Okay so I have gotten a lot of reviews saying that Annabeth is OOC in this and I'm truly sorry about that but this was just an idea I had and thought I'd try it out. Anyways please review. I do not own Percy Jackson or any characters except for Ariana.

Grover and I spent 10 minutes packing and only came out with 2 bags each. One bag for clothes and sleeping material and the other bag is for weapons, ambrosia and nectar. We headed over to the only boat this camp had. Greeks didn't really like using boats and preferred other things like chariots but the camp had one built for me or for any quests that really required one. It was a regular ketch sail boat so it was easy for me to control everything like the rope and sails. We put our bags down to the bunk area. I untied the last rope and got aboard the boat. I controlled the sails to go down and for the boat to speed down the water. We have been sailing for an hour at full speed and we were only outside of Virginia. It was now 6:00 and it was getting dark out. Grover was pacing the boat mumbling something to himself. I leaned against the boat railing and started into the passing water. I heard Grover trot over to me.

"Thinking about Annabeth?"

"I'm really scared Grover. If you could have just seen how she looked. I've never seen her look so weak; like smiling would hurt her."

"Percy I promise you that she is going to be okay. Remember when she was taken by Dr. Thorn? She had to hold up the entire sky by herself! She was just fine afterward with a little medical help. Annabeth is a strong girl just because you two got together doesn't mean she got any weaker."

"Yeah I guess I just worry about her more now."

"Percy she has been in worse situations before; we all have. You just need to believe that she'll make it out alive."

I opened my mouth to say something but then the boat rocked violently. Grover and I looked around the boat looking for the source of the movement. The boat stopped rocking and everything was dead silence. We waited a bit hoping it was just a few sharks passing by but then the sound water erupting came from behind us. We turned around to see a giant kraken going crazy. It made a horrible screeching sound and swung it's tentacles down at us. He broke part of a side rail and Grover and I bolted down to grab our bags with the weapons. We ran back up but before we fought I tried to communicate with it.

"Why are you attacking us?" I asked mentally.

All I got from him was "kill, kill, kill" Alrighty then, lets fight. I pulled out Riptide and Grover began to swing at its tentacles with a sword and I ran up to a higher point of the boat. I started to will the water to move around the kraken trying to get him away from the boat; but no matter what whether I moved him under or above water he would just drag the boat with him. I looked down at Grover and saw that he had taken a whole tentacle off and the wound spot was leaking out gold ooze. I tried to figure out what to do. I couldn't move the kraken or he would break the boat in half and cutting off his tentacles would take too long and we are on a time limit. What to do? What to do? Then it hit me.

"Grover go into the bag and grab all the spears! Throw them all into the kraken's eyes!"

He did as he was told and grabbed 10 retractable spears from the bag and one by one he lengthened them and through them into the kraken's eyes. As he started to do that I jumped into the water besides the kraken and took out my sword again. I built up the pressure of the water around me and I rocket out of the ocean. I soared high above the kraken's head and while he was temporarily blinded I fell down and slashed my sword down the length of his head and gold ooze came pouring out. By the time I fell back into the water the kraken burst completely in gold dust and disappeared. I got out of the water and back into the boat.

"Well let's hope we don't run into anymore of those. Monsters are just the worst of timing." Grover said.

"Yeah, you got that right. Alright let's see if this thing can go any faster."

I used all the strength I had left to move the boat and currents as fast as I could. Within another 20 minutes we arrived outside of Williston, Florida. By now it was about 8:00 and we could barely see a thing. We had to use the illuminating blue light of my sword and the small lantern that Grover brought. We only had walk another 20 before we reached the first cave on sight. It was a big cave entrance with a long stair case leading down to a dock surrounded by water.

"Well this is the right coordinates but how do we know for sure? We can't just waste our time in every cave of Florida." I said.

Grover looked around then stopped his sight above the cave entrance.

"Hey look there."

He pointed in line of his sight. At the top of the cave was a symbol with a woman's face in the center.

"Isn't that Nyx? Maybe that's what the Oracle meant by look for one named Nyx. This cave must once have been guarded by her." Grover said.

"You're a genius, man." I said smiling at him.

We walked down to the dock at the bottom of the stairs. We looked down into the water and saw another entrance leading further into the cave; it was deep and dark.

"Maybe you should wait here Grover. I can move a lot faster without having to worry about popping air bubbles. Besides you don't look too well."

His face had a scared expression on it and he was shaking a bit. I knew he didn't like caves especially after our adventure through the labyrinth.

"Yeah…Yeah maybe that's a good idea." He said in a shaky voice.

"Maybe you can go up and patrol for gorgons; I'm sure there are some wondering around here."

"Alright Percy; I'll be waiting up there for you." As he trotted back up the stairs I reached into a bag and pulled out Annabeth's cap and dagger.

I stuck the hat in my back pocket and strapped her dagger on my belt. Then I made sure I had Riptide and jumped into the water. I swam towards the first tunnel and had to take Riptide out to use the little light that it had to light my way through. The cave seemed to go on forever; I don't even want to think how Annabeth and all the others made it to where they were. Then I came up to a sign that said μόνο ημίθεοι which I translated to Demigods Only. Well no turning back now. I swam through the tunnel and came up to a surface area of the cave. Sure enough when I got on the surface I saw Annabeth still lying down scratched on the ground. I ran up to her and held her in my arms.

"Annabeth? Annabeth can you hear me?" No reply; she was out cold.

I took the cap out and placed it on her head and she immediately turned invisible. Then I took her dagger and left it by her.

"Don't worry Annabeth, I'll get you out of this."

"Hahahaha." I heard an evil laugh coming from further into the cave.

Then Arian came out on top of the cliff as she had before.

"Well isn't this just perfect. The famous Percy Jackson did come. I did want to kill you just as well but I didn't think you'd actually show up. Annabeth of course insisted that you would but we all have our doubts about things. Where is your little goat friend?" She grinned evilly at me.

"That's none of your business!" I yelled angrily at her.

"Fine, whatever. He wasn't part of this anyways; I just wanted you and little Annie." She looked down and was shocked not to see anyone there.

"Where is she?" She yelled frustrated.

"That's still none of your business. Why are you doing this to her? Killing her so slowly. What happened to Luke wasn't our faults."

"Oh yes it is. Annabeth could have stopped him when he came to her in need. She should have never left him. She was everything to him! She was his family!"

"She didn't mean to abandon him Ariana! He was down a wrong path and we all tried to stop him. He was being devoured by Kronos. He did the right thing by killing himself."

"Don't you ever say something like that! You all never even thought of another way. You only thought about death."

"Ariana, please. We are all sorry and trust me when I say that if we could bring Luke back we would."

"Apologies won't fix anything. Now prepare to die along with my brother." She whistled and about 8 gorgons came pouring out of the entrance next to her.

"No Ariana! We are going to fight one on one. Me against you; it's the only way you'll get justice."

"Very well then, have it your way Jackson." She jumped down the cliff and onto the surface we were on.

I thought that jump would have shattered her but she seemed unfazed. She pulled out her sword and I stepped in front of Annabeth so she wouldn't be in the way of fire. I pulled Riptide out and without warning she charged at me. Thankfully sword fighting was my best class and I have had years learning different techniques. Ariana on the other hand was a little sloppy. Sure she must have had Luke to teach her because before me he was the best fighter at camp but I knew those lessons didn't last any longer than mine had. She tried to stab me in my stomach but I parried her sword out of her hand. It skidded across the floor and I pointed the tip of my sword to her neck.

"Please, Ariana just stop now. I don't want to hurt you. We can work things out." She exhaled loudly.

"Fat chance Jackson."

She ducked under my sword and dove for hers. This girl wasn't going to give up and I had to get both Annabeth and I out of here. We went back to sword fighting and she didn't make as much mistakes. We parried, poummeled, enveloped, and blocked but were getting nowhere. I kept glancing up at the gorgons who looked just about ready to pounce on me. This had to be stopped, but not by me. I tried using my empathy link with Grover to communicate with him.

"Hey G-man."

"Whoa! Dude you scared me. Is everything all right?"

"Yeah; for now. Listen do you still have your reed pipes?"

"Of course; I never leave without them."

"Great. Okay I need you to cause a giant crack in the ground about 30 feet in front of you. Do you think you can do that?"

"Yes Percy, I'll get right on it."

Good now our escape should be coming up soon. Unfortunately while I was distracted I didn't notice that a gorgon had dropped down behind me and had just cut me in the back. There wasn't that much pain because of my Achilles' heel but I still didn't like getting slashed at with a sword. I turned around a quickly cut the gorgon into golden dust. At that time Ariana must have found a perfect opportunity to strike me and blew her sword pretty close to my Achilles' spot. I dropped to my knees and winced in pain then layed on the floor.

"Oh I think I might have just found your weakness."

I turned my head enough to see that she was about to stab her sword in my spot. I couldn't move; but apparently I didn't need to because she screamed out in pain. Someone had stabbed a dagger at the back of her knee. As she collapsed to the floor I looked up to see Annabeth standing there.

"Nobody hurts me or my friends." She said very weakly yet very angry.

She looked about ready to faint so I stood up and caught her.

"Let's get out of here." She nodded at me and the whole cavern began to shake.

The whole thing was caving in. All the gorgons began to scream and ran away. I picked up Annabeth bridal style and headed for the water. I created an air bubble so she could breathe and I willed the water to take us back to the entrance. We caught up with Grover and ran to the boat as fast as we could. Once aboard the ship I got us all at a safe distance and I brought Annabeth down to the bunk room and tucked her in and fed her ambrosia with nectar. I began to smile again because she was slowly healing and I knew we were all safe. We were all going to make it back to camp alive.

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