"They ever figure out what caused the toilets to go off?"

"Nope. You're the smart one. Figure it out."

"I really have no idea."

The seniors of 2013 at Evensong High School had the most interesting last day ever – every single toilet simultaneously went off, spouting water which lasted for five minutes.

"Well, there must have been some cause."

"Let's go to Forever 21 and get you a dress."

"Ack – no! No dresses." The girl who proclaimed this was wearing old jeans and a weird red t-shirt with a mustached man and the word pizza. Her glasses were too big for her face. Her hair was pulled into a loose ponytail, with a few strands falling out. She and her friend were at the mall a little late.

"Oh, come on!" the other girl begged – a blonde in a blue and white chiffon dress and two inch heels.

"Annabeth!"

"Please, Piper!"

"You know…I thought I saw a new book on architecture over in Barnes and Noble. Something about the Greeks."

For barely a second Annabeth's eyes glazed over and then they cleared. "Oh, fine!"

The next hour or so slipped away as Annabeth poured over books on architecture and Piper hid in a certain young adult author's section.

Night had already fallen and clouds were drifting across the sky, but neither girl's father regarded their absence. It was closing time when the girls finally left the mall and headed towards Annabeth's car.

A drop of rain plucked Piper on the nose. "I'm not sure I trust you to drive in the rain."

"Oh, shut up. We'll be fine."

They were barely in the car when the rain let loose. It was the worse kind, violently pelting against the windshield as though it was rocks and not water. Annabeth turned up the windshield wipers, but she couldn't manage to see a thing.

"Are we stuck?" Piper asked a little nervously.

Annabeth groaned. "Yep. But it shouldn't last long. I mean, there can't be that much rain."

Ten minutes passed. Then fifteen. A half-hour. Music played from the radio until Annabeth lost her patience and switched it to the news.

"Severe rain won't stop until early morning. Reports of tornados are happening frequently across the states. Several earthquakes have just occurred in Japan. Stay inside, and keep-"

Annabeth and Piper stared at each other as a beep interrupted the newscast. Somewhere close, a sound like that of a train could be heard.

Piper and Annabeth weren't aware of what was happening much longer. As the radio declared a tornado warning, cars around them began to lift and spin, and then they themselves were taken up into the great whirl and were knocked unconscious.

And so, Piper and Annabeth missed the entire apocalypse.

Not that they would have realized what was going on if they were awake. For Kronos had risen the titans and was tearing the world to pieces.

The history of the world moved in eras and the titans believed it was the next era, and they were almost right. For the world could only have truly been saved if demigods fought alongside their parents – but there was no Camp Half-Blood or Jupiter, and the demigods did not know they were demigods. And the world was almost entirely destroyed.

But a single boy was aware of his powers, and that single boy was quickly seized by his father, and he was just enough to destroy Kronos.

It was almost too late. Everything was destroyed in a matter of hours. There was nothing but ruins of buildings and ten percent of the entire population left. Electricity was no longer working, nor running water.

Annabeth and Piper awoke to a destroyed world.