Life Anew

Chapter 1: What Kronos Said Was Right

Percy POV

3 months after Garret, Michael, Edwin and Charlotte arrive at CAMP

It's been three months since the four have arrived. Apparently, Garret was my half-brother, Michael was a kid of Hades and Charlotte was a daughter of Zeus. Ever since Garret found out about my leadership, he made it his purpose to break me. It started by simple taunts and other things. When that didn't work, he started to frame me for things that I didn't do. He got some campers to start blaming the war on me and that if I wasn't alive back then, the wars would've never happened. He had the help of Michael, Charlotte and a bunch of Aphrodite kids with strong charmspeak to help his campaign. He succeeded and got the entire camp but Edwin (who apparently is a child of Hemera, it's a secret and Hemera talked to Apollo about it and agreed to be his temporary "godly" parent) and Chiron to turn on me. It didn't help my case when Poseidon started to ignore me and started looking over Garret instead. He was apparently Poseidon's new favorite son. Same thing with Michael and Charlotte, although Michael and Charlotte looked a bit guilty, as if they were sorry for doing the stuff they did. All I have left is Annabeth and Edwin. All of my Roman friends were at Camp Jupiter, while Nico and Thalia were busy with their responsibilities.

Now that I started to think about it, Annabeth has seemed… distant, lately. Whenever we hang out, she always has an excuse to go somewhere else and/or hangs out with Garret. I truly love her and I got Athena's approval to propose. I had to do to something I've done before: survive in Tartarus. I was supposed to be in the Pit for about 2 and a half Earth months (AN; Time passes differently in different realms). I managed to do that and when I reported back to Athena, she gave me an engagement ring that was pure platinum with an amber stone one the top. Inside on the stone was engraved Forever Yours, Seaweed Brain. I wanted Annabeth to be with me forever and decided to propose to Annabeth. I was walking around camp, hoping to find Annabeth, but found Malcolm. He saw me and said,

"Hey Perce. Watcha need?" You see, Malcolm was the only other camper who didn't despise me and we became good friends. I ask him with excitement,

"Have you seen Annabeth anywhere? I'm gonna propose to her today." Malcolm looked kind of tense when he replied, "Try the beach." I tell him my thanks and he calls out my name. He looks at me square in the eye and says in the same raspy voice I heard 3 months ago.

"Brace yourself… Perseus." He warned. His eyes showed pure darkness for 2 seconds. Immediately, his eyes turn back to his gray color and walks away. I inwardly think, "That's strange..." I wave it off and head to the beach. It was sunset and the sky looked perfect with its genuine orange. A perfect setting to propose that came once in a while. I walk for awhile and find Garret on the beach, kissing a girl with princess curls and a honey tan. I look at the girl with pity; she's unfortunate to be kissing an outright dick like Garret. I start to walk away until my eyes widen.

Princess curls? Honey tan?

A face of fear is plastered on my face and I sneakily go behind some bushes to try to see if the girl is who I thought it was.

( Garret: "This is him speaking"

The girl; "This is her speaking")

"My gods, girl. You're real a good kisser."

"I know Garret. Way better than my current boyfriend!"

"When are you gonna break up with him, Annabeth?"

My eyes widen in fear. No, no, no, no. Then that girl is…

"I'll break up with Percy when he shows up."

I become enraged and decide to confront them. "Then don't bother looking for me… Annie Bell." Annabeth looks at me and laughs, "Percy, Percy, Percy. You are SOOOOOOOOO gullible! Athena and Poseidon kids don't mix! I was dating you just for the fame! You are super stupid! Unlike Garret here, I actually like him! Now scram, boy…" she says that last word like a hunter. I begin to tear up and start running to my cabin.

I lie down on my bunk and start to cry. A voice that belonged to a certain Titan of Time says something in my head.

"Remember what I told you, Percy? Friends are meaningless. It only hurts more when they betray you. You learned it the hard way while I get to laugh!"

I keep on crying for hours. The engagement ring was still in my pocket, but I honestly wanted to chuck it into Tartarus, but I was too depressed. My last thought was, Kronos was right…, before I eventually fall asleep.

Hello again. I hoped that you enjoyed this chapter. I'm gonna need a beta reader to help me with some grammar and story details if the need ever arises. I'll try to make it more different than the other stories with the cliched Annabeth dumps Percy thing.

Happy Holidays!

-Zeyphr