Annabeth's dream took her to a place she had never been before with two people she had never seen before. A blonde girl with a british accent and an african american boy were sat reading an ancient looking book in a language she didn't recognise, but was probably older than Ancient Greek. The odd duo seemed to be in a hurry, and Annabeth could see why, for looming over them was a giant ... snake?

"Sadie hurry, finnish the spell" the boy was saying. The girl, probably Sadie, raised an ornate stick into the air and said a few words in the language Annabeth hadn't been able to understand. Her words had an immediate effect on the snake and it vanished into the darkness, similarly to the way Nico did when he used his shadow travel ability, but Annabeth doubted that the giant snake would end up in China.

Annabeth woke up in the Athena cabin to the normality of Camp life. Her Daedalus labtop sat on her desk along with her designs for Olympus. Her cabin mates were still sleeping but she could hear the Apollo kids playing basketball outside. Despite how quiet things were, she couldn't quite shake the feeling that something to do with her odd dream was going to ruin the tranquillity of her home.

She decided that the best course of action was to tell Chiron about her dream. The strange people. The giant snake. And the unrecognizable language.

Once she had finnished, Chiron explained to her that the people she saw were most likely members of an organization called the house of life, which was a society of magicians who believe in and banished the Egyptian gods. The snake was probably their primordial chaos god, Apophis. And the language was ancient Egyptian.

Annabeth could barely cotain her excitement. A whole new pantheon to learn about. She ran straight to her cabin and researched 'House of Life' on jer Daedalus laptop which turned up a big fat nothing. Okay, she thought after she got over her disapointment, try talking ro Rachael, she might know something about this House of Life organization.

You shall go west to the 21st nome.

You shall learn what you need.

and return home alone.

Okay, that part didn't sound too bad, Annabeth thought.

You shall suffer the greed

Of chaos or war

but when a loved one is lost, the west is no more.

Annabeth wasn't sure about any of that, suffering the greed of chaos or war didn't sound great, but she couldn't stand the thought of a lost loved one, she had already lost luke.

And suddenly, she didn't want to learn more about this new pantheon. What if that loved one was Percy. Stop it, she scolded herself, lost doesn't mean dead. And over thinking prophecies never gets anyone anywhere. Lets just start from the beginning and go west to the 21st nome.

Problem no.1: She had no idea where the 21st nome was. Problem no.2: She had no way of getting there. And problem no.3: She didn't want to go alone.

The last one was easily solved - call on Percy. She found him in the poseidon cabin drooling in his sleep. Annabeth would never admit it, but she found it cute when he did that and almost didn't wake him. But she changed her mind quickly, she needed him with her and didn't want him to be the loved one she lost.

She lightly shook him awake and his sea green eyes blinked open.

"Good morning seaweed brain."

"Good morning to you too wise girl."

"Hey, listen, I was wondering if you would be okay to come on a quest with me to the 21st nome."

"Sure, where is the 21st gnome?"

"Not gnome as in the garden decoration, nome, N-O-M-E as in district or region"

"Okay, but my question still stands. Where is the 21st nome?"

"I don't know " Annabeth admitted, and she really hated not knowing.

"Why not take that damned chariot thing. Won't the grey sisters know where it is?" The chariot of damnation, why hadn't Annabeth thought of that. As much as he may pretend otherwise, by using words like 'gnome' and 'damned chariot thing', Percy was actually kind of smart.

"Knew I'd need you along," Annabeth said.

"You did?"

"Come on seaweed brain," she told him as she dodged that last comment. She was not going to tell him twice in the same morning that she, a daughter of the wisdom goddess, needed him.