Chapter One: Betrayal

Percy's POV

I hit the bed early that night. Dear gods I'm tired, I thought. To think a half-blood can't live a normal life for once. "Nico!" I yelled through the thin hotel walls. He came trudging in like a zombie (being a son of Hades I'm honestly not surprised anyway) and sat on the sofa. He picked up the TV remote.

"Nico," I said again.

"Ugh…" he replied. We were all kind of down. We abandoned camp half-blood after, an incident. I tried not to think about it much, for all it does is make me cry. Anyway, now it was days and nights awake on edge. Three people, trying to escape something so small. Ruby came in the room, and slumped down next to Nico. Her hair burned bright red, whatever that means. Our eyes met, and she knew exactly what I was thinking.

I sighed and sat up. You're probably like, why are you so depressed dude, but it's so amazingly simple, yet complex.

One Year Earlier…

I stood there, shell-shocked at what I was seeing. Emails to my girlfriend, Annabeth were open on the screen of her laptop. He was talking all sweet, and calling her cute names and stuff. I was praying that it was some twisted joke.

That's when Annabeth came in and saw me looking at the emails. "Oh my gods Percy, it's not what it looks like. H-" I cut her off before she could say anymore.

"WHAT IS IT THEN, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE CHEATING ON ME WITH SOME MORAL!"

"Percy please, I-" She tried, but I wasn't buying any of it.

"I guess I'm just not good enough for you wise girl. I only fought two wars, and fell into Tartarus for you, but it doesn't compare to what some mortal can do. I guess I'll go now." I bolted out the door, tears streaming down my face.

So I guess you're pretty depressed or bored now, well let me summarize the fact that I met a girl in the wood named Ruby, who was also a half-blood and a daughter of Hestia. We kind of, did everything together. It really helped me, and she was cheerful. I agreed to be friends with Annabeth, but as much as she wanted me back, I turned her down.

Several months passed and I was my normal self again. Nico and Ruby were great company, well Nico is more of a creepy little fellow hanging in the back, but hey, he's a good friend. Then Ruby started getting pranked. I won't say what all the stuff was but it was getting dangerous.

I spent so long trying to find the pranker, but it was one of my best friends of all time.

Annabeth's POV

Seeing Percy walking next to that red haired girl all the time made my blood boil. She kept blushing hard looking down to hide it, then Percy would "save" her from colliding into something, making her blush so hard she looked like she was on fire. I could tell she liked him, and he may like her too, but I've got news for her. Percy is mine and mine alone. I'll make sure she realizes that.

Later when Percy walked away to get his food while she went over to her table, I walked up to her and tripped her. Food went everywhere and she hit her head with an "ow". "Listen you-" I started but was hit by a plate of food. I removed a blue pancake from my face, to see Percy helping Ruby up with a mad expression on his face.

"ANNABETH!" He bellowed. "Your lucky I forgave you back then, but If you lay another hand on ruby, no one will be able to save you." At this point my legs were trembling. I bolted for Athena cabin plan already in mind.

Rubys POV

All I wanted was to give my best friend some flowers for taking me under his wing when it was taken the wrong way, I guess. When I walked past the tree patch in camp, a bunch of boys and girls with bronze knifes surrounded me. One knocked the flowers from my hands while the other tied my to a tree, and taped my mouth shut. Uh-oh.

I realized one of the kind quickly. Annabeth. "You're making it hard for Percy to take me back, but now you're out of the picture," she said

They slowly approached me with there knifes. I wanted to scream "What did I do to deserve this" or better yet, "Percy help," so he could come and say something heroic like, "never fear firefly."

In probably the last moments of my life I admitted to myself I liked him, which I think was pretty darn obvious.

Then the ground shook, and most the kids fell off there feet. When they turned they gasped. There was Percy. Instead of attacking me, they charged at him. I'll just say Percy looked like a demon (a cute demon though!) whipping threw the kids, knocking them out on by one. The last was Annabeth.

"I said to stay away from her, but now you half to pay." He attacked wildly, and she tried to defend but even she was no match for Percy. He took her down quick, and she only had a black eye and some bruises.

Flashback end

Percy's POV

So I freed Ruby, and she gave me a small kiss. Athena (Annabeth's mom) came down and forbid her from seeing me, thank god.

Everyday though, Annie still looked at me in a dreamy way. I grabbed my stuff, as well as Nico and Ruby and left without thinking.