Mark of Athena
Chapter 1
Annabeth
I woke up crying, yet again. I had a strange dream about Percy. He was standing on a glacier, fighting a bunch of purple spirits in his mini hurricane. His sword is in his right hand and a golden eagle on a staff is in his left. The army was wearing him out. They pushed him to the edge of the glacier and he free fell 100 feet into the churning ocean beneath them.
Gods she missed Percy.
Her dream reminded her of the last time Percy free fell. Almost five years ago, on their first quest together, he fell of the St. Louis Arch into the Mississippi River. She smiled at the memory. Then, so many memories came flooding into her mind. When Percy held her as she cried at the bottom of Siren Bay. When they had gotten the matching gray streaks in their hair from holding up the sky. When he took on Antaeus and killed him to get him, Rachel, and I through his arena in the Labyrinth. When he came and comforted me after I saved from getting stabbed in his Achilles heel. And after the Titan War, when he finally kissed her. Then, Clarisse rallied up the campers and threw us into the canoe lake. The funny thing is, Percy made a bubble in the lake.
A knock on my cabin door jarred me out of my thoughts.
"Hey, Annabeth. How you holding up?" Piper asked while walking in.
"Fine." I replied.
She gave me a look like she didn't believe me. "Really, Annabeth, you know you can talk to me, right?"
"Okay," I gave in. "I had a strange dream about Percy." I told her about my dream.
"Maybe you should tell Jason about your dream. He may know something about the golden eagle."
"Yeah. Okay."
"Oh, and, Annabeth. We'll be landing in about ten minutes."
"Okay,"
Piper and I walked up to the upper deck and found Jason standing against the railing looking at the ground below.
"Hey Jason, can I talk to you?" I asked.
"Yeah, sure, what's up?" He answered, turning to me.
"Last night I had a dream about Percy. He was fitting an army of purple spirits on a glacier."
"Lares," Jason interrupted. "The purple spirits are called Lares."
"So he was fighting them with his sword, but he had this golden eagle on a staff in the other hand."
"A golden eagle on a staff?"Jason asked.
"Uh, yeah."
"The golden eagle is the pride of the fifth legion!"
"What?"
"If he found the golden eagle, he would be a legend at Camp Jupiter for sure! A long time ago, the fifth legion lost the eagle. It's been lost ever since, until now I guess."
"But Jason, at the end of the dream, he fell off the glacier into the ocean, golden eagle in hand."
"Oh, well, he's a son of Poseidon. He most likely survived."
"Hello Argo II passengers. This is Supreme Commander Leo speaking. We will be landing in Camp Jupiter momentarily. Please brace yourselves, it's gonna get bumpy!" Leo said over the loudspeaker.
Suddenly, the whole ship jostled and Jason and I were thrown into each other, then to the ground. I got off Jason and offered my hand. Jason took it and pulled himself off the deck.
"Thanks for the warning Leo!" Jason yelled sarcastically."
"Your welcome!" Leo shouted from one of the lower decks.
"Hello passengers of the Argo II!" Leo was once again talking over the loudspeaker. "We have arrived at Camp Jupiter. The walkway is going down at the moment. Please go to the main part of the upper deck to exit my beautiful warship,"
Jason started walking down. I stopped at the top of the ramp and looked down at the crowd of about two hundred Romans.
All of a sudden, the crowd parted and a girl in a toga and regal purple came through the aisle. Behind her a group of three teenagers came down the path. On the left was a fifteen year old guy, on the right was an African American girl who looked about thirteen. I didn't really care about the teens on the sides. Th one in the middle really caught my attention. He looked about my age, with sea-green eyes and tousled black hair.
The second I saw the boy in the middle I knew who he was; he was my missing boyfriend, Percy Jackson.
Thanks for reading. And for those of you who think they have read a fanfic extremely similar to this one is because on another account, I wrote the same first chapter. The email I used on that account failed so I made a new account. Review and I will update soon. Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HoO.
