Author's Note: I'm really sorry for not updating sooner! It's been a while, but this is the last chapter. I don't think I can lengthen it another chapter, because the plotline for this is really that short.

However, I'm so happy to finally finish a story! I mean, I have before, but that was a really crappy one-shot; this is a multi-chapter story!

No need to worry, though, because when I finish many or all of my other in-progress stories, I will start another one!

By the way, the idea for this chapter came from an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, when Azula starts to go crazy when she cuts her hair and she sees Ursa in her mirror. It's a kind of twisted and angsty moment, but it's a lovely muse when you really think about it.

On that note, I'll leave you to read now…

Clarisse

Not only have the Romans been waiting long enough for Owl Head to show up, but so have we. I can see in Reyna the Praetor's eyes that she's on her last nerve, and that creepy blond kid next to her is practically twitching. Jackson's ready to blow up, Thalia and Jason have that lightning in their eyes again, and the soldiers, both Greek and Roman, are getting impatient, too. I really don't want to wait, either, but Piper said that Rachel's talking to her, so that can only mean something really bad happened.

All of a sudden, the skimpy blond's eyes widened, and he muttered something like "She needs you," in a raspy voice.

Reyna solemnly nodded. "Jackson, I assume he's talking to you. Bring this Annabeth Chase to me."

Percy met her eyes for a second, then Jason's, before sprinting up into the vessel. Once he went below deck, an Iris message/image appeared, projecting what was happening in the ship.

Percy went below deck to nearly run into Rachel, whose eyes were wild in fear. "Don't—be careful, Percy. She's dangerous. And… nice to see you alive," she told him before dashing away down the hall, probably to her cabin.

He opened the door to Annabeth's cabin, and saw her standing in front of her floor mirror, a brush in her left hand, and her knife in the other. In the reflection in the mirror, Percy could see her grey eyes glowing in rage and her face contorted in pain and coated in tears.

"P…Per—c—cy… where we—were y…you?" she stuttered, gasping through uneven breath.

Percy couldn't help but gawk at what his once calm and collected girlfriend had become in just a matter of months, but his thoughts were suddenly interrupted when she turned around and flung the knife at him.

Right then and there, his world stopped, as did his heart, as he flinched to his left just in time for the knife to pass by his nose by a mere inch. It stayed stuck in the wall once it pierced into the wood.

He looked back at Annabeth, who whipped her head back to face the mirror, and sobbing, she stabbed the end of her brush into the reflective glass, causing a few shards to fall out and the rest to be marked with cracks the length of her forearm. Her crying was loud and desperate, and Percy longed to touch her, go reassure her that everything was okay.

But it wasn't, unfortunately.

However, words that could've done the same went unspoken as Percy quickly approached her and kissed her before she could hurt him in any way.

Instead of pushing Percy away, or melting into the kiss, Annabeth stood still, with the exception of her sobs as he held her tightly in an embrace, his lips never leaving hers. Her tears soon met with his, and before either demigod knew it, an anger and sadness-fueled passion burst within them, and the tears exploded along with the feeling.

The vision faded, probably to spare us from seeing something that some of us are far too young to see, and I felt myself sighing. I glanced around at the others, expecting them to be relieved that the lovebirds were finally reunited, but all I saw was tension. Especially in Reyna, whose black eyes seemed to glisten like the flame in my father's.

We had come together to defeat the giants before Gaea wakes up, and we weren't off to a very good start. Time to welcome the fuckin'end of the world, I guess.

I hope you liked it, and I can't wait for The Serpent's Shadow and The Mark of Athena!