The grass was exceptionally green today. Alysium was a very beautiful place to live, except I don't want to be here. I knew all the people here were dead, including me. But unlike everyone else, I just wanted to die all over again. I was curious.
I wanted to know how I died. If anyone else died with me. Did I have a mom? A dad? A brother? A sister? I don't like not remembering the life I used to live. Heroes end up in Alysium. If I was such a hero shouldn't I be allowed to remember what I did that got me here? The life that would end here?
There was a beach with blue water shining from the big sun sitting in the sky. The beach was so beautiful I could sometimes see these tall bearded men in white robes walking along them.
I could see some of them now. I'm not saying I eavesdrop but I caught their names. Poseidon, Hermes, Ares and sometimes Hades.
I walked onto the beach and flinched when the scorched sand hit my bear feet. Yeah, we don't get much to wear here in Alysium. It's just all white. Almost as if we were angels…or gods-that starts something in me. The word gods. It must be from my past. But this thought is brushed or should I say violently knocked out of my head when someone runs straight into me.
I fall back but he is quick enough to catch my wrist before I hit the ground. He pulls me upright and I immediately step back embarrassed.
"Um-sorry," I stupidly reply.
He widely grins at me. "No problem."
I nod awkwardly then try to step around but he blocks my way, still grinning. "What's your name?"
"Um, I don't remember." He blocks my way again. I sigh, frustrated.
I try to step around him again but he blocks my way again. I give him my best if-you-don't-move-you'll-wish-you-would've-been-sent-to-the-fields-of-punishments look. "I find it pretty hard to believe that you were some sort of hero."
He clutched his chest and fell to the ground like I had pulled out a gun and shot him. Then he smiled at me from the ground. "Everyone here remembers their name."
I cross my arms stubbornly. "Why do you want to know so badly?"
He smiles an innocent smile. "I'm just trying to make some friends."
I try to move around him and he doesn't stop me, still smiling.
"My names Annabeth." I say reluctantly.
His smile grows as I walk away from the beach. I can feel his eyes on me when he yells back, "I'm Percy!"