Annabeth's POV

Chapter 4

As the guy crashed in to Percy's memorial, I just about threw Clarisse on him. How dare he interrupt this family of grievers by ruining the whole shrine?! And then I saw his face. I….it couldn't be…..he's missing…..dead…gone….he hasn't come back for me…..he left us….. All those thoughts that were running through my head for the last to years came back. Nico basically summed it up when he asked the guy

"Percy? Percy Jackson?!"

I pushed Nico away and ran up front of the crowd that had gathered to see him. He was real. He was here. He was staring back at me with those green, joyful eyes…his black hair waved and slightly longer. It truly was him. There was something different, though. He no longer had on his camp beads. Riptide wasn't anywhere to be seen. His eyes were confused, flat, missing something. He stuttered and said "yeah, um sorry, for interrupting this shrine, or….something. I stepped on a cigarette and sorta hopped in to it…..um…I'm just gonna go now…"

Before he could leave, I went up and took his face in my hands. My mom, as a congratulatory gift for the redesigns of Olympus, gave me a power. I can look in to anyone's eyes and see what they have done, what they see. I basically open up their brain and read it. As he fidgeted under my touch, I looked in to his eyes. I saw the old cabin that his mom and he used to stay in. He was staying there now. His boss had payed for his vacation…..he lived in New York city, worked a marine biology job, not dated, finished school early….then I looked for the night he disappeared. A blinding flash of white light hit me, like Zeus' lightning bolt. A searing pain passed through my brain, and everything turned black.

Percy's POV

When the blonde girl passed out and everyone ran to catch her, I mad a mad dash for it. Those people were creeps. That blonde chick Annabeth, even more so. She just came up and put her hands on my head! Who the heck does that to a stranger!? But Annabeth does sound familiar…That is Annabeth, Chiron said. She has been nursing you back to health. You drool I your sleep…. These little memories were really getting annoying.

As I reached my cabin, I closed the door and locked it tightly. Didn't want any creeps knockin' at my door. That night, I toasted marshmallows. It felt like I have been to this place before. I just couldn't pin it. All of a sudden, I heard running in the sand, the crunch of a twig. Whistle of leaves from the bushes…. I hid behind a tree.

"Percy! Please! We know who you are! We can help you!"

I slowly came out from behind the tree. I saw the blonde girl, a guy with crutches and a baseball cap on. Man, he could use some acne cream. And lastly, a girl with electric blue eyes, black hair, and a death by Barbie t-shirt.

"Percy, don't freak out," the blonde girl said. "Thalia?" she nodded towards the death-by-Barbie girl. She looked at me, raised her arms, and lightning strikes me. I felt myself fall, and I couldn't move. "Man, today was not my day," I thought as the world faded in to blackness.