A/N: Hey! I just wanted to say thank you for the amount of follows and favorites and reviews that I've been getting! Please continue to review, as it makes me more motivated to post another chapter… but, here's chapter four! Hope you like!

Annabeth

We rushed to the other side of the park, where we had heard the noise.

And crumpled on the ground was…Percy?

A trickle of blood was running down the side of his face, and he was looking at the sky as if he was born yesterday.

"Percy, what-" I offered my hand and helped him up.

"I have no idea," he gasped. "This ghost thing-hates horses-Poseidon-"

You can't run, little boy…

"I'm seventeen!" Percy yelled.

The whooshing noise came again, blowing us all back. Hard. Thalia crashed into the swings, I crashed into a tree, and Luke crashed into Percy.

Percy took out his pen and uncapped it, letting out a long sword.

I pulled out my dagger, Thalia pulled out her bow, and Luke pulled out his sword.

But how were we supposed to fight it if we couldn't see it?

"It's a Taraxippus!" I yelled. "It scares away horses and hates Poseidon!"

"Never mind that, how do we kill it?" Luke waved his sword around wildly.

"We can't!" I struggled to climb to my feet. "We have to pray to it!"

"WHAT?!" Thalia, Luke, and Percy looked at me as if all three of them were born yesterday.

Before I could roll my eyes and respond, the whooshing came again, this time with something sharp.

"What-?" I couldn't believe my eyes.

The playground was coming apart. The swings' poles were torn out of the ground and sent into a whirlwind, along with the slide, monkey bars, jungle gym, and all the other parts of the park. I swore I could see a tree ripped out of the ground.

But visibility was becoming a struggle.

"Okay," Percy backed away from the whirlwind. "Now would be a great time to defeat this one, Annabeth!"

I took a deep breath and got to my knees. "Oh great, um, Taraxippus! We are truly awed by your great mass of power! We offer upon you, our deepest apologies for disturbing you!"

The others followed suit. The whirlwind didn't stop, and now, debris was flying everywhere.

But as we continued to chant praise for the ghost, it started to take form.

A tall woman, with dark skin and hair and piercing blue eyes, was raising her hands and making the tornado grow.

"Oy! Beautiful lady!" Thalia called. "If you stop this whirlwind, we'll give you some blood of Poseidon!"

"WHAT?!" Percy stared at her.

But it worked. The Taraxippus died down and came to rest her feet on the ground.

"Oh?" She spoke in the same hissing voice, but somehow smoother. "Fine. This whirlwind is gone. Now give me the boy."

"Actually," Thalia said, "He's not a real son of Poseidon."

"What?!" All of us, including the Taraxippus stared at her.

"Yeah, he's…a…er…imitation son of Poseidon."

"What?!" We all said again.

"I don't buy it!" The Taraxippus lady started to form another whirlwind from her fingertips. "Prepare to die!"

"Actually," Percy pointed out, "You can't exactly prepare to die, because-"

"PERCY! RUN!"

We had started back towards the gates of the park, but a large padlock appeared on them. Then we tried to climb over, but they magically grew taller.

Stupid gates.

We ran across the perimeter of the park, then spotted some tall trees.

Fit for climbing.

Luke and Thalia started up one, and Percy and I started up another.

But the Taraxippus made the tree grow even taller and even thinner. It became harder for us to climb without snapping any branches.

Katniss Everdeen, help us now.

A branch snapped under my feet, and I slipped, but I was able to grab another branch above my head. But when that one snapped, too, I started to fall…

…until Percy's hand clamped around my wrist.

He looked very strained, but he managed to pull me up and we managed to get to the leaves of the tree, which had much stronger branches.

The Taraxippus growled in anger, shaking the trees and the playground, which was starting to go into the whirlwind again.

"If we don't make it out of this," Percy had to shout over the noise, "I just wanted to say that you have really pretty eyes!"

"Yeah, well, we are going to make it out of this, and you should be waiting for a smack when we do!"

His face broke into a lopsided smile. "I'm just stating a fact. And you like facts, don't you?"

"Shut up, Seaweed Brain."

"Jump!" I heard Luke yell to Thalia. I turned and saw that the tree they were standing in towered high over the gates. Thalia took a deep breath and jumped, her Zeus powers helping her land safely. Then Luke jumped.

"Come on!" Percy carefully stepped to the edge of the branch, and made a leap to the other tree. I did the same, and thankfully didn't fall. I did not like the fact that Percy was saving me so often.

Then Percy made a jump over the fence, screaming "FOR NARNIA!"

I rolled my eyes and jumped, just as the Taraxippus tore apart the trees.

I landed safely on the ground, the wind supporting me, thanks to Thalia.

We all were panting hard.

When we looked back into the playground, though, the whirlwind or the lady was nowhere to be seen.

Thalia tossed a canteen of nectar to Percy. "Guess this wasn't the best first impression, then?"

We all managed a small laugh.

Luke cleared his throat. "I suppose we go to dinner, then?"

There was a moment of awkward silence. Percy wasn't supposed to come with us before.

"How about," I said, before Percy could open his mouth, "We all go back to our dorms, change, and then meet back here for dinner?"

"Sounds like a plan," Thalia said before Luke could object. "Last one back here's a loser!"

Lucky for me, I wasn't the last one there. I had changed into a short gray dress, and Thalia just wore a white shirt and black skirt, with Vans. She was not formal.

I arrived first, Luke second, and Thalia and Percy at the same time.

After arguing for a few minutes over who was there first, both me and Luke yelled at them and they finally shut up.

The restaurant was pretty formal, and Thalia looked out of the ordinary. Nevertheless, she kept winking, blowing kisses, and waving to random people like she was Jennifer Lawrence or something.

Our dinner was full of laughs, because Percy turned out to be very funny, especially paired with Luke, who gave up glaring at him after the first few minutes. I could swear on the River Styx that every head in the restaurant turned at least once in our direction.

After we had filled ourselves up, Luke and Percy started having a loud argument over who would pay the bill.

"Yeah, Luke, give him your credit card!"

"Well, I, um, gave it to you! Yeah, Mr. Waiter, he has the money!"

"No, Luke, he wants your credit card! Don't make him sad!"

All the while, Thalia was humming and muttering her own version of Shake it Off under her breath.

"And the waiters gonna wait wait wait wait wait…"

"…credit card has more money on it!"

"That's what people say…mmhmm…that's what people say…"

"I lent you money yesterday!"

"I never miss a beat…I'm lightning on my feet…hehe…literally…"

"We didn't even go to dinner with you yesterday!"

"Honestly!" I whipped out my bag, pulled out a credit card, and handed it to the waiter, who was looking quite exasperated. He thanked me in French and hurried off.

Now, pretty much everyone was staring at us like they were born yesterday.

Like, straight up, someone could've done the three finger salute at the other end of the restaurant, with the whistle included, and no one would've noticed.

After getting my credit card back, we headed out as fast as possible. We didn't wasn't to drag too much attention to ourselves.

Once outside, with the cool night air whipping our hair, Luke emptied his pockets. They were filled with blue cookies.

He grinned at us. "Son of Hermes has its benefits."

Percy looked delighted. He ate the most of the cookies…

What was with him and blue food?

Does this look blue to you?

Hehe. He had asked me if a green pepper looked blue.

He was nuts.

When we reached the park, it was time for us to part ways.

"Nice meeting you, Percy." Thalia shook hands with him. Luke did the same, giving Percy the 'I'm watching you' sign.

I decided to give him a hug, as this was the second time I was meeting him, and he had saved my life twice.

X= meeting

Y= saving life

Z= hug

2x + 2y = z

When he pulled away he grinned, waved and headed off in the other direction.

We did the same, Thalia starting up a conversation with Luke.

"Hey, Annabeth!"

I whipped around to see Percy again. He cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled, "You forgot to smack me for saying you have beautiful eyes!"

A/N: I hope you liked that chapter!

And, if you could find the three Hunger Games references in there, please review and tell me where!

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