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Chapter 3
ANNABETH P.O.V
Sure enough Percy walked over to his cabin and saw me standing there with my arms crossed. He had a surprised look on his face like he could not believe I was still
lingering around, but I was not going to leave until I got some sort of explanation. "Ummm.. Hi Annabeth" He responded. This time he did not interrupt when I asked
him "Why were you at the Big House?" I demanded. "Ummm… I got in trouble from the sink accident?" He said this in a questioning manner as if he was not sure
himself, I was not stupid, I knew he was lying. "What actually happened?" I said sending him one of my tell me now or I will kill you glares and he tried to get inside the
cabin but I blocked his way. "Annabeth, let me in!" he said frustrated. "Not until you tell what's up, seaweed brain," I responded. After five minutes of struggling he
sighed and told me about his dream. "Ok, I'm coming with you," I said firmly. "No you're not, I am going alone!" He snapped. Then I turned around and bolted to the
Big House with Percy behind me but because I had a head start I got there before him. Just as Percy made his way to the Big House I had already told Chiron I want to
go with him, and he agreed happily. I gave a smug look as I stood with my arms crossed amused that I had had my way. "Fine!" he said, and then stormed off to go get
packed for the quest. I knew he would thank me afterwards, for saving his sorry butt.
PERCY P.O.V
I can't believe it! The last thing I needed was for an opportunity for Annabeth to get hurt and now I had no choice but to go with her! Of course most of the time I owe
my life to Annabeth because she has saved me a countless amount of times from my good old friend, death. But if she died, I would never forgive myself, and neither
would Athena. In fact I'm sure she would send owls to haunt me for the rest of my life. We got packed and loaded the camp van, I just got my drivers licence so we
would be able to drive, to where, I have no idea. Before we left, we made a stop to Rachel's cave to she could give us a prophecy. As we walked to Rachel's Cave we
noticed that it was very decorated for a cave, in fact it did not even look like a cave. The cave was painted entirely gold with a few silver polka dots here and there. The
Cave even had a door with a knocker with Rachel's name engraved in it! This made me wonder how much time did she have to do all this. We knocked on the door with
the fancy Rachel branded door knocker. "Come on it," she said. When we when inside my jaw dropped, there was green carpet and pictures that Rachel drew hung up
on the wall, lots of furniture and even a mini fridge! Rachel was working on her latest masterpiece when we walked in. "Oh, hey guys whats up?" She said casually. My
ADHD got the best of me and I was distracted by all the small details inside of the room and replied "Wow, Rachel you really did outdo yourself." She chuckled and said
"Glad you liked it, but something tells me you are not here to see my very fashionable cave," she replied. Annabeth elbowed me back to reality. "Ouch!" I complained
rubbing my side but then I realized why I came here and I told Rachel about my dream. "Hmmm very strange… oh great I hear a prophecy coming along." Quickly
Annabeth got out a notepad and pen in time before Rachel got possessed again from the oracle spirit and started spewing out a prophecy.
Daughter of Wisdom, Son of the Sea
One of You Will Face, Insanity
The Sea Lays Trapped in the Clutches of Madness
The Key to Success is Conquering Fear
Son of the Sea, Help is Near
With that, Rachel returned back to normal and acted like nothing had happened a minute ago. My palms were sweaty and my breathing shaky, even though I had
received a prophecy before it was still creepy. I snapped quick out of my shock and looked at Annabeth, she looked a little shaken. "Hey you got it all written down?" I
asked her and she nodded. "Was it bad this time? Anything about death?" Rachel questioned. "Not death, but something about insanity," I replied wearily. "Well that
must be fun, I wish you guys good luck on your quest, Do Not Die." "We won't, thanks Rachel," I replied. "Anytime," Rachel said. I grabbed the still-speechless
Annabeth by the hand and we exited.
ANNABETH P.O.V
As Rachel had read out her prophecy, I quickly jotted everything down but the line saying one of us was going to go insane really worried me. I remember a few years
ago during the battle of the labyrinth, Chris Rodriguez who went insane in the labyrinth and I remembered how he looked, it was enough to break Clairesse down in
tears, I could not afford that happening to Percy. If it was not for Dionysus (he was actually useful for once), he would have gone to the point where he probably would
have died, but he did not have him on the quest with us. Percy drove me out of my thoughts when he asked me: "Hey, are you ok?" He asked, looking concerned.
"Yeah, just thinking if the gods would get angry at me for delaying the construction of Olympus," I lied. He grinned and said "I'm sure they would not mind, besides they
are probably too busy trying to get everything back to normal to bother about where they are sitting, except maybe Aphrodite." This made me chuckle despite my
uneasy feeling about the prophecy. "So any idea where to go?" I asked but I doubted he had a plan. Sure enough, it turned out that I was correct, but what's new?
When does that seaweed filled brain ever have a plan? I thought for a few minutes and said "Ok so if Poseidon was near the London Clock Tower, then he should be
somewhere in London correct?" He nodded with agreement, "But to get to London, you have to fly and if we did that then Zeus would shoot me out of the sky," he
replied with a shudder. "Yes but I also know you can take a boat to London also," I said in a matter-of-fact tone. "Yeah but if you haven't noticed, we are in a van," he
said as if it never occurred to me. "Good observation, Seaweed Brain but we have mortal cash so we can rent a boat, I know, we can drive today as far as we can to get
to the sea, then we can stay at a hotel and in the morning we can rent a boat for the week." I said, proud of my planning skills. "Good plan, though I hope we can
return the boat back to the owner in one piece," he said snickering. "Very true," I admitted. While Percy drove all day taking breaks in between to eat and stretch, I
found a hotel close to the boating docks where we could rent a boat. "Percy, which one is better, a smaller boat that comes with a built in washroom, and bedroom or
this other bigger boat that comes with a built in kitchen?" "Normally I would say the kitchen because you know… food, but we can do takeout from anywhere so I would
stick with the first option," he replied. "Ok, rented," I said. "Ok great, we are five minutes from the hotel, its reserved under Jackson I believe," he said. "Yes it is, you
check in while I empty the trunk," I instructed. After about 15 minutes, we had checked in, unpacked and gotten into bed; the room was spacious with two single beds,
a mini kitchen and a couch with a flat screen T.V but we were way too exhausted to watch T.V so we went to sleep. I wondered what tomorrow would bring us,
surprisingly we did not meet any trouble today, that might just be because like three quarters of the monsters in the world are in Tartarus after being killed in the Gaea
war. But knowing our luck, I knew that something was going to happen.
PERCY P.O.V
That night I had a dream that was very weird because unlike most demigod dreams where they give a hint about the future, this dream was about the past. I was on
the Princess Andromeda again, I was on my mission to blow up Luke's ship but me and Beckendorf had got caught by one of Luke's goons. Then Charlie had said he
would distract them while I threw the Greek fire, my present self tried to scream to my past to stop but my voice did not work and I watched in horror as I blew up the
boat and I quickly retreated to the water, leaving Beckendorf in the Greek fire. Then the scene went black and I heard a raspy voice whispering to me, Perseus Jackson,
you had betrayed your friend, left him to die while all you did was hand Luke the sword, yet you get to live? I tried to tell the voice to shut up but I knew what it said
was correct. Go home now, let me keep Poseidon, when did he ever help you anyways? My voice again started to work and I screamed at the voice to leave. It laughed
wickedly and whispered then say goodbye to your mind and anything you desired, nothing will be spared. Those were her last words and then my dreams changed to
my future, I was clasping my head and crumbling to the ground, leaving Annabeth crying out to me but I could not hear her. "No!"I screamed, then I jumped awake in
the hotel room, somebody was shaking my shoulder and calling my name. When I was fully awake, I realized my commotion had woken up Annabeth and now she was
looking at me with wide eyes, concerned. "Percy! Are you ok? You were screaming in your sleep!" she asked frantically. I rubbed my eyes and responded "Yeah I'm ok,
just a bad dream, sorry for waking you up." She relaxed a bit but still looked concerned, "That's ok, I was mostly just worried, Anything you want to talk to me about?"
she asked softly. I was NOT going to tell her my dream because I did not want her to worry about me, I'm not going to go all crazy and as much as I was guilty about
my friends who died for me, they did not die for nothing, the world was safe again. But still… its true that my fatal flaw is loyalty and I still sometimes wish that I could
have done something different that could have saved them. "Umm no it was not… not that important," I said. Thankfully she did not push me and went back to bed, "Ok
but remember, I am here for you Seaweed brain, if there is something bothering you, you can let me know," she said. "Yeah, thanks Wise Girl," I said but I knew I
would not tell her because I did not want her to become paranoid for me. "Anytime," she said, and soon enough she drifted off to sleep. I did not bother going back to
sleep because I did not need anymore of those crazy dreams, so I decided to go for a walk. I tiptoed out of the room, grabbed my coat and took a walk outside along
the boat docking places. I thought about the prophecy, I knew that me and Annabeth were part of it because of the line saying daughter of Athena, Son of the Sea, I
also got a hunch that I would be the one going insane because of my dream, which was not reassuring at all. I wondered in which way the prophecy meant by insane.
Does it mean insane that I will take great risks that I have never taken before? After all that does then kinda make sense with the last line of conquering fear, or does it
mean that I am insane over Annabeth? Which I am and don't need a prophecy to tell me that, Or it could mean the insane as in mentally unstable insane which I hope
was not because I like being sane thank you very much. The last two lines are also quite clear, I am going to face one of my fears, probably something about loyalty but
someone will be there to help so maybe another Olympian will come to help? The one line that does not make sense was the one about the sea being held by madness.
The sea is probably Poseidon but madness? Who could that be? Maybe it's not even another god, maybe it was just Poseidon fighting a war within, but I could not be
sure until it actually happened. I checked the time, shoot! It was 9:00! We have got to get going, so I rushed back to the hotel to get ready for our water adventure.