Percy walked through the water up to the shores of Camp Half-Blood, just like he did after Beckendorf and that damned cruise ship. This time he was alone coming from a quest from Hades himself. They may not like each other, but I think they can all agree, if something needs done, go to Percy.
Percy had just gone to Tartarus again. This time without Annabeth, without anyone. The only reason he did it is because Hades had promised him a safe journey, as long as he completed his task and didn't get killed on his way to do it. He didn't tell Annabeth where he was going or what he was doing. He told Nico to tell her once he was gone, hopefully, he thought, that went okay.
Coming up onto the shores now, he noticed how quiet things were. Of course it was about 4 in the morning and everyone was asleep, but he sure was glad to be home. He made his way across camp to the Poseidon cabin, where his bed awaits. Once he laid down he took Riptide out of his pocket and blacked out.
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The next morning Percy woke up to the sun shining and the birds chirping. All was well in his little demi-god world. He quickly got dressed and started to head toward breakfast. He noticed that nobody seemed to know he was back. Great, he thought, time to mess with some people.
He entered the mess hall with a simple look on his face. Of course the entire camp was eating breakfast so there was a lot of commotion. Luckily Percy made it through the hall without anyone noticing, he got his breakfast, scraped some off into the fire and said quietly " for the gods." and sat down at the Poseidon table and started eating. Then all of a sudden everything got quiet. Like deadly quiet and Percy lifted his head up, bagel half out of his mouth. Simultaneous screeches and Percy was plowed into by a several people.
"OH MY GODS HES NOT DEAD!"
"Dude oh my gods."
"It's been so boring."
Percy yelled at everyone to calm down. Everyone quieted down almost instantly. Then Percy simply sat down and continued to eat breakfast. Then everyone started to talk all at once again.
"Tell us what happened."
"Did you fight any cool monsters?"
"Come on Perce tell us!"
"What's all the commotion in here?" Called a familiar voice he recognised as his beautiful girlfriend, Annabeth Chase.
Everyone quieted down hoping to see something like a scene from the notebook. Instead Annabeth met his eyes. He could see a series of emotion, from surprise to shock, to love to anger. She marched up to him and she told him a simple, "Stand up." He obeyed expecting to be either punched or hugged. Instead he just go a GIANT shove (he almost landed on his butt but he kept his balance) Annabeth yelled "HOW DARE YOU PERSEUS JACKSON! LEAVE ME HERE ONLY TO THINK THAT YOU WERE KIDNAPPED OR SOMETHING? THEN TO HAVE NICO EXPLAIN TO ME YOU WENT TO TARTARUS?" another shove. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PERCY!" another shove. "Do you know how worried I've been?" Annabeth asked in a deadly whisper. Annabeth started to cry and Percy knew that if he didn't act fast he would be in big trouble.
"What if I told you I got you something while I was down there?" Percy said quickly hoping she would lighten up a little bit.
"What in the gods' name do you think I would want from Tartarus?" She asked sounding exasperated.
"This." Percy said with finality as he pulled out her Celestial Bronze dagger Luke and Thalia had given her when she was seven years old.
Annabeth looked at the dagger like she has just been presented with what she wanted most in the world, and that would probably be the dagger.
"Percy….." she started, unable to grasp the worlds she needed to explain her emotions. (keep in mind the entire camp is watching them and there was definitely a collective gasp when he pulled out the dagger)
Percy grinned at her and said, "Please forgive me?" he posed it as a question and looked at her with his sea green eyes.
"I haven't decided yet," she said and she gave him a fierce hug.
While all this was happening Leo whispered to the person next to him,
"Do you think we should tell him that Calypso is here at camp?"
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