Hey everyone! I'm sorry about not having updated in a while, but it was the holidays, and I got really distracted...happy new year! Well, I have not come up with a prophecy yet, so I will do a chapter with Annabeth! I hope you guys like it, but I'm confused with the whole "bottomless pit" concept, when Arachne said that there will be a "very hard fall". So, I hope you guys will forgive me if it's terrible, so...read on!

Annabeth

When Annabeth finally woke up, at first she didn't feel anything but the pain that was numbing her leg. She didn't know how long she had been out for, but she hoped not too long. Considering the fact that all the monsters in the universe came here when they died, well...that probably meant that they would have a monster attack about every hour – if not less. One of the things that Annabeth didn't know the answer to was how many monsters – approximately – there were in Tartarus.

And while Annabeth should have felt nothing but despair, she felt full of happiness. She had finally reunited with her Seaweed Brain for good, even if she was in the most evil place in the universe. But that didn't matter – it was a small detail. Well, aside that they had to out-smart Gaea's minions, but that wouldn't be a problem. After all, Annabeth was a daughter of Athena, and she was with Percy.

When she could finally see properly again – the light down in the pit wasn't too great, either: complete darkness with dim light coming from somewhere around them. Hardly enough to see, but eventually Annabeth became accustomed enough to it to make out Percy, who was sitting against the wall, his sword drawn. His face looked pale, and there were dark circles under his eyes. His hair looked terrible, and he was covered in scratches, bleeding in multiple places.

"Percy?" Annabeth asked. Her voice came out hoarse and weak-sounding.

He looked at her immediately and smiled feebly. "Annabeth! You're up."

"Yeah. How long...how long have I been out for?"

"It's hard to say, but maybe two or three days? A lot of monsters have been attacking, so maybe it was only one day...at least 24 hours."

"A whole day? How have you fought so much and not died by now?"

He managed another tired smile. "Well, I am pretty good at fighting with a sword, in case you haven't noticed. Now...mind if I take a break? Wake me up in a couple hours."

With that, he lie down on the dirt floor and instantly fell asleep.

"Alright," Sighed Annabeth while managing to get into a sitting position. "You can sleep. I'll just sit here and talk with the monsters."

She gingerly tested putting pressure on her leg. It hurt about as much as yesterday, but she figured that that was because of the fall. The ambrosia that she had eaten yesterday was still healing it. She was just lucky that she had enough strength to stand.

She sat back down again, carefully resting her foot down, but even that sent pain shooting up her leg. She gasped, and blinked back tears before starting to go through the pile of supplies that Percy had made, hoping to find some kind of thing to use for her leg.

She had lost her Bubble Wrap on the way down, as well as the makeshift splinter.

She sighed in relief as she came upon a canteen of nectar. Unscrewing it, she tilted it back...and there was nothing in it.

Glaring at it, she tossed it back on the ground. Just as she was about to look back to Percy, she noticed that something had fallen out – it must've been stuck to the bottom of the container.

She picked it up and sniffed it, when suddenly the realization hit her.

For some strange reason, somebody had shoved ambrosia squares into a nectar canteen.

She took a bite out of it and sighed contentedly. It reminded her of Camp Half-Blood...of the rare times that they served dessert – like on the Fourth of July, or maybe it tasted a little like that blue cake that she and Percy had shared on his birthday after he saved the world...

Suddenly she shoved the rest of the square in her mouth and stood up, wobbling and almost falling over a lot. She drew her knife and stood there, waiting for battle.

But when a kitten appeared instead of a vicious, blood-thirsty monster, she was more than a bit confused.

"Uh..." she said, then knelt down, keeping her knife in front of herself and pointed at the feline.

"Who – what are you?" she asked it, looking at it from head to toe.

It was the average size of a kitten, and was almost completely gray all over, except for the little patches of white here and there, like on its paws and nose.

"Hello, Annabeth." A voice suddenly called out, startling Annabeth and making her jump. At least she had eaten that ambrosia beforehand. It was a lot less painful to whack her leg on the ground now.

"We've met before, and I can assure you that I am not harmful. At least not to you, anyway."

"Uh...I...you're...wait – you're a talking cat?"

The cat sat down and stared at her. If Annabeth could read animal expressions, she'd even say that it was glaring at her.

"Annabeth, you know who I am. You've read the myths."

Annabeth looked down into the cats eyes. They were a startling shade of silver/yellow. Almost like a moon...suddenly she realized why the cat's voice had sounded so familiar. She had heard it before. Its owner had once saved her life on Mount Tam. She remembered the myths – about how Artemis turned into a cat to escape Typhon, who was about to kill her. Ever since then, she had been quietly referred to as the goddess of cats.

"Lady Artemis?"

The cat purred. "Yes Annabeth. I came here to give you a warning and to guide you. The only reason I was able to come here at all is because I am a cat – cats are stronger than you think."

"But...why have you come here? Why help us?"

Artemis sat straighter. "Because if you fail this part of your quest then the world is doomed to fall. I can guide you a little ways and help you avoid attacks that could slow you down. It is essential that you arrive at the Doors of Death at the same time that the rest of the Seven do. If you do not...well, as I said before, the world could very possibly be destroyed."

Annabeth nodded. She had been expecting this much, and she knew that it was incredibly important to have everything exact.

"Also, I have retrieved some of your belongings to help you through this part of the Underworld." With that, Artemis stood up and walked away from where she had been sitting.

Annabeth gasped. "How did you get these?"

"They ended up pretty close to where you fell."

Annabeth slowly picked the objects up.

One of them was a small, cell-phone-sized object that as soon as she pressed the right button would expand to a laptop. On the front of it was a glowing blue Delta.

She put it in her pocket, and then ever so slowly picked up the other thing. Its familiar presence made her calmer, and, hardly daring to hope she put it on her head and looked at herself.

She was invisible.

Well, the hat works! Yay! So, hope you enjoyed it and all that, sorry for not updating sooner! And thank you for all of your reviews! You guys are amazing!