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Chapter 35: Hands Held High

Percy POV

All happiness left my body when I saw her.

The air around me suddenly felt colder, the sky seemed darker all of the sudden, the walls looked like they were growing around me.

My breathing started to speed up and my heart pumped so hard that it felt like it was going to rip its self out of my chest.

My legs buckled and I fell on my knees in front of Annabeth.

I reached out with a trembling hand and touched her ice-cold skin.

I felt a lump in my throat as I looked over her body.

Her once brilliant smile was obscured by a stream of blood from her nose.

Her rosy cheeks were now drained of all color.

Her once beautiful curly blond hair was now thrown over the muddy, bloodstained earth.

Her eyes were closed but she was still breathing.

Each one of her raspy gasps for air tore my heart to shreds.

I bent down and pressed my fore head against hers and closed my eyes and wished with all my might that when I opened them everything would be alright...that everything would be back to normal.

But when I opened my eyes those hopes were not going to come true, because I was still there, at the Western Gate, in the City of the Dead, somewhere in Peru, with Annabeth dieing in my arms.

I felt something wet on my cheek and realized that I had been crying.

I leaned over and kissed Annabeth on the forehead and pressed my cheek against the top of her head and rocked back and forth, hoping against hope that she would live...that she would be all right.

But you may never see the one that loves you most again

The message kept repeating itself in my head over and over again no matter how much I fought it.

I felt a weight on my shoulder and I turned my head just enough to see that there was a hand resting on my shoulder.

I looked up at the owner of the hand and said almost inaudibly, "She is dieing."

My dad looked down at me with sad eyes. I could smell faint smell of the ocean as he looked at me with those green eyes. Eyes that could sooth a charging bull at times but in others it could make a man go mad.

"Some things must happen. Some things are meant to be. Some things we may never be able change. That is the way of life." He said.

But I shook my head.

"No. Some things we can change." And with that I turned my back to my father.

I thought he would get really mad or something but he just said, "I'm sorry." And vanished just as Andrea and Sebastian appeared.

But when they saw Annabeth they stopped dead in their tracks.

Andrea turned back into a human and put a hand over her mouth and started to cry.

But when I looked over at Sebastian or whatever he was he had no emotions on his face.

He suddenly jerked his head backwards and looked back the way he had come.

There was a long silence and then he turned back towards us and announced, "Our forces have been destroyed and monsters are flooding the city we must do something or we will all die!"

"I don't care! I hope I die!" I blurted out. Not even thinking about what I was saying.

Silence.

Sebastian walked over to the other side of Annabeth and knelt down and looked at me with his solid silver eyes.

"You really care about her that much?" he said.

I looked up at him, "Of course! She is the world to me!" I shouted not to nicely.

Silence.

Sebastian seemed to be in deep thought. His silver eyes were closed. And he wasn't moving at all.

Then he slowly opened his eyes and looked down at Annabeth. He took a deep breath and placed his hand on Annabeth's head.

At first nothing happened but then all of the sudden Sebastian's hand started to glow. He started to breath hard and suddenly ripped his hand away. Then looked at me. The light that he had given off previously was now all but gone and his eyes glowed less but he still was just as frightening as before.

"You must treasure and cherish every moment you spend with her."

I had no idea what he was talking about but he continued;

"And take care of Andrea and Rachel for me."

Then he turned around and jumped up onto the top of the gate.

Then he turned around and looked down at me, "Not all propheces must come true." And he turned away.

I felt a weight being lifted from my arms. I looked down and saw that Annabeth was sitting up.

She smiled and leaned in and kissed me.

That was the happiest moment of my life.

Normal POV

Sebastian looked back down from the top of the gate at his friends.

They were all celebrating and laughing at Annabeth's recovery.

He had to smile at himself.

I'm sure going to miss them He thought to himself.

Then he turned around and looked out over the city.

It was all but destroyed, the horizon was still swarming with monsters, and there was only one way to stop them.

He had lived a life. A life of hardships and fighting. He had gone through pain and sorrow. But if he could back and change any of it, he wouldn't.

He had lived life like it was meant to be lived and he was not sorry he had. There was only one thing left to do.

He took a deep breath.

And he knew what it was.

He took another deep breath.

All the celebrating had stopped.

He took another deep breath.

To protect what is most precious to you…

Deep breathe.

My friends…

Deep breathe.

My sister…

Deep breathe.

That is what's most precious to me…

Deep breathe.

That is worth protecting.

He put his arms out and looked out over the horizon and took one last breath and yelled with all his might.

"EEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

The ground started to shake, the wind howled, the thunder crashed, and fires raged.

It seemed like all hell had been broken lose.

He started to glow. Brighter and brighter until it was to hard to look at him.

A dome of light erupted from his body and engulfed the entire city.

And then it…disappeared.

There was absolute silence.

No wind blew, no thunder cracked, no fire breathed.

The sky cleared and everything seemed to be back to normal.

All the monsters had disappeared.

All the buildings were intact.

The silence was broken by the cheers of the surviving warriors all over the city.

Everyone was celebrating.

Everyone except a small group of half bloods at the Western Gate.

They stood stock still looking up at something.

They were looking at a statue.

It was a statue on the top of the Western Gate.

It was a statue of a friend.

It was a statue of a brave warrior.

It was a statue of a brother.

It was a statue of Sebastian.

Eyes looking out over the horizon.

Ready to fight.

Ready to protect.

With hands held high.

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