DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS. BUT YOU KNEW THAT, RIGHT?

OMG! It's finally Percy's Point of View

"I'm going in after her," I told the crowd of people behind me. It didn't seem that dangerous to me, but their faces turned shocked. "What?"

I looked behind me, to see a rather large hole where Annabeth was previously standing.

"Did she fall in?" I asked everyone who had seen. Multiple people nodded.

I didn't wait for anyone to say anything else. I dove in after her. I had much more speed than Annabeth, or Thalia for that matter, so if they were just pulling my leg, I would catch up to them in a heartbeat. And if Annabeth just fell in, because the old pier was old and rickety. But Thalia would have to be up by now, because she was down here for wayyyyy longer than Annabeth, and anyone but me would have run out of air by now.

I scanned everywhere around me, but no signs of either of them.

"Annabeth?" I called out, but I doubted she could hear me. "Annabeth?" The more times I called, the more worried I got.

I was nearing hysteria when I got an Iris message.

"Perseus Jackson. We know who you seek." Behind the figure, there was a huge hourglass. My heart, lungs, kidney, and every other major body organ jumped to my throat. Annabeth was in that hourglass.

"Annabeth!" I called out to her.

"Percy! Don't worry about me! It's a trap!" She told me. It didn't make me feel better.

"Bring me the Golden Fleece, and blondie can go home with you," the figure said. Why would he want the Golden Fleece? It didn't matter. She was going to get it, as long as Annabeth got home safely. "But hurry fast, because your friend's time is numbered." The figure waived her wrist, and the hourglass's sand began to fall on Annabeth's head.

"Percy! Don't give it to her! It's a trap! It's a trap!" Annabeth was hysterical, yelling for me to not come and save her. But what else did she want me to do? Let her time run out and die?

I looked around one last time, and saw something that wasn't there before. In a bubble of air, Thalia was slumped unconscious.

"Thalia!" I called. I swam quickly towards her. When I reached her, I pushed myself inside the bubble. I grabbed on to her arm and pulled upward. The bubble didn't follow, but that didn't matter. We were close enough to the surface that Thalia wouldn't need air. When we reached the surface, Thalia coughed and sputtered, the water waking her from her slumber.

"Where? Where?" She sputtered. "Annabeth! They have Annabeth!"

That punched me in the gut. She really was gone. And I was going to get her, no matter the cost.

I pulled her towards the deck, where everyone was waiting anxiously. Then they realized that I wasn't bringing Annabeth back.

I pushed Thalia onto the deck first, and then I followed.

"Where's Annabeth, Percy?" Silena asked. "Wasn't she down there?"

"Someone, someone," I faltered. I fell down and cried. I didn't want to do anything else right now but cry. But crying wasn't going to bring Annabeth back. I tried to compose myself, but that wasn't happening.

"Someone took Annabeth." Everyone gasped in unison.

"Didn't you see them? They couldn't have got away from you without at least showing themselves to you, Percy," Nico asked. I tried to remember if I'd seen anything, but I just couldn't. It now occurred to me, they might have made their escape while I was mesmerized by the Iris message. I silently cursed myself.

"She, she said something about wanting the – the – the Golden Fleece," I choked out.

"But why would someone want that?" Travis asked. Everyone looked at him like he was stupid. "Oh."

"Where do you think she is?" Thalia asked.

"I don't know."

I went back to my cabin crestfallen. I had searched the entire pier area as far deep and wide as possible, and no sign of anything that might lead me to Annabeth. I walked over and knelt down next to the saltwater pond. I was tempted to message Poseidon and ask him if he had any idea where Annabeth was.

I already had the golden drachama in my hand when the air above the pond shimmered. I fell backwards onto the floor. I scrambled back up to see who called. I blinked a couple of times to make sure that I wasn't seeing things. Annabeth was on the other end of the Iris message, almost knee deep in sand.

"Percy!" she called to me. Her voice sounded funny from being inside the glass.

"Annabeth! Are you okay? Where are you?" I couldn't tell you how relieved to see that she was alive.

"Shhh! She might hear you. I don't have much time." So she was still in danger.

"Do you know where you are?" I asked her. If she told me, then I would be able to find her faster.

"I'm close! Aunty Em's! Where we first saw Medusa!" She was close. That was a relief.

"I'm coming! Don't do anything to get yourself killed!" After I sat that, I realized how stupid it sounded. "I mean-"

"I know what you meant," she said blandly. "But it's a trap!"

"What?" I asked.

"The second you get near here, she'll know and she'll kill you!"

"But wait – how am I going to save you?"

"I'll be fine! Just don't come near here! It's you she wants! I'll be safe."

"But you won't be!"

"Percy! Just don't come near here! She can't get into Camp Half-Blood! You're safe there! Just don't worry about me! I'll be fine." Even she didn't sound convinced. "Just remember that I – no, no." Her scream pierced the air as the Iris message dispersed.

"Annabeth!" I cried out. I didn't care what she said. I was coming to save her.

A/N: This is no longer a Truth or Dare story. I made it adventure.

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