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Chapter Twelve: Annabeth XII: Epilogue
"Hey, Wise Girl." Percy's voice said from behind me as he came to stand beside at the front of the ship. It had been a week since we had defeated Gaea, and luckily none of us got killed but we had some pretty serious injuries, which involved Percy losing his Achilles Heel (long story).
"Hey, Seaweed Brain." I said as I turned around to wrap my arms around his neck as he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me close to him to.
"I love you, Wise Girl." Percy told me softly.
I smiled up at him and said, "I love you, too, Seaweed Brain."
With that said he pulled me into a long sweet gentle kiss. We were interrupted by the sound of someone clearing their throats about five minutes later. Percy and I jumped apart and turned around to see my mother staring at us with her hand folded across her chest glaring at Percy (she still doesn't approve of him). The gods decided to accompany us back to Camp Half-Blood since Camp Half-Blood was attacked. Luckily Lupa and Camp SPQR had made a surprise arrival the day before camp had been attacked.
"Sorry to, ah, interrupt, but I would like to talk to both of you," she said while shifting her weight nervously from foot to foot. "After I watched you to progress throughout this relationship and after I saw you two in battle I realize that I should stop trying to end your relationship and except it. So this is me saying that I approve of your relationship."
"Thank you, mom, this means a lot to me." I said as I smiled at her.
She smiled back before she started to walk away but before she could Percy called out, "Lady Athena, I would like to ask you something."
I looked at him confused, like my mother, but he ignored both our expressions and walked up to my mom. I watched him as they had a whispered discussion. After a few seconds my mom said something which caused Percy to say loud enough for me to hear, "Thank you, Lady Athena. You have my word that I will try to make her happy."
"Very well, Perseus." My mother said I would have thought that Percy would have flinched at being called his first name but he just nodded at my mom before he came back to me.
"What was that about?" I asked him as I watched my mom walk into disappear into the command center.
"I want to ask you something Annabeth." Percy said as he fumbled with something that was in the pocket of his jeans.
"What?"
"Well, we already know that we want to spend the rest of our lives together, right?" he asked me.
"Of course."
"So, then why don't we get married…." He said while pulling out a platinum band that AC & PJ engraved into it.
"I'd love to, but were to young, Percy." I told him while staring at the ring.
"I'm not saying that we should get married right now. I was thinking that after we finish high school and college we can get married, so basically the ring is like a promise ring that we'll get married. So, what do you say?" Percy asked me looking into my eyes. Sea-green to Stormy-grey.
"Yes, of course." I said as I watched him slide the ring onto my finger. "Where did you get the ring?"
"I had asked Tyson to make it before we left." Percy replied.
"I didn't know Tyson was there." I said.
"He could only stay for the night but it was enough time for him to finish the ring." Percy told me.
"I love you, so much." I said as I threw my arms around his neck while he wrapped his arms around my waist.
"I love you, too, Annabeth." He said before he gave me a kiss and pulled away.
"Want to go spar?" Percy asked me.
"Sure."
It was twilight when we arrived at the shore of Camp-Half Blood.
"Home sweet home," I heard Percy mutter as we walked off of the ship.
When everyone got off the ship we all headed to the Big House to go talk to Chiron. As soon as we entered the camp I could see how much damage the attack did. Most of the cabins were damaged badly, the dining pavilion was in ruins, so was the training arena, the only thing that didn't get damaged was the Big House. Most of the campers were in the infirmary, which had very little damage, and the rest of the campers were trying to repair the cabins or clean up. The door to the house was open when we arrived, and when we entered the room we found all of the camp counselors and some people I didn't recognize, probably people from Camp SPQR sitting around the ping pong table. Everyone that was sitting around the table stood up and bowed before the Olympians.
"Rise heroes." Zeus commanded. We all took our seats and the gods summoned their thrones to sit on.
"Now the meeting can start." Chiron said.
When the meeting was over the gods left and everybody walked out of the room except for me, Percy, Gwen, Bobby, Reyna, Thalia, Jason, Piper, Leo, Rachel, Nico, Hazel, Malcom, and Grover.
"It's great to be back," I said as I looked around the room.
"It's great to have you back." Thalia said before she threw her arms around Jason and me.
Everybody laughed before we all got up and started hugging each other.
"Where's Dakota?" Bobby asked.
"He's in the infirmary, it's nothing bad." Reyna answered before Bobby dragged Gwen out the door heading towards the infirmary.
"Come on, let's go help clean up." Percy said as he led me out the door towards the cabin area.
Two weeks after we arrived, we managed to get the camp looking like it was before the war with the help of the Roman campers, who stayed to help, and the Gods.
Today, the Romans were going back to their camp, but since we all had gotten along so well we decided that one summer we would spend the summer at their camp and the next summer they would come and spend the summer at Camp Half-Blood which was okay with Chiron and Lupa. We were going to be able to go back and forth with the help of Hecate and her children who were going to create a portal in the woods. The portal was only going to be used for emergencies and when we spend the summer there. Luckily they were able to finish the portal the day before they left so they were going to be able to see if it works.
"Bye, Hazel. I'm going to miss you." I said as I hugged my half-sister goodbye.
"Me too, Annabeth." She said when she pulled away. She walked away before I made my way over to Reyna, Jason, and Bobby.
"We're going to miss you, guys." Bobby said as he pulled me in for a group hug.
"We are, too," I said before we all pulled away.
"Take care of Piper and Thalia for me?" Jason asked looking me dead in the eye.
"You know they can take care of themselves, but I'll try." I promised him before I left and made my way over to Percy who was saying goodbye to Gwen. He gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek when he pulled away.
"I'm going to miss you so much, Anna," Gwen said as she gave me a huge hug, which I returned.
"Me too, Gwen. Me too." I said before I pulled away.
"See you guys next summer." Gwen said before she waved at us before she walked off towards Bobby.
When we turned around we found Dakota standing in front of us with one of his arms in a cast. He held out his hand for me to shake. I shook it and nodded at him before he held his hand out to Percy, who did the same thing. When he left we turned around to see the Romans walk into the forest and disappear.
A few weeks later it was time for everyone to go home. Nico was staying with Percy since he was going to go to school with him and I was staying with Piper, who finally told her dad about demi-gods and when she told him about camp he decided to move out to New York so Piper can still live with him but still be close to camp and when I told her that I was staying in New York she said that I could stay with them, luckily it was only a few blocks away from Percy's house. I thanked her so many times that she had to charm speak so that I could shut-up. We had Argus drop me, Percy, Nico, and Thalia, who was going to meet up with the Hunters at Central Park later on today. I was going to spend the night at Percy's before I went over to Piper's; I wanted to give her sometime alone with her dad. When we got to Percy's apartment Percy pulled used the spar key that was onto of the doorsill to open the door.
"Hey, mom." Percy called as he let us in.
"Hi, Sally." The rest of us called as we followed Percy to the kitchen were Sally was sitting at the table with a plat of warm looking blue cookies, like she was excepting us.
"Hello, children." Sally said as she stood up to give us a hug.
"Where's Paul?" Thalia asked as she sat down at the table reaching for a cookie but Percy being the little kid he is snatched the plate away and started chowing down on the cookies.
"Percy! Save some for your friends." Sally scolded Percy before she took the plate away from him and offered us one. "And Paul's stuck at work, but I have to go meet my editor s you guys will be here alone for a little while. Okay?"
"Okay." Nico said as he munched on a cookie.
"Great, and Annabeth, make sure they don't burn the apartment down." Sally told me as she put her coat on and started heading out of the kitchen.
"Will do." I said before she walked out of the door.
"I am offended by that statement." Percy yelled before his mother closed the door.
"Perce, can we watch a movie?" Thalia asked as she headed into the kitchen.
"Yeah, pick one out." Percy said as we followed her out into the living room
Thalia picked one and put it in the DVD player. She sat down on the floor by Nico while Percy and I sat down on the couch.
As I lay in Percy's arms watching a movie with my best friends I thought about all of the memories we shared and let's just say it was a Journey of Memories.
That was it! The last chapter of The Journey of Memories! I would like to thank all of you that have supported me throughout this story and the people that reviewed, favored, or alerted. I would also like to thank all of the people that favored or alerted me as an author. It means so much to me! I have so many things to say…..but I just want to thank all of you that are reading this story. I want to give a special thanks to:
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