Chosen Trilogy: Abyss

A PJATO Fanfiction

©-Rick Riordan

By: xXxDaughteroftheKingxXx

(A.K.A.)

XXxDaughterofAthenaxXx

Disclaimer: I don't own Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day, Green Day, Justin Bieber, Baby by Justin Bieber, Firework by Katy Perry, BMW Z4, and of course, Percy Jackson & the Olympians.

Chapter 4

Luke

Kill me now.

Why?, you ask. Because, here I was, in Annabeth's car, listening to Nico butcher the song Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day. And when I say butcher, I mean butcher.

"Make it stop!" I moaned quietly to Jess, who was sitting in the back seat with me. According to Nico and Annabeth, the eldest get the front seats. But technically, I'm older than Annabeth…

Jess laughed softly, pulling out one of her ear buds. "Sorry, Luke, no can do. Unless you'd rather listen to Justin Bieber." she said smirking.

Oh gods. Who's worse: Justine Bieber or Nico?

"Give me that." I muttered, pulling her headphone.

"Is he really that bad?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. "You're like the first guy I've met who'd rather listen to Justin Bieber than Green Day."

"Oh no," I said. "I'd choose Green Day over Justine Bieber any day, but Nico's murdering the song."

"Alright then, you'll just have to listen to my kind of music." she said, shrugging. "Gods, I feel sorry for Annabeth."

"Eh, she tends to block out anything repulsing." I muttered. "Can you just change the freaking song? I don't think I can stand anymore of Justine singing Baby, baby, baby." I sang in a falsetto voice.

"And you say I'm bad!" Nico called from the front seat.

Jess snickered, rolling her eyes. "Turn up the volume, Nico. This is one of my favorite songs." I tuned in on the song and found out it was one of those Katy Perry songs.

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind

Wanting to start again…

Ah, Firework. Typical for Jess to like that song.

"Hey!" she exclaimed.

"I said that out loud?"

"Yes, yes you did." Annabeth commented dryly. Her expression was sad. "Percy almost always did that."

I rolled my eyes. Sure, Percy was a pretty cool guy, but he's dead, for crying out loud! And sure, I have Thalia, but she's the freaking lieutenant of freaking Artemis.

Thunder.

"What'd you do now, Death Boy?" Annabeth asked, rolling her beautiful gray eyes.

Nico raised his hands up. "Hey, it wasn't me this time!"

"So what'd you think, Luke?" Jess questioned.

I shrugged, smirking. "None of your business."

"Idiot."

******Time Lapse ******

"Finally!" I yelled, jumping out of Annabeth's car. "Sweet land!" I murmured, kissing the ground. Did I mention that Annabeth was in a hurry to get to camp, and she kinda went over the speed limit more than once. Oh who am I kidding, she went like 80 mph!

Jess and Nico stumbled out of Annabeth's gray BMW Z4, which Athena had gotten her for her 17th birthday. Huh, irony. She gets Annabeth a fancy car, and then helps kidnap and kill her boyfriend. What a great mother.

Not.

"I'm not that bad of a driver." said girl muttered, locking her car.

"Right," I agreed. "But remind me to never, ever ride with you again during an emergency. Next time, I drive."

Jess scoffed. "Yeah, we'd let the fifteen year old ADHD demigod who once betrayed us to the evil Titan lord drive Annabeth's expensive car." I winced.

"Don't take it personally, Luke." Annabeth said sympathetically. "I wouldn't let these two drive my car either. In fact, I wouldn't let anyone drive this car." she said, patting her car. Uh, wow.

"Boo!" someone said, jumping on my back. I yelped in surprise, toppling to the ground, and thankfully, taking the person with me.

"Thalia?" Annabeth said incredulously.

"The one and the only." Thalia said proudly, getting up. She brushed her silver Hunter's clothes off.

"Sup Thalia?" Nico said casually.

"Eh, nothing much. Artemis sent me here to help ya'll with the whole missing campers thing." she said. Thalia's expression turned grim. "A few of our Hunters have gone missing, too." she added. "Phoebe, daughter of Deimos, Jackie, daughter of Demeter, Victoria, daughter of Nike, Sandra, daughter of Ersa, and Nolli, daughter of Nyx."

"Wait." I said, getting up. "Who's Ersa?"

"Minor goddess of dew." Annabeth answered calmly.

Thalia nodded. "Right, that's why Sandra joined the Hunters. Ersa isn't exactly appreciated."

"Does she even have a cabin here?" Jess asked curiously.

"No," Annabeth admitted, shaking her head. "But when this is all said and done, I'll design one for her. C'mon, we need to go find who's missing from camp."

"Oh, so you're just going to leave us out?" Clarisse asked, coming up behind Nico.

"No," Annabeth answered. "I just had a feeling that you guys would show up."

"For a second there," Chris muttered. "I thought you were gonna say, I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night." Annabeth rolled her eyes, then took off running towards the Big House.

"When in doubt," Jess said. "Follow Annabeth." She took off running after Annabeth.

Nico, Chris, and I exchanged confused glances. "I thought it was when in doubt, dance out." Nico muttered.

"Idiots." Thalia and Clarisse said in unison, following Jess and Annabeth. I looked at Nico and Chris, shrugged, then ran after the girls, with the two trailing behind me.

The three of us ran into the Big House, only to find a counselor meeting going on. Annabeth, Clarisse, and Thalia had already taken their seats at the "table"( which really actually is a ping-pong table) while Jess was standing awkwardly near the door.

"Uh hi." I said, awkwardly waving as Nico scrambled to his seat.

Travis Stoll, my half-brother glared at me. There were large bags under his eyes, as if he hadn't gotten enough sleep recently.

Then, I realized something.

"Connor." I whispered. Travis nodded stiffly.

"And Katie." he said darkly.

"Who else?" Nico asked.

"Jake," Nyssa, a daughter of Hephaestus said.

"Will," Courtney, a daughter of Apollo with golden brown hair and brown eyes added softly.

"Drew," Mitchell, son of Aphrodite put in.

"Lou Ellen," Rae, a daughter of Hecate added.

"Mark," Sherman, son of Ares muttered.

"Tyler," Zack, son of Hebe said.

"Castor," Heather, daughter of Dionysus added.

"Jaden," Adrianna, daughter of Thanatos said.

"Rachel," Courtney added.

"And Matt." Claire, daughter of Athena finished.

"Not to mention the Hunters," Thalia added. "Phoebe, Jackie, Nolli, Victoria, and Sandra are missing." Silence.

"Well," Chiron said, finally speaking. "It seems a quest is in order." He glanced at Annabeth. "And I think I know just who should lead the quest."

"But Chiron," Clarisse protested. "If Rachel is missing, how are we supposed to get a prophecy?"

Courtney stood up. "Easy," she explained. "Dad gave me the Oracle's abilities just until Rachel comes back."

"Fine," Annabeth sighed. She turned to the daughter of Apollo as Courtney's eyes turned green. Green mist surrounded all of us.

"What must I do to find the missing campers?"