That morning, Hazel had heard groaning from the Athena cabin. Months had passed since she last saw Percy. Hazel had bust in the cabin to find Annabeth shrieking and groaning. She thought Annabeth was having her baby.
"Just another contraction." Annabeth moaned. Annabeth was due soon and everyone was nervous, but tried to not be for Annabeth's sake.
"Ok!" Hazel said, trying to sound fine. Annabeth looked down at the book that was resting on her giant belly.
"What are you reading?" Hazel asked, sliding next to Annabeth.
"Oh, just some greek architecture book. You know, the usual."
"All right, I have to go. Sorry. Nico wanted to meet me by the lake."
"Bye then."Annabeth returned to reading her book.
Nico was waiting for her when she arrived at the beach. She took off her shoes and made her way over to him.
"So I wanted to show you something. I think I might have found him." Nico said. For months Nico and she had been try to find Percy.
"That's great!"
"I'm not so sure."
"What do you mean?"Hazel asked.
"Let me show you." Hazel took Nico's hand and they plunged into darkness. An image appeared: it was Percy laying under a wave of darkness. He was pale and sweating, his eyes were misty.
"What is that holding him down? Hazel asked nervously.
"I don't know. It must be some power of Tartarus'."
"What are you doing?" A voice interrupted there thoughts. It was Leo, of course, the troublemaker.
"Leo! We were doing something important!" Nico whined.
"Sorry, but I wanted to ask you something."Leo replied.
"What? Leo,make it quick!"Hazel said.
"Well, I was thinking of asking Calypso something…"
"What? Leo spit it out!" Nico urged.
"I want to ask Calypso to marry me."