Yo guys! Wassup? I'm glad you guys are leaving suggestions because they do help and they assure me that I'm not boring the heck out of you guys!

Ms. AnnabethPotter – I'm not sure how good I'm going to be at it, but I'm going to try and do Frank's perspective in this chapter. I hope you'll like it…

cowgirlbookworm2: I've been trying to avoid the whole 'Percabeth' thing because I'm not the biggest fan of romance and all that stuff but I'm going to get to it eventually. Either in this or the next chapter I think.

Natalia Hallows: Thank you soooo much!

Cookiemonster108: Like I said to cowgirlbookworm2 I'm going to try to incorporate more Percabeth soon. As for Jasper, I'm not sure how much I'm going to put in the story because I kind of want Jason to be torn between Reyna and Piper. I will put more Jasper in the story but most of it will be after they leave Camp Jupiter.

Person: Something interesting is going to happen in this chapter… It may be a little later in the book because I have this idea. It's not something that would really happen in the actual book but it's sort of my own spin on the Percy Jackson series.

Disclaimer: I am not Rick Riordan and I own nothing.

Frank

I trudged along reluctantly behind the group. I kept looking at Hazel, hoping she'd fall back and join me, but she remained toward the front of the small crowd of Greeks. She was chatting cheerfully with Percy, who had his arm slung casually over Annabeth's shoulder.

He looked cheerful enough, but there was a note of worry in his expression as well. I couldn't help but wonder what had happened in the Senate hall. The furious look on Octavian's face when he came storming out of the building made it obvious that some sort of confrontation had occurred. I'm not sure if anyone else noticed but when I saw him he looked… murderous.

'No. Octavian may be many things but he wouldn't do anything to sabotage the quest. Much less lay a hand on the praetor.' Nevertheless, Percy kept glancing around restlessly, as though he expected the augur to jump out of nowhere.

I thought briefly about jogging up to the front to join my friends but decided against it. I was still exhausted from our mad dash away from Terminus. It was all I could do to drag my feet to maintain my slow pace.

I looked around at the rest of the group. Many of them appeared the same way. I reminded myself to ask Percy for his workout plan – whatever he does must be good for him to be able to sprint so quickly and not even break a sweat.

"This is the training camp!" Percy was saying. He gestured around with his free arm and pointed out the different paths and buildings.

I tuned back out. I already knew my way around camp – the only reason I was sticking around was because I wanted to talk to Percy and Hazel. And maybe get to know the visitors better. So far I only knew their names, and if I was going on the quest with them I may as well introduce myself now.

"Big place, huh?" Leo said, surprising me. While I was thinking he managed to fall back without me noticing.

"Yeah, I guess," I replied. I tried to keep my tone neutral but a bit of resentment crept into my voice. I remembered how Hazel always talked about Sammy and the fact that this guy might be him, or at least resembled him so much that Hazel might start to like him, made me a little hostile.

Leo frowned, a hurt look on his face.

I sighed, already feeling guilty. "Shouldn't you be paying attention?" I suggested kindly to him, trying to make amends. "You don't want to get lost," I continued.

The result was instantaneous – Leo straightened up and his face broke into a grin, all injured feelings forgotten. "Don't worry about me!" he exclaimed, puffing out his chest. "I piloted a flying ship to a place that we completely guessed location of; I think I can figure out my way around this place." He said proudly.

I nodded, unconvinced. "Either way you need to have some idea of the place so you should probably pay attention."

Leo nodded. "You're probably right," he said reluctantly, and turned his attention back Percy.

The son of Poseidon was explaining how to get to the bath houses, when he suddenly stiffened and dropped like a bag of stones. He hit the ground with a thud and was still.

Everyone was silent for a moment; Annabeth in particular looking shocked at the sudden turn of events – one second her boyfriend was talking happily with his arm around her and the next he was lying on the ground, unconscious.

Percy let out a muffled scream, and started writhing in pain.

Our eyes grew wide in shock. "Percy!" Annabeth yelled, and dropped to her knees by his side, but immediately jerked back to avoid being hit by his flailing arm.

Hazel and I started towards our collapsed friend.

"No!" Percy gasped, his eyes still closed. "Don't. Come. Any. Closer!" he forced out through his clenched jaw. He stopped jerking. The effort of staying still caused the tendons in his neck to stand out – he actually shook because of the exertion. Sweat broke out on his forehead and his ragged breathing became more and more forced.

All the while, we just watched helplessly, unsure what had caused this.

Finally, Percy relaxed and took a deep breath. Annabeth inched forward to offer some comfort. But it wasn't over quite yet.

He bolted up, his back ramrod straight, into a sitting position. His eyes snapped open, and there was a collective gasp from the small group – his eyes were glowing blood red. No pupil or whites of the eyes, just bright crimson. "The last one is coming!" he croaked.

Then, his eyes faded back to normal and rolled to the back of his head. Annabeth managed to catch him before his head hit the ground.

We all looked at each other, lost.

"Well, what do we do now?" Leo asked quietly.

Ooh! A cliffy! Again, any suggestions would be great. Also, let me say something: You see, I'm writing an original story and I always love to imagine books I read like they were part of my story so I'm going to kind of reflect that in this story. So this story is going to be very different from what the actual Mark of Athena would be like. It's one of the things I like about fanfic – you can take the story in any direction you want… So I guess that after this, I will own the OCs that I will be introducing and some of the other stuff because it is kind of a mix of my own story which I completely own and Rick Riordan's books which I do not own in the slightest. And while the story is mostly going to be based on Rick Riordan's book, because some of my own stuff is going to be incorporated, if you begin to copy my OCs or anything else that is original of mine, then you are stealing and I will report you to .

On a lighter note, are there any suggestions for the next chapter? This time the character POV is not up for discussion – it's obviously going to be Percy. And I already have a vague plan for the next chapter but any suggestions are still welcome and I can probably use the suggestions in the next or the chapter after that. So, yeah, leave suggestions please.