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Chapter 1

Annabeth's POV

It all started when Percy walked into that store, if he had gone to the store next to it, or maybe stayed home and called me, none of this would have happened. Such a seaweed brain, I thought always getting into trouble and not even thinking it through!

We ran along East 42nd Street. I was breathing heavily and trying not to cry. I nervously looked over my shoulder to see if the Automatons were close behind, but I saw nothing, just the road lined with houses and the dark night sky. I looked over at Leo, Jason and Piper. "Man, you're a fast runner, Annabeth!" Leo said putting his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath. I didn't reply, how come those automatons weren't right on our heels? They were built for stealth and speed; they could go on for miles without faltering, something was wrong, I could sense it. Just as the thought raced through my head, I heard a crash from above us. "Run!" I yelled to the rest of my group. I heard a crash right behind us, but I didn't dare look to see what horrors the Cyclops had made this time.

Ever since Percy and I started going out, we had these weekly lunches on Saturday, and sometimes Leo, Piper, and Jason tagged along. We bonded over the long boat ride to Greece to save the world from the Giants. As you can conclude, we won, or else you wouldn't be reading this right now. I turned and saw another Cyclopes running towards us, I swerved my head to both sides; nowhere else to run. I sighed; right, if the Cyclopes wanted to fight, then they could fight.

"We're going to have to fight!" I yelled

"They're no match for the Supreme Commander of the Argo II!" Leo boasted

"Come on, Repair Boy, keep running. They're catching up!" Piper hollered.

"Leo and Jason, go to the right and Piper, you and me to the left!" I commanded

"got it!" They all replied.

They broke into their formation and it wasn't long before they Cyclops caught up. There were only two, so each got one.

"ME SMELL BLOOD!" yelled one Cyclops. Leo and Jason jumped into action, Leo trying to distract it with his fires and Jason with his gladius. I looked at Piper, our Cyclops was short, shorter than a common Cyclops, it would be easiest if Piper used her knife and faked a blow, with only one eye, the Cyclops probably wouldn't notice me on the other side of it. As if reading my thoughts Piper ran to the left side and faked a blow. I put on my Yankee's hat, immediately turning invisible, and walked up behind the Cyclops.

"Ooh. Pretty girl!" It said to Piper, who smiled and said, "Stop." He froze. I ran up behind him and put my daggar into his gut, he exploded into a piled of gold dust. I glanced over at Leo and Jason as their Cyclops exploded too. We could hear the Automaton behind us whirr to a stop and hear a giant explosion.

"That's some handy work!" Leo yelled "Too bad I didn't make them."

"Come on, guys. We have to stay focused!" Jason yelled

"Where would that stupid Seaweed Brain be?" I mumbled to myself as I turned away from the group, thinking it over.

Piper let out a great yawn,

"Guys I think we should get some rest, we've been running for the whole night!"

"Oh yes" Leo added, "Piper needs her beauty sleep"

"Shut up." Piper said, her cheeks red, from anger or embarrassment, I couldn't tell.

"Well I don't know about you, but I'm not going to stop until I find Percy." I said.

"Annabeth, we should really stop and rest. We'll have a clean start tomorrow."

"I don't want to lose him again." I said a as I sat down on a bench, hands covering my eyes, so they wouldn't see me crying.

"Oh Annabeth" Piper sighed, "We've been at this for two days, if we don't get to sleep soon, we're going to pass out, and then get captured or something. You're no good to Percy if you're out cold in some alley."

I sighed, she was right.

"Well, I don't have any cash so an alleyway is sounding good right now." Jason said.

"Fine, but I get first watch." Piper nodded, eager to get to sleep.

The first alley way we came to we stopped, and made beds out of newspapers. It was dark and a couple of windows above us blazed with light. It cast an eerie glow on the dumpster next to us, and it reeked of month old pizza and rat droppings.

I sat down on an old orange crate, looking for monsters. Oh, Percy why did you have to smell so good to monsters! I was full out bawling now. I nervously glanced at the group to make sure they were all asleep. Piper was snoring and Leo was mumbling about a workbench. Jason was singing Thunder Rolls and was hitting all the high notes perfectly. I giggled to myself, forgetting my worries. I looked at Leo's watch he had given to me, saying to wake him up at 3 o' clock for his shift. It had an app on it for his favorite video game, and when you rubbed your thumb over it a picture of his mom would appear.

It was 2:55, but I was as tired as Hypnos himself, but I couldn't bring myself to wake Leo. He looked so little when he slept, you couldn't see the sorrow that he was burdened with since his mother's death. The watch beeped for the new hour and Leo sat up straight swinging an imaginary hammer at the watch. I yanked it out of his reach and smacked him on the back of his head, fully waking him.

"Ow, Annabeth! What the Hades!" he complained as I giggled at his hair. It was sticking out in every direction and was a spitting image of Medusa.

"Well, I'm going to hit the hay. See you in the morning." I said groggily. I didn't hear his reply because I was already asleep.

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