Here's another chapter! I hope you liked the previous one and I know my chapters are kind of short but I'll try to make them better and longer….. Don't forget to review! Remember: even if you don't like it J

CHAPTER 2: RED NIGHTMARE

Percy's POV:

I had finally done it. I was so scared she wouldn't love me back the way I loved her. After the past year my feelings for her hadn't change a bit and I just couldn't get off my mind the idea that she might not like me anymore, but she did and I couldn't be any happier about it.

That night, though, I had a strange dream. I was a 5 year old kid again before I knew all about Gods and Half Bloods and I remember being alone walking on the school hallway when one of the bigger guys took me to the bathroom and asked me to give him the money I had. I actually didn´t have any money so the guy just started to beat the crap out of me. At that moment I felt so weak, scared and hopeless that all I wanted to do was cry, yeah the Son of Poseidon crying, how brave, but hey, I was five. So anyway the thing is when I woke up this morning for a moment I felt weak again, as if someone could start beating me up at any time.

I took a cold shower to erase that feeling from my body and went to have breakfast and find Annabeth; she was eating at the Athena table so I just waved at her to say hi. She smiled and continued with her breakfast. I sat at my table and after offering part of my meal to my Dad, I ate silently. I still couldn't completely shake off the feeling I had from my dream.

"Hi man, everything ok?" Grover appeared out of nowhere and sat right in front of me.

"Hi Grover, yes everything is fine…why?"

"I don't know, remember the empathy link we have? I just sense something's wrong with you"

"Gee thanks man, like I needed confirmation on how wrong I am" it came out a little too harsher than I'd meant to. "Umm…sorry Grover I'm just not feeling good today"

"Don´t worry, by the way, Annabeth wants me to tell you she has a busy morning today but that you can spend some time with her after lunch" I just nodded. "So the two of you…are back together again?"

"Yep" I said, a small smile coming to my face.

"Cool, finally she´ll be in a good mood" after that he just headed to the woods, probably looking for Juniper.

The fact is I had a very busy morning too. Since I came back, Chiron asked me if I could teach all the sword lessons and I had agreed to. To be honest I liked helping around camp but I just hated how much time and effort it takes to teach sword fighting to the younger campers; you can blame my ADHD for that, I'm just not a very patient person. After three lessons I went to the lake to rest a little bit. On my way there I saw Annabeth practicing archery while teaching Ancient Greek to one of the newest girls. She was so amazing she could do a lot of things at the same time and she made them perfectly, she was just perfect.

I decided to take a short swim in the lake to clear my thoughts and it actually worked, water could do that for me. I came out of the water dry as the sand and went to the pavilion; this time Chiron wasn´t there and I wondered where he´d be. As always I ate in silence, being the only Son of Poseidon I always had to eat and sleep alone, except when Tyson came to visit. Boy I miss that Cyclops.

I was taking a little nap in my cabin when a sound from the door woke me up and I almost fell out of bed.

"Annabeth! What are you doing here?" she was looking at me in a very suspicious way and then I realized that I was shirtless. Well come on! I'm a guy and she didn't exactly knock. I yawned.

"Sorry…" she sat next to me. "I went looking for you everywhere and couldn't find you, so I came here" I put on my shirt again. "Why are you sleeping in the middle of the afternoon, I thought you were teaching sword classes"

"Gods you´re right" I got out of bed and together we started walking to the Arena. "Sorry I was just a little tired" I gave her a kiss and she smiled at me.

"That's okay… I love you Seaweed Brain" I was about to say I loved her back when we heard someone scream. The sound came from right in front of the Big House and what I saw just didn't make any sense at all.

Clarisse was on the floor. Apparently, she had been the one that had screamed which made me even more nervous than I already was, she never screamed in fear about anything. And then I looked up.

"What is that!?" one of the Apollo cabin yelled.

Floating above Clarisse was a monster that looked incredibly human except its skin was completely red, its eyes were black and it had teeth sharper than a shark's. It looked straight at me and then smiled.

There you go, chapter 2... Who (or rather What) is that red monster? I suppose you can guess who he's after right?

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