of those awesome fold up recliners, he sat down next to me, "Percy, the Fates have not been kind to you, between when you were 12-16, then Tartarus, and then with this… All this could make someone break, and not in a way that can be fix. Percy, you were right about being stuck in the river timber, but you will be able to leave it for one day a year. There might be a time where you could do the opposite, you may be able to withstand the pressure, but it's not very likely."

"I know, everyone has limits, and at least for the moment, this is mine."

"I need to go, but you won't be alone for very long. I'll make sure of that."

"A Poseidon kid training camp? That would be cool…. Um, will Sam… have the ability to breath under water?"

"Yes, my grandson has all the powers that you do, I'm not sure what Athena gifted him with, but he has that ability."

"Ok. Thank you again."

He smiled. "You're very welcome."

"Bye…"

The room disappeared, and then the sky was dark, as I regained consciousness, I realized that there was a pillow under my head. It was blue, and had an awesome fishing boat on the top. My feet were still in the water, but my head was on the riverbed. Nico was sitting next to me, and so was Reana.

"Hello."

"Hi" they both said.

"Drink this." Reana Said, handing me a canteen.

I obliged, turns out it was unicorn drought.

"Hey," Nico said tentatively, "are you feeling alright?"

"Yeah," I said half-heartedly, "I feel much better." In truth I felt like I was hit by a garbage truck.

"Here, we brought you food, your favorite colored food, I hope you like blue grilled cheese. By the way, all the campers were moved back to the tent camp."

"Ok"

"Someday I'm going to find out the story behind the blue food." Reana whispered.

I sighed, "when I was little, it wasn't a good thing to be a son of Poseidon, so monsters stalked me and stuff because I smelled powerful. To counteract the smell, my mom married someone that smelled horrible, and I nicknamed him smelly Gabe, he once told my mom that it was impossible to have blue food, so to spite him, she made almost everything blue. Blue candy, blue birthday cake, blue pancakes…"

Reana looked perplexed, "Why was it a not good thing to be Poseidon's kid?"

"Nico, do you want to take this one?"

"Sure, there was this prophecy during WWII where a child of the big three would save or destroy the world, and an oath to never have children, which ironically only two of them broke."

"I remember it even…

A half-blood of the eldest gods,

Shall reach sixteen against all odds,

and see the world in endless sleep,

The hero's sole, cursed blade shall reap,

a single choice shall end his days,

Olympus to preserve or raze."

"Wow, that must have been bad news."

"Yep, the big three, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades."

"Wow."

"I almost died many times when everyone found out about me. Well, look at Thalia, she did die, kind of."

"Kind of?"

"Thalia, a guy named Luke, and… Annabeth, were being rescued by Grover. They were being chased by an army of monsters, including all three furies, from Hades. Thalia was covering Luke and Annabeth so they could cross over the hill and get help, and Thalia ended up on the hill dyeing after she defeated all of them, and Zeus preserved her as a pine tree, he had made her the core of our magical barrier. You've seen her on Half-Blood hill."

"So, how is she out of the tree now?"

"Um, I think that we should stop for the night and let Percy rest."

"Ok, but I really want to hear that story."

"Well you'd have to talk to Percy about that since that was before I came to Camp."

"Ah, good night Percy, I'll have some people build you a hut over the water so you are protected from the elements."

"Ok."

The next time I woke up, Mom, Paul, my little sister, and my son, were arriving at the wall. So I opened a walk way up and they came through.

"Percy what happened, " Mom said running up to me with my son in her arms.

"Camp wasn't going to make it, so we tried to get as many people out as we could, and then when there were very little people left, and… camp fell," I had started crying, "and then we came here, as refugees, and then the monsters came and attacked Camp Jupiter for a week, and I was so sick of the war, that I made this wall… and it almost killed me. I'm stuck in the river."

"Percy," Mom said as Paul came up with Annie, "Where's Annabeth." It was then that I just shook my head and cried harder until I couldn't speak.

"Where's Mommy, I miss Mommy, I want to tell her about all I did." Sam said innocently.

I sat up, did kind of a sad smile, and reached for him, Mom obliged, "Sam, Mommy is in a different place now, and, unfortunately, she is stuck there. Trust me, if she could leave, she'd be here. But the good news is that we can say goodbye, I know someone who can help us use a special cell phone to where she is."

"When can we talk to Mommy?"

"How about after dinner?" Nico said.

I hadn't realized he was there, "Yeah, that sounds like a great idea." I said tearing up.

Sam smiled and ran off across the field of mars. I motioned to Nico to come over, and whispered, "I can't thank you enough."

"It's no problem," He whispered back.

"I just realized, we have to have her family come over and talk with her too." I said.

"Ok, I'll go over and get him," with that he disappeared into the shadow of the wall, and came back with her family and boy I've never seen before.

"Percy, what's going on? What just happened? Where are we? Are you ok?"

"Camp Half-Blood was attacked, by a new monster. We didn't see it coming, and the magical barrier didn't stop it. When we saw that we were going to fall, we tried to get as many people out as possible. When there was only one group left that was about to retreat, the camp fell." I tried to keep it together.

"Who was in the last group?"

I didn't make eye contact, and I also started tearing again.

"Percy… percy," He started crying, and turned and hugged his wife and kids.

"We brought you over to have a funeral, say goodbye, and protect you."

"Ok, um," he said, trying to at least be able to communicate, "thank you."

"It's after dinner." I said.

"Ok, is there somewhere, where we can rest and stuff?"

"Yeah, there's a tent camp a ways that way," I pointed behind me, "there's a tent that is empty, you can hang out in there. Nico, could you-"

"Yeah."

"Percy, what's wrong?"

I told him about the wall

"Oh." He didn't know what to do with that, "Um, when is dinner?"

"In a couple of hours. Come along, please" Nico said gently.

"See you later... percy," Her dad said.

"Bye, Uncle Percy," the children said.

"Come along, children." Their mother said, tearing up.

"Bye" I said quietly.

I watched them cross the field as I laid my head on the pillow my dad gave me, and I tried to sleep, but it was a lost cause. So I sat up, shimmied my self farther in the water, then got up and walked the rest of the way till my head was immersed. As usual, my powers kicked in: dryness, breathing, and heat vision. I felt that the river was pretty deep. So I went farther down and saw a cave in the far wall. I was starting to tire, so I went to the surface. When I got there, I rested my head on my pillow and went to sleep.

When I woke up and hour latter, Nico was watching over me. "Hey."

"Hey, you ok? You were out cold."

"Yeah, I explored the river for a few minutes, and I found a cave. Next time I feel up to it, I'll go in and explore a bit more."

"Ok, just be careful, your energy level is extremely low, and your aura is faded a bit. Here, have some nectar."

"Ok," I sat up and looked behind me, there was a trench about two feet, by one foot, by one foot.

He saw me look, "I've gotten ready for the ritual. I also got some food and drink that she would like; hot chocolate and cinnamon buns."

"Ok," I heard a yell and looked behind me. It was my son on his way over with my family, and her family, the strange boy, Reana, the gang, and all the surviving members of camp, some were carrying shrouds, and many, including Charon, were carrying wood, our friends from college had even come.

"They'll be here soon, you know it's going to be hard for everybody that understands."

"I know, by the way, do you know anything about the boy that came with her family?"

"All I know is that his aura is strange."

"What do you mean?"

"It's somewhere between life and death, and yet he isn't on his deathbed, and he is stable. You are a perfect example of that, except for the fact that you aren't as bad as he is, and you're not stable, you are improving, but he is some impossible case."

"Wow"

"Wow pretty much covers it."

I looked back over at the group of mortals, demigods, and whatever he is. They were just ten yards away. Everybody looked sad except for the young kids, who didn't really understand. Piper had brought some thread and yarn, so that we could all work on the burial shroud. Then, when he saw me, Sam ran all the way over to me.

"Hey Sam, how did you like New Rome?"

"It's pretty, Daddy, Everybody had something different, and they had cool magical plates and cups. I had ice cream and soda."

"Cool, that's awesome! What kind?" I said smiling as much as I could for him.

"I had 7up. The ice cream was strawberry."

"That's awesome that the magic plates knew your favorite flavor. Did you work on your math during dinner?"

"Yeah, I counted all the plates."

"How many were there?"

"300"

"Wow, I'm so proud of you!" I said, tearing up a bit. Our friends, and our families crowded around me, watching as I sat with our son.

"Percy, I think it's time."

"Ok,"

"Time for what, Daddy?"

"Time to call Mommy."

"Yay." Nico said halfheartedly as he walked around to the part of the trench that was facing me. Some people shuffled around so he would have room to do the ritual, while holding the food. He started chanting in ancient greek, while everyone sat in the sand. Nico knelt at the trench and put the food in the trench, and dribbled the hot chocolate over it. The gang protected the food so other spirits wouldn't feed. "Annabeth Chase."

Many spirits had come forward, but the group only let one through. She knelt, drank, and turned to our son and me.

"Hi Mommy, I miss you. Where are you?"

She smiled and knelt in front of him to be level with his eyes, "Hey, Sam, I miss you too. I'm in a different place now."

"But you're here now, when can we go home?"

She started crying, "This is a long distance call to where I'm at. Please know that I will always love you, and I will always be proud of you."

"When will I see you again?"

"Someday, you will see me again, just… not for a while."

"I can't wait, can't you come back now? I want to work on my math with you."

"I can't, it's against the rules. From now on you need to work on your math with your Dad. This isn't goodbye forever, just for now."

"Mommy, you're scaring me."

"Don't be scared, it's like… heaven. I'm in heaven." I had started crying.

"Mommy, why are you in heaven?"

"I…" She was really crying now, "I can't tell you."

"Come on Sam, let's go get some hot chocolate." He looked so sad, and he didn't want to go, but he did with a slight tug from Mom.

I watched Sam be led away, and as he looked back, I saw a tear slide down his cheek. "Hey." Annabeth said once Sam was out of earshot.

"Hey," I said.

She paused, "How many-"

"Not as many as we could have. There was 5 that didn't make it out with their groups, and… there was your group."

"Yeah"

I felt the hot tears flow down my face, "I love you so much."

"I love you too," She paused and cleared her throat, "I could never not love you. Remember when you exploded Mt. St. Helen's, and then you were back, and everyone thought you were dead?"

"Yeah, how could I forget."

"I wish I had just gotten lost. That would have been so much better."

"Yeah, I just wish I had been there so you wouldn't have had to be alone."

"I'm glad you weren't there, it's hard enough for Sam."

"Yeah"

"So, I guess this is goodbye."

"Yeah, but it's not forever."

"Not by a long shot."

"So… goodbye."

"Goodbye."

I went to the side a bit, so the strange guy could come forward.

"Magnus." she said.

"Guess this is what you meant when you said I could have come to you. I don't even know what's going on, but I think it's what happened to me, kind of."

"You had a loop hole."

"I said kind of. But I don't think I'll see you in Asgard."

"Nope, I'm in the underworld. It's very different, I think, but I've never been to Asgard."

"Ok, did you have your weapon in your hand?"

"Yeah."

"Then I think you're good."

I had no Idea what they were talking about, but it kind of made sense. We know Romans and Egyptians, how difficult is it to have a Norse group?

"But, I don't think you'd like it."

"Ah…"

"So…"

"We'll probably never meet again."

"Well, we have no idea what will happen, I haven't been up there in a while."

"Ah, well, this is goodbye."

"Yeah, goodbye."

"Goodbye"

He walked toward the field of mars where everyone was gathering, and her family walked by me.

"Hey pumpkin, I have no idea what's going on, your cousin's alive, camp fell, we're a some sort of other camp, and most importantly, you can actually say goodbye after death."

"Yeah, it must be very confusing for you."

"Uh, duh, but nonetheless, I'm proud of you. You are one of the bravest people I know."

She smiled, "Thanks Dad."

Her family started crying, and her brother said, "We miss you big time. We have no idea what happened, but we love you."

"I love you too." They started to file past me toward where everybody was collected in the field of mars.

She talked with our college friends, and then with the gang, then with Reana and piper. Until there was only Nico and I.

"Nico, thank you so much, I was so worried that neither camp survived."

"It was no problem, really. The least I can do for my friends."

"Thanks man."

"Goodbye, Nico."

"Goodbye. Say hi to my dad for me."

"Alright. Percy?"

"Yeah?"

"You'll do great with Sam. I know you will."

I couldn't keep it together, I cried and cried, while she cried and cried, until we had no tears left. I noticed she was starting to fade. "Goodbye, Percy, I'll wait for you, but don't come too early. I expect you to have a long and full life."

"Goodbye, Annabeth. I swear on the river Styx that I will, as much as I can." Thunder cracked in the sky. Then she was gone completely. I saw Nico go over to the group and call them over, and I started making water yarn and rolling it into balls. When they got back, piper put down some cut strands, while I put down some cross pieces, and everyone put at least one strand. During the entire time I was crying, so I collected them in a ball above my head so I could weave them in. when we had a cohesive piece, everyone started embroidering on the edge. In my part, I put Sam waving at her from a book. While he and I were looking over at a boat in the dark. In a unanimous vote, her cabin got the middle while everyone worked on the border. Finally, it was done just before dawn, and by the time we had the fire all set up, and Nico had blessed it, it was dawn. Then Nico made the ritual for her to get to Elysium. Together, Sam and I placed the shroud on the fire, And Nico moved to other fires to help with getting them to Elysium.

After everyone was done, Mom and my family, along with Sam, went to the tent city. I waited for everyone to leave, Nico made sure that Annabeth's family made it home safe, and then I finally let my head fall onto the pillow, while Reana's crew built a shelter for me.