Hey guys. Sorry if the chapters up ahead are a bit depressing, it's just... I'm really sad lately. I hope you don't mind. I've been trying to suck it up and act like I usually do at school and home so no one notices something is wrong. I don't want them to worry. I'm sorry that the story might be a bit depressing. You need to let it out though, right? I own nothing and I hope you enjoy this chapter! PS: once this story is done, I don't think I'll do a third one. I've got some more ideas...

Annabeth's POV

I stood panting at the top of the stairs. Campers were screaming and pounding on the door, giving me a massive headache. I sighed, finally realizing my position. I'm trapped. The only ways out of the basement is through the door that I just locked, or the window, that's pretty small. I know for a fact that a person over 16 years of age can't exit that way. I'm 18. Guess I'll have to confront the earlier than I thought.

I just stood at the top of the stairs, staring down into the darkness. Finally, I walked down, not even turning the lights on. A little darkness never hurt anyone.

As I walked down the steps, I counted each one. 10, 11, 12, done. My foot met solid ground on the stone floor. Slowly, I used the single ray of light from the window to direct me to Percy's bed. Usually, it's pitch black even during the day, but at sunset a single ray finds it's way though the window and pierces the darkness down here.

I stopped at Percy's bed, looking down at him. His blank dark-green eyes stared lifelessly into mine, yet I could tell he was still alive from the way his stomach moved with his breath. Nothing new happened to him.

For a long time, I stood there and stared at Percy's face, taking everything in. Finally, my dam broke. Tears flooded my vision and I collapsed to my knees next to Percy, gripping his left arm with my fingers.

"Oh Percy! Percy they wanted to kill you! They wanted to kill you Percy, just because they couldn't take the wait! They couldn't keep you down here, just waiting for you to wake up so they want to kill you!" I sobbed. In a blur of tears and crying, I confessed the whole story to Percy.

"...So I pushed though them, locked the door, and turned away. Here I am now," I sniffled, ending the story.

I forced myself to stop crying. I listened, and I heard...

Nothing. What happened to the pounding and screaming? I guess they all went away.

I looked at Percy. His eyes were still open and his body was almost in the same spot. His left arm was dragged towards the end by my tugging on it and his shirt was soaked with my tears.

Suddenly, I heard something in the distance. My eyes widened when I realized what it was. Three horns, a battle is happening!

Hastily, I stood up. "I'm so sorry Percy, there's a battle happening right now. I need to help them! Stay safe down here, I know you will. Good bye."

I ran in the dark to the stairs and climbed as fast as I could. I burst through the door after unlocking it to find the Big House deserted. Quickly, I ran to the Athena cabin and threw my armor on and unsheathed my dagger. Hades found it for me in Tartarus after asking Bob for it. He survived and brought Damison to Hades's castle.

After suiting up, I ran to the hill where the battle was. What I found was utter chaos. Campers fighting demigods, campers fighting monsters, bodies lying dead on the ground, golden dust scattered everywhere. It looked like there were more bodies littering the field than golden dust sprinkled on everything.

I swallowed the bike rising up in my throat. Sure I've been in battles and wars before, but this was the most gruesome battle I've ever seen. So many dead... So many enemies still left... I just can't...

Ignoring the stench of blood in the air, I rushed into the fray to protect the remaining campers. If I can stop it, I won't let anymore campers die. Sure I recognized the campers lying on the ground, either lifeless or severely injured, but none of them were close friends of mine.

A few weeks ago, the romans came. Like us, they were having trouble with the titans. It was a long argument of who would travel where, but eventually they came here because Olympus is so close to us.

Ahead of me, I saw Jason and piper fighting back to back, Leo and Reyna, Thalia and Nico, Hazel and Frank, Katie and Travis, all fighting massive hellhounds from the Fields of Punishment. All my friends were surrounded.

Suddenly, I got an adrenaline rush and jumped the monsters. Swipe after swipe made direct contact with a fatal point and they each exploded. I got 6/8 of them before on ran away and the other was killed by Jason, Piper, Thalia, and Nico altogether. Everyone stared at me in shock, but I pushed it away. I leapt away from them before they could say anything and helped some more demigods before the monsters started to back away. Everyone looked around in confusion.

"What's going on?" someone asked me. I looked around. The monsters backed away to Thalia's tree, where their leader stood. it was no other than Krios, the Titan that Jason had originally destroyed in the Second Titan war. Krios held a whistle near his lips. Thats how all the monsters knew when to retreat without a verbal command.

"Where is Perseus Jackson?" Krios asked addressing the crowd.

I stepped forward, as well as Thalia, Nico and all our friends. They opened their mouths but I spoke up first. "What do you want with him?"

A smile plastered itself to his lips. "A feisty one! You must be Miss Chase. And to answer your question, I just want him to have a chat with my little brother. That's all we want."

I scoffed. "Yeah right. We aren't giving Percy up, at least, I'm not. These other people may, but you can't have him, no matter what they say."

By now everyone was watching our conversation like a tennis match. Their eyes moved to Krios, waiting to see how he reacted. A snarl appeared on his lips. "Alright, I was told by my stupid little brother to only take Perseus by friendly means. Goodbye." He turned to leave, but didn't walk away.

Krios turned to his monster army and spoke to them for a minute. A lot of shuffling grew in the army as the monsters let a giant catapult appear at the front of the line. Krios turned to us with a smile present on his face.

"Yes, as I said, goodbye." The monsters in the army loaded the catapult and got it ready. I'm not sure where they aimed it, I was too busy planning when to take the Titan down. In the catapult, the monsters in charge placed Greek fire bombs in it. Now I started to get worried.

Not the Big House, anywhere but the Big House, Percy and the youngest campers were all hidden there. I prayed it wouldn't be the Big house.

Krios stood to the right of the catapult. "FIRE!" He screamed and the catapult threw the Greek fire bomb.

Id like to say it landed somewhere safe like the lake or the ground where nothing was, but that'd be a lie. Is also like to say there was no panic, but that'd be another lie.

As soon as I saw where the bomb was headed, I started screaming. Not words, just useless nonsense. In fact, a lot of the campers started running towards the building, also screaming. Nothing helped. The green fire bomb flew through the air and met it's target. I collapsed to the ground as tears made the world blurry.

The Big House had just been leveled. The basement was exploded.

Not Percy, I had prayed. Not the youngest campers. No. But it had happened.

The Big House was leveled. Goodbye Percy.