Chapter 2: Betrayal

Percy POV

I woke up to the sight of several pairs of eyes.

"What the-" I shouted startled, sitting up. I immediately regretted it when a sharp pain flared up in my chest.

"Whoa Percy, your ribs aren't fully healed yet. Relax," someone said pushing me back down.

"What happened?" I asked rubbing my forehead. Everything felt so loud and the room was too bright.

"Well, do you want the long version or the short version?" Thalia asked.

"Short version please."

"Well you crashed into a mountain, beat Porphyrion up and killed him. But while doing that you released too much energy for your body to handle at once and you fainted. Way to go Kelp Head," Thalia explained smirking.

"Oh," I said.

"Oh? That's all you say? You almost died! You frickin' crashed into a mountain and got shot by a lightning bolt twice and that's all you say? Oh?!" Annabeth yelled.

"Yep."

"Ugh, Seaweed brain," Annabeth said hugging me.

"It's good to see you awake Perseus," a familiar voice said.

"Chiron," I said smiling.

"Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, Nico, I believe percy needs his rest," he said.

All four sighed.

"But we didn't get to t-" grover and Nico complained before they were interrupted.

"Come on Goathead and Death Breath," Thalia said dragging the two by their ears out of the infirmary.

"See you later Seaweed brain," Annabeth smiled planting a kiss on my lips. I smiled and that was how I fell asleep.

2 weeks later

My breakfast was interrupted by the sound of a horn. It has been 2 weeks since I healed and I have been enjoying the peace. I think I might actually get to live a normal life. Or as normal as you can get being a demigod.

New campers have been coming in floods and the Romans sometimes visit. But I have been enjoying this time with my awesome, beautiful, and ass-kicking girlfriend, Annabeth.

About a week ago I gave her a promise ring and I've been incredibly happy since.

Anyway, back to my interrupted breakfast. The campers trudged up the hill to Thalia's pine tree. When I reached the top I saw a boy running away from 2 dracnae. I quickly took out Riptide and ran down to help him.

"Hey!" I called out to him.

The boy looked up and sent me a look that said "help-me-now!"

I leapt at the dracnae and quickly disarmed one and stabbed the other in the chest. I spun around and lifted my sword just in time to block a knife from the "disarmed" dracnae. I kicked it away and sliced off its head. I turned around and saw the boy come toward me.

"Hi, I'm Percy," I smiled holding out my hand.

He ignored it and bent down to pick up something behind me. Once he had it he rolled around in the monster dust and ran up the hill to the campers who couldn't see the fight because of the trees.

I trudged back up the hill, confused by the boy's actions. I was greeted by some glares.

"Well its about time you got here!" Clarisse yelled.

"What?" I asked.

"You left Theo to battle the dracnae on his own!" she yelled.

"What? I killed them!" I said in shock.

"Really? Then how do you explain him being covered in monster dust with a dracnae claw?" she demanded.

I looked over at "Theo" and he was smirking. What the heck did I ever do to him?

I shifted my gaze to look at my friends. Nico and Thalia were glaring at Theo and Grover, Annabeth, Katie Gardner, and the Stolls had a confused look on their faces.

I shook my head. Then I laughed. The smirk melted off Theo's face and my friends began laughing along with me.

"Okay, believe what you want. Whatever. I don't crave attention. So yeah, oh and Thalia, I'm sorry," I said, the last part because there was a lightning bolt over Theo's head.

"Ugh," Thalia groaned face-palming.

"Ha, I'm a son of Zeus. bow to me!" Theo said standing up straighter.

Some idiots actually bowed to him. Probably the new campers. mY friends and I just rolled on the ground laughing.

"Us? Bow to you?" Thalia said wiping her eyes. "I don't thinks so. Percy was and is the Hero Of Olympus twice! What have you done?"

"I killed two dracnae without training!" Theo said.

"You mean Percy killed two draconae. Who would actually believe it was you? Besides, and Kelp Head you better not get a big head over this, Percy killed the Minotaur with his bare hands a few hours after he discovered he was a demigod."

"Pfft, whatever," he said walking away, a few new campers following him.

Once only my friends were the only one's left, I started laughing again.

"What a douchebag!" I said in between laughs. "Oh and Thalia, thanks."

Thalia put her arm over my shoulders and was laughing hard too. "Just remember what I said. Your head doesn't need to get any bigger. It's already the size of the ocean your dad rules.

I pouted and everyone began laughing again. Eventually, we calmed down and went off to our daily activities.

2 weeks later

Theo. Is. An. Idiot.

The guy is super annoying. All the new campers were under the impression that Theo had strangled Porphyrion with his bare hands or something and that all my adventures were just "made up propaganda."

Much to Theo's dismay however, I didn't care. Sure he was annoying but as long as I had my friends then I was fine. Every now and then I just leave camp to visit my mother's and Paul's graves and I've learned to heal. Everytime I return from those visits though Theo's standing there with his posse which was getting really irritating. I just ignore them and walk to my cabin or some other place.

Theo must have figured out that I didn't care about his badmouthing me as long as I had my friends. However, one day that number started to dwindle. First, it was the Stolls. They walked up to me one day and accused me of ratting them out on a big prank they were going to pull and getting them punished.

The next day, Katie Gardner slapped me, saying I had torched her garden the day before she was going to harvest the vegetable in int. By now I was getting worried. Someone was framing me. All I had now were Grover and Annabeth since Thalia and Nico were out doing their duties for the gods and Jason, Piper, and Leo were at the Roman camp with Frank and Hazel.

Then the day came when Grover yelled at me for almost burning down juniper's tree and for breaking the reed pipes that were given to him by his great grandfather. It was now when I realized how much I really needed Annabeth. I wanted something that would make sure she would be by my side forever.

I found myself at Olympus, asking permission from Athena to marry Annabeth. Surprisingly she said yes. I guess jumping into Tartarus for Annabeth has its perks. I already had the ring picked out I had planned to ask her tonight on the beach. I looked all over camp for her to tell her to meet at 7 but I couldn't find her. I asked Malcolm but he just glared at me and told me he hadn't seen her. Great, his mom might approve but he as sure as Hades didn't. I went to the beach, a small box bearing the ring in my pocket, to relax and clear my thoughts to make sure I knew how to do this but what I found was something unexpected.

I saw Theo making out with some blonde. Probably someone from the
Aphrodite cabin. I snuck closer to see who it was. I know creepy right? Spying on two people making out. Well, it turned out to be useful because what I saw broke my heart.

On the blonde's left hand was a ring. The promise ring I had given to Annabeth.

The two broke apart. "Come on Annabeth, just break up with him. Look at who he is. He's betrayed his own friends. How long before he betrays you. Stay with me and break up with him," Theo told her.

Annabeth smiled. "Your right. He's not the boy he used to be. I can't be with such a bad person," she said grabbing Theo's face and kissing him.

If only you knew the truth, I thought. I walked silently away, leaving the box that held what could have been a wonderful future, in the sand.