It has been 5 years since the 7 defeated Gaea and peace was established, not just between the Greeks and Romans, but on Olympus as well. While rivalries between the gods still existed, the gods were more united than ever.

While there were still monster attacks, since the defeat of Gaea, they were less frequent and usually they were taken down by the Hunters of Artemis before they could even make it to either camp. In fact, the only monster that was still alive was Mrs. O' Leary and that was because she was domesticated.

As for the demigods themselves, well, they definitely enjoyed their well-earned break from saving the world and struggling to survive.

Here's what everyone has been up to over the past 5 years.

After Percy and Annabeth graduated from the university, they moved back out east to Camp Half Blood, for while New Rome was nice, Camp Half Blood always would be their true home. Annabeth began to think about how maybe Camp Half Blood should have a city similar to New Rome, since that way the Greeks who made it to adulthood didn't have to leave Camp Half Blood, they could stay within the safe confines of the camps boundaries without having to go all the way to Camp Jupiter for safe haven. Chiron had agreed with her when Annabeth brought this up to him and agreed to take it before the council of the gods. When he did, it was discovered that both Poseidon and Athena, among other gods, agreed with her and approved the idea to construct a city in Camp Half Blood, with Annabeth as the architect in charge. Annabeth had risen to the occasion and began to layout plans for the city and had decided to call it, Young Olympus. Like the real Olympus was the city of the gods, Young Olympus was the city of the Greek demigods.

Anyway, after 2 years of construction, Young Olympus was completed and Percy and Annabeth were some of the first veterans to move from the cabins into one of the houses, along with Chris and Clarisse, Nico and Will, Jason and Piper, Travis and Katie (who had finally gotten together), Leo and Calypso and several others. Annabeth had actually custom designed one of the houses near the Long Island for her and Percy to live in. Annabeth had also started up a university in Young Olympus and was currently the headmistress and her siblings and some other long time campers were the teachers.

After Jason had made sure that every last god had some sort of tribute, cabin or shrine, at both camps, he and Piper decided to go to Camp Jupiter to attend classes at the University in New Rome, since they wanted to have some degree of a normal life. Like Percy and Annabeth, they shared their own apartment near the campus. After they graduated, Jason and Piper returned to Camp Half Blood and got their own apartment in Young Olympus.

Leo and Calypso opened up a demigod repair shop where they did service on everything from weapons to warships. They actually owned the entire building and lived in a flat above the shop.

Frank and Hazel are still at Camp Jupiter, since both of them still have multiple years of service left. Hazel was eventually promoted to head centurion of the 5th cohort after Dakota retired from active service. Frank worked alongside Reyna to repair the damage that Octavian had done to the legion.

And now, back to the present.

While Percy waited for Annabeth to come home from work today, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small black box that Tyson had sent him from Camp Jupiter, since Ella had agreed to become the new augur at Camp Jupiter and Tyson wanted to be with her, so he lived there and had actually helped improve the Roman arsenal.

Anyway, Percy opened the box again to look at the beautiful diamond ring inside. The band itself was made out of pure imperial gold (only the best kind of gold for his Annabeth, plus it could kill monsters), and Tyson had actually managed to craft the diamond so it looked like an owl, since that was Annabeth's favorite animal, that had a trident on its chest and Percy turned it over to read what he had asked Tyson to engrave on it.

Dear Annabeth,

This ring's beauty is next to nothing compared to you, my true love.

Love Percy.

Percy smiled as he quickly put the ring back in its case and slid the case into his pocket as he heard the door open.

Later on tonight. Percy thought, since he was planning on popping the question tonight on their beach picnic date.

"Percy, I'm home." Annabeth called out.

"In here." Percy said.

"I can't wait for our date tonight." Annabeth said as she entered the living room to find her boyfriend watching the Hephaestus TV action channel.

"Me to." Percy said.

"I can see that, since, you're already dressed for the beach. Just let me go get changed and pack a picnic and we can go." Annabeth said, for while she loved Percy, he couldn't cook or make a decent meal to save his life. She supposed it was because he had been spoiled by either his mother's homemade cooking or the camp's chow.

Percy nodded.

After the 2 had finished off their meal, Percy and Annabeth were simply lying down on their picnic blanket, looking up at the stars.

Percy's favorite was currently the one of his brother, Pegasus.

"It's so beautiful." Annabeth whispered.

"Honestly, you're more beautiful." Percy whispered back.

While Annabeth rolled her eyes at that statement, Percy could tell she loved to hear stuff like that.

"Annabeth, you know we've been dating for nearly 7 years now." Percy said.

"Yeah, why?" Annabeth asked cautiously.

"I was just thinking that." Percy began when Annabeth interrupted him.

"You were thinking?" she asked.

Percy laughed, since he rarely did think with his head and not his sword, but then continued on, "And anyway, I was thinking that maybe we took our relationship to the next level. Beyond sharing a house."

Annabeth was pretty sure she knew what that meant, but when Percy got up onto one knee, her suspicions were confirmed.

"Annabeth Alexandria Chase (I'm guessing that's what Annabeth's middle name is)." Percy began.

"Percy, I need to stop you right there. Yes." Annabeth said.

"Yes." Percy said.

"Yes I will marry you." Annabeth said with a grin.

"You will?" Percy asked.

"I will." Annabeth said.

All Percy could do was grin as he pulled out the ring box and opened it for her to see.

"Percy, it's beautiful." Annabeth said, pulling the ring out of the box and allowing her now fiancée to place it on her finger.

"Only the best for you my lady." Percy said, right before he kissed her.