Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson.

A/N: Time to cause some real Myhem for Percy in this next Chapter. Enjoy

On train to Denver

Percy sat behind Annabeth and Mark. After freeing Medusa, they had decided to travel by train to there next destination. unfortunately the Amtrack Train they were now on only went as far as Denver, and was due to stop off in St Louis for a few hours, before continuing to it's final destination. Percy had discovered that Mark seemed to have lost the quest bag, leaving them with no money, it was then that Percy decided to use his father's credit card, and pay for their train tickets. Annabeth was still not talking to him, it seems she was totally blanking him, after his verbal assault on Athena. Percy didn't care, he prefered it this way, at least now there was no chance of falling for her again. Percy's mind drifted back to his first quest. St Louis was where they had meet the mother of all monsters Echidna, and he had been poisoned by her Chimera. Percy was just thankful, that this time it would be his brother getting the attention. After all he was the one who everyone believed had the bolt. Percy looked out the window as the countryside flew by, He was wondering what he was going to do after camp. He didn't want to go back with far as he was concerned, Sally wasn't his mother. He wondered if Chiron would allow him to stay at camp all year. That way he could sharpen up on all his skills, after all everything was happening as it had before, but Percy didn't trust the fates, and knew soon he would face another one of their curve balls. He found himself slowly drifting off to sleep. Again he found himself in the presence of his father.

"Is this going to happen every time I fall asleep?" Percy noticed his father was just staring at out of his window, Percy wasn't sure if he had heard him, so decided to walk up beside him.

Chaos turned to his son. "To answer your question Perseus. No this will not happen every time. However I wanted to discuss something with you. I know you don't want to go back to Sally after camp, as you feel you don't belong there. I can understand that, so instead you will come here so that you can learn about the other powers that lay dormant in you."

Percy turned to Chaos. "Other Powers?"

Chaos slowly walked back towards his throne and sat down on it. He raised his hand forcing another one to appear, however this one was a lot smaller. He gestured for Percy to sit down. "Yes Percy other powers. You have only tapped into a small portion of my power. You may control all the elements, but you also have the power to control time. Not to mention to create vortex so that you can get from one place to the next. By the way good show with Medusa. I have never seen Athena so angry."

Percy looked up and grinned. "The bitch deserved it. She should have helped Medusa not cursed her."

Chaos nodded. "Anyway, as I was saying you have the power over all the elements as well as power over time. However these powers take years to master and so you will spend a year here with me, A year here is roughly 9 months in earth years, so you will be back just in time for the summer break. Have you thought anymore about how you intend to rescue Thalia?"

Percy nodded. "I don't fancy travelling to the sea of monsters next year. So was thinking I coud just open a vortex by the fleece, then bring it back to camp."

Chaos, threw his head back and laughed. "Well that will cut your summer rather short, but I do agree, if you do have the powers, then why not use them. Besides we still don't know if the Fates will keep everything the same. It seems were out of time Percy. I will see you at the end of summer. Safe journey."

Percy opened his eyes again to ear the train speaker.

"Good afternoon ladies and gentleman, we will be arriving in St Louis shortly. Those travelling to Denver, please be advised you have three hours to explore the city, before we leave for our final destination. Thank you for your time."

Percy stretched his arms up and noticed Annabeth was staring outside the window. Looking at the Golden Arch, he sighed.

"Here we go again."

Gateway Arch

Percy stayed behind Annabeth and Mark as they both ran towards the lif entrance. Percy groaned, he could already see Echidna lining up with her little dog. Percy placed his hand into his pocket gripping his sword, and lined up with Annabeth and Mark. He noticed Echidna was watching him, he could see she was rather confused about something. Percy, quickly turned away and boarded the cable car, with the others. Percy stood over the far side of the cab, as they slowly began to rise up towards the top of the Arch. He could hear the Chimera growling. Of course to any one else it was just a cute dog, but Percy knew otherwise. Percy heard Echidna speak.

"No parents?"

Percy knew what Annabeth was going to say next. He heard her reply. "They're below, scared of heights."

Percy watched Echidna give Annabeth and Mark the sad face look. However what intrigued him was she was totally ignoring him and was only interested in Mark and Annabeth. Percy growled under his breath as she spoke.

"Oh the poor darlings."

Percy looked down and noticed the dog growled and then was told off by Echidna. "Now, now, sonny. Behave." Percy turned his head away from the dog and heard his brother talk.

"Sonny. Is that his name?"

Percy noticed that the had reached the observation deck, and knew what was going to happen next. He gripped the pen in his pocket, he remembered this was where they had separated and Grover and Annabeth had gone back to the bottom leaving him alone with Echidna. He thought about leaving Mark up here on his own, and to see if he could at least kill one monsters. However decided that he would make sure all three of them faced her this time. Percy heard the park ranger telling everyone that the observation deck would be closing shortly. He noticed Mark and Annabeth turned to look at him.

"Percy come on. We need to go."

Percy walked towards them, that when he noticed Annabeth and Mark were about to get into one of the other cars to go down. He grabbed both their shoulders and yanked them back.

"Why don't we let the little boy go down with his parents first."

Annabeth and Mark looked at each other before shrugging. Percy noticed the two parents nodded in thanks then left. Just leaving them and the Echidna, alone. Percy then turned to her. "Okay show yourself. Mortals don't have fork tongues, and normal dogs certainly don't drool black saliva."

Echidna, eyes widened. How did this boy know she wasn't human? Her disguise was flawless. To anyone else she just appeared to be fat lady. Echidna growled.

"Who are you? You are certainly not a demigod, you don't smell like one. I only thought there were these two." She said this while pointing at Annabeth and Mark.

Percy eyes widened. "She couldn't smell him? To her he had been a normal mortal. Percy was lost in his thoughts that he failed to hear Echidna growl.

"Well I suppose there no need for this disguise anymore. I was hoping to just kill the son of Poseidon, but if you are wanting to die as well, then I will be more then happy to oblige."

Percy backed up, as Echidna disguise soon vanished, revealing her true appearance. Percy noticed Mark and Annabeth just stare. Just as Echidna changed so did her small dog. It suddenly growled and then began to grow. Two huge wings appeared and then the second head, and finally the viper head tail. There was a tag around it's neck.

Chimera-Rabid, Fire-breathing, Poisonous-if found please call Tartarus-ext. 954

Percy stood ready as one of the head began snapping at them. Percy then noticed Echidna smile. "Allow me to introduce myself, demigods. I am Echidna, Mother of all monsters, and one of you has something I want. Now hand it over."

Percy immediately jumped in front of Echidna, he turned and shouted to both his brother and Annabeth. "You two deal with the Chimera, leave big ugly too me."

Both Mark and Annabeth just looked at him, then turned to see the Chimera stalking towards them. Percy growled.

"For fuck sake, Mark get the bloody sword out of your pocket and bloody use it. How you're a demigod I have no idea. Percy then turned back to Echidna, who's was showing her fangs with her claws ready to attack.

Percy watched as one of the claws came towards him. Quickly he rolled underneath it and slashed with his sword. He heard Echidna scream as her arm was sliced off.

"Your pay Dearly for that, whatever you are!"

Percy grinned then moved in close, just as he was about to attack he heard Annabeth scream. He heard the sound of glass smashing and the sound of his brother cry out in pain. Clearly he had been bitten by the Chimera poison tail.

"Mark!"

Percy watched as he fell out of the window, to the river below. He then noticed the Chimera was nearing Annabeth. Percy was in two minds save her, or let the Chimera kill her. He suddenly growled and turned before jumping and slicing the Chimera tail causing the beast to roar in pain, Percy turned to see Echidna and saw she had escaped. With the Chimera tail now out of action, Percy climbed up onto its back, before stabbing it between it's shoulder blades. He heard the Chimera growl in pain, before turning to dust. He fell down and landed on his feet looking at Annabeth, who was smiling at him. He turned his head away from her before muttering.

"Oh no."

He heard Annabeth's footstep walking behind him, he really didn't want to look at her. He was wishing he had allowed the Chimera to kill her now, at least then she would have been out of his life forever, but again his ego had gotten in the way, and he had decided to be the hero. He closed his eyes, as he heard her timid voice.

"Hmm thanks for saving me Percy."

Percy turned around and noticed she was standing rather too close for comfort. He backed away quickly, before turning towards the exit "It was nothing. Come on we have to see what happened to Mark."

By the River

Percy looked out across the river. This was where the water spirit had told him to travel to Santa Monica as his father wanted to speak to him. Percy noticed the floating McDonalds where he had come ashore last time. He turned to see Annabeth just staring at him. He hated it when she did that. he heard her say.

"Percy how did you know?"

Percy turned to Annabeth, and gave her a confused look. "Know what?"

He noticed Annabeth was stepping closer, and soon she was invading his personal space. He noticed she was staring at him, as if he was some equation she was trying figure out. Percy looked into those stormy grey eyes and immediately turned his head. He heard Annabeth speak again.

"You know what, how did you know she was a monster?"

Percy growled. "Something just didn't seem right, plus I caught a quick peak of her tongue when she was talking and noticed it was forked. Plus the dog was drooling black gunk all over the place."

Percy noticed Annabeth still looking at him. It was clear she didn't believe him, Percy was happy that she soon changed the subject.

"I wondered if Mark survived? It was long drop. Plus he fell into a river, not the sea."

Percy looked to the floating McDonald and noticed someone walking out of the river near it. He tapped Annabeth on the shoulder then pointed towards the figure.

"There. Obviously Poseidon did save him. Come on lets go."

Percy and Annabeth made there way towards the figure and noticed he was still holding Riptide, however he was bone dry. Percy could see he had been shaken by something. He was white as a sheet. Suddenly Percy heard him say.

"We have to go to Santa Monica, my dad wants to talk to me."

The three teens quietly made their way back to the train station. Percy noticed that Annabeth was no longer walking next to Mark but him. Percy thought nothing of it at first, but that all changed when she took the seat next to him on the train. She noticed he grabbed his hand and held it, Percy was wishing that Mark would say something, anything to get him out of this situation. he let go of her hand then turned his head back to the window avoiding her gaze. His only thought was

"Bugger"

A/N: That's right, that simple act of saving Annabeth as made the daughter of Athena see Percy as her hero. How will this new development affect the story. Wait and find out.