Chapter 2:

Me and Percy decided to keep our thing a secret for the next few days. When we had free time we would go out together and have a picnic at the old house and most of the time it was in the Garden. Percy has been getting very good with Riptide. My dad has been stressing out much more about the upcoming war.

"You Know, it would be easier for me to explain if you had listened to me?" Thaila said as we walked through town, we sat near a water fountain.

"Sorry Thals, I'm just lost in my head worried about my dad and such" I said.

"Why?" She said, shoot she still doesn't know about the war.

"It's personal" I said. She nodded.

"So I have 20 drachmas left wanna spend?" She smiled. I nodded. We went near a accessories stand. It had bracelets and necklaces. They were all very pretty. One caught my eyes, it had a tiny white little dove on. I turned to the salesman.

"How much for that one?" I pointed. The salesman looked closely at the necklace.

"30 Drachmas princess" He said, I looked down. I know I'm the princess, I'm suppose to be rich. It's just It makes me feel spoiled.

"I only have 20" I said looking at Thaila who looked at me sadly.

"I'm sorry princess, but that's the price" he said shrugging

"It's fine, thank you though" I nodded and left. Thaila patted me on the shoulder.

"It's okay, there may be another that might catch your eye" I smiled and then something moved in the woods, I turned and then the sound started to make running moves. I shook my head, probably an animal.
I walked back to the castle. The Knights were still training. Thaila left to go join her brother, I looked around for Percy. I didn't see him. I walked around the shores of water and sat down near the water. Hearing the ocean hit the shores. Someone covered my eyes, "Guess who it is?" The voice said.

"Hmm? This guy obviously doesn't know-" then lips connected with mine. He let his hands go, Percy stood there.

"Hey" he smiled. I smiled and he sat down next to me.

"You should really be more careful if we want to keep this a secret" I said. He shrugged.

"I want to scream to the world that you're mine" I blushed and kissed his cheek.

"Training just ended, oh! Wait last time I challenged to a spar remember? But you just put the dagger to my neck before I could even do anything" he grinned.

"You wouldn't have done anything even if I didn't put a dagger to that neck of yours " I smirked.

"Oh is that a challenge Princess?"

"No"

"Scared aren't we?" He smirked.

"No ,just saving you the embarrassment"

He smiled and held out his hand.

"Come on, Dinner's almost ready, I need to shower and I'll meet you in the dining room" he said.

"You're really leaving without-" He stopped and grinned and pushed me back slowly laying down on the sand giving me a peck on the lips. He touched my cheek gently. He pulled back and smiled.

"Come on"

I went into the dining room and saw everyone there, the Knights, King/Queen, Poseidon, My friends. Piper, Reyna, Jason, and Thalia. Percy sat there talking to some of the Knights, I recognized a few of them, Luke, he had blond hair and was taller than Percy just by and inch. Leo, he had curly hair and was about the same height as Percy. The others were not familiar. I sat down next to my father and Susan. My father got up and tapped his glass, everyone stopped talking.

"Okay, I want to thank everyone for coming to this special dinner. We have some things to talk about" The King said, "for now let's enjoy this wonderful feast. Enjoy" he sat back down and everyone started eating. Chiron was the first to talk. He wiped the chicken from his mouth.

"So as you know the king has told us about the war with Kronos" I turned to my dad and he nodded at me as if to say I-Finally-told-them.

"The war is in 3 weeks. We know nothing of what is to come. I already spoke to one of the Knights, he had this great Idea that tomorrow we should do a scout for 5 days and check our surroundings, that includes out in the ocean and forest, and I'm happy to say Percy Jackson and Luke Castellan will be leading this quest.

Percy and Luke stood up and bowed, I looked at Chiron.

"Chiron can you tell me who's idea this was"

"Percy Jackson, miss" he said. I looked at Percy. He gulped. I stood up.

"Annabeth" My father said standing up with me.

"Father, I need some air" I pushed out my chair and went out. I heard from behind me murmurings of the others. I heard Percy tell my father.

"I'll go speak with her your Majesty" I quickly ran out of the dining room out into the balcony. I heard Percy's footsteps trying to catch up with me.

"Annabeth wait!" He said. I looked behind me and he stood there.

"What wro-" I started hitting him in the chest ,not too hard because I was crying.

"Stop that!" He said blocking my hits, "Annabeth, what's wrong?"

"You-You, do you know what you've done? You're risking your life! Going out when you know there's a war coming, who knows what's out there!" I said hugging him and crying.

"I'm sorry, I just said it because like you said no one knows what's out there. We need to be prepared for this war" he said looking into my eyes.

"I don't want to lose you!" I blurted and now sobbing. He stood there.

"I love you, Percy. If something were to happen to you. Do you know what that will make me feel?" He tried to speak.

"I-I love you too, I won't die that's for sure" he said holding my arms. He kissed my forehead and smiled.

"I'll be there for you no matter what, I won't die. I'll fight for you. I'll come back to you" I leaned in and kissed him, we stayed that way for a minuet. He held onto my waist and kissed me back.

"I promise" he said pulling back, "Now let's go and wash your face and finish dinner, Yeah?" He said. I wiped away my tears and nodded, smiling.

After dinner I went to my room and someone was at the door, Luke.

"Why, Hello Princess. I was sent by your father saying he wants to see you" he bowing.

"Now?" I said. Luke nodded.

"Okay thank you Luke" I said walking past him. He stopped me, "How do you know my name?"

"Percy and you hang out a lot right?" I said, "he's mentioned you a lot when we hang out"

"Wait, You guys are friends?" Well, Percy is more than my friend.

"Aren't we all" I said walking away leaving him there with a small smile on his face.

I reached my father's office went in, "Dad, you here?"

"In here" he said in his bedroom. I walked in and he got up from his chair.

"Annabeth, what happened during dinner?" He asked, "You just left"

"I'm sorry dad, it's just, Percy's been my best friend since I was little and I would be sad to see him hurt" I said sitting on his bed.

"I love that you care for your friend, but he's growing up and you need to understand that" he said. I nodded, but he's mine, he's my boyfriend. My father let me leave after a few minutes.

Thaila met me near the stairs, "Hey are you okay?" She nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Thanks. Anyway what are you doing?" I said.

"Just getting ready to go to Jason and wish him luck for tomorrow" she going upstairs.

"Oh, I better go see Percy and wish him good luck as well" I said and walked up the stairs while Thaila walked up the other. I knocked on Percy's door and he opened it, he was in a white shirt and blue pajama pants.
"Hey, come in" he said. I walked in his room, his master bed was still clean so I'm guessing he was about to go bed. He went to the bathroom and fixed his hair.

"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in bed" Percy smirked.

"Well, yeah and your friend Luke told me that my father needed me, talking about why I left dinner like that" I sighed. He sat down beside me on his bed, "I was about to go back to my room when I was Thaila, she was going to wish good luck to Jason for tomorrow. So I decided to come say that to you"

"Well?"

"Good luck" I laughed. He laughed.

"Look, I'm sorry if I scared you, I just want to step up to be a leader. War is really close or closer, no one knows when they'll strike, but I want to make sure that whatever they got planned We'll be ready" he said. I nodded and then it was silent.

"Promise me you'll be careful" I said.

"Promise"

I gave him a peck on the cheek. He smiled and sighed.
"I think I better go back to my room. Wouldn't want to keep you up" I said getting up heading out the door.

"Annabeth" he said after I was out his door.

"I love you" he said. I smiled, I ran to him and kissed him once more.

"I love you too. Now seriously go to bed"

Luke's POV:

I walked down the castle heading to the training area where we all agreed we'd meet up. I heard someone call out my name.

"Hey you ready?" Percy said putting Riptide in his holster.

"Yeah, 5 days only. We need to be careful. We're going through France city so a lot of walking to do" I said walking with him. Percy was a good guy with a good heart. He can fight I can tell you that. He will do anything for his friends.

"Looks like everyone already beat us to it" Percy pointed out. I looked ahead and Knights were already there ready for the quest. They all looked at us and went to their knees.

"Stand" Percy said in his commanding voice. They all stood.

"Okay, we're leaving for 5 days looking for anything suspicious. You have 5 minutes to say goodbye to your loved ones and meet us at the forest ready to leave, bring your horses" Percy said and left to meet up with Annabeth. I walked over to a girl who I met in town.

"Hey, Rachel right?" I said, she turned and smiled.

"That's me" she smiled.

"I'm Luke" I said.

"Well, it's a pleasure. Good luck with Kronos"

"Thanks, um- maybe we can see each other some other time?" I said looking down.

"Sure, Maybe. I have to go. Good to see you again, and also Be careful" she said and hugged me unexpectedly. I hugged her back.

"I have to go, bye Luke" she said waving and ran back into the castle.

Everyone met near the forest on their horses with their swords in their holsters. I got up on Rider. She can run fast and is a good horse, my father gave me to her after he died. The whole castle waved to us goodbye as we galloped into the deep forest.

Percy's POV:

We rode for a long time, our horses we're going slow for the moment.

"Hey, Sir" one of the Knights said from behind me, "What are we looking for exactly?"

"Anything really" I said, "You know Kronos that son of a bitch is always planning something" I stopped my horse and got off and looked around my surroundings.

"We should rest, it's getting kind of dark. Tomorrow we will split up into 2 groups and each will get a map to come back to here" I pointed to the ground indicating our location, "And Luke will be leader for that other particular group, got it?" I said. They all nodded and saluted.

"Now let's get a campfire started" Luke said. I nodded. Luke is a good fellow. He's my best friend. He knows what he's doing, And has things under control. Our Knights have worked super hard. Kronos has been our enemy for a long time, he hates England, which is us. We had this huge war with Kronos we almost ended up losing. He had strong men, but very few. He destroyed almost everything in England. One thing I do wish I never knew is how the original queen died, Athena. She was so nice to me and caring she was like a second mother to me, Sally my real mother, is in New York. Anyway, Athena died because of Kronos. Kronos went to Athena during battle while she was sleeping and injected her with a virus so bad that she died. How I know this you may ask, The King told me, he waited until I got older and told me, not Annabeth. So many times I wanted to tell her. The king told me not to. I now have grown not to tell her that Kronos killed her mother. She would do anything to get revenge on him. Her mother didn't die just because of an illness. She was murdered.

At sunrise we were getting ready to split into groups, "Okay Uh, Luke wanna put them into groups while I get our things ready" I said with one hand on my waist and the other on my sword.
"Yeah" he said holding out a scroll.

"Okay! Men! These are the groups" I heard him say as his voice was starting to fade. I got my horse ready and fed him. His name was BlackJack. He was the best gift my dad could give me, on my 12th birthday.
Once the men were split up into groups we got ready. I was with Leo, Jason, and Frank, one of our great Knights. The others were great as well, they fight really hopped on our steeds and went north, the other went south.

"Jackson!" I heard someone say. Luke grinned.

"Try not to get yourself killed for me, yeah?" And he went off with his group. I chuckled and nodded, I turned back to my group and pointed forward.

"Head forward"

We rode for 2 nights and saw nothing. I was beginning to think there was nothing, "Let's take a rest" I said getting off my horse.
"We found nothing" Jason said leaning on a tree.

"Yeah, but we'll find something. I have this feeling we will" Leo said, he took out a jar of marbles.

"What's that? And why are you carrying that?" Frank said coming closer to Leo.

"They're marbles. Want to play?" He said making a tiny hole in the ground.

"Play?" Jason getting off the tree. I walked closer and grabbed a Sea green marble, "Lets"

"How do you play?" I said getting on one knee.

"You flick your thumb to get your marble into this hole, you flick your marble to get everyone out of this ring" He drew a big ring around the hole, "Then after you've done that you try to get your marble into the hole and you win. One turn only for each player after you flick it. If the marble is in the hole you try to knock him out of it. Got it?" He said. We all nodded.

"Seems boring, but at the same time it seems interesting" Frank said. We began playing, Leo took the first flick, hitting mine. I hit mine at Jason and his almost went out. Jason flicked at Leo and it went to the hole.

"Thanks Jase" Leo grinned. Frank hit Jason out and I hit Leo out.

"Dang!" He said taking his marble in his hands.

"Just me and you" I said to Frank. I flicked my marble it missed. Frank grinned and he flicked at mine which was real close, but missed. I took one last flick kicking him out. I turned to the hole and it went in. I put my hands in the air.

"I'm the King" I said. Then something came out of the bushes, we turned and I think I turned pale. Two big Knights dressed in armor.

"No, Kronos is the king"

Annabeth POV:

I walked around the castle feeling lonely and bored. Thaila came with me and she has been worried sick about her brother.

"Do you think he's okay?" She asked. I nodded.

"Why won't he, he's amazing at fighting and I see he can dodge really well. They're coming back this afternoon. Don't worry" I smiled.

"So you're not worried about Percy?" She said. I looked at her, of course I was worried about Percy. He's out there risking his life. It scares me, "I've seen the way you guys look at each other" she grinned.

"You guys are together"

"What?" I said raising my eyebrow.

"Oh come on Annie, Don't think me and Jason didn't see you guys kissing on the shore!" She grinned. I blushed.

"Oh, that"

"Why didn't you tell me?" She said.

"We we're waiting for the right moment"

"How long has your thing been going on?" She said. I held up my two hands.

"Ten days, that's mostly a week!" She yelled and quickly covered her mouth.

"Yep" I nodded.

"Tell me everything!" She whispered as we walked into my room.

Percy's POV:

"Kronos is our king, your king. Everyone's king" the knight said. We drew our swords. Slowly stepping back to our horses.

"You're not going anywhere" they said together. They came close to us and swung at me and the others. I raised my sword blocking his swing and it was a hard swing knocking me to the ground. He raised his sword again and I rolled out, his sword hitting the ground. He yelled coming at me, I swung my sword and it took off his helmet. He was bald and his face was with a scar, he grinned. He swung his sword and hit me in the leg with the end of his sword. I fell down a hill holding my leg in pain. The knight came to me I quickly got up and dodged ignoring the pain. I looked up at the guys they were doing good. The man in front of me swung and I blocked. Our swords touched every single swing. I then heard a galloping noise of horses, I looked up the hill and there stood Luke with the reinforcements. I turned back to the guy and that's the last thing I saw before the world went black.

Luke's POV:

I heard a noise of swords hitting and I went towards it. We found many scrolls and x marks. We also found the campsite for Kronos. I knew Percy was in trouble because not a lot of Kronos's army was there.
I went towards the hill and saw Percy fighting two Kronos Knights. Jason and Leo and Frank were doing a three v one. Percy was alone. Percy looked up at me and he got hit by the end of the Knight's sword. I charged up at the knight and so did the others. There were more coming because I sent a letter back to the palace saying we need much more Knights coming. And 50 more came. Soon more Kronos Knights came out of hiding and started attacking. I drew my sword and started killing. The sound of sword connecting. I tried to make my way to Percy, but every knight I took out more came. One knocked me off my horse making me hit the ground hard. I got up and hit one of them off their horse. And killed the one with a red flag. Everyone started to retreat back. I killed their leader. Without a leader they have no orders. I ran to where Percy was. He wasn't there.

"Where's Percy?!" I yelled and all of the Knights turned to me.

"Where the hell is he!?" Jason said and stepped forward along with Frank and Leo.

"Everyone look for Percy" Jason said and they all started to go in every direction searching for him. I searched downhill and I spotted something on the tree I ripped it off and with one look I and threw it in the air and sat on a boulder. Jason picked it up and read it.

"Come and get him" He read.

Annabeth's POV:

I waited on the steps and started to get worried, it was starting to sunset and still the Knights hadn't come. My father told me to be patient, France is a long way. I went back to my room and read my book. The war is coming and Percy is going to fight. No matter what.
Part of me hates him being a Knight and part of me is happy he is, he's always been strong. When we used to be kids his father gave him a wooden sword and swung it like he already knew to swing one. His mother Sally has been so kind to me and his son. Sally is in New York because of work. She got a job at a bank and I'm happy for her. I got ready for bed when Thaila burst into my room, "They're back"

I ran faster than Thaila wanting to see Percy. I ran down the stairs and saw the Knights out in front of the castle. As soon as I came everyone turned. My father looked sad and so did everyone else.

"What's going on?" I said quietly.

"Annabeth, Percy has been kidnapped" My dad said. My heart stopped.

"No" I said. Luke came forward and tried to grab my hand, but I took it away from him.

"Don't touch me. Stop lying and tell me where he is" I said. Luke sighed.

"With Kronos" he said, He explained to me what happened and I broke into a sob. I sat down the stairs and Thaila sat next to me trying to comfort me. My father kicked one of the tables in the castle and it broke. Luke stood there, he was angry once he told the story.

"Find him" I said, "And after that win this war"

Okay guys I'm super tired, but here's another chapter hope you enjoyed that and if you did that's great. Review of what you thought of it. Thank you so much for reading this I put a lot of effort in these two chapters :)
I hope you liked that and now time to do my homework:(