Hey guys. I know, kill me. I'm so so sooooooo sorry that I didn't update, but I have sorta given up on writing fanfiction, and only reading it. I also found out that long stories are harder to write than one shots, which is why I am probably sticking to oneshots.

So, today I was checking my profile (You all do it, I know. Don't blame me) because I am so modest, and I realised one very important thing. My writing is cringey. This story is honestly one of the only chaptorial story that did not want to make me curl up in a ball in embarrassment. Gods, how did you manage to read it? I am deleting Happy Birthday Percy, because that thing sucked. Somebody should have told me that my attempt to look like a professional fanfiction writer flopped and saved me the embarrassment.

So, I was reading this story and as I reached the end, I mentally shouted at the writer because she left me on a cliffhanger, before of course realising that I wrote it. So now I'm trying to complete this, and also now my authors note is getting tooo long.

Disclaimer – I do not own PJO, because my name is not Rick Riordan, or maybe it is… *grins evilly*.

CHAPTER….4?

I ran out of the door, resisting Piper's attempt to catch me. I didn't care. How could they not tell me that Rose was going to Dallas in three days? She was a best friend.

I could hear Percy say, 'Relax' to Annabeth and Annabeth saying, "What they hell do you mean relax?' and Leo asking who Rose was and Rachel explaining.

I walked out of the gate of Goode high and realised that there was a small problem. I had never been to Rose's house before. I had no clue where it is. She could be in San Francisco, and flying to school every morning, for all I knew. Her family was really rich and she and Rachel often have friendly banters discussing who was richer.

Didn't she usually take right everytime we leave the school? I follow that and walk to the right. Something also tells me that the richest people live in that area, so I listen to it.

Annabeth catches up to me, a second later, so does Piper.

"Tashie, relax." Annabeth says. "She only said might."

"She said might." I say.

"Besides, you'll miss school. I don't know about you, but that's one thing I do not want to do."

I stop and turn so I'm facing Annabeth. "Then you go to school. I don't care. I find that Rose is much more important."

Annabeth tries to say something, but suddenly she focuses on something behind me and pales considerably. "Holy Hera" She mutters.

Piper follows her gaze and pales too. "I'll um call backup." She says running off. I hear her mutter, "I should follow Annabeth and bring Katoptris (think that's how it's spelled) ".
"What?" I snap irritated and turn around, and gasp.

Standing in front of me are 4 hellhounds.

Annabeth quickly takes a dagger of sorts from underneath her sleeve and charges at one. She swipes the dagger at it and I see the hellhound backing away, hurt, golden blood leaking. She swipes at it again it disentergrates.

Percy, Jason and Leo arrive by then. Percy takes out a pen from his pocket (if he had one, why did he keep asking me for pens the whole of last year?) and uncaps it. Lo and behold, I see a sword. He charges into battle and so does Jason, with a sword of his own, I did not see where he got it. Leo kept chucking strange things at the hellhounds- Nuts, Bolts, Hammers, saws.

Rachel hugs me and I realise that I'm staring open mouthed at the scene in front of me. She turns me away from battle and tells me to close my eyes. I do.

In the background, I here swords, cries, the background sounds of the movie Troy. Randomly, Piper shouts command like, "Miss." "Die" and "Sleep."

Then I hear silence. I open my eyes and turn around. I see Annabeth, Percy and Jason covered in golden powder.

"You guys saw that?" I ask.

Ever since I was small I see things. I see monsters and strange dreams and whatnot. It sort of disappeared when I was twelve, and I put it off as nightmares I had when I was a baby. IT came again last year, though I wasn't sure that I actually saw them, just a peak of a hellhound turning the corner, a hint of empousai legs under a lady at the shopping mall, those kind of things.

Percy stares at me in bewilderment. "Wait, you saw that?"

I nod.

"Your parents are dead, right?" Jason asks cautiously.

I nod again, not sure where this is going.

"But she's been in Goode her whole life. She can read and write and she doesn't have ADHD." I hear Annabeth mutter.

I close my eyes. Maybe it's a bad dream. I suddenly open them, when I feel a tingly sensation pass through me, around my stomach. I see Percy standing in front of me, his sword raised.

"PERCY!" Annabeth screamed. "You would have almost killed her. What if she was one of us?"

Percy seemed to Just realise that. "Yeah." He admitted sheepishly. "I would have stopped had I seen blood."

"What?" I ask in confusion. "What happened?"

"This" Percy says and swipes his sword at me in one swift moment. I scream but nothing happens. The sword goes right through me.

"What just happened?" I ask. How can a sword pass right through me?

Rachel says. "She's like me."

Annabeth looks grim. "Yeah. A mortal who can see."

Parapam. The end of the chapter. How did you like it? I love my new twist.

I um made Rachel turn Natasha away from the battle because I can't write action scene very well. It's all, swipe, one dead, swipe another one dead, according to me.

While writing this story, I have planned out the rest. There's going to be 2 more chapters, and then one final epilogue.

I apologize if it's too short.

~BooksAndHotChocolate.