A/N: I know it's been awhile since I updated, but I started school again and have homework again. I will try to update at least once a month from now on. Thanks to my reviewers for the support. This next chapter will take place back at Camp Half-Blood.

POV: Annabeth

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or Twilight.

Chapter 17: The Sea of Monsters

I'd decided to continue telling the Cullen coven about all of our adventures to pass the time. I knew that if I didn't have anything important or distracting to do, I'd be thinking and worrying about Percy all day. It might as well be a couple of months before I saw him again, and I needed to occupy myself so I didn't keep thinking about him. So I called the Cullen coven over to Camp Half-Blood once again to tell them the story of our quest to the lair of Polyphemus and through the Sea of Monsters.

We agreed to meet in a small clearing in the forest by camp, a glade sprinkled with lilacs and Indian Paintbrush, surrounded by tall lodgepole pines, warm sunlight washing over the moss-covered rocks. As I waited for them, I lay down on the fresh dewy grass, looking up through the trees and studying the golden sunlight filtering through pine needles and fat emerald leaves. After no longer than three minutes, I heard the soft whoosh of a gentle wind that indicated the eight vampires had arrived. I stood up, brushing the morning dew off my jean shorts, and greeted them tiredly.

"You wanted to continue telling us your story?" Edward asked quietly. All of their hair glowed in the sunlight, their marble-white skin sparkling like a thousand diamonds. It was hard not to stare, but eventually I managed to look away, picking at the moss on a rock next to me.

"Yes. You can sit if you want. Our second quest was about as crazy as the first." All of the Cullens sat down on the rocks, ears perked up in anticipation. I took a deep breath before beginning. "Well, to begin the story of our quest, I was following Percy on his last day of seventh grade at a school called Meriwether College Prep. He was friends with Tyson, who was a huge guy you'll learn more about later. Matt Sloan, the school bully, had a couple of new kids who claimed to be from Detroit around him and was constantly picking on Tyson. Anyway, when they got to gym, they were playing dodgeball, and Sloan was captain. He chose all of the best guys in the class, including all of the visitors from Detroit. Percy's team was the weakest. Everyone besides Percy and Tyson tried to hide. Then, the visitors started to grow - they became giant monsters, called Laistrygonian Giants, and they all wanted to kill Percy. Should I slow down?" I asked at seeing Bella's confused, scowling face.

"No, the pace is fine," she said. "But… what are Laistrygonians?"

"Oh. They're giant cannibal monsters from Greek mythology who live in the north. Somehow, they'd located Percy at Meriwether Prep and tracked him down. Should I continue?" Bella nodded. "Anyway, the leader conjured new dodgeballs made of bronze and fire to throw at Percy. Tyson, though, protected Percy, as he was unaffected by the monsters' cannonballs. You'll find out why later," I added quickly as all eight vampires except for Edward furrowed their eyebrows. "I decided to step in then, and stabbed the last Laistrygonian in the back. Then I helped them escape, summoning the Gray Sisters' taxi to get to Camp Half-Blood. The Gray Sisters are three ladies who all share one eye and one tooth and drive a magical taxi for demigods - they drove like crazy." I twirled my hair absentmindedly, remembering the ride. "We talked about dreams. Apparently Percy had a dream about Grover being chased by something really big with a deep voice, and Grover ran into a wedding shop, which blew up. Grover really needed Percy's help. I'd been having dreams about bad things happening at Camp Half-Blood.

"When we got to camp, it was under attack by a couple of bronze monsters called Colchis Bulls, invented by Hephaestus, one of the Olympians. Thalia's tree, which protected the camp, had been somehow poisoned by an intruder. We fought the bulls, and Tyson took out one of them while the demigods, led by Clarisse, got the other. I then gave Tyson permission to enter the camp, just the same way I did for you all. A man called Tantalus took over the camp because Chiron had been accused of poisoning the tree since he was a son of Kronos. Later, Percy finally figured out that Tyson was a Cyclops - monsters with one eye - and that Tyson was also a son of Poseidon. I used to be deathly afraid and also very hateful towards cyclopes, and really disliked Tyson. Percy was embarrassed to have him as a half-brother.

"Later on, Tantalus had the camp host a chariot race. Percy and I had a huge fight over the fact that Tyson was a monster and his brother, and eventually Percy decided to choose Tyson as his chariot companion instead of me. During the first competition, we were all attacked by Stymphalian Birds, which have deadly metal beaks and almost shredded everyone to ribbons. We all fought off the birds eventually, but it took a while and a lot of campers were injured. Clarisse ignored the birds and won the race, and became Tantalus' favorite, while we got sentenced to dish duty." I breathed a little to make sure the Cullens were following me, but all they did was stare in silence, waiting for more. "Percy told me about another dream about Grover in trouble in the Sea of Monsters. We told the campers that it was possible to save Thalia's tree with the Golden Fleece, a magical item with extremely powerful healing powers. The Fleece was in the Sea of Monsters. Percy figured out that a list of numbers that the Gray Sisters gave him were actually longitude and latitude. Tantalus assigned Clarisse the quest to find the Fleece.

"Percy met Hermes on the beach that night, and gave him a bag of essentials, plus a thermos filled with wind. I'll explain that later. Percy, Tyson and I all left camp to take the quest ourselves that night. We rode a hippocampi - a fish-horse - to a passing cruise ship, the Princess Andromeda. The whole ship seemed to be empty, so we picked out a room to stay the night. Unfortunately, we were captured by the Titan army and Luke, who owned the ship. Apparently, he

was trying to help Kronos resurrect and destroy Olympus. We escaped with Hermes' wind thermos, which blew out wind to propel us in a certain direction. Any questions so far?"

The Cullens remained silent, still as stone, so still that for a split second I thought they were statues and Medusa was standing behind me. But then Emmett turned his head slightly to the left, cocking his ear up as if he heard something. "Do you hear that?" he asked.

"No," I responded, but all the other vampires turned their head in the same direction.

"It's like… mist." And then it struck me. I shot up from my sitting position and ran off in the direction that they seemed to be hearing. I stopped after only thirty feet at the sight of a rainbow made of mist that shouldn't have even been there. In it, Percy, Jason, and Renesmee were staring blankly ahead. Then Percy saw me.

"Annabeth? Is that you?"

"Yes! Seaweed Brain! Where are you? How's the quest going?" I was so happy that I barely even noticed the Cullens materializing next to me.

"It's okay. Got attacked by dracanae yesterday, but it was an easy fight. Nessie here grew like three years last night." Only then did I notice Renesmee. She no longer looked thirteen - she was wearing bigger, newer clothes and looked fifteen or sixteen.

"Nessie! How are you doing? Another growth spurt?" Alice exclaimed, causing Renesmee to blush bright red.

"Yes, Aunt Alice."

"Look, today we're heading east over the Atlantic. I just wanted to let you know. We've got all our supplies. Tell Leo that Festus is fine." Percy looked a little tired, but I was glad he wasn't scratched up yet. "We'll see what we encounter there. How're things at camp?"

"Great. I'm still telling the Cullens our story - the Sea of Monsters this time."

"That's a fun story. Look, we don't have much time left before the mist goes away. I'll see you soon, Wise Girl. I'll make sure Renesmee stays out of danger, Edward." The vampire next to me nodded sullenly. "I love you, Wise Girl." He smiled, and his sea green eyes twinkled in that adorable way.

"I love you too, Seaweed Brain," I whispered to the mist just before the rainbow disappeared, colors dissolving into nothing, and the cool mist fell to the ground.