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Chapter 10.

After four hours of walking we were still nowhere near Alaska. Scratch that, we hadn't even seen land(like real land, not a maze land) even corner we turned was the same, once we came across a hellhound but that poor lad was as miserable as we were, he didn't even look at us. I was sure we won't be getting out of this hell hole unless a miracle happened and with my luck none was going to.

'Guys I am really tired' Grover said with a mouthful of enchilada. Yep he packed his lunch after our little dinner with Hera and now I was regretting that I didn't. Annabeth who was walking beside me was thinking, probably about the quest but I wasn't going to ask her because the last time I did she at first freaked out and then gave me a good smack on my head.

'Lets settle for the night or day or whatever time it is in the real world' I said. Both of them nodded and he laid out our sleeping bags. There was no need to lit a fire though because you could easily see your way around. There was always dusk in the labyrinth.

Grover started snoring the moment he was in his sleeping bag, Annabeth was taking first watch and I the second but I couldn't sleep so I decided to talk with her so that we both can know each other better.

'Umm.. is it possible that there is giant-god war before a god-titan war' The question had been bothering me for a while now.

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'Of course, why did you ask?' Annabeth replied.

'but how I mean there was a titan-god war before a giant-god war last time' I asked.

'The giants were actually born by Gaea after the titans were defeated by the gods to seek revenge on the gods so they couldn't attack olympus before the titans back then. But now they can, it depends on who comes out of Tartarus are seven giants and all of them are opposite to one of the olympians.' Annabeth answered.

'Oh' I replied.'Good to know'

'Can't sleep?' Annabeth asked

'Nope' I replied. Don't get me wrong, I love to sleep but right now I just didn't feel like sleeping. Maybe it is because you like talking with Annabeth. Yeah probably.

'What's that?' I asked pointing at the different coloured beads on Annabeth's necklace.

'Oh, it's my necklace. Every year the most important event is printed on these beads and then the bead is given to all the camper who have spent their year or summer in the camp' She said pointing to the beads,

'the first year it was about a girl who was turned into a tree' I was curious about the girl but she looked like she might cry so I decided not to push her.

'Thats cool, can't wait to get my own necklace' I said trying to change the subject.

'I bet you have had things much cooler than this' She said pointing to the necklace.

'you don't look any less adventurous than me, by the way what's that?' I asked pointing to the ring on her necklace.

'that's none of your..'

'sorry' I quickly said.

(Annabeth= italic, Percy= normal writing)

'No its okay, it's my father's ring, he gave it to me when I was a kid, he said it's the only thing he has of Athena'

'Oh, you must be close with your father'

'Actually it's quite the opposite, when my mother sent me from olympus to my dad he told her that she should just raise me on olympus. Mother was disappointed and told him that the mortal parent has to raise the child. He raised me but after a few years he married and boom I had two brothers who are the most annoying kids on the planet. Whenever something bad or strange happened they blamed it on me, I felt like they didn't want me so I ran. On my way I found some friends, Luke and Thalia and Grover who took me to Camp but an accident happened while we were coming here so only Grover, Luke and I were able to make it here' Once again I was really curious and wanted to ask but her expression stopped me from doing so.

'Maybe it was because your father wanted to protect you, my mother had to marry this guy named Gabe, who was probably the worst person on the planet so that he could hide my scent which would stop monsters from tracking me down. He was good only for the first two seconds of their marriage, then he started inviting his friends over and they played poker in our house. My mother had to work all day to support us while he littered our apartment with beer cans.' Annabeth just nodded.

'Your mother seems like a nice person, do you visit her?' I knew she was trying to avoid talking about her dad.

' I lived with her until one day a…...hellhound attacked...us' I couldn't say anything else, the pain was just too much for me to handle.

'I'm sorry' Annabeth said.

'No, it's okay….not your fault' I said.

Third Person.

It was Percy's turn to watch. He just couldn't take that dream out of his head in which his mother was tied to a tethered pole with a bloodied gag on her face. He didn't know what to do, he planned on discussing it with Hera the last time she visited but he forgot it then. He felt like fighting a Minotaur right then.

Bright blue light blinded Percy and he quickly closed his eyes to avoid dying(yep you get roasted if you see a god's true form). Percy opened his eyes to see the person he least expected standing in front of him.

'Percy, how have you been' Poseidon said.

'you mean after you left me to go hook up with another woman and have a child?' Percy growled. Percy didn't know how wrong he was.

'What do you mean?' Poseidon was confused.

'Andrew' Percy said.

'Percy, he is your older brother and stop saying that I left you because I took you to a person I trusted enough to know that she would take good care of you' It was Poseidon's turn to get angry. Percy's mouth was half open in surprise.

'Well if you wanted to take care of me so much then why did you left me and mom in the first place' Percy said.

'I didn't leave you, I even offered your mother that I could build her a palace under water where she and you could live for the rest of your life but she refused saying that she wanted to live her own life. Percy your mother was a queen among women, you won't understand what it felt like leaving her and I couldn't visit her again because of the ancient laws and Zeus' Saying this he erupted in a spring of water and vanished.

Percy knew he had messed up. He didn't really want to but all the dreams and thoughts in his mind had confused him. Now he had made his father mad. He started to cry, after years of thinking that his life was finally getting better his whole life came crashing over him. Would he be strong enough to lead the quest or will he fail. Even if he does will it make Kronos and the giants who were now waking stop. He wasn't stupid enough to think that Kronos wasn't going to rise, it had been the favourite topic of debates in olympus for years and he knew enough.

Annabeth's P.O.V

I woke up to the sound of someone crying. I slowly stood up from my sleeping bag and looked around to see Percy slumped beside a wall and crying his eyes out. I cautiously made my way towards him.

'Percy are you okay, what happened?' I asked Percy.

He quickly wiped his eyes and smiled at me with bloodshot eyes.

'Noth….nothing, I'm good' He said. I was disappointed that he didn't trust me enough to tell me what was wrong but I let it go.

'okay, but do let me know if anything is wrong' He nodded in response.

I woke up Grover as it was his time to watch and then went over to sleep in my own sleeping bag.

The quest was going to difficult than I thought.

A/N : what do you guys think? how was it? good or bad?REVIEW! The coming chapters are going to interesting so stay alert.

Also I have an announcement to make: I'm not going to be posting for two months because I need to edit the previous chapters. Also, I'm writing a new story so I need some time for it too.

See you soon, until then

Best wishes,

Patherias.