Okay, here's chapter 2 which is my own, but I do not own any characters or settings mention in this chapter or the rest of the story. Yes that is the real chapter 1 for The Last Olympian, well it should be, it was the sneak peek of it. You can find this sneak peak in The Demigod Files on page 145. If you need more proof just go to Barnes and Noble, ask for The Demigod Files and flip to the back. Oh, and I really wanted to do a story where the Percabeth feelings were revealed late but, I rushed through my old story. So after this, I'll resume Love Beyond Will.
Anyways, on with the story.
On the way back to camp, me and Beckendorf, talked to me about how he's been preparing in the forges and how the rest of Camp Half-Blood has been working extremely hard. He told me that Chiron wanted to talk to me as soon as we arrive. Right before we landed near the Big House, Beckendorf said he had a surprise for me later.
We landed past Thalia's tree. I said my thanks to Blackjack and told him I'll give him some sugar cubes later. Sure thing, boss! and with that he flew off to the stables. Beckendorf said to see me later at his cabin.
Chiron galloped up to me, "Hello Percy, how have you been?"
"Fine, just one week till my sweet sixteen which I decide the fate of the immortal world." I muttered under my breath. He nervously chuckled and then cleared his throat. "Well, I want you to consult the Oracle for, hopefully, one last time" I asked when, and he replied some time before dinner. "By the way, Percy, you should talk to Annabeth, we didn't tell her yet about your arrival." Chiron mentioned. Soon after, he clopped his way back to the Big House.
My heart sank, Annabeth Chase. I thought she would still be mad at me for last year bringing up Luke and the last line of the prophecy. I started to make my way past the sweet-scented strawberry fields, and arena. On my way, I got a couple of awkward hellos since there was only one week till the possible end of the world.
Once, I got to my cabin, I found myself gasping for breath from a bear hug from Tyson. "PERCY!" He boomed. "Hey big guy." I managed. He let go and talked to me about things like Mrs. O'Leary, Rainbow, and Briares. Tyson was talking about how great Briares was at the undersea forges, and I yelled "I almost forgot!" Tyson sat their with a big confused look on his face, I told him about Beckendorf's surprise for me. I said to Tyson we'll catch up later and jogged my way up to Hephaestus's cabin. I opened the door to find a sweaty Beckendorf. He grinned.
"Percy, let me see Riptide for a sec."
"Okay..." I handed him Riptide and he got this celestial bronze sphere with a crescent wave pattern on it that was illuminating in teal. He pounded the sphere into Riptide with a mini-sledge hammer, I was about to complain but then it melted or, rather got absorbed into Riptide. Then, a glowing blueish-green wave pattern appeared across one each side of the blade, and there was a sage green trident outlining Riptide, so image a sword in the middle of a trident (A/N: I was trying to describe the pattern of the sword that was on the cover of The Demigod Files, imagine that except on Riptide). My eyes widened at the sight. Suddenly, the hilt transformed into black. The cross-guard curved like a crescent moon, the leather grip turned azure blue, and the pommel remained the same except it was onyx black like the rest of the hilt. Soon the new sword stopped illuminating, and Beckendorf handed it to me with a wide grin. "This is no longer Anaklusmos Percy, it is now Haloxiphus!" He sounded it like hal-ox-ce-fus. Sea-sharp sword, when translated it to English. "It's twice as powerful as Riptide, and it makes it easier to command water to your will and acts as an amplifier. Plus, the glowing you just saw means it's at it's maximum potential. Only downside is, to reach max power, you need a unique sea source for power." It hit me soon.
"The sand dollar!" I yelled. "What?" Beckendorf replied to me, slightly shook from my sudden outburst. I pulled it out of my pocket and showed it to him. "My dad gave it to me on my birthday last summer." Beckendorf was thinking to see if it this might work. Which looked kind of weird but, I really shouldn't be talking. I am the Seaweed Brain, and on rare occasions Kelp Head."Well, if it was your birthday present from Poseidon, then I'm guessing this more than needed amount of sea power." He smiled. "Kay', I guess I'll see you later Percy." I grinned stupidly, said my thanks, and headed out to the Arena.
I kept staring at the sword on my way, and as soon as I walked in, AROOF! Next thing you know, I'm on the floor, face covered in drool from the hummer-sized hellhound on top of me. Mrs. O'Leary. I escaped it's hold on me then, gave her a pat on her head and walked over to the bigger than average crate with the words HELLHOUND TREATS written across it. I handed her the foot long biscuit and slowly paced myself to the dummies. I started to slash the dummies and every time I hit a dummy, Haloxiphus illuminated the wave pattern on it's blade then dimmed down after the fatal swipe. I decided to try something new, I willed my sword to control the water from a nearby bucket and flung it to the straw dummy. SNAP! Soggy straw bits everywhere. I heard a clap from a distance and a, "Bravo!"
I froze, my ears perked up, it was none other than the voice of my best friend that's a girl, I whizzed around to see nobody else than her. She smiled and waved. Annabeth.