((Dancer: Ah, looks like Erato, son of Zeus and Athena has figured out the code.

Human: We really need to start getting better puzzle things...

Dancer: *Sighs* Yep... but anyway! He will now be featured in the story, and he has also requested the two BONUS *Alarms blare and 'WEEEE-OOOOO' sounds sound from speakers* chapters to be made!

Human: God I really hate that BONU- NO! I mean... that special alarm and speaker thing that happens when you say BON- NO! Anyway...

Dancer: Yeah, so, I will get working on the BONU- NO! I mean the special chapters, but they might not be as large as the other chapters. Just for pointers, I try to get all my chapters to page five, but the special chapters will either be three or four pages long...

Human: Yep... Wanna go get a hotdog now? I'm hungry...

Dancer: *Grimaces* You can go eat your dong in a bun but I'm going with a hamburger...

Human: Hey! Its no dong in a bun! Its a hot dong in a bun!

Dancer: *Stops* *Blinks* That's nice...))

Chapter 4: New Prophecies and Avalanche Surfing.

Time seemed to pass slowly and swiftly at the same time, I woke up once to see Chiron and a kid from the Athena cabin standing over me, and then I passed out again. I think a day or two passed until I woke up for real, and saw the faces of Chiron and Nico, and then one spoke. Not sure which.

"Percy... are you with us? You've been out for a day..." My vision cleared and I realized Chiron was talking to me. I blinked and then shook my head.

"Yeah? What?"

He glanced at Nico who nodded.
"Percy... Annabeth i-"

I jolted out of bed as I remembered Annabeth.

"I have to go get her! I have to go!" I exclaimed, pulling toward the doorway, but Chiron and Nico held me back.

"Percy! I think you might need a quest!" Chiron told me, and I went limp.
"Yeah yeah... a quest... so is Rachel here or..." The words flowed out of my mouth like a waterfall, not really caring about anything expect getting Annabeth back.

"Yes... she is on the second floor..." Chiron continued, by I was already almost up the stairs. I knocked on her door, still shaking with... I didn't really know. Need to immediately go find Annabeth? Rachel opened the door, looking mediumish. She had faint traces of black circles under her eyes.
"Percy... I heard what happened... come in..." I walked in, her room odd, easels, paintings, and drawings covered half of the room, untidy, with papers everywhere. The other side was more clean, with a bed and random things. A alarm clock, a poster talking about world peace, other things.

"You need a prophecy?" Rachel asked me, and I nodded. She sighed, then blinked and went rigid, I guess trying to summon the oracle. After a few seconds, her eyes glowed green and creepy green mist flooded out of her mouth. I went rigid, the mist curling around me, and saw visions. Annabeth, tied up, struggling. Her eyes were puffy and she had obviously been crying. My gut and heart twisted into knots, and then I saw an snow covered mountain, zooming into it and going through the stone until I seemed to be in some kind of giant chamber, a floating stone circle in the middle, pinpoints of light joining to make a swirling green and yellowish circle in the stone ring. We went in, and then we were traveling over miles of ocean, and then I saw a large island with a smoking volcano, and words resounded in my mind.

Starting alone and ending with three,

the one seeking the stolen go's north.

The forgotten attack, rising in days.

It will end in a circle, smoke and fire swirling.

Although one will be lost

to be found again.

The visions and words stopped and I stepped backward, stunned, while Rachel stepped backward and collapsed on her bed, snoring. Must be tiring... I thought as I fumbled down the stairs and bumped into Chiron, almost falling down.
"What... what did it say?" He asked me, and I stared out the window.
"Percy?" Chiron asked me, and I zoned in again and recited the words and explaining about the visions, stuttering and stumbling.

"This could end badly... it says to start alone... but it also says it ends in three..." Chiron scratched his beard, and I stumbled around before settling in a chair.
"Can I go soon?" I asked and Chiron sighed.
"I guess it is best to go now... your strength is fine and with every second passing, something bad could happen... The Prophecy says go north, so head to Canada..." Chiron said reluctantly, and I smiled for the first time in a day I guess.
"Well... I guess I should go change... and go..." I mused, and stood up, heading for the door.

"Be careful Percy!" Chiron called to me, and I nodded without turning back to him. As I walked toward my cabin, I saw a lot of people staring at me. I guessed their expressions were sorry and sad for me, although some were surprised and things like that. I quietly walked into my empty cabin, no one else but me. But for how long? I got dressed and made sure Riptide was in my pocket and Tyson's special shield-watch on my wrist, a pack of Ambrosia and a bottle of Nectar, and then I went back to the big house.

"I got... dressed I guess... Am I supposed to get like... nutrition bars for the journey or something?" I asked stupidly, and Chiron shrugged and then clopped off, and came back and tossed me a few nutrition bars, and I nodded.
"I should go now..." I said simply and headed to the door. I can't believe I was doing this so fast. Barely 45 minutes ago I had acquired the quest.
"Percy... good luck..." Chiron's last words echoed of the nearly empty house, and I stopped and breathed in, before continuing. The stables. I went in, glanced around and sighed. Another ride on Blackjack...

Hey boss, hows it going!

"Not good, lets go..." I replied, and he was attempting to respond but I cut him off and hopped onto him, telling him to go north.

Whaddya mean by north, boss?!

"Canada..." I explained, and as we flew north, I took a quick breath as I looked at camp, watching it fade away as we quickly gained speed, and it was impossible to see after that. I looked down at New York, getting progressively harder to see as we continued north. But of course, something had to mess up. As usual.

I turned to the side and saw a weird creature. It looked like a Lion, but it had wings and a head like a bald Eagle. I turned to the other side, and there was another one. What where these things? I concentrated, trying to dig up the various Greek lessons I had at camp, and then it hit me.

These things were Griffins. Oh dear.

I had a hunch that these monsters had also escaped from Tartarus.

Woah! Boss, those are Griffins! Why are the- Blackjack stopped as one of the Griffins rammed him, and we went flying down to the left. I realized we were now in Canada, and I saw Toronto a slightly large distance to my right.

"Woah, Blackjack!" I exclaimed and Blackjack managed to pull up right before we hit a mountain peak.

T-that was c-c-close boss...

Blackjack was shaking, probably from the near death experience. I felt vulnerable, bot in a different way than getting attacked my large Lion-eagles. Didn't it say Griffins were dogs of Zeus in the myths, or not myths? But then he banished them to Tartarus because they were pretty... well they liked killing things. I wonder if Zeus wasn't happy about this. Thunder rumbled in the distance, and I winced. I guess not... maybe?

Woah boss! They're coming in for another pass!

I looked around, and saw the Griffins coming in from either side. I looked around desperately, and noticed something. In the distance, maybe 20 miles or so, was the large mountain I had seen in the visions the Oracle gave me. I guess I was going the right way. I looked to both sides, and saw the Griffins were going very fast. They were going to ram us from the sides.

Boss..., I don't think I can hold this out for much longer! They are gunna rip me apart!

I was about to respond to him when the Griffins rammed in from the sides, and I flew up into the air, while Blackjack swooped down, and was chased by the Griffins until he flew away in desperation. I was alone, falling from the height of an airliner in Canada, and getting chased by Griffins. All in a days work. Thankfully I was launched in such a way that I was flying in an angle. Maybe a 70* one. Thank the winds for keeping me up.

Time to sky dive... I thought as I spread out my jacket, using it as a crude hang glider thing, but I was still going fast. The Griffins swooped around me, trying to get a good angle to probably rip my head off. Or my face. But they seemed to be having trouble, for they kept swooping around and made weird Lion/Eagle-like cry's and roars. One of them almost ripped my arm off, but I swooped to the side just in time. Leaning my arm down just enough, I reached into my pocket and grabbed Riptide as I approached a mountain peak. I noticed that I was gunna hit the peak, and then probably start sliding down the other side.

"Ah... I love drastic ideas..." I muttered sarcastically as I uncapped Riptide and got ready to stab it into the snow once I hit the peak. I concentrated on the water particles as I neared the peak even more, and I made a silent prayer.

"If I die, please don't remember me as the idiot who tried to ride an avalanche..."

I held my sword out before me, and it absorbed most of the shock of me hitting the peak. I lifted it up, and stabbed it into a strong looking, dinner table sized, ice sled, anchoring me to it, as long as I held onto Riptide that is. I glanced at the Griffins swooping in behind me, and then noticed the strong, continuous rumble, somewhere on the mountain. I guess my impact started up the snow. Concentrating on the snow, I shifted it, shaking it, trying to get an Avalanche started. I looked at the peak, as I hit maybe a mile lower than it, and I noticed a very large amount of snow was slowly sliding toward me.
I meant for me to be atop the avalanche... not in front of it... I thought, my face pale as suddenly all the snow started moving, and I screamed as my ice sled slid across the roiling snow, going downward at a very fast pace. I glanced over my shoulder, and saw a 30 foot tidal wave of snow. I almost thought that it was water, because it looked so much like a water wave, expect it was made with snow.
"Please don't die. Please don't die. Please don't die..." I mumbled as I felt bits of snow hit my back from the raging wave of white behind me.

Avalanche surfing. Just how I like it. I looked ahead of me, and noticed a severe drop of at least 70 feet, and I was going straight at it.

Great.

Avalanche surfing off a cliff.

I glanced to the side and saw a Griffin trying to reach me, but then an clump of ice hit it in the back of the head and it went down, consumed by the avalanche. I held onto Riptide so hard that my hands went white, and then blue, and then white again.

"Ah... I wonder what Annabeth would have said if she was here with me..." I whispered as I flew off the cliff, everything seeming to move in slow motion. I wonder what the gods would be thinking.

-*-

--Bonus sight--

-*-

All the gods were looking at TV screen, gaping at Percy as he flew off the cliff. Even Apollo and Artemis were there. Apollo had put the sun in auto-pilot, and Artemis had entrusted the Hunters to Thalia for a bit.

Ares blinked, and then patted the sword he had strapped to his leg.

"Hmmfh... I... I did that before!"

"I must say... if there were male Hunters he would possibly be very good in them..." Artemis mumbled.

"Its so cute! He is doing it all for Annabeth!"Aphrodite giggled and Athena glared at her.

"He is quite stupid actually."

Poseidon glared at Athena and she sighed.

"He's brave though. I'll give him that..." She mumbled and Poseidon crossed his arms and smiled.

"I wonder what would happen if I sent a bolt into the avalanche..." Zeus mused, and a spark flipped across his fingers.

"Hmph! He is reckless! I should send a score of flesh eating cows after him!" Hera pouted, and Hephaestus shrugged.
"I'd rather create a medal for him. I don't think even Hercules has done this..." He stroked his sizzling beard, and then pulled out a bunch of random pieces of medal and started tinkering with them. Apollo spoke up after a while, and started a Haiku.

"Cliffs are no match

For Percy's mad skillz

For he fly's off them

With no falls at all..."

Artemis glanced at Apollo, raising her eyebrows.
"I don't think that one was very good..."

Apollo sighed, and then looked up at the ceiling and sniffed, thinking.

The screen showed Percy nearing the ground, and then it shut off and all the gods shrugged and walked off, expect for Apollo, who was still looking at the ceiling, thinking.

-*-

--Bonus sight--

-*-

I looked down at the ground, getting closer and closer, and sighed. I was probably gunna die.

"Ah... it was fun while it lasted..." I mumbled sadly, and then braced myself for impact. I heard the roar of the avalanche in my ears, when suddenly I felt myself in the air. I opened my eyes, and saw that I was above the wave of snow, pounding into the ground, and gliding toward a grove of trees to my left. I blinked a few times, and then rubbed my eyes as I set down beside a tree.

"What the heck just happened?" I asked myself, looking around, and then a voice responded above me.

"Oh, you just got saved by a random person, A.K.A Me..." I looked around, and then jumped as I felt someone land behind me. I turned around to face a kid... no, a teen. About my height, maybe an inch or two taller. He had angelic, shoulder length Golden hair, and slightly intimidating bright Blue eyes with a trace of Grey in them. He seemed strong, and was wearing Punk style clothes.
"Who are you?!" I asked, surprised as all hell. If you were in Canada and had almost got covered my 5 pounds of snow, and then a random person came out of a tree and started talking to you, you would be surprised also.

"I am JFK..." The teen said in a perfect impersonation of JFK, and I blinked, and then stared at him.

"Oh whatever... I'll just cut to the chase..." He mumbled, and I nodded and raised my eyebrows, giving him the signal that said: 'That would be nice'

He sighed, and then wiggled his figures and I felt a slight breeze sweep across my face.
"I am Erato..."

I blinked, that was an interesting name. I realized that this person had to be a half-blood. I could feel it, and I bet that he did that little stunt with the wind that got me out of there.
"So... are you like a half-blood?" I asked him, and he looked up at the sky.

"I don't really know what I am... you see, my dad was a Half-blood, and so was my mom. My dad was a son of Zeus, and my mom was a daughter of Athena..." Erato explained, and I remembered Annabeth and me. She was a daughter of Athena, and I was a son of Poseidon. The only thing different about Erato's parents and me and Annabeth, was that his dad was a son of Zeus.

"I am guessing that makes you a half-half-blood?" I asked, bewildered, and he shrugged.

"I call myself a Demihalf... I think... its kinda hard to make a name for the types of me..." He mumbled, and I was surprised that he hadn't questioned who I was yet. He absentmindedly pulled out a pen and a clean looking piece of paper and started writing something on it. I peered at what he was writing, and they looked like song lyrics.
"Who are you, by the way?" He asked me, and I exhaled slowly.

"Percy Jackson. Son of Poseidon..."

He glanced at me, slightly surprised and said:

"Oh, the water god eh? That makes you a half-blood. No wonder you know what they are." Erato turned back to his paper and kept scribbling on it.

"So, what's your story?" He asked, not even looking up from the paper, and I had a 3 minute sigh.

"Let's just say it is very long." I explained, and he glanced up at me, grinning, and then spoke out in a perfect Australian accent.

"Looks like its time for a camp fire, eh mate?"

((Human: Ah, new characters. Always nice.

Dancer: Yep... wonder what Erato was doing in those woods?

Human: Oooh! I know! He was in there because he es- *Gets hit with Nuclear Anti-Spoiler hammer.*

Dancer: No spoilers! It will all be shown in the next real chapter. After the BONU- I mean the special chapters...

Human: Did you have to go for the naughty bits? I can't fell anything but a searing pain that screams at me saying: "You will never have babies!"*Sobs*

Dancer: *Blankly stares* God dammit, just go in the Nano regeneration machine...

Human: The Nano regeneration ma- *Gets hit with Special teleporter hammer that teleport's to Nano regeneration machine.*

Dancer: Thank god. That will shut him up for right now. Hmm...

Dancer: I'm lonely... well... time to end!

Dancer: Hur hur! That's all, folks! Hur hur!))