Fourth chapter: Enjoy.

Forgive me if Annabeth is OOC and her POV isn't as in depth as Percy's (In retrospect, Percy's wasn't very in depth either, but I will redeem myself in future chapters) because I find it more difficult to write female characters. Anyway, tell me if I do a good job or not 'cause I'm kinda clueless as to the quality of my work if I don't get a reaction from the audience.

Thanks to 'random.' I don't know who you are, but I'm sure you do, so if you continue to read the story just know that I appreciate the review. Also thanks to Miette in the Rain for reviewing. I'm still not sure if it was meant to be positive or negative (you probably did that on purpose), but I'm just thankful that you read and reviewed.

Annabeth

Considering that Annabeth had been worrying about her discussion with Chiron all night, the last thing she needed when she finally fell asleep was a terrifying nightmare:

She found herself on a rocky beach in the middle of torrential downpour and gale-force winds. In front of her, the Irvine triplets were beating Percy maliciously. He was chained to a huge rock that jutted out of the sand. Annabeth wanted to help her boyfriend and beat his attackers to a pulp, but she was frozen in place. She couldn't believe it. Why would they do this to him?

All at once, the triplets stopped what they were doing and turned towards the sea. On the horizon, a gargantuan wave had formed and was quickly hurtling toward the beach.

"She approaches!" Dylan exclaimed as he and his sisters hurried over to Annabeth and turned around to face their brother.

As the wave sped toward him, Percy looked at his girlfriend accusingly and shouted: "Annabeth! You're just letting them kill me? Why aren't you helping me? Do you hate me? Do you want me to die?" Annabeth desperately wanted to tell him how much she loved him and how she would make his siblings pay for this, but she still couldn't move or speak. When she didn't respond, his expression changed to one of horrible sadness. "I love you!" He cried in desperation "How could you abandon me for my own brother?" At this, Annabeth realized that Dylan had moved closer to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. She wanted to knock his lights and run to Percy, but to her growing frustration, she was still paralyzed. Just then, the wave reached the shore. It slammed Percy against the rock, but to Annabeth's relief, he remained unharmed. The Irvine's managed to stop the water just before it was about to throttle the four of them into the sand. Unfortunately, the wave was not the only thing that had reached the beach. A huge creature that Annabeth guessed to be at least 1,000 feet tall erupted from the water. It looked like someone had taken a bunch of sea creatures and rolled into one extremely ugly, extremely big monster. And it was heading towards Percy.

While she was frantically trying to escape her invisible bonds and rescue her boyfriend, a loud voice that seemed to be coming from the water, but not the monster, boomed: "If you value Percy Jackson's life, you will kill Dylan, Meredith, and Morgan Irvine."

"Annabeth!" someone yelled worriedly from far away. Her eyes fluttered open and she saw a group of her brothers and sisters surrounding her bed. It was her brother Malcolm who had spoken. "You were screaming in your sleep. Something about killing three people: Dylan, Meredith, and Morgan."

"Everyone, back to sleep, there's nothing to see here." she ordered as she got up from her sweat-stained sheets. "I'm going to take a walk."

When she reached the doorway, Malcolm grabbed her arm and said "Annabeth, are you okay?"

"I—I'm fine," she lied unconvincingly. "I just need some air."

"Who are those three people, Annabeth? Why do you want to kill them?" he asked suspiciously

It was just a nightmare. Now if you would please let go of me…"

"Annabeth, just know that I'll be there for you no matter what," he assured her "I'm your brother, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure your safe."

"Thank you Malcolm. I appreciate it, and the same goes for me."

And with that, she wrenched her arm free from her overprotective brother's vice grip, left her worried siblings, and headed towards the Poseidon cabin.

What did you think?

Any guesses as to the identity of the monster? It's a famous one!

By the way: sorry this chapter is kinda late, but I've been really busy lately, so I had no time to write.

Anyway, thanks for reading. New chapters soon!

P.S.: Daaaaaayum my chapters are short! Sorry but I have to leave this one short for the sake of the story. I promise that I'll write longer chapters in the future!