Hi! Chapter Two! I'm so excited! Yay! Okay, I'm overreacting. Enjoy!

Chapter Two: "The one" arrives (finally)

Even though we got back to camp safely, I was sure something had happened. The freak weather continued day and night, which made me pretty suspicious that it wasn't just some normal freak storm. Something had happened after we left Olympus, or maybe when we were there. Something had made the gods angry…but I just couldn't think of anything logical. So naturally, I went to a lot of trouble finding out. I'm sorry, but that's just me. I can't stand not knowing. After a lot of careful talking and nudging, I managed to get some information out of the satyrs, though only one thing was clear—something was stolen. Something important, that had to be returned by the summer solstice.

I couldn't ask Chiron about it either, because he'd left for the mortal world after the winter holidays were over in the mortal world. Said he had some business and that he wouldn't return until summer. That did not help my mood. In fact, it only made me more grumpy. I put up with Clarisse threatening to bash my head out every three seconds. And Luke. He seemed to be pondering and calculating something every time I approached him. The freak weather continued. Even though the storms passed around camp, I could still hear the BOOM BOOM CLASH like two immensely large tambourines smashed together. New campers arrived. I got more cranky when none of them seemed to be 'the one'. Finally, when a child of Aphrodite told me "I thought you were smart" after I told her the wrong answer to "Why did the chicken cross the road?", I threw the marble bust of Athena I was making at her and well, she ended up in the infirmary for a few days due to my good aim.

Life went on. Summer came and Chiron came back a few weeks before the summer solstice. That made me considerably more happy. I mean, Chiron's like a dad to me. Either way, he also announced that Grover was coming soon, with an important package. My hopes soared—the only thing Grover could be bringing was another half-blood.

"He'll succeed," I said to Chiron reassuringly, though I felt like I was reassuring myself rather than Chiron.

Chiron just smiled. "I know he will." That night, there was another freakish thunderstorm. Actually I would like to correct myself. It was more like a hurricane, though we shouldn't have been getting hurricanes that early in the season. I had just fell asleep (as much as I could sleep with the thunder) I had a dream. I could almost hear my subconsciousness groaning "Nooooo".

First thing you should know: demigod dreams are hardly ever just dreams. We get messages from them. Sometimes, we see things from the past of our enemies and friends. We even get glimpses of the future. And let me tell you, they are not pleasant. Big no no. This time though, I dreamed of something that I did not understand. At all. At first, I just was walking along the beach of Camp Half-Blood, relaxing, thinking about completely irrelevant things. Like a normal 12 year old girl. Then, things started going wrong. The sky went from sunny to hurricane mode in like bazillion miles per second. I turned on my heels in the sand to run back to my cabin and it started raining like crazy. Wind blew from all directions, making it hard to see. At least my mind was still clear. I thought: How is weather getting into the camp? Then, with raindrops pelting me (I never knew drops of water could be so scary), I ran…straight into the side of a cabin. What? I backed up in my dream and rubbed my forehead. I blinked. I was in a completely different part of Long Island, the vacation type of ocean scenery thing with cabins littering the beach. I squinted at the sign not far from where I stood and barely made out something like: Omnatuk.

I stared the sign more, until it looked more like English: Montuak. Oh! It must've been Montauk. Montauk? I frowned. Why would I appear here? I didn't have any connection to the place. Then I heard a angry roar from somewhere further. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. There was a constant thump thump thump that I was pretty sure wasn't there the moment ago. My heartbeat increased. I wondered if I could die in a dream. If so, would I die in the real world too? A figure made it's way to the cabin. I just watched, frozen to the spot, while I got soaked to my bones. I held my breath, and…

"Grover?" I gasped in surprise. But Grover ignored me. He ran (as much as he could run) to the cabin door and pounded on it. He wasn't wearing his pants or fake feet, though I didn't have much time to ponder on why. I moved and staggered over to him.

"Hey Grover!" I yelled in his ear but he ignored me completely. Okay. So I'm not actually there. Some kind of relief for me, I thought.

Grover pounded on the door and yelled desperately for whoever inside to open it. The door flew open and I saw a woman and a boy about my age inside. The boy had sea green eyes and a jet black hair. His mother, I assumed the woman was his mother, had long brown hair and brown eyes with crinkles under them that gave me the impression that she smiled a lot.

"Searching all night," Grover gasped. "What were you thinking?" The woman had a terrified look on her face, though she didn't seem to be scared of Grover.

"Percy!" she shouted over the wind, "What happened at school? What didn't you tell me?" The boy, Percy, looked at Grover then at his mom.

"O Zeu kai alloi theoi!" he yelled. "It's right behind me! Didn't you tell her?" My brain had problem getting started up. Huh? was all I could think at the moment. There was another angry bellow, and it did not sound exactly human. The mom looked at her son.

"Percy," she said, deadly calm, "Tell me now!" Percy opened his mouth to speak but right at that moment, there was a particularly loud CRACK-ing sound of the thunder and I jolted awake.

Outside there really was a thunderstorm. I hadn't dreamed that up. I thought about the confusing mess I'd just saw, and the only logical thing that I came up was: Grover and his package (meaning the demigod which was probably the guy called Percy) were in some kind of danger. I glanced around at my cabin mates. None of them had been woken up. I got out of bed quietly, eased the door open and headed to the Big House.

I sat on the porch chair. It was probably the middle of the night, but didn't exactly feel like going back to my cabin to have another confusing dream, so I just sat there. I might've even dosed off a few times, and thankfully, no dreams for me. Then, just as my eyelids were getting droopy for the eleventh time in a row, the was a loud, angry, tortured, pained bellow. It sounded exactly like the ones from my dream. Except this time it was real. And this time it came from just on top of Half-Blood Hill. I stood up, alert. I heard the sound of hooves clopping and Chiron came out too.

"No," he murmured, watching the scene on the hill.

There was the distant figure of a boy and something much larger than a normal human. As I watched, the thing charged the boy with it's head down and things coming out the side of it's head. Then I realized those were horns. Bull horns. And the way the monster charged...

"The Minotaur," I said.

"Hush, child," said Chiron. "Names have—"

"Powers, yeah I know," I snapped. It didn't mean to come out like that, but it just did. Then something else popped up in my mind.

"But if that's the Minotaur," I said, my mind working fast, "Then that guy there is totally dead." They struggled for a bit more, and I wasn't really sure what happened the whole time but there were a few more bellows from the monster. Finally, the fight ended. I was pretty sure that the guy had been shish-ke-babbed by the Minotaur, but a figure started coming down the hill while half dragging another. When he got into hearing range I could hear him crying, for his mom or something like that. The guy staggered up the steps and I almost jumped. It was the guy I'd saw in my dream, the one called Percy. And the unconscious one…it was Grover. Percy fell down and lay there. He didn't seem really hurt, but his face was streaked with dirt and dried tears. His sea green eyes were still open, though they were closing slowly.

"He's the one. He must be," I said, excited.

"Silence, Annabeth," Chiron said, "He's still conscious. Bring him inside."

Dun dun dunnnnn. Yay! It's starting to match the original book. A piece of advise from me. You can read the original along with this fanfic for the matching words effect. Well, that's how I'm writing this fanfic. Use the exact same words. Anyways, hope you liked it!

-mi5hao