Merry Christmas guys! I got a laptop so updates will be more frequent and better grammar I hope!

Qotd: What is your craziest holiday tradition?

Mine is having my Mom blow out the candle at the Christmas eve service.. so..

Chappie!

Percy

I saw the dove, and knew she was a demigod. The part where I tell Pippa (and only Pippa) about us did not exactly happen.

You see, Kelli, and some telekhines were chasing us. The smarter thing to do would have been to fight, but Annabeth refused to 'give up our cover' and end up explaining everything to both.

"Annabeth, just keep running and I'll get them, okay?" I tell her.

"Okay, just come back, seaweed brain." She responds. I immediately zone out back to Mt. St. Helens. When she kissed me.

"Ya..." I go back to reality when I see Kelli coming. I look back and make sure they are far enough away, and take out riptide.

"Percy Jackson." The empousi hisses. "You were stupid, being that far away from your safe heaven with four demigods."

I swing my sword without thinking. I honestly don't have to anymore.

"The war is hurting you." She whispered. "You should escape it." I could tell that charm speak was there, but I couldn't walk away. Instead, the genius I am, I dropped my sword and collapsed on the ground, wanting to escape the war, and death. Half of me, the smart half, wanted to get up, and not break my word to Annabeth.

The other half, however, decided it was going to totally forget about Annabeth, and escape.

"Percy!" I hear a voice call. I don't bother trying to figure the voice out, because it doesn't matter. What does matter is the constant shaking. Something, or someone is shaking me. Hard.

"Snap out of it!" I hear again, by the same voice. I notice the feminine aspects of it. "Seaweed brain?" the girl asks. I know her.

Slowly, everything comes back, and I remember.

"Annabeth!" I yell. "Oh my gods." She just studies me, and wont look into my eyes. "What's wrong?" I ask.

"Nothing… its really nothing." She shrugs. I realized how long I had been out of it. It was lunch when I left the coffee shop, but it was almost sunset now.

"Fine, uh, where did you leave the two of them?" I ask, looking around as if they would pop out and start asking questions.

"Uh, well, they didn't get to camp," She started. My face must have had horror written all over it. "No! There still alive! There just at a base, from when me and Thalia… and…" it dawned on me that she was talking about her past.

"Oh. Okay, let's go then. How far away is it?" I ask.

"Maybe two miles…" She decides.

"Two miles! What is this!" I start to whine and complain about it being to far away.

Annabeth (Annabeth's mind, Annabeth)

He's so cute.

Stop it, don't think like that.

But when he pouts, he looks like a baby seal.

Ya, but I don't like him.

Then why did you kiss him?

My mind and I were having a huge argument, which sounds stupid, but not for Athena kids.

"Wise Girl, how much longer?" Percy asks me for about the fifth time.

"Seriously? We practically just started!" I laugh at his childishness. The way were going, it would take us about an hour to get to where Raini and Pippa were.

"Hey, Annabeth, I need to ask you something." Percy says after a few minutes of walking.

"Sure."

"Why did you kiss me?" I froze. I thought he had forgotten!

"Uh, what?" I stammer.

"At Mt. St. Helens. You kissed me, and ran away. Why?" I couldn't tell if he meant kissing him, or running back into the labyrinth. So I went with the easier explanation.

"Well, that was the plan, to run back to-"

"No, I meant why did you kiss me." He interrupts.

"Oh, um, it was like a kiss for good luck you know?" I lied. I thought he was going to die, so I basically let him know I like him.

"I don't think that's the reason." He stepped closer to me. My heart was pounding. "Can you tell me the real one?"

"Maybe later," I try and say. "Come on Seaweed Brain, it's getting dark." And it was. The sun was setting and it looked beautiful.

AT THE BASE

"What took you so long!?" Raini ran up to us. "Can you please explain?"

"Not now, later." I say.

"Camp?" Percy asks me.

"Uh, ya. Percy?"

"Ya?" He answers.

"I-I k-" I couldn't form a sentence as we walked into the hallway that once held wonderful little memories. Well, now those 'wonderful little memories' turned to dust that covers my entire life.

"Wise Girl? You okay?" He asks being the seaweed brain he is.

I shook my head and held open my arms. He walked forward and hugged me.

"Annabeth?" I hear from down the hall. I don't pay attention and when Percy starts to pull away to see what they want, I grab him closer and silently cry.

I cry at how messed up life is. Luke was supposed to be with me. He shouldn't have left.

He was supposed to be my family.

Family.

I loved him.

Family.

I loved him, but as family.

Like a brother.

Pippa

When Annabeth left, she told us to stay, as if we were inferior to her. She rubbed me the wrong way, she just seemed so much better than everyone, or at least acted it.

"Raini, when you told me about Annabeth, you never said she acts so much like a mom." I say, ready for her to snap at me, because she has a little bit of anger issues.

Raini will sometimes change moods with the color of her eyes. When they're dark crystal, then she's either mad or depressed. Light, happy and so on.

Right now, they looked different.

"Get me water." She simply says.

"What?" I ask.

"Water." She says again.

"Why?" I ask.

"To make a rainbow, duh."

So whats the deal, huh…

Well youll have to wait.

So um, sorry for the depressing theme here guys…. Um I was listening to love again by pentatonix basically the whole time, and this happened…..

Do you guys like pentatonix?

Don't friggin watch horror movies before you sleep….

Bye!

Swimmerstar415