AN: HEY GUYS! I'm soooo sooooo soooooooo sorry I didn't update for a long time! I've had so much going on at school! I made it in my school's basketball's A team, so I was really busy with tournaments, and catching up with school work and stuff. I have a science test and a basketball torunament tomorrow! You see how busy I am? Ok, so, enjoy the story! I hope you guys still wanna read it. REVIEW and enjooooooy! ^^

~Percy~

"So... you are here at last, demigods."

Uh oh. I concentrated hard and tried to look at who said that, but all I could see were a pair of red eyes. I glanced at the others and saw Annabeth shivering.

I held Riptied infront of me, ready to defend or attack if necessary. "Who are you?" I asked, "What do you want?"

The pair of red eyes shook while he laughed (yes, I decided the red eyes belonged to a he. That voice couldn't possibly come from a female... or could it?). "I am Phorokos! Son of Phobos, the god of fear!"

Err, Phobos has a son? Well that was new.

"I have come to take your weapons, demigods!" Phorokos exclaimed. He took a step forward.

We could see him much clearer now. Phorokos was huge! I mean he looked really bulky... and he's quite tall too. He has a big, round, cleanly shaved head, a black, bushy beard that certainly doesn't compliment his features, and of course, red, staring eyes.

"Do you know anything about Lady Artemis' lost bow?" questioned Thalia.

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't! Give me all your weapons to find out, demigods!" howled Phorokos with a toothy grin.

Thalia launched at Phorokos at kicked him in the gut. Phorokos' eyes widened and he grunted. Ouch. Thalia's pissed.

Nico and I quickly backed her up. I slashed at Phorokos with Riptide and so did Nico, with his own sword of course. Hey, why was Annabeth not helping? Wait... where is Annabeth?

"Annabeth? Annabeeeth?" I yelled while looking back. Annabeth was not there. Where did she go?

"Percy... help me..." I heard her whisper from a tree branch. Wait... what? A tree branch? I looked up. There was Annabeth, lying on her stomach on the thick tree branch. How did she get up there?

"Percy..!" she whispered again, "Help me... please!"

Her voice shook. She was scared. Annabeth was never scared of anyone or anything. Except for that, of course... I looked around. I couldn't see anything. "Percy!" whispered Annabeth again, more urgently now.

"What? Annabeth get down! Why are you there?" I asked her, really confused now. Nico and Thalia were still attacking Phorokos.

"P-Percy! Don't you see that? I-it's- aaaaaaaaaargghhh!" screamed Annabeth. Whaaaaa?

"Annabeth! Calm down!" I said to her. She started sobbing. "No... aaahh..."

I looked around again, checking once more. Nothing.

"The spi-piders Percy! The big hairy spider! There!" she exclaimed, still sobbing. I looked at the trunk of the tree that she pointed at. Nothing! There was nothing at all. Weird.

"Annabeth, there's nothing there. Calm down," I said.

"No, Percy! Ddon't you see it? Percy.."

I climbed up the tree, it wasn't that hard, and reached out to hug Annabeth who was shaking wildly. She hugged me back.

"Annabeth, it's okay. There's nothing there, okay? Come on, let's go down," I said letting her go.

"B-but the spiders..." she whispered.

"Annabeth, listen. There's nothing there. Let's go down. This branch won't hold us both for long," I said. As if to prove my point, the branch made a little cracking noise.

Annabeth nodded slowly and I guide her down. When we reached the ground she slumped forward and fell on her knees and cried again. I hugged her again. I really want to comfort her, make her stop crying.

I glanced at Nico and Thalia who losing the fight with Phorokos. Nico and Thalia looked exhausted. Sweat poured down the sides of their faces. Well no wonder, Phorokos was holding a huge, bronze coloured sword and was using it quite skillfully.

Phorokos looked over at me and Annabeth and he laughed. "That little demigod! So scared of little cute spiders!" he exclaimed, still laughing. "Her fear was so easy to find out!"

Phorokos is Phobos' son. Phobos is the god of fear. Could it be that Phorokos inherited some of Phobos' power's to show illusions of someone's fear and make the terrified? Oh no. If he really could do that, we're in big trouble.

AN: SOOOOO... what do you think? REVIEW please! Oh btw, some good books to read... Hunger games (the first book's the best), I am number four, and HALO (not the one with guns and stuff, the one by Zizou Corder.. I think that's the author's name)... they're all awesome books! Ok, thank you, and once again, review!