A.N. Hello and welcome. I will not do the 'This is my first story and I hope you like it' jazz. Instead, I demand you like it, if you don't my feelings will be hurt, and then I will have to hunt you down. I know were you live. XD

Chapter 1

Nothing went how it was meant to. That is pretty much the story of my life.

I never knew my father till a few days ago, turns out he was a god and does bugger all to help, and then I was accused of stealing basically what amounted to a nuke from the 'King of Heaven' or something, on top of this my mother was kidnapped.

I survived algebra teachers, three of them, hyper-active Chihuahuas, falling from buildings, lonely snake ladies, heck even robo-spiders and one upping drill sergeants and Italian dressing ghosts, I even played fetch with a giant Rottweiler. But I was not ready for this.

What happened next was not what the fates had planned.

"Magic," I said.

"We have to get out of here." Annabeth yelled.

We helped Grover to his feet and we began to run. We were getting farther away from that pit but Grover was lagging behind.

"Hurry up; we have to get out of here." I screamed.

As soon as it came out of my mouth the chanting stopped and a whoosh sound came from the tunnel and wind began to be sucked in, if Grover was just a few feet farther he would have made it.

"No, no, no!" he screamed as he was caught, "help me, please," he said whimpering.

There was nothing we could have done; if we stopped going forward we would have been sucked in too. Did you ever want to have to hear your best friend scream for help while you can do nothing? While he renounces Pan and curses nature to burn. While you live, he dies for nothing. His scream was the last I ever heard of him.

When we were safely away, all I could do was weep, weep with Annabeth and think just one thought. This was not supposed to happen.

We stayed like this for what seemed like forever.

Eventually Annabeth said, "We need to get going."

We lifted ourselves from the ground and dusted off our clothes and I shouldered my pack.

The look we shared between us showed the words we were too tired to say, Grover would not die for nothing. We would finish the quest to honor him and the sacrifice he made.

But something had to be said, "Annabeth, I need to ask you something." she looked at me, and I could still see the tears in her eyes. "This quest, finishing it will not honor Grover enough," I took a breath and steeled my resolve, "I need to ask you to help me find Pan, it was all that Grover wanted and he wasn't able to even begin searching for him."

She stared at me with her grey, tear clouded eyes. She suddenly burst into a smile and tackled me in a hug, "Oh, seaweed brain, of course I'll help." She suddenly began blushing and broke the hug, "But first," she got a look that was a mix of tiredness and determination, "we have to finish the quest."

With that we grabbed each others hands and walked up to confront Hades, that is going to be fun.

_Several Days later_

You are probably wondering what happened after that, if you don't know, read a book. Only thing you need to know is that when I threw the pearl at my Mom, she went straight to Poseidon's castle, but that's a story for a different time.

After all the quest formalities, Annabeth and I went to the satyrs; we asked to be taught how to find Pan so that we could honor Grover. Most just began complaining, something about 'Filthy, polluting, Humans.' Eventually we were able to get an audience with their council. It went something like this.

"No, no, no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOO!" man, Silenus sure had a mouth on him for an old goat. "There will be no humans looking for Pan, its blasphemy."

Annabeth stepped up and tried to convince him, "But it will help you find him, who can survive searching for Pan easier, a goat person or a demi-god." I have to say that she is good at this.

"You have to let us train and search for Pan, it was Grover's life goal, but he died on my quest before he could do it."

Silenus just grumbled and bit a tin can in half. The other two council members just sat there whispering to each other, seems they were convinced by Annabeth and me.

After Silenus ate a few more cans and the two others finished there conversation, they looked at us, "We will now vote," said the one on the left.

He held up his hand, "I vote yes."

Next was Silenus, he said nothing and just threw his platter of cans, grapes, and enchiladas at me, which I did not even have to dodge because his aim was so bad, so I guess he voted no.

The one on the right was next, "I think they are correct that we can use them, I vote yes."

After Silenus finished complaining he said, "Fine, teach these humans our secrets, let them desecrate more of the world in their doomed search for the Great Pan." with that, we bowed and began walking back to the cabins.

"Well, at least they are going to teach us," I said

Annabeth was a little more worried "That Silenus, I'm worried about him."

I couldn't help but laugh at that, "I think we have more problems then an overfed goat."

Annabeth broke into a smile at that, "Come on seaweed brain, lets go get some food and rest. We got a lot of work to do tomorrow if we are going to ever have a chance of finding Pan."

"And go after Luke on the way." I reminded.

"Yes, Luke." She seemed sad at this but I made sure it wasn't for long.

"Come on," I said with a motion of my head, "Lets go get something to eat. I heard they make you only eat lettuce when training."

She perked up at this and grabbed my hand with a motion to lead her, "Well at least they make good enchiladas."

"Yes, I will get delicious cheese everyday, personally made by a Satyr enchilada master."

She giggled at that, "Like I said, seaweed brain." Did I mention that I love when she calls me that.

With that we walked hand in hand to camp. Tomorrow we begin our training, and our quest for Pan.

Chapter 2

The next few weeks were filled by time at Boot Camp McDaisy.

We got up each morning, served enchiladas and lettuce for breakfast, so we could get more in touch with nature they said, go into the woods, and get our daily nature magic lesson. They went like this most of the time.

"Be the flower, grow the flower, be at one with the flower." That is what our instructors kept saying. After a few days of meditating while they said this repeatedly they finally started to show us some magic.

Our first try at trying to grow something ended with a flower exploding. Try two ended with possessed daisies chasing the instructors. On our third try we finally managed to grow a flower from a seed.

This went on for a few weeks until we both were able to grow a seed into a sapling and grow vines and be able to control them. This, we were told, was the minimum of what was allowed before you could go search, and since we were demi-gods we would be safe enough searching with our limited knowledge. I, for some reason, don't trust that.

While training with the naiads it turned out that I have a special gift with water plants. While working with the naiads under the lake, for some reason a pack of enchanted fish, thanks Stolls, began swimming at us spewing some weird ink everywhere, it seemed to turn the kelp purple.

"These fish will ruin our hair." The naiads were screaming, there hair also turning purple.

"Do something Percy; you have fish magic or something."

Well, I could control fish with magic or something like that, but when I tried, I could only get them to clump together, they kept spewing that ink like stuff.

I then got an idea. I closed my eyes and focused on the seaweed and kelp at the bottom of the lake. I began to think of the fish swimming into it, which they did, and then I quickly tied each fish in a few pieces of kelp and seaweed till only there gills were showing.

Though even after I made sure none them got a bad hair day, the girls were shooting me daggers. That's when I noticed all the plants I destroyed. Hoping not to get beat up by nymphs that day, I focused on growing some new kelp and 'Walla', new kelp fields. I was still not forgiven after that incident though, because that night my entire bed was filled with water, and for some reason I could not control it, so I had to sleep on the ground. Thanks naiads, thanks a lot.

Annabeth was not happy about her power though; turns out she could talk to owls. This was annoying her. Imagine every night being followed by owls that looked at you through your window, incessantly chatting about the Square of Pi or the history of Dunkin' Donuts. She told me she hasn't had a good sleep for a week.

The good part of the power was this; she could also see through an owl's eyes and control it to a degree. This she actually didn't mind, being a strategist and always wanting to know what is happening.

Also I should mention that we decided to stay all year round, so that we could continue training and eventually go looking for Pan. When making this decision I was half tempted just to go home and spend time with my mom, but, I had to do this. Grover was my best friend, his only wish was to look for Pan, and he risked that so that he could help me. I owed him this.

I knew there was a lot more we needed to train in before we left, like how to actually find him for instance, but I was getting very anxious to go.

"We can't go yet seaweed brain," Annabeth would always say, "we still have a lot more training to do."

"Yea, Yea, Yea," I'd mumble, "but I want to go now, I'm tired of enchiladas."

Enchiladas may be tasty, but after a few weeks you grow tired of cheese, I haven't been able to even look at cheese in a can, its torture. Just imagine. Tired of cheese.

"Enough complaining Perseus, we will leave when we finish our training and that's that."

She turned away, and I couldn't help but notice how cute she looked when angry.

We continued our training for the next few days, and all seemed well.

Then the tree was poisoned.

Hope you enjoyed. None of you will guess what will happen to Thalia. Whahahaha.