This one is placed in Camp Half-Blood/Mount Olympus.


This summer, Annabeth and Percy were returning as counselors. They just finished junior year at college, Annabeth at Columbia and Percy at NYU. Both Annabeth and Percy were excited because Annabeth had finally finished designing the new Olympus and as they are counselors now, there won't be any prophecies that will include them. They were finally going to have a normal summer.

This however changed when Chiron announced that the Gods are celebrating the newly constructed Mount Olympus and the defeat of Gaea, also known as the Heroes Ball. All demigods that were not busy on quests were supposed to attend. All seven Heroes had to attend.

Neither Percy nor Annabeth wanted to attend. Yes, all the work of constructing Mount Olympus was finally done. But neither one of them wanted to attend a ball in which all Gods were going to be at. Especially when both of them were so to speak guests of honor as they are the Heroes. They get along with most Gods but there are those few which neither of them can stand. One of them was Hera.

The only slightly positive point was that Aphrodite was in charge of dressing the Heroes, which meant no dress shopping for Annabeth and no suit shopping for Percy. Which suited Annabeth and Percy very well, but they were getting a makeover from Aphrodite, which well you know what I mean.

This did not however stop there. Aphrodite was organizing the party, therefore it mean that all demigods had to learn how to dance, especially the Heroes as there was going to be a Heroes dance. Percy didn't want to do this but then again, he couldn't dance so what harm could it do. At that point he hadn't realized that the dancing lessons were going to start as soon as possible, with a two hour training each day. The sooner they got better, the less training they would have.

What Aphrodite also organized was that the boys and girls (demigods) would not dance together, so that it would be a nice surprise, if they did manage to learn how to dance by then. There were nymphs to dance with them during training.


"Ugh, I'm so sore. I can't feel my legs anymore." Percy said as he sat down clumsily next to Annabeth at the beach.

"Aww, poor Seaweed Brain." Annabeth laughed.

"What's so funny?"

"Oh, nothing."

"Wait why aren't you sore? Didn't you have dance lessons today?"

"No, you see the girls can actually dance. We only have lessons twice a week."

"What?! That is so not fair!"

"Well, you should get better and then your legs won't be so sore."

"Wait are you calling me a bad dancer?"

"Maybe…" Annabeth replied when just at that moment Percy tackled her so that he had her pinned down in the sand.

"How dare you call me bad dancer. Take it back." He demanded

"Never"

Percy placed his head right above hers, as if leaning in for a kiss but stopping just out of her reach. She struggled to get her head up to kiss him.

"Come on Percy"

"Never" He replied imitating her.

He could see Annabeth calculating in her head, trying to decide what option was best. "Ok fine, you're not a bad dancer. I've seen you dance with a nymph, you're not too bad."

"Really?"

"Oh shut up, Seaweed Brain." She replied, using the moment to release her hands to pull him closer to her. Percy smiled and kissed her.


They had taken the opportunity of having a free afternoon to go have a picnic at the beach.

"So how was your morning?"

"It was good, I almost got stabbed by a 12 year old but other than that it was fine. Yours?"

Annabeth laughed at that and replied, "It was good, nothing exceptionally special happened."

Suddenly the Goddess of Love appeared and glared at them.

"What are you two doing here?"

"We're having a picnic which you are standing on."

Aphrodite stepped to the side, still glaring at them. "The ball is TONIGHT! You were supposed to meet at the Big House an hour ago, to leave for Mount Olympus."

"Oops." They responded in unison.

"Yes oops, now get your lazy butts off the ground. I'm going to make the exception that you can travel with me, even if it's not allowed but we have no time."

In no time they were on Mount Olympus, "Just don't tell Zeus about that, Ok?"

"Okay." They responded.

"Percy you go that way, you'll find a house that has a banner on top saying BOYS. And Annabeth, follow me." The Goddess told them.

"See you later Wise Girl" Percy said, giving Annabeth a kiss.

"See you later"


Percy suddenly got very nervous; Aphrodite had just said that the Ball had begun. This means that in 10 minutes they were going to enter the Hall by the Big Stairs. From the top of the stairs, there were two doors. Each door had a separate staircase which then met with the other and then cascaded down into the Hall. One door was for the boys and the other for the girls. As most of the Heroes were couples, with the exception of Leo (who is with Calypso but she isn't a hero), they were going to enter in pairs.

They were given the order in which they were to leave the room. Percy wasn't really listening; he was getting very nervous, checking his pockets very few seconds for the small velvet box in his new white tuxedo.

Suddenly it was his turn to go; he noticed that he was the last one in the room.

The door opened and he walked down the stairs. He was making sure he wasn't going to trip, but when he looked up, he saw the most beautiful girl. She was wearing a long, strapless seagreen dress that trailed behind her. Her honey blond hair was open in their natural 'princess curls'. And to top it all off, it was his girl, Annabeth. Percy had to force himself to close his mouth and continue down the stairs. Once they meant in the middle, Percy kissed her on her cheek and offered her his arm.

He vaguely heard a voice announcing: "Hero Perseus Jackson, Son of Poseidon and Architect of Olympus and Hero Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena."

He whispered into Annabeth's ear, "You look stunning."

"Thanks"

They reached the bottom of the stairs, still standing on a platform. On the platform were all the Heroes. Zeus stood up from his throne and cleared his throat. "We, Gods, would like to thank the Heroes. We don't like admitting this but if it weren't for them, none of us would be here tonight. We would also like to thank Miss Annabeth Chase for designing our new Mount Olympus.

And now, let the feast to begin"

Tables showed up all around the room. Percy led Annabeth to the Heroes table and helped her sit on her chair.

"You're being such a gentleman today."

"Why thank you, my lady." He replied showing off his signature crooked grin, as the nymph waiters came and took their orders.

After dinner, Percy led Annabeth to the gardens. They walked around a bit until they arrived at the most beautiful part of the garden. There was a beautiful fountain along with statues of various Gods and a large assortment of rare flowers. Percy turned and looked into Annabeth's stormy grey eyes.

"What's wrong Perce?"

"Nothing, ummm actually I have something I want to tell you."

"What do you want to tell me?"

"Do you promise to not interrupt and let me finish?"

"Yeah sure I promise."

"Annabeth, we've been through a lot. More than most couples. The best thing I like about our relationship is that we were best friends before we started dating. I can tell you anything and vs versa. I think I fell in love with you a long time ago, more than I'd like to admit. You are the most beautiful and intelligent girl I know. When I was in the Styx becoming invincible, the only thing that kept me from drowning was you and then when I was offered immortality, I considered it but then I looked at you and I realized that I would much rather grow old with you than be immortal. And then when Hera whipped my memory and brought me to Camp Jupiter, the only thing that I could remember from my past was you. And the only reason for that was that you weren't in my mind, Annabeth, you were in my heart. Annabeth, you are the love of my life and there is no other person that I would rather want to share it with."

At this point, there were tears running down Annabeth's face.

"What I'm trying to say is," Percy got down on one knee and pulled out the small velvet box and opened it revealing a beautiful diamond ring.

"Annabeth Chase, will you marry me?"

"Yes, of course Seaweed Brain"

Percy slid the ring onto her ring finger, stood up and gave a long kiss.

"I love you Wise Girl"

"I love you too Perce"


They arrived hand in hand at the Hall. They arrived just in time because Aphrodite was announcing a few things. She then said, "The first dance was supposed to be for the Heroes but there has been a small change of plan. This first dance will be opened by the newly engaged couple."

Everyone looked around confused to find this newly engaged couple. Percy looked at Annabeth, "May I have this dance?" offering her his arm.

"Of course" she said as she took his arm.

Percy led her to the center of the Hall. As they walked there, they received several gasps and a lot of 'awws'.

Once they reached the center, Percy placed one hand on her upper back and took her other hand.

"We would like to present, Mr. Perseus Jackson and the soon to be Mrs. Annabeth Jackson."

"I like the sound of that Mrs. Annabeth Jackson." Percy said giving her his crooked grin.

The music started and they started dancing the Waltz.

"Wow Percy, you can actually dance."

"Of course I can dance, what do you think I've been doing these last few weeks?"

When the song ended, everyone clapped.

"The next dance will be the Heroes dance. Could all Heroes please come to the dance floor?"

All the Heroes came but before they got ready to dance, they all came to congratulate the newly engaged couple. Once they all broke free, the next dance started.

When they were done, Percy led Annabeth off the dance floor.

"I have a small surprise for you."

She looked at him, slightly confused.

"Look whose here." In the middle of the crowd were two couples. One was his mom, Sally and Paul and the other was Frederic Chase and his wife. They all rushed over to congratulate them.

"What are you guys doing here? I though mortals weren't allowed on Mount Olympus."Annabeth asked.

"Well they aren't, but Zeus made a small exception today.

There comes Athena and Poseidon." Percy replied.

Athena hugged Annabeth while Poseidon shook Percy's hand.

Athena looked at Percy, "If you ever hurt her..."

Percy gulped, "I would never and if I did, you would have to resurrect me because Annabeth would've already killed me by then."

Poseidon laughed at that and gave Annabeth a hug.

Percy was relieved; for once the night had gone as planned. It was a beautiful and magical night, one that he would never forget. But he was also mostly relieved because he knew that he would be able to spend the rest of his life with his one true love, Annabeth.