Annabeth's POV
I kissed him. 'Be careful, Seaweed Brain.' I put on my Yankees cap and ran away. I couldn't bring it up to look back, but I wanted it so bad. When the air wasn't that hot anymore, I heard an explosion. I prayed to the gods Percy didn't got hurt or something. As quick as I could I took the metal ball out of my pocket. Immediately it turned back into a spider and raced towards the darkness of the Labyrinth's tunnels. After running after the spider for 10 minutes I arrived at the forges of Lord Hephaistus. I hoped to find Percy there, saying: 'Missed me, Wise Girl?' But he was nowhere to be found. When I told Hephaistus the whole story, I was half suprised he told me to go back to camp. My heart told me to go back in the Labyrinth to go look for Percy, to know he was okay... But my head knew that was hopeless. Lord Hephaistus gave me back the spider that would bring me to Manhattan. I didn't met any monsters on my way, but I did see one of the pink cows sacred to Apollo. In no time I was in a cab towards Long Island. Staring out of the window I remembered the last time I sat in a cab... With Percy. It didn't felt that way, but it was only like a couple weeks ago. I didn't want the tears to come out, but they ended up on my cheek anyway.
Thankfully Hephaistus gave me enough mortal money to let the cabdriver shut up and drop me of in the middle of nowhere. In within' half an hour I could see Thalia's tree. Silena Beauregard, a daughter of Aphrodite, was feeding Peleus ( the dragon that protected Thalia's tree ), so she was the first one that noticed me. 'Annabeth!' she yelled and ran to me. When she saw I was alone, she stopped. 'Where are...'
I started crying. 'Percy's gone.' I managed to say after a few minutes.
'I'm so sorry for you.' She hugged me and then asked: 'Where are Grover and Tyson?'
'We split up when Grover thought he found a trace to Pan' I said.
'So you don't know where they are?'
'Nope.'
'Well, let's hope they're alright'
'Yeah' I muttered.
Soon enough, I told the whole story to Chiron. Of course I didn't told him the part where I kissed Percy…
'I guess all we can we can do is hope that one of these days Percy will come back.'
'So you don't have any idea of where he could be?' I asked him.
'I have several ideas, but let's hope it's not one of them.' For once I hoped Chiron was wrong with his ideas.
I ran straight to my cabin and cried some more.
'I can't just sit here and do nothing' I whispered to myself. I needed to do at least something. The best thing that I could think of that moment was guard the entrance to the Labyrinth. Well, not actually to "guard", just to wait for Percy. Waiting for that stupid Seaweed Brain to come walking out of those rocks. Deep down I knew that wasn't going to happen.
I barely slept the first night. All I could think about was what could have possibly happened to Percy. I wouldn't admit if you asked, but I care about him a lot. Not the way I cared about Luke.. Just different.
It was a good thing I hadn't told Percy Luke visited me a month ago. If Percy knew, he would just be mad… He always got mad when I talked about Luke. Thinking about Percy eventually made me think of that redhead girl. Rachel. I'm not going to say I hate her, but I do dislike her. The way Percy looked at her, I didn't like it… Finally I had nothing left to think about and fell asleep.
Of course, being a half-blood and all, I had a nightmare. About Percy. I saw him falling down the sky and fell in the deep blue sea. Luckily he was a son of Poseidon, otherwise he would be quite death right now. He floated to the shore and some girl ran towards him. She seemed familiar, but I didn't recognized her. She tried to wake Percy up, but he didn't move at all. Percy looked like he was burned very badly...She listened to his heart. It still beat. She lifted him up ( which didn't seemed hard; he looked like he hadn't eaten in weeks ) and dragged him to a hammock. She walked in some came out holding a blanket.
Where was I? Who was that girl? Was Percy hurt? I tried to ask the girl what the heck was going on, but I couldn't speak in my dream. Something held my back, I couldn't move anymore. I freaked out. I had to go to Percy, wake him up and take him back to camp. Everything faded and suddenly I was back in the Athena tent. My face was wet of all the tears I apparently cried while sleeping.
The next morning I didn't go to the dining pavilion, I had something better to do. I figured that while breakfast nobody would be in the Big House ( accept for Chris … ).
I ran straight to the Big House and in no time I was in the attic. 2 weeks ago, I got my first prophecy here:
You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze
The dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise
You shall rise or fall by the ghost kings hand
the child of Athena's final stand
Destroy with a hero's final breath
And lose a love to worse than death
I asked the oracle: 'Where is Percy?'
I waited. And waited, but nothing happened.
'Um… Hello?' Again, nothing.
Disappointed I went downstairs.
Stupid oracle.
Fortunately no one missed me at breakfast, I didn't know what to say if they'd asked me where I've been. Usually I always had a plan, but not this time.