Hey everyone! Well I had some time off today and decided to sit down and finish up the rest of this story. I will have a "spin off", but it'll be tacked on to this story, just labeled as "part 2". I don't really have any plans for it yet, just that I want to keep writing from this ending anyway, here's chapter 6, which is the ending of part 1. Chapter 7 begins part 2. I hope you like it!!! And remember, I'm expediting some of the dates for my story writing purposes… things went differently in the real one. But hey, that's why mine is called an "alternate".

DISCLAIMER: I don't own PJO… though the end will probably look familiar

The next morning I woke up feeling completely happy. Tyson was here, Grover, Thalia, Nico, Rachel, Annabeth, and a lot of my other friends had made it through the war, even though many hadn't, and we had defeated Kronos and his armies. Oh, and the whole "I'm a god" thing really helped my mood.

I left Tyson asleep in the cabin and went to see if Annabeth was awake for breakfast. As I was walking over to her cabin, I saw her walking towards mine.

"Hey!" She said, smiling at me.

"Hey, yourself!" I said back. She looked so pretty in the sunrise.

Whoa. Where did that come from?

"So, do you want to go to breakfast?" I asked her.

She nodded and walked with me to the dining pavilion.

Most of the camp was already there. When it was time to sacrifice to the gods, they all stood up and walked over to the fire, though since Annabeth and I were just arriving we took a spot in the back of the line.

As soon as the first person dropped a huge pancake into the flame, the most intoxicating and wonderful smell in the world filled my nostrils. It was like everything good in the world mixed together and baked into my mom's blue cookies. I stopped short and just inhaled the aroma. It was so wonderful I felt as though I could live off of only it for all eternity.

I looked over at Annabeth, who seemed to be enjoying the smell almost as much as I was. I closed my eyes and just enjoyed it, until someone bumped into us. It turns out that the "someone" was Nico, who was trying to stifle his laughter.

"You were both about to start drooling! What's going on?" He asked.

"It just… smells… so… good!" Annabeth said, her mouth watering.

"Ok, well you're holding up the line, so can you get moving?" He asked again, chuckling.

We got out of line and stood off to the side. It was then that it hit me that they were sacrificing to the gods, of which we were now a part of. I realized I wasn't that hungry at all anymore, and the more sacrifices were made, the more I realized how full I was getting. And after the last person had gone through I was completely stuffed. Annabeth seemed to be too.

Chiron walked up to us and looked at us quizzically.

"Why are you two still here?" He asked us.

"We just wanted to spend the last day at camp as campers rather than gods."

She was right. This was the last day of camp, seeing as how the preparing for the battle against Kronos had taken up so much of the summer. Tonight would be the bead ceremony and tomorrow everyone would be going home. Annabeth and I would be going to Olympus tonight when everyone else went to bed.

"Well, I'm happy you wanted to stay. Are you not eating breakfast?" He asked us.

"Actually, we're completely stuffed! It was like we were literally being fed off of the sacrifices to the gods!" Annabeth told him.

"But I don't understand, they weren't sacrificing to us, were they?" I asked.

"Think about it Percy. These campers owe the fact that they're alive to the both of you! The two of you defeated Kronos. Had you not, they all would've been killed. Some of them were even almost killed by the monsters you single handedly took down, Percy. They may very well be sacrificing to you as well as their parents."

I was stunned by the fact that the campers thought of us like that.

"We didn't do it alone though," Annabeth began. "We did have a lot of help."

"Be that as it may, you led the army into battle and took part in saving Olympus. They see you as the only heroes. Well, I must go make the announcements and get on with the camp."

Chiron left us standing there pondering the possibilities while he went to do what he needed to do.

We spent the last day doing the same things we always would on our last day. I hung out with Tyson and Grover, just like in the old days. I went swimming at the beach, and Annabeth and I walked around camp together, just talking.

And of course, that night during dinner, we had the bead ceremony. The bead was beautiful, with the Empire State Building surrounded by the names of everyone we lost; everyone who's shrouds we had just burned. And on the top shone two glowing dots, representing Annabeth and me, the first campers to ever be made into gods.

I now had four beads: A trident from my first summer when I was claimed and became the first child of Poseidon at Camp Half Blood, a Golden Fleece from when Annabeth, Clarisse, Tyson and I saved Grover, the fleece, and Thalia's tree, a Maze to represent our journey through, and the battle of, the Labyrinth, and now this one.

Four summers of being a demigod. Four summers of fighting for my life, side-by-side with my friends and family. And now I was a god. Now I'd have an eternal amount of summers to fight and protect. I couldn't wait to begin my immortal life.

After dinner, as I was sitting at my cabin's table thinking about my life to come, Annabeth came up, plopped something on the table, and sat next to me.

"Happy Birthday Percy."

I looked at what she'd put on the table and realized it was a misshapen cake with thick blue frosting.

"What do you mean? My birthday was…" I realized with a start that it was yesterday. In all the confusion, fighting, shroud burning, and becoming an immortal, I had completely forgotten about it.

"I suppose I should say 'Happy belated birthday'. Your birthday was yesterday, Percy. Don't you remember? The prophecy even came true!" She reminded me.

I thought about it. Every line came right on time. The prophecy didn't forget, even though I did. I turned sixteen yesterday, the day I saved Olympus by giving Annabeth's dagger to Luke to defeat Kronos, and the day Annabeth and I became immortal. We would be sixteen forever.

"You're right, as usual." I smiled at her.

We began to pick apart the cake with our fingers.

"So, you made this cake all by yourself?"

"Well, Tyson helped." She replied smugly.

"That's what I figured." I said laughing.

We continued to eat the cake until there were just a few crumbs left.

"Annabeth, there's something I've been meaning to tell you."

She looked at me strangely. "Ok?"

"Uh… do you remember back when I took a dip in the River Styx?"

"What? You bathed in the Styx? I had no idea!" She said with a smirk.

"Haha. Well, when I was down there, I had to think of the one thing that would hold my soul to my body. And when I was on Calypso's island, and holding up the sky, and when I had to make my decision about to become an immortal… well…" I just couldn't get it out.

Annabeth was biting her lip in laughter.

"You're laughing at me!"

"Percy, are you trying to say…" she said through giggles.

"It was you Annabeth. I could only think about you. You're the reason I'm still alive and the reason I'm immortal. And I l… lo… love you." I exhaled with a rush. I couldn't believe I'd finally said it.

She looked at me shocked, as though she'd never even considered it.

Suddenly I felt like an idiot. I just told her all of this and she didn't think of me the same way?

"Well, you know… I mean, if you don't…"

"No Percy, I…" and then she did I'd never thought but hoped would happen: she kissed me.

And I was happy to kiss her back.

"I love you too…" she told me back.

"It's about time!"

And with that we were surrounded by what seemed like the entire camp.

They seemed to have forgotten that we were immortal gods, because they hoisted us up onto their shoulders.

"These two need to cool off!" Clarisse yelled.

"The canoe lake!" Connor Stoll yelled back.

And so they carried us to the lake and threw us in, Annabeth and I laughing the entire time. But, being the son of Poseidon and now a god myself, I didn't really worry about it. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake and, well, let's just say it was pretty much the best underwater kiss ever.

When we finally broke apart, Annabeth had tears in her eyes. I made one fly off her cheek and float in between us, and then I had it burst into a million tiny droplets and spread around the air pocket like fireworks.

She smiled at me, and never before had anyone looked more beautiful. Not even Aphrodite could match it.

"I've been hoping you would tell me that since the Labyrinth, Percy." She told me.

And now it was my turn to be surprised. I had no idea it'd been that long.

"What do you say we go back to dry land. I'm sure our friends are waiting for us to come back." She said. I grinned back at her and nodded.

And with that, we both took on our godly forms because it couldn't hurt anyone if we were underwater and teleported to the back of the group of campers waiting for us to come up for air. Luckily, no one saw us.

"Do you think they're ok?" Someone asked.

"Of course! They're gods now!"

"But can gods go without breathing?"

"Curse them! Percy can breath underwater and I bet he made a pocket of air for Annabeth! Why didn't we think about that…" Clarisse began to rant.

"What was that glowing?" Someone shouted over her.

"Well it could've been our true godly forms that you're lucky you didn't see in person, lest you be burned to ashes." Annabeth said over the noise.

Our friends looked over at us, completely surprised that we were behind them when we were in the water. They also seemed to have forgotten about us having an immortal form. But they soon got over it (being the children of the Olympians gets you pretty comfortable with weird) and surrounded us, laughing about the whole incident.

It was starting to get dark, and we knew we had to go back up to Olympus tonight.

"Annabeth, do you remember my gift from the gods?" I asked her on our way back to the camp.

"How could I forget? That was one of the most selfless things I've ever heard!"

"Well, seeing as how you're the goddess of architecture and all," she beamed at me when I said that, "do you think you could build the cabins for Hades and the minor gods and goddesses before we leave?"

She looked at me with a gleam in her eye. "Oh, I think I can handle that."

The moment we set foot by the cabins, Annabeth stopped. She raised her hands to her temples and made an expression that looked to me like she was concentrating really hard. All at once, Cabins began to rise up out of the ground. Hades' was back towards the head of the ring near Zeus and Poseidon's, though on the outside facing in. All of the cabins for the rest of the minor gods and goddesses were spread in a semicircle in a layer outside of the twelve main Olympians. They looked amazing, as though they'd been there all along. Even the Satyrs got their own cabin with tribute to Pan.

Annabeth took her hands down from her head and staggered back a little.

"Wow, I guess I'm going to just have to get used to that." She said happily.

As soon as the cabins were built, a loud noise came from the Hermes Cabin. All at once, a dozen campers ran out the door with different colored symbols over their heads. They were now claimed and had a real cabin to stay in, almost as if their parents were just waiting to see them have a home first. Even Nico came out with dark helm glowing above his head, officially being claimed as the son of Hades.

We got all of the campers moved into their new cabins quickly. I was almost a little sad to see that there were no other Children of the Big Three, but I'm sure Thalia, Nico, and I were truly the only ones out there right now.

After all of the moving was over, Annabeth went over to the Hermes Cabin and fixed it up to represent Hermes in the way he should've been represented, not with an old run down cabin but a grand one fit for a god.

Finally, after all of that, she walked back over to me.

"Follow me." She said. "I want to show you my favorites."

I followed her past the grand cabins with newly claimed children in them and stopped in front of one that seemed to breath magic.

"Wow! Hecate's is really cool!" I told her.

She laughed. "No, not that one." She told me, pointing towards two smaller cabins at the end of the row.

Our cabins.

Of course, hers was a white and gray cabin, mine a blue and green one, but they were different than that of our parents. Hers seemed to have formulas from blue prints all over it that you couldn't see if you looked right at it, but only out of the corner of your eye. Mine had nautical flags carved into the stone around the base of the cabin and a horseshoe over the door. The sun seemed to cast broken up light on the walls like sunlight does on the water, as though the walls were made of water.

"Annabeth! They're amazing!" I couldn't get anything else out. All I could do is give her another kiss and take it all in. She pushed me away and told me to take a look.

I walked into my cabin and took it all in. I didn't think I would actually ever have a demigod hero in here, but I suppose she built them so none of the campers would forget us. Also, so we could have a place to stay when we visited.

I left the cabin in a daze, knowing the day was over and it was time to head to Olympus.

And with that, it was time to say our goodbyes. I had been dreading this all day, but I finally knew it would be ok. After all, I could always come back to the place where I first felt like I belonged.

Chiron, Grover, Thalia, Nico, Tyson, Juniper, and Rachel came to say goodbye to us as we stood on Half Blood Hill. The rest of the camp had said goodbye earlier.

For the longest time, we all just stood there in silence. But finally, when Annabeth began to cry, the ice was broken and we managed to say what we wanted. We all hugged and cried and told each other how much we'd miss them and that we'd come back to visit all the time, like we weren't even gone.

"Well, Annabeth, I suppose it's time to go now." As much as I didn't want to, we did have to go.

"I guess you're right." We gave everyone one last hug before assuming our immortal forms and teleporting to Olympus, where our new lives awaited us. And let me just say, it was a beautiful sight.

Well? What do you think? I know this was long, but I didn't want to make two little chapters out of it. And don't worry, part 2 will come as soon as I come up with a story for it haha. I hope you like my Alternate ending, and I can't wait to start the next story! Thanks for being such awesome readers!!!! Let me know how you felt about it... including what you did or didn't like and what you'd like to see next!!!

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