The Grande was totally empty when Percy arrived. This was a total relief. Walking into a bustling room holding the traitor in his arms wouldn't exactly score him brownie points. He made it to the elevator and collapsed on the floor inside. How he had made it this long he had no clue.

The elevator ringed on floor five at he staggered off. When he made it to 521 he was faced with another problem.

What was he supposed to do with Annabeth? He couldn't leave her by herself, no telling what they would do if they found her, but leaving her in his room seem weird. He couldn't stash her in a closet, talk about stupid.

He finally laid her on the couch and draped an extra blanket over her.

Then he crashed on the bed.

HE WAS BACK IN THE GARDEN EMPORIUM AND KRONOS WAS TEARING THE PLACE TO SHREDS WITH HIS SCYTHE.

"WHERE IS SHE?" HE WOULD DEMAND BEFORE TAKING OUT A WALL.

SUDDENLY ETHAN RUSHED IN HAULING THE BOY THAT PERCY HAD DUCT TAPED IN A CLOSET.

"MY LORD, WE FOUND RYAN."

SO THAT WAS HIS NAME.

"WHERE DID SHE GO?" THE TITAN DEMANDED.

"A HALF-BLOOD CAME IN AND TOOK HER."

"AND YOU DIDN'T FIGHT HIM?"

"I TRIED BUT HE WAS REALLY GOOD."

DARNED RIGHT IM GOOD, THOUGHT PERCY.

"I DON'T GET IT," RYAN CONTINUED. "WHY DO WE WANT HER IF SHE APPARENTLY ISN'T ON OUR SIDE ANY MORE."

"BECAUSE, SMALL ONE, IF MORE SWEAR TO ME I BECOME MORE POWERFUL AND CAN ASSUME MY TRUE FORM. AND NO LONGER DEAL WITH THESE LIMITATIONS."

THEN SOMETHING ENORMOUSLY STRANGE HAPPENED. KRONOS'S FACE CONTORTED AND HIS EYES DIMMED. HE FELL BACKWARD PANTING.

And Percy woke up to a scream and hysterical sobs.

Annabeth was sitting up on the sofa. Crying.

Percy bolted out of bed and over next to her.

"Annabeth. Annabeth. Whoa! Calm down. Please calm down."

"Percy." She wrapped her arms around his neck and kept crying. "You— you came for me."

"Yeah. I came for you."

She looked him in the eye. "I told you not to come."

"Have I ever been one to listen to commands?"

She laughed. "No, seaweed brain. But I don't remember ANYTHING about you going hero and saving me."

"He froze you in time, I think."

"Well then why am I not frozen now?"

"He had some kind of power lapse."

She looked at him quizzically. "And you know this how?"

He told her about his dream.

"Now you DO know everything." she said sarcastically

"Look, I'll go down to the kitchen and bring some food back up. You don't need to leave here until we assess the

situation today."

She slid onto the floor and crossed her arms

"No need to be over protective."

"Glad to have you back." He called over his shoulder as he left the room.

Basically no one was out. Every door was shut on the fifth floor and he met no one on the stairs. When he finally reached the ground floor he could tell where everyone was.

Well not everyone.

Probably 20 campers were crowded into the kitchen, yelling at each other.

When Percy pushed inside everyone went silent and every eye was on him.

"Hey, guys." He said uncomfortably.

Silena pushed forward, she'd been crying.

"Way to be missing last night, Percy. We needed you out there."

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