Story Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titans Hunt.
Chapter Title: Winter Wonderland.
Author: Cloud/Silver (CloudyLights SilverNights).
Rating: T
Series: Percy & the Olympians.
Word Count: 3, 101
Contains: Some Cursing and some Violence
Beta: MrsLukeCastellan.
Disclaimers: I don't own the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series... sad isn't it?
Author Note: Alright, so after a month long Hiatus, I'm back with a (sort of, but not really) newish story! This is officially my fourth time writing this particular story, and now the last time that I will restart it. It has the same plot and characters as the original story did, only with a few new twists that I've added. Also, just like before, this story takes place in TTC, but will of course be a rewriting of it. This being said, it will stay the same as TTC for the most part, leading up until the Capture the Flag game, where I'll start making big changes. This first chapter is my own, just as a way to kick things off.

"If it's not real you can't hold it in your hand, you can't feel it with your heart. And I won't believe it. But if it's true, you can see it with your eyes, oh even in the dark."

"You know, you're really good at singing, Thalia." My mom commented as we left the supermarket. "A lot better than me, at least."

"It's because she likes Paramore so much." Annabeth said, smirking. "Anything besides them and she's terrible at it."

"They aren't the only band that I like." Thalia said, while my mom laughed. "I do like some other ones."

I rolled my eyes. "Lemme guess; Maroon 5?"

Thalia gave me a sour look, like she'd just downed an entire gallon of lemon juice, and then shook her head. "Their music isn't exactly…my type of music."

My mom looked at her. "Then what kind of bands do you like to listen to?"

Thalia shrugged. "I don't know. Things like…Green Day, or My Chemical Romance. Actually, not them: their newer stuff is beginning to sound like garbage."

Annabeth shrugged. "I think they sound okay."

"And this is why we can't trust Annabeth when it comes to music." Thalia said. "She has no taste in music."

I shook my head. "None at all."

"Hey!" Annabeth said, turning red. "I'm just putting out my opinion."

Thalia and I snickered a little, and Annabeth gave us a look of exasperation. She was about to say something to us, probably one of those insult-compliments that she was so fond of, only to stop when we passed by the park. A few feet in front of us a couple of teenagers, a boy and a girl, were holding hands and talking. I didn't know what it was that they were talking about, but I saw the boy, a dude with light hair and eyes, put an arm around the girls shoulder and say, "Don't worry, babe. You've got nothing to worry about. I'd just take the blame you anyways."

"You're so cheesy," she replied. They stopped walking for a moment and pecked each other on the lips, before they walked off.

I couldn't help but smile and be happy for the couple, I was just that sort of person. I looked over at my Mom and two friends to see their reactions to their intimacy. Not the sexual kind, but the way they seemed so tightly bonded. It was as if the Fates had taken their two strings and had decided, for the time being, to bind them together.

Whole my mom looked nothing but happy for them, Thalia and Annabeth's expressions were different than me and my moms. While they both looked happy for the couple, there was also a look of disappointment in their eyes. I think I knew what they were thinking. Although they might deny it, I knew that both of them harbored feelings for Luke. With Annabeth, I knew it was because Luke had been the only person with her through all of these years. But with Thalia, it was different. You see, back when it had just been the three of them on the run, Luke and Thalia and been really close. I didn't know what exactly their relationship had been, but there was no misreading the heartbreak in Thalia's eyes whenever Luke was brought up.

But I pushed these thought out of my head. The winter break wasn't a time to mull over negativity, it was meant to be fun and carefree. So far, I'd really enjoyed the school year. My school, MS-41, wasn't too bad and the teachers were pretty nice. Not only that, but even though it was a boarding school, I was allowed to go back to the apartment everyday because I lived so close to it. Plus, Chiron had managed to arrange it so that Thalia and Annabeth would be able to stay with my mom and I, since they went to an all-girls school that was fairly close to my own.

Everything was also doing pretty great outside of school too, for once. The only unfortunate event to happen had occurred about last month or so, when we'd gotten a call from Annabeth's father, Dr. Chase. Somehow, he'd managed to find out house number and had asked for Annabeth to be put on the phone. This had happened three times last month. Annabeth wouldn't tell me what it is that they'd talked about it, but each time she finished talking to her dad, Annabeth came away from the phone more upset than she'd been before.

The next month passed quickly and here we were, on winter break.

I hoped that we could go out and do some fun things, like head to a New York Rangers game or a Yankee's game. I preferred basketball over hockey because honestly...I couldn't skate. I liked basketball more than hockey, and I knew that if I worded things correctly, I'd be able to get my mom to agree to going with me. The only problem with that was to get Thalia and Annabeth interested. Once I realized that would never happen, I looked out for things that were going to happen that they might like.

Then one day, Thalia came to the apartment talking about a Green Day concert that was going to happen just after Christmas, on the 29th of December. She sounded excited. Apparently the ticket prices were only like $50, which was pretty cheap for a concert in Manhattan. The only problem was that we didn't really have any money. While my mom made more than enough to pay for our food and clothes, she was also taking care of three teenagers and going to school at the same time.

With that in mind, we'd decided to look out for opportunities to get concert tickets for us.

It was mid-December when the radio station announced that they were having a contest to earn Green Day tickets to the concert at the Garden. After telling my mom about it, she'd entered her name and had managed to win. However, she forgot a few rule that we accidentally (purposely) forgot to tell her, and when we got the radio station to collect our prize, they'd refused to give them to us. After a while of pleading, Thalia had gotten angry…and well, let's just say they were still in hospital.

"Alright, that was nice to see." Thalia said. "Teen love and all that, but can we please get home before everything gets bad?"

I rolled her eyes. "Thanks, Thalia. You love ruining the fun, don't you?"

"Actually she's right." My mom said. "It's actually quite a long walk to the supermarket. If we want anything to eat for the next two weeks, we need to—"

Crash!

At the intersection, just a few feet away from us, two cars collided. I saw a huge dent in one of the cars. The other one was not damaged too badly. That's when things began to get a little ugly.

Both drivers got out of the car. The one who was driving the heavily damaged car glared at the other guy with such malice and malevolence that he almost seemed to be visibly seething. He began cursing at Guy Number Two with such variety that I was sure I learned at least five or six new curse words in my first language. He strung them together, somehow, and managed to make the other guy angry. Guy Number Two glared fiercely at Guy Number One and began stringing together his own collection of curse words. They fought back and forth verbally for a least half a minute.

Soon, pedestrians began to stop and watch.

It was a stupid decision.

Punches soon began to land on the two drivers. An innocent woman tried stepping in to break the fight, but Guy Number One knocked her out with one blow to the side of her head. A bunch of the adult mortals cried out in animosity. A couple men went up to the woman to drag her away from the fight. Then they went up to the fighting drivers and threatened to call the cops on them.

"Should we just leave before the police arrive?" Thalia asked.

"I don't know about you guys, but that sounds like a good idea to me," Annabeth agreed.

… … … … … … … … …

"Well, that was…something." my mom said once we got back to the apartment.

Thalia shrugged. "I've seen worse."

"I guess you have." My mom mused. She smiled. "Let me get dinner started, and then we can sit down and watch a movie. Thalia, go set the table for me. Percy, go and get Annabeth."

I nodded and walked out to the balcony where Annabeth was leaning against the railing "Hey, Annabeth?"

"Hmm?"

"My mom's getting dinner started. She wanted me to come and get you."

"Alright." she replied, absentmindedly. "Just…give me a minute."

I nodded and stepped back inside, sliding the door closed behind me. I want to stay behind and ask her what was on her mind, but things between Annabeth and I had been kinda tense lately. I didn't know what it was, but whenever I was around her for too long, I started to feel weird. It's hard to describe what exactly I felt, but the best that I could put into words was it felt like a storm of butterflies had came to life in my stomach, then spread throughout the rest of my body, before settling down in my head.

And yes, it was as painful and terrifying as you'd think.

Shaking my head, I checked in with my mom, before I went back to the living room and set everything up. I spent the next ten minutes sitting on the couch and watching the first bit of the movie before my mom and Thalia came to join me. It was another ten minutes after that before Annabeth finally came from outside. She took off her coat and boots, before taking a seat on the floor.

"Alright." she said, pulling her hair into a ponytail. "What are we doing? What are we watching?"

"Well," I said. "We're supposed to be watching a movie, but it took everybody forever to get in here, so I decided to start the movie myself. And no, I'm not going to rewind it."

Thalia rolled her eyes. "Nobody was gonna ask you to rewind it Percy. This movie's kinda old; I went out with my mom to see it a couple of times."

That surprised me, so much that I had to lean forward and turn my head to look at her. You see, Thalia didn't like talking about her mom, not even if it was about little things. So the fact that she herself was the one to bring her up…well, it really surprised me. I guess Thalia realized what she did, because she suddenly got a dark look on her face and her eyes flashed, before she looked down and glared at the floor.

"Well…" my Mom said, after a few minutes of tense silence. "Have either of you three heard any new news about Camp from Chiron? Any Iris-Messages that you 'forgot' to tell me about?"

We shook our heads.

My mom nodded her head, before she looked at each of us warily. "Any dreams?"

Thalia and Annabeth shook their heads, and chorused no. I opened my mouth to do the same, when I suddenly got the most intense sense of pain that I'd ever felt. I felt my chest constrict, and I dropped to the floor crying. I closed my eyes, trying to get up, only to feel a wave of panic and fear crash down on me. Something was attack

Something inside of my head was pounding, as if something was trying to jackhammer its way out. I didn't know what was happening to me, all I knew was that I was hurting in a way that I'd never experienced before. Something inside of me was tearing, like somebody had taken a sword and slashed me open. For what reason, I don't know. All I knew at the time was that my head hurt. I didn't even notice my Mom and friends trying to help me.

After what felt like hours, but was probably only mere seconds, I'd just managed to catch my breath and stand up, when another wave of emotions crashed onto me, sending me back onto the floor. I doubled over, clutching my stomach, and started screaming. I didn't know what was happening to me, but when I squeezed my eyes shut, I felt an opening in my head and saw a blurry image, like a vision, only hazier.

When the pain finally died down and the blurry image cleared up, I saw the silhouette of a person take form. The silhouette came closer towards me, and I began to feel scared. I was about to yell out a curse or something, when the silhouette became less of a shadow and more of well, a person. It came even closer and I was details on the silhouette, and knew that it couldn't be any sort of mortal-like being. It was a Satyr.

Grover.

"Grover?" I asked. I wasn't sure if my other friends could hear me or not, but I sure as hell knew my best goat friend did.

"Percyyy!" he bleated. "Thank the gods! I've been trying to contact you for hours. We need your help at the school I'm at. Please come quick. I can't talk to you for much longer. I'm in Maine, at a school called Westover Hall. I've found demigods here and they're in severe danger. Help us!"

"Wait, did you say demigods, as in plural?"

But Grover didn't answer my question. "Hurry!" he called before the vision dissolved and I was thrown back into the regular world, with the most intense headache that I'd ever had.

"He's all right, guys!" Thalia called. "He was just having some sort of vision. Or at least I think he was." She turned to look at me. "You were having a vision, right? Your eyes were glowing and the wind outside turned really violent, like we were having some sort of tornado. What happened to you?"

"I—I…" I trailed off, clutching my head again. "It was the link. The Empathy Link."

"Empathy link?" asked Thalia.

Then my mom burst into the room, followed by Annabeth, both of them carrying moist towels in their hands. Once they saw that I was awake, my mom dropped to my side and folded one of the towels up. "Percy! Oh my Gods, are you okay?"

I nodded. "I'm fine, Mom. It was just the empathy Link."

My Mom exhaled and nodded in understanding, but Thalia just frowned. "An Empathy Link. What the Hades is an 'Empathy Link'?"

Annabeth sighed. "Basically, an Empathy Link is a psychic connection that exists between one Satyr and another person, only instead of communicating through thoughts, the link is used through emotions. It doesn't happen a lot, but if one of the persons is powerful enough and the bond between them strong enough, then the Link is really powerful."

Thalia nodded, a weird look appearing in her eyes. "How powerful?"

"It's usually weak, not strong at all in most cases." Annabeth said. "But if the person the Satyr's linked to is really strong, like a child of the Big Three for instance, then really powerful. At least strong enough to work across across big distances, and even through dreams. For him to have used it while Percy was still conscious is really something."

"Right." my Mom said. "Now what did he want?"

I breathed in as much air as I could. With the water from the towel, my strength was coming back faster than I'm sure it would have normally, but I still weak. "He said...they were in trouble. He's in Maine...Westover Hall. Demigods, plural. We need to get there soon, he said. Tomorrow. We leave first thing tomorrow."

I breathed in heavily again.

My mom, Thalia, and Annabeth stared at me, taking in all of the information. My mom was the first to recover. "Okay, then. It seems as though we're going to need a lot of rest. Maine is like eight hours from here."

"Yeah," said Annabeth, who was the next to recover. "Ms. Sally's right. We need a lot of sleep to recoup our energy. I'm going to go to bed. Good night, Percy." She bent down and hugged me, making my face heat up even more. "Good night, Good night, Ms. Sally." She gave my mom a hug too, then grabbed Thalia and walked out.

"Goodnight, Percy." My mom replied. "I'll see you in the morning." She walked off to her bedroom slowly.

I nodded, and shut my eyes. Something told me that it was going to be the longest amount of sleep that I would be getting for a while.

Cloud: Well, there you have it. The first official chapter of The Titans Hunt! I already have the next ten chapters or so written out, so updates will come along steadily. Anyways, tell me what you think! My next update should be within the next two weeks, maybe shorter.