Chapter 1

"Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha, Ging gang goo, ging gang goo. Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha, Ging gang goo, ging gang goo. Hayla, oh hayla shay-"

The singing at Camp Half-blood's evening campfire came to a close when Rachel Elizabeth Dare, the Oracle of Delphi, came into the centre of the circle. Rachel had green mist spewing out of her mouth, and her eyes seemed to pull everyone around her into a trance. Everyone knew what was about to come. The mist coming out of the Oracle's mouth suddenly intensified and she started speaking a prophecy:

The bull-headed man shall do his job,

The god's city upturned in his wrath.

The city's two heroes shall save it a thrice,

Short lived respect from his friends.

And with the last line, Rachel collapsed into the waiting arms of an Apollo camper, placing her on a stretcher to take to the infirmary. Chiron then addressd the campers:

"Campers, we shall have a council meeting tomorrow morning at ten o'clock AM to talk about this prophecy. Until then, goodnight! Best get to your cabins now as we don't want to have any of you eaten by the cerfew harpies!" The crowd of campers then disappeared up the hill to the plot of cabins, Leaving Percy and Annabeth at the campfire.

"Percy, Annabeth, you really should make it back to your cabins now. Cerfew's in ten minutes." Chiron said. Percy looked up.

"Yeah, we should probably go. Goodnight, Chiron. Come on Annabeth, let's go." And with that, the couple walked up the hill, following the other crowd of campers that came up a few minutes ago.

In the Athena cabin, Malcom, son of Athena, woke up to Annabeth's cries of terror coming from the bunk below her. He didn't know what she was dreaming about, but it must of been bad. All he could make out were the words Percy and Tartarus. Malcom shuddred, now knowing what she was dreaming about. Malcom slowly got out of his bed and jumped down onto the floor. He turned to see the sweating, tossing, turning and sleeping mess of Annabeth in her bed.

It pained Malcom to see his half-sister and cabin counseller in that state, so he cautiously shook her shoulder to wake her up. This action did nothing but make Annabeth subcounciously smack Malcom's face, saying:

"Five more minutes, mum." Malcom then tried again, this time making sure his face was well out of range from Annabeth's hand. After some time of shaking Annabeth's shoulder, she woke up, but as someone was shaking her she instinctavlly took her dagger from her pillow case and uncerimoniously shoved it against Malcom's throat, drawing a few drops of blood. Seeing who it was, she wiped the blood off her knife before asking:

"What do you want, Malcom?"

"Well, I saw you were having another nightmare and I thought that you might want to go to Percy's cabin." At this thought Annabeth jumped out of bed and ran out of Athena's cabin toward's Poseidon's like a five year old let loose in a candy store. At seeing this, Malcom chuckle and muttered:

"Girls."

At Poseidon's cabin, Percy Jackson bolted up from his laying position, sitting on his bed. He wondred why he was woke, he remembered his nightmare:

"Well, child. It looks like I can finally have a little fun with your girlfriend here now that you are tied up. This is going to be the best night of my life." Kronos took a dagger from the table next to him and started cutting Annabeth's wrist, healing it by pouring nectar on it, then doing it again. Eventually, that process had been repeated so much that the nectar couldn't remove the scar that this cruel form of torture had given to Annabeth. Kronos knew he was getting to Percy; the only thing that would hurt Percy more than tourturing himself was for his friends to be tortured, much more Annabeth of all people.

Percy then looked down on him to see that he was sticky with sweat. Looking at the clock, he realised it was 4pm, and he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep again that night. He decided to have a shower. He walked to his drawer to get some clothes, and he accidentally opened the wrong drawer with Annabeth's shirts, pants and undergarments in it. The reason they were in there was because Annabeth had practically moved into the Poseidon cabin over the past few years after the giant war. Their time in Tartarus had strengthned the bond that the two of them possessed, and whenever one of them had flashbacks or nightmares of their time in that pit, or just needed someone to talk to, they would meet in Percy's cabin.

Smirking, Percy shut Annabeth's drawer and preceeded to get some clothes to change into for when he had his shower. He then went to run the water so it could warm up, after all the it was freezing after the particuarlly strange, cold summer nights the camp had been experiencing lately.

As Percy started to take off his shirt, Percy heard a knock on his cabin door. Percy thought he knew who it might be, and opening the door, he saw he was right. Percy ushred Annabeth in, and realised she was sweating, too.

"Nightmare?" Percy asked.

"Yeah"Annabeth replied.

"I was just going to take a shower and it looks like you need one, too"

"Yeah." Percy realised Annabeth wasn't paying much attention.

"If you want to talk about it..." Percy questioned.

"Later, but right now I need to shower." Annabeth then walked to her drawer and pulled out some clothes to change into. She then walked into the bathroom with Percy. Annabeth and Percy didn't mind letting each other see them naked, they had already been through so much together. Sure, they weren't married, but that didn't matter to them. With the dangers of being a Demigod, it was amazing that they were even alive at the age of 19. Because of this, Demigods never got married; if demigods were in a relationship, though, they acted like they were married.

As the couple nearly finished singing La Bamba, Percy was interrupted by a shriek from Annabeth. He then saw a spider. Laughing, Percy stopped the shower and picked up the paralysed form of Annabeth. He then willed Annabeth dry. Putting her down, he started getting dressed. When he saw that Annabeth was still frozen in fear, Percy said:

"Are you going to start moving or will I have to dress you as well?" Annabeth stepped out of her trance and looked at Percy with a scowl. He laughed and Annabeth started to get dressed.

They walked to the small couch in the corner of the cabin and Percy sat down, letting Annabeth lay her head on his lap. Remembering what she said earlier, he asked:

"Hey, do you want to talk about your nightmare?" Annabeth thought for a secone before replying:

"Nope, I'm fine. You?"
"No, I'm fine too. Goodnight, love you" Percy said, and Annabeth drifted off into a dreamless sleep, using Percy as a pillow.