Chapter 2

A Ghostly Warning

Didn't we just go through this?

"Kronos?" Annabeth and I scream. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute! Let me back track for a second. On my sixteenth birthday I fulfilled a prophecy. The prophecy said and I quote "A half-blood of the eldest gods shall reach sixteen against all odds,". Yes, I did that. "And see the world in endless sleep the hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap,". Yes, they put a sleeping spell on Manhattans and the cursed blade was Annabeth's sword. " A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze,". My friend Luke's body was taken over by Kronos, and he chose to kill himself before Kronos could use him to regain his true form. Now can you please tell me where it says Kronos comes back and costs me $7.00 worth of popcorn?

"Oh come on. Is that all you can say? Don't you want to compliment me on my new form?" Kronos laughed. I stare at him. He's come as someone else this time. I don't know him, but I can see why Kronos chose him. He is tall, strong, and scary looking. Not to say ugly, but he looks like someone you don't want to fight with his piercing green eyes, chiseled facial features, and Terminator muscles. He may as well have picked Arnold Schwarzenegger himself.

"You like? I decided to go in a different direction this time. Luke was strong, idiotic fool that he was, but we all know he wouldn't last a second with my friend Mark," he smirks. (Vain much?) Beside me Annabeth tenses. Luke had saved her life, and brought her to Camp Half-Blood along with Thalia and Grover. Even when he was Kronos she was protective of him. (No matter how much I disapproved.) And although I had only been his friend for a few months before he tried to kill me with a scorpion he was still a good guy at heart, and I couldn't help but become tense too.

"What? Too soon for jokes? Okay then, lets get on with it," he says, and out of nowhere a Hydra comes stomping through the theater, and people are losing their minds.

I pull out Riptide, and charge forward. One head charges back and I jump to the side at the last second stabbing it and being careful not cut off the head since two more will grow back. Hydra head number one roars in pain and when I hear two more join it I know Annabeth is going to work. With three of the heads already down the other six aren't so happy. Hydra heads number four and five almost instantly attack me and that's where being a son of Poseidon has it benefits. The water fountains go crazy with water spraying everywhere keeping the heads in place until I can get close enough to stab them.

"I've got it! Focus on the Kronos and the pig!" Annabeth yells. I nod, not too sure about it though.

I turn expecting Kronos to already have his sword and shield out I'm surprised to find him exiting through the side door. Without thinking twice I run after him dodging cars and questioning glances from civilizians. At the end of the parking lot he turns back around to laugh at me before he began to fade.

"This is a warning Percy Jackson. To remind you what can happen when you fight other people's battles. Do you really want to spend your last summer with Annabeth like this?" and just like that he vanished.

He left me there frozen and confused. What was he playing at? Turning me against the gods? Against my father? He has already tried that before, and it didn't work. And what did he mean about Annabeth? Last summer? Oh crap!.I run back towards the theater. I am an idiot to leave her alone in there like that.

"Annabeth!" I call rushing back inside worried when I see the dead body of the Hydra and not Annabeth. Of course tons of people are looking at me like I'm crazy and scrambling around to tell whichever 9-1-1 operator about every move I make. I could really careless. Whatever they saw wasn't as bad as the real thing since humans only see what the Mist allows them too.

"Percy, I'm okay," I breathe a sigh of relief when I see Annabeth running around the corner. "Come on, we need to go to Camp Half-Blood now! I've overheard several 9-1-1 calls to the police, they will be here any minute!" she sprints past me, and I follow her back to my car. (This is the third time I've had to run across this dag on parking lot!)

(DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE PERCY JACKSON CHARACTERS EXCEPT FOR THE OC'S THAT WILL APPEAR LATER IN THE STORY.)