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c: Yes Nico Di Angelo is alive and still searching for the truth actually, and i think this story is a PERCABETH story not PERNICO, but i will add him to the story but thanks for the review!

Chapter 3

"Meeting an evil twin brother of Seaweed Brain"

Annabeth

I was doing an investigation about a lot of Monster Attack in Boston when I met them.

I had been sitting on my bunk, fully dressed, tinkering with the Daedulus laptop that the Hephaestus cabin had fixed when Chiron told me about the monster attack and sent me, Will also Piper and Leo too check it up. I had woken up hours before from nightmares about Percy. In a flash, I was out of my bed, out the door, my bronze knife in hand, and shivering in the cold air.

This took less than ten seconds, and my cheeks reddened slightly. I figured Tartarus hadn't fully left my system.

After a long travelled also slaying a lot of monster, I heard a calling for help from a similar voice, the voice of Seaweed Brain. I knew he was dead but I can't forget his sweet voice, but whoever was calling for help, it could be a citizen or maybe another Demi-God.

"Annabeth, what's going on?" Piper McLean asked, running up to me.

I shrugged, still tense. "I don't know."

Piper frowned and pulled Katropis from its sheath. The younger girl stared at it for a few seconds. Piper's eyes widened, and she frowned.

"See anything?" I asked.

"A dark haired boy- about seventeen or eighteen…maybe sixteen….he's covered in monster dust and blood and a boy about ten or maybe eleven with sandy hair."

My heart began to pound, and an unthinkable hope kindled inside me. There's no way both of them could raise from the dead.

"Where?"

"Near the river at the bridge." Piper paused, her frown deepening. "Annabeth, are you thinking….?"

I didn't reply, but clutched the handle of my knife harder.

Piper touched my shoulder. "Annabeth…he's dead. We saw him….Percy can't have survived that."

"I know!" I half snapped, half sobbed, feeling the hurt of Percy's death wash over me. I knew my eyes were red, and I glared at Piper.

Piper had an odd look in her eyes. Pity? I was angry, but I forced myself to calm down.

"Let's go." I said, walking towards Will Solace.

"We've got him now"

The last word I said to him before he faint, the boy looked so much like Percy, it wasn't fair.

I had raced over once we had found them, shocked by the sheer proportion of monster relics. The other boy had been paler than Nico under the thick layer of dust and dirt.

An empty vial was near his head, and I wondered what it was for. I scanned the area, and stumbled back when I came across a black and white pointy horn, identical to the one that still hung in Percy's cabin.

Did this boy defeat the Minotaur?

Hell he defeats the whole Horde.

I turned and watched Will check the boys' vitals, and wondered why the boys were so still.

I turned to watch as Piper and Leo Valdez scrambled up to us, carrying a long white stretcher. Will Solace yelled for me to come and close and for Piper and Leo to hurry up.

"Poison." He said in an undertone as I knelt beside him. "I don't recognize it." He had turned the boy on his back. He pointed at a jet black scar that had burst open. "It origins from this cut." He poured some nectar on it, and it closed a bit, and lightened in color.

"Have you cured him yet?" I asked, staring at the boy's face. It seemed familiar, and I couldn't help but wonder if Percy had a brother that Poseidon didn't tell him about.

Will shook his head. "I didn't need to. Someone already had." He picked up the small glass vial I had noticed earlier.

I frowned and took it. A tiny remnant was left inside.

"Golden color…" I murmured, examining it carefully. "Not nectar…"

Will winced as the boy weakly coughed, blood splattering his pale lips. "The kid may have internal damage from the poison." he said worriedly. "We have to move quickly."

"I need your help to escort him because I need to check the other one"

I nodded, and with a quick glance at Leo and Piper, lifted the boy's shoulders while Will picked up his feet. The boy groaned as we set him down on the white fabric. His eyelids fluttered, and for a second, I saw a flash of green.

"Toby" he said weakly.

"It's alright, we have healers. Medicine that can help him. We can help you too" I said as I help him with the stretcher. "We will save him"

"No!" he said as he holds one of my hands. "Please!"

For the first time, when he hold one of my hands, I can felt that Seaweed Brain hold me, it can't be him but maybe he's not dead yet. No, he died I saw it with my own eyes, Nico's already confirm it.

His shoulders were muscled and well-built, but taught in pain, even unconscious.

Who was this boy?

We hurried out of the woods and through camp, until we reached the Big House. A group of demigods were milling around as we charged past. The boy had grown stronger, but his coughs worsened, and blood was covering his face and dirty blue shirt.

Worse of all, the boy is in a critical state, he's breathing are slow, he's really pale just like Nico. Will was too frustrated with this situation, he maybe got worse but this is could be his limit.

"Crap." Will muttered as they reached the infirmary. "Annabeth, can you get some water? Leo, I need you to heat it up, and Piper, get nectar, ambrosia, and bandages. Lot's of it."

Piper nodded and ran off, while I lifted a basin and took it to the sink. As soon as I was finished, Leo heated up his hands and stuck them in the water.

"Get a washcloth." Will ordered, throwing the ruined blue shirt aside. He began a diagnostic scan with a strange device he had probably gotten from his father.

Will swear. "Yeah, he has internal bleeding, and some of his organs are failing. It's bad, Annabeth. Where the hell is Piper?"

I swallowed as I tugged the heavy basin of water to Will. He then turn his attention to the boy with the sandy hair just like…just like him but it can't be he…he's gone just like Percy.

"Damn!" he said. Will never swear ever, he only swear if his patient in a critical state and he can't save him.

Will told me to wash off the dirt, dust, and blood from other boy's torso. I did so, glad to be able to do something to help. As the dirt and blood washed away, I gasped, unable to believe that anyone could have as many scars as the boy in front of me. The saddest thing was, many of them didn't look like they were made by monsters, but by knives and belts.

As I washed off the boy's sculpted chest, I let out a cry. I stumbled back, one hand covering my mouth.

"Annabeth?" Will and Leo asked. Piper finally arrived, running into the room and deposited an armload of nectar, ambrosia, and bandages beside Will.

I was shaking in horror and anger. Who had done this to the boy? How could anyone be so cruel?

In small, narrow, deep letters, obviously meant to cause pain, and lots of it, three words were carved in his chest. They were faded, and probably several years old, but still clearly visible.

USELESS

STUPID

PAIN

And then…

DEAD

My hands were clenched as I told the others what I had found. Leo's hands caught fire, and Piper's face drained of color and went blank. Will was swearing loudly, but he kept working.

"Come on kid!" he said as he working on the other boy. "He's too weak, I think I really need to use"

"You sure, the last time you use it, you faint for three day" I said.

"Yeah, I've been practicing" he said. "The other one quite stable but won't be long and him, he's weak so I don't have other choice"

Will laid his hands on the boy's chest anyway, and began trying to heal him. He had his hands stretched over he's form and he was chanting in an ancient Greek. His hands glowed gold. This is the same ability that he used with Percy after we defeated Gaea. It took a lot of energy of him because after he used it, well let's just said that he faint for three days.

And then there was a gasp. Will stop chanting at the others immediately backed up.

I saw the kid face, flushed red with color returning to her face. She bolted upright, coughing. Breathing.

Hours seemed to pass before Will finally stumbled away from the table, whiter than the boy had been and shaking. He wiped his brow and collapsed into a chair Piper had brought in.

"How is he?" Leo asked before I could.

Will nodded wearily. "He'll be fine. Now the question is…."

"Who are they?!" Annabeth finished. Will nodded, and rose. He picked up a small vial of nectar and downed it. His color came back, and he stopped shaking.

"We'll just have to wait and see when both of them wake up." Will said, glancing at the boy. He lifted the murky basin of water and took it to the sink. "So far, all we know is that he's sixteen at the youngest, and nineteen at oldest, a demigod, and tortured or abused at one point"

"And this one is ten years old, and he's also a demigod"

"And he's powerful enough to take on an army of monsters." I pointed out, sighing. The mystery of the injured boy in front of us just seemed to be growing.

Will nodded. "He can't have gone this long, being as strong as he is, without help"

"Maybe he's Roman?" Leo suggested. "We could IM Jason and see"

Will shrugged "Good idea. We should have Rachel come down as well."

I hesitated. "Are you sure?"

Will nodded. "Positive"

And with that, he ushered us out, saying the boy needed rest.

As I left the Big House, the crowd of demigods had grown. Several looked as though they intended to interrogate me, but I glared, and they let me through. Soon after that, Tyson came out and ask me a bunch of question.

"That boy looked like Percy" he said.

"It can't be Tyson, he's gone" I said still questioning the truth.

"So, who is he Annabeth?!" said Tyson. "Is he alive?"

I sighed. "He's alive, but we have no idea who he is, and who his godly parent is"

A low, sad sigh swept from Tyson. He missed Percy too. Since he met again with Percy in Camp Jupiter, he's been really excited that he's brother wasn't dead but now when he heard that Percy wasn't coming back to alive again, he didn't believe it and still searching for him.

"So it isn't Percy?" Tyson asked sadly.

I turned away, shaking my head. "No." I said softly. "He's gone. Percy's gone, and he isn't coming back."

The words hurt to say, and I wanted so badly to take them back, to prove them wrong. The worst thing was, it was impossible to know for certain because of Hades.

Nico had told her that he had searched for Percy in the Underworld, but only had found the faintest trace of his soul. Hades had told him Percy had moved on.

Sure, maybe somewhere out there, the spirit of Percy was alive in some squalling baby, but my Percy was gone…

I gave him a shaky smile. "Once they wake up, we'll introduce them to camp"

It wasn't until late afternoon that the boys woke. I had just finished the last Latin class of the day and had been heading back to my cabin to get ready for campfire when Malcolm came running up to me.

He was out of breath, but she managed to gasp out, "Piper said the boy is awake."

My eyes widened fractionally before I gave a curt nod. Lacy ran off, looking pleased.

I swallowed hard. Time to get some answers…

YEAHHHH! I'm done but it's because that i'm lazy to update, well a little yes but it's because i lost this file on my laptop because the laptop got an unexpected swim in the toilet and the internet is down because of no reason, and that's ladies and gentlemens it's why internet connection in INDONESIA is losing to KOREA DAMN!

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