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Chapter 33: Blacking Out

Annabeth's POV

I could only think about one thing as I was talking to Thalia.

Self-pity. I was burying myself in it. I'm so sick of this. Just because Percy doesn't remember me doesn't mean he'll forget me forever. I can only hope.

It's not like I can just go up to him and say, "Hey! I'm your girlfriend! I love you, and you love me!"

I wish. Too bad it's more complicated than that.

I tuned out Thalia's words as I thought about the complications of life.

My grandfather once said, Life is unpredictable and tough, just when you think you have got a hang of how it all works, it all changes.

Just as Percy and I started dating and started learning the true meaning of love (cheesy, I know), he gets switched to the Roman camp with no memories of anything.

Swish!

I heard the rustling of a bush. I shot my head to the right. Next to Lauryn was a pretty rosebush.

I was so captivated by its beauty that I forgot about the swishing noise. I started walking towards the bush.

Its lush green leaves lightly swayed back and forth. The reddish-pink roses surrounding the leaves glistened in the morning sun (A/N: Yes, it's still the first day of the quest.). Clear drops of dew lay upon the soft delicate petals.

I ran my fingers over the wet red roses.

Swish!

There it was again, that noise. The noise seemed to be coming from behind the bush. I carefully walked behind the bush. A forest with various sized trees came into sight. All of a sudden, the Minotaur came running right towards me.

Instead of screaming like a little girl, I grabbed my dagger. I had learned from Percy's stories that the Minotaur is bad with direction once it's charging, so if it's coming straight at you, step to the side at the last second.

"A little help here, guys!" I shouted from where I was to the rest of the group.

The first one to arrive was Thalia. Then Piper, Leo, Percy, Reyna, Brandon, and Lauryn.

In his hairy hands, the Minotaur held a huge axe with blades in the shape of the Greek letter, Omega. I stepped out of the way one second before the Minotaur reached me.

Percy's POV

"Hi," Lauryn said, coming up to me. A little too close for my liking.

"Hey," I said, stepping to the right a little bit.

"So, what are your interests?" she asked me.

I honestly don't know why she wants to know that, but I answered anyway. "Um, I like the beach, water, any typical things a P - Neptune kid likes," I said. I was about to say Poseidon instead of Neptune…oops.

Lauryn giggled. "Yup," she said, popping the 'p'. A few uncomfortable minutes passed.

"A little help here, guys!" I heard Annabeth shout from behind us. A hairy half-bull half-man thing was charging straight at her. The group rushed to her side, ready for a fight. I pulled out Riptide, my bronze sword.

"Weren't you killed twice already?" Annabeth asked the thing.

In response, the half-bull half-man flared his nostrils and charged.

At me.

"Percy! Step to the side at the last second! He's bad with directions!" Annnabeth shouted.

Sure enough, right as the thing was just about to impale his large horns into my body, I stepped to the side. He looked confused, until he spotted me to the right. I slashed Riptide at the bull-thing's side. It grazed some of his skin under his fur. Instead of attempting to wound him, I just made him madder.

Great.

My hands were sweaty. The world slowed around me. I grasped my sword tighter as the bull ran back into the forest.

I can't believe he surrendered!

A few moments passed.

I was definitely wrong about the surrendering-thing.

The bull-man stomped his foot on the hard ground, and then charged.

Once again, right at me.

I dropped my sword in shock. It skittered across the road, somewhere near a rosebush. If I ran and got it, the bull-man would've killed me. If I stayed where I was, I would've gotten killed, also.

Notice the word 'killed' is in both options.

I decided to run and get the sword. What's there to lose?

Time slowed as the bull-man charged forward. My legs tensed. I felt like I couldn't move.

The bull-man was getting closer. Instead of getting my sword, I jumped sideways. A millisecond later, the monster's head slammed into one of the forest trees. He stammered around a bit.

This was my chance.

I felt my sword reappear in my pocket. I grabbed the pen, uncapped it, and lunged at the monster's side. He yelled a deafening scream and vanished into a yellow dust pile, being blown away by the wind.

I stammered around a bit, taken aback by the power of this monster. I recognized him as the Minotaur. Lauryn had to fight him in the Legion.

I suddenly felt dizzy. I collapsed to the floor, blacking out. The last thing I heard were people yelling my name.

0Oo0oO0Oo

All of a sudden, I was young. Younger than I am now, that is. Probably around 12 years old.

"Hey!" I screamed, waving a red jacket around, running to one side of the Minotaur. "Hey, stupid ground beef!"

"Raaaaarr!" he turned towards me, shaking his meaty fists.

I put my back to a big pine tree and waved my red jacket in front of the Minotaur, thinking I'd jump out of the way at the last minute.

Unfortunately, the Minotaur charged too fast, his arms out to grab me whichever way I tried to dodge.

Time slowed down, and my legs tensed. I leaped straight up, kicking off from the Minotaur's head, using it as a springboard, turning in midair, and landing on his neck.

A millisecond later, the Minotaur's head slammed into the tree and the impact took me hard.

The Minotaur staggered around, trying to shake me off. I locked my arms around his huge horns to keep from being thrown. Thunder and lightning were still going strong. The rain was in my eyes. The smell of rotten meat burned my nostrils (Don't ask how I can smell in this dream-state).

The monster shook himself around and bucked like a rodeo bull. He should've just backed up into the tree and smashed me flat, but I was starting to realize that this thing had only one gear: forward.

Meanwhile, a satyr (Who I suddenly recognized as Grover. Maybe I am getting my memory back!) started groaning in the grass. I felt that if I opened my mouth I'd bite my tongue off.

"Food!" he moaned.

The Minotaur wheeled toward him, pawed the ground again, and got ready to charge. I thought about how he had squeezed the life out of my mother earlier (sudden memory), made her disappear in a flash of light, and rage filled me like high-octane fuel. I got both hands around one horn and I pulled backward with all my might. The monster tensed, gave a surprised grunt, then – snap!

The Minotaur screamed and flung me through the air. I landed flat on my back in the grass. My head smacked against a rock. When I sat up, my vision was blurry, but I had a horn in my hands, a ragged bone weapon the size of a knife.

The Minotaur charged.

Without thinking, I rolled to one side and came up kneeling. As the monster barreled past, I drove the broken horn straight into his side, right up under his furry rib cage.

The Minotaur roared in agony. He flailed, clawing at his chest, then began to disintegrate. It resembled crumbling sand. The wind then blew the remains away.

The rain stopped. The storm rumbled in the distance.

0oO0oO0

I shot up from my laying position, sweat lingering on my forehead.

"W-what happened?" I stuttered scanning my surroundings. I was on a road in the middle of nowhere, with seven other concerned faces surrounding me.

"You passed out after you defeated the Minotaur," Leo stated.

"Shh! Names have power, Leo! You can't go around saying them like that!" Annabeth hissed. I hadn't noticed she was right next to me, feeding me ambrosia squares.

"I think I remem-" I suddenly stopped, my head feeling dizzy.

"You think you what?" Piper asked.

I, once again, sat down in the dusty road, blacking out.

I collapsed on a wooden porch, looked up at a ceiling fan circling above me, moths flying around a yellow light, and the stern faces of a familiar-looking bearded man and a pretty girl, her blond hair curled like a princess's (Once again, she looked scary familiar.) They both looked down at me, and the girl said, "He's the one. He must be."

"Silence, Annabeth," the man said. "He's still conscious. Bring him inside."

OOFIEOOFIEOOFIE

I was suddenly out on a porch. The porch to the Big House. My best-friend satyr, Grover, lead me here.

"That's Mr. D," Grover murmured to me. "He's the camp director. Be polite. The girl, that's Annabeth Chase. She's just a camper, but she's been here longer than anybody. And you already know Chiron…"

"Mr Brunner!" I cried. Oh, yea. He was one of my teacher's… Woah. I must be getting some of my memory back.

After Mr. D welcomed me to camp, Chiron said, "Annabeth?" He called out to the blond girl.

She came forward and Chiron introduced us.

"This young lady nursed you back to health, Percy. Annabeth, my dear, why don't you go check on Percy's bunk? We'll be putting him in cabin eleven for now.

Annabeth said, "Sure, Chiron."

BARNEYSUCKSBARNEYSUCKS

I woke up, again, gasping for breath. More sweat dripped down my face.

"What the h - I mean, what happened, Percy?" Thalia demanded.

"I don't know. I went into some dream-state. Grover carried me to the Big House, where I was nursed back to health after a fight with the Minotaur," I said 'Minotaur' softly. "It was truly a weird dream. I was around the age of 12."

Everyone sighed in relief, except Annabeth.

"Percy?" Annabeth said.

"What?" I asked, looking at her face. For a second, she looked like the 12-year-old Annabeth I saw in my dream. I shook my head as the image returned to her normal face.

"That was moments of your past. You're regaining some of your memory back."

Well, that's a lot to take in.