ANNABETH

It was a cool summer day, the kind of weather that instantly lifted your mood. Unless of course, your name was Nico di Angelo. So taking advantage of this day, the seven half-bloods of the prophecy decided that it would be nice to hang out in the park to enjoy themselves. Leo, being the only one without a significant other, decided to invite Reyna along so that he wouldn't be so lonely.

Lets just say that it wasn't the best choice.

" Hit on me one more time you adolescent fool, there will be one less child of Vulcan roaming the streets." Reyna seethed.

" Come on Rey, you know you love me! " Leo said with a smirk plastered all over his face.

Reyna stopped cold. "Why you little-"

"Reyna! Lets not make any rash decisions," Jason intervened, "After all he is one of my best friends, and I would rather not spend a large quantity of money paying for his funeral."

"There's that and you want me live right?" Leo asked.

"Eh," Jason said with a smile on his face, "I could live a Leo free life, it wouldn't be too bad."

Leo feigned hurt, "Excuse me? Is that all our friendship and bromance meant to you?"

"Bromance?" Hazel wasn't exactly caught up to date yet with English slang.

"Yeah, it's a romance between bro's." Leo tried to explain.

"But wouldn't that make you gay?" Hazel questioned.

"No," Frank said, "A bromance is a close friendship between two guy's that make them feel as if they were brothers."

"Oh," Hazel nodded, finally understanding.

"Yeah, but sometimes there are other ways to describe the relationship," Piper added.

"Enlighten me," Hazel said, genuinely curios on this new found topic.

"Well," Leo thought, "There is brother from another mother, brochacho-"

"What the heck is a brochacho?" Reyna asked, a thin eyebrow raise slightly.

"Oh, is it some kind of burrito that brothers share?" Hazel predicted, eyes wide open.

"No it's-" Leo started.

"Or is it a taco that people in a bromance share?" Hazel inquired.

"No, it's-" Leo started once again.

"Perhaps a taco that brothers share?" Reyna guessed.

"Nope, it's-" Leo attempted to explain once again.

"Maybe it's a burrito for people in a bromance!" Hazel exclaimed, quite proud of her idea.

"No! A brochacho is a cinnamon for people in a bromance." Leo finally got out.

"Don't you mean synonym?" Piper asked Leo.

"That's what I said!"

"No, you said-"

"No, I said-"

"But we all heard-"

"I didn't sa-"

"Yes you di-"

"Nuh huh"

"Uh huh"

"Nuh huh"

"Uh huh"

"NUH HUH!"

"UH HUH!"

Annabeth sighed, with them around, there really was no such thing as a 'peaceful walk through central park'. But then again, there was really no such thing as "peaceful" when your a demigod. The closest she ever got to peaceful was watching Finding Nemo with Percy when it came out in theaters again. Even then, she had to deal with complication of milk duds or gummy worms.

" What's wrong Wise Girl ?" Percy asked noticing her sigh, " It's a great day to be alive. Well maybe not for Leo but..."

She sighed once again, " Nothing's wrong. It's just that I have a feeling somethings going to go wrong. I mean just look at the weather, it's too calm and still to be considered normal."

"Your right," Percy replied now closely inspecting the weather, "Somethings not right," he then turned to the rest of the group that was trailing behind them, "Hey did you guys notice the weather?"

"Yeah," Frank answered, "It's a beautiful day and we should enjoy it. Why?"

Annabeth replied, "No, what he means is that it's too perfect. I mean, did you notice that there are no clouds or wind, yet the sun isn't pounding it's heat down on us?"

Everyone stood still for a moment.

"Oh my gods, your right," Jason said, "I can't feel a thing."

It was almost as if the whole world was holding its breath, even the usual New York City traffic seemed to be put on mute.

"And how there is no one else in central park within sight?" she continued.

Everyone looked around frantically, searching for another human being within a half a mile radius.

"Guys, this is a trap." Annabeth concluded. She accented each word carefully, almost as if she thought that stating the plot would cause the trap to spring into action. As soon as the words flowed through her mouth, she knew she was right. Something was about to happen. Something big. The group of friends slowly drew their weapons and formed a circle, awaiting any challenge to pop out at them. Taking one step at a time, they managed to maneuver their way around the park.

When they neared the exit, there weren't any monsters in sight, but there was still something off about the situation. Maybe it was emptiness of the area, or perhaps the still wind that flowed through the air. None the less, once an exit was spotted most demigods lowered their weapons and let their guard down.

"False Alar- AHHHHHHHHHH!" Piper screamed as she fell down into a swirling black hole underneath their feet. Everyone instantly took a step back, the hole seemed to have no bottom, and looked darker than the galaxy itself growing larger and larger. Large winds began whipping around it, as the black hole swallowed everything up. It was a scene taken straight from a sci-fi movie, put straight into real life.

"Where did that come fro- EEEEEEPPP!" Reyna shrieked as the cavernous hole swallowed her up.

"PIPER! REYNA!" Jason yelled into the hole.

"Oh my gods ru-" Hazel started before she'd followed Piper and Reyna's example and got sucked into the hole.

"HAZEL!" Frank shouted into the dark abyss that stole his loved one.

At this point, the non- swallowed up demigods were all terrified and pressed up against a tree, trying to avoid the man- eating swirl of doom.

"RUN!" Leo screamed as he ran for the exit. He didn't get very far when he was pushed back into the park by an invisible force field.

Meanwhile, the hole seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and the winds picked up, faster and faster they went.

"Annabeth, Percy, Leo, Frank," Jason addressed, "I think that the only way out is to go in."

"Are you crazy?!" Frank shouted clutching the tree for dear life, "We don't know where it goes!"

"Jason's right!" Annabeth said, "We have to go inside it. We'll end up in there anyways at the rate it's growing."

"It's the end of the world! Annabeth has gone insane!" Leo shouted.

"Plus we have to save our girlfriends!" Jason added.

"Not me!" Leo shouted, "The perks of being a single man!"

"Shut up! I think that Annabeth and Jason have a point," Percy inputted, "We jump on three!"

"ONE!"

"Dear Zeus please help me-"

"TWO!"

"Hades please take pity on me-"

"THREE!"

"Posiden your son has gone loco!"

And with that last comment from Leo they all jumped into the awaiting darkness.

The last thing Annabeth felt was Percy's hand before the world turned to black.